PARENTS, please check your kids candy this Halloween. I just found the One Ring forged in secret in the fires of Mount Doom, which the Dark Lord Sauron poured his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all life.
@amcvittie It doesn’t help THAT situation 😉 but it might let you differentiate the state of origin of the speaker! This is one of those geographically correlated names
🧵My suspension has been rescinded! You have no idea how relieved I am! I am grateful to the many journalism organizations & people who supported my students & me throughout this ordeal. Yes, I wore this #FirstAmendment shirt to my appeal meeting on Zoom today. (1/6)
Company downsized today and I was one of the expendables
since my wife is at the start of a new cancer treatment her life literally depends on medical insurance
if you need an iOS developer with >3 years experience DM me
I have many ex-coworkers who are willing to chat
The problem with PMs and POs insisting that everything should look the same on both platforms is that no one apart from POs and PMs uses both platforms. To everyone else, going against platform idioms is jarring
Growing numbers of people use they/them/their as a gender-neutral singular personal pronoun. As much as possible, AP also uses they/them/their as a way of accurately describing and representing a person who uses those pronouns for themself.
@infin8x Yes! I’ve occasionally chosen Markdown in a GitHub snippet or docs repo for exactly this reason. As long as the doc is mostly for reading, not shared editing, it works okay.
I’m absolutely terrified that this is where we are - that after so many decades of people fighting for women’s rights to their own bodies, today’s decision has stripped us of that.