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RoboSchro

@roboschro.bsky.social
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Builder and leader of digital engineering and product development teams. Based in London. Often posting silliness or political stuff, because, well... *gestures broadly at everything* he/him

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RoboSchro @roboschro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
RIP Margaret Hamilton. Properly amazing, what she did, back when there was very little established understanding of what 'good' meant in software engineering. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
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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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A common misunderstanding about the "London school" of Test-Driven Development is that every class has unit tests, and every dependency in every unit test is mocked. This, I think, comes from folks not seeing it at scale. What gets mocked typically represents roles in a high-level design...
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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RoboSchro @roboschro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is there a word for people who refuse to look up from their phones while moving through crowded places, like city streets or train stations? 'Cause those bastards are *slow*, and I want a convenient way to swear about them in my head while I'm trying to get past them.
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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Being a ‘good guy’ doesn’t usually mean saying the *right* thing and then getting praise, but saying the *difficult* thing that prompts an uncomfortable silence. Follow-up post: how to be difficult www.girlonthenet.com/blog/how-to-...
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How to be difficult | A guide on challenging creep chat
Being a 'good guy' doesn't mean saying the right thing and then getting praise, but saying the difficult thing that prompts an uncomfortable silence.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that.
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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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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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
have you tried unplugging it and never plugging it back in again
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions are open now! Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti... (The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OK now I'm back at work I want to talk about GB Grid. I think the govt did the best it could at communicating this announcement but it's quite technical and you need to understand the energy system to fully get it, so it's almost impossible to sum up in a soundbite. Let me explain as far as I can:
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RoboSchro @roboschro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Man, I really hope this isn't how coffee is made
A framed drawing on a café wall that shows two bears grinding coffee beans by grinding them between their arses (but at first glance looks even worse, like the coffee is actually coming out of the bears' arses)
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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RoboSchro @roboschro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 25/09/2026
The Prospect paywall is down!! Head to our website to read all our online content FOR FREE until Monday 5th October. lnkd.in/eUYscDfv This includes our entire current issue: www.prospectmagazine...
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smillz-o-lantern @righttwix.com · 15/05/2025
Microdosing reality by looking up from my phone occasionally
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just saw someone referring to Daniel Thomas's Patriot Platform Blackshorts army as his "PeePee Boys" and I feel this should stick.
Screenshot of a couple of dozen white men from Patriot Platform in black hoodies and shorts standing in the street wearing black balaclavas, taken from Daniel Thomas's attempted blockade of the Daily Mail offices after they did an exposé on him which he claims gave his mum's address but it didn't, he doxxed her himself by using her full address to publicly register his business

From this video: https://bsky.app/profile/localnotail.bsky.social/post/3mv3royfpc22m
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This week on Origin Story: The life & ideas of John Rawls, the most celebrated liberal philosopher of the post-war period. These are some of the most beautiful arguments in progressive thought. We do it as a one hour crash course. Everything you need to know. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...
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RoboSchro @roboschro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Doing some vibe coding with Claude, and the main thing I've learned so far is that I want my own personal status notification that says "Working through a complex response..."
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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 20/09/2026
If you want a Sunday morning longread I wrote up a rough version of the talk I gave at LDX3 this week on the Manager's Path in the Age of AI skamille.medium.com/the-managers...
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The Manager’s Path in the Age of AI
This week, I gave a talk at LDX3 New York. When they asked me to speak and asked me for a topic, I said that it was probably time I finally…
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RoboSchro @roboschro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
LOLing at these
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wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I mostly hate nostalgia but dead ass cannot the fuck believe there's no where to go stoned at night and bullshit with my friends anymore. Being in my 20s in NYC and single when smartphones came out I saw public social interaction die in real time.
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...
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The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes
I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵
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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is literally a plot point in “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. Written in 1935, it predicts the rise of a fascist populist who promises each family $5,000 per year if he’s elected.
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Apparently we've got a very rare and expensive cask of amontillado in our collection, whatever that is. We're going to try find it and will report back.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I saw this post and wanted to address it. If you look at social media today, you’ll see good, empathetic people admitting they are losing hope. They look at climate change, rising authoritarianism, and corporate greed and feel entirely powerless. If you feel this way, I want
I hate to broadcast this on social media, but I know l am not alone when I candidly state that l am losing the will to live. In my 53 years, I have never known a time when I could not locate a semblance of hope until now. It's only a feeling, but an
uncomfortable one, one that makes me feel powerless. The future of the planet, genocide, the threat of being ruled and surveilled by tech overlords, the corruption, amorality, the lack of empathy, fascism on the rise globally w/GOP in support.
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Introducing Fork 2.0! Exciting new cosmetic options, new hand interface technology and quality-of-life improvements such as haptic feedback, VR support and a farming minigame. Terms and conditions apply. Fork is no longer compatible with spoons
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2026
Everyone's seen how the most powerful tycoons in Silicon Valley have manipulated politics (and society) to their will. But we're stuck thinking of them as "VCs". They're not. They evolved years ago into something far worse, which we could consider Cancer Capitalists: www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/c...
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VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
PhD researcher Stephanie Lamy’s forensic breakdown of exactly what happened to Prof Jason Arday should be required reading. Explains how he was targeted by a well-funded, racist, eugenicist network and why his fear and ‘paranoia’ were completely justified. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-killin...
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The killing of a black man
A French researcher exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey and the media who fell into their trap
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you haven’t heard, @trufelman.bsky.social and I started a new podcast about fashion and philosophy. Each month, we read canonical text — Voltaire, Rousseau, Hegel — and talk about how the author's ideas help us understand why we dress the way we do.
An illustration of Lord Chesterfield.
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States." W. E. B. Du Bois, who died on this day in 1963
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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 20/08/2026
Mid Century Modern tableware and where I think it would stand on trans issues, a thread
A Mid Century Modern ad for tableware, quirky hanging laps, weird wood paneled kitchen bar, oh yeah it's MCM as hell up in here (kinda love it)
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Making the drains run on time
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16/08/2026
Breaking: “The Nerd Reich” book has developed superintelligence and escaped containment. Be on the lookout for early copies hitting the shelves at your local bookstore.
Photograph of someone holding the nerve Reich book by Gilda Duran. Caption reads gorgeous fall day in Silicon Valley. Time to read about the narcissistic fascists around me who are destroying the world.
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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 18/07/2023
fun fact: every letter in the word "eau" is silent
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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RoboSchro @roboschro.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Eclipse! Seen as sunlight passing through trees #Eclipse
Shadows of trees on a fence, showing repeated crescent shapes from the solar eclipse
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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026
I've seen people suggest you look at the eclipse through a colander. Don't do that, you'll strain your eyes.
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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I always suspected a UK government would eventually reverse course on "coding in public". So I've been backing up all government code. For six years. Today I finally generated a report on what has been deleted. Its much worse than I realised. github.com/uk-gov-mirro...
Deleted UK Government code repositories

Total deleted repositories: 1526
Organisations affected: 56

See RECENTLY_DELETED.md for the most recently deleted repositories.

Organisation	Deleted Repos	% Deleted
hmrc	195	9.8%
nhsdigital	169	33.8%
SkillsFundingAgency	154	22.7%
informatics-lab	154	100.0%
UKHomeOffice	101	7.5%
ministryofjustice	74	2.8%
ONSdigital	66	4.3%
moj-analytical-services	65	75.6%
ukwa	47	46.1%
dwp	46	6.7%
UKGovernmentBEIS	43	27.4%
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RoboSchro @roboschro.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Happy Friday, folks! We went out yesterday, so of course we must stay in today, with Friday-at-home #cocktails. I'm having a Parisian martini. Cheers!
A martini and a soft drink
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RoboSchro @roboschro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
relatable
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