We're looking for a creative web developer who is all in on #OpenSource!

We plan to build a website using an open source static site generator (your choice, as long as it sings), and need a #freelancer to help us bring our new brand identity and content to life across every screen.

Clean code, fast load times, beautiful design — that’s the goal.

Interested? Reach out for the details. Sharing is caring. 💚

Yo new starter, here's an incredibly detailed form in which you attest that your chair, desk, monitor, keyboard, mouse, light levels, etc etc etc are all ergonomic and you absolve us of any and all liability...

Yo new starter, it's fully hot-desking here, you'll have to grab whatever chair and desk are free when you arrive, most aren't adjustable.

Air traffic control squeezed us in the smallest of slots (🙏).

And people. People. Sydney Kingsford Smith was running at traffic movement intervals less than 2 minutes (arrival/departure).

...although... I shudder to think about the car driving impact in the same city.

Its an unholy hecktonne of money and fossils being converted to noise and CO2 out there..

(inb4 well yes, survey aircraft also burn fossil carbon)

Flew overhead a C17 today - heckin chonker of an aircraft.

(yass! we finally got airborne and collected a pile of foundational spatial data / pretty pictures)

1/2

Hey Vic emergency app, could you just get fucked real quick?

@Hello_KayT also to be clear, this is a pre-probation step, so it’s actually a serious academic consequence of reporting sexual harassment.

I recently found out that all of the women who have reported sexual harassment this year to the University of Washington Allen School of CSE received a “needs improvement” on their Review of Progress, except @Hello_KayT presumably because she published both a MICRO and a HotOS paper this year. I’m speechless. If nothing else tells you how UW treats women who complain, this tells you everything. I would give them a needs improvement on .. sexism.

Mornin'

I wish I could have a better outlook on programming. I find it challenging and satisfying and interesting. But using most software has become a nightmare and there's so fucking much of it and it's that miserable on purpose.

As far as I know, I don't have any mutuals from #Mastodon that have come to see my band, but maybe some upcoming shows I'm super excited about will change that!

On July 12, we'll be opening up for Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers at the Fine Line in Minneapolis. Then we get to do it again in Aitkin, MN the next day!

Roger was the lead singer of the Refreshments and wrote the theme song for King of the Hill. We've got a great set planned, and you can get tickets here:

https://first-avenue.com/event/2025-07-roger-clyne-the-peacemakers/

I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

Replace disorder with dehumanisation.

Conservatives think they are human and others are not.

This is why you'll see conservatives forgive people like themselves and punish others for the same crimes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1lh6ff7/comment/mz1pkg0/

From The Onion: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice. “Now is not the time for bravery or valor! This is the time for protecting your own hide and lining your pocket.” (They sent a copy of this to every member of Congress.) https://theonion.com/letter-to-congress/

*sigh* I just want a way to do snow and ice research and teach people about it all and communicate the complex awesomeness *and also pay rent* without having to be part of some ponzi scheme or patriarchal hegemony.

I'm tired.

@fletch yeah I reckon chances of success are slim.

@fletch grants: Hmm my PhD... nil opportunity since.

teaching highlights: well I asked if a student wanted to help with some work; upstream folk said no its not student work; then same upstream folk grabbed a student to do the same work but in their thing.

*sigh* idk field research mentor, shoulder to cry on for multiple PhD candidates (and sometimes PIs), general spreader of useful knowledge?