Its enjoyable to encounter an English word that I have never seen before. It happened today. Do you know, without looking it up, what a "placket" is? Sometimes spelled "placquet". Feel free to boost. And, without revealing the actual answer, feel free to suggest likely meanings :-)
Goodness! Who knew there was such a thing!
So Fediverse, last week I was laid off by my employer, Elastic, as part of a wider reorg that made my position redundant. 7% of the global workforce was impacted, so I'm not alone in this 😢
I would appreciate boosts as I'm now looking for my next job. Preferably in community open source, but with the crazy market, a mortage and a baby I appreciate any lead.
I'm a backend engineer with strong #cloudinfrastructure , #devops and #observability skills. I spent the last 5 years working with Golang, but have previous experience with Ruby, Python, PHP and JavaScript (that shows how old I am I guess).
I'm searching remotely from Italy.
Thank you!
"Dead Ahead" - Kiwi series. Good stuff :-) Only seen one ep, but it's good so far. The dialogue is a bit didactic in parts. But good!
Google loses its appeal and will now have to pay the record breaking fine of €4.125.000.000 for abusing its Android dominance to force Google search onto phones.
I love the EU! 🇪🇺♥️ 🇪🇺
The biggest problem with being a boomerang producer is the number of returns.
Spiral.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
Still one of my favourite ever football photos ❤️
That was cool. A toot appeared, I went to report it and before I had even got to the third dialogue (select an offending toot), the account was gawn.
Bugger. Just had to delete/unboost something that looked interesting, because sadly it had been built with Claude. Sorry to those who saw my message blink into existence then blink out again...
(Edit - by David Abruzzese, one of the best rock drummers on earth)
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
"Climate change isn't left wing. The atmosphere isn't enrolled in a political party. The oceans aren't progressive. Bushfires aren't woke. Cyclones don't care how we vote. The climate is an Earth system. It sustains us all. It feeds us, gives us water, regulates heat, shapes seasons and makes human life possible.
When climate denialists call climate advocacy “left wing”, they're deliberately moving the conversation away from physics, ecology, food security, insurance, health, fire risk, flood risk and intergenerational responsibility. They're trying to turn a question of survival into a culture war."
Gregory Andrews https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-world-is-bigger-than-left-and-right
Lucky kids.
My @smh cartoon.
Cartoon by Matias Debrasi perfectly captures America today.
(1/2) "The Source" by artist Luo Li Rong (2026).
Sculpture, realised in bronze.
"Her body slowly fades away in the wind and time, yet she remains focused and steadfast. Her outstretched hand is reaching for eternity and the growth of life, releasing the desires and pride of this world. What sustains her is something intangible: the source of life."
https://horus-gallery.com/en/artworks/14596-luo-li-rong-the-source-2026/
Hey fedi folks. Found a sustenance job fixing bicycles which is great! Its a "keep us alive" rather than "help us thrive" situation. So I'd very much appreciate being connected to work [paychecks] appropriate to quals/experience🙏🏻
Here's my CV: https://iamadamsteer.com/cv/
...and my tiny consultancy about maps, data, communities, making sense of it all: https://spatialised.net
...and essays about broader things:
https://toolsfortherevolution.com
Australian working rights, great at remote work!
RE: https://mapstodon.space/@adamsteer/113950749231111037
new month, new 👇🏻. 3.5 years below the poverty line now, since returning to Australia from Norway. I'm ready to move on from that...
I propose @clarkesworld pick this up as a very funny SF story https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/incident-report-cve-2026-lgtm.html
The story of the Gaza genocide is inherently one sided.
One side was butchered by an overwhelming exercise of State violence; The other side was not.
You can’t “both sides” that.