@samkhawase.com's post on email should be required reading for anyone sending transactional emails in 2026

Sam Khawasé@samkhawase.com · 3mo ago

Email is Crazy. My latest article on the wild ecosystem on Email. samkhawase.com/blog/email-i...

*screams into the void*

TFW you realize you've eaten all 3 meals today at your desk, and you're still not done.

So Ubuntu publishes a new version of Nginx for 24.04 and 22.04 today, breaks ABI compatibility (we use Phusion Passenger), and thus I am introduced to snapshot.ubuntu.com.

Sometimes things happen and you find out that no matter how much you thought you fit in, you just don't. I'd love to say it is something that I can shrug off, but this one hurts. Worst part was that I had been having an excellent night otherwise.

We are not fighting over policy or political party. We are fighting over whether we are going to be a civilization rooted in empathy and kindness—or cruelty and rage. Choose your side.

Dear Justice Kavanaugh: it doesn't matter if it's going to be "messy". Your job is to interpret law, not policy. Do your damn job.

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I have no problem with virtue signaling. Hate has been given a megaphone and they have no problem amplifying those voices. There should be no shame in amplifying ours.

Some Louisville coffee shops insist that ICE be served with a smile. Others, like Safai at Logan Street Market have whistles behind the bar. Also at the alcohol bar at the market too. Caffeinate accordingly.

A heavily redacted cartoon. My @smh cartoon.

Blumenthal: "I'm a no vote on that spending bill unless there are conditions that require ICE to go to a judge, to get a warrant, as well as other kinds of constraints -- the use of masks, the non-identification, the unmarked cars. These secret police, totalitarian tactics need to be stopped."

Dear politicians, if you're not running on a platform of "we will undo all of this chaos" this election season, I will do everything I can to ensure you are primaried.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell, 1984

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Trump defends the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis. Video footage does not support Trump's claims.

I don't want to hear a damn thing about what anyone said about Charlie Kirk. This is vile coming from anyone, let alone the supposed leader of a country.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

Q: A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Rob Reiner. Do you stand by it? TRUMP: Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.

I've never seen anyone shoplifting food and neither have you.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 9mo ago

California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 10mo ago

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

Duncan Hothersall@dhothersall.bsky.social · 10mo ago

There's an AWS outage this morning impacting lots of services; it started around 07.30 UK time. People who use services like Alexa as their alarm clocks have just had a helpful reminder that using a device reliant on connectivity to carry out a task that doesn't need connectivity is not a good idea.

Folks, this isn't to any of you specifically because I've seen more than one person doing it. SUGGESTING THAT A BROWN WOMAN WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO REBUKE/TROLL A WHITE MAN is super duper fucking racist on a pogo stick. Please do not do that. Enjoy that it will make Trump mad, sure.

I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted. byroot.github.io/opensource/r...

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

It's weird how complicated and simple migrating my account to a personal PDS server was.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.

Trump announces 'TrumpRx' website for pharmaceutical drugs after Pfizer deal

Trump said the move will help improve healthcare access for low-income Americans.

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Trump in 2011: "If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the only who has to get people together!"

So exhausting..

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Dr. Vin Gupta@vinguptamd.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years. Speaks for itself.

The punch line. Seriously. 🤣

Orkney Library & Archive@orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 11mo ago

It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.

As a Xennial, this is a sobering thought. Folks in the thread point out Heroin having a similar effect. Certainly something for later when I have time to think about this more.

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 11mo ago

people often ask what’s wrong with gen x, and, like, there are a lot of answers, but i think the AIDS epidemic and the specific people it wiped out is probably an under discussed contributor to the bomber with red dots diagram