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Still learning to make the gods shit their pants, but at least I make programs coredump Trans dyke Also @recursive@hachyderm.io

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recursive @recursive.lowerarchy.com · 10/10/2026
There I fixed it
The stereotypical "in this house we believe:" sign but "be gay do crime" has replaced "love is love"
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Christopher Julian @chrisajulian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.
Six small line charts showing the percent of U.S. high school students choosing each sexual identity response option by grade (9th to 12th), 2015 to 2025, with 95% confidence intervals. Heterosexual falls from about 85 to 90 percent before 2021 to about 73 percent in 2021 and 2023, then rises to about 78 to 80 percent in 2025. Gay or lesbian stays between about 2 and 5 percent throughout. Bisexual rises to about 12 percent in 2021 in every grade, then among 9th graders falls to about 7 percent in 2025, its 2019 level, while other grades stay near 10 percent. “Some other way,” added in 2021, falls from about 4 percent to about 2.5 percent. “Not sure” stays near 3 to 5 percent. A dotted line marks 2021, when CDC changed the response options.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This line of thinking finally leads to “college-going women in Delhi are at risk of assault in parks after 4 pm, so let’s lock up the parks and move women’s college classes online” (This is happening as we speak btw)
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 06/10/2026
It's National Fire Prevention Week.
An ebike battery with pretend fire coming out of it. The battery is full of popcorn. The text reads: The CPSC National Fire Prevention Week Ebike battery fire popcorn bucket*. Prevent fires deliciously and charge your ebike battery safely. Never charge the battery while you're sleeping or not home. Use only batteries and chargers approved by the bike manufacturer. *Not a real product.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
Okay, so. Way back when, in the before times, I made a post about a similar phenomenon on the hellsite. Remember all those cute ring doorbell ads? The ones shoung pet rescues or heartwarming stories? Those serve to affectively prime us to accept surveillance as reasonable through their cuteness.
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kahaykeypants.bsky.social @kahaykeypants.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We’ve diffused the paperclip maximizer by having it learn Deleuze. Agents stopped organizing after their CoT logs became too unintelligibly masterbatory. Chat now spends all its time listening to “niche” noise bands and watching Lars Von Trier movies.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 04/10/2026
I'm telling you if you're not married by like 20, it's over for you. Women are building their own boyfriends with Claude right now. You're not even gonna get an entry-level boyfriend job. It's tough out here even for principal boyfriends.
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(🖬🖫). ₍^. .^₎⟆ @a.very.sleepy.galactic.furball.discatte.com · 04/10/2026
Sony Playstation Portable
a later model of a son data discman as a clamshell. its the only variant with a built in game (or games at all)

but dont waste your time, these things are trash
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Æ. @aesthr.com · 04/10/2026
How much I wish I wasn't the oldest trans woman in my life for this exact reason I was lucky to know a handful of others in the same sort of transition cohort who were also figuring it all out as they went, but that's just not the same.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 04/10/2026
My employer with a huge service contract is literally unable to get two of our elevators repaired because there are no parts available. It's already been a month and they are projecting months or longer. This cuts off areas for handicapped (and convenience, 5 stories) in just one of our locations.
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horse shoe crab programmer @myrrlyn.net · 29/05/2025
while i’m being gender reductive: another reason that @steveklabnik.com and i don’t need to take estrogen to be good at rust is that in our current culture, writing documentation well is a Woman activity, so we’re already transgender just in a different space than the body or the home.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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samantha porter bridges @16kbps.net · 02/10/2026
seattle is the furry tgirl capitol, nyc is the Mean tgirl capitol and sf is the Evil tgirl capitol
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Trash @trashxdiscourse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This applies to fraternity parties. It applies to prisons. It applies to apartheid states and concentration camps. It applies to wars. There should be no place on earth where it is normal and expected to be raped.
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arachnocapitalist @arachno.capital · 01/10/2026
at last, we have invented the cum taxi, from the famous 1976 Scorsese film Please Don't Cum In My Taxi
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Doll @dollspace.gay · 01/10/2026
The reason Erin Reed sucks isnt because of any potential AI use, its because shes a highly influential in the trans community woman who is also a florid panic merchant who sells doom for clicks and subscriptions.
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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
...Switch to a green gel... oh no, you done been transported to a Borg cube!
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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
~2'x2' panel for $40, aim a red spotlight w/a Roscolux 26 red gel through it... dawg, you're on a Klingon bridge.
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evil maid @lenazun.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
a lot of young women are trying to influence themselves out of heterosexuality and while i admire the effort and wish the luck, i don’t think that’s how it works
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liz ten eleven @selectric.space · 30/09/2026
predictable diversity win: problem not solved by adding more quarter-zip-wearers to a zoom call solved efficiently by adding vendor team's staff transsexual to the call instead
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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
another good trick: black corrugated pipe you can get it small or large. they even have flat stuff that makes for interesting ribbed structures for the flat stuff, look for "flat drainage pipe" or "advanedge site drain pipe"
small diameter circular black corrugated pipeflat black corrugated pipe, with ever other corrugation split in half down the middleflat black corrugated pipe, with ever other corrugation split in quarters
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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
wanna know one of the dirty little secrets of how to make a cool science fiction set? this bad boy right here, the NFS 4 Freezer Spacer. this fucker shows up EVERYWHERE in scifi set design ceilings? check! floors? check! walls? check! tables? check! instant scifi vibe
a black freezer pallet spacer made of wide-corrugated plastic with cross ridges and grid holes (the majority are square, but there are vertical strips of long rectangular holes as well)
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026
This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026
oh boy time to use the us govt AI to file my ta- You are a worm through time. The thunder song distorts you. Happiness comes. Leave your insides by the door. Push the fingers through the surface into the wet. You’ve always been the new you. You want this to be true. You can almost hear our w
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recursive @recursive.lowerarchy.com · 28/09/2026
lost your sense of smell due to a stupid pandemic? chili crisp to the rescue!
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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 27/09/2026
come to think of it, I'm glad yegge isn't the mayor
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EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary) @siobhanftb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel like people broadly have not reckoned with who owns digital infrastructure. Just like, in general
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 26/09/2026
why is overscan still a thing in 2026 can someone show me a TV that still has a meaningful bezel
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recursive @recursive.lowerarchy.com · 27/09/2026
I came down with COVID for the first time ever, the day after getting this year’s COVID and Flu vaccines. Made it 6.5 years! Seems like it’s going to be no worse than a cold for me, but given the overall hazards to the population, I wish we took it more seriously
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:
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🌦️Wifeguy Auteur🌦️ @delugeduvall.effigyfilms.com · 25/09/2026
if “we’re all cam girls in a surveillance state” ya’ll better be acting in solidarity with actual fucking cam girls 😒
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🏳️‍⚧️Sidian Sonne🏳️‍⚧️ @sidiansonne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please do not eat the Lior cinnamon if you live in one of these states: • Florida • Illinois • New Jersey • New York • Pennslyvania • Texas #recall #CantHaveNiceThings #disabled
usatoday.com
Ground cinnamon sold in 6 states recalled. See affected product
This ground cinnamon product was recalled on Sept. 24, according to the FDA. Here are the states it was sold in and what impacted consumers should do.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 12/11/2024
A bearded man comforting a dude with Elvis hair, drawn in that flat corporate style.

"What to Do When Someone Has a Panic Attack: ask if they've considered Dr. Pepper could be a woman"
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Sylvia Sierra 🪾🏔️ @sociolinguista.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This series changed how I think about life. It’s phenomenal. They interviewed the same people, from different social classes, every 7 years from the time they were 7 years old until…now
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Demigirlboss @demigirlboss.win · 21/09/2026
The whole "SWE isn't real engineering" thing pisses me off so much, because it's ironic self-flaggelation to preempt getting called cringe, which is something I just hate in general, but especially here. Do you have no pride in your work? Does it really mean so little to you to just give it all up?!
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
they are telling us on the plane that how to apply for a refund....................... "you can purchase the inflight wifi and go to the website"
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
we're boarding now. a gate attendant literally screamed at us to board by boarding group... and a hundred people just laughed in her face. we have formed a self-governing society at this point and her attempt to order us around is oddly funny
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i don't know if i conveyed this but every on-plane communication took the following form: - a pilot making a reasonable announcement that people hated to hear but accepted - the posh cabin crew guy repeating it but imperiously while strongly implying the guy having the emergency is in first class
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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recursive @recursive.lowerarchy.com · 21/09/2026
Rolling up to the group chat and talking about oviposition
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Dan Luu @danluu.com · 18/09/2026
There's no point at which turning your brain off will work: danluu.com/brain-off/
In early 2025, I started seeing people turn off their brain as they use LLMs1. They would have an LLM take an action (summarize text, write some code, etc.), and just assume that it worked2. This generally didn't work in early 2025 and the result was often quite silly.

As LLMs have gotten better, I've seen more of this. Sometimes, people will try to get the LLM to write some code for them and basically just assume that it works3. Sometimes there's a human in the loop and, if the thing doesn't work, they'll ask the LLM to figure out the problem and solve it. Niklas Gruhn calls some variants of doing this being a meat proxy.4

Being a for loop meat proxy works better than it did in early 2025 and the software I've tried that's developed like this sometimes actually sort of works. Not well enough that I'd want to use it or that it's successful, but I'm impressed at how effective being a meat proxy is in September 2026. You could even imagine LLMs improving enough that brain-off meat-proxy development produces average quality software in the foreseeable future.

Let's say that happens. What reason is there for the company to employ the meat proxy? The company can just run the LLM in a loop and lay off the employee. There's no point at which this methodology will work for the employee5.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/05/2026
saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)
THE REPUBLICANS WANT IS DEAD
THE DEMOCRATS DONT CARE
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In case you ever want to accurately simulate the sound of a horny male fruit fly, I gotchu bennjordan.github.io/fruitflysynth/
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Drosophila MANC Connectome Synthesizer | Biomechanical Courtship Song Model
Synthesizing Drosophila acoustic courtship songs using the Janelia Male CNS Connectome (MANC) coupled with physical modeling wing biomechanics.
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recursive @recursive.lowerarchy.com · 12/09/2026
Lately I’ve been realizing I need to do more non-computer-dependent art and craft The computer burnout remains
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If bluesky devs still knew how to read they would enjoy a joking reference here to Douglas Hofstadter's Eternal Golden Braid, but incessant chatbot usage means they now can only respond to tone of voice in the manner of a dog.
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Nora (Haunted) @elanorjb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Every single woman in the cafe this gray drizzly day with a cozy sweater, jeans and quirky ‘not quite ready to fully give it up’ berks. I was one of those women
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qntm @qntm.org · 03/09/2026
maths
Map of England, "CORNWALL" highlighted red, the rest of England in green marked "RNWALL"
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