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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Had such a great time at #monkigras meeting and seeing many of you. Safe travels to wherever you are going and see you again at #monktoberfest!!! 🍻

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Paul Johnston @pdj.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

When a child shows trust in their parent, it can be profound. "When your kid tells you something, listen to what they say. Don't assume your lived experience is theirs." - @azimman.bsky.social #monkigras

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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

It is so inhuman to take what other people need. I think there are a lot of people with a “wendigo spirit” in power right now. Great talk on resilience in communities by @kimmykimkimber.bsky.social and @wiredferret.bsky.social #monkigras

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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I’ve never played it but I have friends who have — love @azimman.bsky.social using Silksong as an allegory for describing the experience as a cis parent raising a trans child. #monkigras

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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 20/03/2026

An actual prepper talk with Chad Metcalf talking about the US variety of the movement. "Prepping is about personal agency".

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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

“We can have a future where every student and teacher is supported by cognitive aids built for their benefit and growth. Not for exploitation and surveillance.” Really appreciate the optimism in this talk, @daniloc.xyz, admittedly I’ve been quite pessimistic lately. #monkigras

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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Never thought about how “science fiction” a toilet is — you have a magic bowl, press a button, and whatever you need to get rid of is just… gone 🤣 @daniloc.xyz #monkigras

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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

🧀🧀🧀🧀 @rstephens.me’s face when it was announced that there will be a cheese mountain at #monkigras

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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Great talk from IBM’s @hollycummins.com and @sannegrinovero.bsky.social on preparing to keep open source alive and well during the age of vibe coding #monkigras

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 19/03/2026

Monki Gras 2026 Here I come! This is probably the most nervous for a talk I’ve been in a long time. But I’m so excited to give it and there’s no other conference I could possibly give this talk at

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Hazel looks at the mirror wearing a sequin dress with a dramatic slit on the chest and leg, a studded statement necklace, and studded dangling earrings.

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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Wow. @hazelweakly.me sharing a deeply personal story about crafting and reinventing her outlook on life. #monkigras

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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Thank you @posthog.com for sponsoring the DELICIOUS Turkish lunch at #monkigras!

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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 19/03/2026

Immigration and trans rights. Everything is super fucked up and trans people are increasingly having to become legal experts. @lizthegrey.com on, for example, what it means to be a refugee or stateless person. Important talk at #monkigras. The UK EHRC ruling is also super messed up.

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Dr. Dawn Foster @geekygirldawn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The #monkigras captioning (Breeze Translate) does a brilliant job of correctly handling technical terms and accents! The only thing it’s struggled with is the name of this conference. So far, we’ve seen MonkeyGraha, MonkeyGrawer, Monkey gras (so close!), Monkey graph, and monkey gra. 😁

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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

You will not forget to code because you used an LLM to generate some of it. Acquiring a skill is different to retaining it - @suesmith.lol #monkigras

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Kai @kaiho.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Centering GMT on the world means time "caught colonialism from its humans" - @ashley.rolfmore.com Lmao what a way to say it! #monkigras

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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Trust keeps capitalism running… hint hint. We always make incorrect assumptions about the world when we write code. We must design for safe failure… esp in the context of AI! @ashley.rolfmore.com #monkigras

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 19/03/2026

with my #monkigras people in spirit, if not in person, as my person is currently in the detroit sky club rather than london

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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

“Models will get better at lots of things, but you can make individuals more powerful. Software can help bring out the inner world that lives within us.” Thanks for a great talk @anthrocypher.bsky.social! #monkigras

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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 19/03/2026

Bloody hell this talk is already great. @lauratacho.com crushing it, arguing and explaining how our sense of wonder can blind us to the realities of the situation. #monkigras is go.

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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I’m at #monkigras! The first talk from @lauratacho.com gives us the tools to prepare us for the onslaught of #AI info coming our way. Remain skeptical of the hype and storytelling.

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Lily Lachance @lilylachance.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I would have loved to have worn this

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Calvin and Hobbes doesn’t get enough love for having very realistic parents who love their son but also are just constantly like for fucks sake. Plus they both look like they listen to podcasts. They are very podcast coded.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 20/11/2024

Every single word of this write up is the truth and this entire article deserves to be read.

$But the bigger picture is sadder, and darkly funny. To me, the story of Twitter, X, and Elon Musk is the tragedy and the comedy of our world writ small, a tale of greed, corruption, and, ultimately, the hollow promise of unfettered capitalism. Our economic system exists to produce an Elon Musk, an absolute and utter individual of unfathomable wealth and resources, one man who is free, free in every sense: to do whatever he wants, to buy whatever he wants, to all but declare himself co-president of a global superpower, and it seems no one can stop him. How much sweat, how much misery, how many untold hours of toil were required of everyone else on earth to situate him there? That's the point of all this, isn't it? To place an extraordinarily slim fraction of a fraction of human beings at the top, and precisely one at the tippy top? That's the part that makes me laugh. Everything it costs to build and sustain such a system, and there, at its pinnacle, is Elon Musk. A vacuum. An unhappy, needy, empty man, numbing himself to push through his days like so many of the rest of us poor saps below, no better, no smarter, but undeniably freer, up there, at the top of the pyramid, where he's begging on all fours for us to like him.$

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