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@tabatkins
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was @tabatkins on Twitter, now am @tabatkins.com on BlueSky. Only on Masto rarely.

editor of many CSS specs; lover of games, kpop, and animals; promoter of base-6 as optimal human-oriented number base

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Homepagehttps://tabatkins.com
BlueSkyhttps://bsky.app/profile/tabatkins.com
friendship ended with twitter now mastodon is my best friend https://mastodon.social/media/bytqeZMccNrCCBqYes8

Apologies to everyone I had to leave out! (your instances are great too)

From Witches to Dolphins, These Are the Communities That Make Mastodon Great https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/from-witches-to-dolphins-these-are-the-communities-that-make-mastodon-great #eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

'Last of the The IRS' arrested in Florida, US Marshals say

There are a lot of new Mastodon instances now than there were this time last week.

A gentle reminder to the fledgling #Mastodon #admins to sign up for the mailing list, so you can stay abreast of releases, instance-breaking bugs, and community issues.

And just chill out with your fellow Mastodon admins.

https://lists.ffdn.org/wws/info/mastodon-admin

I've been increasingly saying "fitting to data" instead of "learning" when talking about ML. It feels like a more accurate reflection of what's actually going on (and gives more credit to the physics that it was originally drawn from)
Yo yo yo! Remember I promised to write about scaling mastodon.social to 43k users? I did it! https://medium.com/@Gargron/scaling-mastodon-1becde463090

straight people: you /never/ see many queers hanging out with each other, that's not realistic

queers: okay but what if 40000 of us make our own gay leftist social network and also call everything toots

The CSSWG now has its own Mastodon instance at https://social.csswg.org

Actually, yuyu, yuưe, and yuưeưe all preserve interesting shades of meaning.

yuyu = plural you, the group I'm addressing
yuưe = you and the (singular) other person
yuưeưe = you and multiple other people
yuyuưe = group I'm addressing and the (singular) other person
yuyuưeưe = oh come on

All of these are subsumed by "y'all" in English.