When this week started, I did not think I would be coordinating a foster home for a llama and two turkeys.
Everything is terrible, but at least there is a new episode of Remote Ruby! 🥳
★ Just published a new episode of Remote Ruby: Ruby 3 adds Ractor, Hook Relay, ZSH and more. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/72dd2363

What shapes are you making during eternal Caturday?

Quick reminder: We're hosting A Domain of One’s Own Meetup: "Domains and the Cloud" in about 2 weeks 📅Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020 at 9:00 AM Pacific #DoOO #edtech #ds106 #IndieWeb [more...] boffosocko.com/2020/09/04/dom…
When Françoise Brougher sued Pinterest, she specifically called out the CFO for mistreatment. It turns out, the problems on the finance team go deeper:
Inside Pinterest, more tales of workplace discrimination theverge.com/2020/9/11/2142…
Hard words to bear. But it’s true. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
Tiny heartbreak of the day: passed a local middle school. For 2 weeks its billboard has advertised pandemic distance learning laptop distribution scheduled for today. Now canceled due to the air being unbreathable.
Two PM2.5 filter masks, gaffer’s tape and a bullet fan against an AQI of 150 in my office. I want to thank @NASA for the inspiration. Hope this helps until the air purifiers arrive.
A gyepet robotfűnyíró-pajtás tartja karban 😏 (@ Kadriorg Park in Tallinn, Harjumaa) swarmapp.com/slsoftworks/ch…
My view as someone who grew up in wildfire country and had their house burn to the ground in ‘09 is that the insurance industry is and always has been pretty exploitative and the moratorium on them not dropping people should last forever thank you!!
On today's Daily: the self-perpetuating cycle of home building and re-buildng that has made the annual wildfires so destructive. What will it take to break that cycle? @...
2020 rom com: fell in love over tindr during quarantine, and suddenly become roommates during the widespread fire evacuations after never meeting in person.
If you have Pacific Northwest people on your team, please give them grace this week. 1/8th of Oregon has had to evacuate their homes. If we haven’t had to, we’re checking to make sure we or our families don’t. The air quality is so bad it smells like campfire inside our apts.
Prisons are likely going to have to contend with COVID-19 and the flu this fall 😞
Prisons battling COVID-19 face another disease threat this fall theverge.com/2020/9/11/2143…
But that job is already done by “the algorithm”
thinking about creating a new type of job, 'content destroyer', i firmly believe we need less content and we should destroy most of the existing content
That good good daddy energy emanating from the federal government:
A new coronavirus scam targets people who’ve "violated quarantine" theverge.com/2020/9/11/2143…
Full daylight, streetlight is on and illuminating an inverted cone of smoke.
"Only in Estonia – where [...] chefs may want to avoid the costs and risks of setting up a fine-dining restaurant – would the winner of the Best Chef in Estonia Award, 26-year-old Mihkel Rand, choose to work 18-hour days at the counter of his new Chinese-inspired bun shack."
If you have outdoor space like a balcony or garden in the Pacific Northwest, please put some some out. Birds and other critters are very thirsty!
Can confirm did this at the age of 11. Was precocious but worth it. Changed it legally 10 years later twitter.com/hthrflwrs/stat…
Heather ⬢ Flowers https://twitter.com/HTHRFLWRS
DID YOU KNOW: YOU CAN JUST DECIDE YOU HAVE A NEW NAME. DON'T EVEN HAVE TO BE TRANS. YOU CAN JUST SAY "THIS OTHER NAME WOULD FIT ME BETTER" AND THEN HAVE IT BE YOUR NAME
🙋🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/swufpU3bsA
Raise your hand if you never seen a single episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians. 🙋🏼‍♀️