Caitlin ‘Bitsmith’ PB

From park ranger to teacher to Rails and Ember developer @HotDocOnline. Doing life with @geoffreyd 🏳️‍🌈

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Back in my uni days I studied Wildlife Science, which didn’t really qualify me to do anything, but it did equip me with endless fascinating animal facts. You think human bodies are weird? Well strap yourselves in for a whole lot of crazy…

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@BlackstarKitty @glennthegreat @ask_aubry …did you read this as celebrity and not ‘celery’? As in the vegetable? With…stalks?

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@summerfallgames As far as worst cases go....I'm pretty ok with this ☺️

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@summerfallgames Worst case a friend gets a free copy and I get it on switch instead :P

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@summerfallgames Is it going to be available on Mac via Steam? or just PC (It's possible that I backed without checking....)

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And they say Australia is scary… 😳🤯🫠

[Egg 🥚 @zoosmell_egbert]

@UrsulaV I found this copypasta about rabies on r/oopsthatsdeadly and its been haunting me for days (extreme trigger warning it gets very in-depth)

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The Parks and Rec jokes about people from Indiana hating the library/librarians just went a little too far…

[ACLU of Indiana @ACLUIndiana]

BREAKING: The Indiana Senate just passed SB 12, a book banning bill opening school librarians and teachers up to felony prosecution for having material a parent finds objectionable.

SB 12 would have a chilling effect on free speech in schools. The bill now heads to the House.

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So, any tech conferences with a CFP coming up that have a travel budget? I've got an API integrations talk percolating in my brain (and my notes app) that I'd love to get to finish and present somewhere!

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@AstroKatie @acweyand And people actually take hand hygiene seriously still. Hand washing and hand sanitising happening so regularly. Feels so much safer here than home in Brisbane in much less crowded spaces

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@AstroKatie @acweyand I have been in bangkok this week and while it’s super crowded, everyone is masked all the time. Trains, shops, just walking around, even when visiting family they (and we) were all wearing masks except when eating. It’s so refreshing.
Only exception is all the white tourists 🤦🏼‍♀️

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@ok_lyndsey so long answer is, unless you were super-fast charging a tesla Model X (with a 100kWH) battery from 0% to 100%, then no, you're not paying anywhere near $60 for a charge. Short answer is no, that is not correct 😅

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@ok_lyndsey But unless you’re driving 100s of km every day (or don’t have access to a power point where you park) you’ll seldom use a fast charger.

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@ok_lyndsey She’s pretty as all get out too. Look at her soaking up that sun :p

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@ok_lyndsey Our Kia EV6 uses ~ 15 kWH per 100km. So about $3.50 for 100km granny charging at home through a regular power point. We’ve only had it a month and gone about 1000km in that time so would have spent maybe $35 for about ‘2 charges’ if we were charging at night. But cheaper on ☀️

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@jasonandrade @ok_lyndsey Haha I’ll let them play with their toy since my EV6 arrived last month and has sufficiently distracted me😅

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@ok_lyndsey @jasonandrade My parents got a leaf e+ a few months ago and only waited a month for delivery. They’re obsessed with it

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So the fact that almost every rails dev built a ‘Twitter clone’ when they started coding should come in handy right about now, right?

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I had the most amazing night last night at the Women in Digital awards, and am so honoured to have been named ‘Technical Leader of the Year’. I feel so lucky to have been selected, and to spend the night with so many incredibly inspirational women! #WIDAwards

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@keystonelemur I feel like we need a follow up poll for "Did you think you understood https://t.co/wsMiXwZ7QQ([]) but then realise you very much did not previously understand https://t.co/wsMiXwZ7QQ([]) after reading this tweet?"

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@chendo @rubyconf_au @Quintrino might be one for you?