Reposted by @lee.ourand.meUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 4hIt is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul. 010628
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meJanel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank 128115911941
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026"We're tired of being called racist for being super fucking racist" is, in fact, an accurate representation of conservative thinking. They want all their ugly instincts & prejudices but they don't want any social disapprobation for them. 301126235
lee.ourand.me @lee.ourand.me · 11/09/2026Took on my first little programming project in a while, building my wife a small website. Used Middleman (the Ruby static site generator)... holy moly what a pleasant experience. I originally reached for Hugo and just had a miserable time with version / theme incompatibility, getting I18n to work... 030
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The one trait consistent to EVERYONE on the right is an inability to understand anything until they experience it personally 723114507
Reposted by @lee.ourand.mejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026"nothing can get worse" is one of those beliefs that is usually directly responsible for things getting worse 19846116
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meEd @ed3d.net · 09/08/2026yes. this exactly glonzo eats everything, it will eat what you care about too, you have to fight its acceptance because you cannot hope to control a rising tide of dumb mferism once it's there 941365
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Amazing how many people over the last few years have moved from person I sometimes disagree with, to person I disagree with who is also unpleasant online, to genuinely bad person whose soul has warped beyond recognition. the politics of our times are like a solvent for decency. 1963557377
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meAnil Dash @anildash.com · 05/07/2026People are always telling me the tech guys need to take humanities classes like Peter Thiel didn’t study philosophy. Perrhaps the folks advocating this line of bullshit are maybe just sort of doing the same “the solution to the problem is that I should be paid” as everybody else. The issue is power! 2640858
lee.ourand.me @lee.ourand.me · 13/06/2026You could give Buddha $1M every single day from his birth (480BCE), continuing until today, and he'd still be less rich than Elon Musk. 000
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meFat Apollo, baby! @fatapollo.myatproto.social · 25/11/2025Pondering my gyoza 1223
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meTommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 22/11/2025it is truly one of the treasures of nature that they look so elegant from every angle except this one 4759177
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meTravis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Doing a deal to reopen a government that is using my tax dollars to fund an army that’s actively hunting my neighbors. Yeah I’d say I’m pretty done too. 0498
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meJules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 09/11/2025Call them: Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023 Fetterman (PA) No Point 45626438
Reposted by @lee.ourand.me🇵🇹 snipe, lixo tóxico ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ @snipe.lol · 06/11/2025Oof. blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/202...blogs.gnome.orgDHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisisCouple weeks ago Cloudflare announced it would be sponsoring some Open Source projects. Throwing money at pet projects of random techbros would hardly be news, but there was a certain vibe behind them... 57420
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 04/11/2025 372956626
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meSericite @sericite.bsky.social · 02/11/2025The problem with articles like this is that they refuse to follow their argument to its logical conclusion: In the absence of a Republican Party that is willing to compromise (or even engage with reality), the only way the Dems can close the division is give up and let the GOP win. 236346
lee.ourand.me @lee.ourand.me · 02/11/2025Day 4 of playing this Zhuyin wordle game, and I’ve got my first victory. Yes, I still used 4 guesses. Shut up. 000
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meThe Onion @theonion.com · 31/10/2025RFK Jr. Greets Trick-Or-Treaters With Big Bowl Of Ape Glands theonion.com/rfk-jr-greets-trick-or… 452543452
Reposted by @lee.ourand.mePopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Usha Vance didn’t like her husband suggesting she needed to be fixed. She made him sleep on the couch but for some reason that didn’t work. 1071938207
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meFrank Cvetkovic (from comics) @gofrankgo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too! 73180915268
lee.ourand.me @lee.ourand.me · 20/10/2025Gotta give it to Chip for being one of ~3 Republican politicians who correctly refer to the "Democratic Party" instead of the childish epithet "Democrat Party". I wish we could resurrect zombie Thomas Jefferson to listen to this dumb idiot and then dish out a litany of 18th century insults at him. 000
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meMachine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 19/10/20257 million protesters, 0 arrests. Man we suck at terrorism. 19980631635
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meThe Man Who Would Be Damn Hell Ass King @weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social · 16/10/2025In JD Vance's defense, I think he just assumed any chat with Republican officials would include some minors 111
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meDjango Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but 137222984422
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 09/10/2025[REPUBLICANS:] *the Democrat administration sicced the IRS on conservative nonprofits!* [INVESTIGATORS:] (*verify this did not happen*) … [REPUBLICANS:] *damn straight, we're siccing the IRS on Democrat nonprofits!* 13917
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meAndré Arko @indirect.io · 06/10/2025announcing a new community-focused gem server from the team previously behind rubygems: gem.coop. join us and start using it today! 15297134
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 06/10/2025You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall. 8489311785
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meJake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 02/10/2025show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunaticjakelazaroff.comDHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.comDHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable. 29490174
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 30/09/2025"I don’t understand how being rich can make someone such a whore." So much of this going around. People who have secured the bag, with solid reputations in their fields, who you'd expect to know/do better, and yet. Simping for billionaires, or worse. officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/...officialdavidcross.comMy Thoughts on the Riyadh Comedy FestivalI’ve been asked for my opinion on the Riyadh Comedy Festival and rather than answer the same question 23 times, I’ll just put this out here. Oh, and I should preface this with the fact that I was not ... 516427
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meKaterina Marchán 🐈 @zkat.tech · 25/09/2025Reposting this in a more constructive matter to simply point out that people who have vocally expressed clear white supremacist, transphobic, sexist, racist, and generally nazistic views, such as David Heinemeier Hansson, are not and never will be internally consistent and operate on cowardice. 514739
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meTekin Süleyman ☕️ @tekin.co.uk · 22/09/2025The Ruby community has a DHH problem tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...tekin.co.ukThe Ruby community has a DHH problemThe Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas. 1517373
Reposted by @lee.ourand.meDavid Emmett @motomatters.com · 21/09/2025I see the lads are going full Nuremberg over in Arizona 2141
Reposted by @lee.ourand.medavid celis @davidcel.is · 19/09/2025Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.davidcel.isRails Needs New GovernanceAges ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name. 1618570
