Scott Etherington (old)

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The benefits of having an amazing public library system cannot be overstated. Almost any books, textbooks, media, vinyl records, they have it here. They have free printing services. Protect and resource libraries.

Trump's day-one Executive Order blitz contained a *lot* of weird, fucked-up shit, but for me, the most telling (though not the most important) was the decision to defund all medical research whose grant applications contained the word "systemic":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/02/04/national-science-foundation-trump-executive-orders-words/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/19/systemic/#criminality-pure-and-simple

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Earth’s 10 Hottest Years on Record Are the Last 10

A report from the World Meteorological Organization confirms that 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first year to be more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial era.

The New York Times
In Apple’s world it makes more sense to convert Celsius to Kelvin than any other temperature scale 🤷‍♂️
Code Lifespan

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Just read that 4,153,237 people got married last year, not to cause any trouble but shouldn't that be an even number?

therapist: how have you been coping with everything

me: with sarcasm mostly

therapist: has that been working

me: yeah it's been super great

Today in “the cyberpunk dystopia I didn’t want” I had to open a support case for my cats litter box.

The solution was to update the firmware of the thing my fluffy friends poop in.

I had to update a toilet for cats.

Tweetbot has been discontinued as well. Much appreciation to the Tapbots and Iconfactory (Twitterrific) teams for their excellent apps. "We've invested over 10 years building Tweetbot for Twitter and it was shut down in a blink of an eye." https://tapbots.com/tweetbot/
Tweetbot. April 2011 - January 2023

An award-winning Twitter Client for iOS.