Parker Higgins
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DevRel at @Tailscale, artist & activist formerly @EFF @FreedomofPress. Mastodon: @[email protected].
Brooklyn, NY
Joined March 2009
RT @TrudeauRoss: Exciting news, cruciverbalists! Back in May I started as Puzzles Editor at @AppleNews, and I’m thrilled to share that you’….
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ok so they mixed up the images. but it's still NOT FUNNY that this police officer ordered a cold refreshing sparkling water and it was served to him with a napkin in it.
This is a Molotov Cocktail that was found at tonight’s protest. We are committed to ensuring everyone’s right to protest. Violence has no place in civic demonstration. These actions will never be tolerated & anyone bringing weapons or dangerous substances will be arrested.
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I'm pretty excited about the fact that bluesky lets you use domains as usernames, and I blogged about why
parkerhiggins.net
I’ve been posting for a few weeks now on bluesky, a new social network built on new technology called the AT Protocol. Everything about that stack—the app, the network, the protocol, etc—is under...
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RT @nymetrowx: Sunset in NYC on Tuesday is at 8:00pm. The sun won’t set any earlier than 8:00pm in NYC until August 11th, 2023.
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ugh I just found out my local library has a "power user" program that comes with a special card and bragging rights when you hit 2500 checkouts and now I will not know peace until I achieve this goal
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RT @molcranenewman: A jury has found British pop star Ed Sheeran NOT LIABLE of copyright infringement in a lawsuit accusing him of copying….
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personally it does not feel like much of a sacrifice to exchange car storage for actual quality-of-life improvements? maybe we can rig up some of the garbage containers to randomly blast alarm sounds in the middle of the night for the people who miss that.
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funny how that article refers to potentially "sacrificing" the parking spots and not the sacrifices we all make to subsidize the spots in the first place.
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nice that it's laid out so clearly: one more cost of dedicating all this public urban space to car storage is living with garbage and rats.
*NEW* Could New York City finally get trash containerization like other big cities across the globe? The Adams administration says it’s possible, but would require losing 150,000 parking spots:
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it should go without saying but waffling erratically like this creates a pretty untenable environment for public utilities, even if twitter eventually lands in the "right" place.
One of the most important use cases for the Twitter API has always been public utility. Verified gov or publicly owned services who tweet weather alerts, transport updates and emergency notifications may use the API, for these critical purposes, for free.
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a toughie 😎. new crossword in the inboxes of av club members, or available for a buck here
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i've given this some more thought and if you can prove you're a production crew member, let's talk.
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if any cast members of “star trek: strange new worlds” want a bluesky invite hit me up, dms open /cc @paramountplus @StarTrekOnPPlus.
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see, every time elon demonstrates complete ineptitude, we all tweet about it. which is free advertising for twitter! maybe there's something there.
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I learned about an especially cursed but useful-to-me microtransit option from the @milesintransit1 thread on riding between DC and Boston, so don't let anyone tell you those trips aren't educational.
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