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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

yeahhh there's a reason i'm trying to get my professional engineering license up here

terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i recently renewed my us passport over a month ago, got the confirmation it was mailed out to me, and am still waiting for it to arrive at all :|

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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this is so true! I don't WANT to make shit about gender studies, there's WAY more qualified and patient people out there to do that!! But there's this weird expectation that if you're a trans creator you're just making educational shit focused on trans issues and frankly it blows

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Yamino @yamino.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Whimsy saves lives and that's not hyperbole. When people in power want us to despair, it's a lifeline to your humanity and joy. Get more whimsical right now

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i would like for you to stop being sick too

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

too late i showed it to my wife after seeing your post

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Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

look I'm not saying all game designers have to be autistic or on a spectrum but if you can love anything in this world whole-heartedly the way some people love trains, your game design abilities will probably benefit. including trains. it is known.

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Well, while we're at it www.linkedin.com/in/terra-how...

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

[over 12 years in software development] looking for work

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Here's what I actually think these incidents reveal (instead of a rogue AI terminator situation): Much of the infra we expect to be hardened is actually being held together by glue and popsicle sticks.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

AI can now detect, automate, and chain together exploits faster than any human hacker can. That is significant. Which means that the system vulnerabilities once considered not so low hanging fruit are actually very low hanging.

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Jack "Commissions Open" McGee @droolingdemon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

terra shenanigans feat lightning

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♦Red Nahu♦ @rednahu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy Activation Day Aigis!!!

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Having literally been on on-call rotations for "that streaming stuff" during the start of the regular NFL season, the Super Bowl, and college football games ... Haaaaahahahahaha.

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 03/09/2026

'It's hard to judge the games the same way once you try to make one' Is so real. Some people have a hard time saying something sucks once they've been there. I'll still say it, but outside a few examples, it's almost affection. The context and conditions of creation matter so much.

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh, that's ... not good. If I go dark tonight or for the next few days, this is why.

A weather alert advisory for the City of Toronto issued at 5:01 PM EDT Wednesday 2 September 2026. Red Warning - Severe Thunderstorm, Impact Level: Extreme, Forecast Confidence: Very High.

This extremely dangerous thunderstorm is moving southeast at 40 km/h. Destructive wind gusts, golf ball to tennis ball size hail, and very heavy rain are possible.

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

finding it really difficult to not just break down crying lately what a godawful year.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/08/2026

things would be so much simpler if more people could just go “you know what, that’s not for me” and leave it at that

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Fair, I've also only been using it entirely on new repos where the behavior contracts are still being designed and in-flux.

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

But maybe my own perspective's skewed here, given what I've historically worked on, where real-time performance and security are all there is, and the Venn diagram is just a circle in that context.

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I also still try to keep my codebase compact and easy for both humans and agents to reason about in the future. Good architecture first goes a long way, and you save mental cycles and tokens. "Lines of code" has never been a good measure of quality in the first place.

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm a proponent of test-driven development, myself, but I still regularly find myself in situations where the unit tests were insufficient and I've spotted defects by reading parts of the codebase myself. Not every line, but the high-risk parts like packet encryption or game update loops.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In honor of Dolly and her commitment to getting books to kids, tell me about a book you read as a child that changed your life. I’ll start: so many, but tonight maybe I’ll say A WRINKLE IN TIME, a book that taught me anger wasn’t wrong.

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

good i've been out of there for 15

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

iirc this was my pitch to you about warframe when i was driving you to work one time?

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 24/08/2026

women have always been utterly integral to computer science

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

this scenery got me into watercolor art on its own.

Concept art from Final Fantasy 6, by Yoshitaka Amano, rendered in watercolor. Set against a blue sky which bleeds into smoky yellow plumes of dustclouds below, an ethereal castle rises high in the sky.

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

oh this one's in color! the one i played was on an old mac system ...

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

... has the guy not heard of ghostcat like it's been getting worse and worse over the years

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

this has been my entire july and start of august

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 10/08/2026

i didnt touch on it in my post but after the movie we were talkin about how insane it is that Ghibli's legacy in culture at large is this image of wholesome, quaint tranquility and like... their best works are potent and angry movies. Screams of desperation in no way cloaked or dulled.

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Wirth's law has long been my nemesis.

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punkitt ‼️🧣 @punkitt.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

its tough out there but so am i

a perturbed looking wolf girl with an arrow pointing to her and a caption that reads: (more than a little frustrated at how people
see her kindness and optimism as a sign of
naivete rather than the result of consistently
having her anxiety spirals and doomsayer
thoughts proven wrong by many genuine
people over the last two and a half decades
of her life and that this is not the tactic of a
fool but one of someone who has seen the
effects that believing in the future and in
other people can have on those around you)

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

In my experience, it does. Always takes longer than I think it should, though.

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'll echo VoidBurger here, hot dogs are more often shrink-wrapped and refrigerated. (at best, the only kind of canned sausages i've seen are something called vienna sausages, but those are the exception, not the norm, and not what people think of when they think 'hot dogs')

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I am vastly more interested in specific ways it causes people mental damage and behavioral problems, but none of these are "it makes you kind of suck more when it's gone because you got used to it" which is literally all good tools, you gotta be more specific

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

again, ffs, I'm not saying AI Good, I'm saying "this specific attack is stupid as fuck do better lol"

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Like maybe it's some other kind of addiction, sure, but this is also exactly the behavior you would expect to see if it was simply any useful tool of any kind.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is not the attack you seemingly think it is.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I don't find the "AI tools train you to rely on them" thing very compelling, like yeah, that's how good tools work. It sucks when someone takes away your phillips screwdriver or your autocomplete IDE or google search for APIs. What you're saying when you say it is actually "It's a good tool."

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

(this reply is largely aimed at software programmed with genAI coding tools, where the program is the output) (as for software which also incorporates some kind of AI in it, like how Google replaced its search bar, 100% agreed that that's a new class of problem. ugh.)

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terra @terraaaaaa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I think when it comes to programming software (just wrt the "running slowly" part), AI has amplified the results of practices that teams were already doing. It's an accelerant, not the root cause. Wirth's Law has been around far longer than AI, but AI did make an already bad problem even worse.

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