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we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you shouldn't take an iced coffee to a job interview because you shouldn't be trying to get a job. you should be digging an enormous pit or a complex system of tunnels

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am an immigrant but I moved to NYC from Central Pennsylvania. Discuss.

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

what annoys me about people using the "individual solutions to structural problems" meme in car discourse is that a structural solution would *also* require you to drive less. There is no future where simultaneously humanity exists and you drive your car as much as today.

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

you hate "hr ladies" because you don't like women tell you what to do i hate hr ladies because they are incompetent and break the law we are not the same

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/09/2026

(me, an absolute fool, skimming some weird blogger's embarrassingly tedious harry potter fan fiction in 2010): I can safely say no one who reads this will ever become important

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Many of the most annoying takes in the world would go away if people could accept that: • Math is liberal arts • Computer science is math Neither of these should be controversial and yet!

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

haven't updated this in a while but the latest is they changed my parents' marital status from "divorced" which i put on the form to "married" (for my dead father) and "widowed" (for my mother) because i guess it didn't occur to them that people can actually divorce before one of them dies

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In my company, I am the person accountable for the correctness of docs to customers, i'm reaching the point where im about to ban engineers from writing docs. It's always subtly wrong (and ofc terriblly AI written) so i spend more time editing and verifying than i would have spent on writing it

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

no but instead im riding a bike backing up traffic

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

diversity win: our 65th engineer is a woman!

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I don’t like bringing the personal into the posting but if you feel comfortable publicly commenting (nicely, no fed posting) on the “let’s make employers pay 100K for H1-B visas” rule proposed by DHS, I’d appreciate it. My significant other would be effected by this and I love her very much

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

there's discourse happening so let me just leave you with this paper which incidentally has one of the most solid study designs I've ever seen in an education research paper www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 24/12/2025

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today's news: "Hey so for that visit I don't have a visa because I was 11 yo and didn't have a passport. What information should I put into the form?" "Just upload a scan of the visa" Has *everyone* in the world lost the ability to read and think, or have i just been extraordinarily unlucky

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

hey is it good that the software they're making me use for immigration application has two separate typos and one sentence, and doesn’t have the concept of non-requires fields (so i have to fill out end date for my current job)

Question on immigration form: "Have you taken a test from IELTS, CELPIP, TEL, or TCF to assess your proficincy (sic) in English or Fench (sic)?"

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New from this guy: you are a product expert in an analytics company and you say that you were teaching data analytics at graduate level, but nowhere on your resume you talk about your experience with analytics

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I think "your contract-signing witness printed their name under 'witness (print name)' but we needed then to sign it" might be the point at which i give up on immigration entirely. I simply cannot live like this for the rest of my life.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/08/2026

Sad 38-Year-Old Googles 'Jobs Caring For Baby Animals'

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Been thinking about changing careers and the only must-have I've been able to come up with is "no one can ever tell me what to do again"

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

literally what is the point of this Wouldn't you want exactly the opposite of this? If you were a rarional economic actor?

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Nine Fixd 🎨 Kristian Donaldson

Illustration of a woman riding a fixed-gear bicycle while holding a huge wrench over her left shoulder.

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

visa is an entry document, not an immigration status document. You can be in the country entirely legally, **as determined by USCIS**, and have an expired visa - which is in fact the case overwhelming majority of people in employment-based status (either H1 or EB). What even is this policy.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This includes people who came here legally on a visa, applied for another form of status, and are just waiting for the US government to decide their case. People who haven’t done a single thing wrong.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

'crimes in cars aren't really crimes if I do them' is one of the unstated assumptions unifying Americans across the political spectrum.

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I don't mind children themselves but sorry, bringing a huge ass stroller into a NYC grocery store where aisles are too narrow even for one person to turn around is sociopathic behavior

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Almost no one ever in your entire life of riding public transport has the desire or means to kill you but every single driver on the road would splash your guts across the pavement to get to the next red light 30 seconds sooner.

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This post is a great encapsulation why I hope to quit tech forever soon. It's supposed to be reductio ad absurdum for an anti-LLM argument, and in the meantime I'm sitting here like "...yes, this but unironically?.." Very alienating.

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

i'm in a quiet car and there are currently three separate phone speakers in use

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

this is one thing where I'm firmly on the side of the teacher's unions: a lot of the 'criticism' of public school educators is simply 'why can't you all be the extremely self-motivated teachers of these intrinsically motivated students'

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

seeing the posts about visitors discovering that you can walk around most of our cities and just be yourself in a multicultural setting, discovering tailgating, starting impromptu block parties, my muslim mayor, etc. etc. it's corny to say it but that's our secret sauce. and it means something

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

GIMP was created, literally, by two college students. Like I understand the sentiment, I also find GIMP unusable, but let's not make grand proclamations about the nature of open source based on what started as a semester project

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

American mountain climber Oliver Perry-Smith embarks on an ascent with his bicycle 1912

Photo of a man climbing a cliff with a bicycle on his shoulder.

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Mags Display Name @mags.colvett.online · 13/11/2025

Yeah I support LGBTQ Light rail Going from Brooklyn To Queens

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gabby @fullmoon.id · 19/05/2026

I wrote a new blog post explaining why I think more people should practice "freecoding" (coding as much as possible from memory) haskellforall.com/2026/05/type...

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Freecoding improves broader programming proficiency

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

when i complain about my immigration problems i always feel a little bit like this picture, like sure it's a big problem for me personally but in the grand scheme of things etc etc and then i remember there literally *is* a war in my country that's like the whole problem

It's a meme with a girl from some tv show looking at you condescendingly and saying "i just want to tell you that some people have war in their countries"

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"transporting more than one child" In the meantime, literally the image for the article this is responding to

A person is transporting three children on an ebike

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

so it looks like my job has fucked up fixing their previous fuck up with my immigration, so now I have no place to go AND no time to find one

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 19/05/2026

I'm not excited by what AI can do. I'm excited by what I can do.

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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 19/05/2026

Road, mountain, cargo, folding, cruiser, track.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 02/05/2026

We shouldn't try to use AI for everything. We should try to build everything so you don't need AI to use it.

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

from a year of gorgeous landscapes and cats, instagram picked a train ticket screenshot to tell me happy birthday, and honestly........yeah

Screenshot of an instagram notification saying "happy birthday! Look back at your year to celebrate" and attached is a screenshot of my California Zephyr amtrak ticket from May 22 2025

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

the product i work for recently put out some AI features on beta, and the demand has been insane. i cannot tell you the amount of messages we got asking for it. in the meantime, bsky thinks that responding "no i don't like pictures of shrimp jesus" to a survey conveys actual consumer sentiment

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

look, you can object to ICM, PyCon etc being held in the US, and you can push for canceling these events, but you can't push for relocating them. There is simply no way to "just find a new venue" for thousands of people. It's not even a money problem. Venues of this size are booked years in advance.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

increasingly sympathetic

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Working for a SaaS company and then logging into bsky is a surreal experience because bsky is all "no one wants AI, ever" and in the meantime like 90% of real customer feedback I read at my real job is like "where the heck is your AI? I'll cancel if you don't add it by next week"

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Bubbles @phonon.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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linear regression enjoyer @squintingcat.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

i don't think i could teach in 2026 because the cornerstone of my teaching philosophy was "there is no such thing as a stupid person", and, well,

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The purpose of studying anything isn't the subject itself but to learn how to *think* like an expert about it. People outsourcing their thinking to genAI are not learning how to think, at all. Part of the cognitive atrophy that genAI immediately induces is no longer being able to understand this

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