Alex Pretzlav 🥨

@pretz
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Kids, bikes, video games, cooking.
Oakland, CA
iOS @ Patreon
Black Lives Matter
Trans rights are human rights
websitehttps://pretzlav.com
alt (mutuals, rarely used)https://macaw.social/@pretz
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Fine, blueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/pretz.bsky.social
How it started … how it’s going.
These little $40 Linux handhelds are pretty fun!
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

The Onion
Desperately trying to convince myself that I don’t need an Ayn Thor before the rampocalypse makes them unaffordable or they simply stop making them.

Triple threat of "has a non-US location open", "great teammates", and "work on the bleeding edge of making safe languages adoptable in more places"

https://f.duriansoftware.com/@joe/116144532826406043

(full disclosure: I have a bunch of open optimizer bugs so I have a vested interest in this team having more engineers 😇)

Spring of deception
AI discourse has replaced Swift Concurrency discourse
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
This isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating. Substack hosts, profits from, and promotes explicitly Nazi content, and if you are adding value to that network, you are helping them to do so. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Revealed: How Substack makes m...
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

The Guardian
Huge turnout in Oakland today— we all want safe streets where people can bike and breathe and protest and live. Rest in power to #AlexPretti #ReneeGood #KeithPorter and all those killed by ICE.
here’s an app store app that is not only filled with emulators and roms, but gives you a regular apple pay sheet, instead of an in-app purchase, when you pay. 🫡