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Cassidy

@cassidy.social
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gas powered leaf blower hater • web software worker • chicago by way of nyc • she/her

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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 24/09/2026
It’s not even that I feel like “software engineering is a craft” but I genuinely enjoyed the process and what I learned through the process. Now that’s all gone and I’m sad.
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 23/09/2026
Seems like trans women finally figured out that it’s fun to do things together that aren’t drinking at a bar
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Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the next mayor should appoint an asphalt removal czar so i can get paid $140k a year do post shit like this on social media
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.”
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I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company.
Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code.
Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow?People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing.
Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore.
Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 20/09/2026
What if I don't want to do software engineering anymore?
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 18/09/2026
My favorite taco spot recently put up a full wall AI mural inside the restaurant. The mural depicts the outside of the restaurant with the name of the restaurant spelled incorrectly!!!
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 17/09/2026
That feeling of posting something in the group chat and getting no reaction nor response 😞
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 17/09/2026
Wish I could throw baseball every day
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 14/09/2026
VERNACULAR GRAPHIC DESIGN WINS AGAIN
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 14/09/2026
In Chicago, trans women are LIVING
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 14/09/2026
I need to throw a baseball
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 09/09/2026
Not Haus of Decline posting my nudes 😭
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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Putting the :/ in https://
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/09/2026
Google Maps Introduces Crawling Directions For Cyclists Hit By Truck theonion.com/google-maps-introduces…
Google Maps Introduces Crawling Directions For Cyclists Hit By Truck
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Anthony J. Quezada @anthonyjquezada.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hi! This adjustment has been made.
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 30/08/2026
I need a pitching coach to make me into a star tgirl baseball pitcher. I swear I’ve got what it takes, I just need a little guidance
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 30/08/2026
I’ve got baseball on the brain
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Me: Exactly half? How do you know?
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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Our findings and analysis have led us to conclude that first and foremost it is imperative that perspectives of women and gender minorities should be taken into consideration at all levels of transit planning." women and gender minorities should be the ones who are active in doing the planning
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Julia Poe @juliapoe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
When I think about trans people in sports, I don’t think about lobbies or legislation. I think about my friends. Wrote about pick-up hoops, queer community and love:
chicagotribune.com
Column: When I think about transgender people in sports, I think about my friends
Despite the rabid fixation upon the concept of trans women in sports, those who beat the drum the loudest for exclusive policies rarely seem to care about trans people themselves.
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Charter School Abolitionist 🇮🇷 @maniccage.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Getting bumped into on a crowded train voice: I demand an audience with the governor!
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 12/08/2026
I fear that Chicago is going to have to experience a tragedy on the scale of Midwest City, 1999 in order to start taking tornadoes seriously
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 12/08/2026
Chicago, we gotta pump those numbers up!
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 11/08/2026
For You feed is hitting 👌
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social • 7h If you live in a city you shouldn't have to own a car.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you live in a city you shouldn't have to own a car.
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 10/08/2026
hot take: I would rather read your imperfect English in your own voice than perfect LLM English that makes all writing narratively the same
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Josh Collinsworth @collinsworth.dev · 11/06/2026
I've been working on this post for a while now. It's about why I think the productivity boost LLMs offer for developers is regularly and severely overestimated. joshcollinsworth.com/blog/product...
joshcollinsworth.com
LLMs and performative productivity
It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 05/08/2026
Yessss we needed another plaza here!
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Lakeshore Drive Slut @shredded-teat.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
telling my boss i couldn't do my tasks because i was a gifted child who failed to live up to my potential
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
i bring a sort of ‘i fear neither pain nor death’ energy to the pedestrian/driver interaction that drivers don’t really like
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I am downtown and there appears to be some kind of Teen Takeover happening in Grant Park??
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cleen @cleen.cloud · 02/08/2026
Baseball!!!! Hype!! Dingers!! Gays!! Yeaaaaah!!!!!!!! #wpbl
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cleen @cleen.cloud · 01/08/2026
Ready to watch some ladies hit some dingers #wpbl
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Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
the reason good transit is not valued in this country is because the types of people who cannot drive are not valued: children, disabled people, people living in poverty
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 31/07/2026
Not going to age-dox myself, but the number of words first used in print during my birth year is much higher than 2025 and much lower than the 1950s. The number of words per year appears to be decreasing. It's hard to believe that English language innovation is slowing, so what's going on here?
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cleen @cleen.cloud · 31/07/2026
Story Time at the Logan Square cpl branch is Lollapalooza for babies. saw one rip a vape
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cta @chicagocta.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This Disability Pride Month, CTA Acting President Leerhsen shares the "why" behind the expansion of our ABLE pilot. Keeping bus lanes clear improves service for all transit riders, but its most critical impact is protecting the safety and independence of our mobility and visually impaired community.
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 18/07/2026
Cars are only the solution in places where cars are the problem.
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 18/07/2026
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What is this building? by @cassidy.social — Grain
Photo gallery on Grain
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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Otherwise progressive-to-radical people when you say we should make it safer and easier to travel without cars
We should improve society somewhat meme

Creepy guy in well saying "Yet that's not how it is now. Curious! I am very intelligent."
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laina 𓆣 @laina.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
literal breath of fresh air
Photo of the Chicago skyline at golden hour
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 12/07/2026
That bison said, “bye, son!”
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 01/07/2026
Did the building do a friendly little wave before crossing the street?
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Ky @ky.fyi · 30/06/2026
fuck the supreme court and love to all my trans friends. we all gotta live to see the day that this system crumbles
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 30/06/2026
Catch me at my 95th birthday party
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 29/06/2026
This CBS interview about the Logan Square redesign features a driver on the pedestrian promenade youtu.be/PAoeQ-JYx0U
Screenshot of TV interview at the pedestrian promenade in Logan Square. A man in the foreground wearing a white wide-brimmed hat and glasses points off screen to the right. In the background, in the left side of the frame, a black sedan drives on the pedestrian promenade
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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Entrenching car dependency, hindering public transit, increasing VMT, increasing the frequency of parking in bike lanes, and inviting another big corporate entity to lobby against safe streets infrastructure will NOT save lives in the long run. We already know what works, and it's not robotaxis.
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 27/06/2026
I’m used to seeing this bad faith argument applied to the winter. You can’t bike in the winter, you can’t bike in the summer. When can you bike? Three weeks in the Spring and two weeks in the Fall!
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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 23/06/2026
within AND between subjects?? This paper has everything
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