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Rod Begbie

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• Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and Sweary 🤬 • Living in San Francisco, CA • Gen X as Fuck

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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 58m
Received a text this morning inviting me to join the Uber account of the company that laid me off two months ago. Idly wondering how many rides I could charge to them before they noticed.
Text message reading “You're invited to join the Splice Uber account: https://y.uber.com/…”
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today’s Cornell rapist is tomorrow’s Brett Kavanaugh.
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
we should have killed this bastard when we had the chance
clippy >:[
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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 29/09/2026
Sometimes I ask Claude to proofread something I’ve written, but then end up doubling-down on the stuff it suggests I remove. “Fuck you, robot! I’m adding ‧₊˚✧ MORE ˖✶˖ UNICODE ˖✶˖ SPARKLES ✧˚₊‧ to this LinkedIn post!”
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please join us this Friday for our last Summer School session of the season! We are hosting a SELF-PROMOTION CLINIC. Bring us your problems. Bring us your hesitation. Bring us the little voice inside your head telling you that you aren’t worthy. WE’LL CRUSH THEM WITH MALLETS!
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Self-Promotion Clinic
We will help you get out of your own way and put your best self out there.
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.
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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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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My “Doctor Who” idea is that the Doctor is a frog and his companion is a bear and every week they put on a variety show with the help of a very special guest star.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hello. They are going to try to fuck with your vote, and we are NOT going to let them. Last week I pinged my friend Dana Chisnell, who knows how elections work, and said "Hey, let’s make it hard for them to fuck with us.” Today, we are very proud to announce the HOW TO VOTE zine. howtovote.tips
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How to Vote / Cómo Votar
A free field guide to what stops people from voting, and what to do about it. English and Spanish, ready to print.
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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 14/09/2026
As ever, @kellanem.com does a great job synthesising what’s happening to our industry, and why the prevailing narrative is blatantly counterproductive (and burning out many fabulous people).
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NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The sound I make since age 35 when I get up from the couch
Supermarket aisle sign that says “HOOAEG”. (Apparently it means season in Estonian).
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This week’s newsletter is for people who are tempted to use LLMs to do their writing. Please enjoy. I wrote every word. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
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How to write it like you told it
What do you say to someone who wants to write but struggles with writing and is tempted to use an LLM-based chatbot?
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too
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Ricky Mondello @rmondello.com · 08/09/2026
New post on my blog about switching password managers in 2026! It covers: - why your iPhone or iPad, and not your Mac, might be the place to start your switch - the recent controversy in password management and some thoughts on values - and more! rmondello.com/2026/09/07/s...
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Switching Password Managers in 2026
Important Note: Although I work at Apple in the password management and app/website authentication spaces, in this post I am speaking only for myself, personally. There is no “news” in this post or any kind of “inside scoop”. Please do share this post, but if I see “Apple’s Ricky Mondello” anywhere, I’ll be sad. My [...]
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Thomas Fuchs 🫯 @thomasfuchs.at · 08/09/2026
It’s true that AI is leading to increased software output—whenever I have a need for specific software I find like 3 separate vibe-coded abandoned code repositories with all files from like 4 months ago and it’s very shiny and doesn’t work at all.
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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Viz top tip reading: “Tech enthusiasts. Save money on expensive Meta Glasses by buying a pair of normal glasses and then adding your name to the Sex Offenders Register.”
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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 29/08/2026
M Night Shyamalan could never.
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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 27/08/2026
This is spectacularly close to an answer I gave in a job interview last night. I think the interviewer wanted me to say “My process for teams is X, Y & Z,” but instead got a lengthy monologue about figuring out the actual pain points, introducing “experiments”, and validating the changes helped!
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Jesse @jaawerth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
WRONG HOME ALONE 2 ACTOR
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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 22/08/2026
Yesterday, I found out that there is an Edinburgh riot grrl band called “Fistymuffs”, and tbh, I don’t think I’ve fallen in love with a band without hearing their music as quickly before. (And it t turns out their music is pretty great. fistymuffs.bandcamp.com/album/we-fight)
fistymuffs.bandcamp.com
We Fight, by Fistymuffs
5 track album
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My wife keeps getting We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel stuck in head. I deliberately write shopping lists, text messages, etc. in the same meter and it drives her insane. I've denied it so far.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:
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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 16/08/2026
I’ve just realised that I’ve come to Scotland in August… but my raincoat never made it into my suitcase. #rookiemistake
Stirling weather:
Right Now 53°
Light Rain
High 64° Low 52°10 Day forecast: Rain for the next 5 days.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
You should be out making friends in the park or grocery store. But meeting people is hard, especially when the world’s most unfriended nerds want you to use slop machines to make slop friends. This Friday, @erikahall.bsky.social and @kiostark.bsky.social will teach you How to Talk to Strangers!
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How to Talk to Strangers
There are 8 billion new friends out there. Or at least encounters that can make memories and good stories. And that’s all life is, really.
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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 07/08/2026
this has been stuck in my head for days since I first read it.
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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 06/08/2026
ngl, it amuses me greatly to see “pervert glasses” enter the mainstream as short-hand for Meta’s… um… pervert glasses. The Guardian’s running this headline and not feeling the need to add any context.
Headline from The Guardian: “Why I'll never be convinced by Meta's ‘pervert’ glasses“
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jae @fubarchitect.com · 03/08/2026
have you ever wondered what it would be like to read cocaine
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
some days I just feel so alive www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Maybe we shouldn’t give 24 year olds billions of dollars to bet on AI
We deserve a better class of AI booster.
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still a pistachio @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I am amazed that people walk into discussions among knowledgeable human experts and say “ChatGPT says…” It’s very insulting to do that, and it makes you look ridiculous. Everybody has seen LLMs spit out wrong information about *extremely* simple things. Don’t make a fool of yourself!
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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 29/07/2026
@dirtyfeed.org Finally caught up with your “Mary” posts. Great stuff! Maybe an investigative path you’ve considered, but if you have a friend in NYC/LA, you could ask them to pop into the Paley Center? It looks like they’ve got two or three episodes in their collection that are viewable in-person.
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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 29/07/2026
This is one of the best papers I’ve read recently. Benchmarking coding LLMs with a view to *long-term* development, not just short-term creation: arxiv.org/html/2603.2475… @simonwillison.net Have you poked at SlopCodeBench? Curious if it matches your experience with continual iteration on projects.
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SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This has been the stupidest technology cycle in my adult life. Somehow stupider than NFTs because so many people I thought were smart got roped into the hype. www.wsj.com/business/chi...
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Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI
Companies big and small are mixing models, and it’s changing the economics and power players of the industry.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I got a nice write-up from KQED! “Colored drips pour down the sides of his panels, but the surfaces are carved smooth with razor blades. The effect is gauzy, dreamy, even as the images he depicts and the language he deploys evoke violence—state sanctioned and otherwise.” YUM.
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We’ve Been Lookin’ for Art in All the Wrong Places
It’s not easy to visit Mike Monteiro’s anti-capitalist paintings, but not all art-viewing should be easy.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/07/2026
I have a theory on why she has so many first dates
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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 22/07/2026
Saw Ladytron live in Berkeley in May and they are still phenomenal.
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 10/07/2026
Very exciting to see @coyotemedia.org in CJR! I love this direction for local reporting: www.cjr.org/analysis/the...
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Coyote Media: They’ve got bite.
Coyote, a new media collective in the Bay Area, is irreverent, human, and unabashedly political.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
If you don’t feel like celebrating America today, celebrate Peach, who was born on the farm on this day in 2017. Her full name is Impeachment.
Impeachment the goat, wearing her birthday crown
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snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
this is also how maintaining software works
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot
Soccer player wearing fedora and with a green apple floating in front of his face, mimicking the Magritte painting "The Son of Man." The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.Soccer player wearing fedora and with a green apple floating in front of his face, mimicking the Magritte painting "The Son of Man." The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.Soccer player biting an apple. The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.Soccer player wearing fedora and with a green apple floating in front of his face, mimicking the Magritte painting "The Son of Man." The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.
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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 31/05/2026
This butthole doesn’t run.
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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 26/05/2026
Got my Poem/1, and wrestling with the moral dilemma that I’m using AI to replace the work traditionally performed by our nation’s minute-by-minute-time-telling poets.
The coffee's cold at ten twenty, / It waits for warmth, oh so gently.
Brush strokes dance, colors blend with glee, / It's eleven thirty-three.Twelve oh two, jellyfish so spry, / In a bowtie, he waves goodbye.
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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 25/05/2026
There is no price they wouldn't pay for half a chance at not paying you. isaiprofitable.com
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Is AI Profitable Yet?
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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 26/05/2026
This reminds me of the discussion I had with a coworker last week that I don’t want to do code reviews of AI-written code any more — I want to review the conversations engineers are having with their bots so I can give feedback on THAT.
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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 23/05/2026
Fantastic! Helps you avoid accidentally walking into the Nazi Bar that is Substack.
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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 15/05/2026
@profanity.accountant c’mon you cunt
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Rod Begbie @rod.begbie.com · 10/05/2026
Now feeling old because I searched my Twitter archive file and found out that it’s *15 years* since I observed “Glanced at BitCoin forums. Nothing inspires faith in a currency like realising it’s run by the kinds of folks who argue on Debian listservs.”
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