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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Curse of the Systems Engineer: Watching everyone run the world as isolated systems that clash and fight each other instead of meshing smoothly, & being unable to change anything b/c they're all locked down and have the inertia of multinational giants with decade long contracts pinning them in place.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

AI adoption can't be anything other than wildly inflated by aggressive misrepresentations and dark patterns injecting it into your life, like how my browser just asked to "shake to summarize", a feature that can only exist because someone thought human motion was an untapped boost for their numbers.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

0 AH. A new age dawns (derogatory) 4 AH. A plague has stricken the lands 8 AH. Generational damage resumes after 4yr ad break 10 AH. Democracy suspended 14 AH. LLMs win greater rights than guns, humans demoted to 4th class 17 AH. The king has fallen ill, replaced by continuous genAI video of himself

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You jolt awake, eyes swimming with visions. You reassure yourself there were never such things as LLMs, Skibidis, or Presidents. Ohio existed once, until just after Harambe's heroic death started the 5-way world war (5WWW). Your E-machete moans as you pull it out to begin scavenging for clean water.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pounce instinct activated!

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rooshoes @roo.shoes · 28/09/2026

very pleased that multiple people get this

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Overqualified" is a fucking slur

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know what they say: A stopped clock is pregnant twice a year.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Man, it feels good to get back into Heroes of the Storm as a friend group. I missed this. Can you believe they decided to execute the dev team out of nowhere 8 years ago at the height of the game's popularity? Cancelled all the tournaments too. I really hope it has fans to come back to.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am such a fan of coffee shop jazz. I wish I could have it as the background music for my whole life. But like, without having to wear headphones everywhere.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Having to manually dismiss the Gemini ad banner at the top of Every Single Doc and Spreadsheet I open all in a row is really pushing me over the effort threshold required to go search for or even implement a FOSS alternative.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How to judge character? "You can tell a lot about a person by the way they _" Drive a car Fix a leak Build a deck Assemble a sandwich Treat the waiter Play your favorite game Build a deck Their habits and their problem solving become clear in whatever activity space you're both most familiar with.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

en.wikipedia.org

Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Travel internationally, stay over a month, push past the culture shock, and truly discover how differently people around the world live. It's one of the greatest experiences in the world, and one that everyone should have. Become a citizen of Earth. Then we can talk about borders and immigration.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I get what Jensen's trying to say here, but one of the skills he seems to have traded away is understanding how we build skills. You can't go straight from counting 100 to designing PCBs. Every advanced skill is underpinned by math and/or reading, and AI is slashing the intelligence of a generation.

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Palo walo @lilnoodledragon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey hey hey hi the president of Drexel University bought The Academy of Natural Sciences (the oldest natural history museum in the Americas) and is trying to shut it down At the end of the video is a list of things you can do and people you can contact to help stop this!!

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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Voter: directly calls out Matt Gaetz for reaching for a new political bogeyman whenever someone tries to have a real conversation. Gaetz: immediately reaches for a new political bogeyman instead of having a conversation.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As someone who's color synaesthetic, 2 out of 4 is better than I was expecting. Math is Blue and English is Red tho.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gerrard Capashen in the card art of Dueling Grounds (Invasion, 2000) looks exactly like Jim Raynor in StarCraft 2 (2010).

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"We all grow up in contexts that instill biases into us, and it takes a lot of work and a lot of outside perspectives to untangle those biases, and there will always be things that you miss." - Red @overlysarcastic.bsky.social

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hey, @aaron.bsky.team, it's clear that vibe coding your platform regularly causes serous issues & unplanned outages that cost more than the devs you fired, and is already itself charging out the nose. So with no other benefits left… Was it worth the good graces of the Rationalist AI Sex Cultists?

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's not novel, but the one time I reliably feel most 'awake' and problem-solving capable is on a daily walk around the block. It's just a shame that there's so many days where I can't break through the mental fog & hostile city planning keeping me from actually getting up and going on those walks.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Democrats like Talarico need to understand that the voters they're reaching for are already committed Republicans, and throwing trans people under the bus to appeal to them only demonstrates a total lack of both Principles and Loyalty (the things that matter most to the Left and Right respectively)

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Normally I'd comment on how inevitable it is for two competing egos to fly too close to the sun, but in this case it's literally just one guy's ego thrashing in vain against his own unfathomable force of cringe that's steering us right up to the cliff's edge here.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Crazy how we only had 3000 satellites in orbit just 6 years ago and now we've quadrupled that mostly through Elon's complete disregard for the dangers of Kessler Syndrome. And now, 30 seconds is all it takes for an irreversible cascade of collisions to permanently lock space away from us forever.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I recently went back to basics in terms of comp sci projects with a game that guides you through building a computer starting from logic gates. My dad's been at the heart of this stuff since the 70s, and the joy on his face when we dug into assembler and opcodes together is now a core memory for me.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm all for literally anything to stymie the AI greed orgy, but just to clarify The federal offense of developing rogue nuclear weapons whose use would guarantee the end of civilization carries a LESSER penalty than the mandatory minimum we daily sentence black people to for a few grams of weed??

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Every year these don't happen is another year stolen from all our lives, another friend lost to medical neglect, another child we can't afford to bring into the world. None of this damage can be undone, but we could at least break their chains holding us back from trying to stop the bleeding.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The AI bubble needs to pop, housing as investment (especially corporate) needs to end, the gerontocracy needs to die off, the private insurance industry needs to be smashed and dismantled, and the nazis' culture war needs to be lost so hard that their ideas become laughably fringe again.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The quintessential experience of America as 3 roadways: - Winding suburban labyrinth where you're Not Welcome outside your destination - 45mph strip mall stroad of infinite traffic - Longest straight highway on Earth with occasional interchange megastructures evoking the concrete edifices of SciFi

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How much can ambidexterity be trained after the fact? My personal anecdotal evidence using chopsticks with my off hand just now says quite a lot, though maybe not enough to ever fully overcome handedness preference?

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

ADHD memory #11: The agonizing frustration with school teachers giving me hours of homework on concepts I'd grasped easily within class. It felt like the assignments were calling me stupid, insisting on repetition to pound things in when all I wanted was to move on quicker and learn more.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When right wingers keep calling all moderate leftists extremists, and the left listens and adjusts rightward for 50 years, this is what you get Democrats are so afraid of being called the radical left, something which will *never* stop, that they're now literally courting border wall voters In IOWA

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Every Republican POTUS since Nixon has been America's most abusive boyfriend. Every Democrat POTUS has been the cop that doesn't believe her.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

30 years I watched the GOP gleefully starve, slash, and tear apart every service that helps people so they can give the money to billionaires, while Dems have said little and done less. Trump set us back more decades than I've been alive. If Dems refuse to match that energy, we remain in freefall.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Since it's apparently the topic of the hour, yes I do want the next Dem POTUS to be at least as effective as FDR and in less time, because that's EXACTLY what Trump did with Project 2025. Have we so forgotten what it means to have standards? And to hold our leaders to them?

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Every food item that uses mayo is made better by using olive oil instead

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Maybe it's just the abnormal amount of caffeine I had today, but I am livid upset about the fact that we absolutely could restructure society to value community and sustainability over greed, and enforce it institutionally TODAY, if we acted together, and the rich fucks couldn't stop us And Y e t

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Julia Van Dyke, the ðude 🏳️‍⚧️🦋 @imrustyokay.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is so fucking funny, it needs alt text

A meme featuring "Our Blessed Blue" vs "Their Barbarous Red", featuring "Our Trained Sniper", "Our Cunning Engineer", "Our Battle-hardended Medic:, "Our Stoic Heavy", "Our Stoic Heavy", "Our Magnificent Demoman", "Our American Soldier", "Our Intrepid Scout" and "Our Pyro", vs "Their Crazed Gunman", "Their Grease Monkey", "Their Incompetent Doctor", "Their Fat Bald Bastard", "Their Drunken Wretch", "Their Canadian Hippie" "Their Tiny Baby Man" and "Their Pyro". The Red Side also has "Our Undetectable Spy".

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val (haunted arc) @teensith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"indulging the cruel part of your brain on an acceptable target makes you worse" is just factual sorry

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The fight to keep AI out of your daily life is a losing one so long as Windows remains the defacto standard. Switching to Linux is becoming more important and easier to do every month. Do it before Microsoft literally steals your voice.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Your great grandparents held no such notion, even in popular fiction, that werewolves only transform under the full moon. They did, however, walk past a dozen signs saying "Colored" or "Whites only" on their way to interview Civil War veterans for their history class essays.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The end of WWII was clearly an absolute event if we're still misattributing beliefs to centuries old traditions, when in reality so much of our culture that's "always been that way" was actually just what Boomers grew up with. "Generations of my family have-" Just 2 of them. It's been 2 generations.

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Jay Chan @jchan1e.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Kindness costs nothing, and it means everything.

MY SOUL: KINDNESS (GREEN)
"No matter how many times I got hurt, I never let that make me cruel."

KINDNESS 85%
PATIENCE 70%
JUSTICE 66%
INTEGRITY 55%
BRAVERY 32%
PERSEVERANCE 27%
DETERMINATION 22%
https://undertale.jadenthejaded.uk/

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