i will die on the hill that pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding are three of the most metal things human beings can do

If you care deeply about the Ruby programming language, open source sustainability, and community growth, here is your chance to help shape the future of the Ruby ecosystem. Accepting applications for the Board of Directors until November 21st: rubycentral.teamtailor.com/jobs/6723164...

Ruby Central has opened board applications for next year: rubycentral.teamtailor.com/jobs/6723164... I’ll be rolling off the board to have another baby and stuff, so I’d really love if you’d apply and/or share this with anyone who’s interested in being involved.

I had a long commute today and have some movie musical hot takes to share. First, movie musicals that are underrated: West Side Story (2021) The Phantom of the Opera (2024)

This is my toddler’s favorite book right now but this page freaks me out

My team built this and it’s pretty fun www.heroku.com/blog/turn-id...

headline in my inbox: "The War on Tylenol". Except that it isn't? It's a eugenicist war on pregnant people, blaming them and their medical caregivers for autism, which the eugenicists regard as a fate worse than death. Focusing on Tylenol hides that fact.

there are simply not enough delicious beverages that contain neither caffeine nor alcohol

All of this is ridiculous but it was kind of fun to see a meme be born in real time

One thing conservatives are gonna do is they’re gonna make sure pregnant people are suffering as much as possible—because, of course, they hate women and want them to suffer!

hey so tylenol is the only pain reliever considered safe during pregnancy so by saying pregnant folks shouldn’t take it (in addition to being based on dubious research) is essentially just telling them they can’t have pain relief

Sorry to everyone who has followed me recently that I am mostly retired from Posting

Freedom, another member of the Ruby Central Board, wrote this post, but it closely aligns with my feelings and experiences as well. apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-me...

And yes, I limit replies and quote tweets because I don’t want to spend all my time moderating my bluesky, feel free to screenshot and dunk on me as you see fit.

Just to be clear, Ruby Central has not taken money from DHH/Basecamp.

Hi folks, I am the president of the Ruby Central board. I don’t have time to reply to posts individually, but I do want to make clear that recent changes to permissions in our open source projects were done in collaboration with the organization’s leadership and not by one person unilaterally 🧵

An update in the case of a 21-yr-old Kentucky student charged with ‘abuse of a corpse’: The county coroner declined to answer whether the 'infant' in question was full-term despite confirming they have this info, and specified that 'infant' sometimes refers to fetuses:

if I am considering a kindle colorsoft but would rather not give (more) money to amazon… what should I do?

me ordering more labubus

She’s ready for her keynote #RailsConf

At #RailsConf! Say hi!

For the life of me I don’t understand going to the effort - time, money, everything - of running for Congress, winning, and then just rolling over. It makes no sense.

Ruby friends @valeriecodes.bsky.social @nodunayo.bsky.social at #brightruby

i dare anyone to curate a more insane fb marketplace algo than mine

since becoming a parent I want to see every single baby’s sweet little face

I mostly stay out of the AI discourse, but its invasion of wholesome hobbies really makes me sad. Every day in one of my embroidery groups someone gets duped by a weird AI-generated pattern for sale on Etsy.

After Vine and now TikTok, I’m starting to think we just don’t deserve short-form video content

I can’t explain it but this feels like a massage for my brain youtu.be/eT3BFzSD6YY?...

what are we using for our basic email lists nowadays?

Wicked screening was a success! People had a great time, it made me so happy. There were like 20 babies there.

Hosting a private babies and caregivers showing of Wicked and I’ve warned everyone in attendance that I might sing. This is my dream I am so excited

The real trap here is that the Republicans have made defending civil rights seem like a frivolous thing and a whole lot of liberals are falling in line. Even if it was a culture war, so what? This would be a war worth fighting. What are we even doing here, people? Get it together.

scream singing “defying gravity” in the car while my baby sleeps in the back seat, unbothered

listening to the wicked cast recording for the first time in 15 years to prepare to be insufferable for the next week

do you think apple is aware of the issue where if i try to use face id while holding my baby it doesn’t work because it registers the baby’s face instead

if you follow me, what are you interested to see more of from me? - ruby - postgres/db things - baby/mom stuff - silly crafts - dinosaur drawings - jokey jokes - something else?

almost done with parental leave, maybe I should start posting database hot takes or something

Finally got back into my account on The Other Site but honestly it’s such a hellscape I’m not sure I ever post there again

RAISE THE FLAG OF FREEDOM HIIIIGH

All the Bluesky advice threads are like when someone at a restaurant explains how “we do it a little differently here” and it’s just tapas

I just saw the suggestion for men to start using period trackers for completely random things to screw up the data and was reminded of the tiktok of the guy who used one to log every time he ate taco bell 🙃🌮

also, i am trying to avoid posting too many photos of the baby on public platforms but this sweet portrait that @bbghost.bsky.social drew seems okay 🩵🩷

I am missing #RubyConf to soak up my final weeks of parental leave with my sweet baby but the fomo is rough

i am gonna need everyone shocked that their favorite influencers are trump voters to be so for real with me right now

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sorry I will not be calling them skeets

hi, I’m Valerie. You may know me from the bird site. Follow me for weird crafts, jokes about my baby, trash TV, and occasional hot takes on Ruby or Postgres

i am locked out of my main twitter and logged in on an alt that I haven’t followed/interacted much on, and the feed is all right-wing vitriol after a bit of aggressive blocking/muting it’s now all porn!? i truly cannot

This is something I’ve struggled with a lot over the past ~decade because I grew up very sincerely believing that anyone could be won over with a reasonable, factual, and respectful conversation because people actually mostly agree and want the same things. I do not believe that any more.

I am locked out of my Twitter account, perhaps a forcing function to get me over here. Who should I be following?