Ryan Thompson
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@Singular_ET I use em dashes in my newsletter because in GDoc when you type - 2x, it turns it into an em dash X doesn't do it on the web or mobile How do these ppl who never wrote more than 2 sentences before chatGPT suddenly type perfect with em dashes? yes I'm suspicious


if you've seen my show in the last year, you probably heard my 37-min pre-show mashup megamix. by popular request, i put it on bandcamp. stream it free or pay $1+, every dollar is going to our crew that feeds the residents of macarthur park every thursday electrolemon.bandcamp.com/track/anthems-…

🟥“Kill the fucking Queen, burn Britannia” 🟥“Winding people up is how we derive enjoyment from living in England” 🟥 "Dig up Maggie" 🟥“I wipe my arse with the UK flag, then spit on the crown” 🟥“Give Churchill’s statue the rope, see if it floats.” All quotes from Bob Vylan 🇬🇧



Yeah, sorry if your parents are both blue on Wikipedia, you're a nepo baby, no ifs or buts. Zohran was able to try to be a rapper and then experiment with politics because his parents were a Professor and a Filmmaker. I would never be able to because my parents are Detroiters. I could never spend time doing anything without an immediate economic benefit.


I have literally made people solve: "5(x) + 2 = 12, what is x? " in job interviews and most people fail it. CMOs, data engineers, analysts, etc. It's all one big make-work program we've been in since the relational database was released in the 1970s. All H-1Bs fail 100% of the time but allegedly they are the world's math and database and IT experts and allegedly this is "skilled" employment...

Today is #PiDay. I wrote an article for @Werner's blog about how important the idea of simplicity is in S3 and reflect on some examples of how simplicity has influenced S3's design over almost two decades. allthingsdistributed.com/2025/03/in-s3-…







