This is how I learned Ian Watkins is dead.

Good.

Looks like a book strap, for a person to transport books, like to school. Not used much because backpacks and satchels are much better for this job.

I like GOG because I wanted to have the games forever unlike with Steam where they COULD take it away. Sigh.

Interesting. I would have thought that the primary audience of Grindr wouldn’t be interested in women, but it appears that it is indeed used by folks that aren’t men. TIL.

No need to be teste, I got you.

he looks like balls lmao

Teabag

…do clown girls use Grindr? I might be out of the loop.

Yeah, it’s cause we are so hot. 🔥

Certain events are inclusive of anyone accepting of queer people, including allies. Look for something that says “all are welcome!” It’s nice to have people there that perhaps aren’t “one of us” but still treat us like anyone else.

Others are not, simply because it’s for specific groups. If you’re a cis man, I would be very cautious of you if you came to a lesbian or a non-binary gathering. Attending because you’re a father or brother of a lesbian and want to understand more about your loved one would likely be ok.

Best thing to do for any of these events is to remember that you are not the focus and these are centered on queer experiences. It’s nothing against you! But it’s good to always remember it’s about making sure a queer space stays safe and welcoming for queer people.

If you hear one of us venting about cis het people (and it is usually specific ones or ones that do x), please don’t take it personally! We know it’s not all cis het people, just specific ones that have made our lives harder just because we are not cis het.

This should go without saying, but don’t fetishize anyone. Being attracted to trans folk or bisexual/pan/etc. folk is completely ok! Treating them like a sex object is not. (This is probably not you, but in case anyone reading this needs to see it spelled out… Here it is.)

We welcome people that want to support us! But bragging about how much of an ally you are is off-putting. I’m not saying you do this, but it does happen occasionally and… Just don’t, it comes of as very insincere and “straight savior.”

I can’t speak for all of us, but I consider “queer” a reclaimed term that should not be used by those not queer but I don’t have a better commonly used alternative. I like GRSM (gender, romantic, sexuality minorities) but again, this is not common. LGBT+ or LGBTQ is fine imo. I am just one person of a large community so you may get different answers.

I don’t think a pride flag (or inclusive pride flag) is bad for a cis het person to use. Don’t use a specific one, like a men loving men or lesbian flag unless there is clear indication that you are in support, like “I love my [identity] [relation].” Note that if you have a flag without context, you might get hit on by the same gender. As long as you remain polite, all is well!

There is an ally flag that is a safe bet!

Apologies if some of this is obvious to you. Thanks for asking. Just trying to be thorough and try to include things that anyone that might encounter this message find useful.

time to take Manuel to the butterfly sanctuary

Not the point at all, but you said “plant-based” and excluded baby oil and I momentarily had non-petroleum concerns about the origin of said oil…

Short for sikick damage.

The Rat Fink one is perfection

I find it’s difficult to be around people I treat like shit, too.

B-but Metallica fans bad!

Until a traumatic injury. Then that fucker, along with angry soft tissues, will remind you how much you really don’t have control.

I was told about a bug in a specific tool. It was being used in production. Apparently we’ve gotten a lot of complaints about it over the years, and they would complain if the site was actively used it always failed.

I couldn’t find it in the development branch in source control.

I asked if this tool was purchased from a third party. My boss, who was not a developer, said no. And he was very sure of that. But he didn’t know where the code was.

I was the developer with the most seniority, and I was there for less than a year at this point.

I looked again. I finally found it… In an unapproved pull request from a few years prior.

The meat of this tool basically took information to make an order and create an order in the system.

Any time we needed to insert a record, it would find the highest Id in the table, increment 1, and insert the new record, id and all. It did this for every entity that needed to be inserted. Address, customer… Everything.

Worse, very little validation was done. Want to order something but it’s out of stock? No problem, this tool just pushed it right through.

Want to ship something using a shipping method that doesn’t exist? You got it.

Want to ship something to an address that doesn’t exist? Sounds like the warehouse’s problem.

Knowing about the level of knowledge here, you know that there were no transactions. All sorts of unused records were left in the database when there was an error. The users would get a generic error and try again several times, too.

The worst part was, we have an already existing function that would take order information and try to make an order. And it would give you actionable errors!

I’m so hungry, I could eat a whole octorock.

Unless the school that has the software dev program forces all their teachers to use this stuff…

Mike Tyson visits Pennsylvania.