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fellow marginalised people in tech, do you have strategies for responding in a kind, polite & constructive manner when your inputs are dismissed out of hand for a presumed lack of domain knowledge or presumption of being a bystander?

I find it difficult to avoid being frustrated

it’s not even internally consistent what are you doing 2016-me

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tfw you look at your old code and go what the fuck was I thinking with this syntax style

Jessica boosted

TransLink: the next two buses are 99s
TransLink: [four 9s go past]
Me: 🤔

demonstrating the game boy you’re asking nearly CA$1,000 for works by showing it running Trip World, a CA$400-600 game, is a real power move

wow I have a very legitimate email in my inbox offering me 50% of 950,000,000,000,000 US dollars for no reason whatsoever, “risk free and will be done legally in accordance
with the laws”

it’s always nice when a lawyer talks plain just like you or me

when someone pisses in the pool you tell them to fucking stop, not just fucking wait for someone to document that some arsehole pissed in the fucking pool

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“Twitter is the best place to get live updates about the things you care about most” but ‘it’s journalists’ job to refute disinformation on our platform, not ours to prevent its spread’ ok sure jack you dickhead

I just updated emoji_regex to v1.0.0 ✨

You can now match Unicode 11.0 emoji (which your OS very likely can’t even render yet! 😇) in your Ruby apps! ✌🏼💎💜
rubygems.org/gems/emoji_regex

appearance manager is back baby, it’s good again

incredibly frustrated with messages dot app’s inability to just send an iMessage to a specified address because I guess the app knows best

thanks to a patch from @VioletPixel@twitter.com, this now behaves correctly in Firefox! Thanks so much! 💜

thinking a lot about how I should construct a USB to GameBoy Pocket power cable but not sure how to feel about the setup ultimately turning 5V into 3V and then back again

not sure how to feel about the fact that Discord appears to internally refer to what it labels in the UI as “servers” as “guilds”

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