Les Orchard

@lmorchard

he / him; old adhd cat dad; tinkerer; serial enthusiast; editor-at-large for

Portland, OR
Joined October 2006
Born 24 October

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Mar 28

    Allow the hot take to form in your mind. Consider it with a deep breath. Let it float away. Repeat.

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  2. Retweeted
    21 hours ago

    Who would you be if you weren’t forced to occupy a perpetual state of crisis imposed by a society struggling to perceive you as human?

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  3. Retweeted
    16 hours ago

    SUSAN COLLINS: every woman has a right to her own body, which is why i’m appalled that you seem to have taken my nose, and.. oh. well now you’ve given it back. i see. while i’m grateful for its return, this sets a troubli– hold on now. youve got it again. its right there i see it

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    May 2
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  6. May 2

    This rum cask finished rye from is unreasonably tasty

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  7. May 2

    I need this playing on repeat somewhere

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  8. May 2

    What's worse than case #3 here are all the folks who knowingly attend an event infected and don't tell anyone anyway. At least case #3 reported eventually. Which is why I'm still avoiding optional gatherings as much as possible since March 2020 even with a mask.

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  9. May 2

    (it's also somewhat baffling to me that i've been doing stuff with the web for just under 30 years now and that any of my accounts on websites can be 22 years old)

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  10. May 2

    Oh hey an email from LiveJournal just caused my expiration

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  11. May 1

    Wanted to have a tiny Beltane celebration. So I built a fire, made elderflower martinis, and griddled some oatcakes

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  12. May 1

    Took a short break from the daily writing exercises and then wrote a recap of the past week or so

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  13. Apr 30

    if you see a rabbit chowing down in the garden center, no you didn't

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  14. Retweeted
    Apr 30

    Wow this is clever - reuses the tech from Pyodide and defines a Web Component that can execute Python code directly in the browser

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    the ND tech career arch: - exploited Hyperfocus to success - burn out - sustained focus breaks your brain - hope success has landed you in a spot where doing quick proof of concepts and pairing with others is enough because actually doing feature work is now impossible

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  16. Apr 28

    Might just be me, but this seems like the sort of thing a government should be doing rather than using Twitter accounts

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  17. Apr 28

    (yes, sorry, that was a hot take that escaped the meditation chamber)

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  18. Apr 28

    If all the libs are triggered into leaving Twitter, what fun will it be anymore? I don't see how it's a victory if you lose all your rubes to troll

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  19. Retweeted
    Apr 28

    for gen x the hoodie has become a cardigan

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  20. Retweeted
    Apr 27

    why hasn't anyone built a semi-modular synth (or modular format) that's built like one of those. who needs patch cables, we've got wire and spring

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  21. Apr 27

    Managed to finish today's writing exercise much earlier, rather than like right up before bedtime. And, since the prompt seemed to demand it, it's about a shoplifter at a convention

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