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- Fri, 13:29: RT @donasarkar: @marypcbuk @AmirNetz Great line for @DavidAbu_ “PowerBI is the next Excel.” It’s true tho, not everyone creates visualizat…
- Fri, 13:39: RT @MayorofLondon: Christmas can be a lonely & difficult time for the LGBTQ+ community. If you need a safe, affirming space to visit in the…
- Fri, 13:41: RT @MsAshleyDavies: Massive long shot, but my mum left her small green handbag on the London-Edinburgh train yesterday afternoon (landed 4.…
- Fri, 13:43: After many years of Tullmas (playing Songs from The Wood for Solstice Bells on the solstice) I thought I would look up those indecipherable lyrics for the rest of the album and gosh, there's a double meaning in that ;)
- Fri, 13:45: RT @taneshabeebe: Before anyone asks again… will I get a fourth shot? Yes. Fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth? Yes, Yes. Yes. YES! As many as it…
- Fri, 13:49: RT @HealthInsider: At @hcmcEM, even some of the pediatric beds are filling up with adult patients, Dr. Prekker said. If a rural child had t…
- Fri, 13:50: RT @DavidHenigUK: UK is hardly alone in not matching words and actions towards Russia, plenty of ties also with French and German politicia…
- Fri, 13:51: RT @GossiTheDog: Thread about what happened here, AWS basically granted their support people access to everything in customer data (S3) for…
- Fri, 13:52: RT @migueldeicaza: Crypto peddlers like to equate their toxic invention as a gift that we are too stupid to understand. They are not the n…
- Fri, 13:53: RT @LizLewisPhD: Anthropologist take: as a society, we looked the other way when college educated yoga moms in affluent blue communities no…
- Fri, 13:54: RT @emptywheel: In fact, nowhere in this piece does Ed mention to his gullible readers that **he is named** in the indictment, and his own…
- Fri, 13:55: RT @Abebab: It took Nazi era atrocities, forced sterilizations, and other inhumane tortures for phrenology, eugenics, & other pseudoscien…
- Fri, 13:57: RT @emptywheel: Though he goes on at great length in this piece about "bad faith" and "obfuscation" in this piece, Ed Snowden never disclos…
- Fri, 13:57: RT @cstross: The Authagraph map projection appears to be a derivative or copy of R. Buckminster Fuller's original Dymaxion map projection—f…
- Fri, 15:46: RT @tray: #LowCode platforms empower line of business employees to build solutions. Here's how #IT leaders can help citizen #developers suc…
- Fri, 15:50: RT @BenjaminPDixon: Nikola Tesla would absolutely hate Elon Musk
- Fri, 15:52: we have been joking *all month* about whether the last day of #jamvent in the UK/Europe would be a decorative but empty jam jar (I was hoping for some of their biscuits!) but this is lovely� https://t.co/SquxfHav4k
- Fri, 15:52: RT @EricaJoy: friends, i’m just data gathering, thinking about the number of people with positive home tests whose information is not being…
- Fri, 15:52: RT @yoshuawuyts: Crypto dorks ("let's deregulate finance") being into carbon offsets ("let's financialize pollution") is no surprise.
- Fri, 15:53: RT @NumbersMuncher: 33 years ago today, the nation was rocked by the deadly terrorist plot unfolding at Nakatomi Plaza. Thanks to the brav…
- Fri, 15:53: RT @DavMicRot: Weird that there was breathless coverage of gas prices going up, but no coverage of gas prices going back down. https://t.co…
- Fri, 15:55: RT @StellaFudge: Apple's retail and support workers are tired of their deteriorating situations and are organizing! Want to help organize…
- Fri, 15:56: RT @GeradinLaw: (1) Incredible Christmas gift for those fighting for fair treament of app developers by @Apple. Rotterdam court rules that…
- Fri, 15:56: RT @APear88: @PeasThankyou I just had a discussion regarding the number of young women between the ages of 25-40 that are unvaccinated. Th…
- Fri, 15:58: RT @APStylebook: Don’t write this: Happy Holiday’s from the Whitman’s. The holidays and the Whitmans are plural. They are not possessive. I…
- Fri, 15:58: RT @Joel_Driver: I have completed the convection toaster oven upgrade. It now runs @MarlinFirmware and can run custom heat cycles for many…
- Fri, 16:03: RT @HNTurtledove: Grift is international. https://t.co/3sgEyPurO9
- Fri, 16:03: RT @MayorofLondon: If you’re meeting up with family and friends for Christmas, take some extra steps to keep yourselves protected. Take a l…
- Fri, 16:03: RT @zkat__: So yeah. Please hire folks like me. Please stop focusing so much on having the ideal candidate straight out the door and hire p…
- Fri, 16:03: RT @_mihirpatel: The billionaires should fight on clubhouse so we don't have to hear about it
- Fri, 16:04: RT @KatieMaree_88: I am a healthcare worker, in isolation for Christmas because a patients family was refused entry due to having covid. Th…
- Fri, 16:04: RT @PriyamvadaGopal: Please, universe, make this relentlessly mendacious 'cancellation' grift go away in the New Year. Never thought I'd ha…
- Fri, 16:05: RT @kyleecodes: I met a coder irl w/ no social media, didn’t know GitHub, works w/ old Java + Windows, loves their job, is super well paid…
- Fri, 16:06: RT @esa: 🎅 Meanwhile, many of you have been asking about another very important launch: ESA Mission Control at @esaoperations have just con…
- Fri, 16:07: RT @florian_krammer: I regraphed some of the residual Omicron/B.1.1.529 neutralization data from our recent preprint. This makes a very str…
- Fri, 16:07: RT @grahamwalker: Most of us doctors know very little about measles since we’ve never seen a case (thanks to vaccines). But we all know it…
- Fri, 16:08: RT @deviantollam: This time of year you may become aware of the fact that some electronic toys can be very loud. 📢 I dropped a tip in a pr…
- Fri, 16:10: RT @electrifying: holidays* https://t.co/3Nfs4xhhXt
- Fri, 16:11: RT @lastplacecomics: 🎅New comic: NFT for Christmas🎅 https://t.co/WT9fXLyTVq
- Fri, 16:11: RT @dildog: I am busy implementing this right now actually. https://t.co/tkRBOJvpoe
- Fri, 16:13: RT @zsk: Couldn't have put it better myself 🤦♂️ https://t.co/cc8w59RNLm
- Fri, 16:14: RT @trengriffin: You are worried your portfolio of Bordeaux and Burgundy might drop in price -- so you hedge it this way? "champagne had…
- Fri, 16:14: RT @LaurenKGurley: NATIONWIDE SETTLEMENT: Amazon has agreed to email past and current warehouse workers ~more than 1 million people who wor…
- Fri, 16:14: RT @JoshuaOgundu: DoorDash is making employees including the CEO to do one dash a month and employees are upset
- Fri, 16:17: RT @tobydoyhowell: Web4 is just people going outside again
- Fri, 16:17: RT @amandamull: I spent the last two weeks down a retail-theft rabbit hole, trying to figure out if the shoplifting surge is real and why n…
- Fri, 16:18: RT @jenstirrup: Signed in as an NHS Transport Volunteer today. I reckoned they might need some help on Christmas Eve, such as transporting…
- Fri, 16:50: RT @jezweig: Dang...I was born right into the fallout of Santa Susana in the summer of 1960...Los Angeles. It's atrocious that it was hidde…
- Fri, 16:51: RT @DaveKeating: The EU has learned lessons from the vaccines experience, where facilities in the EU had to supply the whole world because…
- Fri, 16:51: RT @kathrynw5: Say a prayer for friends everywhere who will have to answer the dreaded question "Why are you still single?" from grandparen…
- Fri, 16:54: RT @geekgalgroks: Douchebros, here is a free tip. Any time you type or say, "Lol sorry I had to be 'that' guy." Try instead walking into t…
- Fri, 16:55: RT @moorehn: Bud, we shrugged it off in NYC too -- until the numbers spiked like 6 days ago and restaurants started closing and airlines st…
- Fri, 16:56: RT @SchizoDuckie: Thread: (1/8) @Belastingdienst gave me the go-ahead to share the story of how the Lamest Hacker You Know® received this…
- Fri, 16:56: RT @JenMsft: @KirillOsenkov Bug fixes always seem to fall into one of two categories https://t.co/a7GZNvUKG0
- Fri, 16:57: normalise explaining why the Chesterton Fence is being erected � https://t.co/zo1PlE8YUy
- Fri, 16:57: RT @mekkaokereke: I am forever grateful that BlackBerry *didn't* want to put a browser in the BlackBerry in 1997. Because it meant they did…
- Fri, 16:59: RT @JakubKrupa: Can you spot the second most-spoken language of Britain? Oh, wait. It's not there. As usual. But still: Wesołych Świąt!…
- Fri, 17:01: RT @cory_foy: In case you missed this last night and are doing any last minute shopping - there’s an REI scam site going around ranking fai…
- Fri, 17:01: RT @sabifo4: Our paper "A Species-Level Timeline of Mammal Evolution Integrating Phylogenomic Data" is out in Nature: https://t.co/P0OzE7QV…
- Fri, 17:02: RT @ProfessorCrunk: The frustrating thing is that after a year of personally being vigilant about getting vaccinated and boosted and still…
- Fri, 17:03: but do report it for the stats (and some places want you to get a PCR test for genetic sampling so check local guidance, but do not burden an ER with testing)� https://t.co/6OhyA8eG9N
- Fri, 17:03: RT @lindyli: Delta and United Airlines just cancelled hundreds of flights on Christmas Eve due to Omicron It’s sheer insanity that the unv…
- Fri, 17:04: RT @BetaRish: Great collective noun work in the Economist Christmas special. https://t.co/v3TbTHPLxe
- Fri, 17:05: RT @MaryRobinette: This happened on my watch and is my responsibility. https://t.co/1DMxYhP917
- Fri, 17:06: RT @whereistanya: Chapters 2 and 3 of The Staff Engineer's Path are now online (in draft-y, unedited form). Ch 2: Three Maps Ch 3: Creati…
- Fri, 17:07: RT @briankardell: @aardrian @brucel @webkit @igalia Apple did the WebKit implemention here, yes. You could fairly say our work in chromium…
- Fri, 17:07: RT @JenMsft: Looking to brighten someone's day - RT this if you're interested and on christmas I'll randomly pick two people to give an xbo…
- Fri, 17:08: RT @WeldPond: When you only invite the "CEOs of major software firms to discuss ways to improve software security" you will get a solution…
- Fri, 17:08: RT @anet2111: This sister nurse speaks for all of us. Please. Please. Get vaccinated. https://t.co/oP0x0rZZ5D
- Fri, 17:09: RT @Abebab: Labels such as AI snake oil are fitting and valid. However, identifying this work as Cheap captures the fact that those produc…
- Fri, 17:09: RT @aliettedb: Raises hand (Was just hearing over the news that the Christmas trains were delayed on account of everyone having covid) htt…
- Fri, 17:09: RT @aliettedb: This "Mild" very often means "not in hospital and not dying" I am here to testify one can be super sick without either of th…
- Fri, 17:14: RT @cstross: Starebucks mgmt say "getting to know our customers"; I say "fuck off out of my personal life you nosy bastards, I am here to d…
- Fri, 18:16: RT @RobSilver: What a massive, positive achievement this is in the midst of a global pandemic. https://t.co/LrBJjiMx3C
- Fri, 18:18: yes, *please* sell me something that costs as much as printing ink in a smaller bottle with a bigger markup� https://t.co/RepiDNWf4v
- Fri, 18:24: RT @hacks4pancakes: I see a lot of friends cancelling Christmas / Eve on short notice because they can’t get tested or someone had a positi…
- Fri, 18:25: RT @ememess: Anyway, that's enough about politics, time for some zoology. Here's a picture of some animals. https://t.co/2cwTszeQYi
- Fri, 18:26: RT @ememess: Never forget that the people fucking up your lives, and the world, are only ever in it for the grift. They have never, do not,…
- Fri, 18:28: RT @LadyDoctorSays: Stop making fun of older kids who still believe in Santa Claus, there are grown men who still believe in trickle down e…
- Fri, 18:29: RT @usethespacebar: I wish I could put an automatic prompt in front of everyone who starts a sentence with "I hate to sound like an asshole…
- Fri, 18:30: RT @TheAtavism: The omicron wave as viewed in the cases arriving in MIQ. Getting these genomes this quickly has been an monumental effort f…
- Fri, 18:30: RT @jason_kint: facebook's fraud lawsuit for inflating its claimed reach for advertisers just posted 95 files (3,646 pages!) - including a…
- Fri, 18:32: don't they usually only do those for Utah and the Midwest?� https://t.co/jn9sv7FfoG
- Fri, 18:32: RT @buildsghost: “We’ll build an opinionated code formatter so that there are no more arguments about code style” Just uh… don’t open the…
- Fri, 18:32: RT @Steve_Casselman: #BXA In 1986 I had the idea to use #FPGAs for computing. #Xilinx only had 100 CLBs at that time. I called Ross Freema…
- Fri, 18:34: RT @anthropolitburo: cholets deserve to go viral every so often because they're gorgeous, but this thread gets everything about them wrong.…
- Fri, 18:35: RT @danielko: LMAO https://t.co/dy8CSw6XMw
- Fri, 18:35: RT @mixen: That's big! US Consular officers are now temporarily authorized to waive in-person interviews for certain individual petition-ba…
- Fri, 18:37: RT @lokmantsui: a lot of people might feel that "hong kong is dying". i definitely feel sad, and angry, too. but, hong kong is not dead ye…
- Fri, 18:37: RT @FeedingTheGeek: @maggiepint I think what doordash is doing is much like requiring devs to take on-call shifts not because of a surge bu…
- Fri, 18:38: RT @maggiepint: Refusal to very occasionally do a job that other people do every day because you think its beneath you (and when you say BS…
- Fri, 18:39: RT @JudyBott: Sigh https://t.co/GxfH85TrRe
- Fri, 18:40: RT @hilare_belloc: update: fake news https://t.co/fukPeh5ETs
- Fri, 18:40: RT @mzagaja: Hello everyone, I know we’ve all been trying to get rapid tests for the holidays, so I’m here to tell you that I did a dive in…
- Fri, 18:41: RT @threddyrex: on our roof tonight santa: "ho ho ho" me: "proof of vaccination please"
- Fri, 18:41: RT @deviantollam: @hacks4pancakes It was breathtaking to be in Italy where almost every pharmacy has a tiny wood house next to it (i think…
- Fri, 18:41: RT @deviantollam: @hacks4pancakes Most folk were doing this as a matter of routine on their lunch breaks or on their way home from work bef…
- Fri, 18:44: RT @neighbours_wifi: https://t.co/5hQLycNSQC
- Fri, 18:45: RT @incunabula: THIRTY NINE BOOKS ON A NECKLACE A 19th century Ethiopian amuletic necklace composed of thirty-nine individual manuscript a…
- Fri, 18:46: RT @levie: Remember: Investing ≠ Utility. The ultimate measure of sustainable value creation is what someone is willing to pay for utility…
- Fri, 18:46: RT @EikoFried: In case you were wondering what paths 800 unsteered bicycles take when you push them: https://t.co/FZ4CpYc3uV
- Fri, 18:46: RT @Nick_Pettigrew: It's like turning up and helping in the search for a missing person you've murdered. https://t.co/dyIneJkZYV
- Fri, 18:48: RT @zeynep: I say this seriously: I think part of this attitude goes back to wanting to do things that "build character" in a quasi-Calvini…
- Fri, 18:49: RT @JefTek: I will say I do have some concerns about the safety of personal information shared at rapid COVID testing centers. One I wen…
- Fri, 18:50: RT @BlueSpaceCanary: It's been almost two years now and exactly what I said would happen continues to happen: eliminating commutes didn't g…
- Fri, 18:51: RT @terrajobst: If you’re seeing a dude with a beard but not wearing a mask, tell him off. Even if it’s Santa. https://t.co/0dzdicf3GG
- Fri, 18:51: RT @ScottGottliebMD: New Covid deaths vs. cases in South Africa during four waves. https://t.co/iBe6BtJEkE
- Fri, 18:51: RT @CatKimbriel: Wishing you some perfect moments in the next few days. Wishing you all the best. Stay safe. https://t.co/W5yrd6QIS6
- Fri, 18:52: RT @gbk7288: DC using libraries to get COVID tests to the entire city which is in crisis def demonstrates the utility of our profession, bu…
- Fri, 18:54: RT @OptimoPrincipi: Ancient Roman sundial still telling the time in Pompeii. Romans measured time in 12 daylight hours that shifted in leng…
- Fri, 18:54: RT @krmarko: Very interesting stat from @asana presentation claiming the majority of ‘work’ time is wasted. Interested to see the methodolo…
- Fri, 18:55: RT @TheRealRhllor: So far in the Cavalcade of COVID Chaos: -Multiple COVID admits. -2 codes. -Family member screaming at a nurse on the p…
- Fri, 18:56: RT @KirillOsenkov: I learned to write long descriptive comments for tricky places while on the @roslyn team. Grateful to @metasyntactic and…
- Fri, 18:56: RT @KirillOsenkov: Also it is valuable to have the comments directly in code as opposed to in an external bug, PR, doc, etc. It’s an extra…
- Fri, 18:56: RT @KirillOsenkov: of course you can also have the rationale and the discussion in the PR, and good commit messages are helpful too, but th…
- Fri, 18:57: either Keanu has moved on, or NFTs and Metaverse are bad enough to make him cross a line ;) � https://t.co/EuVMm5T3gf
- Fri, 18:58: RT @BuffyBlogs: And people wonder why they need to deal with regulations and permits. https://t.co/zZZQbcUboB
- Fri, 18:59: RT @isaach: you're exposed to covid on the first of the month. - when do you feel symptoms? - when are you infectious? - when do you test p…
- Fri, 19:00: RT @mrjamesob: So much going on here. First, he rightly throws all his anti-vaxx fans under a bus. Second, back in character, he claims he…
- Fri, 19:00: RT @terrajobst: https://t.co/80Hyunsunr
- Fri, 19:02: RT @Iwillleavenow: They know that he is watching You tell them not to care Condition them to operate 'Neath authoritarian stare OH Get ri…
- Fri, 19:02: RT @levie: @adi_miller @migueldeicaza One more: some just don’t agree the vision is of a better web (speculation anything that can be digit…
- Fri, 19:02: RT @Iwillleavenow: Full lyrics: You better watch out Look up on the shelf Don't accept spies just because they are elves Santa's spy is wa…
- Fri, 19:03: RT @EffortlessFury: I distinctly remember running into a pair of ladies on Halo 2 who chilled in customs with us for a bit afterward and th…
- Fri, 19:04: RT @SeamusBlackley: This wasn’t the future for @xbox live we envisioned. As a community and with the help of @Microsoft this needs to be hi…
- Fri, 19:10: also, you get the twitter you curate. I love most of you on here, am reduced to tears of laughter frequently and learn a lot� https://t.co/KUhtiHlQXC
- Fri, 19:10: RT @Noahpinion: In general, anti-capitalist beliefs and anti-science beliefs are my two favorite categories of luxury beliefs, because they…
- Fri, 19:11: RT @frecklefacelace: 🏆 Tracking metrics is important, but just as - if not more - important is making sure you ask big questions about the…
- Fri, 19:12: RT @ElJefeDSecurIT: Isn't it funny how everyone promoting decentralization in web3 are all working to centralize around their single respec…
- Fri, 19:12: RT @planet4589: Here's a nice JWST timeline from my friend Jane Rigby, who tells me that the first Webb images will be made public at a pre…
- Fri, 19:14: RT @vibronet: The number of people in my network(s) reporting that they caught Omicron is absolutely unprecedented - and pretty much all ov…
- Fri, 19:14: RT @IanColdwater: I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're traveling out of state, you need to turn on phone exposure notificatio…
- Fri, 19:15: the friends you hear from on twitter with mild-enough-to-tweet Omicron are the ones who aren't too ill to be on twitter https://t.co/al5EROXKPi https://t.co/eBRvcUD6Cm
- Fri, 19:15: RT @JimHarris: The price of 1GB of #mobile data: 🇮🇳 India $0.09 vs 🇨🇦 #Canada $12.55 Is the CRTC protecting Canadian customers? Or pr…
- Fri, 20:13: we decided that this action shot @sbisson took of Lyra in the spring was just a bit too much for our annual photo christmas card but we couldn't keep it to ourselves https://t.co/PIsdLtvmM2
- Fri, 21:09: RT @bewgtweets: Atheist: I think you’re all going to want to sit down for this https://t.co/Qw7wcBoEFu
- Fri, 21:10: RT @davidfowl: The web3 hype is going to make everyone start hosting websites on their own servers under their desks again. Time to build m…
- Fri, 21:10: RT @leftoblique: Hello, 911? I'd like to report a murder. https://t.co/ou3yzcpesq
- Fri, 21:13: RT @HealthInsider: While the average hospital patient may stay for two to five days, hospitalized #COVID19 patients require at least a week…
- Fri, 21:13: RT @HealthInsider: Dr. John Hick told Insider his colleagues @hcmcEM are examining people sitting on the floor because they have "literally…
- Fri, 22:08: RT @mzagaja: If you do not want to read more details, the short conclusion and analysis is this: most rapid tests are fine for telling you…
- Fri, 22:08: RT @mzagaja: Only Flowflex has been authorized by the FDA to clear you as COVID free if asymptomatic with a single test. The rest are sugge…
- Fri, 22:09: RT @mzagaja: In summary rapid tests are great tools for seeing if you might be infectious right now. Some of them are quite a bit better th…
- Fri, 22:09: RT @mzagaja: …you don’t have symptoms. If you already have a rapid test, unless it is Flowflex, you should do a two test series with the se…
- Sat, 01:08: RT @BadWritingTakes: "Hey, can someone remind me what Cassandra was famous for? Eh, probably not important." https://t.co/z6vHr8gIN2
- Sat, 01:10: Die Hard is a Christmas movie tally; by the time LAPD try to breach, two Santas, two trees, three Christmas songs and one Christmas poem
- Sat, 02:42: Mclean: How about some Christmas music Argyll: This is Christmas music! https://t.co/0ko18i3l5A
- Sat, 03:11: RT @donkersgood: Adding my retweet for visibility. AWS did not have access to objects in S3 through _other_ safeguards, even when the IAM S…
- Sat, 03:12: RT @bellafusari1: i dont remember where i stole this from ~1y ago but feeling the need to bring it back https://t.co/ykBxZGqqv5