Every good programmer I know has been saying this to me for months; meanwhile every not-great programmer I know has been trying to outsource their work to ai, causing more issues/delays than they if did it themselves. A lot of these tools only seem good to people who are not great at their jobs.

bursting through the front door of my house, my wife and kids cry out to ask where i've been for weeks, i stride right past them towards my computer, open chatgpt, my eyes-roll back and my fingers type: "you are very smart computer do NOT make errors"

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

Let us hope that they are merely stupid, rather than this being an attempt to consolidate power and demand the military swear personal allegiance to Trump rather than to the US and its constitution.

CW: discussion of slutty outfits How does a butch/masc lesbian dress sluttily? Best I can come up with is a cut-off pair of cotton drill work pants, the kind that have the loops in them to hold hammers and other tools and stuff, but in the loops you have dildos instead

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

everyone go home fediverse, we did it, this is the most transfemme post imaginable https://chaos.social/@ErinRose/112995536729712130

This protest isn’t scheduled to start for two hours yet and there are already TWO sets of TV reporters and camera crews here setting up their shots. Melbourne has protests every single weekend and few if any get this level of media attention. No media setting up at the Gaza rally location.

maybe we shouldn't run "neo-nazi does [anything]" as the top story on national news websites unless it's meaningfully newsworthy/impactful? these are people who want to exterminate australians + are actively trying to get attention. we can't treat them as normal political players

The first story I did for Crikey back in 2021 was reporting on a leaked neo-nazi manual showing how "media baiting" — aka tricking journalists into writing about them — was a major strategy for them. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Kids today are always staring at their phones instead of acknowledging my loud and disruptive pterodactyl noises

Silly puppy

I wonder which of the world’s airports has the most WHSmiths? Or the highest WHSmith-to-gate ratio?

I want a witch to come along and turn me into a dog, thus freeing me from the burden of complex thought

Doggust Day 18: Tornjak. An expert on their way to a conference. #doggust #doggust2025

Golang waiter, opening a bottle of Function Result: "Would sir care to test if err is nil?"

I've seen folks compare it to the abstractions around like compilers, higher level languages, etc. and that metaphor makes sense to me. Comparing it to human collaboration is so dehumanizing. I guess you're saying that some humans see their coworkers the same as robots, but man is that bleak.

NEW: I spoke to SJ Joslin, a park ranger and wildlife biologist who was fired by Yosemite National Park last week for helping to raise a transgender pride flag on the park's iconic El Capitan rock face. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

Once upon a time I worked at a place where the CEO, who had an office with a door and windows, packed all the rank and file workers into a windowless open room because it was good for “collaboration” and “productivity” When asked if he’d be joining us, he refused. “I couldn’t get anything done!”

"MSNBC is changing its name to My Source News Opinion World, or MS NOW, for short." Man, they must've really rushed that rebrand. "This was not a decision that was made quickly" Oh.

sometimes it makes sense to say “well, what were you expecting? the label…” and it sort of does in this case too until you consider that there is far more value in anything that impedes the sale of raw milk products than there is in correctly apportioning blame via snide internet commentary

rfk jr. publicly brags about drinking it! yes, he's an evil idiot, but our standard of legal responsibility can't be "when the government told you it was safe to do this thing you should have known they were just a bunch of evil gormless eugenicist scam guys lying to you"

sometimes plaintiffs are not individually the ideal (whistleblowers are frequently cranks!), you're not going to have a regulator in Florida doing anything about this, or HHS, quite the contrary, though, so you're stuck with the subset of people who actually buy it in order to have standing.

Raw milk lady already suffered more than any of us can imagine, and if she can get a dairy selling this in human stores and the stores that sell it on the hook for a judgment that makes the industry uninsurable, that's worth more than posting about how you personally drink regular milk only.

Had an event planning meeting this morning, and I gotta say: it's a damn shame the UK has ruled itself out as a host country for anyone who wants to run a trans-inclusive event.

trans americans who had hope back in 2013-2019 trying to adjust our expectations

IRS: a $4000 cinema camera? me: um,, yes sir IRS: As far as we can tell, you don't work in cinema, and your YouTube videos are digitally animated. Our file here says you're a game developer me: me [carefully sliding over my phone]: this is Sigge please l;ook at him he's so important 😭❤️

Reminds me of that old joke: "She's a 10... but she's a 6, but she's an 8, but she just wants to buy pants online, damnit!"

water ranked Australia's most wet thing https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/12/last-call-melbourne-airport-ranked-australias-least-convenient

double letters in bra cup sizes should not exist, especially when you can't decide whether it takes the place of the next letter. like why do some bra sizing systems go D, DD, F, FF, G‽ Why does it go from DD straight to F but FF is followed by G instead of going straight to H‽

what the hell is this button

you stand strong for trans people and against every bit of terf bullshit out there so you can say Absolutely not. We don't compromise. That's a fucking 18 year old in there and she's not going to show you her fucking tits at a Buffalo Wild Wings to use the bathroom.

trying to start a trend of referring to digital as vegan photography

Apparently there is a new Air Bud film coming out in 2026, and I desperately want the plot of the film to be that there now *is* a rule that says that a dog can’t play basketball, and one of Buddy’s pups tries to become the President of FIBA in order to change the Rules of Basketball back to how

Hi we literally have ZERO control over what ads play when we post videos or stream. Your anger is valid, i'm angry too, but do NOT blame creators for this. If anyone sees any ICE ads on any of my content report that shit, but know that I'm not in control of what ads YouTube or Twitch put on.

Trams on Bourke St Mall: 10km/h Street sweepers on Bourke St Mall: no gods no masters I’m gonna redline this little motherfucker

me, sighing as I tick the "keep me signed in" checkbox on my work's single sign on portal: "a girl can dream"

you know the code is Good™︎ when there is a function called foo() and another function defined immediately beneath it called actual_foo()

As someone who exclusively dates other autistic people, there is nothing more beautiful than listening to someone you love infodumping about their special interests

Los Angeles Public Library vibe check

Focusing on giving aid/time/effort into one thing doesn’t mean that you care less about others, but it does mean you’ll have more energy and resources to do the work.

so @oriana.bsky.social confirmed sarah mcbride played an integral role behind the scenes in stopping the medicaid care ban thanks to a flood of calls and emails, she and a handful of cis allies in congress were able to get the momentum to strategize and stop the worst www.notus.org/congress/dem...

After issuing his rulings, Judge Young has some absolutely stark words for the Trump administration. "This represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America's LGBTQ community. That's what this is. I would be blind to not to call it out. My duty is to call it out."