Platform Engineer - he/him
Joined October 2019
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25 Feb 2023
imagine if the UK government brought in a law saying postal companies had to review every letter before delivering them
that's what they're proposing for online messaging with the ironically named 'Online Safety Bill'
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6 Dec 2022
embarrassed by the fact our major political parties have so little tech literacy and so much contempt for the public that they can openly say they want to 'ban VPNs' to 'protect the children' with a straight face, not knowing what VPNs are or what they're actually used for
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UK government inaction over monkeypox - like the reluctance to provide PrEP - proves that queers are only tolerated in ways that render us 'productive' and gloss the state. any demand for support shatters this veneer and marks us out as parasitic. tolerance is fragile.
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21 Jul 2022
friendly reminder, as Azure SQL Server is unavailable for its fifth hour, that an SLA of 99.995% means an annual downtime of less than 26mins 17seconds per YEAR
30 May 2022
Azure down in North & West Europe? Seeing thousands of 5XX errors but the status page is all green?
27 May 2022
the hardest part of my job is working with people who are not just non-technical but catagorically technically illiterate
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27 May 2022
and I do not have sympathy for them - you've worked at this SOFTWARE company longer than I've been alive and chose not to learn anything 💀
29 Nov 2021
finally reached the stage of tech employment where you go "who did this" only to find out it was you
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7 Oct 2021
“Impartial on LGBTQ lives” is so blackly sinister I don’t know whether to laugh or to scream.
Exclusive: The BBC is expected to quit Stonewall’s LGBTQ diversity programme.
LGBTQ staff at the BBC told me they are “super scared” by the implications of the decision, and they hope managers will change their minds…
vice.com/en/article/akgxm5/b…
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22 Apr 2021
if Azure Portal doesn't hurry up I'm migrating the whole company to AWS 😡😡
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19 Mar 2021
could really do with hiring someone full-time to continue my side projects when I forget about them
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