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Kurt Bales (@[email protected])

@networkjanitor

Former Network Engineer, JNCIE-ENT #368; Employer: @Oracle (ex @Twitter, @Brocade and @JuniperNetworks). Tweets are my own: 1/3 Tech + 1/3 Music + 1/3 ShitPoss

 San Francisco (ex-Sydney)
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Joined September 2010
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OH... /cc @mediocrity @Ramin_DK – at San Francisco, CA
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Way to go #Samoa7s !!! So proud of you boys! Can’t wait to see you in Feb in LA!
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Pretty wild right? You might even say it took some “hardcore” engineering to produce. And that was looooong before November 1st!
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) profile pictureElon Musk
@elonmusk4 Dec 2022
Pretty wild that you can engage in back-and-forth dialogue with over 100k people live on Twitter Spaces!
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Guys, The day finally came! I’m in Mexico and we went out for dinner and I was finally in a position to use the only phrase my meager attempts at @duolingo has prepared me for! And you should know that I did indeed obtain una mesa para dos personas! /cc @NikkiMegaplaza
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Ok but they’re fun, fabulous, and fir-ocious?
A text conversation with my exhausted boss. Her vibe is “begrudgingly supportive. “ My vibe is “obnoxiously enthusiastic.” The conversation goes: Me: I have a plan for those seedlings the nursery gave us! Boss: the ones you’re using to teach people about forestry? Me: Hear me out - reali - tree stars Boss: Stop. Me: they’re strong. They’re beautiful. They throw shade. They wear luxurious fir coats. Boss: I really can’t keep defending you.

ALT A text conversation with my exhausted boss. Her vibe is “begrudgingly supportive. “ My vibe is “obnoxiously enthusiastic.” The conversation goes: Me: I have a plan for those seedlings the nursery gave us! Boss: the ones you’re using to teach people about forestry? Me: Hear me out - reali - tree stars Boss: Stop. Me: they’re strong. They’re beautiful. They throw shade. They wear luxurious fir coats. Boss: I really can’t keep defending you.

The real house firs of Washington! Five conifer seedlings stand proudly in terracotta pots that have bedazzled to look like glamorous gowns. That has to be the first time that sentence was written in the history of the English language.

ALT The real house firs of Washington! Five conifer seedlings stand proudly in terracotta pots that have bedazzled to look like glamorous gowns. That has to be the first time that sentence was written in the history of the English language.

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Twitter has ALWAYS upset people on both sides. In fact when I used to work there I would say almost this same thing. Unfortunately some people only see it from their side and think they are being unfairly treated. It shouldn’t cost you $44bn to realize that!
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) profile pictureElon Musk
@elonmusk2 Dec 2022
You know Twitter is being fair when extremists on far right and far left are simultaneously upset! Twitter aims to serve center 80% of people, who wish to learn, laugh & engage in reasoned debate. ❤️
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This made me laugh so hard and I don't know why
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Paging @igb : this was out the front of our house this morning. I think it’s a red shouldered hawk. Thoughts?
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Replying to @rodangol @mekkaokereke
I wonder if she wanders around the shop floor doing spot checks of nut torques. Or maybe she has people print out pictures of their best 10 welds over the last 6 months for review
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My books looking at me as twitter burns to the ground
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A 🧵 in which my bestie just takes the gloves off and answers the most inane question I’ve seen repeated over and over again this past few weeks! Next round is on me when you get back Bud 🥃 – at Benicia, CA
Ramin Khatibi (@Ramin_DK) profile pictureRamin Khatibi@Ramin_DK18 Nov 2022
It's time for a thread on why Twitter hasn't gone down yet 🧵
Mocking Spongebob meme If all these people were important, why hasn't Twitter gone down?

ALT Mocking Spongebob meme If all these people were important, why hasn't Twitter gone down?

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Now that the weather is cooling down, it’s finally time to pull out the slow cooker and prepare my first batch of beef stew for the season! I used to hate this as a kid, but over time I learned it was a perfect winter meal, and have slowly been modifying my mum’s recipe.
Raw ingredients of celery, carrots, potatoes and garlic being prepped for stew

ALT Raw ingredients of celery, carrots, potatoes and garlic being prepped for stew

2lbs of beef sitting in the bottom of the slow cooker

ALT 2lbs of beef sitting in the bottom of the slow cooker

All the meat, vegetables and saucy liquid magic combined and ready to slow cook for 4 hours on high!

ALT All the meat, vegetables and saucy liquid magic combined and ready to slow cook for 4 hours on high!

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But the real secret ingredient was the thing I hated most as a kid - Pearl Barely! That sucker gets into all the gaps between the other ingredients and really bulls up, absorbing the other flavors on the process! – at Benicia, CA
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Now for the first test!
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That’s it. That’s the game ending folks! – at Benicia, CA
@zac@macaw.social (@zkiehl) profile picture@[email protected]@zkiehl18 Nov 2022
Adios!
MacBook pro with a large sticker of JR "Bob" Dobbs on it.

ALT MacBook pro with a large sticker of JR "Bob" Dobbs on it.

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Any time there’s any nepotism discourse, I do unfortunately feel the need to revisit Brooklyn Beckham’s photography book
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Time to get this trending #WeWereTwitter – at Florida, USA
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I can say without any hesitation, hyperbole or prejudice, that Yao is probably the greatest software engineer I have ever met, and am likely to work with. We sat across from each other for almost a year, and I learned something new every time we chatted. – at Benicia, CA
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The 2022 midterms in a gif.
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