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@evilrooster.bsky.social

Dual US/UK techie living in the Netherlands. Tech writer and contagious documentarian by day, bookbinder by night. My opinions are my own, and do not reflect those of anyone who employs, hangs out with, or is in any other way stuck with me. (She/her)

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Copper mine. Supplier to, well, you know...

02.03.2026 23:02 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Although this joke was not a pun, a pun is an example of a joke that someone can miss for other reasons than insider knowledge.

Furthermore, in-jokes, like breathing, are behaviors that people of all sides use, not a tribal marker.

02.03.2026 18:57 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not even one person! Remarkable, isn’t it?

02.03.2026 07:36 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

40 years ago, I yearned to find love, find a satisfying job, find friends, travel, and do a lot of cycling.

I have fulfilled these dreams, and no one has been genocided even once by my doing so.

Yearn for wholeness and dream of joy, not like this guy.

02.03.2026 07:17 — 👍 27    🔁 4    💬 4    📌 0

Risk-based testing falls over when you can’t measure probability of error because the coding methodology is profoundly different.

01.03.2026 15:39 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Used to work in IT for a bank, can confirm.

The late twentieth century broke junior bank management’s brains, and now they’re senior management.

Everyone assumes there are grownups somewhere in the room, but why would banks be different than, say, government?

01.03.2026 15:36 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A host of golden daffodils

A host of golden daffodils

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus to my Welsh friends and family

01.03.2026 11:09 — 👍 65    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

So anyway I guess this is what it feels like to be one of the tiny humans running through the streets while the giant supervillain monsters are fighting by throwing passengers trains and apartment buildings at each other

28.02.2026 03:26 — 👍 1895    🔁 289    💬 13    📌 5

still can't get over how one of the neatest tricks of writing is writing the wrong thing and thinking "this is wrong" and fixing it to the right thing, but never really being able to write the "right" thing first

27.02.2026 14:49 — 👍 56    🔁 11    💬 5    📌 1

goes to scream into void. hears gentle sobbing from void. sits down next to void and strokes its vast emptiness. "you doing okay, kiddo?" void sniffles, rests nothingness in lap. "yeah, me too."

03.04.2025 20:23 — 👍 175    🔁 39    💬 6    📌 1

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

26.02.2026 02:54 — 👍 2672    🔁 981    💬 9    📌 0

At heart, that old closeness and the fear that one day it will be lost. ❤️

26.02.2026 05:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Amber Diceless RPG

25.02.2026 18:19 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm not reaching for that Apple of Discord.

25.02.2026 14:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Unrelated to other discussions, @keepof4worlds.bsky.social, but this is also your niche.

25.02.2026 14:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What I meant by that comment is that the Threads people didn't hear you using American as a byword, but I did.

25.02.2026 14:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah, that would not have gone well.

When the amygdala's overloaded, some things have to come from in-community to be effective.

25.02.2026 14:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's like that old line about "Trump won't hear you calling him fat, but your fat friends will."

25.02.2026 13:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You used it in front of me.

25.02.2026 13:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

It has indeed been distressing.
Some of the reporting makes me wonder how much of this was set up - the live mic near him, for example.

The back of the bus line is clever, but it's rarely wise to use loaded language from another culture. Particularly when you're expressing animus at the same time.

25.02.2026 13:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The world has gotten worse and more exhausting, and not everyone has turned out to be who I thought they were.

25.02.2026 13:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Don't recall that one, but I too am fallible.

25.02.2026 13:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Tuned it with a chainsaw.

(I considered tuning you out of my feed, btw. Decided to say something instead, because I know you are -- or used to be -- better than you came across there.)

25.02.2026 13:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Not in my t/l. Time to tune your feed?

25.02.2026 13:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"American reaction".

Thanks, James.

25.02.2026 11:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's a shared niche.

25.02.2026 10:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Niche, but your niche:

Strength
Endurance
Psyche
Warfare

25.02.2026 10:45 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

I definitely approve of the rooster.

25.02.2026 09:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In honor of Macron officially giving the director of the Louvre the sack.

24.02.2026 20:22 — 👍 29    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
A chicken walking on the beach the caption is:

If you are seeing this the curse is lifted have a good day

A chicken walking on the beach the caption is: If you are seeing this the curse is lifted have a good day

Congratulations everyone

23.02.2026 04:15 — 👍 14782    🔁 5258    💬 107    📌 132