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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 14m

"The AI bubble allows every idea to be funded!" I've spent the last two years watching every good thing lose funding, which is redirected towards speculation that maybe in the future we just won't have to pay employees.

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 12h

Nothing brings me joy like landing Mo's Combo on Rem. I'm gonna eat your pet rat and then take his enormous bag. To me, Rem is a Kinder Egg.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 17h

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 20h

Dracula claims that he's going to move to Texas every time we pass a law against murder. Frankly, I don't think he's willing to give up our 6-hours-of-daylight winter days in a move south to Texas or Florida.

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

VOTE NO on Pro 75 (the 'TAX DRACULA' bill.) If we try to tax Dracula, he will simply move away to Texas.

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 23h

El-Sayed? (Mamdani is ineligible, he was born in Uganda.)

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know the horse has already left the barn on this one, but I've found that it's worthwhile to keep a box of 4" gauze squares and some paper tape as part of my home first aid kit, maybe some "self-adhering sports wrap." I needed them when recovering from a recent surgery, and they're pretty handy.

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thirding the "soak in water" trick. They make a product called "medical adhesive remover," which is REALLY good at removing bandaid adhesive, but I've never seen it in a store, and it can be kind of expensive.

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have literally had a cashier at my local grocery store take me aside and say, "thanks for always being so polite, some people here are really awful." If any service employee told me that I was acting rudely, I would be *mortified.*

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This guy thinks he's got it made because he can have a computer program do his bullshit tasks for him. I, meanwhile, have structured my life so that I don't have an endless firehose of bullshit tasks. Christ, imagine getting so many speeding tickets that you need to automate paying them.

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

in the same vein, I have a higher-than-average number of fingers

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I got in a biking accident recently, and have probably spent $150 on ubers to medical appointments. (Including $50 round-trip to an urgent care who told me "sorry, we're booked up through today, try again tomorrow!")

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 06/10/2026

Seattle rocks

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tired: No one ever wrote a song called Fuck The Fire Department Wired: Cops paid someone millions of dollars to write a song called Fuck The Fire Department

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You could be forgiven for thinking that everyone was making $300k/year, because the post that Governor Ferguson quoted was intentionally misleading!

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This pay rate is only for the most-senior position, Staff Chief Engineer, of which there are only 2 or 3. Most people working this job make about $30-40 an hour. Everyone is being forced to work mandatory overtime, and they got a 0% raise this year - they're losing money to inflation.

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Captain Bionic @captainbionic.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

💯💯💯 thread, instant follow for the author

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

chat is this good

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A customer just tried to use an employee discount code that ChatGPT gave her. I work at a high-end clothing store and clocked in to my manager telling me about the most unhinged interaction from yesterday. A woman walked in asking if she could use a 40% off code she got online. We don't have any sales running, so my manager looks at the screen and realizes ChatGPT straight up handed this woman a real employee's internal ID number.

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So are there 3 different types of neutrinos, or just 3 different ways that a neutrino can interact with things?

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I remember being in like 5th grade, just blowing through our local spelling bee like a hot knife through butter, getting to like the final 3, realizing "if I do well at this, they're going to expect me to dedicate a bunch of time to it," and intentionally taking a dive. 😎

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have a respected coworker who, furious at being forced to use AI, asked his AI whether AI was reliable, and, of course, it produced a detailed report of why it was not. He was so dejected when I pointed out that this, too, was unreliable & simply echoing back his intentions.

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We're one dragon away from Shadowrun. Gotta do a dash, chummer.

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I woke up to pee and realized that the men were HONEY BEARS, and spent the next half hour pissed at my brain for inventing a visual pun when I wasn't awake to understand it.

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Last night I dreamed that I took a wrong turn while looking for a train station and found myself in an alley where a half dozen gruff men were hacking into a shed with an axe, then carrying away badly damaged bee hive frames loaded with larva.

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I got a colonoscopy two years ago; I was a little goofy for like half an hour, and then was shoveling breakfast food into me as fast as I could get it. Literally no discomfort afterwards, the worst part was fasting beforehand.

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is true, but teams will often refuse to locate themselves in cities who don't subsidize their stadium, and leagues like the NFL explicitly prohibit public ownership of teams. (Because they have class solidarity.)

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have a couple of friends who are Computational Linguistics post-docs, and they were pretty universally horrified when LLMs started to be sold as worker-replacement chatbots. That's not what an LLM is good at!

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I stand with the workers, and am disappointed that you do not.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. whenweallvote.org

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

you mean the guy who covered up a murder?

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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Philadelphia Eagles in the last quarter when the game was comfortably in hand

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've got to at least play until I hit a musical number.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"actually it's ephebophilia" ass technicality

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Toast is a heatmap of where toast has been toasted.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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kai daiju 👹 @kaidaiju.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

obsessed with the way the rats help rat king reload his gun. they finally added a better reload animation than billy literally eating the empty magazine

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It is so upsetting to realize that his jacket is his skin.

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Got my flu + covid shots today. Apparently flu season is starting early in Seattle this year.

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think it is crucial for the health of the Democratic party that the entire consultant class from previous administrations, including and especially Clinton, be told to go home and stop bothering people. They are wrong about everything and have been holding the party back for decades.

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When you're negotiating a contract, you can't assume good faith on the part of your boss - what if they get fired or quit? What if the CEO or board twists their arm? All you have left is what it says in the document.

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A little known fact about the CARS universe, is that post-World War 2 many Volkswagens, BMWs and Mercedes fled to Cargentina to avoid the Nuremberg Time Trials

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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is hilarious to think that "guy who founded a tech company 5 years ago" thinks he can bully a 2000-year-old institution into fundamentally refefining what it means to be human, by threatening to leave their meeting.

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Action Shakespeare 🐙🤤 @thatgalinthehat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Environmental storytelling at the elementary school

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