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NEW: This August, voters across ten states will decide the leadership of major cities and directly weigh in on funding parks and “democracy vouchers.” They may flip legislative seats, too.

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Love when vendors of a code-quality tool have zero clue about what code quality issues people actually care about.

I really don’t need a commercial tool that “enforces style standards”. I can use Semgrep free (or Silver Searcher or whatever) to alert folks who use a banned function. There are a million free tools that will shout if I try to commit an API key.

Your feature list is sad and you should be ashamed

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I’m sorry but your post has more than five lines of text and that violates the cyclomatic complexity rules. Please consider breaking it down into single word paragraphs.



My tablecloth is finally done! Started this last February. It's an adaptation of a pattern by Elizabeth Hiddleson from the mid-1900s. 22 balls of Tulipan 15 thread (7,700 metres), and a 1.5 Japan steel hook.

This was challenging to say the least. Ms. Hiddleson was no pattern writer and used a confusing combination of pictures for you to follow if you couldn't understand her written instructions.

I am no longer nervous about the pineapple pattern! Once you've done a couple, the next hundreds are easy 🤣

I had 16 balls of the thread in my stash and figured it would be enough. Nope. I tracked it down in Croatia, but had to order from a yarn shop in Slovakia to get shipping to Canada. I ordered 16 and now have 10 balls in my stash. And yes, the cost of shipping was darn near the cost of the thread! And yes, customs tore the packaging apart! I worried about opening it for an hour, but all good!

To say I'm pleased with this is a major understatement.

#crochet
#handmade
#heirloom

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Oh wow, this is amazing! Such a huge amount of work! For a hot minute there I thought this might be lace knitting but no, all crochet. Really amazing work! It must have taken such a lot of work hours...


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Parental leave at my school is relatively good (by US standards), but whenever people say “How lucky!” I have to correct them. No, it wasn’t luck. This is a legally-binding policy my union fought for. Don’t minimize the fight.




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Activist who helped film ‘No Other Land’ shot and killed by Israeli settler therealnews.com/palestinian-ac… #news #leftist


Got a package this week with some prints for Mexico orders from @scumsuck :3 thank you always for helping me print my work, it feels extra special that your hands have touched the goods hehe

Package also included some gifts yay 💖 Pictured here are a pair of new pins now on my favorite pencil bag (pencil bag by @deflectric cough cough) and two beautiful illustrations by Purikura 🥺🫶❤️❤️❤️ I love finding connections in this small big world and giving and sharing art, it heals my soul. They're now living on my wall next to a lot of art by other people hehehe.



New, by me: Google refused to say if it received a secret UK court order, like Apple did, demanding the company build a backdoor for accessing encrypted user data.

Meta said it hasn't received one. Apple said it's barred from disclosing if it had one (it has!).

Google tried to dodge the question, and refused to explicitly state if it had not received a UK backdoor demand.

techcrunch.com/2025/07/29/goog…

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News: Laibach joins forces with fellow Balkan rock group Bijelo Dugme for latest single examining themes of militarism and masculinity

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If you enjoy strawberries, chances are that they passed through the skilled hands of a farmworker from one state in particular: “California produces 90% of the strawberries grown in the U.S.” 🍓 americasvoice.org/blog/in-the-… #WeFeedYou



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Trump-CBS deal is even worse than you thought | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, Josh Shapiro’s muddled message on antisemtism. — Read on www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/trump-cbs-paramount-media-press-freedom-authoritarian-censorship-20250729.html

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finally retiring my “Cowboy Coder” brand/schtick after almost a decade. i’ve been wanting to do it for a while (it’s tired), but i didn’t have a picture that i liked nearly as much until my friend Vera did this flattering candid sketch of me last weekend. and so: see you code cowboy…




Google won’t say if UK secretly demanded a backdoor for user data

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