Former Network Engineer, JNCIE-ENT #368; Employer: @Oracle (ex @Twitter, @Brocade and @JuniperNetworks). Tweets are my own: 1/3 Tech 1/3 Music 1/3 ShitPoss

Joined September 2010
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Way to go #Samoa7s !!! So proud of you boys! Can’t wait to see you in Feb in LA!
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Pretty wild right? You might even say it took some “hardcore” engineering to produce. And that was looooong before November 1st!
4 Dec 2022
Pretty wild that you can engage in back-and-forth dialogue with over 100k people live on Twitter Spaces!
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Guys, The day finally came! I’m in Mexico and we went out for dinner and I was finally in a position to use the only phrase my meager attempts at @duolingo has prepared me for! And you should know that I did indeed obtain una mesa para dos personas! /cc @NikkiMegaplaza
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Kurt Bales (@kwbales@mastodon.social) retweeted
Ok but they’re fun, fabulous, and fir-ocious?
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Twitter has ALWAYS upset people on both sides. In fact when I used to work there I would say almost this same thing. Unfortunately some people only see it from their side and think they are being unfairly treated. It shouldn’t cost you $44bn to realize that!
2 Dec 2022
You know Twitter is being fair when extremists on far right and far left are simultaneously upset! Twitter aims to serve center 80% of people, who wish to learn, laugh & engage in reasoned debate. ❤️
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Kurt Bales (@kwbales@mastodon.social) retweeted
This made me laugh so hard and I don't know why
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Paging @igb : this was out the front of our house this morning. I think it’s a red shouldered hawk. Thoughts?
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19 Nov 2022
I wonder if she wanders around the shop floor doing spot checks of nut torques. Or maybe she has people print out pictures of their best 10 welds over the last 6 months for review
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Kurt Bales (@kwbales@mastodon.social) retweeted
My books looking at me as twitter burns to the ground
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A 🧵 in which my bestie just takes the gloves off and answers the most inane question I’ve seen repeated over and over again this past few weeks! Next round is on me when you get back Bud 🥃
It's time for a thread on why Twitter hasn't gone down yet 🧵
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Now that the weather is cooling down, it’s finally time to pull out the slow cooker and prepare my first batch of beef stew for the season! I used to hate this as a kid, but over time I learned it was a perfect winter meal, and have slowly been modifying my mum’s recipe.
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But the real secret ingredient was the thing I hated most as a kid - Pearl Barely! That sucker gets into all the gaps between the other ingredients and really bulls up, absorbing the other flavors on the process!
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Now for the first test!
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That’s it. That’s the game ending folks!
Adios!
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Kurt Bales (@kwbales@mastodon.social) retweeted
Any time there’s any nepotism discourse, I do unfortunately feel the need to revisit Brooklyn Beckham’s photography book
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Kurt Bales (@kwbales@mastodon.social) retweeted
Time to get this trending #WeWereTwitter
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I can say without any hesitation, hyperbole or prejudice, that Yao is probably the greatest software engineer I have ever met, and am likely to work with. We sat across from each other for almost a year, and I learned something new every time we chatted.
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Kurt Bales (@kwbales@mastodon.social) retweeted
The 2022 midterms in a gif.

ALT Mitch Mcconnell Senate GIF by GIPHY News

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