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#gravy originated as a sauce for Christmas pudding, which was, of course, rich in mincemeat. It symbolises the myrrh brought to the baby Jesus by the wise men.

No one has ever discovered what #myrrh is, but, on purely lexical grounds, it's suspected to be a kind of catarrh.

The most famous catarrh player of all time was #ElvisPresley, who achieved his unique sound by filling his catarrh with gravy.

Added a bunch of TypeScript types last night before I can get started on adding a new feature. Kinda considering uploading to BetterTyped but I'm not sure I want the maintenance burdon.

2026’s Schroedinger’s tech job is going to be like

It can simultaneously be replaced by AI and also you can only do it from a physical office, never remotely

Need to dig around the mastodon source code so I can do a "block with vengence" function where you scrape a users followers and block them too.

Aparently the dozens of optometrists in my are are booked up for months 😱

PGLite is probs one of my fave concepts since I found out about it last week. It makes testing so much easier for code that's tightly coupled with postgres SQL being available

This article is great and touches on why I focus on bridging to existing protocols in @agregore instead of creating yet another one and why I' so happy with the work we did on @distributedpress

We should strengthen and reuse existing protocols more and get more "content" available and discoverable.

cheapskatesguide.org/articles/

Anyone got recommendations? I'm into hard scifi and stuff with transhumanist themes. The weirder the better.

Exploring new kinds of tofu. Focusing on shelf life

What really bothers me is that most of the crises and difficulties people suffer from are entirely artificial and preventable. We literally have enough food, water, building materials, energy, and other essential goods in the world that everyone would be able to live a life of dignity.

But like, by sheer political choice that is just not the case. And that like, actually makes me quite upset.

"The cost of living crisis" is entirely artificial. It's not like there isn't enough food or housing to go around. It is primarily a distribution problem.

Like, do you ever think about this too? Doesn't it upset you as well?

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Pre mass media writing is so interesting. The visuals and the thought structures are untainted by hollywood

Ultimately, someone has their hand on the plug. The question is how many people, and how far do you need to go to replace whatever function pulling the plug destroyed.

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We can't have meaningful decentralization when identity is tightly coupled with a specific always online server accessible on the internet. Even if you self host (which most won't).

I mean this in the most loving way possible but Linus Tech Tips reminds me of a World of Warcraft goblin.

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