Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the biggest scandal of the Obama administration.

Print in blue and white looking up to a large bird flying in tbe sky which is in a space between the canopy of a forest

'Breathing Space', etching by contemporary artist and printmaker  Janis Goodman #WomensArt

Divide and Conquer: Practicing Security as One Agile Team | Agile Alliance In an environment increasingly focused on the “efficiency” of software development, it's often tempting to divide and conquer challenges, pushing security responsibilities to specialists. But what if ...

Tomorrow: agilealliance.org/event/divide... Divide and Conquer: Practicing Security as One Agile Team | Agile Alliance

"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time
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Tweet from @thekafkadude It's really funny how America and the UK stopped investing in infrastructure in the 1980s because the free market will pave potholes and make the trains run on time and now literally nothing works and you cannot go anywhere or do anything but like 4 people are richer than God.

The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.

Screenshot of a post from weaselle from Jun 18, 2024: I've said it before and i'll say it again: what we want is for these things to be run like a HOUSEHOLD... a home. A household still has a budget and an income and resources to manage; all the moving parts are the same but the focus is different. A business will let every person in it die a terrible death if it makes the business profit. A household will spend it's last dollar to keep the people in it safe and healthy. A household will use money as a resource to add value to the lives of the people in the household. A business will use people as a resource to add monetary value to the business. We don't want a government run like a business, we want a country run like a household. Because we live here.

I've never seen "running government like a business is bad, actually" illustrated as plainly and clearly as this:

Ratcheting to Zero: How Incremental Constraints Eliminate Technical Debt | Agile Alliance In this practical session, Dave Mosher draws from his experience as a specialized generalist to address one of Agile’s most persistent blind spots: the implementation gap between acknowledging technic...

Tomorrow (Wednesday May 14) at 11am EDT www.agilealliance.org/event/ratche...

EMPEROR KEISARI- KING KUNINGAS- GENTOO VALKOKULMA- CHINSTRAP MYSSY- ADELIE JAA- YELLOW-EYED KELTASILMA- ROYAL SOUTHERN ROCKHOPPER MACQUARIEN- KALLIOTOYHTO- NORTHERN ROCKHOPPER PITKATOYHTO- FIORDLAND CRESTED VUONO- ERECT CRESTED MACARONI SNARES AFRICAN MAGELLANIC GALAPAGOS HUMBOLDT LITTLE BLUE CRESTED SNARESSAARTEN- AFRIKAN- PATAGONIAN- GALAPAGOSIN- PERUN- SINI- KNOW YOUR PENGUINS

Today we honor the flippered citizens of our icy nation.

Whether you celebrate whilst eating a democracy sausage in Oz, doomscrolling in America, pulling maple taps in Canada, or elsewhere, we appreciate the support! #worldpenguinday

Technology alone has no value.

It is when people use technology that it becomes valuable.

Deaths predicted amid the chaos of Elon Musk’s shutdown of USAid The impact of the billionaire’s declaration has been swift and brutal, with food and crucial drugs abandoned in warehouses, vital programmes closed and workers laid off

@hcrichardson.bsky.social want to cry?read @ USAID-how peanut butter mix literally brought starving children from brink of death.T canceled it along w/stop payment to pay manufacturer-shut down T 1st week food purchased-millions of dollars of food allowed to rot. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
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A very small (real) flower arrangement in a thimble including forget me nots , lily of the valley, buttercup, geum, chive flower bud, snowberry, green alkanet…

The first posy in a thimble I made, to lift my mood during the pandemic. The flowers are all real.

When humans look at plants (even on a screen as here) we recover from stress 60% more quickly & the relaxation response is triggered in our brains.

Zoom in if you're strung out🌿

A drawing of a perfect phone that only has three buttons on it, one of them says IS HE DEAD one of them says AM I BROKE and the other one says RELAXING PUZZLE GAME

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

It's never about the science. It's always about having a legal basis for your fear and hatred of other people.

So You Want to Be a Dissident? A practical guide to courage in Trump’s age of fear.

Crucial point made here — we should learn from others rather than imagine that everything is new and therefore shocking and impossible to resist.
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We call this “cheese o’clock”
Cartoon from “Made by Harriet”

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no dice

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

a man with a crown on his head and a cane ALT: a man with a crown on his head and a cane

Found these old grievances online. Sound familiar?

He cuts off our trade with all parts of the world:
He imposes taxes on us without our consent:
He deprives us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
He transports us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses…

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands.

The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

RANDOM TARIFF ENCOUNTER TABLE (D8)
1 - 25%
2 - 34%
3 - 10% (but you must buy our chickens)
4 - 49% lovely people but they've been ripping us off
5 - 20% and 2d4 ogres
6 - 31%, roll again on treasure table C
7 - 25% (28% for elves)
8 - Roll again combine both results

This will be an especially difficult year to tell the difference between fake bullshit and actual bullshit this April Fool's Day

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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Having worked with teams who maintained legacy financial systems, I’m fairly sure that some of the COBOL code my mother wrote in the early 60 is still running deep in the bowels critical systems. Can’t see those kinds of systems being quickly replaced…

Monochrome photograph featuring a large sculpture of a spider towering over a figure on a riverside paved area

Louise Bourgeois, Maman
#Mother, 2009 #WomensArt

Having a 10x developer on the team's a bit like having a 10x bass player in the band.

Indigenous Australian artist Judy Watson Napangardi, Snake Vine (Ngalyipi) Dreaming, 2001 #WomensArt

Signalgate: violating national security in order to violate rights

With the #Signalgate scandal, we see our government openly compromising our national security, the better to violate our rights.
I explain here:
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