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OAK, my local airport, wants to expand. I encourage other East Bay people to submit comments: oaklandairport.com/terminaldev

Here’s my draft (open to phrasing advice until I send it): gist.github.com/celoyd/e0d6fd9

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My FYP was pretty rancid so I reset it and it turns out it could have been much worse all along.

Is Allosyncarpia a eucalypt, the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

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So one of my volunteer projects is preservation of a specific type of Malay textile, and the team is launching a suite of socmed accounts. I want to help set up and run a fedi account for them... Anyone has a good instance to rec on that theme? Or else I'll simply pick one. Probably either history or art or handicraft-related. (Too bad we don't quite have a generalist SEA one yet. XD) #fedihelp

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Picked up some qvevri wine from the Eastern European supply store so the next bolognese is going to taste like it was fermented underground.

I think if your consumer product advertises an easily resealable package, you should have to post one video a month of each of the members of your company’s board of directors opening and resealing it.

Watch the Apollo 11 Moon landing "live", as it was presented on TV by Walter Cronkite 51 years ago today. The landing starts at 4:10pm EDT and the Moon walk at 10:51 pm EDT. https://kottke.org/23/07/watch-1969s-apollo-11-moon-landing-live

I believe that if we want SI units to happen in the US, we need to use them (with conversions as necessary), but also, this is true. mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/

Avoiding thinking by mapping: an easy, sustainable mental health strategy.

Drafting and then deleting a talk page argument for why Wikipedia’s eucalypt articles are slightly mis-organized.

Toying with the idea of a linkblog – just web links with 0–3 paragraphs of commentary. Unsure what form this would take. Also not sure I would have the time to keep it going if I got a regular job again. Open to takes.

It’s such a classic MBA-and-no-sense thing for an exec to say. It’s beautiful. It’s ten thousand times more damning than “One former employee said he seemed to ‘drink a lot of his own Kool-Aid’” or whatever. It’s the perfect quote. Sometimes doing things experts disagree with works, but the guy who’s like “Did you know Einstein failed math?” is going to cause more harm than a supervillain could.

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The bit where the guy in charge repeats a factoid this thin as if it’s persuasive and illuminating, because he thinks it’s his vision that matters more than his money, is something that I think most reasonably experienced tech workers would recognize as an even bigger red flag than the parts where he’s like “And now I will use unrated equipment in a safety-of-life application against the strong objections of experts!”

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@merrysky Yo, I’m seeing big discontinuities in my forecast (in this case, late on Sunday), presumably from models not matching up. Is this expected?

We have a thread going with server recs here now, plz send over new folks who are interested in finding a home https://mstdn.social/@kissane/110640947682542163

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Trying to replace it and finding only two options:

1. Dr Nourishment’s health gel with SkinCling paste-forming technology, glycerol, wood glue, palm oil, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B5, vitamin B6, vitamin B7, vitamin B9, vitamin B12, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, textured vegetable protein, plaster, hagfish slime, extra vitamin B2, and The Deserving Pore® skin-clogging microplastics.

2. Killshot Man Violence, the Body Thrashing Exit Wound Sterilizer.

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.