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Strategises about content and mostly engages with this social network for the ~vibes~

Melbourne
Joined July 2009
every dad has two jobs: supporting his family and researching world war II
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the tech buzzword hype cycle plays out the same way every time. FIRST, a startup breaks out and VCs rush to fund it.
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I've gone down a rabbit hole of reading about the life of Yellowstone wolf 21, who seems to have been the wolf equivalent of the Buddha crossed with Batman. In his entire life he never lost a fight & never killed a defeated enemy. What a legend.
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Sidechannel is maybe the most interesting thing happening in independent journalism and media right now. I highly recommend subscribing to any one of these eight excellent newsletters to get access to it. platformer.news/p/announcing…
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Is Superhuman bad and dumb and I shouldn’t use it? I can’t recall whether there’s been negative press since 2018 when I signed up on the waiting list and I’m too lazy to research. This is a non-ironic tweet (my first!)
Japan’s Tottori City has a mascot named Tottori-shi, a man with a chicken on his head.
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The spot where @NASAPersevere began its journey on Mars now bears the name “Octavia E. Butler Landing." Groundbreaking author @OctaviaEButler is a perfect fit for this mission, as her main characters embody overcoming challenges. 📸: Ching-Ming Cheung
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😰 anxious + ☹️ frowning =
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😣 persevering + 😲 astonished =
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Whoever registered the company name with valid XSS injection and caused @companieshouse to sent this email: I will buy you a drink
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has to be my favourite shakespeare quote
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2000 me: Okay that sounds complicated but at least the tools for building sites— 2020: Apps. '00: Right, are way better than using emacs and Makefiles on some random Linux machine. '20: [closing my eyes really hard] '00: I can't even imagine how powerful Netbeans is now.
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