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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 04/12/2025

He’s not wrong. Sadly you can get a long way being to stupid to work at a tech company. I’ve worked with people like that. 😮‍💨

Linus Torvalds saying of lines of code as a metric for productivity, “Anybody who thinks that’s a valid metric is to stupid to work at a tech company”

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 31/03/2025

Merry trans day of visibility. I’m being visible at a wedding today. I hope all the trans folk out there use their temporary visibility wisely. ✊🏳️‍⚧️ #tdov

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 08/02/2025

Also I haaate the bland grey uniforms in this one. They make the federation look like a neo-fascist society. Maybe that’s the point in this timeline given Admiral Marcus’ intentions, but it’s not what Star Trek should be about imo, and it made the film look…dull?

Kirk and Spock standing side by side in matching bland grey uniforms with a peaked cap tucked under their right arms.

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 27/01/2025

I’d love to see lots of them together presented with annotations like Louis Renard’s Fish 🫣 pdimagearchive.org/search/?q=Re...

Diagrammatic drawings of multicoloured fish

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 20/01/2025

I guess we’re going to see more of this, right? New accounts muddying the waters by adding anyone progressive to misleading lists?

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 18/01/2025

When are we going to consign this toast pattern to the bin? Almost every app is using it now and it’s so annoying because it always covers the next action I want to do - GO BACK!

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 15/01/2025

Never have I wanted to both laugh and cry at a government response to a petition as much as this. Kid Starver and Streeting want trans people to just die waiting. 😓 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

The Government and NHS England are fully committed to implementing all recommendations from the independent and evidence based Cass Review. We do not support an independent evaluation of the Review.

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 15/01/2025

How did I miss this firefighter bull bukkake story from 2019? 😆 I really want to see Ewan’s first draft of this and see how many puns he originally wrote into it.

A headline from Newsweek - “Massive Semen Explosion after Blaze Hits Bull Artificial Insemination Facility, Firefighters Forced to Dodge 'Projectiles'”, by Ewan Palmer

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 13/01/2025

Lol. I’m definitely not a furry artist, but might follow some of them from artist starter packs. 😆

Text showing someone has added me to a moderation list called “Block Furry Posts”

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 12/01/2025

Now you just need one of these. 😎

A toilet with a built-in sink on top of the cistern.

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 08/01/2025

Narwhals, narwhals, swimming in the ocean… 🎶 It was fun being a Nrwl while it lasted. 😔

A narwhal skull with the caption “A sea unicorn?”

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 08/01/2025

Game over, man, game over… Alternatively though, “Get away from her, you bitch!” 💪

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 31/12/2024

Rewatching Gladiator this evening and struck by a line that Derek Jacobi’s character Gracchus says. It feels almost prophetic about the near future for some reason.

I think he knows what Rome is. Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they'll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate, it's the sand of the Colosseum. He'll bring them death…and they will love him for it

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 26/12/2024

This is good to see from Lego. Less single use plastic! I have no idea what kind of impact that’ll make overall, but it’s something. Lego bricks themselves are still mostly made from oil, but they were looking to switch to something entirely sustainable by 2030. We’ll see if they manage.

A leaflet from inside a box of Lego stating they are moving to paper packaging.

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 25/12/2024

Merry Xmas to me. I've just learned about Uiua. www.uiua.org It looks like this. 😧

A Uiua program containing what seem to be complicated mathematics glyphs.

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 18/12/2024

Lol. Might not be far off though. 😆 mymentalage.com

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 14/12/2024

Even Van Gogh was influenced by carcinisation towards the end of his life… 😆

Van Goghs’s “Two Crabs” painting, depicting two large orange crabs next to each other on a sea like blue-green background. One is facing downwards and the other is up-turned with its legs waving towards us.

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 04/12/2024

#SpotifyWrapped season is upon us. Can you tell I listen to a lot of electronic music while coding? I am normally a lot more polyjamorous than this… 😅

A Spotify wrapped screen showing my top artist as Electric Universe, and my total listening time as over sixty thousand minutes.

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 02/12/2024

Duolingo are really leaning into the idea of the scary, demanding, green owl… 😅

Duo the owl looking slightly menacing with the text “Did you learn enough to be safe from Duo? Let’s see!”

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 02/12/2024

Many harsh but possibly necessary words from Alex here. Worth a read and giving some thought to. If you’ve never encountered the UKs Government Digital Service, they are worth researching for their approach.

Sites built with Next.js perform materially worse than those from HTML-first systems like 11ty, Astro, et al.
It simply does not scale, and the fact that it drags React behind it like a ball and chain is a double demerit. The chonktastic default payload of delay-loaded JS in any Next.js site will compete with ads and other business-critical deferred content for bandwidth, and that's before any custom components or routes are added. Which is to say, Next.js is a fast way to lose a lot of money while getting locked in to a VC-backed startup's proprietary APls.

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 01/12/2024

My sweet angel baby. 😍 He’s been curled up like this next to me all day.

A curled up sleeping tabby and white cat

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 01/12/2024

More disturbingly, apophenia is the reason many people are drawn into conspiracy theories. We see patterns where they don’t exist and ascribe effects to unrelated events. It’s a difficult bias to combat because false conclusions can look very convincing. Even when they’re ridiculous. 🏴‍☠️ 6/6

A graph showing a correlation between the decrease in the number of pirates and the global average temperature.

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 01/12/2024

DeepDream is an image processing program which deliberately uses algorithmic pareidolia to “enhance” patterns within existing images. The result is said to be very reminiscent of psychedelic hallucinations. 💊 5/6

Van Gogh’s starry night enhanced with algorithmic pareidolia hallucinations

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 01/12/2024

When we went back to Mars early this century, we took more high resolution images and the effect was almost completely lost however. 4/6

More recent image of the Cydonia face on Mars showing that it is just a large mountain.

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 01/12/2024

Unfortunately this leaves us making the wrong interpretations a lot now. For example, the Cydonia face on Mars. In 1976 the Viking 1 orbiter took this photo which looks to us strikingly like a face! This is a type of Apophenia called Pareidolia. We are very, very good at noticing “faces” 3/6

A close up of one of the Viking 1 images of Mars showing the Cydonia “face”.

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 01/12/2024

Hmm. “Tech whisperer of bluesky”? Interesting what this has come up with given how little it had to work with. blueskyroast.com

A persona summary describing me as the “tech whisperer of bluesky” 😆

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 28/11/2024

I’ve always loved this bit of graffiti in Leith ❤️

A stencil style picture of an older woman in flowery dress brandishing an aerosol paint can with the words “I hope you never fit in” next to her.

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 27/11/2024

Let me see what you have! *grrrr*… No!

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 26/11/2024

While this obviously applies to many of the current world leaders, I think it also applies to leadership generally. You should always be wary of anyone who manages to convince others they’d be good at having authority. For a start, if you’re doing it right, leadership isn’t about authority.

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Douglas Adams

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Johanna Pearce @catfireparty.dev · 21/11/2024

Name a show you’re positive no one remembers but you… (Fennella used to scare the crap out of me when I was kid)

Chorlton and the wheelies. A tv show for kids from the 80s where a cartoonish dragon has adventures in a land where wheeled inhabitants live.

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