Just occurred to me reading this how reminiscent it is of the way the young guys used language in a clockwork orange, Anthony Burgess was onto something eh www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Are we finally seeing the demise of the idea that working class socialists are elderly white flat cap wearing men who keep pigeons or whatever the fuck relic from the ancient past centrists have been clinging to

Oh no that unfamiliar feeling of hope lol, last time I felt it was during the independence referendum.. is this it, is something actually shifting here 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

So cool how we only get two seasons here now, summer and winter, except winter lasts 17 years each time

So grateful I worked service jobs when you could basically tell people to fuck off

for folks who are active on x, threads, etc and feel bad about it bc of its stewards but have a hard time letting go: sometimes your behaviors overpower your values online because tech companies hire psychologists & sociologists to come up with ways to put you in that position

the more I think about this the more I can’t plausibly forecast “LLMs destroy the software labor market” here are my bonafides: I’ve been using LLM support for software development since 2023, I started by getting help with C++, which wasn’t worth learning at the level of detail I briefly needed

So excited for this, Nae Pasaran was amazing too, sign me up for whatever Felipe Bustos Sierra does next 🙏🏻

Whenever someone feels compelled to make me spend social time with a middle class person they always seem to feel the need to give me a review and idk what the fuck that is but I don't want it anywhere near my evenings out

Why if it isn't natural hair colour eradication day

Samuel Beckett energy ♥️

Obviously I wouldn't have the necessary surveillance equipment in my home but if it was possible in a non creepy way I'd rig up a system to play the appropriate incidental music from the Golden Girls at relevant life moments

"is there a technology the left are actually excited about?"

The royals trying to contain the splatter as if child abuse isn't a core part of their culture

Dosette boxes are advent calendars for pensioners

The criterion closet but for crisps

February late afternoons in Glasgow, on the occasion that it isn't fucking raining

Four years ago I was waiting for cancer surgery, it only happened one year out of almost half a fucking century I've been here and yet now it somehow defines this time of the year 🙃

Most of my irl friends are in or around their fifties and this weird as fuck thing happens where they get really into nostalgia but it's like, not even nostalgia for their own history so much as a version of the past for folk our parents age.. It's weird as fuck and I don't care for it

I swear to actual fuck this appeared on linkedin right under a lassie posting about having terminal cancer

I refuse to believe a computer could ever be as petty as I am

The tension between your reality and the one your parents grew up in just keeps increasing as you get older eh

Reading your posts

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Why do you think that happened?"

Saw this stay puft bibendum guinness nightmare on a billboard earlier

This is why if I lost access to all social media and streaming services I could survive on the glasgow reddit alone www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/s/...

In any case, describing precisely what you want in software *is* programming, and the best way to acquire that skill is by learning to write code, it's actually harder to do that in English than in a high level programming language for systems beyond minimal complexity.

The absolute best thing about being middle aged is that you become more patronising than you could ever have imagined

Found myself wondering what JG Ballard would have made of LLMs and apparently I'm not alone theconversation.com/novelist-j-g...

Getting almost as good at buying domains I don't use as I am at buying books I don't read 💪🏻

This thing in the ai coding ecosystem where there seems to be a new model or tool every three and a half minutes and it somehow changes everything, I'm afraid I simply could not be fucked paying that much attention to technology

lolll tv shows on amazon prime now have ads with a popup to add the thing to your basket 💀

I don't believe in god but the absolute worst things I say come after "god forgive me"

Sigh, this isn't saying AI makes people stupid, bad at their jobs, or worse at coding for fuck sake. It's saying we need to be intentional about active learning when it comes to acquiring the skills we still need, and that overreliance on AI tools compromises that.

Well if Anthropic is saying it maybe I can stop arguing with folk on LinkedIn about it lol "In an AI-augmented workplace, productivity gains matter, but so does the long-term development of the expertise those gains depend on." www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

BREAKING: WIN 🏳️‍⚧️ 💥 The High Court just refused Sex Matters' permission to ban trans women from the Hampstead ponds. We're relieved that the ponds can remain a place where trans people have always belonged. Thank you to the all the people that pushed back against division.

Can't get divorced early if you don't marry early, great thinking ahead here 👍🏻

Once again if you actually want to learn about AI, the free Raspberry Pi Foundation resources are a fantastic intro for kids that I thoroughly recommend for adults too, and I can guarantee they're better than anything fucking Accenture has come up with experience-ai.org/en/units/fou...

A lot of people wanted to argue with me about Alex Pretti. You know what no one said to me today? "Who is Alex Pretti and what happened to him?" You already know. Now find out how many people you recognize from this list. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

again, solidarity with minneapolis. I think we need to start learning some lessons while we can. there can’t be any quarter for the people who would do this or allow it to be done. reform, e.g., need to be physically challenged and removed wherever they appear

While I'm not a huge fan of semantic arguments, I think it would benefit us to put some effort into disambiguating a few topics relative to LLMs and coding: * productive struggle vs protestant work ethic * programming abstractions vs code generation * enablement vs empowerment

I've spent a lot of time over the last couple of years thinking about LLMs and developer learning, no one knows exactly what's going to happen, but I think we're in a decent spot to talk about which skills are going to be valuable and how we'll help folk to acquire them, next month in Zurich. ⬇️

Dr. King suffered many bouts of severe depression. His autopsy found that he had a heart consistent with a 60 year old. He was murdered at 39. Stress, threats and exhaustion will do that to a person. #TheUnSanitizedKing

Nothing will make you yearn for a return to soft focus like seeing scottish football pundits on a big screen telly

Got three job rejections in one day so: I am asking for help finding a new full-stack web development job. My website/portfolio is available at casey.kolderup.org. I'm a great team member and I've worked at small startups and medium-sized companies with success working across teams and disciplines.

Some years ago I went on holiday to Madeira, a fancy hotel spa had a thing called a "scottish shower" in it, we were like fucks this shite, went in, freezing cold water sprayed horizontally into your face, fair enough

🤷🏿‍♂️Um... It already is a daily occurrence? There were only 6 days in 2025 that US cops *didn't* shoot a person to death. These shootings mostly happen at traffic stops. Again, some things that happen to Black people every single day, only become seen as horrific when they happen to non-Black people

I think one of the reasons the John Wick franchise is so popular with women is that a lot of guys get either kicked in the balls or bitten in the balls by dogs

It's after 5pm and there's still a wee bit of light at the edge of the sky