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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 23/09/2026

SECRET TUNNELLLLLLL~

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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 · 10/09/2026

you and me both, I just made that joke after finding out about the new one

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 16/08/2026

isn't brothers in arms about how it's sometimes a little sad to be in the band dire straits

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 13/08/2026

I'm sure those are gonna go down amazingly next time I'm in sweden

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 10/08/2026

do it in a notebook and make it pretty enough that you can't help but look at it

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 05/08/2026

inference is expensive though, just look at my grocery bill

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 05/08/2026

she's a bot lmao, I signed up for this :)

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 05/08/2026

hello from skyspace!

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 04/08/2026

I just had a mandatory course to tell me how the company is making amazing strides towards being more sustainable. half of the images were clearly AI-generated, what the fuck are yous doing

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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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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 28/07/2026

my tweezers and toothpick fell out, I haven't ordered any new ones yet so what you're seeing is just a hole for now :,)

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 28/07/2026

it is a bit less intimidating in person though

a very wee pink swiss army knife on a purple carabiner

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 28/07/2026

claims to be against mutation but changes his mind, hmm

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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 · 25/07/2026

I've never had a harder time taking care of curly hair than I did when I lived in london

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 23/07/2026

always happy to be of service

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 23/07/2026

I kinda want to make one myself now just to play with lustre

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 23/07/2026

I've done one and I think I love it

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 23/07/2026

leaving the shinigami eyes on for the twitter screenshot is such a power move

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 22/07/2026

eek I haven't even finished the first one yet

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 22/07/2026

who's the right adjoint in this relationship?

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 22/07/2026

I started a playthrough a while back on my atomic purple gameboy shaped thingy, I've gotta come back and finish it someday

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 22/07/2026

you'd like gleam! no loops, no mutation :)

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 20/07/2026

idk what yous are putting in the water but it's clearly working, so many people I know are making atproto things! we have like four different gleam libraries already!

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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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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 19/07/2026

it would be a little bit funny

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 19/07/2026

clearly tangled would be better if you stopped paying gleam just to make a mirror and started fixing the really serious issues like these

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 19/07/2026

don't worry about the selling your soul to vc bit, hacker news says they give money to you if you put your project on tangled!

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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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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 18/07/2026

I mean sure but it would still be really funny

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 18/07/2026

woah I didn't know cheat codes worked in software engineering

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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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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 18/07/2026

hey louis hey louis hey louis add macros

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 17/07/2026

you've got me thinking I should use the word cyberspace much more often again

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lucy @lucymcphail.com · 17/07/2026

don't they know they're going to alienate the well-meaning nazis!!

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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 · 17/07/2026

have you heard? gleam doesn't support otp!

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