I write Fantasy stories & believe reality is best taken with a grain of salt. Click here for my free mystery novella: https://xitter.cf/t.co/1yX7N3yuCR
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined July 2014
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Ian Laking retweeted
i’m in a code review with elon musk. ive got the CSS for neopets.com on 3 monitors. my browser’s in dark mode so it looks cool. “this part?” he asks, pointing to code for the Giant Omelette. “caches tweets in the mainframe cyberhex,” i say. he nods. “as i suspected”
Ian Laking retweeted
one time in college a professor spent 90 minutes talking about an example scenario that involved beef and i thought nothing of it until several weeks later when i found out that my classmate had made a minute long compilation of all 125 times he said "beef" in one lecture
Ian Laking retweeted
Everything happening on Twitter now is a lot easier to understand if you‘ve ever had a younger sibling that invented a game and added a new rule every time they started losing.
Ian Laking retweeted
Elon Musk launches new twitter scented candle that smells like $44 billion going up in smoke
Ian Laking retweeted
If nothing else Mastodon is introducing people into the whole Open Source tradition of trying to be enthusiastic about something really bad that doesn't work at all because you don't want to be rude to the maintainers and the thing you really want to use doesn't work anymore.
Ian Laking retweeted
If you're looking for the Jeph Jacques tweets that got him kicked off Twitter baby you know I screenshotted all of them
Ian Laking retweeted
the world's richest man just banned cartoonist Jeph Jacques from Twitter for making fun of him
Ian Laking retweeted
The Western Australien Government has made a tourism ad and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. youtube.com/watch?v=Key8y1yg…
All these Twitter firing stories remind me of my favourite awful irl firing experience from 15 years back. I asked if we could get a report on something for our contact centre and the centre manager was like, ‘nah we can’t do that’ and hoo boy the story behind that one… (1/6)
And since the company wasn’t so savvy on backups and such, Jeff’s computer had been the only one with locally stored copies of all the crucial reports our office relied on. Hence my manager’s completely underplayed ‘we can’t do that report anymore’. (5/6)
Anyway that’s it, a story of vague revenge and corporate incompetence that feels somewhat apt as @elonmusk burns this place to the ground. Ciao! (6/6)