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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 26/09/2026

A pox on every website that refuses to show a password field until *after * you enter an email address, thereby preventing my browser from offering to autofill anything from my password manager.

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SnoopJ @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

:blobfoxdrakedislike: CLOSEDWONTFIX :blobfoxdrakelike: CLOSEDSLOP

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 25/09/2026

My brain has crossed the rubicon. Not even my nightmares are safe from being made worse with LLMs.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 23/09/2026

So the folks behind Star Citizen have introduced a space ship, then introduced an updated version/model of that space ship, then deprecated the old space ship, and now are re-releasing the "classic" version of it ... all while never actually "releasing" the game that I pledged for 14 years ago […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 19/09/2026

Just over *two weeks* to go before #PyBay 2026, happening on October 3rd at UCSF Mission Bay. We've got an excellent lineup of speakers, including: @gaborbernat @emmatyping @pamelafox @brianokken @coderanger and so many more! Thanks to our generous sponsors […] [Original post on toots.n7.gg]

PyBay 2026, October 3rd, in San Francisco. 11th Annual Regional PyBay Conference. For the community by the community.

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Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Social media bans exist to prevent young people from organizing on climate change, Palestine, and LGBTQIA+ rights.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 18/09/2026

Oh NOW you want my opinion on the ridiculously overpriced VR headset that was too heavy and where you refused to embrace popular VR use cases for until it was too late so I just put it on top of my *other* horribly expensive monument to Apple Design? Ok

Screenshot from my email client, of an email from Apple Market Research, with the subject “Tell us about Apple Vision Pro”

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 17/09/2026

Oh boy, I have once again won the opportunity to spend more money! 😹

Email from Valve saying I’m “officially in the reservation queue for Steam Frame”

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Glyph @glyph.im · 17/09/2026

RE: framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117281447… unironically, unashamedly do this. call your friends, ask them for help. and when they say “wait did you ask me just to replace your AI” say yes. say you’ll owe them one but you appreciate them so much more than AI. and show up for them […]

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Chris is. @offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

If tomorrow someone proved that being gay (or being straight) is a choice and that someone can simply choose not to be ... I would still support every single person, straight, gay, bi (hi!) or otherwise, to be who they chose to be. You don't have to be born that way to be valid.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 15/09/2026

@SnoopJ randomly reminded me of some amazing childhood brand integrations. Do you remember the Apollo 13 movie tie-in kids toys from Hardee’s? Fascinatingly of-an-era: collect all the pieces of the plastic Saturn V rocket that served as a container for the Apollo 13 branded *pogs* and slammers […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 13/09/2026

So if you find yourself feeling dependent upon AI because you're "not good enough", not like the prominent critics who you are putting on a pedestal, then allow me to paraphrase this famous exhortation from the philosopher Kamina: "Don't believe in yourself! Believe in me! Believe in the me who […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 13/09/2026

Second, the way you get to be a "good programmer" (on any one of the multivariate axes upon one can be such a thing) is to practice a lot, and AI deprives you of practice. So it might be momentarily helping you to *avoid embarrassment* but you're basically just bluffing your way through a […]

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Mario Munoz @pythonbynight.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I spent the last several days writing this. When I started, I felt like maybe the title was a bit of a hyperbole, even though I feel like my point is well argued. But then again, you have people working in this industry saying that they are building a weapon of mass destruction that could […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 12/09/2026

First time in many years that I haven’t set an alarm to preorder an iPhone. Weird.

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glamcode @glamcode.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

How I receive your offer to put AI into anything 👇 #AI #LLM

Two panels from a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.
Calvin has a hammer and offers “you name the surface and I’ll fill it full of nails”. The answer of mum is “Um, no…” and “No thanks, not today”.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 10/09/2026

You say you have to support the fashy software stack because that’s where the majority of AI users are going. Gee. I wonder why the majority of AI users are picking the fashy software stack for their “projects”. 🤔

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

the AI was a grandmaster chess player until it being horrible at chess became a meme the AI is an incredible mathematician in countless breathless papers but every time you ask it a basic math question it fucks it up badly the AI is just a tool until you refuse to use it, then it’s a […]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

the AI is on the cusp of AGI except when the topic is all the moral issues around enslaving a sentient being and doubt that an AI god is even possible, then the goal was never AGI at all and you’re silly for thinking that’s still a thing the AI is a transformative tool that creates unique […]

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Remember, their record profits are your unpaid wages

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 04/09/2026

The girl will happily leave Ohio, but Ohio won’t leave the girl.

Screenshot from the MyDialect quiz site, saying I talk most like someone from Colorado, despite never having lived there. It includes a color scale map of the states, showing that my dialect roughly matches a large swath of territory from the entire west coast, into Colorado, and then continuing across the Midwest into the western portion of Ohio, where I was born and raised.

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

I keep seeing political influencers saying you should protect your vote by using ballot drop boxes instead of mailing your completed ballot and, yeah sure drop boxes are great, I use them every time, but THAT'S NOT THE THREAT. The threat this time is that the USPS won't deliver your ballot to […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 03/09/2026

Sadly, I don’t think 1Password will give a fuck even if we all cancel our susbscriptiens. They haven’t wanted our business for years now, ever since tasting the blood of corporate volume subscriptions. If anything they’re probably happy to have fewer pesky tech savvy customers to deal with […]

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North Bay Python @fedi.northbaypython.org · 27/08/2026

the ink is dry but chris has to get a day of work in before he can write an email and updating a website so feel free to pencil in june 19 and 20! back in summer (but in a venue with proper insulation) so you can enjoy more of downtown petaluma. we're excited.

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 26/08/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@pybeach/117163275642… It's me! Come see me in Santa Monica in October, doing a basic, non-introspective, boring-ass technical talk for once. Balm for the soul after this year, I tell you.

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Chris is. @offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

I hate the way people interact with service workers while wholly headphoned and cut off from them. Premptory gestures, ignored questions... It's a form of contempt that makes me feel anger by proxy on behalf of the snubbed worker. People, treat the people who serve you like they're people.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 25/08/2026

The sales spam emails for GitHub projects have discovered the concept of negging

Screenshot from my email client, showing a message with the subject “Why isn’t unit test FT bigger?”

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Glyph @glyph.im · 18/08/2026

do my work for me. do an excellent job. do not make mistakes. best job superlative job excellent work, do not hallucinate. do not under any circumstances include errors. no errors. please no errors. best quality only best quality MOST best quality syntactically valid all unit tests pass, great […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 17/08/2026

Thanks for making supporting queer pride an “experiment”, in “beta” no less. 🙄

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 11/08/2026

I am once again begging for Google Meet on iPad to support the same keyboard shortcuts that they support on the Mac. I promise you that keyboards are a thing that exist for iPads, and people who have them connected want to use them.

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Chris is. @offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Sometimes I think about what amazing things we could have as a society if we would only elect decent people who give a fuck about us. bsky.app/profile/mayor.nyc.gov/post…

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 09/08/2026

RE: toots.n7.gg/@amethyst/1170640844879… This also answers in a roundabout way the question I'm sure no one is asking: "why have I ~stopped doing open source work?"

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 09/08/2026

I wrote way too many words to express the roller coaster of emotions and life changes I've been through in the past 18 months noswap.com/blog/what-a-year

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What a Year...

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

did u know: - it's #BandcampFriday and while I fear they're going downhill after recent acquisition-y things, they are still one of the best places to get money directly into the hands of musicians - there's a lot of fantastic labels publishing there, especially #ElectronicMusic stuff - such as […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 01/08/2026

How will I possibly trust any other site now that I've seen this?

Screenshot from a checkout flow where a grey banner floats on a red background. The banner reads "2048-bit super security" followed by a shield icon.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 31/07/2026

Insurance companies acting like mafia mob bosses if you don’t follow through after getting a quote

Screenshot of an email from Farmers Insurance, with the subject “If disaster strikes…” and the body summary starting with “You want us on your side”

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 30/07/2026

Newest member of the family, rescued from my dad before he could send it off to the monsters at carvana.

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SnoopJ @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

🫩️

Lenny from The Simpsons replacing a sign that reads 0 with another sign that reads 0 on a larger sign that reads "DAYS WITHOUT TIRED"

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Thomas Wouters @yhg1s.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

The world is complicated and frustrating, and there's quite a few things my employer did that I don't agree with (and I let them know!) but honestly, this is one thing I really, really appreciate about Meta. It's why I work there. It is unmitigated good […]

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