hi folks, I’ve just been laid off again. I have about 6 years of experience as a (mostly backend) dev at Series A-C startups. I’m living in London and open to remote or local jobs. US citizen, have unrestricted UK visa. thanks.
Posts by purple prose and logic
do I embarrass myself? very well then I embarrass myself. I am fucking embarrassing
"she corrects herself."
wapo.st/42CT5Se
I miss being the kind of person in the replies
lol there are no jobs in coding any more either
You’d expect the rate at which newspapers eliminated jobs would taper off to exponential decay at some point, but no. They just keep firing people like they expect to go to 0 humans employed by 2030
it’s ideology all the way down
A Cambodian court convicts activists for teaching about class differences, suspends their jail terms
@lalaidris: FYI to further add to the fact that it is white supremacy, the measures given to Sudanese people fleeing the war resemble those given for Gaza and came 10 months after the war broke out. davideV @criticofpolecon . 1d This is what it means to exist in a supremacist global system cipmeofficial post on Instagram: CANADA'S QUOTA ON GAZA FAMILY REUNIFICATION SHOWS DOUBLE STANDARD Canada's emergency measures for Gaza (2023) 3-year temporary visa Limit: 1,000 people Eligible: extended family of Canadians No financial aid from Canada; requirement for family to financially support them Canada's emergency measures for Ukraine (2022) 3-year temporary visa No limit, over 600,000 people approved Eligible: Ukrainians with or without Canadian connection Fees waived and two weeks of temporary accomodations available
This is what BIPOC mean when we say a lot of Europeans and Americans support Ukrainians and not Palestinians bc of whiteness.
Borders quickly show who is racialized and how
Billionaire sociopaths routinely lay off huge swaths of their workforces just to impress their shareholders and then when a chunk of fuselage shears off a 737 in midair they're like "ah yes, DEI did that"
lying down on my side in an S-shape and each of my dogs has claimed one curve
These are the first *four* items on the NYT website right now. Get a grip people.
there are basically no journalists left on twitter and everyone lives in their own world anyway. I don’t feel like I know what’s going on in the world any more.
I grew up in the Middle East, with Palestinian refugee parents, and the first time I ever heard of the trope that Jews control the world was at age ~20, in the US, learning of the cancelation of Mearsheimer and Walt
this place is so much less war-focused than twitter. I don’t know what to make of it.
canceled last year over their covid coverage but I wish I could cancel twice over
didn’t get it
hamas took actions that shocked the existing power structure. there’s been a war going on, regardless of whether you are or are not aware of the sheer scale of killing and oppression that’s been going on pretty much constantly. analyze it like a fucking war.
Palestinians have been describing the occupation as a colonial project since before the American Left ever heard of it
lalibela
I think about the idea of pre-emeptive aesthetic exhaustion a lot
I emailed you lol
yes I was wondering the same thing about you
how are the people to sort the wheat from the chaff if they never see the chaff?
mean!
unspeakably mortifying
idk but I’d be SO much less stressed out