Well I’m so glad you asked!!

You’re looking at one in the screenshot. Firefox does this, as does Chrome and some other browsers as well.

A bookmark keyword is a tiny bit of text that you can configure your browser to treat differently when you use it in the location bar.

Typically, whatever you type into the browser location bar will either treat that text like a website you’re trying to go to (like “apnews.com” or “ www.wikipedia.org ”) or text that gets sent to a search engine (like “tasty dinner ideas” or “best white socks”). However, if the text you enter starts with a bookmark keyword you’ve set up, the browser will insert the rest of the text you entered into a website address in a specified place.

This is typically useful to speed up searching on specific websites.

So if you want to search Wikipedia for “particle physics”, you can go to the Wikipedia website and enter “particle physics” into the search box and click the search button. That would send you to a page with search results of the text you entered. If you look at the location bar, you should see a URL that looks like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=particle+physics

What we notice here is that the text you entered, “particle physics” is right there in the URL.

To turn this into a bookmark keyword, you create a bookmark to this search results page, then replace your search term with the characters “%s”, so the bookmark URL would look like so:

Then, in the “keyword” box, you can enter whatever text you want to use for this shortcut. For Wikipedia, I like using just the letter ‘w’. (You don’t need quotes around it.) Save the bookmark, and that’s it.

Now, whenever you want to search Wikipedia, all you have to do is type “w particle physics” or “w forest fires” or “w whatever” into the location bar and the browser will take you directly to the search page with those results.

You can do this with basically any website with search functionality: search engines, retail stores, news, IMDb, reference resources, whatever.

This feature also can be used for going to detail pages directly if you have a specific reference number.

So let’s say you’re at work and you have a trouble ticketing system that shows details of ongoing issues. The URL for ticket number q-rt-654321 might look like this:

https://troubletickets.mycompanyfoo.biz/ticket/q-rt-654321/view

So if you had the ticket number handy (like from an email chain), you could create a bookmark keyword to go directly to the ticket detail page:

https://troubletickets.mycompanyfoo.biz/ticket/%s/view

…and use the keyword “tt” for trouble ticket.

Now you can just type “tt q-rt-654321” into the location bar and go right to the detail page (presuming the ticket number is accurate).

And that’s it.

Somebody at work showed me keyword shortcuts ages ago and I have tons of them now.

Per the system we have, impeachment and removal from office for breaking the law. 16 additional senators (than what passed the resolution) would need to flip for it to matter.

Video of the speech is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERyGBr1D43U

Technical program management work ideally; it’s been a good dozen years since I developed software so those skills are rusty, but TPM work the the need for balancing risk management with pragmatism (strong alignment with control room ownership, command presence and incident stewardship) are good fits.

Got any openings for me?

Late 40s, highly skilled, trans, unemployed for 2+ years.

I’ve been down to the final candidate selection a few times now and still haven’t been selected yet.

I’ve hired plenty of people. In general, final candidates are usually all fully capable of doing the job they’re applying for. In the end, the hiring manager just gets to pick the one they want to work with most.

I feel like when hiring managers look at me, all they see are problems and risks. Time consuming HR meetings, extra effort making sure people use the right pronouns, judgements from executive leaders who might see a middle manager not doing a good job at leaning into where the winds are headed.

I wonder, even if I spend 3 more years on a secondary degree, whether I’ll find myself right back in same situation (talented and surrounded by cowards unwilling to hire me), but now with $200k in new student loan debt.

Cursed timeline…

Back when usb was first appearing on boards, some cases had their usb port cables broken out into individual pins that you needed to place in the correct order.

For fuck’s sake people…

Here’s the ad: https://www.adforum.com/creative-work/ad/player/34728882/its-the-most-terrible-time-of-the-year/mcdonalds

Watchmen (2009)

me receiving all those guys nudes

Let me be as clear as I can be.

Trump, a figure visibly and egregiously unfit for the role of leading the nation, was elected by Americans, twice, fair and square by the rules we’ve set for ourselves. But he’s just a figurehead.

Press “freedom” has been hacked by monied interests to capture the minds of a vast margin of the American voting public and brainwash them into distrusting any media but their own, which has taught them to believe lies, parrot talking points and armed them with thought-collapsing rhetoric to disrupt anyone who might help unfuck their poisoned brains. All this has been going on for decades, but the internet really just helped tie it all together, providing the perfect echo chamber that no one ever has to leave.

The net result is a captured government focused on destroying their greatest weakness: agents and sources of truth. Massive media consolidation destroys the national news-gathering apparatus and controls the entertainment diet to restrict subversive content, and the implosion of the department of education ensures more and more future adults will grow up never having had the benefit of a robust education.

So are we fucked? Maybe. But bumping off politicians isn’t the answer.

They are “certificates of authenticity”, a joke on the NFT ownership craze of a while back.

I couldn’t find any photos of them tho.

So’s the haircut.

Ain’t no rule!

Ok, emails mostly. I have received a few letters though! Public service employers can be old fashioned that way.

I think he can write whatever unenforceable executive orders he wants. Enforcing them could be illegal, which would make them unenforceable executive orders.

Nothing quite crushes the soul like customizing a resume and cover letter for a job at a company, getting turned down via form letter, then see that same job listing posted a week or two later.

Except having every company in town do it to you.

For over two years.

If I ever have to sit thru another debate over what a monad is, it will be too soon.

This is precisely what the fascists want. They want people rioting so they can take pictures of cities on fire and use it as justification to escalate.

Mass action: yes. But people need to be smart about it.

General strike. Hunger strike.