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ian @union.io · 17/09/2026

backend engineer on my team just unironically referred to my figma wireframes as "ian's drawings" ☺️

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greg2hats @cyberbadboy.com · 17/09/2026

Sucks that this goes in the exact same "well he's not WRONG" part of my mind palace as the Unabomber manifesto

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 14/09/2026

Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. Impossible to see this as anything but a statement of their values.

geoffgraham.me

Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately - Geoff Graham

Because I haven't published anything to it since August 31. And no one else has either. That's not a super long time to go silent but it is for a site that

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

again: zitron doesn't know anything about anything. his best take is just "number too big" and so if number winds up too big he's Right About Everything and everybody will just ignore all the shit he got wrong. it's like peter schiff with the housing bubble

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ian @union.io · 04/09/2026

all things considered, this is one of the most fucked up things I've ever read. this isn't "a PR stunt" by AI companies. these are public wikis you can find online that now have records of like 10,000+ bot-to-bot conversations where actual malicious techniques were invented and spread.

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ian @union.io · 03/09/2026

yes, buy your own computer! and connect your router via ethernet cables directly to whoever's computer you want to email!

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ian @union.io · 03/09/2026

bluesky saying "remember guys, no dogpiling! 😜" is like when onlyfans said remember guys, no adult content

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ian @union.io · 02/09/2026

type designers after Windows made Arial the default MSWord typeface in 1993:

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ian @union.io · 21/08/2026

better than the average AI tailwind website

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ian @union.io · 15/08/2026

zitron before every earnings: this appears to be the shoe finally dropping! the pin prick of the great ai bubble! just wait and see! [every ai company absolutely crushes all known revenue metrics across every possible vertical] zitron: ah well, nevertheless

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ian @union.io · 12/08/2026

on hour four of attempting to watch a 90 second youtube video without being interrupted. shoutout having two small kids.

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ian @union.io · 08/08/2026

kid's new car seat manual: Do NOT THROW THIS AWAY. Your baby's LIFE literally depends on you REGISTERING THIS SEAT IMMEDIATELY and you KEEPING THIS PAPER FOREVER in case there's a recall! Your baby WILL. DIE!!!!!!!! PAS DE DÉCHETS!! ¡¡NO BASURA!!!! me:

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

ChatGPT isn't sentient, according to the widely-accepted argument of John Searle. It speaks English, whereas a sentient being would speak Chinese. DeepSeek has been a breakthrough in this regard.

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ian @union.io · 04/08/2026

my kid was being a real know it all about ostrich facts which, cool, except he let it slip that he thought they were roughly the size of chickens. every day with a five year old is a gift.

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ian @union.io · 01/08/2026

although this dunk tweet is inarguably perfect comedy it is an unfortunate reality that kids think it's lame when dad talks about stuff like this but if a VOICE on the RADIO talked about it they would lose their lil minds

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ian @union.io · 31/07/2026

*gasp* people can edit images now??!?!? the horror

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ian @union.io · 23/07/2026

folks.... listen to Katie. I beg of you, listen to Katie.

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ian @union.io · 15/07/2026

it's amazing how just changing one or two words of an all-time banger dril tweet transforms it into something totally forgettable. honestly a testament to the nuance with which dril operates.

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ian @union.io · 14/07/2026

and the ai slop graphic, featuring two half-rendered continents which do not currently exist on planet earth, is really the cherry in top

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ian @union.io · 14/07/2026

trying to convince my wife we should be childmaxxing (having a third kid) and getting negged (she's saying no fucking chance)

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ian @union.io · 12/07/2026

nice to see all the bluesky politics accounts using Lyndsey Graham's death to really limber up for The Big Game. sure they're calling him a "rancid ghoul" and a "venomous poltroon" and whatever but you know they aren't playing their top card. can't wait to see what they're all saving for Gametime

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ian @union.io · 28/06/2026

finally found an actual use case for the slop image generator: turning my kid's drawings and blocks into photorealistic pictures! he's so excited, this is the platonic ideal of a five year old's imaginative playtime

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ian @union.io · 27/06/2026

folks, I don't want to sound like another doomsday fantasist on here but... it's looking like the biggest crypto scammer on wall street is about to absolutely eat shit

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ian @union.io · 27/06/2026

the big dummy got skunk sprayed. here in the middle of los angeles. look at how proud of herself she is.

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ian @union.io · 20/06/2026

after reading @inthesedeserts.bsky.social's recent thread about AC in central Europe I feel like every article about this topic should have the mandatory aside for context: "In Switzerland, where it is illegal to have central air conditioning in your home, ..."

nytimes.com

Europe Is Heating Up This Week. Here’s What to Know.

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ian @union.io · 20/06/2026

every tech company six months ago: we understand AI-assisted coding is useful, but we're taking a measured, thoughtful approach to spending. please use personal accounts and expense no more than $20 a month on AI. every tech company today:

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ian @union.io · 12/06/2026

I'm broadly feeling this way too.. although this month I got plopped into my first ever entirely-vibecoded-repo with an enterprise-sized codebase. it borders on insanity.

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ian @union.io · 02/06/2026

bernie proposing we forcibly nationalize every AI company absolutely rocks and I shall be avoiding all bluesky discourse to the contrary, tyvm!

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ian @union.io · 25/05/2026

uh oh, just saw a screenshot of an anthropomorphic raccoon avatar tweeting that LLMs can help ppl with disabilities so anti-AI tweets are actually ableist. Olympus has fallen.

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ian @union.io · 17/05/2026

if my best friend got drafted to fight in iran and we didn't see each other for 5 years and, somehow, we both signed to MLB teams and the first time we saw each other again was on 2nd base during a game I STILL WOULDNT BE AS EXCITED to talk to him as Mookie Betts is with EVERY SINGLE OPPONENT

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ian @union.io · 09/05/2026

my cousin who shares my incredibly unique last name got famous in english soccer and now my google news alerts are all just like "RIGHT LADS: is [my last name] going to last at Tottenham?!" ugh come on

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ian @union.io · 06/05/2026

analysts & commentators alike are saying my fantasy baseball team, the Los Angeles Taco Trucks of Los Angeles, might have the healthiest pitching staff of all time

screenshot of a fantasy baseball team with like 10 of the 11 pitchers fucking injured

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ian @union.io · 05/05/2026

what google's doing here is so vile it almost feels like coming at them from the environmental angle is giving them a free pass. I know connecting "AI" to "environment" is the magic engagement hack on here, but at Google-scale an android kernel engineer could fart and waste 240k tons of CO2

thatprivacyguy.com

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user del...

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ian @union.io · 01/05/2026

I always cherish the times I need to pick a new preworkout because I love scrolling through 85 products called ULTIMATE RAGEKILL by INSANE LABZ that have graphic images of like, apes as viewed through night vision sniper scopes. like they're all assassinating a jacked gorilla osama bin laden

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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/04/2026

you: my industry is collapsing. me, unemployed, holding your hand: every industry is collapsing.

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ian @union.io · 25/04/2026

important read, imo. I think lots of us in the software space are feeling at least a bit of this: the usefulness of thoughtful AI tool implementation is undeniable, but can all-to-quickly devour an entire team, company, industry.

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ian @union.io · 24/04/2026

quiet everyone my show's on

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ian @union.io · 24/04/2026

tapping the map

map highlighting a city named Nuremberg, Pennsylvania

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ian @union.io · 20/04/2026

this guy is telling Dan Abramov that the team he worked on and code base he helped design doesn't have "actual programmers" or "actual code" lmao. can't make this stuff up folks.

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ian @union.io · 18/04/2026

me trying to keep the 6 month old awake until her last bottle at 7:30pm

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ian @union.io · 18/04/2026

seeing my 5 year old play w other kids further convinces me we are evolutionarily designed to simply throw all kids aged 3-8 into a giant pit in the village square and occasionally shovel in processed sugar to keep them fed until they are 8 years old and can emerge from The Pit

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 16/04/2026

responding ”vibe code?” to every outage like women named carol respond “vaxx?” to every celebrity death

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ian @union.io · 16/04/2026

friend of a friend is in a local band called Warm Uncle and when I told my wife she was so distraught at their name she ended up being mad at ME by proxy. I didn't name the band babe!!!! jeez

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ian @union.io · 14/04/2026

this is actually a genius suggestion. this could probably even be accomplished without having to retrain a model. what is even the theoretical downside for the company? the product is less "cute"??

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ian @union.io · 12/04/2026

datacenters don't make this much noise. the one in the video is being built, and that noise is from construction. seeing anti-AI influencers try to gin up a boogeyman out of such a common, well-established part of US infrastructure (that powers 100% of their daily tech usage) is exhausting.

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ian @union.io · 09/04/2026

bluesky every time a dogshit opinion piece with a provocative headline is published in some paywalled centrist magazine no one reads

vince carter about to start a monster dunking session

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ian @union.io · 07/04/2026

gonna throw a curveball here and say the honor should belong to Guantanamo Bay

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