JavaScript developer turned developer advocate
in transit
Joined August 2008
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I’m probably delusional, but I hoped Elon would get bored and whatever-this-is-called-now would come back as a community. But I get it. I’m trying to move to substack: garann.substack.com and would be happy for follow suggestions there!
My 3yo is sick so I asked my mom to pick us up some butter. (You’re American if this makes sense.) The look on my face when she handed me enough to pay the standing charge on my gas bill for a month.
ALT Probably $5 worth of butter here
The most American part of my 4th of July was the two teen girls who looked like Instagram influencers playing smash or pass with industrial tractors in the loggerodeo parade
I really hoped this app would return to benign meaningless shitposting, but now it’s recommending me tweets from joe rogan and jk rowling. If you’re going to run headlong into irrelevancy you don’t have to be a dick about it, twitter.
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Anyway, this is the only personality test that matters.
ALT What your favorite volcano says about you: Washington edition
If you think your cheating ex-boyfriend is the dictionary definition of gaslighting man do I have a wild story for you: insider.com/parental-alienat…
I have ✨the best✨ AI-driven app idea. I guess step two would be to learn literally one single thing about AI coding.
Garann Means retweeted
A river of boiling shit flows through your town. You haven’t seen a tomato for 18 months. MOTD is 3 minutes long and narrated by a parakeet. Your salary is paid directly to British Gas. You solve a riddle to speak to a GP. You feel people come here because they want an easy life
Not the return of the dunking stool being announced in neofeudal Scotland
ALT Poster advertising “community justice”
On the plane back from my home, where I no longer exist, to Scotland, a surreal place where I live, I finally saw Everything Everywhere All At Once and it was extremely relatable
The most challenging adjustment in being back in Seattle is remembering pedestrians have the right of way, after years of motorists trying to mow down my children at every intersection
Today’s fun British thing is articles desperately warning of the effects of window condensation and providing affiliate links to various jars of salt, while collectively agreeing to ignore the existence of double-paned glass
It makes no sense to me how energy costs in this country are allowed to skyrocket just at the whim of middlemen who have a monopoly on energy, and everyone acts like there’s nothing that can be done about it?
When the memes suddenly make sense
ALT Video billboard commemorating the queen’s life/announcing her death
