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Derek Martin

@me@derekmartin.org

I'm Derek. I am a nerd. Principal Program Manager, Azure Core, Global Resiliency. Toots are my opinion and don't represent my company.

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@JessTheUnstill It’s borderline criminal to hire people promising WFH and then backtracking a year later. Only three reasons to do it: fill butts in seats to justify the stupid building, make middle management worth keeping around, make people quit so they don’t have to fire people in a downturn.

@samlitzinger Fuck that. WFH is life. We’re never going back!

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Illegal alien eating a cat; checkmate Kamala!

Can yall imagine if had done her endorsement on or the ? Stator would simply die hehe.

@KamalaHarrisWin - Y’all should register with verifiedjournalist.org! Would love to see ya there.

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Fellow orgs and . We're proud to host verifiedjournalist.org as a free resource for locating authenticated journalists and news orgs on the but the cost just went up as we’re needing to register in multiple countries. Is it worth it to keep this service going to you? Total cost will be close to $1,000/year for all the keywords and domains. We do take donations, but to date, it doesn't cover even the hosting costs.

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Breaking: US Justice Clarence Thomas lodges formal complaint with Russian Embassy inquiring why he is not also being paid. www.tennessean.com/story/news/

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Republicans don’t want to eliminate guns in schools, they want to eliminate schools. School shootings serve their agenda of pushing white suburban families to send their kids to parochial and private charter schools to weaken support for public schools.

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@chrisgeidner Existing ethics rules don’t cover this?

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As I like to say, he’s easy to manipulate, but impossible to control. It’s *our* job to manipulate him—so that *they* can’t control him.

Busy weekend of epic server rebuilds, new K3S cluster, new storage array.

Hey there folks of the ! One of the longest running platforms on the network just got a nice shiny upgrade to keep up with a deluge of traffic. Servers are now slowly reconnecting. If you're interested in relaying with us, please visit mastodon-relay.thedoodleprojec. Tips most welcome.

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Satires of Men

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Can we get a ?

@w7voa Till the day I die, I will never stop being completely flabbergasted by how this isn’t a blow out.

@jason Waiting on final FCC certification - early adopters (post kickstarter) expected this month with general availability maybe by end of the year

@jason Yeah, I want that one so bad!

@corruptian Interesting - I was under the impression that Georgia’s government continued to press for reunification of their land. Will research more!