Joined January 2008
niche content, plz forgive, but if the internet happens to notice their EngineCPUUtilization redis metrics firmly affixing themselves to the ceiling, hmu
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More niche content: We did get to the bottom of this in the end! It seems to be an elasticache bug around connection cleanup. Setting the elasticache timeout parameter to force out idle connections is enough to give it a kick and clear things up. Possibly fixed in 6.2!
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I'm gonna need @pedestriandaily to do an explainer on the capybara @GuardianAus bird of the year thing
This is huge news. Australia must immediately follow suit. We are one of the hold-outs and it’s morally indefensible.
These extraordinary times and circumstances of call for extraordinary measures. The US supports the waiver of IP protections on COVID-19 vaccines to help end the pandemic and we’ll actively participate in @WTO negotiations to make that happen.
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wanna open a bar called “plot twist” where upon entering the establishment you suddenly learn that you are that evenings bartender
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Felt carp, might delete later
I for one am ready for Skype to be rebranded as "TikTok Talk"
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Incoming transmission. #MessageFromTheDoctor #DoctorWho
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We regret to inform you that The Cloud is Full.
The only decision any playwright ever really makes is which bits of their play are going to be Twelve Angry Men
another world is possible
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Every mystery novel should have a character named Plott Hickens.
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Iain McCoy retweeted
if you're not happy single, you won't be happy in a relationship. true happiness comes from closing 100 chrome tabs after solving an obscure programming bug, not from someone else
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It still blows my mind that the winning song & record of the year at this year's #GRAMMYs and winner of the #Hottest100 samples the manic beeping sound that the traffic lights make in Sydney.
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It has come to my attention that some people may not yet have read Ursula Le Guin's mindblowing 4 page short story, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. Luckily for you, I have found it freely readable online, as the great anarchist would've loved. Here: utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas…
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But the second one is of a black woman who was beaten, clubbed and gassed that day. Her name was Amelia Boynton
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I just referred to the Sydney-Hobart yacht race as the Damp Cricket and I'm not sure if my brother will ever speak to me again.
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Unbelievable scoop from @HannahD15 –– The Australian government created horoscopes to scare asylum seekers buzzfeed.com/hannahryan/aust…
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