Reposted by dj microbeadsGordon @gordon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Downsides of being court jester: - Speak truth, everyone just laughs - Work for table scraps - If king pulls lever, you fall through trapdoor - Jesting skills don’t transfer between courts Upsides: - Jingly hat 2372
Reposted by dj microbeadsLu wilson @todepond.com · 16/02/2026free open source software needs fewer engineers and more designers and product people 2040567
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 15/02/2026boring leftists r sighing at this but as usual they are just looking at what the LLM is doing or what it is for or whether it does it well. it’s like asking if a feast is “efficient” or an orgy is “healthy”. the excessive nature of it is the point 100
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 15/02/2026oh its funny how completely Fucking Broken mastodon is 000
Reposted by dj microbeadsOrion Reed @orionreed.com · 06/02/2026It is a shame that "democratization" in software has come to mean broader access to products instead of participation in democratic processes — there is talk of LLMs democratizing software production, but I have yet to see social, collective and democratic processes govern the design of software. 0284
Reposted by dj microbeadscroissanthology @croissanthology.com · 04/02/2026the speed of wikipedia editors will never cease to impress me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_5en.wikipedia.orgSonnet 5 - Wikipedia 28310
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 01/02/2026maybe being one of the little bricks in the xkcd tower meme is ok 000
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 23/01/2026instagram is so saturated with ads that it just isnt fun anymore 040
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 23/01/2026i followed loads of AI people but its kind of boring 120
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 19/01/2026dreaming of an llm agent but it only knows about syscalls 110
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 19/01/2026it’s never been a better time to really try to understand how things work 020
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 18/01/2026in a kind of freeze frame world where the heating is broken and the cardboard recycling is not being taken away. its like an escape room where you have to figure out how to make things start again 100
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 18/01/2026heating in our apartment building has been broken for three days... many conscientious and rightfully enraged fellow residents have called the landlord with no response... that's cool 100
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 16/01/2026he achieved takeoff by rewiring his incentive structure 030
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 16/01/2026bluesky is making me want to actually write alt text. yall are so conscientious 020
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 16/01/2026had fun when i was at the XXXX XXXX museum in XXXXXXXXX asking claude about what would happen if somebody came into the museum and destroyed the most famous priceless artwork. and it told me this story of the eruption of mass panic and a kind of moral-symbolic anomie that caused society to collapse 110
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 16/01/2026being american is so interesting because you sort of have this right to "say" what you are "thinking". very cool 130
Reposted by dj microbeadsDisco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Don’t expect any further rewards or handclaps. This is how normal people are all the time. 09825
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 16/01/2026liquid glass is crazy. turns out i actually like it if the UI is kind of squishy 140
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 14/01/2026just got laid off from the markdown corporation. my job was to make sure that nobody remembers how to strikethrough text 0192
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 14/01/2026feeling drunk with power that the ground isn't covered in ice 010
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 14/01/2026so basically i'm from the san francisco of england 020
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 14/01/2026i've spent enough of my career getting mad at the fact that most of my job is systems integration and then along comes a technology that is better at systems integration than me 130
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 14/01/2026doing vegetarianuary but a guy said hes bringing brisket to the hackerspace today… 120
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 14/01/2026time to try using AI to generate openscad files again 110
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 05/12/2025iq rapidly decreasing as i listen to "cheeky pint" 000
Reposted by dj microbeadskai ⚖️ 2-4 '94 @kazehai.com · 29/11/2025Wrote about baseball players who haven't figured it out yetkazehai.comPennant ChasersThey've got you figured out, Rich, the boys in the bullpen do. They've got you completely figured out and you're dished. You're completely dished. 25530
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 27/10/2025wrote about the museums i visited this year in the netherlands - all 15 of them. i even try to express opinions about art open.substack.com/pub/djmicrob...open.substack.comThe Museum Pass is absolutely worth itI talk at length about the art galleries I visited this year. There are loads of them 010
Reposted by dj microbeadsMicah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 19/09/2025hey are you a bag of mixed greens? because you're looking chopped and washed 031
Reposted by dj microbeadsjackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 04/09/2025pure bacon culture. totally unhelpful term 4294
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 06/05/2025the goal is to write code where cursor AI isn't able to help me 010
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 01/07/2024i think my work is too close to the mimesis zone and i have to become more obscure and unfundable 100
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 01/07/2024posts dont count here but on twitter they are real 000
dj microbeads @djmicrobeads.bsky.social · 24/11/2023i think i have to move to bluesky. i could become a sky guy 150