If you're in software, your business is your people. Knowing how to keep it running is the knowledge embedded in your workers. The CapEx etc in terms of buildings, network infrastructure etc is just a life support system for facilitating the workers to do what they know how to do.

oh will this hurt cis people? cis people are making their bed, they can fucking lay in it. protect trans girls.

Any picture of Mamdani, he's living his best life, meanwhile every other politician looking flogged by an invisible demon

trump: autism didn't exist back then napoleon bonaparte: my mind is made up of cabinets and if i shut all the drawers i will simply fall asleep

Seems to me the greater tragedy is when the multitude of people who *still do* extraordinary stuff for the good of humankind are routinely forced to watch the fruits of their labours snatched and sold off as fuel for the machinery that still swears blind it's only there to support and protect them.

Me, let’s do a bit of my own research about this guy before I make my mind and…. Oh. Oh. Ohhhh dear

israel's genocidal actions are in direct contravention of basically every meaningful moral teaching within rabbinical judaism. israel's actions are a complete betrayal of the values espoused by the comparatively progressive strains of rabbinical judaism historically predominant among american jews

i won't live long enough to read everything i want to read that was actually written by people, who have thoughts, feelings, and experiences that i care about. there is far too much great human writing to waste time reading bot-slop.

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

if you don't have anything nice to say about Starmer, you don't have to say anything at all. you can post it instead, it's easier.

A lot of people don't realise this but in the UK we have to replace our Prime Minister every two or three years or else the rights revert back to Marvel

This may sound over the top and harsh but it’s been genuinely maddening watching people - not just journalists, but just regular people too! - completely gloss over the actual harms Starmer oversaw as Prime Minister. We really do live in different worlds.

Nobody is making profits. It is going to burst and it is going to take all those data centers with it. Keep your skills. Practice your crafts. Hold on to your books. Stay sharp.

There's still time to get tickets for this. You should do it.

i will say it again: “grieving” a child (in this case a 30-year-old fully grown adult) for being gay/trans because you expected and wanted something different for them is a sign of a bad parent and should be widely regarded as unacceptable

Has the government considered how much more cool going on the internet will be for kids when it's a crime?

bsky wont let me reply but wrote up this quickly in obsidian about self-studying math sorry not sorry for this

The computer lost the mandate of heaven when the humble, helpful "program" was replaced with the insidious "app"

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

deadass the problem with polyamory is how am i supposed to love all of these incredible people with just one lifetime

The TERF movement has been going for decades and the GC movement has been funded by multiple billionaires for over a decade and they STILL haven't come up with a biological definition of female that includes all cis women and excludes all trans women. Maybe that alone should tell you something

Spicy kitty break

omg this 🎯

my confidence that these people are going to lose is rising and my estimate of the amount of damage they are going to do on the way out, especially as they realize they're losing, is also rising

nooneshappy.com/article/appe... Fairly uh take-no-prisoners approach here

Protestware for coding agents nesbitt.io/2026/05/28/p...

I'm running my presenter workshop on Zoom next month, on a West Coast / AU / NZ friendly (well, friendlier) schedule. It is AWESOME, and you should TOTALLY JOIN IT and LEARN HOW TO DO KICK-ASS PRESENTATIONS. £50 off tickets with the code BSKY50: www.eventbrite.com/e/1987043570810/?discount=BSKY50

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

Aw cmon I know it's cringe but it's not THAT bad

chat is this good

For all the techno dystopias about AI robots taking over the world, Robocop & Dr. Who had it right the whole time: we will defeat them with stairs.

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New blog post: GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/gds-weighs-in-on-the-nhss-decision-to-retreat-from-open-source/ Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It …

when your shiny new technology definitely isn't a bubble

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Everything is regressing to the man and we've got to get weirder. With our art, writing, programming, behavior. When I make something I want people to think "only a human could have thought of that"

you're gonna have to be more specific

Learn to code because 10 years from now the industry won't have anyone who remembers how at the rate it's going

a not-insignificant problem with christianity is it lets you outsource justice to your imaginary friend

Basically every day I think "wow I have great friends, wow I have wonderful people in my life" 💜

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Admin Lowtax The Dipshit? I thought not. It’s not a story LinkedIn would tell you.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

At this point the only reason to call it the Labour Party is it lasts too long, hurts like hell, and people keep popping in and out to check on your genitals.

advertising technology in the 1990s: look at this “website” you can “surf”. it has an image of a cat on it advertising technology in the 2020s: you must adopt this now or die. we are going to completely kill you if you don’t download this app immediately

Being nice rocks and feels good, simple as.

Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years. That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.

i can never date guys because my standard for men is aragorn son of arathorn

You know what I’m talking about. bell.bz/wait-it-out/

Making your conference talk slides? Make the font bigger. Do it again. I know the default font looks ok when you’re looking at it on your laptop but I promise no one can read that from the back If you can’t fit all the words you want on one slide, you have too many words. Make another slide!