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    @knitcodemonkey @knitterjp Hmm. Maybe we could make an international version happen… 🤔 Your evening is our morning, right?


    So just to get this straight – @LinkedIn removed the ability to add arbitrary notes for a connection (like how you met them) many years ago, and now has restricted exporting your connections’ email addresses so you can’t even do it in a 3rd party app. NOT HAPPY.


    Relatedly: does anyone know a contact manager that will keep a contact’s details up to date, and also lets me add/search via arbitrary notes for them?


    I should add – I have used @contactsplus in the past and have in fact just re-upped with them, but this LinkedIn restriction is really, really hamstringing its utility. 🙁


    @thenickrandolph I don’t mean for randoms; it’s just for people that I’m already connected with, and who I can click the Contact Info button to get the email anyway. They’re just putting barriers in front to create a walled garden.


    @thenickrandolph I’d be fine with it if they didn’t on the other side hassle you to give them access to your entire address book and email account so they could spam people to sign up to LinkedIn. Kinda ruins the “we care about your privacy” argument.


    @thenickrandolph And besides – recruiters pay for special LinkedIn access… where they can very easily do all the stuff you’re worried about them doing. Recruiter are LinkedIn’s customers, not you and me.



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    RT @mantaleigh: women want tech culture to not be toxic but men just want dark mode for everything


    RT @_87th__: Downtown LA #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/4wRIhKbKGN


    Ahhh, good times. @knitterjp and I had fun tonight in our online knitting group reminiscing about the time 11 years ago when I metaphorically nailed my 95 theses to a Ravelry forum and tried to foment a schism in the NSW Knitters Guild. https://t.co/qL089EDzsP


    @AndyPalmer @knitterjp I was actually the webmaster at that time, and I ended up as the convenor of the Inner City Group. I actually also took on organising the Camp, the first “modern” one. 😂 I ended up evolving it from within.


    Huh. Benedict organises his books by colour, but Meryl does not. (Meryl looks like a fun hang.) https://t.co/CEBywQdNHT


    @bodil He’s doing an excellent Aunt Spiker though. I’ll give him that.


    Beanie makes a pretty fun Centipede! https://t.co/JtnRyxg0Cd


    Another excellent Centipede from Ryan Reynolds! He handled the poetry quite well. https://t.co/f9eS3h5rAC


    @sirarsalih https://t.co/rhCsgJVNxw


    RT @ProjectF_au: Tickets are up for the first F Factor virtual event y’all! Join @lisaharveysmith, @keandrews and @web_goddess and of cours…


    @seemewiddemHANS Science, schmience. I miss your Riverdale tweets. 😂



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    RT @robinyang: Honestly pretty proud of this graphic (made for a talk I gave this morning about cultivating healthy teams Now More Than Eve…


    RT @rts_rob: Okay #serverless fans – the big announcement is here.

    AWS Step Functions support has arrived in AWS SAM! Check out the new AW…



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    LIVE TWEETING IN THE MIDDLE OF A WEBINAR WHAAAAT 🤘 https://t.co/Yww779tZLA


    @MattAkersten Trying to improve my crappy lighting


    Thanks to everybody who joined me, @buzzyNZ, @mattcoles87, and @niravdd on the Builders Live webinar today! We had a lot of fun swapping customer stories, talking @AWSCloudANZ culture and SA/TAM roles, and (of course) wishing Nirav a Happy Birthday. 😊🎂 #bepeculiar https://t.co/uLyYl6K2Aq


    @lemon_lime It’s good, but it’s no “Islands in the Stream” as performed by Han and Leia. https://t.co/U77tTOWuCU


    @lemon_lime It still makes me laugh how I’m like boxing you out and covering your face with my blaster. 😂


    First time on a bus in two months. Only one wearing a mask. Listening to the Boomtown Rats on repeat. IT’S A MOOD. https://t.co/udCxxOkgd5


    @gilmae Granted, I have consumed a lot of theologically favoured fanfic over the last six months, but Lucifer’s not that bad.



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    “Kris and Buzzy in the mooooooorning!”

    One hour until I get to live out my talk show dreams on the AWS Builders Live webinar! Still time to register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1729727909854415373. (And yes, it’ll be recorded and posted online after…)


    First time on a bus in two months. Only one wearing a mask. Listening to the Boomtown Rats on repeat. IT’S A MOOD.



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    First time on a bus in two months. Only one wearing a mask. Listening to the Boomtown Rats on repeat. IT’S A MOOD.

    First time on a bus in two months. Only one wearing a mask. Listening to the Boomtown Rats on repeat. IT’S A MOOD.


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    RT @EmmaBostian: Learn German, they said.

    It’ll be fun, they said. https://t.co/7l5LcqIEzw


    RT @CStubbendorff: I may not have secured funding or a prestigious faculty post during the lockdown BUT….I have made a brain cycle helmet…


    RT @editingemily: Don’t do this. It’s gross.

    Highlights:
    • “Well, OK, since when do such hot women work in tech…”
    • “I found the conte…


    RT @lstoll: The nice part about a monolith is it’s only one box on an architecture diagram.


    RT @AbdirahimS: Eid Mubarak all✨

    Especially to this Ikea branch in Germany.

    Local Muslims asked if they can use the car park for prayers…


    “Kris and Buzzy in the Moooorning!” Less than two hours until @buzzyNZ and I make our “talk show” debut on the AWS Builders Live webinar! You can still register here: https://t.co/eAnAwKADz0. (@mattcoles87 will be there too!) https://t.co/Nbjx41uRkz



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    Re-reading this one, and thinking about things like this (https://t.co/rf9tYjg5Ga) and this (https://t.co/c4UxTuPhHo), and fighting the urge to feel lucky that my partner isn’t like that, because it shouldn’t require luck, and so I just land on PISSED OFF RAGE, over and over. https://t.co/p8S0yZzVxT


    Ahhh! I’ve seen Omegaverse stuff on Ao3 and wondered what it was, but frankly was afraid to click or google any further. This answered all of my questions. 😳 https://t.co/JWqiB550Na


    RT @bbcpress: New comedy series #Staged, starring #DavidTennant and @MichaelSheen, is coming to @BBCOne in June. Here’s a little taster of…


    RT @airandspace: ┏┓
    ┃┃╱╲ in
    ┃╱╱╲╲ this
    ╱╱╭╮╲╲house
    ▔▏┗┛▕▔ we
    ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲
    use “crewed”
    ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲
    ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔


    RT @apple_rom: If you work with @awscloud then you work with #AmazonS3. To know S3 well try a great game by Vasily Pantyukhin:

    https://t.c…


    Beastie Boysenberry Sour Ale – pretty AND tasty! https://t.co/8qKCdRmTSi


    @Amys_Kapers @the_patima @AlxTheRed @rosemary @stringy Thinking of you all and hoping you stay safe…


    @gilmae What, it was good!


    @the_nathanjones We made a “vegducken” for some vego friends at Thanksgiving a few years back, and even the carnivores enjoyed it! https://t.co/xQBdBGjOOQ


    Ep 5: The Snook makes James Bond’s Vesper 🍸 https://t.co/2fyYnLaPFH (SOUNDTRACK BY ME)


    @The_McJones I’m trying to come up with something to refute you… and it’s really not easy. The Goodies? The Goodies weren’t dark.


    @LJKenward Amazing. Well done. 🙂


    Things that still feel weird now that Amy Cat is gone:

    – Not being forced to get up by a yowling cat who wants her breakfast
    – Being able to leave my dirty cereal bowl on the table for 5 minutes
    – Being able to wear black without being covered in white fur



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    Beastie Boysenberry Sour Ale – pretty AND tasty!


    Ep 5: The Snook makes James Bond’s Vesper 🍸

    (Soundtrack by ME! 😂)



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    Beastie Boysenberry Sour Ale – pretty AND tasty!

    Beastie Boysenberry Sour Ale - pretty AND tasty!



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