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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 12/05/2025
In the foreword to his immigration white paper, PM Starmer calls immigration a "damage", "failure" and "wound". Until today, I would have described my own migration to the UK with words like "success", "contribution" and "involvement" - but what do I know? This rhetoric feels very 2016. #AcademicSky
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Bluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"I have taste and you don't" is a great way to never get anybody to agree with you. So is "your solution is not the way I would have done it." The only way to get off doing 12-hour shifts at the feature factory is to defy its logic.
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Taste is a dead end; what you should have is a point of view
By justifying decisions on the basis of taste, designers are throwing away the influence they need for preventing low-value feature bloat
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?
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ceej @ceej.online · 16/02/2025
at this point they have to be making it look like shit on purpose. this has got to be some kind of The Producers style scam
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NZ Transit Buzz @nztransitbuzz.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
And she’s in!
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 27/01/2025
i know i'm talking a LOT about the glories of the 1990s/early 2000s web and YES part of it is nostalgia, but i honestly believe that bringing back human-made blogging and links free from Meta/Twitter can actually contribute to our political and social survival in this new awful era so LET'S DO THIS
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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
So OpenAI are already deeply unprofitable and had to raise one of their sub tiers to $200, then some random Chinese company comes out and releases something that does exactly what their product does for free. Extremely funny shit. Altman is cooked.
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Jellicle Alexander @jelliclealexander.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Screenshot of a tweet by @sumbitches commenting “I bet this shit hits so hard if you’re stupid” on a post saying “The same boiling water that makes an egg turn hard will make a potato soft. You need to dictate your environment and don't let the environment dictate you.”
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haunted ghoulfriend👻🍬 @sliceofwife.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
severance is like twin peaks for people who loved corporate
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
alright you wanna know how to support trans people? hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit. Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
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ceej @ceej.online · 21/01/2025
accidentally chopped off my finger learning switchblade tricks but two fingers grew back, so now I keep having to chop off more fingers because I’m having trouble getting the math right
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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 21/01/2025
Why does the Venn diagram of "tech products that bring in revenue" and "products I find interesting enough to overcome my ADHD" tend to be two separate circles? Most people I share this struggle with can't relate, but if I'm bored just reading the job description, I can't fathom succeeding at it.
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david @flynncoutts.com · 21/01/2025
every time i go to write &juliet my brain tells me to put a semi-colon after it
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ceej @ceej.online · 15/01/2025
getting booed offstage at the Efficiency Conference because nobody likes my presentation on employee productivity that, ironically, contains only a single-slide that says "pay people more money"
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 06/01/2025
Last night my 5yo constructed his first full sentence on his own, not copying anything he had heard before. After his bedtime story he asked, out of nowhere: “where is gruffalo teddy?” 🥹 He got a gruffalo teddy for Christmas and loves it. All of his other speech to this point has been copying.
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Who is up for a short thread on the intriguing parallels between OpenAI and Enron, as told by one of Enron's investment bankers -- that is to say, me? Here goes...
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💀Texas Chainsaw MADSacre👻 @mads.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Incredibly saddened and in disbelief by the passing of The Vivienne. An icon of drag and a true artist.
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Men , this is the year your dick size is gonna increase like crazy. Im talking 3x gains. Im talking wide ass puds the size of trash can lids
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ceej @ceej.online · 05/01/2025
please stop suggesting I solve my problem by changing my behavior. I do not want to do that
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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
It can be hard to know where ADHD stops and Autism begins. How do you tell the difference? For me, at least, there's one very stark signal: Sensory perception and amplification, or as some of us call it sensory resonance.
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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 23/12/2024
This is why I pay for the internet. 🤣
Screenshot of Google search results for a website dedicated to telling people they spelled GitHub wrong.
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matt @computergay.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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Tobias Geyer (he/him - Tarabiscoté*e) @the-qa-guy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Today is World AIDS day and this is a reminder that people living with HIV who are being treated with antiretroviral therapy (= have access to and take medicine) can get the viral load down to undetectable levels and thus will not transmit HIV. Which makes it crucial that everyone gets access to ART
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It feels great to be in my mid 30s and not having to pretend to be funny anymore
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
user research in a nutshell
Tweet that says I still think my favorite thing that's ever happened to me on the internet is the time a guy said people change their minds when you show them facts and I said actually studies show that's not true and linked two sources and he said yeah well I still think it works
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david @flynncoutts.com · 13/11/2024
Cheers Trish, super helpful!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
the joke is that everyone on this website is exactly 38 years old. I am 38 years old. And I'm a little confounded about why I keep seeing "young men today are exposed to more homophobia and misogyny than any previous generation" from people who can remember the 1990s and 2000s.
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