Virtual Machinist. Likes coffee and noise. May or may not be working on an operating system.

San Francisco
Joined November 2008
Thanks, everyone, for letting us bring kittens into your life. You can continue the kitten flow via the probably-obvious service. See milk.com/hourlykitten/ for a link.
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When cats yawns they look terrifying, I love it
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This apparently marks the end of the hourlykitten bot on this site. It was a noncommercial labor of love and we hope it brought you some joy. Look for us on other likely sites, starting with ones that are less hostile to users and more hostile to Nazis.
Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵
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what could go wrong about a tax that must be paid before access to the polls.
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This was the #2 best thing to happen on the computers yesterday (just after #JohnMastodon). Watching it play out in real time was PERFECT
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Ukraine’s main Christmas Tree in Kyiv lit up with blue and yellow. Christmas means hope. And Ukraine has one hope. This is victory.
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So here's the thing. You can only violate people's legal rights and your own word so far before they lawyer up and come after you. I really do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing - the employees deserve that. But it'll be fun as hell if he doesn't.
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bless her little heart
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BREAKING: US Intelligence official confirms to AP that “Russian missiles crossed into NATO member #Poland, killing two people.” This is quickly escalating. Poland’s PM is holding emergency meeting.
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This is how the people of Kherson hid Ukrainian flags during the occupation "Wet but alive"
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Greetings from the Hourly Kitten team! We now fits and sits in the Fediverse here: botsin.space/@hourlykitten
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With all the recent talk about engineer value in code quantity, stack ranking and laying off engineers based on lines of code, whether managers should code, etc, etc, I keep thinking of a thing that happened more than once in places I’ve worked. Here is a story: 🧵 1/
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A busy night at Stonehenge as the staff work all night to move the stones back 1 hour!
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1/ There is some pretty substantial context about Twitter's 2023 revenue and advertisers that I think partly help explains why Musk is really losing it... And it involves upfront ad sales. Let me explain...
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In another galaxy far far away stripe.com/en-gb-nl/newsroom… – at San Francisco, CA
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More thread sharing this morning: the “trust thermocline” is maybe a variation on the halo effect, but this is a great framing. xitter.cf/garius/status/15881153…
One of the things I occasionally get paid to do by companies/execs is to tell them why everything seemed to SUDDENLY go wrong, and subs/readers dropped like a stone. So, with everything going on at Twitter rn, time for a thread about the Trust Thermocline /1
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Many Autists tend to personify the objects around them. This is understood to be a form of synesthesia where the sense of Empathy bleeds into our perception of objects. Autists can develop complex relationships with objects they have known for long periods of time.
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mods are asleep, post forbidden six-byte UTF-8 sequences
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