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Holy shit, it works! I am officially a full-time #ProfessionalMaintainer ✨🧑💻💼
That means I spend most of my time on #OpenSource maintenance, and I offer retainers to companies that benefit from my work and from access to me.
I now have six amazing clients: Glasklar Teknik AB, Protocol Labs, Latacora, the Interchain Foundation, Smallstep, and @tailscale@hachyderm.io.
I am excited and relieved to announce this, and wrote up a bunch of details on how I got here and where it's going.
https://words.filippo.io/full-time-maintainer/?source=Mastodon
Shell just recorded £32 billion in profit.
3,000 people in the UK die every year because they can't afford to heat their homes.
There’s nothing pragmatic about letting greed run rampant while the poorest freeze to death.
Energy is a public good. It should be in public hands.
This is sad. I've been providing hugs on Twitter for over three years now (has it really been that long???)
This bot isn't monetized, the hugs are truly free so there's no way I can pay for API access.
Unless @elonmusk changes his mind this bot will stop giving hugs next week😭
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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 🧵
Jo: 1, sepsis: 0
It has been a scary few days but I’m incredibly greatful to be here. If I lived in another country without our NHS there’s no way I could’ve afforded the level of care I received. Support our heroes on strike and our amazing system 💜 #NHS#nhsstrikes
My mom saw this photo and said “your legs look huge” (derogatory)
Parents, please never speak to your children this way about their bodies. It doesn’t matter if they’re 5 or 35.
My “huge” legs are strong and beautiful. I wish my mom could see that too.
I hope @carol@social.lol doesn't mind me completely ripping her lifenotes format off... but I have.
I really love reading these so I thought it's time I did my own. Blogging used to be something I did very regularly in my teens so why stop now?
https://loftio.co.uk/lifenotes-001-january-23/
"My son's autistic."
"Interesting, is anyone else in the family autistic?"
"No, I don't think so."
"There's a strong genetic link you know."
"Hmm, no, it's only him."
"LOOK IN THE BLOODY MIRROR DAVE."
It's OK to make jokes about neurodiveristy.
Neurodiversity has this image where it's all very serious and sensible but NDs are some of the funniest people I've ever met - and a frequent source of humour is our own conditions.
Humour makes it easier to engage with people too.
Normalise tidying up when your friend gets there, rather than before.
I'll actually tidy if you're with me, plus I can concentrate better on what you're saying if I'm moving about.
First they took away my favourite app (Tweetbot), next week they’ll prevent me from syndicating notes from my own site using a free API.
This new direction for Twitter makes me very sad. …
The hidden burden of undiagnosed ADHD is constantly needing to invent excuses in an attempt to explain or justify behavior that you don’t even understand yourself.
Tbh, I think people are going to slowly end up going back to Twitter because Mastodon doesn't do what they want it to do nor will they be interested in trying other options (which you should - most of …
No one slept good last night. She wants to be near one of us because she knows we’re sad. She’s been our best dog friend for a long time. Saying goodbye will be very hard.
Quote of the day: "Static analysis has found a few bugs in SQLite, but those are the exceptions. More bugs have been introduced into SQLite while trying to get it to compile without warnings than have been found by static analysis."
Source: sqlite.org/testing.html
Overall this has led to a much better experience on Twitter. My name was trending constantly before my ban and it was driving a lot of harassment, so ironically banning me from trending (which I believe is what's happening) has calmed that down a lot.
Really hate that ppl think “no ethical consumption” means “just do whatever fuck it ” and not “still try to be ethical but know that purity in this regard is practically impossible so just do your best”
i’ve said it before with regards to leaking female content creators’ nudes and i’ll say it again with regards to this deepfake pornography stuff— the reason you’re looking is because the lack of consent turns you on. you like it because these women did not consent. that’s it.
does anyone still want an auction for the most colossal candy corn I could make or is that just an october thing
retweet if you'd bid on a charity auction for Megacorn or want your followers to have to see Megacorn
Dave Bautista wonders if he’s too “unattractive” for rom-coms:
“I always look in the mirror and I ask myself, ‘Am I that unattractive? Is there something that unappealing about me that excludes me from these parts?' […] I still have high hopes. I’ll just keep searching.”
'The Sims 4' announces trans-inclusive update to the base game, which includes top surgery scars and binders for your Sim, as well as a shapewear asset in the underwear category. 🏳️⚧️