If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create. They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. I’m happy to invest and/or help
Silver lining: Europe became a Union yesterday. 🇪🇺
The Blue Report is amazing. The most clicked on articles are right here theblue.report
(Notes sudden increase in bot activity in my comments) (Checks the time) Yup, 9am in Moscow, the day shift has clocked in
Here are some nice mushrooms
A broken branch is colonized by dozens of climbing false turkey tail fronds. Their salmon shelves are cupped like pringles toward the sky. All photos by me
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The disabled 500 pound lion and his unlikely Dachshund friends who have been inseparable ever since the lion was a cub.
Don't Fret. 🥹
Two witches over a cauldron, one of them is crying on the other shoulder. They're surrounded by plants and other trinkets.
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The local nature preserve has a stand of maple trees and the rangers there are tapping the trees and making maple syrup. Krissy, who walked Charlie there this morning, got a little bottle of the stuff, just as they were done with a new batch. It is shockingly flavorful.
A tiny bottle filled with amber maple syrup.
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Each and every person who normalized the idea that this is a "public square" and therefore all people have an open invitation to be an ass in the replies of strangers clearly never learned how to respect anyone but themselves.
I really need the police to solve Gene Hackman’s death before a podcast tries to do it
i kinda want to make a hat or a t-shiet that adapts the bush/cheney ‘04 logo to say Capone/Noriega ‘97
Fruit is so stupid. It’s delicious and turns bright red when it’s ripe. I can see you dumbass
Make the algorithm work for you.
Freedom of reach is the real battle in social media right now. Algorithmic feeds vs. deterministic timelines isn't just UX - it's about whether platforms or users control what gets seen. And these choices fundamentally reshape online communities. 1/6
Threads vs. Bluesky. Spot the difference.
An early remake, Dune 2000 updated Westwood's 1992 PC RTS pioneer Dune II "for the new millennium." [Ad via the VGHF Library collection.]
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I too am being afflicted by the ghost DM notification helppp
Bluesky posts about the ghost DM notification that won't go away:
—This incorrect DM notification needs to fuck all the way off.
—Confirming this. I tested the bug yesterday and it seems to specifically hit only the most recently-active DM thread, and only if it has not been replied to. Under those conditions, generates a false notification upon app reload.
—I'm also experiencing the DM notification that doesn't go away even though the messages have been read (I sent a bug report).
—i think i have a phantom DM because my Chat tab keeps occasionally lighting up with a new notification briefly before it disappears, and I have no updates in any of my visible DMs
—Does anyone here have a big issue where your message tab has an unanswered notification stating you got a DM, only to find out that your DM's are already read but somehow persist with every refresh?
—I have some weird glitch where every time I refresh the page a DM notification shows up and then goes away, and I don't have any new DMs. Driving me insane
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