hot water enjoyer

It's also not polished enough that I can just show anyone and have it make sense so if I do actually try to talk to them about it they might think i'm actually insane

I have created what I think is by far the coolest thing I've ever made but if I talk about it to anyone I will immediately mire myself in technicalities so I have to just walk around like this for the next however long

Nobody in tech works for the same company for longer than nine months anymore so forgive me if I think the conventional wisdom wrt writing maintainable code may have degraded a bit over the past decade

YAGNI enthusiasts when they need it:

Gretel is one of my favs too :-)

I love Alex G! My wife and I met him after the Boston show!!

i feel like so much of what i post here is just shit i get annoyed by on my way home from work. today my thing is people idly wandering into my path and hanging out there

got myself an induction stove a few months ago. works fine so far

excuse me waiter, this food is cooked

my sister just got engaged :’)

the person in front of me on this plane has dropped their phone on the floor three times. we have not finished boarding yet

nothin, quetzalcoatl with you?

a man wearing a beanie is sitting on a couch making a funny face . ALT: a man wearing a beanie is sitting on a couch making a funny face .

the officials:

Happy Labor Day to everyone, even the masters and commanders

just occurred to me that i've been identifying as nonbinary for like 5 years now

company that has just laid off employees it didn’t need to: we’re understaffed :(

I think a lot of us would do well to admit that we maybe spent part of our lives broadly ignorant to certain social ideas and historical occurrences. And that, although embarrassing, we only (somewhat) recently gained some awareness on such topics. That’s ok. Just start doing better today

Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff

never silence yourself queen

horrible things are happening on the internet. toxic propaganda is being promoted to my feed on every major social media site. the internet feels a bit like it did in 2011. it's profitable to be making reactionary slop, and it's not organic, but it is rubbing off on us.

I'm not right wing but some of this "woke" stuff is a little over the top [6 months later] Slavery was fine. Your city is under martial law

It's crazy that sometimes when 2 people each think the other one is stupid it's because they operate from different totalizing forms of thought that are each indispensable and sometimes when 2 people each think the other one is stupid it's because 1 of them is stupid

maybe AI will enshittify and become useless before it gets the chance to destroy the world

when i do it, i swear to God it's not a humblebrag. It's actually unambiguously shameful: I basically stopped eating dirt six months sooner than my peers, and was stupid enough to believe this meant something important about me for the next six years.

getting ads for gender affirming products on social media. Hm.

Small unconscious cognitive quirks like this, where we unthinkingly and usually harmlessly involve harmful ideas in our thinking, is something bad actors can and do latch onto and magnify. It seems really disingenuous to act like we don’t know about this process

My hot take: the statement that blonde hair and blue eyes and generally aryan features are “good genes” is 1) usually uttered casually and without a passing thought towards eugenicist philosophy or policy and 2) implicitly plays into and reinforces eugenicist tropes