Megan Thee Stallion or Emily Dee Baker?

Waiting on the login screen of #helldivers2 for an open server. That's my mid-life version of waiting outside a club, to be let in.

It's last Sunday of 2023... I think I've tooted flower photos/paintings most Sundays this year... here, take some flowers, because Monday is coming... along with 2024... !

"The End of the Day at the Farm"
Pastel on Lux Archival paper - 10x8 in

https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/tamami-tokutake/the-end-of-the-day-at-the-farm/937921
#BloomScrolling #flowerreport #MastoArt #PastelArtist

I wish you happiness and peace in #2024.

My New Year's message in a few words: Sharing joy is as important as finding it. In addition to discovering your own joy, it is essential to share it with others by being inclusive, welcoming, and encouraging.

In the US, it’s called an elevator. In the UK, it’s a lift...

I guess we’re just all raised differently..

Before you delete those temporary debugging print statements from your code*, ask yourself what you put them in there to check, and consider whether that should be an automated test. Then - and this is my favourite part - ask yourself if they could have been automated tests in the first place, and whether the thing you were checking for could have been made more easily accessible (e.g., in its own function).

* You /were/ going to delete them, right

This is a frankly infurating framing of the natural end of a copyright literally a human century later

"I'm upset about abortions"
"Let's fund sex ed, contraceptives and health care for pregnant women, it will cause the number of abortions to decline dramatically."
"NO. Send the women & doctors to jail."

"I'm upset people jump the turnstyle"
"Let's properly fund the subway and make it free and faster while reducing overhead."
"NO. I want those bad teens ARRESTED."

"This dreary area under the bridge is DISGUSTING."
"Let's clean it up & install a public restroom."
"NO. Arrest people for pooping"

I had my teenage colonized mind blown when I once referred to my part of the world as ‘the far east’. My history teacher at the time very patiently said, far, and east, relative to where? From where we are it’s simply here

For readers across the world, Tom Gauld's end of year statistics on his #reading habits will strike a chord... enjoy

@bookstodon

programming tip: when you first open a programming file often the lines of code are all mixed up, so you should sort them (":%sort" in vim) before getting started on your work

It's a beautiful day in the Empire and you are a horrible goose. #ToyPhotography

Today is the 133-year-anniversary of Wounded Knee Massacre. The US Government took their land, broke a treaty and guarantee to give them food and supplies, then sent the U.S. Army, who killed 300 Lakota including 60 women & children😓

The US Govt then:
•Awarded 20 medals of honor to the soldiers guilty of genocide
•Refused to pay reparations or build a memorial
•Waited 100 years to apologize

City views on a clear day after the rains

(Hasselblad 500C, 100mm, probably expired Portra 160, developed in Bellini C-41 kit, scanned on Fuji Frontier SP3000)

#SanFrancisco #California #Outdoors #Skyline #Portra #Kodak #Hasselblad #Bellini #C41 #BayArea

New ChatGPT feature! A dial that lets you increase the racism!

@mekkaokereke I noted in another thread that I thought it was pretty crazy that we have not just one, but TWO GOP candidates of Indian descent courting the white supremacy vote.

Hello. I have ~10 years experience as a developer and today I spent fifteen minutes of my wild and precious life debugging why an if check was returning true on a boolean variable when it was set to false only to eventually discover it was actually set to the string "false".

So if you're ever feeling like you're not smart enough to be a programmer, just remember: none of us are smart enough for dynamically typed languages.

My favorite mobility policy of 2023: Banning right-on-red

Inherently dangerous to pedestrians, ROR was widely adopted in order to conserve gas during the 1970s oil crisis (which, you might notice, ended decades ago).

Ann Arbor ditched ROR this year, and DC is about to. Denver, Chicago, and San Francisco may as well.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90908929/its-time-for-a-nationwide-ban-of-right-on-red

#safety #traffic #cities

Reversing #America ‘s ruinous support for #Israel ‘s assault on #Gaza https://warontherocks.com/2023/12/reversing-americas-ruinous-support-for-israels-assault-on-gaza/