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"Me: ok, that’s the last straw My manager at the straw mine: great job, let’s head..."

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:05:03 -0700

“

Me: ok, that’s the last straw

My manager at the straw mine: great job, let’s head back

”

- the hype (@thehyyyype.bsky.social)

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:23:42 -0700

"boss to a human employee when they make a mistake: you’re fired boss to a computer when it..."

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:13:15 -0700

“boss to a human employee when they make a mistake: you’re fired
boss to a computer when it makes a mistake: you are a delicate flower capable of love”

- daddy gatorade (@trepanation.bsky.social)

"Integrating blüuümpii into my enterprise was effortless. Mostly because it just appeared on our..."

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:05:04 -0700

“Integrating blüuümpii into my enterprise was effortless. Mostly because it just appeared on our systems after barb clicked an ad for it. But everyone is using it now on all devices. I’m assuming this is wildly profitable for us because it says so very loudly every 6 minutes.”

- Bobson Dugnut (@mrworldwideweb.bsky.social)

"As a Service Design lead, I can’t tell you how much my team loves integrating blüuümpíi into..."

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:04:26 -0700

“As a Service Design lead, I can’t tell you how much my team loves integrating blüuümpíi into our daily stand-ups 1) because we have absolutely no choice, 2) because I can’t hear my team very much at all, over blüuümpíi 3) and we fear blüuümpíi”

- Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) (@ichatterjea.bsky.social)

"Greetings! I am one of the few engineers in the country trained to understand the intricacies behind..."

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:04:01 -0700

“Greetings! I am one of the few engineers in the country trained to understand the intricacies behind the development of blüuümpíi. I understand new tech is scary. So, to help evangelize this revolutionary tool, I will make sure to belittle every person who asks a question about blüuümpíi.”

- Tommy Valdez (@thomasav.bsky.social)

"hello 👋 i have developed a new tool called blüuümpíi. blüuümpíi will convert every file on your hard..."

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:03:51 -0700

“hello 👋 i have developed a new tool called blüuümpíi. blüuümpíi will convert every file on your hard drive to a .wav file without asking you, maximize your system volume, and play them on every bluetooth speaker you have ever connected to. if you offer feedback on blüuümpíi i will take legal action”

- Jon Bois (@jonbois.bsky.social)

"have you guys heard of documentaries? they’re like youtube video essays but they’re..."

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:25:23 -0700

“have you guys heard of documentaries? they’re like youtube video essays but they’re usually 1-2 hours long instead of 4 hours long and they don’t have sponsor segments”

- nat alison (@tesseralis.site)

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Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:42:40 -0700

"CHARACTER ACTOR: [badly beaten] john I respect you as a fellow samurai. take my kris. salaam aleikum..."

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:12:40 -0700

“CHARACTER ACTOR: [badly beaten] john I respect you as a fellow samurai. take my kris. salaam aleikum john wick
JOHN WICK: [punches him unconscious in a way that makes clear he has left him alive, because of mutual respect]”

- November Kelly (@postoctobrist.bsky.social)

"LAURENCE FISHBURNE: im the king of all of the rats. every hobo works for me. i’m hobo god. I run..."

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:12:30 -0700

“LAURENCE FISHBURNE: im the king of all of the rats. every hobo works for me. i’m hobo god. I run hobo new york. now you come to me for hobo favours
JOHN WICK: [nods]
LAURENCE FISHBURNE: [laughs uproariously]”

- November Kelly (@postoctobrist.bsky.social)

"JOHN WICK: [shoots fifty dudes] WINSTON: jonathan you’re expelliarmus. I have no choice but to..."

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:12:01 -0700

“JOHN WICK: [shoots fifty dudes]
WINSTON: jonathan you’re expelliarmus. I have no choice but to instigato you to the syndicaticus
HOT LADY: thats right
[she tries to kill John Wick]”

- November Kelly (@postoctobrist.bsky.social)

"Me to an Ancient Roman: Yeah this is a digital computer What the Roman hears: This is a guy who..."

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:00:25 -0700

“Me to an Ancient Roman: Yeah this is a digital computer

What the Roman hears: This is a guy who counts with his fingers”

- Wylfċen (@wylfcen)

"(Me): so, we create this “virtual memory” to trick processes into thinking they have a..."

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:11:45 -0700

“(Me): so, we create this “virtual memory” to trick processes into thinking they have a contiguous address layout

(Medieval peasant): Would not thy abstraction swell the tally of mem'ry lookups?

(Me): well, yes. to deal with that we created the “translation lookaside buffer””

- tomie (@tomieinlove)

"In that passage, Lorde is simultaneously “far smarter than I am about nearly everything”..."

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:37:59 -0700

“

In that passage, Lorde is simultaneously “far smarter than I am about nearly everything” and also wrong about the thing that matters for the argument at hand. The invocation and the dismissal occur in the same breath.

This is, structurally, a version of what Lorde was diagnosing in 1979.

”

- On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: “The Master’s Tools” in Tech Discourse

Attached: 1 image the thought “coffee is tea”...

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:44:01 -0700

Attached: 1 image

the thought “coffee is tea” entered my head unbidden and i had to make the whole alignment chart in order to banish it — @▽ some dragns (@chr@scalie.business)

" What’s something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that..."

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:26:20 -0700

“

What’s something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a “hot take” among the general public?

If something has an 80% chance of succeeding, it should succeed about 80% of the time, give or take.

”

- Mike Cook (@mtrc.bsky.social)

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Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:49:34 -0700

whatever man Sure let me login with wetdry world who gives a...

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:51:06 -0700

whatever man Sure let me login with wetdry world who gives a shit — Niko (@gayfamicom.lol)

"My new hobby: operating half a dozen fake github repos full of textbook heisenbug implementations in..."

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:13:00 -0700

“My new hobby: operating half a dozen fake github repos full of textbook heisenbug implementations in popular languages and not opting out of their compulsory code theft”

- @Rob Isaac (@rmi@cloudisland.nz)