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Elizabeth Kasprzyk

@aphenine.bsky.social
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Computer programmer, sci-fi and fantasy nerd and occasional writer.

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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 13h
What. The. 🤣 substack.com/@thepersonal...
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Mac Dohm (@thepersonalfreedompodcast)
This may be the funniest thing you see all day.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today, at stand up, after discovering the insane productivity numbers, I actually found myself maniacally laughing. Not like fake laughing because it's expected. No, actually laughing.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In an update to this, we hit 301. How?!?
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Furthering my adventures in insane AI, I have been feeling a bit unproductive this week. I'm only churning out about 4+ MRs per day, and I'm feeling really slow, as I'm about to cap out a 260+ merge request month for me and my boss. This is obviously insane.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Over the last couple of months, I've been doing a giant maintenance blitz of our codebases using AI. What has struck me is just how many problems basic maintenance solves that would otherwise require work.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026
'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org
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Roger Senserrich @4freedoms.es · 21/09/2026
He totally did the meme before the meme existed.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm sorry, but I have suffered through this and now so must you! youtu.be/eLCP9NlWaQ4?...
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Preston Bus Station - Ed Petrie and London Hughes (Sound of the Underground parody)
YouTube video by Springsteen Recordings
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In further AI related burnout, today's theme has been: I don't care. Unable to access the analytics system? Not my problem. Even though I deployed it this morning pushing code that should have been deployed before? Still not my problem. Except I am literally paid so it is my problem.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Pensioners have been forced into debt, bank charges and financial uncertainty by the civil service pension crisis. Despite these failures, Capita has been awarded a £370 million contract. It's time to bring Civil Service pension administration back in-house. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...
megaphone.org.uk
Stop the Civil Service Pension Crisis: Bring Pension Administration Back In-House
Civil servants deserve a pension service they can trust. Sign this petition to demand action now.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So, last week I speed-ran an entire month's work in a week. And it was cool. And I thought there would be no consequences. And today I am like "thing stuff must go in whatchamacallit" and I realise that I have not fully escaped unscathed from the consequences.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Several people have asked me about this already and this article is a brilliant response to those people. doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
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LLMs are real, AI is fake
No, it didn’t “go rogue.”
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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just leaving this here
Unpopular opinion: The fact that they can quickly install data centers nationally means they could've been updating infrastructure which they claimed was too difficult and expensive.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So that was 232 maintenance tickets closed by me this week. Great productivity there. Let's never repeat it again... 😮‍💨
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's a common annoyance for me that people won't put together environmental degradation and rising food prices. This speech nails it.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Looking forward to my DnD game later! My players have successfully nullified the power of the Book of Rules and can escape the crashed gnomish city anytime they want. But the Devils of the city are still plotting and the valuable gnomish flying engines are still calling. And who will they take?
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It turned out to be nearer 280 tickets, of which ~100 have been completed. The biggest problem is always verifying. This work is a maintenance sweep across our secondary and tertiary repos. These often have much worse testing procedures than our primary repos.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Every once in a while I just want to know how far I can push the insanity of agentic AI. Today's example was creating 254 tickets in one go on our Git host. I ran out of tokens before I could start actually working through them. Oh well... There's always tomorrow.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I read a lot of Cory Doctorow and his takedowns of Amazon are always great. If you haven't seen this before, it explains how Amazon massages its search page to extract major bank from people.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The future of the iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords, Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion...
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 28/08/2026
🚨🆕 @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com can reveal that the NHS has cancelled all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of the Welsh Gender Service Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...
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NHS cancels all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of Welsh Gender Service with immediate effect
Some trans patients received news their surgeries had been cancelled just days or even hours before they were due to take place
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This interview reads like an Onion article 😂 www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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B.C. swimmer crosses the Strait of Georgia in under nine hours | CBC Radio
When it comes to crossing the Strait of Georgia, most people would choose to do so in a boat, a ship — any kind of a marine vessel, really. But not Melanie Buggey. She chose to swim.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Really good and simple analysis of an AI data centre build. substack.com/@thewallstre...
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The Wall Street Skinny (@thewallstreetskinny)
When I heard that OpenAI was planning to spend over $500bn on a data center, I had to understand what could possibly cost HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS to build. And, more importantly, why NVIDIA would be w...
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So yesterday saw me update the rest of my company over our AI usage. It was a fantastic and fun talk to give. It's rare you get to go "here's our productivity, it went up by 8x" and it definitely lets you feel like a rock star for a day!
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Well, I just finished Horizon Zero Dawn 's main plot and honestly, Fuck Ted Faro. I keep trying to think of fates suitable for him, and honestly, having read a lot of fantasy and sci-fi with some pretty gruesome ends, I am drawing a blank for anything suitable enough.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
*sigh* It's nice to know that trans women aren't allowed anti-hormonal treatment, but if you're a sex offender then anti-hormones for you are mandatory. I mean, who writes this stuff, and do they read the anti-trans parts of their own newspaper? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Chemical suppression: why the UK is exploring libido control drugs to treat sex offenders
Treatment is already required by parole boards in several countries, but some feel the practice is unethical
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Next Tuesday I am going to stand up in front of my company and show them the graphs showing our productivity shot up by 8x due to AI. I'm sure it's going to be amazing.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
What's your favourite bible verse? Wrong answers only. "This is the way" giphy.com/gifs/disneyp...
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Staring Star Wars GIF by Disney+ - Find & Share on GIPHY
Discover & share this Staring Star Wars GIF by Disney+ with everyone you know. GIPHY is how you search, share, discover, and create GIFs.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Just heard on Radio 5 Live that one of Andy Burnham's bright ideas for easing the shortage of prison places to do with PC Harper, is to allow the use of the female prison estate for male prisoners.
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Sarah Atwood Cry Laughing on Nerdtainment
Alt: A woman laughing and crying at the same time, with the caption: "cry laughing."
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Waterloo scientists Dr. Brian Ingalls, Dr. Sara Sadr, and Dr. Marc Aucoin have engineered “tumor-eating” bacteria that can invade and destroy cancer from within. A potential breakthrough in cancer treatment research.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Sunday last week I threw my back out, picking up my shopping after I had put two bags down to open my front door and then picked them up again. I have no idea why that happened. I've thrown out my back in the past when I've been stupid and exercised hard without prep. This hasn't been the case.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This article makes an excellent point about Tech Debt, one that I am in the process of discovering levelup.gitconnected.com/ai-will-kill...
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AI Will Kill Technical Debt as We Know It
We’ve misused the term for two decades. AI is about to make it impossible to ignore.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My Weds group DnD players continue to inspire me. They have been exploring the crashed gnomish city and last session was amazing. We split the party and one group went off and did loony toons adventures trying to capture a gnome and make them tell her how to count in gnomish.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Well, my entire sense of normal has been horribly thrown out of whack at work. The first part of the week I was sad because i was "only" producing 3 merge requests a day. That would have been extremely good back in the day. Then today, over 10 MRs went in with about another 9 waiting for tomorrow.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It's amazing how quickly you can get acclimatized to weather. It's 22.5C in my flat and I am feeling chilly. That would have been comfortable a while back. And several times I have been comfortably living with 25C when I was dying with that at the start of the heatwave.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
merge-metrics-a79185.gitlab.io My boss made a graph of number of MR requests per month that were merged over the course of our codebase's existence (which started in 2020)
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Merged MRs by project · 2020–2026
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Rapid endometriosis tests to be made available on NHS in England and Wales
Saliva and gut sensor-based tests hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for millions of women who can wait years for diagnosis
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 13/07/2026
We have sent a response to Sex Matters
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 30/07/2026
That escalated quickly.
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
BBC burying the lede here until paragraph 3 - JKR bankrolled this and LOST. I repeat - JKR bankrolled this lawfare against the Belfast Film Festival and... LOST. It can be done! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Tribunal rules woman not unlawfully discriminated against over beliefs
Sara Morrison claimed she was forced out of her job at Belfast Film Festival for her views on sex and gender.
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I am playing Horizon: Zero Dawn I went to Makers End I know who Ted Faro is I know what his crimes are Wow, this game has aged well. Given the Ukraine War and Elon Musk, the plot is totally not horrendously relevant. Oh no...
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I just came back from a LaserTag 40k LARP: od3e.larp.org.uk/p/selling-so... It was a hell of a lot of fun, and I have managed to do >24k steps and a hell of a lot of exercise, so I am exhausted.
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Selling Souls
Selling Souls Premise Communication from the Council of Inquisitors at Valedor. To the combined Inquisitorial team previously instructed to ...
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Ed Macdonald @ed4words.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Everybody! Please let’s always remember to keep digging shit out of the ground to burn, even though it has never been necessary. And more data centres, please! The top is a fiction map used in a video about global warming and its affects on France. The bottom is a recent French weather forecast.
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
HISTORIC 53C DAY- 38C at NIGHT 52.7C Omidieh IRAN All time record and 2026 World Record MINIMUMS ! 38.3 Delhoran IRAN 33.1 Uchkuduk UZBEKISTAN Next days WORSE 53/54c Middle East 49/50C former USSR 50/52C CHINA NIGHTS up to 40C MOST EXTREME HEAT WAVE IN WORLD HISTORY
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
One of the things I really struggled with in my new DnD campaign is the tech jump between the rebuilding civilization and the old ancient civilization. Trying to find out how to balance the game so both tech levels can work is tricky
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I came across this and wow, their granny was incredible...
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Elizabeth Kasprzyk @aphenine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
My players today experienced a beautiful elven lady beckoning them into a courtyard in the middle of a crashed gnomish city that is supposed to be deserted except for devils, gnomes and goblins. They were totally suspicious and didn't want to go in. I love that I have induced that level of paranoia
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