Always remember, kids: "Postmodernism", never "post modernism"

the problem with playing both dwarf fortress and rimworld is that each makes you really feel the limits of the other

there are two kinds of people: people who shitpost in proximity chat and people who have reflexively turned off all in-game voice comms immediately upon first launch in every game for the last 15 years

"Justice is labeled as harsh" from the people who screamed bloody murder about one podcaster they didn't even like bleeding out lol

Rereading Lord of the Rings for the first time in oh god I did the math TWENTY YEARS

PAIN THRESHOLD - Dance till you drop. Dance till you die, if you must.

Judging by TikTok I fear the zoomers may be reinventing Neutral Milk Hotel from first principles

I feel the need to say that the overwhelming majority of San Francisco are *not* in the middle of what sounds like some kind of psychological breakdown

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

One reason we need to stake out the maximalist position on what happens to ICE agents & Trump officials afterwards both loudly and often is that it's morally correct, but another is to make it clear to political opportunists that "we must look forward, not backward" shit will end their careers

[watching my profession lose the public's trust after its most prominent practitioners spent a decade contorting themselves to flatter fascists destroying our country] god our reporting was just too hard hitting and good, the world wasnt ready :(

when I said people were literally incapable of adjusting how they treat legacy press outlets, this kind of thing is what I meant. Yeah, the Washington Post is lying, that's its more or less open purpose these days. Treat it like you would Fox or Breitbart or whatever lying

in the kitty eugenics game ive got a cat named "Mega Satan" game rocks

made a robot write some shitty one-off python scripts for me, and I don't actually think it saved me any time BUT it definitely saved me psychic damage because I didn't have to fuck around with parsing unstructured shell command output to shove it into something less awful myself

I've gotten like four weeks of work done in the last two weeks, so I'm practicing self care by trying to wrap up work early today & then go home and try the kitty eugenics game

incoming RPCs are CANCELLED this is a CALLOUT POST the frontend is sending me requests whose deadlines are EXTREMELY PROBLEMATIC

remember, if you don't mention jury nullification they can't prove that's what you did

Selling out every possible principle to support fascists who were ~friendly to Israel~ continues to work out *exactly* as badly as the Jewish left warned it would

correct. we should’ve shot all the confederates and occupied the south for a hundred years, and we’ve been paying for it ever since

phrasing...?

He's not even a good programmer lol

if someone is saying shit like "it's lowkey biphobic that you support AOC even though she won't legalize cannibalism" or "you realize that expecting your room to have windows a luxury belief right" what you're seeing are the charged particles being shot off from polycule fission

I'm more positive on AI tools than the bluesky median, but the habits a subset of engineers using them (definitely not everybody, even among pretty heavy users, but also definitely not a *small* subset) seem to be developing really worry me

"may your clients' backoff never be randomized or exponential" - ancient SRE curse

feel like shit just want him back

daily affirmations: - everything I do will ultimately end in failure - I am inherently unlovable and unworthy of love - I am a burden on those around me - my posts are good occasionally

"Frederick Douglass wasn't literate enough to understand the Constitution" is one of the most unhinged takes I've ever seen someone post even on bluesky, the official home of posting unhinged takes

I wonder how many tons of CO2 emissions numpy is responsible for

Hbomberguy is the most "oh of course" and Scott Manley is the funniest, I think Ok wait no Northern Lion might actually be both of those

The most impressive thing about sports gambling apps is that, against all odds, they've managed to be even more viciously exploitative, manipulative, and straight up evil than small-to-medium-player-count gacha games

Research that ties together chemistry, history, and archaeology always tends to be neat, IMO. This one is about birds, to boot.

listening to I Stole an F16 again

normal game studio with a normal relationship with small arboreal creatures

Isn't this the second time they've announced that

[Olivia Rodrigo voice] god I wish that I could do that

that’s it, i’ve finally taken my best photo of all time 😅 (this chubster is an unapologetic beggar so don’t feel bad for him) 🧪🌍 #bird #birb

It's not just legal PACs, either! Remember Elon going around openly purchasing votes and then Pennsylvania being like "oh we couldn't possibly prosecute our beloved boy just for subverting democracy!"

There's this idea that 2010s progressive policies wrt labor and crime were insane activists pushing an ideological agenda contrary to evidence when what actually happened is a lot of the evidence was quite *favorable* to progressive policies

"we don't want politics at our celebration of an internationalist political order"

Time to go to work in the shit factory!

retvrn to LLMs being a bizarre and fascinating mathematical curiosity rather than a mechanism for billionaires to drive themselves insane and try to replace all labor with their private capital

Honestly one of the reasons (some) LLMs can (sometimes) produce good-enough code is just that, like, the bar for "good enough" is clearly very low given how buggy and awful a lot of actively-used human-written code is

This is the power of user interviews and extensive user testing across the spectrum of experience levels. Git never went through this process

It's gotten lost in the (much more important) fight to try to slow anthropogenic climate change, but intellectually it *is* interesting that the climate we're in right now ("icehouse earth", glaciers etc) is actually pretty unusual: only about 15% of Earth's history has been spent in icehouse states

jj is super powerful if you need it, but tbh I think the pitch is even stronger for non-power users. In 6 months of regular use I've never needed to consult the Deep Tomes to unfuck a repo, and the only time I ended up remotely off the happy path it was a limitation of the underlying VCS, not jj

Hello all, my big fat stupid motorcycle that I love has racked up a $2000 vet bill, but since FanFest season is rapidly approaching I figure I can cushion a bit of the blow by perhaps doing art for folks looking to get stickers & stuff made, I set up a commissions page over at ko-fi.com/coelasquid