I wonder if psychology will have mentors that don't require sexual favours in order to support your career. I can dream.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

When the execs finally accept that the AI bubble is popping, I’m sure they’ll give my family back our life savings.

I wish more AI-enthusiast software developers would ask themselves why exactly their bosses seem so fine with paying them a lot of money to do their jobs badly

When my wife and I kiss and hug each other our toddler yells at us. I can't believe it, a tiny homophobe here in our very house.

Ok I’ve finally scrolled through enough shitposts to figure out what happened in politics today.

Our toddler has decided that I control the thunderstorm and he would like me to make more of it.

It’s world introvert day. We’re finally getting our moment in the spotlight.

I don't need to get better at anything this year.

This is from a symposium of the Worlds leading long covid experts (August 2025) . H/t Charlos on X. This should tell everyone what you need to know. Not one long covid expert without a respirator, no non maskers or gappy surgicals in sight. Experts know it’s airborne and know the health risks.

Opening my skills training consultancy for vibe coders who want to take it to the next level.

Hey quick reminder to fellow CSA victims: You're under no obligation to say anything or know anything about those files. You're allowed to sit this one out. Go have a nice drink, talk to someone you like, curl up with a pet, watch some good TV, drink your water and take your meds, have a bath...

I will never, ever forget the utter contempt that the tech industry has consistently shown me for the last 13 years. I am very good at leaving abusive systems. You could say it's the only thing I've ever been granted the time to become a true expert at.

“How can you suddenly dislike art when you find out it’s made by AI?” For the same reason I can dislike art when I find out the employees were overworked and underpaid. Because I care about people. You dipshit.

The only thing you have to do is…nothing. Don’t use their shitty chatbots. Don’t let anyone else peer pressure you into using their shitty chatbots. It’s really simple.

I told a technical interviewer that in the last couple of years I’ve mostly been using TypeScript and Ruby. He said, and I quote: “don’t use C# because it doesn’t have data structures.” This was ostensibly a senior engineer. Why can’t I get a job? Because these are the people evaluating me.

Note to self. This week the scales shifted from me mostly seeing myself as a failed software developer to mostly being a successful career-changing postgrad student. Try to keep it that way if you can.

—I am so, so, so enraged right now, at all the ways my life has been put on hold, not by the pandemic, but by nearly complete abandonment *to* the pandemic on the part of the govt, public health systems, and most regular people.

I've realised something that seems obvious but it's taken me a while to come to terms with it. I have, quite simply, outgrown tech. I have very little respect for the majority of people in that industry. The ones who could have something to teach me will not do so. It has nothing for me anymore.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

We're spending Christmas with my wife's friend's mother. That's who's showing up for us. Our family didn't invite us to Christmas last year, so this year we're uninvited as punishment for not showing up last year.

Today my kid said "I love you" for the first time. It was more like "Ayayu" but it was obvious what he was saying. We said it back and forth a few times while I cuddled him. We'd had a hard day together, and I was feeling down about not spending as much time with him as I wish. Then this happened. 💕

When people tell you they care about you, that's a signal they're about to disappear from your life forever. They may or may not pick a fight first. That's the only variation.

Everyone’s got a theory about what’s wrong with my soul

It's bad enough now that we asked our family for help with staying alive until this contract starts. My wife's dad sent her a video of him mopping a floor saying "just get a job!" and her sister screamed at me that I'm going to die in the street. This is the side of the family we still talk to.

the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry

I could have really been something

My boss sits down with a clipboard and asks, "So how do you like to have sex?" He clicks his pen. "It's for diversity, you know. So you feel included. Please be professional and answer the question, all the normal people already did."

Had an interview today where nobody talked about AI. Nature is healing.

I kiss my baby and he leans back into me for more kisses. He makes his little kissy noises back at me as he walks away to play. I love being a parent.

Imagine if Americans cared as much about Palestinian lives as they do about late night comedy

These guys are unpopular and dumb as rocks, they did not discover a secret 'I win' button at the heart of all politics labeled 'mean tweets' or 'cancel elections.' Keep speaking, keep writing, keep marching, keep voting, force them to show the country what they are.

Your children are refusing to go to school because you let them contract a deadly virus which is now causing them horrible disabilities. They're right to refuse this.

Fun fact: did you know that Long Covid is now more common in children than asthma?

"haha i just got caught up in-" shut up. i didn't get called a bully and a luddite for months just to welcome you dummies back into the fold. i know you're all hoping everyone will forget but not this bitch

My child is going to be made homeless because of fucking gamergate.

I just failed my sixth round of applications, all of which got right to the last stages. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm genuinely not okay. My family will be homeless soon and it's all my fault.

You know LLMs aren't a real technology because there are no furry prompt engineers

I've spent the last 13 years of my life begging these people to tell me what's wrong with me so I can fix it, and being met only with scalding silence. At a certain point, you have to decide that even if you are a terrible person and don't know it, you don't have the information to change that fact.

Getting lectures on resilience and grit from people who've only ever been out of work voluntarily while their parents were paying the bills.

Whenever someone gets mad at me for questioning the net usefulness of AI and says something like “you’re like the people who didn’t want to use the internet”—with love, I was born in 1997, and my life growing up online is all the evidence I need that we should handle AI differently than we are now

"If I were facing impending homelessness I would simply get good at LLMs" is actual advice I received today

"Companies won't hire you because you're so scary and intimidating and controversial and opinionated! Try being a bit more subdued and maybe then people will like you a bit more." Me: a quiet, nice person who's good at computers 🫠

(Mulder tosses Scully a folder) "...have you ever heard about bisexuals?"

Fascism is evil. Fascism is scary. Fascism is awful. But goddamn it is also so fucking whiny and intellectually vapid and incredibly annoying.

People stranded on a desert island will waste time making SOS signs out of clam shells instead of starting a successful business