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@mattknight1986 @Astropartigirl Or its "anyone in the same area", because we're even too lazy to focus our attention on one person. We're infants, wailing to the world to pay attention.


@mattknight1986 @Astropartigirl Even if you pretend the centuries of slvaery and genocide and stick to the last 20 years, "mass shootings" are the exclusive domain of entitled, angry white men. Why? because it's never "that guy who insulted me" who should pay, it's "everyone that looks like him"


@mattknight1986 @Astropartigirl "Did anyone expect whites to prostrate themselves before the world"

They do. We whites are the only ones who can't figure out why they expect it, because of systemic privilege and racism.


@davewiner I'm hopeless with words, but I remember Scripting News that day. I was glued to SN more than the pictures on TV. Seeing all the names from the SN community linked on that page, and processing - for the 18th time - the fear, the hurt, and now what it did to our nation


this is a test

https://t.co/y4MpLc6dWd


RT @pixel: Slack is IRC:

minus choice of client minus scriptability minus server choice plus non-intuitive interface plus slow response ti…


@morgamic Yes. the answer is yes.


@pixel I miss Adium


@ericholscher Perhaps I don’t maintain enough terrible and old code (though I do some) but I have found the basics of converting to be a pleasure. (Dict.items() and strings/bytes being the common issues)

Plus the relief and ridding myself of deprecation warnings...


RT @monolesan: Are you sitting with correct posture right now? My new experiment detects your posture and blurs a screen if it’s poor. Made…


OMG leftover mince kheema, pickle, and fried eggs https://t.co/OEPLyH9Qv1


RT @jonkristinsson: forgot to stop the recording before i took off my mocap suit.. https://t.co/r1AjhfMKTJ


RT @cydharrell: happy Friday! gatekeepers are assholes. a huge % of the useful programming done in the world happens in Excel. very many pe…


RT @stealthygeek: My following has demanded my story about 1,000 baby praying mantises. So, here we go. About fifteen years ago, I lived in…


RT @jessicashortall: At last, I have found someone with whom I share this very specific pet peeve https://t.co/Tm6UdbB1Ry


RT @lukew: quick feedback please: if you get this reference, like/retweet/reply? thanks~ https://t.co/4J41Kt6qGX


RT @judell: I've never adopted an outliner. But I'm hooked on outlining!

https://t.co/CgN30O7fHO


@anildash “Yes, I’m a cultural anthropologist! Oh, what do I do? Product reviews!”

Sounds exactly right to me.


RT @anildash: Good thread here. In general, I hope credible reviews of devices (as Wirecutter offers) will look thoughtfully & skeptically…


RT @reckless: This is the wrong thing to copy https://t.co/YmxjtBQgb0

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