At the end of the day, Twitter really is the friends we made along the way. There are really good people here, and I appreciate every single one of you. Thank you for being you and being here with me 💜
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Kubernetes SIG Security co-chair, container escape artist, goose in the mainframe. They/them. Stay punk 
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haven't released a good mind-bender in a hot minute
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this talk is going to be fucking fire. VERY excited about this
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is it grammatically correct to say "it's an accepted best practice" or "it's accepted best practice"? asking for a pedant and the pedant is me
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Can everybody on Twitter get an extension for a death in the family? Asking for hundreds of my closest friends.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but the KubeCon EU CFP deadline is TONIGHT 🚨🚨🚨
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I can’t wait till elon musk offers to buy twitter and delete it and everyone who calls it a “hellsite” has to pick sides for real
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i’m in a code review with elon musk. ive got the CSS for neopets.com on 3 monitors. my browser’s in dark mode so it looks cool. “this part?” he asks, pointing to code for the Giant Omelette. “caches tweets in the mainframe cyberhex,” i say. he nods. “as i suspected”
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You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?
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using mastodon makes me feel like i was inducted into somebody's polycule and they have Rules
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now that the security team's gone? you misspelled "freedom of breach"
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the actual answer was that I had been doing work locally in devops circles in the Midwest, which wasn't on their radar because dudes like that don't pay attention to devops or the Midwest
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I "came out of nowhere" with my technical skills, and therefore the obvious conclusion for some very smart men in infosec was that I must have been taught by some elite unit and work for the CIA
I took it as a compliment. Thanks for noticing my skills, guys! 💖
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what's the funniest thing someone's ever gotten mad at you for on here. i think mine is when somebody told me i was rich and privileged for saying back service corridors at malls are scary at night when i was in the service corridor bc i worked there
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Remember friends,
All we ever have in this broke dead world is each other. Tell your friends you love them.
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Please have no regrets.
#followingU
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Twitter Is about to die and honestly my biggest regret is that I never got @MarkHamill to follow me… 
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Want to give a conference talk, but don't think you have anything to talk about?
I bet you do! This will be a thread.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but the KubeCon EU CFP deadline is TONIGHT 🚨🚨🚨
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can we all just go back to TxtMob
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There's a reason why all the infra engineers on your timeline are sounding alarms. Because here's the thing about keeping things running: when you're doing your job well, people think you don't do anything. People only notice when you're gone and things break. And they will
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This thread speaks truth. This site may be running right now, but when it goes, it's gonna go. That is not an if. That is a when.
Make whatever backups you need. Exchange contact info. Make a plan.
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I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"
As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.
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BREAKING: companies are hiring software engineers and engineering managers.
More than 750 of them! Thanks to everyone who contributed to this list. See the full one here:
blog.pragmaticengineer.com/who-is-hiring-
(Using the 'breaking' part to highlight some good news for a change!)
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This is a catch and kill of history, meant to alter the present in order to control the future. Hang on to the archives. Not everything that's destroyed naturally gets built again; there's no guarantee of renewal. Sometimes the powerful want things -- and people -- to disappear.
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Wheatpaste with your friends, hand out zines, post on indymedia, make pirate radio shows, stencil, make broadsheets and more.
We have so many tools and we will have so many more.
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Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Spotify’s Backstage. Fun!
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I am genuinely worried about what happens to information circulation without this app. Even the basic thing of government agencies being able to communicate quickly in emergencies. This is going to be especially important as the climate continues to change.
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pre-elon twitter: pls free me from this hellsite
post-elon twitter: Everyday with you all has been a gift. I owe my career, my friendships, and my marriage to this community. I’ve fostered compassion and activism each and everyday with you all, fighting the good fight (1/40)
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I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"
As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.
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the answer to both “well then why is Twitter still up” and “why are you convinced Twitter is going to get worse” is read this paper how.complexsystems.fail
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I'll see you by the fire ❤️🔥
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I really love y'all. We moved mountains of water and ice and food and cash. We had each others' backs in a lot of real world ways that make me hold up two middle fingers in my heart when people say Twitter isn't real. Minneapolis Twitter made a lot of things happen.
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It’s fitting and seems inevitable in hindsight that the final Main Character on Twitter is Twitter itself
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Important note on downloading your Twitter data: All the images are still hosted on Twitter, and everything's in messy JSON. I used this Twitter Archive Parser to convert everything to Markdown and downloads full size images, in case Twitter goes down:
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On a serious note, my heart goes out to people who use this site as a lifeline. So many people have been saved bc of the mutual aid and community action provided by this app.
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Thinking tonight of the people who depend on mutual aid, disabled folks who find community here, real time reporting from the ground, past and future uprisings.
This place mattered.
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I’ve got to say this has cured my imposter syndrome.
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