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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 06/03/2026

Gravity wells and disillusionment troughs: A Practical guide to Agentic Engineering. I wrote about my journey with AI software dev. I'm starting with why, for those cynical, suspicious, or ambivalent, as I was only 2 months ago. Jump ahead if you're beyond that (linked below).

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Gravity wells and disillusionment troughs: A Practical guide to Agentic Engineering

or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Claude NOTE: This is a series on my education with AI-driven software development. I'm starting with why, for those cynical, suspicious, or ambivalent ...

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 06/02/2026

My job has changed, but not that much.

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 20/01/2026

It's Cinema Appreciation Day! Nothing - *nothing* - makes me feel "Fuck Yeah This Is Why I Love Movies" more than David's yearly countdown. <3

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 18/01/2026

cis women that come up to trans women to say "can i just say, i really love your vibe" should be given flowers and medals.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/01/2026

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Don't talk to journalists about DIY HRT.

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 18/12/2025

Today is my last day at AWS after 13 years!! In retrospect I don't know what else to say about it. A thread doesn't feel like enough. A book might get me sued. 💀 Onwards and forwards! I'm staying in tech but not American Big Tech. So do with that hint what you will.

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 24/10/2025

Fuck, I read this headline as Devops and was *SO CONFUSED*.

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 22/10/2025

Narcissists are overrepresented in executive class running companies. Narcissists love sycophants. Gen AI is a sycophantic technology. Executives across all industries are obsessed with Gen AI. Gee, who could've seen that coming.

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 22/10/2025

Rannking all the PWHL kits+vibes now that @pwhl--vancouver.bsky.social is ready. Worst to best. 8) Ottawa Charge. Nothing wrong with it, nothing right either. Why do Ottawa teams overindex on Canadian-red? 6/10 7) Minnesota Frost. Love the purple, the actual logo is too corporate-bland. 7/10 1/4

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Leona Scream @editor.scot · 08/10/2025

hoohoohee

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 05/10/2025

This cut. The needle drop to Steely Dan. I burst out into tears. I'm not even kidding. One Battle After Another is as good as you heard. I cried at the end too, but it's the end of Act One that's staying with me and I can't stop thinking about the next day.

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 29/09/2025

I've been surprisingly restrained with making trans girl memes, so far in my transition, even though making memes is like my love language. So here's one, in honour of fall starting properly.

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 26/09/2025

God I fucking love the Peacemaker opening credits. Every single time. Send tweet.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 22/09/2025

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 20/09/2025

Would it be too overly-online to start describing Charlie Kirk as a lolcow?

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 20/09/2025

So yes npm is the Node Package Manager, but it is not an acronym for Node Package Manager, it is an acronym for "npm is NOT an acronym", which is kind of a homage to the acronym GNU which, you know how when most people refer to Linux what they're actually referring to is, in fact, GNU/Linux, and...

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 19/09/2025

So, I don't think it's great that the late-night host responses l to the Kimmel thing was to make a version of the same joke by mockingly "acquiescing" to Trump by praising him. The fascists don't care. They can't tell sarcasm. Mock surrender to censorship is still surrender to censorship.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 19/09/2025

Guess I'm not going to re:Invent this year?

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 18/09/2025

He forgot to mention that Comedy would now be illegal everywhere else in America.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Megyn Kelly says it best, MAGA got so upset that an educated Black man became president that they’ve chosen to destroy all that makes America great and want it to become a white ethnostate to ensure it never happens again. Everything happening today is because Obama was a successful president.

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Megyn Kelly blames Obama for America’s divisions in reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder

The conservative political commentator brought up the former president when asked about how she is handling the death of Charlie

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

All YouTube videos are either too short or too long.

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 15/09/2025

Not anymore, I've lasered off my denial beard, and I'm a lot happier for it.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 11/09/2025

the solarposting will continue until morale improves

If this book has a heart, we’ve now reached it. For this chapter I’m going to leave caveat and doubt behind and revel in the particular moment—conscious that we need to work hard to make sure the moment lasts, but convinced that sheer ebullience is one way to make sure that happens. Something staggering is occurring on our planet, something that wasn’t foreseen. It is entirely possible that historians will look back on these few years and note them for the Trump renaissance, or the birth of AI. But if we’re lucky, they’ll be recalled as the moment we took a decisive turn toward the sun. You’ll remember that June and July 2023 shattered the old records for the hottest days ever measured on planet earth. Though the records are a bit imprecise, those also seem to be the months when humans passed a much more hopeful mark—for the first time we were putting up a gigawatt’s worth (which is to say a coal or nuclear power plant’s worth) of solar panels every day. By the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2024, when we once again crushed those temperature records, we were putting up a gigawatt of solar panels every 18 hours. We were suddenly on the steep part of the S curve, with wind and solar scaling faster than any energy technology before them. That gigawatt we were erecting every 18 hours? It had taken a full year to install it in 2004, and a week in 2016. Solar generation grew more in 2024 than coal-fired power has grown—total—since 2010. By 2026, according to the International Energy Agency, solar will generate more electricity than all the world’s nuclear plants combined. By 2028 it will generate more than all the hydro dams. By 2030 it will have outstripped gas, and by 2032 coal. If we manage to stay on the IEA’s net-zero-by-2050 curve, then solar energy will become the earth’s largest source of all energy, not just electricity, by the 2040s. We’re still at the very beginning of this boom. In 2024 solar panels covered an area just roughly half the size of Wales or of New

We’re still at the very beginning of this boom. In 2024 solar panels covered an area just roughly half the size of Wales or of New Jersey. And yet they already provided 6 percent of the earth’s electricity—three times as much electricity, as The Economist pointed out in a special issue on the “Dawn of the Solar Age,” as the US used in 1954 when the solar cell was invented. To say that this rapid growth was unexpected is an understatement. It would be more accurate to say that everyone who has tried to forecast how fast sun and wind power would grow have not just missed the mark but shot the arrow pretty much straight into the ground. The Economist again: “In 2009, when installed solar capacity worldwide was 23 gigawatts, the International Energy Agency predicted that in the 20 years to 2030 it would increase to 244 gigawatts.” In fact, it hit that mark six years later, and now we’re installing 244 gigawatts every six months. For most of the last decade the IEA’s five-year forecasts missed by an average of 235 percent. The only group that came even remotely close to getting it right was not JPMorgan Chase or Dow Jones or Blackrock. It was Greenpeace, which estimated in 2009 that we’d hit 921 total gigawatts by 2030. We were 50 percent above that by 2023. It’s possible that Jenny Chase—who has been tracking the economics of solar power for more than two decades for Bloomberg—knows more about the subject than anyone on earth: “I simply can’t believe where we are with solar,” she told The New York Times in mid-2024. “If you’d told me nearly 20 years ago what would be the case now, 20 years later, I would have just said you were crazy. I would have laughed in your face. There is genuinely a revolution happening.” One reason we’ve missed some of that revolution is because so much of it is taking place in China, and we’re used to thinking that anything important must happen in the West. By some measures, seven Chinese companies that I wager most Americans have never heard

GCL Technology Holdings, Xinte Energy, Longi Green Energy Technology, Trina Solar, JA Solar Technology, and JinkoSolar—were by 2024 producing more energy than the Seven Sisters of the oil industry. “If Tongwei goes ahead with its plan for a 400,000-ton polysilicon plant in Inner Mongolia, nearly doubling its current output,” The Economist calculated, “it might even overtake Exxon Mobil” (and Exxon is the company that did more to shape the world we know than any other). As longtime Wall Street Journal energy analyst David Fickling pointed out, even those numbers are an underestimate. “A solar panel sold by Longi in 2024 will be generating electricity for decades—most carry 25-year warranties. Oil and gas sold this year, however, will almost all be used up in a matter of months. If you look at the long-term flow of energy into the global economy that’s crystallized with each solar cell produced, it’s many times what’s being provided by Big Oil.” China, in 2020, set a goal of producing 1,200 gigawatts of clean power by 2030; in fact it hit that target in early 2024, six years ahead of schedule.

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 07/09/2025

I recognize that "follow != endorse" but 50 is still disheartening. DHH has gone from arbitrary "I just want to focus on running a company not solving every DEI world issue" concerns to railing against non-white immigration & now gender ideology grooming talking points. Enough. Forget this fool.

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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

So, Chicago, it's your turn now and man, I am so so sorry. Nobody should have to go through this. This is awful. This is fascism. Organize. Step up. Don't think other people will do it -- the might, maybe even they will, but they need you, too. Be like LA -- be sand in their gears. 9/

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 04/09/2025

Rookie ADHD procrastinator behaviour. That's when you hit 'em with one of: * "Oh i was working on it offline" or * "Oops I think I must've had access to an older version" Then you LOCK IN and do everything in the time it would've taken a neurotypical to copy and paste a paragraph in Sharepoint.

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 01/09/2025

When I was 15 I bombed an internship interview at EASports (the age is a story for another time). EA: Do you know linear algebra? Me (lying): Yes. EA: I didn't think Math 200 at UBC taught linear algebra, isn't it calculus? Me: I looked at some things on my own time. EA: What things? 1/2

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

You’re telling me this guy is not a more desirable guy to promote than Gavin Newsom

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 17/08/2025

There's an infamous tumblr quote (screenshot) but it applies to a wide variety of IRL scenarios (personal & professional) where people talk past each other without realizing they think they have the same goal but have dramatically different expectations. So I was thinking today about AI art... 1/

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 05/08/2025

‼️ Trump's NSF is demanding UCLA violate CA law and ban trans women from college bathrooms, dorms, and sports, in order to restore illegally withheld NSF grants. After other universities capitulated to these ridiculous demands, UCLA students and staff must ensure UCLA doesn't follow. Link in🧵

August 1, 2025
Dr.Julio Frenk Chancellor Jniversity of California -Los Angeles 2147 Murphy Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095
Ref: Updated Notice of Award Suspensions
Dr. Frenk:
I write you with an update on our prior letter of July 30, 2025. This letter supplements our previous communication.
Pursuant to 2 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) $ 200.339(c), and our previous communications, UCLA is officially notified that the National Science Foundation (NSF) is hereby suspending the attached list of grant awards to the University of California Los Angeles UCLA). UCLA should immediately cease all activities on these award numbers. The purpose of this action is to address concerns reported and observed in UCLA programs and ensure compliance with applicable Federal statutes and regulations, and the terms and conditions of these Federal awards. This action is effective 7/30/2025.
Noncompliance:
NSF has identified the following specific examples of noncompliance:
. UCLA engages in racism, in the form of illegal race-based preferences in admissions practices;
• UCLA fails to promote a research environment free of antisemitism and bias;
. UCLA discriminates against and endangers women by allowing men in women's sports and private women-only spaces.

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 31/07/2025

Every an ivy league agrees to eradicate trans people from their campus, I'm going to keep pointing this out: >$510 million in federal funding was at risk for the institution. > $7.2 billion endowment Cowards. www.politico.com/news/2025/07... investment.brown.edu/endowment

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The most important thing for cybertruck owners to do is to wash it regularly with saltwater and lemon juice, especially in the first six months. This will preserve the finish

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 30/07/2025

So, I realized I'm a trans woman in March. I realize you already knew that from my "she/her" classic millennial I-Did-A-Thing post. I haven't talked about it here, but I'm out socially, at work, to family. No secrets, only pride! 💗 So, AMA, I guess? 💁‍♀️ Will delete this if no replies by tomorrow. 🤦

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13/07/2025

i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf

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Nikki Pinski (she/her) @nikkipin.ski · 02/07/2025

So they have 127 years worth of the lost federal funding in their endowment but folded like a lawn chair. Cool. Cool cool cool.

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