March 2018 — 327 tweets
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Coca Cola museum bottles photo.cate.blog/2018/03/coca-cola-museum-bottles/
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So much beautiful imagery here - 2018 Design Trends behance.net/gallery/60273889/2018-Design-Trends /via johnmaeda
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Yes, But… hackernoon.com/yes-but-43a03e52ff38
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It has been snowing for three days and I am running out of food...
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anaulin Everywhere is shut 😭
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anaulin I ordered some that will arrive sunday... if there is anything left!
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anaulin I am rationing what’s left... it will probably be fine.
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Volcanic islands 🌋 photo.cate.blog/2018/03/volcanic-islands-%f0%9f%8c%8b/
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anaulin I think things might be open tomorrow!! I will go investigate!!
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Ahhh there was a raccoon in this tv episode and why aren’t there more raccoons on tv? Whyyyyyyyyyy?!?
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melissabernais Ahhhh we had that in the uk and it was awesome
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RT ashedryden: I’ve been looking for a full time gig for over a year now 🤷🏼♀️ Companies only seem to want to hire me for things I’m not q…
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RT mekkaokereke: It's OK to ask a reviewer to clarify feedback. Honestly, the peer won't get offended. I do this every review cycle. It's…
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I am on bumble again so I have some thoughts on objectification and manipulation. Bear with me.
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So any (straight) woman on a dating site has got obscene messages. Some dudes open with them. I find it gross, and I bet the success rate is low, but it’s actually quite efficient. If the dude gets a response, it’s presumably from a woman who is okay with that.
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I don’t like these messages. But the ones I find more creepy in some ways are from the guys who are like, hey, what are you looking for? A serious relationship or just to hook up? I hate the way the question is framed - it’s objectifying. And the whole strategy is manipulative.
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Why objectifying? Well to reframe the question: are you hoping a man wants to wife you, or are you hoping a man wants to fuck you? In both of these questions the woman is the object, and it presents women as wives or sex objects, but never both.
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It’s manipulative because it frames it as: if you aren’t looking for a relationship, you must be okay with meeting a random for sex. For women “wanting” a relationship has a bad rep (aka desperation) which creates pressure to choose the other option.
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There aren’t two options here, there are a thousand, many of which don’t start with deciding whether or not you want to have sex with some dude you’ve seen three pictures and two sentences about, and this has been your only interaction. It’s not a strong first impression.
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Or maybe it is, for me it’s a strong no 😂
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plragde Yeah that seems less creepy but still a little premature for someone I haven’t met?
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triketora Maybe?
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I had one of these exchanges this morning and the guy was like “are you up for some adult fun” and I said “not with you” and now he’s blocked me 😂
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plragde was that a big problem?
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So I think the strength and weakness of online dating is that it allows you to reach people outside your social circle. This is the benefit! But the downside is that it frees people from social consequences. (Which keep a lot of us in check tbqh) dantoml/970279357678804994?s=21
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The manipulative guys online either 1) don’t do this (as blatantly) irl or 2) are the ones that women warn each other about. “Yeah he’s cute but he’s bad news”
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This freedom from social consequences also makes relationships with people met online more disposible. There’s nothing that ties you together, and no one to judge you if - completely hypothetical example - you end things with a super weird text message at 830 one Monday morning.
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But it also makes it much easier to go out with someone once, never give them your real name, and never speak to them again for no other reason than it was “meh” and you have better things to do. No need to feel awkward because you will never run into them again.
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dantoml Urgh 💕
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nicoleckohler Omg so cute!!!!
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queersorceress Interesting. There are definitely a bunch of messed up and self perpetuating cycles in het dating.
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JillWetzler Whyyyyyyyy aren’t you coming to Europe tho 💔
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sophaskins jessfraz 7 cats and a raccoon.
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funkwit Oh my god
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funkwit !!!!!!!! Was it one of those exploding Samsung ones?!
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If you want to know how I am doing post-accident, yesterday I did kettlebell swings with 6kg kettlebells and today I went swimming and did 16 very pathetic lengths of poor technique and now I am in so much pain. So fuck everything, frankly.
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funkwit Well I hope you get to your destination safely!!!
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kamilah Urgh :/
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kamilah Argh I don’t know how you live in sf!!
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Reading brotopia and I’m quoted in the chapter “google: when good intentions aren’t enough” and it is the very definition of lolsob.
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What has two thumbs and just paid a deposit on a townhouse? THIS GIRL THAT'S WHO!!!
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I have a lot of anxiety about living in a house but 1) it's in an apartment complex and 2) I think it will be okay if I buy a second kettle for upstairs.
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queersorceress I'm Domesticating for Citizenship.
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queersorceress and terrifying 😂
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skamille 💕
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antifuchs Thank you!!
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roidrage Ikr!!!!
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dantoml 😱
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williampietri Aha I’m not sure I can have another living creature in there. Baby steps!!
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duretti We are such adults 😭
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duretti Well you are a prize 💕
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sebasoga Thank you!!!
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juliaferraioli Thank you!
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duretti 💜💜💜
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Part of being a good senior engineer or manager is not perpetuating messed up shit that you were put through on the grounds that it’s “normal”.
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similarcircles Thank you!!
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lenazun 💕
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wirehead2501 Aww honey I’m sorry your cat isn’t doing well 💕
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When a dude writes “humans stating opinions as facts triggers me” and that’s like... their entire brand?
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I should probably stop hate reading this blog but it’s a rich resource for understanding mediocre white men failing up. And up. And up.
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wirehead2501 Awwww 💜💜💜
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withinboredom Ahaha
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karmatosed Thank you!!
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Aiiane Agree although I’m really not sure we are making table stakes lately.
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RT skamille: People who act shocked and dismayed about "humans who gossip" are almost always the worst gossips, in my experience
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wirehead2501 💕🏠💯✨
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LittleMxSurly Thank youuuuu!!
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juliepagano I am such an adult
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thanks!!
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designatednerd thank you!!
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bugKrusha thanks honey!
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DYING 😂 read the whole thing 💯 ab_silvera/970833735934504960
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kamilah legit this is why i moved
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RT chiuki: Indeed. I'm considering offering consulting services to help teams get started with Android testing. Will your company be inter…
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kamilah 💔
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Cate’s first rule of management: don’t be an asshole. Cate’s second rule of management: don’t be a sociopath. These two take you a surprisingly long way.
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JillWetzler I are calling to you tho JILL CAN YOU HEAR ME IT IS ME, CATE
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iwasleeg This is from last June :(
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very worried the dishwasher is broken again. i am not sure i can survive a second ordeal 😭
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ckymnstr Well I haven’t moved into it or bought a new dishwasher yet...
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dbentley Omg I want a raccoon to help around the house
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dbentley 😍
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There’s a hole where my heart should be 💔 photo.cate.blog/2018/03/theres-a-hole-where-my-heart-should-be-%f0%9f%92%94/
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amyngyn I worked on v1!! A long time ago now.
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Excited to celebrate international women’s day tomorrow by protesting for women’s reproductive healthcare in the country I live in... 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
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amyngyn Still gives me warm fuzzies. I knew users would edit on mobile esp tablets. People didn’t believe me!
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There’s a little girl here with a sign she made that says “my body belongs to me” and I’m like YOU GO GIRL! #repealthe8th
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There’s also a group called “witches for choice” and like... how do I join? #repealthe8th
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chant: “This shit’s fucked up” 😂💯 #repealthe8th
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A dude is just rode a motorbike through the march which... seems like an apt metaphor.
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@anthakingston 💜
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“A corpse has more rights than a pregnant woman in Ireland.” #repealthe8th
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zara_p Thank you!
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RT marthakelly: .。*゚+.*.。 all I want for International Women's Day is back pay for the years I was paid less than the men I worked with +…
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RT VPoltrack: #InternationalWomensDay 💟
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RT VPoltrack: #InternationalWomansDay 💟
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RT EricaJoy: Men! Celebrate #InternationalWomensDay by taking direct action: 🌟 Tell the women you work with how much you get paid. 🌟 If yo…
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RT paulodonoghue93: Wow. This description of #Brexit by an Irish Times reader is one of the most cutting I've ever seen https://t.co/6ZdHC…
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It’s SO COLD. I have been cold since NOVEMBER. I feel like I will never be warm again 😭❄️
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wirehead2501 Oh my I need one 😍
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plragde I knowwwww but I lived in Sydney and Colombia a lot more recently. Also, in ottawa apartment buildings are built for the cold and easy to keep warm.
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ichthyos Heating here does not function like that.
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@maruthven It allows timings and temperatures to be more exact and makes better tea.
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wirehead2501 ❣️
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JohnHackworth Isn’t it? 😍
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mrtazz Aha :)
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designatednerd Me too. Me too.
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ScottCate So true!!
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roidrage 💔
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JillWetzler You are epic 💜
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ichthyos Hence the cooooooold inside my apartment 😭
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ichthyos Yeah I have electric heating? Just some of it doesn’t seem to work well. Can’t wait to have my own place where broken things actually get fixed!!
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RT JillWetzler: Get the popcorn out I'm about to rant. I know y'all only love me when I'm mad, it's fine actually. amyngyn/972136296612208640
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nicoleckohler wirehead2501 Ahaha okay
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plragde ❄️
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skamille 💕 thanks I need all the encouragement with it right now!!
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karen_meep :)
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rnelson0 Thank you!
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mipsytipsy C'mon Charity this is going too far. I get the reaction to your blogpost wasn't great but it doesn't make everyone who was annoyed at you a demon - least of all someone who cared enough about you to try and explain how it came across.
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mipsytipsy Camille is a friend of mine, I'm not going to have back channel conversations about her.
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My accountant is annoyed at me and now I'm in a shame spiral about bureaucracy I am too overwhelmed to face 😭
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artismarti I'm trying to wind everything down. They have been really good generally and I get why he's annoyed. I'm *so bad* at this stuff :(
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I need to make some more friends in cork. If you know anyone cool here and think we’d get along I would so appreciate an intro!! Also suggestions for things to do and places to meet people! 💕
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Famous Speech Friday: Ashton Applewhite's TED talk "Let's stop ageism" eloquentwoman.blogspot.com/2018/02/famous-speech-friday-ashton-applewhites.html /by dontgetcaught
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Geek_Manager 💜💜💜
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caffeinepresent Both of these ideas will be covered :)
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RobDerickson Oh cool, I will go check it out when I have my car over :)
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Eulerizeit alicegoldfuss I think 1) it depends on level within the org and 2) when it comes to promotion it skews heavily to new $thing because a) it’s easier to quantify and b) you would have to deal with things people (men) added being removed for the next promotion cycle.
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RT alicegoldfuss: catehstn MANAGER: you should introduce a new technology into our architecture ME: we have so many new technologies alre…
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malthos Yeah I’m not a fan of board games :/
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artismarti Thanks 💕
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dbentley 💜
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This is so good, by skamille - Are you out of alignment? elidedbranches.com/2018/03/are-you-out-of-alignment.html
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BlackMad thank you!
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💡 Why you should invest your time as wisely as your money - theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/mar/09/invest-time-as-wisely-as-money-oliver-burkeman
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Happy beautiful bouquets at half off day! I bought myself pink roses 🌹😍
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dantoml FastlaneTools CircleCI WordPressiOS You can do android too if you are feeling like an Overacheiver 😂
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darylwalleck 💯 me either
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Ireland are voting on women’s reproductive rights (likely) in May and living in a country where your rights are up for debate is upsetting and triggering and exhausting in a way that I had no comprehension of.
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I’m glad the vote is _finally_ happening but the campaign to keep women dying unnecessarily in childbirth, travelling for healthcare (and risking arrest) or “just” jeapordizing their mental health is well funded and how fucking depressing is that.
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Me: I need to start leaving the apartment more. Cork: ⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈
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wirehead2501 cerephic Omg
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wirehead2501 Me tooooooo
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The good news is that LEGO super heroes is 96.5% complete. The bad news is... oh where do I begin.
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norcross A couple of levels completing the mini kits, one boss, one puzzle, maybe 5 races. So close!!
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RT mattmfm: One day after a dog died in an overhead bin and Republicans demand regulation that'll prevent it from happening again. Meanw…
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ekp projectinclude 💕 excited to see what you do!
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norcross Minifig?
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ekp projectinclude SF 😱
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norcross Ohhhhhhh yes missing a couple of because of races. I think I got all the ones in the levels!!
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scarerkite jesslynnrose 💯 also do this, evenings are my time after work and I stay up too late to make them longer. I read something in a book (better than before) about people doing this and was like... it me.
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scarerkite jesslynnrose So then the thing that has really worked is to make mornings an enjoyable me time, or to finish work earlier.
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RT ai_valentin: Death isn't freedom. Wheelchairs are freedom. Accessibility is freedom. Healthcare is freedom. Human rights are freedo…
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Argh forgot keys and now locked out of my apartment 😭 I am so frazzled this week. Was feeling marginally better right before the moment I realized this.
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lindseybieda On my way to letting agent for spares, but thanks 💜
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The irony: I was trying to get a set of spares cut this morning. For the cleaning service. Who were there when I left my keys behind, and left shortly before I realized and called in a panic.
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"I'm not going to send you a picture of my child, but I am going to send you a picture of my power rake." ~apeatling
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beaulebens apeatling I have a picture of one now which I can send you on Monday. It’s red and looks a bit like a lawnmower. Apparently the grass looks worse at first but will soon look great. You can rent them at Home Depot.
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Inside Casa Milà photo.cate.blog/2018/03/inside-casa-mila-2/
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apeatling beaulebens My instructor was very passionate about the subject.
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The gender demographics alone should demonstrate the stack overflow dev survey is riddled with bias to the point of being meaningless... but somehow we talk about it anyway. Why?
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StackOverflow is an example of something built by men for men, and the way compound effects keep things that way.
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sdarlington Gamification, points, and one upmanship. There are so many resources aimed at teaching women to code, and they all look much more community based and collaborative.
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Question mainly for ICs, what does success look like for you? What is a successful day? Week? Month? Year? Do you set goals for yourself? What are they? So many questions but what it comes down to: I want to know what gives you a sense of accomplishment. (RT for reach? 💕)
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IC = individual contributor, mainly looking for insight from devs. This is for a talk I am prepping :)
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lccarson I am going to have one of these. This is on the list of reasons to buy a home!!
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mattsiegel :)
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Fascinating - Secrets Behind Some of Japan’s Most Intriguing Traditions. the-shooting-star.com/2018/03/16/japans-most-intriguing-traditions/
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RT aya129brick: 今日はそらくんの兄弟やパパとファミリー会❣️ サメの顔ハメで全員集合しました😊 #ハリネズミ #はりねずみ #刺猬 #hedgehog #そらくんの動画 #고슴도치 #
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RT designinginward: I had no idea of my potential until I was released from a corporate culture that didn't align with my goals or values.…
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RT AusAntarctic: #Penguin #selfie offers bird’s eye view of life in Antarctica! Curious Emperors have been captured on film at the Auster…
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Night in Westminster photo.cate.blog/2018/03/night-in-westminster/
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Fascinating responses!! Thank you everyone, please keep them coming!
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RT shl: I just published "From bubble to bubble." It's about my year living in Provo and some of the most important things I've learned.…
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Follow up from yesterdays question, what does a successful dev/product team look like? How do you demonstrate that and on what timeframe? Does your team have goals? What are they? Would value managers and IC perspective - please say which :) (RT for reach? 💕)
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IC = individual contributor. This is for a talk I am prepping :)
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luceos interesting! please elaborate :)
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No Ocean for Young Women – medium.com/@aderacine/no-ocean-for-young-women-a5dca09f1ed1 /by anat_deracine
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AdamBStein De-emphasize?
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So glad rgay articulated this so powerfully and succinctly - Can I Enjoy the Art but Denounce the Artist? buff.ly/2G4eMD6 /via felsull
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donncha ...I tried to. The whole experience was very cold and weird!! And yes!! Aussie friend came to visit!
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RT pookleblinky: He sneak He peak But most importantly he WORSHIP AT THE ALTAR OF THE RACCOON ELDER GODS
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Blarney Castle 🏰 photo.cate.blog/2018/03/blarney-castle-%f0%9f%8f%b0/
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Ahhh look at dis raccoon. On a thrown! Where is her 👑 instagram.com/p/BggU0VPFNGh/
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wndxlori 😍
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flying_squirrel Queeeeeen!!
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crystalvisits I don’t have a garden 😇
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Blarney House 🏰 photo.cate.blog/2018/03/blarney-house-%f0%9f%8f%b0/
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I do feel a sense of Acheivement though. This is the first time I’ve completed a game by myself (someone played a couple of levels with me, but that was it). No cheat codes, beat all the races etc.
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norcross Thank you!!!
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I’m getting on a plane tomorrow for the first time in six weeks and I think I have forgotten how to pack 😭
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RT catehstn: Follow up from yesterdays question, what does a successful dev/product team look like? How do you demonstrate that and on wha…
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RT MonthOccupation: 1) Vaccines don't cause autism. 2) Saying that CAR SEATS cause autism is extremely dangerous speculation with zero pro…
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What does a successful user or customer of your product look like? What can they do better, or more (or at all) with the product? What do they care about and what do they measure?
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josebiro Yeah? I was thinking LEGO worlds!
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As part of my prep for this talk I have read (or skimmed) an inordinate amount of writing on management, and I keep finding myself with the reaction "sure, but how does this work in practise?"
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"I embrace servant leadership my calendar is open to you but full actually but really just find a time I will occasionally snap at you and I want to be right. I value feedback very much but I don't always deliver it well at all #sorrynotsorry."
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I sourced these articles from a prominent newsletter about tech leadership. Nearly 84% of these articles were from men. How do I know this? I have a spreadsheet. And a pie chart.
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(Usual caveat of gender is not binary and an imperfect thing to guess and track. Also: diversity is more than gender. Not possible to track that, but my observation is overwhelmingly white.)
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josebiro it it like the other lego games? like puzzles and levels etc? Or is if different? That's the thing I couldn't figure out yet.
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josebiro yeah, none of those are out for the switch yet :( thanks - not super into shaping and painting, I like the puzzles too.
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Liverpool St 🚇 photo.cate.blog/2018/03/liverpool-st-%f0%9f%9a%87/
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amyngyn Omg quokkaaaaaaaaaaaas I am so jelly 😍
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Giving brand new talk for the first time this afternoon so... Everything is fine Everything is fine Everything is probably fine Everything is probably fine Everything is terrible Everything is probably fine ...
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amyngyn Omggggg a quokka 😍😍😍😍😍
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I had to make my slides myself this time so I am trying a new aesthetic of blank slides and graphs quantifying the unquantifiable. I will add some raccoon gifs to round things out I think. Also a short David Bowie video.
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What’s this talk about, you ask? Well one way to describe it is: how aliens might think we run dev teams.
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qkate There is no video of me on the internet 😇
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_powpow_ Thank you!
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dantoml 💜
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eileentso thank you <3
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eileentso also hi!! i'm in your city!!
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eileentso no, just until sunday!
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saraheolson Thank you!
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Pep talk from NatashaTheRobot "You're amazing, you just need the confidence of a mediocre white man." 😍😂🔥
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@ceri_anneblog mfeathers Aww thank you!
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Themes at Night photo.cate.blog/2018/03/themes-at-night/
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jeffwatkins I think so?
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Wellington Arch photo.cate.blog/2018/03/wellington-arch/
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zara_p ikr
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Geek_Manager you are the raccoon i want to see in the world 😍
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Told the waiter I was going home to Ireland today and we ended up having a chat about the arrogance and stupidity of British people and brexit. In French.
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If you speak a second language noone will ever know you are British 😎
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Other ways to seem less British: - don't be a raging racist - try not to colonize places - eat "ethnic" food and call these foods by their proper names - directly ask for what you want - have no opinion about the weather - drink poorly made tea without visible signs of distress
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Oh! Nearly forgot: - drink alcohol in moderation
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Fiery tuba 🔥 photo.cate.blog/2018/03/fiery-tuba-%f0%9f%94%a5/
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r343l That is the one I have not mastered
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queersorceress 😍 so fluffy and beautiful!!
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wiredferret hehe such a beautiful fluffy raccoooooooon!
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wiredferret if only. the dream!
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🌟 Updated Signup and Site Creation on Mobile Devices buff.ly/2prl4D1
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natashathenomad You are living your best life.
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natashathenomad We should have a honeymoon 💋
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Full of joy that skamille is now retweeting pictures of raccoons. I remember some less than kind things she said about raccoons. But all that is in the past now. People do change 😍
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RT tryswiftsanjose: Want to get involved? We're looking for more mentors (must have contributed to one of the Swift open source projects)…
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skamille She’s fluffffffffffffy!!! and has a beautiful tail!!! 😍😍😍
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spacechurro :)
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I was super burnt out when I left the conglomerate - mainly from trying to be a dev whilst female in the environment that fostered *that* memo. What helped: time off (lucky was able to take it), reconnecting with programming, finding community and seeing that I could be valued. jesslynnrose/978590454840086529
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Discovering the five causes of burnout that are not overwork informed this approach. It’s such a useful way to understand burnout, because it’s easy to feel like “I’m not working 80h weeks so I can’t be be burnt out” but NOT TRUE. catehstn/794842130460110848?s=21
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RT msdesign21: Know anyone who manages an eCommerce store? We’d love to talk to them — and there is a $100 Amazon Gift Card involved too!…
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Ah hello, sense of accomplishment. Where the fuck have you been lately?!? I mean. I’m glad you are finally here 💋
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dantoml Yessss
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Feels like spring 🌳 photo.cate.blog/2018/03/feels-like-spring-%f0%9f%8c%b3/
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RT kthomas901: Saw First Lady Michelle Obama speak tonight at Oracle in a fireside chat with Stacy Brown-Philpot (CEO of Taskrabbit). I wa…
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kthomas901 Omg 😍
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Ahh so happy about this feature! 🤳💕 New and Improved iOS Sharing Extensions buff.ly/2pOcEpq
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crystalvisits Thank you!
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wirehead2501 You would be good with the raccoons though. They would keep you warm.
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wirehead2501 Ikr when I had an admin I used to ask her to shop for me because omfg decisions. This week I ran out of key clothing items because I kept throwing them out and not getting around to replacing them 😭
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Several of my colleagues went to Seoul and MET A RACCOON this week and I have many feels about this 💔💔💔💔💔
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RT mightygodking: GOOGLE MOTTOS: A HISTORY 1999: Don't Be Evil 2003: Try Your Hardest To Not Be Evil 2008: Make A Reasonable Effort To Av…
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The WordPress Mobile Apps Now Support Right-to-Left Languages buff.ly/2J1Qvw9
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The shitty thing about harassment within a community you are part of is that you don’t know who is okay with it because they are okay with it, and who is okay with it because they don’t know.
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This is something that has created a distance for me from the iOS community for the past couple of years. I still get much more anxious at iOS events. And sometimes I find myself in the situation where I need to ask the question and find out what lines people draw.
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Mostly I’ve found people just didn’t know which... given some of the details that happened I am very grateful for. But every so often I find out people who I used to respect are just okay with it. For me this is the worst thing of all.
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saraheolson 💜💜💜
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On Analog Social Media buff.ly/2uB7XV9
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Lisbon graffiti 🇵🇹 photo.cate.blog/2018/03/lisbon-graffiti-%f0%9f%87%b5%f0%9f%87%b9/
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Beautiful morning in Cork 🍃 photo.cate.blog/2018/03/beautiful-morning-in-cork-%f0%9f%8d%83/









































