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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @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

Today I was handed a pile of unverified slop and straight up asked to rewrite it. This is so profoundly disrespectful of my time, I would quit if I could. So yeah, yay AI coding, I'm so happy all your engineers are having a great time.

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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

When the time comes to "minimize harms", which you are telling me you are so committed to, will you be able to give up some of the AI coding convenience, or will you become the "i all for safe streets, but my parking..." person?

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

paul in replies going "just like with cars, we need to minimize harms", but just like with cars, the convenience is individual, but the harms are societal. And just like with cars, reducing societal harms would mean inconveniencing the individuals.

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

comparing AI to cars is so perfect though, we literally invented a mode of transit that is better in every way than both horses and cars except for specialized uses, but using it would require not thinking of yourself as the specialest boy in the universe, so instead we get EV push

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

i don't even care about using ai for coding but this is a wild fucking post to make

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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

this is a real number. im not making it up

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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

I'm more and more convinced that Instructional Design 101 should be a gen ed course

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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

i was so annoyed by needing to "PER MY PREVIOUS EMAIL" my goddamn immigration lawyer that I almost forgot they asked me to upload biometric results together with the application form, which wouldn't ne remarkable except that the form is for, in particular, scheduling an appointment for biometrics

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

what i want you to understand is that being an immigrant means having your entire life decided exclusively by people like this, forever

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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

Immigration firm that was paid multiple thousands of dollars: you told us you teach analytics and work for an analytics company and did research in analytics but you didn't say you have *experience* in analytics Same company: Fench

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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

I guess considering that with the loss of foreign PhD students they're also losing like 50% of teaching assistants, so they gotta reduce the undergrad student body somehow too

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

"This person has received our Great American Education. We need to make absolutely sure they will never use those Great Valuable American Skills to contribute back to US economy"

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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

Last year has been a journey of discovering that not only i do not belong in tech *anymore*, but that i never belonged here in the first place, because turns out this is the prevailing sentiment of 99% people in the field

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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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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 13/11/2025

Yeah I support LGBTQ Light rail Going from Brooklyn To Queens

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