Scott

@scyt
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leader of support wizards
spends too much time in WordPress
obsessed with heavy music
xvx PMA
@georgetakei Funny, I actually worked in an office that required training and certification before you could use the espresso machine. It worked well in that they rarely required repairs that were caused by misuse.
I’m 56 years old. Which means I’m about to endure my fourth cycle of twenty-something year old dudes discovering the weight room and Ayn Rand shit like they’ve just unlocked Enlightenment itself and by god I’m fucking so tired of it. And now they have podcasts.
@baiteh @fesshole I am against landlords in general. Private property is theft.

Preliminary results from the Denver Basic Income Project that's providing cash to hundreds of unhoused people for one year, using the first 6 months of data:

• NO ONE receiving $1,000/mo still sleeping outside
• Full-time employment increased
• Fewer visits to the ER
• Fewer nights spent in jail
• Reduced use of social and public services

Read the full report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gqtOfZG2sSanWgUdzn-lx-pwSXZKabj-/view?pli=1

DBIP Interim Quantitative Report.pdf

Google Docs
@ryanhoulihan it seems difficult for some people to just keep scrolling instead of starting an argument. I wonder where that need to comment on something they are not interested in comes from?

I think things are coming to a head sooner rather than later.

"Nobody became a billionaire through kindness. And nobody with power actually suffers any real consequences for being a malignant prick.

In this reality, it makes complete sense that the height of comedy for many people is the delight that comes from watching rich people eat shit." #EatTheRich

https://www.thedailybeast.com/eating-the-rich-sounds-pretty-good-to-most-of-us-right-now

Eating the Rich Sounds Pretty Good to Most of Us Right Now

From Burning Man schadenfreude to an angry populist hit song, there’s a palpable animosity for the uber-wealthy we haven’t seen since the 2008 financial crisis.

The Daily Beast
@ryanhoulihan Ignoring this need has led to massive burnout for me multiple times.
I'd put money on there being a higher regret rate for Harry Potter tattoos than gender affirming care
@zeh I love projects like this. On a similar note, I've been using https://photopea.com as a Photoshop replacement for a while now.
Photopea | Online Photo Editor

Photopea Online Photo Editor lets you edit photos, apply effects, filters, add text, crop or resize pictures. Do Online Photo Editing in your browser for free!

Speaking of which, hot new robots.txt entry just dropped:

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot

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