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Tim Johnsen

I wish more apps that let you share links as images would embed a tiny QR code to the source in the image. That way you could find the source even if the author doesn’t share it.

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Lauren

My only #NewYearResolution will be 'use your stickers', as it has been every year for a long time.

It's not just sticker-specific, but a reminder that leaving the sticker on the sheet does nothing. Choosing something to stick it on means it will bring you joy. Might that joy be impermanent? Yes, but everything has the potential to be impermanent, and what joy is there in leaving the sticker on the sheet?

Burn that nice candle you bought for the smell. Use that bath bomb. Enjoy that snack treat. #UseYourStickers.

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@sparrowpost Oh gods, I just read up on his biography. So much I didn’t know. 🥺

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@rooster @theconfusedyeti@tech.lgbt

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@theconfusedyeti@tech.lgbt @rooster Yaaaaassssss. Transmemory Boss Battle Fight Music is the best.

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nixCraft 🐧

IBM slide, 1979 ... 😅 twitter.com/_w0bb1t_/status/14

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@rooster Now there’s some feels. 🥹

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@sparrowpost It is! I ordered the Penguin paperback, and I’m very much looking forward to its arrival.

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I was starting to wonder where she’d wandered off to. 🤭

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John Bull

A recent FT article has prompted discussion on birdsite as to why the idea that you become "more conservative as you age" seems to be breaking down.

As I've talked about before, this has ALWAYS misunderstood what happens. Which is that people become more conservative when they feel part of (or the opportunity to be part of) the status quo and want to preserve it.

And Xennials/below don't have that.

Here's a thread to explain. 🧵

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@andrewedstrom Love this.

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Andrew Edstrom

A good interview for a tech lead role would look like this:

"Here's a technical problem your team is facing. Design a meeting for the team to decide what to do about it."

Most interviews focus too much on "can you yourself come up with a good design?" and not enough on real leadership.

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@sparrowpost, the film’s structure is just so interesting. It has so many of the “and one more thing” fastening-ons that I associate with oral folktale traditions, where you know every character has lead a hundred lives in a thousand variant narratives, such that they can’t be all brought together cleanly, if at all. And yet here we are, doing just that.

Looking forward to reading the story collection that inspired the film.

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@sparrowpost I have! It’s actually been on my mind this week as something I really need to rewatch.

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In my dreams, it’s a little more elaborate. But dream manifestations tend to be truthful, like that.

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Today’s read is @mjohnharrison ‘s Nova Swing.

Its predecessor, Light, gently gutted me a few years ago. I had come to identify with aspects of the furious intelligence, Seria Mau, once human, now a space ship, who is cut free from her physical form in the final pages.

“In the micro-cameras she saw herself for the first time in fifteen years. She was this small, broken, yellowish thing, its limbs all at odd angles, curling and uncurling itself feebly against the pain of the open air.”

At that exact moment in my life, this was a allegory, and the resolution had me sobbing quietly in the dark.

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Pauline Martyn

@nicole Yes it’s my little Friday night ritual! 😁🎞️🍶 I love Japanese movies and sake (I’m training to be a sake sommelier rn) so it’s fun to do. I usually post them on here or on Instagram, if you ever want to see more! 😃

instagram.com/films.and.sake?i

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Today’s read is @mjohnharrison ‘s Nova Swing.

Its predecessor, Light, gently gutted me a few years ago. I had come to identify with aspects of the furious intelligence, Seria Mau, once human, now a space ship, who is cut free from her physical form in the final pages.

“In the micro-cameras she saw herself for the first time in fifteen years. She was this small, broken, yellowish thing, its limbs all at odd angles, curling and uncurling itself feebly against the pain of the open air.”

At that exact moment in my life, this was a allegory, and the resolution had me sobbing quietly in the dark.

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nicole

@piratescarlett @pauline, be aware: this 👆🎞️🍶

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@piratescarlett Yes, absolutely. 👏

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