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@lucymcphail.com
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computer programmer, jazz guitarist, chorister, decent go player, transsexual butch dyke unofficial mascot of the @gleam.run programming language she/they

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Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is just to say I have solved the open questions that were in your paper and which you were probably saving for your phd students Forgive me they were delicious so incentive-laden and followed so readily once your postdoc's drafts mysteriously found their way into my training data
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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 05/08/2026
hello from skyspace!
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 03/08/2026
Contribute to Gleam, you too can delete code I wrote in 2018
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I don’t care if you like its cultural output. The BBC has been a major player in the immiseration of this country, in the persecution of trans people, immigrants, muslims, travellers and disabled people, in the spread of dangerous rhetoric about climate change and vaccines. It must be dismantled.
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hayleigh @hayleigh.dev · 27/07/2026
please nobody fill this out. some folks are suspicious that its from the dept of geography, but the suspicious part is there is no information sheet on who the researcher is or the purpose/use of the data collected. no ethics committee would allow this not least cambridge. please dont fill it out
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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 20/07/2026
I know I'm nearly two years late to the repost and six years to the original, but this is one of the funniest things I've read on the internet
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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Happy Labor Day! Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work... Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?
Stanhill, Lancashire, 1764. Wear and carpenter James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny, the first practical spinning-frame, to make the tedious task of producing cloth a little bit faster. He doesn't know it yet, but this will destroy the world.

Spurred by inventions like his, the industrial revolution will transform everything -- work power, the wealth of nations. Society as we know it began here, and it wasn't great for everyone. But a group of weavers and textile workers saw this future coming. And did their best to prevent it."Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" The standard narrative does that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed.

Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight. 

And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it.
Factory work paid little, since "the machines" did "the real work" human labourers were deemed unimportant and replaceable. FUN FACT!: Factory owners preferred to hire ORPHANS since less people would notice if they were maimed or killed on the job!


Now the owners quickly realized the workers might notice they did all the work for almost no pay. If they went on STRIKE or ARGUED FOR HGHER WAGES, this would threaten their tremendous wealth. In 1799, Parliament passed the Combination Act, which made FORMING TRADE UNIONS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, AND GOING ON STRIKE ILLEGAL. Organizing against the rich became a crime.If you were living through it, opposing the industrial revolution wasn't techno-phobia. It was SELF-DEFENSE. The combination act forced unions underground into secret societies. And the greatest secret of all was their leader - Ned Ludd. Ned had been a folk character for years. In one version after being whipped by his master, he smashed two knitting frames in a rage. In more fanciful versions, he then escaped to the Sherwood forest, here he lived among the animals as their king. Some versions specifically call him 'Much Better Than Robin Hood'.
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 18/07/2026
Gleam v1.19 introduces Gleam's new macro system, based on the one found in microsoft excel!
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What's happening to trans rights in Britain is more chilling than what's happening in the US. In the US there's an ecosystem of zealotry. The people dismantling trans rights openly lie, not just about trans people but about a whole host of things. For them to dismantle human rights feels natural.
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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 15/07/2026
I love when I look at my watch and it says 13:12, solidarity with my casio ✊
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 14/07/2026
no matter what font or logo generator is used, it always looks good as hell
the nascar logo except the colors are blue, white, pink because it's transgender. no it's not the flag though because that looks bad asymmetrically, whereas blue to pink is better. it reads PGHRT.DIY "a practical guide to feminizing hrt"
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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 12/07/2026
I just watched adef's balatro game at this year's SGDQ, it very much has the latter vibes (except the girlfriend bit sadly) and might just be the most exciting speedrun I've ever seen youtu.be/A7Go7IXlYLg
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Balatro by adef in 1:04:49 - Summer Games Done Quick 2026
YouTube video by Games Done Quick
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 07/07/2026
let's find out if there's a "people who screenshot their notifications when added to a list of people who screenshot their notifications" list
@schizanon.bsky.social
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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 06/07/2026
hell yeah, I'm wrong about all the things!
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/07/2026
🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?
goodlaw.social
I stand with trans people | Good Law Project
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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 01/07/2026
I have four golden berries in celeste now, and I fear that I may not be able to stop until I've got 201 (there is no 202nd berry, shush)
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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 15/06/2026
two chess engine talk videos published within 24 hours! I love the contrast between @asteri.sm doing absolutely wild things to make a cutting edge engine, and us gleamlins bumbling around trying to make them without u64s :) great work to @gearsco.de though, awesome talk! youtu.be/D_HaX_O1TAo
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Optimising the hell out of Gleam- Surya Rose - Gleam Gathering 2026
YouTube video by Gleam Gathering
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cosmo. @asteri.sm · 14/06/2026
there’s now a publicly-available recording of our RustWeek talk. it went extremely well, and I’m very proud of our work on it. talk is viewable @ youtu.be/Gx21yYLwn10 slides are hosted @ asteri.sm/assets/pdfs/...
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Writing a top-10 chess engine in Rust (Kora & Cosmo Bobak at RustWeek)
YouTube video by RustNL
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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 10/06/2026
this is fucking horrifying
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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 08/06/2026
this is already an excellent talk in its own right, but the hand drawn slide animations are blowing my mind
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Gleam Programming Language @gleam.run · 03/06/2026
The rainbow is here all year long, so we don't need to change the profile for June. But it is a good time to remind everyone that LGBTQIA+ rights are under attack all year long as well. And to steal @haskell.org's message: there would be no Gleam without trans people 🩵🩷🤍
pink star looking in the mirror with text "I'm going to be brave. I'm going to be myself", with rainbow pride and trans pride stickers on it. The background is rainbow
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Haskell programming language @haskell.org · 02/06/2026
The past years have seen horrendous attacks towards trans people. We have a duty to protect the most vulnerable members of our communities. There is no Haskell without the trans people who have shaped it through the years. This June is a month of celebrations, but the struggle continues. ✊🏳️‍⚧️λ
The trans flag with a greek lowecase lambda letter in black on it.
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Jenn / CaptainHanyuu 💖✨ @captainhanyuu.art · 01/05/2026
frieren getting eaten by the ikea mimic storage
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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I like bluesky because it feels so much like tumblr 1. barely works 2. userbase is annoying (affectionate)(not that affectionate) 3. being queer on here feels like I’m actively participating in ruining some tech company’s investment
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Nazariel 🏳️‍⚧️ @nazariel.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)
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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
A scene from Pacific Rim, in which a white man in a dusty suit stands in front of a blackboard covered in dense chalk equations: "In the beginning, the [Labour resets] were spaced apart 24 weeks. Then 12, then 6, then every 2 weeks. In 4 days we could be seeing a [reset] every 8 hours, until they are coming every 4 minutes. We should see a double [reset] within 7 days."
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them
• Delivering single-sex spaces on the basis of biological sex, in NHS wards, schools, sport and everyday life by upholding the Equality Act and delivering clear instructions to public services on how to comply with their legal obligations to women and to trans people.
• Keeping women's prisons for women, instructing the Scottish Prison Service to remove all biologically male prisoners from women's prisons within days of the election.
• Recommit the NHS to delivering single sex wards on the basis of biological sex, and ensuring patients can request same sex provision wherever possible.
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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 11/04/2026
joining in the soupposting
a bowl of vegan miso ramen with knife cut wheat noodles, which tasted just as good as it looked
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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
What I have frequently heard programmers say over the years: (1996) "Lines of Code" is a terrible metric (2006) "Lines of Code" is a terrible metric (2016) "Lines of Code added" is a terrible metric (2026) I have to use AI because it's the only way to meet my company's "Lines of Code added" quota
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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
so AI is supposed to revolutionize every single aspect of the reality as we know it, but it's something we shouldn't rely on for anything serious or important cause it's so fucking unreliable, do I get that right my dude ?
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥
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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 04/04/2026
downloaded axios and now I see this, what do I do
a desktop computer with the side panel removed. there's an ikea rat inside
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Vivian
@muchnerve
"Star Trek is woke now"
the main characters of Deep Space Nine include Black Jesus, Bisexual Terrorist, Trans Worm, Doctor Twink with his boyfriend Fashion Lizard, Traumatized Goo, Communist Himbo, and Pro-Union Irishman
11:51 PM • 04 Jul 22 • Twitter for iPhone
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mcc @dryad.technology · 01/04/2026
This is my trans agenda
The most effective way to prevent trans adults is to eliminate trans children. The far right understands this, so the focus of its anti-trans strategy is to create an unlivable environment for trans children. Trans people also fully understand this. The democrats and mushy center don't understand it and react as if it's just reasonable "adult" things like transgenderism be kept out of schools and kids' media. They act as if those kids aren't trans already, in the schools alreadyTrans people are a wedge. Attacking gays stopped working, so Republicans attack trans people to get at gays. Trans minors are the wedge of the wedge. They pick on the subgroup that can't defend themselves and which Democrats are least likely to stand up for

To Democrats, this is a reasonable "compromise". Let go on the trans children, focus on the more winnable rights for trans adults.

For trans adults this is obviously, axiomatically unacceptable because *we are all ex-children*. Anything done to children is something that was done to our past selvesSomewhere right now there is a ten-year-old child who is, for all practical purposes, me. She is experiencing something she cannot explain or yet understand. She is in an unfriendly environment (Texas? Alberta?) that does not help her understand, punishes her when she tries to figure it out herself.When I see trans children being legislated away, I think: I care more about what happens to this child than what happens to me. I want her to reach forty-one without being broken and damaged, like I am from all the things cis people did to me. I want the next me to have a better life than this one.
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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 31/03/2026
I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important
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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 31/03/2026
@cassidoo.co figured I'd have a crack at your interview question :) git.sr.ht/~lucymcphail...
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The thing about AI is that I understand there are tasks you would like technology to do for you, makes all the sense in the world, but I have no idea why any of those tasks would be “write a book” or “perform a song” or “act in a movie” or a lot of the rest of this shit
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 31/03/2026
Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! We're everywhere and we're cool. Here's the trans pride flag 🏳️‍⚧️ on a mid-90s Pentium running DOS.
A CRT on top of a 90s PC (with floppy disk) showing the Trans Pride Flag
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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 26/03/2026
really neat tesuji from a game I just played, black to play and save that clump of stones (crossing my fingers that bluesky decides to show this to my three followers who play go)
a screenshot of a go board with black to play, and there's a clump of black stones with only two liberties left. I don't know how to explain the position well enough that you can find the winning move without seeing the board, but I promise it's really cool
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🥭MANGO - Comms Closed @mgosketches.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I made a papercraft just for this
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
yeah i separate art from the artist. i put the harry potter books in the recycling and jk rowling in the trash.
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Zoe Tunnell ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
With the HP trailer dropping tomorrow, here's the whole deal: If you watch the show, hell even just the trailer, I will think less of you. I will dislike you. I will think you don't care about trans people. That's it. It's been years. There's no wiggle room. No qualifiers. You care or you don't.
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Begging cis people not to press the button that makes children kill themselves. “But it’s such a pretty button,” they protest, sweat pouring down their face from the effort of not pushing it. “It looks like so much fun to press.” Dead children, we remind them. “...what kind of children?” they ask.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 20/03/2026
Pigeon milk.
A six panel comic. In panel 1, a banner says "Pigeons make milk" and a smaller banner says "A fact you didn't need to know". A pigeon stands looking at the reader next to a carton of milk. In panel 2, the text says "Like mammals, pigeons feed milk to their babies. Both male and female pigeons produce it." Two pigeons sit next to their pink and gray babies, all looking happy, and one of the parents says, "Teamwork." In panel 3, the text says "Pigeons don't have nipples. They make milk in a part of their esophagus and regurgitate it." Two pigeons stand next to each other, one with a cow udder and one with a line of nipples down its chest, with red X's next to them. In panel 3, the text says "Amazingly, it evolved independently from mammal milk but it's triggered by the same hormone, prolactin." A black and white dairy cow looks down at a pigeon, who says "We're not so different, you and I." In panel 5, the text says "Like our milk, it has fats, proteins, immune-supporting substances, and more." A cow foot and a pigeon wing are shown high-fiving, and text says "milk high five". In panel 6, the text says "However, it's very chunky, so don't trust any pigeon to make you a good latte." A white coffee cup steaming with a latte inside is shown with the contents censored, and a pigeon leans into the frame looking proud of itself.
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Niels Leenheer @html5test.com · 13/03/2026
DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user.
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BiblicallyAccurateMoth @bibleaccuratemoth.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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Olaren @olaren.dev · 25/02/2026
.shell-command::before { content: "$"; } This one simple trick allows you to have shell commands in your website without forcing the user to copy the "$"!!1!11!! please use it
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Oh, the grand old duke of york He ██████████████████ He ██████████████████ And he ██████████████████
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