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Sue Smith

@suesmith.lol
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🤡 Lefty Glaswegian smartarse 🎏 Helps folk learn how to code 💅🏻 Still petty after cancer www.suesmith.dev

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 10h
Genuinely don't mean to undermine the impact on web content / publishing and the looming disaster of model collapse, but as someone who has more or less specialised in it for many years, I have extremely mixed feelings about the multitude of posts announcing the demise of developer education..
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 29/09/2026
I still think my favourite example of company leadership not understanding the customers was when I worked in a bookshop and they tried to get us to approach folk and attempt to engage them in conversation
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 29/09/2026
If you describe a product failing to expose an effective user interface as a skill issue I am afraid I cannot take your analysis very seriously
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 27/09/2026
The only non tech people in my social circle who aren't surprised by the ai safety shenanigans are those who've worked for charities, non profits, other supposedly ethical organisations, they're like aye of course folk branded this way will be horrific, lol
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 26/09/2026
Went to that sonica thing at pollok house and the artworks were magic but most importantly there was a seat on top of a radiator and now I won't rest until I have one
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 25/09/2026
I may have posted this before but many years ago I was in a sports centre changing room when my pal said something about toothpaste and a lassie shouted across the room WHOSE FACE, MY FACE!? and idk how I came to be visited by this foreshadowing of online interaction but here we are
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 24/09/2026
I stayed at a B&B in a castle last week and the lady said when they had issues with water coming in a roofer went up into the attic and found it was stuffed with bones left by an owl that lived nearby, the guy came down the stairs with bags full of bones... lol no thank you
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 24/09/2026
I've been kind to animals my whole life but a squirrel has been destroying my flowers and if I catch the wee bastard it'll be getting dropkicked across the street
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 23/09/2026
One thing I cannot understand is folk who have a big garden but only a whirlygig and not a proper washing line
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 23/09/2026
Very this. I'm not sure why (perhaps exposure to a wider range of perspectives via the internet + of course immigration have helped) but it feels like we collectively have a clearer understanding of these dynamics here than certainly in my lifetime, notably in white folk from non-Irish backgrounds..
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 22/09/2026
My mesh network looking at my browsing history
WiFi network named Dorothy Dorothy Zbornak looking unimpressed
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 21/09/2026
Putting kewpie mayo on my plant based fish fingers like some southside cafe arsehole
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 20/09/2026
See when you get shite from folk on social media and mention it and other folk are like I'm sorry that's happening to you and you're like, it's ok pal I live in Glasgow, lol
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 20/09/2026
We had a number of gigs lined up right after my cancer surgery (booked before my diagnosis) and got to sit in the disabled section as a result, now every time I'm at a standing gig I'm like why the fuck did I drop that shit
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 20/09/2026
I sometimes use a thing called a tempo trainer when I swim, it's like an electronic metronome you put in your swimming cap to beep at your chosen stroke rate.. Sometimes I cannae be bothered with it so just keep a song in my head instead, today was the bee gees more than a woman which worked nicely
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 19/09/2026
Calls the table in the hall the phone table even though it's never had a phone on it years old
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 19/09/2026
Reading more about the rationalist / effective altruism shite over the last few days I think what strikes me most is these incredibly wealthy people who want to continue being selfish horrible cunts but simultaneously have a need to describe themselves as ethical somehow lol
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 19/09/2026
One of the things I struggle with re the software jobs apocalypse is that the conversation typically revolves around the collapse of six figure salary jobs at big american tech cos, whereas for people in my actual reality that isn't remotely what they're expecting or would even dream of
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 18/09/2026
How is this not a bbc children's television series
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 18/09/2026
Immersed myself in the Clyde the other day.. the firth not the river, I don't have a death wish
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 18/09/2026
I was going to meet my pal and thought I'd wander through george square thinking there would be other commiserating folk since it had been such a hub, from a block away I could see butcher's aprons and took myself elsewhere 😭
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 18/09/2026
My primary takeaway is a bit more context on the "AI safety" branding of companies selling ai products.. I'd assumed it was to position them to operate essentially as a protection racket which it probably is, but this rationalist cult shit is apparently a real influence on the doomsday predictions
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 16/09/2026
It's Peter Falk's birthday ❤️
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 16/09/2026
Fully switched from "nice!" to "ah shit more gentrification" when these listings appear now lol, how do we press pause
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 15/09/2026
So interesting how when I had a full time tech salary I didn't even think about subscriptions and now I'm like I'm paying FIFTEEN QUID FOR DISNEY
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 15/09/2026
Pubs focus too much on savoury snacks and hotel rooms provide too many that are sweet, what needs to happen for us to balance these flavour profiles out
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 15/09/2026
I reminisce over soups
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 14/09/2026
My reddit feed is like AI apocalypse thread Swimming lane dispute Glasgow fry up places for a group of 17 people and a dog, with cycle lane access (263 replies)
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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
English fascists on holiday in Glasgow #1: twat visits Calton Books, gets kicked out by the lads.
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 13/09/2026
Forgot to put my wellies on then did a load of gardening and was absolutely fine, the song was a pack of lies
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 12/09/2026
Even a stopped clock etc
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 12/09/2026
I think the only time you ever want to be basic is when it comes to health conditions, if you're getting a cancer diagnosis you want the bog standard same old shite they've seen a million times and know exactly what to do with, you do not want some special unique shite the doctor has never heard of
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 12/09/2026
Please tell your heterosexual man friends that finishing your meal in three seconds on a date is a turnoff
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 12/09/2026
There's been a shop on bath st for years called "designer waxing" and I've done a lot of hair removal in my time but I still don't know what that is, can I get a brutalist bikini wax or what
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 12/09/2026
Not to underplay the importance of resisting them or the harm they cause, but when I look at how Glasgow has changed just in my lifetime, I've stopped thinking of yer far right shenanigans as the death throws of their culture so much as the zombified remains of something not dying but already dead
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 10/09/2026
Feeling like a y2k scenario where reckless idiotic comms from ai companies combined with hysteria are going to create a situation in which people don't understand or support the measures we'll need to take to prevent very real harms
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 10/09/2026
Drafted and deleted a post about something that was very personal but also quite funny, is that me fully enlightened or what
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 10/09/2026
Stick yer massive touchscreen keyboard phones 🪩
A unihertz phone with a physical qwerty keyboard in orange on a wooden worktop with my wee hand next to it
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 10/09/2026
One thing I will say, "web coder" is kind of a cool sounding designation
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 09/09/2026
Mostly I'm exposing info about the user project as it executes by stepping through breakpoints with explanations of what's happening, but I couldn't resist adding this wee rollerskate option in the editor as well
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 09/09/2026
Sometimes we go for a walk in the evening and nip into a wee shop and it's like we slip into an alternate timeline where normal rules are suspended and I buy all sorts of shit I would never contemplate in the supermarket, just came back with a bag of mini wispas and an individual toffee yoghurt
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 09/09/2026
lol til the use of "dirty" to describe unsaved data softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/41...
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
What's the origin of the term "dirty" in regards to unsaved progress?
Oftentimes, "dirty" is used to represent unsaved code, memory, or files. For example, a file can be "dirty", meaning it's unsaved, memory can be "dirty", meaning it's been modified but hasn't been
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 08/09/2026
Cannot stress this enough as someone with an arts degree. Universities overwhelmingly function as finishing schools for the wealthy, the humanities are no exception. Anyone from a poor background who's been in these environments will testify to that lol.
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 08/09/2026
Here's an actual cancer expert, Siddhartha Mukherjee: "We can rid ourselves of cancer, only as much as we can rid ourselves of the processes in our physiology that depend on growth – ageing, regeneration, healing, reproduction." www.theguardian.com/books/2011/j...
theguardian.com
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee – review
This magnificent study of cancer suggests that, for all medicine's advances, we cannot beat a disease that is a distorted version of ourselves, says Alexander Linklater
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 08/09/2026
So cute to see americans warning everyone about how cringey the elizabeth holmes doc is going to be, forgetting that some of us live in the uk
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 07/09/2026
Just roasted some brazil nuts and ate them on a fresh fig I bought from the greengrocers this afternoon, like someone preparing to be eaten by hannibal lecter
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 07/09/2026
It's giving Laura Dern in Inland Empire
Laura Dern terrifying distorted close up in anguish
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 06/09/2026
Many years ago I managed a public sector arts venue for barely over the minimum wage and would frequently be summoned to the front desk to receive someone's rage that taxpayers money was being spent on this, if only I'd been a c suite tech executive I could have just thrown a massive tantrum instead
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 05/09/2026
Uses phone torch to read cocktail menus years old
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 05/09/2026
"Aye he's away tae wan of they bavarian pubs in the city centre" Ah yes the glasgow bavarian quarter
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