Rupert V/

@rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy

He/him/his. Writing code for a living for 35 years and counting. I've lived in England, Minnesota, and (currently) Aotearoa New Zealand :laserkiwi:.
Married with two […]

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@juliusgoat.bsky.socialReposted by @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

@enobacon.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy

Getting people on bikes is not rocket science. The project *is* the network. You can't just do short disjoint segments of gold-plated mid-block cross-sections. Users need to consistently feel that the city has prioritized their comfort and safety at every crossing. Just like Seville, or Bogata […]

@0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyReposted by @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy

hey, could the Youtube product manager who decided that when a Dutch household puts on a video from the Dutch national news, the audio should automatically be replaced with a TTS voice reading a machine-generated English translation, come meet me in the darkest corner of the Amsterdamse Bos […]

@juliusgoat.bsky.socialReposted by @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy

"Shane Gillis was just telling JOKES." Yep, he was. That was what he finds funny, and now we understand him (and those who laugh) to be the sort of person who finds that sort of thing funny. What's being objected to isn't that he's being misunderstood; it's that he's being understood very well.

@sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy

I asked a trusted colleague for comments on a written document and they fed it in to chatGPT and sent me back that output and I just want to cry. Guess I won't be asking that person for help or advice on anything anymore. Enshittification happens in people's writing skills too, I guess. I also […]

@emptywheel.bsky.socialReposted by @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy

Richard Berger is not the ONLY HSI agent to lie to frame Democrats.

So did Ricky Patel, when kidnapping Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. So did Ryan Ribner FIRST when assaulting David Huerta, then spying some more on SEIU.

emptywheel.net/2026/09/29/a...

emptywheel.netAfter Assaulting David Huerta and Then Lying about It, Ryan Ribner Lied So He Could Spy on SEIU - emptywheelHSI Agent Ryan Ribner has been lying again.
@jonesmurphy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy

During my 6 years living in Rome, I learned that there's never been any Columbus Day in Italy. Every time his name came up, Italians were shocked that there's a Columbus Day in the US. They overwhelmingly know FAR more about Columbus than Americans do, including Italian-Americans. It was similar […]

@2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gyReposted by @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy

The Portadown #OrangeOrder is insane.

A hate gang has been banned from marching from #Drumcree through a community of the people who they hate.

There is no basis for any claim of urgency. This is a march about a battle in the year 1690. There is no topical issue here. If the ban was overturned […]

@cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gyReposted by @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy

Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv data centers Russia's Yandex bot traffic was nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers […]

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