Ændrew Rininsland @aendrew@4estate.media
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Still the longest hair in journalism.
Visual journalist at Financial Times, admin of 4estate.media. Really rather leftist. Very sweary. Opinions are mine alone and most certainly don't reflect my employer. 18+ please.
Joined Aug 2018
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Please excuse me while I follow all the rockstars I already follow on all my other accounts
Ændrew Rininsland
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I'm about to do a Reddit AMA about BlueLeaks, the 269gb hack of police data, with Mara Hvistendahl from The Intercept. We've been digging into the data and reporting on it -- ask any questions you have! https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/i3nnup/were_an_investigative_reporter_and_the_director/
Ændrew Rininsland
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I'm quoted because of this blog post I wrote a while back: https://nolanlawson.com/2017/03/05/what-it-feels-like-to-be-an-open-source-maintainer/
In case anyone's wondering, I feel a lot less stressed now about OSS development. My main strategy was:
- divest myself of open-source projects I neither had the passion nor time to maintain anymore (PouchDB and associated plugins; I created a pouchdb-community org to manage it)
- set up email filter rules for GitHub notifications, categorizing by org. I hard-ignore repos I don't care about
- doing less OSS 😕
Ændrew Rininsland
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Our CEO just referred to SaaS as "Software as a hostage" and I think that's pretty spot on.
Ændrew Rininsland
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imagine being able to hack all those Twitter accounts and not using it as an opportunity to speak with a hundred mouths all chanting the name of the coming of the Queen of All Doom, the Many Voiced, the Bearer of Soft Release, the Frozen Teeth Eternal, so all may know her and tremble at her approach?
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha god what's happening on Hellsite right now is just pure... *chef's kiss*
ukpol; Sunak statement
So seriously tho — encouraging people to eat out, and a tax break for people buying property. WHAT A STIMULUS. 🤦🏼♀️
Fuck the Tories, what a bunch of totally useless shits.
moa.party is busted so I've revoked its ability to crosspost to Twitter — which, happily, coincides with me abandoning Twitter in general.
The upside is now I can be as ungodly political as I want here. This account will be for news and leftist ranting, @aendrew@mastodon.social will be for general-purpose shitposting.
I'll always CW news/politics from this account, but given it'll be mostly that, please just straight-up block this account if news/politics aren't your jam, I'll understand. 
Ændrew Rininsland
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The first rule of coronavirus club is you do not talk about coronavirus club because everyone gets pissed off at absolutely everything anyone says about it
Ændrew Rininsland
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Converted the #webgl flight paths animation I made for @benmarinojourno@twitter.com's fascinating video into an @observablehq@twitter.com notebook 👉 https://observablehq.com/@davidbjourno/chinas-coronavirus-aviation-shutdown-animated I know we only care about line charts now but anyway there it is
Nobody:
Malta DJs: What if... We mixed Justin Timberlake... With Kings of Leon... 🤔🤔🤔🤔
My week has been shit but oh my god is this good https://twitter.com/zdfs/status/1238658851664097291
RT @stupidoldandy@twitter.activitypub.actor
Oh, so when other ppl call their pets "fur baby" its fine but when I call a kid a "skin dog" somehow I'm "disgusting" and "the worst pediatrician in this hospital"??
RT @JakeOnOrbit@twitter.activitypub.actor
@sarah_edo@twitter.com
If the world ends right after I quit smoking Imma be really fucking pissed.
RT @Blackamazon
Stop . Retweeting things without citation even from folk you trust. Hell if I do it chin check me . It’s not smart
Me, an alcoholic: Chartreuse kinda looks like hand sanitizer... 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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RT @CFodorKCCI
TSA now allowing 12 ounce bottles of hand sanitizer in your carry-on. @KCCINews
https://twitter.com/CFodorKCCI/status/1238597065602732032
RT @MikeBrooks668
A friend of mine on FB typo’d and wrote “nopefully” which I propose we immediately adopt as shorthand for “I do not want that to happen”.
God this must be @Flight_Refunds@twitter.com' Super Bowl rn...
RT @znjp@twitter.activitypub.actor
so the 9 and 7yo have no school for a month and I wanna try teaching them to code
Suggestions?
ive got ideas but what’s been the best for you?
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Still the longest hair in journalism.
Visual journalist at Financial Times, admin of 4estate.media. Really rather leftist. Very sweary. Opinions are mine alone and most certainly don't reflect my employer. 18+ please.
Joined Aug 2018
