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Ruby Quail

@quail.bsky.social
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pretty artist designer, and technologist with red hair, I make gay art and write code for @acmilabs.bsky.social,🏳️‍⚧️ girl, (she/her) rubyquail.design (also @rubyquaildesign elsewhere)

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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 4h
What I find every vibe coders journey endlessly funny is the pathway from “I can make something to exactly my specifications and tastes” then realising that nobody would want something that is exactly made to their specifications and tastes, and that can’t pay for their mortgage.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 11h
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 8h
I don't know; I feel like it's pretty clear why living under queer-hating fascists would make people less likely to identify publicly as queer.
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 7h
Working full time and trying to go to MIGW stuff has killed me, I do not have energy
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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 22h
i'll make a proper post later BUT play the Parasensor demo ITS OUT NOW store.steampowered.com/app/3722090/...
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Parasensor on Steam
When Marisol accepts a job as a telecom technician, she finds herself in a quarantine zone where civilians are mutating into insects. Connect with strangers, confront grotesque creatures, and unravel ...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19h
You guys fantasize, a lot, about not having to pay for labor or be responsible for treating the labor source with dignity. So much of GenAI discourse is about a desire for ethical enslavement. And that does not exist.
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 20h
Also I think most tech now is trying to push people away from tech. Automation over experience.
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 20h
All the money and attention went to a single technology, and one that has a fairly clear politic to it, and pretty awful figureheads
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Sleeping Awake @sleepingawake.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
RIP. Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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GHOULISH - Wishlist PARASENSOR now! @ghoulish.com.au · 07/10/2026
Terrified to announce that Parasensor's demo is OUT NOW ON STEAM 📣😱 Become telecom technician Marisol and explore our freaky Footscray-inspired quarantine zone. 1 demo play = 1 flower for artist @unseconds.bsky.social who we suspect hasn't smelt a flower yet this spring :') #indiegames #indiedev
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think there’s a big gap in empathy between the “yes the creators of these systems are awful, but their actions wont materially effect my life, and I find these systems useful so 🤷‍♂️” and the “these people and systems are making my life materially much worse, I don’t care if they can code”
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The shrew and turnip would make a great pub name.
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decryption @decryption.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
ahh the slow decline of sizzle subscribers when i do 0 promotion of it - time to get in the clown suit, jump around like an idiot and hope people give me money thesizzle.com.au - australia's best technology newsletter, all the other ones are shit
a chart showing that when I debase myself with "self promotion" people pay for my newsletter, but when I don't, there's a slow, steady decline in paying subscribers
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I remember a colleague once saying that women and trans people being abused on twitter was our own fault and we should be better at blocking people. 2000 is a lot of people to block, not to mention blocking… sky news.
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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
its so nice to come to bluesky where nobody like matt walsh will share yr lighthearted article about women changing their surnames ending with me saying i should be a judge and decide base on coolness. and approx 2000 people wont call me ugly and fat. and rita panahi wont discuss it on sky news
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I was hoping at least it would’ve been both of them :(
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know :((((((((((((
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think a lot of them are quite insecure and anxious, like negativity in general really seems to irk them, I’ve been reprimanded significantly for posting very even handed critiques, I legitimately think it’s tech twitter brainrot.
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Laura McGarrity @a-warm-garlic-yurt.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Portrait, Lady Abigail Quail, 1878 🧶 #embroidery #handembroidery #blueskyart #birdart
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✨🔹🦋⟣ NEO ⟢🦋🔹✨ @tokyozilla.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
getting this out of my system, drew a gambel's quail
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s quite flexible, and fun.
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
when I started learning illustration i kept thinking "man, this is hard, I'd rather just roll a dice several times to get something approximately finished, that I can then use my human effort to clean up"
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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026
one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Games people are good people, it’s always nice to spend time with games people
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Like Stochastic Parrots, TESCREAL is also an acronym they hate and are talking about. In the comments agreeing with a poster about TESCREAL, was Joscha Bach saying that the acronym basically accuses everyone we disagree with of being Hitler. Funny he brings up hitler. "Very blue eyed" indeed.
Joscha Bach to Jeffrey Epstein

Glad that you had some fun Together!

Michael Vassar

Michele Reilly:

Very blue eyed indeed.

Cheers!

Joscha
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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 04/10/2026
why learn english properly if AI can already write it
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Grace @gracekind.net · 04/10/2026
Martin Luther speech bubble meme
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
DST is the worst because I have to wait an extra hour for @puzzmo.com
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
it’s always “protect girls’ and women’s sports,” but never “protect girls and women”
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The best thing about dragon age is still that fantasy England was just like “girl Jesus had a dog, we are going to make this dog like our whole thing”
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Elissa @elissablack.com · 03/10/2026
Daylight savings fucking sucks. I do not want more daylight in the evening. Make the sun go away faster please. The less the better.
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It was partially filmed in my old uni building (which everyone fucking hates) and I will never forgive the film for that lol. That building should not exist.
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Worst fucking day of the year.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lucky you! I hope you have a wonderful time.
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oooo I like this!
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Emergency sirens just went off in my head.
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Games week is terrible because always by the end of it I’m completely in “I should quit my job and make a game” when that is definitely something I very much do not have the skill or drive to do successfully. That and starting a PhD are the big brain traps that I constantly gravitate towards…
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 03/10/2026
EVERY UK MP needs to read this You are all part of a government that is creating a situation so hostile and unsafe that people are leaving the country This is not an isolated case. You have the power to do something about this.
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Natalie 🦊 @nataliethistime.com · 03/10/2026
Wrote an article about moving from GitHub to a self-hosted instance of @gitea.com secured by @tailscale.com. The process was pretty simple and I'd absolutely recommend self-hosting important data in this era of the internet. Have a read if you're so inclined - nataliethistime.com/blog/saying-...
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Saying Goodbye to GitHub | Home of Natalie Rose
After years of loyal use, the platform has become unusable. This article covers using Gitea and Tailscale to host my own projects including container registry and build pipelines.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 03/10/2026
I don't think LLM-based software systems are like homeopathy in the sense that they don't work at all; they're more like cars, in the sense that they do do the things they're meant to do but those things are not generally good for society.
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Boo-rad Shankar @bradshankar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Two Vancouver indie gems right here. 🔥
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Ashley Claymore @ashley-c.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm really excited with the amount of things we now have agreement on! Still some open design points to resolve before Stage 2.7 but have already had great input on these 🚀
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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's my bookiversary. (check comments for a link that works.)
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/10/2026
You don't need to trip over yourself to tell lesbians that "it's okay to sleep with men!" Every institution, cultural norm and social pressure is constantly telling us it's okay to sleep with men. Most of our families would be ecstatic if we slept with men. We got the message. It's fine. Shut up.
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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What I find fundamentally weird, is the same devs that jump on every new model etc etc, where in many cases the ones who derided JavaScript so much for the constant new frameworks, like, at least be consistent
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 02/10/2026
I don’t begrudge anybody using—even enthusiastically—LLMs for coding. They’ve become mandatory in many workplaces. But if you’re promoting or normalising generative models then you’re allied with religious extremists, fascists, and grifters and you’ve already picked a side opposing the rest of us
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