Reposted by David Jonesbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 102143914733
Reposted by David Jones🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026It's always a good time to share this. 9247931581
Reposted by David Jonesiucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay, 218104072356
Reposted by David Jones🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 12/08/2026@hatsoncats/Instagram #SolarEclipse 819261
Reposted by David Jonesrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/07/2026This is a really good dissection of why MN's anti-nudifying-app law is a great policy goal but a very poorly written actual law 211033
Reposted by David JonesAndy Bell @bell.bz · 19/05/2026My apathy levels for the industry are absolutely sky high and I don’t even have a dickhead boss making me hit token targets 927830
David Jones @tadmas.com · 12/05/2026My dad worked in radio for most of his adult life, and you are correct: radio has been largely computerized going back at least to the 80s, maybe earlier. And the stations he worked for were relatively small, so if they were doing it the big ones almost certainly were. 0110
Reposted by David JonesIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/04/2026I promise it is as possible to feel deeply about something and also make silly little comments as it is to walk and chew gum at the same time 2803
Reposted by David JonesFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 10/02/2026US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray." 484320857676
Reposted by David JonesAngie @squadronang.bsky.social · 10/02/2026USA Curlingmedia.tenor.combugs bunny and daffy duck are holding a sign that says `` we 're ok '' .ALT: bugs bunny and daffy duck are holding a sign that says `` we 're ok '' . 072
Reposted by David JonesAngela ColterGEIST 👻 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 28/01/2026"This wasn’t crowd control. This was panic control. This was the federal government throwing tear gas at a punchline because they couldn’t arrest a joke." 0215
Reposted by David JonesBen Hart @pavlovforgoths.com · 09/01/2026the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs 9595894304
Reposted by David JonesTV's Adam, who died 25 years ago THIS VERY SAME NIGHT, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 03/01/2026the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches 191128894031
Reposted by David JonesEbony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026My villain origin story is going to be people saying "but he's objectively evil" JUST LIKE THEY DID WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN IN 2002 and 2003. WE KNOW BUT THIS IS ILLEGAL AND CORRUPT. 1149991
David Jones @tadmas.com · 24/12/2025I may have just laughed all through the credits for the Pluribus season finale. Perfect ending. No notes. Fantastic episode with a great capper. 080
Reposted by David JonesGrace @graceldn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Bought this book for my two mates’ babies for Christmas and I’m dying. 43646187
Reposted by David JonesThe Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_arttheoatmeal.comA cartoonist's review of AI art - The OatmealThis is a comic about AI art. 571116537
Reposted by David JonesAnil Dash @anildash.com · 02/10/2025Jake's made a great synopsis of DHH. I first met DHH almost 25 years ago, spoke at his office, helped promote his products, hosted him at events. DHH thinks you can tell by *looking* whether someone is a "native". Because he thinks people who look like me can never belong to our countries. Fuck him. 2131358
Reposted by David JonesRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 01/10/2025ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants 335146675195
Reposted by David JonesElle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 12/09/2025All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes 418244745350
David Jones @tadmas.com · 04/09/2025Same thing happened to a coworker of mine. Was able to use it for *years* after cancelling. That they manage to screw up something that basic is incredible. 000
Reposted by David JonesLeiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance. 7095303584
David Jones @tadmas.com · 05/08/2025Oh and the company is PDFGuru. As it is, my dad tried to cancel the service when he went into hospice. They said it was canceled. Turns out they kept charging him anyway. The 2 yr offer was their reaction when I asked what was up with that after he passed. Very tone deaf at a minimum. 110
David Jones @tadmas.com · 05/08/2025If you are a support rep and you are asked to close an account because the account holder is deceased... maybe don't counter offer 2 years of free service? That's nice and all, but they can't use your service in the cemetary. smh 100
David Jones @tadmas.com · 30/07/2025Well, somebody's having a really bad day. On the way into work, I was stopped at a light and a van pulls up next to me with lumber strapped to the roof. But I guess not strapped well enough, because he stopped at the light and his lumber didn't. Oof. 000
Reposted by David JonesOpal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years. 14386173600
Reposted by David JonesWhirly @girlwhowhirls.bsky.social · 25/06/2025My town in Iowa (Iowa!) has free buses. It's great! It turns out that there are costs associated with collecting fares, so the system doesn't actually lose that much money by getting rid of them, and it has increased ridership and therefore decreased parking issues. 37011
Reposted by David JonesMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Elon Musk, the genius visionary who could not predict that the guy who has betrayed every person he has ever met would betray him 8393331567
Reposted by David Jonesnat alison @tesseralis.site · 22/05/2025gonna be honest, i feel like if your problems with coding can be solved with LLMs you're probably just not a very good programmer or you're just not doing very useful things 5757
Reposted by David JonesTalia al Ghoul 🏳️⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 06/05/2025also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes 391200096166
Reposted by David Jones🚲insert into haunted select uid from partisans where party = "R" @db-user.bsky.social · 27/04/2025can't spell tariffs without ffs 171476371
Reposted by David JonesAmy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 01/04/2025what the hell?? don’t do this. a joke means EVERYONE is laughing. if it makes people freak out, even for a minute, it’s not funny, it’s mean! “don’t be mean to your customers” shouldn’t require saying 1113
Reposted by David JonesThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/03/2025“We’re Americans” 🇺🇸 😕 15274572583
Reposted by David JonesDoctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE 18290754576
David Jones @tadmas.com · 08/03/2025Once we find out what it really is, I may regret giving my current work project (which I've been working on a while and is like 96% done) the code name Cold Harbor - like would have happened with Waffle Party in season 1 😬 - but for now it brings me joy. 000
David Jones @tadmas.com · 01/03/2025Example of a ladybug secret: "nothing says Christmas like grouting." 000
David Jones @tadmas.com · 01/03/2025Today I found out I have a new office mate. I'm sitting at my desk and I feel something on my neck, so I reach up to see what it is and it... flew... away!!! Aaaaaaaaaa! I noped out of there as fast as I could. Turns out it was just a ladybug, but now we are best friends and she tells me secrets. 110
David Jones @tadmas.com · 14/02/2025That paperclip line in the latest Severance episode really resonated with me. In a previous job I actually got in trouble for having my stapler in the wrong drawer of my desk. Nitpicking stupid things like that is so true to life. 020
Reposted by David JonesAboogail Screamini @abbeyperini.dev · 17/11/2024Another day, another developer is convinced they can find a tech solution to a human problem. 1630953
David Jones @tadmas.com · 13/11/2024I don't really get how Microsoft could put out an update last month for SQL Server 2022 named "CU15" and then the update for this month is also named "CU15". Like why isn't it CU16? I guess to distinguish them I will just call this one "CU15 Electric Boogaloo". 😁 000
David Jones @tadmas.com · 30/10/2024Yeah it was the same in TX. Even had the party for each vote listed in its own column on the big ballot, so it's easy to see at a glance. When I arrived the poll workers were trying to stop a woman from folding her ballot up before walking to the scanner and I wonder if that's why she was doing it. 010
David Jones @tadmas.com · 09/04/2024A good summary of what today's eclipse was like for us: lots of clouds in the way. Although it was mostly thin clouds... except for one big cloud that showed up about a minute before totality and left a few minutes after. 😭 020
David Jones @tadmas.com · 01/01/2024go to inspirobot.me and generate a motivational poster to get you focused for the new year 020
David Jones @tadmas.com · 25/12/2023Yep. When I was a teenager I had a rat come up into a ground floor toilet while I was using it. It was... not pleasant. Although snakes sound way worse tbh. 😬 121
