Literally holding back tears 🥹

I wish the Rails community all the best in the effort to move on from DHH. But as someone who’s been in open source software before and seen the drama, I say this in all sincerity: sometimes you need to move on from the software too.

Debate can be highly effective as an academic tool, but debating fundamentalists is not the most effective way to engage fundamentalism.

"If you are trans, a migrant, black, overweight, childless, have ADHD, then in DHH’s view you are somehow inferior. Instead of raising up and supporting the marginalised and vulnerable, DHH choses to exclude and punch down. This is not something the Ruby community can continue to simply ignore." 🎯

Happy Earth, Wind, and Fire Day!

If you didn’t grow up in Evangelical Christianity, allow me to explain why this is such a big deal. It constantly teaches you “the heart is deceitful, above all things” (i.e. never trust your instincts). You start ignoring warning signs. It’s self-reinforcing.

This post goes out to anyone out there who needs it. If you’re dreading going to church tomorrow morning, anticipating your pastor doing theological gymnastics to defend far-right politics, you don’t have to go. You don’t have to go this week. You don’t have to go next week. Or ever again.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

"how can you get more accurate answers" from an LLM? that's like asking "how can you get more love from a prostitute." that's just not the service provided. — Thomas' words of wisdom

“It’s not basic to love a season, it’s pagan!” 🍻

One of my books is on the list. In my case, $3k for info that went out of date almost 15 years ago now is a payday! (Yes, I realize that’s not the case for everyone though.)

Why are they called agnostics when "Graytheist" is right there?

The LinkedIn spam has gotten pretty spammy today. Got two messages about the same role, one from someone overseas. Then another overseas message for a role hybrid two days in Detroit (-2hrs drive each way). If you’re not requiring your recruiters to be in office, why should I drive to one?

ICE horror is a perfect analogy for US policing being *systemic racism*, not interpersonal racism. It also illustrates what some cops mean when they say that *You civilians are way more racist than us cops!*. The cops don't have the vocab to express the point. But they are right. Let me explain.

Military theatre at L’Enfant Plaza in DC this morning. I’m not 100% sure, but these mini soldiers didn’t make me feel any safer.

Maybe we could cover a lane with awnings, call it a tunnel, spray paint “TESLA” on the front of buses, and that will get us funding for transit.

Coding agents aren't like juniors, they are like Amelia Bedelia

“We never stop being your parents” <— actual quote that homeschooled kids hear all the time.

“Hackathons”

I’ve been on @therubyrep.bsky.social produced podcasts before and have never sounded better! Highly recommend.

Just passed a group of people and one of them said “you disagree?” I had to exercise so much restraint to not say “well that’s on you.”

It's frustrating how often people still think this extremely fringe and that there are only a handful of people who believe it. This was taught in my family's megachurch with thousands of members, and there are plenty of other American churches like that. Listen to exvangelicals.

We need to talk more about how expensive everything is while our governments waste tax money on things that directly drive up the cost of living. Concentration camps, moving unhoused populations, and tariffs increase the cost of food, energy, fuel, and, in turn, all the services around them.

Barrel Man Geyserville, California. Y'know, with just a few clicks of your mouse, we could make Barrel Man a Bluesky sensation. In these troubled times, let us bring the joy of Barrel Man into everyone's lives.

Overdue for a proper Bluesky intro post, here it is…

Every Friday afternoon at church in too-small Sunday School chairs

Random piece of advice to tuck in the back of your mind: If you’re running a nonprofit or a small biz and decide to (for whatever the reason) change the name, I’m begging you to KEEP YOUR DOMAIN AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES.

Furthest I've been: (From a USA standpoint/perspective) N: Anchorage, Alaska, USA E: Davao City, Davao del Sur, Philippines S: Davao City, Davao del Sur, Philippines W: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

This is the perfect explanation 💯💯💯

The misuse and abuse of the word grooming is sadly yet one more example—the evangelical obsession with breaking children’s wills is another—of how many conservatives couldn’t care less about protecting children from actual grooming by child predators.

A man turned a potential job lead into harassment. Then strangers blamed me for it. So I wrote it all down. This one’s for every woman who’s been told to stay quiet. I won’t. Read the full story here: exhotmess.net?p=271 #MeToo #LinkedIn #Harassment #Boundaries

Also: “I’m about to play this song, yes, but I don’t want it in my algo”

Had to pick the ones in local exchanges so you didn’t get billed for “local long-distance.”

Read the thread, this one’s good!

the existence of "sub agents" implies the existence of "dom agents" docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/clau...

Poppi: only 5g of sugar, farts for hours

If you've understood this thread so far, you will see that the rate of calls to 911 from undocumented people is going to go down. Then the murder rate amongst undocumented people, is going to go up. By their actions, cops have *increased* the murder rate amongst a population.🤦🏿‍♂️

Fantastic post! Some sorely needed “science” in “computer science.” I added some of my thoughts to a comment; will share below as well.

If you don’t give humans write access to prod databases why the hell would you let an AI agent? Asking for an industry. #dataBS

I'm just having fun

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Finally got a Bluesky going for Pink Wallet. If you’re in West Michigan, follow along! #WestMichigan #GrandRapids #Kalamazoo

@nebula.tv has created a whole pipeline of quirked up white boys on trains. - @thewheatgerm.bsky.social 💀💀💀

This. I grew up homeschooled. I was 10 years old when I went to an anti-abortion march with my dad. This has all been in the works for a long, long time. There’s no anti-abortion, voucher-peddling politician skeezy enough that evangelicals wouldn’t vote for.

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

If you’ve ever asked yourself “how could a cybertruck be worse,” I have quite the answer for you.

every democrat could do this sort of video for their districts.

I’ve decided my iPad is for my purse. And by “purse”, I currently mean my bobo canvas bag promoting Independent Bookstore Day. Maybe I’ll get a real purse someday?