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izaleu.bsky.social
Valkyrie
@izaleu.bsky.social
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She/her. Once and future game dev. LARP runner. Cat caretaker. I have opinions, sometimes wrong ones. Show me your cats and bunnies, your WIPs, your Warhammer and Gundam stuff and your old computers.
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izaleu.bsky.social
Wow this site is making my cortisol levels go up today. Time to log off for a bit.
February 16, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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lewmo.bsky.social
good afternoon
an orange and white cat sits loafed on a carpeted floor a small brown tabby cat sits loafed on the bottom step of some stairs
February 16, 2026 at 5:44 PM
izaleu.bsky.social
Why do they let us do these things lol
February 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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frankysinatra.bsky.social
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#rabbit #bunny 🐰 🐇
Nancy and Franky stretched out in opposite directions and against each other snoozing. Franky's head is between a Timothy hay forage mat and Nancy's belly. I picked up the flash drive after the photo was taken. 😆
February 16, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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nrcgray.bsky.social
I finished painting this lady death knight:
February 15, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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kindofstrange.com
Orb
Fluffy Siberian cat crammed into a round cardboard cat bed that's clearly too small for him. His fur spills majestically out the sides of the bed. He sleeps
February 15, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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lewmo.bsky.social
good afternoon
a small brown tabby cat licks her paw, mid tongue bath
February 15, 2026 at 7:59 PM
izaleu.bsky.social
I feel like a lot of my peers are in the grip of this thing. It's dire.

I know what a Variable Reward System looks like when I see one and nope nope nope
timkellogg.me Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 1d
Token Anxiety

i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
Token Anxiety Nikunj Kothari C @nikunj • Feb 13 A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents. Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party. All the parties are sober now. Young people don't drink because they're going back to work after. Not inspired by Bryan Johnson, although that's probably a factor. The buzz they want now runs on tokens per day. I keep noticing it on walks through the Mission. Laptops glowing everywhere. Cafes, sidewalks, heck even park benches. People walking with screens open like a flashlight guiding them somewhere. Less drunk laughter on the streets these days. More keystrokes. Dinner conversations used to start with "what are you building?" That's over. Now it's "how many agents do you have running?" People drop the number the way they used to drop their follower count. Quietly competitive. The flex isn't what you've accomplished anymore. It's what's working while you're sitting here not working. The vocabulary is what really gets me though. People describe models the way sommeliers describe wine. This one has better taste. That one hallucinates with more confidence. Opus is bold, Codex is smooth. They talk about harnesses and reins like they're controlling horses. Invisible whips directing invisible labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep "Claude on a tight leash for code review but give it more slack for creative work." We've started borrowing the language of how we treat animals for something none of us actually understand yet. Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now. Before coffee. Before texts. You open your laptop and grade homework you assigned in your sleep. Some of it is good. Most needs rework. But you start shipping a plan before you sleep just so you can wake up to more code written overnight. Saturdays became uninterrupted build windows. No meetings, no Slack, twelve hours of you and your agents. Sunday morning X is all terminal screenshots and shipping receipts. "What'd you ship this weekend?" replaced "what'd you do this weekend?" The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month's workflow feel prehistoric. Codex ships overnight processing. Opus gets faster. Context windows double. None of it reduces the pressure. It multiplies it. You can do more now. And someone already is. The window to be first at anything feels like it's shrinking by the day. Literally, by the day. I replaced Netflix with Claude Code. I lie in bed thinking about what I can spin up before I fall asleep, what can run while I'm unconscious. Reading a novel feels indulgent now. Watching a movie without a laptop open feels wasteful. This voice in my head that says "something could be running right now" just doesn't shut off. I'm not even building a company. I'm just addicted to building my random ideas. Everyone here knows they should step away more. That's not the problem. The problem is what your brain does when you try. I still take a x ss walks. The agents come with me now.
February 15, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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moon--dancer.bsky.social
Posting a pic of the baby
My orange cat Niles using my hand as a pillow
February 14, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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ericsevier.bsky.social
Rainy Caturday, Tushka hanging in a box while I work. #cats #catpics #caturday
February 14, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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spacewhalespress.bsky.social
There's been a bit of a disagreement over who gets the spot at the top of the cat tree.

#caturday #orangecat #torbiecat
A small torbie cat sits at the top of a gray plush cat tree. Her eyes are open and her ears pointed forward in a look that is somehow both nervous and smug. On the next platform down, an orange tabby and white cat sits up tall, looking down and to the left. Underneath the platform, his tail is blurry, as he is moving it very fast in annoyance.
February 14, 2026 at 3:59 PM
izaleu.bsky.social
I have to admit that the eco-conscious, environmentally aware autocracy of Wuling is very appealing. It's been a long time since I've seen something that even bothers to present a vision of a better future... to bad it appears to be a benevolent dictatorship so far 😬

#endfield
February 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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jtischauser.bsky.social
Mr. Cat loves his box.
a fluffy cat sits in a tall narrow box
February 15, 2026 at 5:27 AM
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frogge257.bsky.social
Square 45 #2026Quilt
Crimson and gold moth
Quilt square with a pink and orange moth embroidered in the center square
February 15, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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whatabossislaas.bsky.social
If he Fitz, he sits #caturday
Fitz, a chunky brown tabby cat, sit-stands in an Amazon box staring at the camera with wide eyes
February 15, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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landon.wtf
hey so Roster.pub is now accepting waitlisted signups. I will be activating accounts as the public forums (topics) come online, and the discord import will be online later this afternoon. Sign up! Invite codes to be emailed! ATPROTO BUT DISCORD EXCEPT FORUMS INSTEAD OF CHAT ITT 👇
February 14, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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hollyolsonbcpa.bsky.social
Happy #caturday 💝
Gray striped cat sleeping with head against orange pillow.
February 14, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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lynnmaccanada.bsky.social
Look at this handsome guy (perhaps I'm a little biased 😉).
Newman wishes you all a Happy Valentine's Caturday 😻🐾💕
Newman, a Lynx Point Siamese cat (aka Tabby Point Siamese), is curled up on the ledge of his cat house.
February 14, 2026 at 5:52 PM
izaleu.bsky.social
Oh man, having a bowl of skyr after having access to nothing but regular and Greek yogurt for a while... unf. It's just the best.
February 14, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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thecynthiamarie.bsky.social
To be as content as a cat in a box. 🖤🐈‍⬛
#caturday
February 14, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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nachtrave.bsky.social
Kitty in a box! :3
February 14, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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barrelbucket.bsky.social
I don't know what Bluesky thinks "show less like this" means, but it doesn't show less like that.
February 14, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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mercwolfmoor.bsky.social
Behold, a perfectly boxed tiger!
Tater Tot is an orange and white tabby cat sitting in a cardboard box
February 14, 2026 at 4:32 PM
izaleu.bsky.social
Idk why people in the comments are being so fucking negative. I was skeptical about Hypershell but I'm mobility impaired and the thing basically changed my life.

More tools and options like this will be a great benefit to humanity. I know tech is under a lot of deserved scrutiny, but come on.
February 14, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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phanterm.bsky.social
This Valentine’s Day, I have a crush on the friends in my life.

And also these cats.
Toccata the cat laying on my keyboard. She puffy cat. Fugue the cat laying on my windowsill. He snowshoe cat.
February 14, 2026 at 8:50 AM