SaaS hobgoblin, unicode enthusiast. She/her. @emchap@cartbefore.horse

Portland, OR
Joined August 2007
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Software folks who dealt with joblessness in ~2000 (dot-com bust) or ~2008 (the great recession) and are still working in tech today, what tips do you have for making it through?
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hey, east coast friends, i'm so sorry you're dealing with awful wildfire smoke. here are a few reasonably inexpensive things my family has used in our home over the past few years to help us cope with west-coast fires (and they can be useful year round). 🧵
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everyone should have a garden at least once, not because you'll actually grow a meaningful amount of food, but because after you've tended a blueberry bush for two years to get one breakfast's worth of blueberries for your oatmeal you'll appreciate grocery stores
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the muppet team made him a square for the AIDS quilt when he passed and it makes me emo every time i think about it
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Especially in light of how things are going, this is the first and only piece of kink at pride discourse we need this year.
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im super open to any recommendations people have for great places to eat at in atl
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I ordered by last batch of free Covid tests today via the USPS service, you still have today and tomorrow to do this. covid.gov/tests
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thinking about this bit from the Onion again
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OK so this is literally fetish content. xitter.cf/leoxeloo/status/166107…
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hey. if you’re in/near Portland, OR and looking for something to do, perhaps this article can help you decide. [DON’T REACH IN THE BAG FRI 5/26 CLINTON ST THEATER 7PM] portlandmercury.com/comedy/2…
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It's wild that every single person who lives in a city knows this and yet not one policymaker can say a bad word about the Candy Crush Patrol
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this made my day
Really here for old Italian people against JK Rowling.
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Justice for Bill Wibbly
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I am begging the courts to pass an emergency injunction prohibiting people who don’t ride the subway from writing about this case xitter.cf/nytopinion/status/1657…
“What if Penny had stood down and done nothing at all? Would everyone — including Neely — have emerged from that subway car unscathed?” asks @DavidAFrench. “We can’t know for certain, and that lack of certainty creates the conditions for violence.” nyti.ms/44VNZkW
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Why Jira is eagerly bought by middle-managers, while hated by developers: Managers see their team processes as unique snowflakes that need extreme customization. IRL they don't, but being different and special makes you feel important and imbues your work/existence with meaning
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They’re still laughing at you right now man. They’re gonna be laughing about this for years. In 12 years at their high school reunion they will joke about the weird nerd who did that to them. You’re a joke bro. You’re lore to them
Today on my run up through Central Park in Harlem I saw four teenagers smoking weed. As I passed them I shouted in a firm but friendly voice: "Smells like failure!" and kept going. I said it as an act of love, honestly. I hope that at some point one of them might think about it.
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A person who was hungry and thirsty and had no home screamed about it. And he was killed for it. That’s about as tragic a thing as I can think of.
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you don’t get to assault and kill someone because they are being “erratic and hostile!” doesn’t matter how much they make you uncomfortable!
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