Janie Larson
@redqueencoder.bsky.social
I own pugs and I make things. Wrote a book on Metal.
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Janie Larson
@redqueencoder.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Intro to me. I’m Janie. I used to do Swift development, but I have been taking some time to learn C++ so I can build game engines and do low level rendering. I don’t have any current tech projects to talk about so I mostly talk about my pugs and my crafting projects to avoid going insane.
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Happy lazy ass sundayy recovering my social battery 🫶🏽 look at this anime about me
November 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Happy lazy ass sundayy recovering my social battery 🫶🏽 look at this anime about me
Finally got cold enough outside to make Japanese curry 🍛 😋
November 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Finally got cold enough outside to make Japanese curry 🍛 😋
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your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Wow this is so correct
Wow this is so correct
November 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Wow this is so correct
Wow this is so correct
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I’m turning in, but, Plur1bus fans? Go read Octavia Butler’s PATTERNIST novels, starting with WILD SEED. Power dynamics and psychics and connected minds written by a science fiction grandmaster, you won’t regret it.
November 16, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I’m turning in, but, Plur1bus fans? Go read Octavia Butler’s PATTERNIST novels, starting with WILD SEED. Power dynamics and psychics and connected minds written by a science fiction grandmaster, you won’t regret it.
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<rant> A periodic reminder that Sprints, Backlogs, Daily Scrums, Scrum Boards, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Points, Velocity, PIs, etc., have NOTHING AT ALL to do with "Agile." Agility comes from working small, delivering frequently for feedback from actual customers, and adapting based on
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November 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
<rant> A periodic reminder that Sprints, Backlogs, Daily Scrums, Scrum Boards, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Points, Velocity, PIs, etc., have NOTHING AT ALL to do with "Agile." Agility comes from working small, delivering frequently for feedback from actual customers, and adapting based on
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the neurodivergent urge to wonder if you are performing Friendliness correctly. if your Friendliness has been appropriately calibrated to the situation at hand.😮💨
November 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
the neurodivergent urge to wonder if you are performing Friendliness correctly. if your Friendliness has been appropriately calibrated to the situation at hand.😮💨
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Get ready for a heaping helping of cinematic turkeys this Thanksgiving! 🦃 The #MST3K Turkey Day Marathon is back and for the first time features episodes from Seasons 11 & 12 via our Double Troubled Features Marathon starting 11/27 at 3 am ET / 12 am PT on the MST3K channel.
November 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Get ready for a heaping helping of cinematic turkeys this Thanksgiving! 🦃 The #MST3K Turkey Day Marathon is back and for the first time features episodes from Seasons 11 & 12 via our Double Troubled Features Marathon starting 11/27 at 3 am ET / 12 am PT on the MST3K channel.
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When a big media company uses genai slop instead of human made art, it is not just taking a job away from one artist to make that thing but *multiple* artists involved in all the things.
The entire artist-hiring pipeline gets destroyed in favor of chugging from the hot dogshit pipeline.
The entire artist-hiring pipeline gets destroyed in favor of chugging from the hot dogshit pipeline.
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
When a big media company uses genai slop instead of human made art, it is not just taking a job away from one artist to make that thing but *multiple* artists involved in all the things.
The entire artist-hiring pipeline gets destroyed in favor of chugging from the hot dogshit pipeline.
The entire artist-hiring pipeline gets destroyed in favor of chugging from the hot dogshit pipeline.
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People want to believe that the GOP’s electoral success in red states is the result of dirty tricks and gerrymandering instead of the sincerely held beliefs of a majority of the population because a mechanical issue is easier to fix than wrestling with how to make people not believe what they do.
November 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
People want to believe that the GOP’s electoral success in red states is the result of dirty tricks and gerrymandering instead of the sincerely held beliefs of a majority of the population because a mechanical issue is easier to fix than wrestling with how to make people not believe what they do.
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Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.
Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.
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This has been a very effective theatrical tactic on the right: collapsing the female-dominated HR structure (which developed explicitly to minimize employers’ obligations under civil rights law!) into a synonym for anti-discrimination law itself.
November 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This has been a very effective theatrical tactic on the right: collapsing the female-dominated HR structure (which developed explicitly to minimize employers’ obligations under civil rights law!) into a synonym for anti-discrimination law itself.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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call me a prude but I also do not want to read florid slash fic about Diana Mitford and Oswald Mosley
November 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
call me a prude but I also do not want to read florid slash fic about Diana Mitford and Oswald Mosley
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A basic lesson about oppressive systems: As they continue, they inevitably cost even the oppressors to maintain. Every time they're enacted it's for short-sighted benefits before then they fossilize into a societal feature maintained via inertia and prejudice even after all gains inevitably dry up.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
A basic lesson about oppressive systems: As they continue, they inevitably cost even the oppressors to maintain. Every time they're enacted it's for short-sighted benefits before then they fossilize into a societal feature maintained via inertia and prejudice even after all gains inevitably dry up.
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
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I love the way each of the six baby crocodiles in this photo seems to have a completely distinct personality.
Top (l.-r.): Introvert, idealist, jerk
Bottom (l.-r.): Class clown, stoner, pessimist
Top (l.-r.): Introvert, idealist, jerk
Bottom (l.-r.): Class clown, stoner, pessimist
By the mid-1970s, only 200 American crocodiles remained, their habitat largely gobbled up by sunseekers. But hope lurked in the shadows of a nuclear power plant—the same facility built to air-condition the homes that had led to the reptiles’ demise. Read more about this unlikely partnership:
The Comeback Croc - bioGraphic
American crocodiles are booming in Florida, thanks to a little help from a nuclear power plant.
www.biographic.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I love the way each of the six baby crocodiles in this photo seems to have a completely distinct personality.
Top (l.-r.): Introvert, idealist, jerk
Bottom (l.-r.): Class clown, stoner, pessimist
Top (l.-r.): Introvert, idealist, jerk
Bottom (l.-r.): Class clown, stoner, pessimist
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I’m putting my special occasion bottle of wine out to chill because I don’t know when I will get to drink it but I am hoping it will be soon. 🤞🏻
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I’m putting my special occasion bottle of wine out to chill because I don’t know when I will get to drink it but I am hoping it will be soon. 🤞🏻
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I can't stop thinking about that article about how people literally can't read because they're basically taught to guess over the last like two decades and like. It's really starting to make why people will respond aggressively, agreeing with what you said but convinced you said the opposite
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I can't stop thinking about that article about how people literally can't read because they're basically taught to guess over the last like two decades and like. It's really starting to make why people will respond aggressively, agreeing with what you said but convinced you said the opposite
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it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
Does anyone have experience volunteering for political campaigns? I am on the autism spectrum and I have difficulty talking to people on the phone or in person in an unsolicited manner. Are there other ways to contribute to a campaign besides calling or knocking on doors?
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Does anyone have experience volunteering for political campaigns? I am on the autism spectrum and I have difficulty talking to people on the phone or in person in an unsolicited manner. Are there other ways to contribute to a campaign besides calling or knocking on doors?
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When people are stupid shitballs, bake something. People will still be stupid shitballs, but you’ll have a tasty treat. Birthday apple dumplings for my favorite daughter 🩷🍎
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
When people are stupid shitballs, bake something. People will still be stupid shitballs, but you’ll have a tasty treat. Birthday apple dumplings for my favorite daughter 🩷🍎
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I can no longer attribute to incompetence what is more plausibly explained by malice. This isn't an opposition party, this is a kayfabe party.
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I can no longer attribute to incompetence what is more plausibly explained by malice. This isn't an opposition party, this is a kayfabe party.
Damn Chuck Schumer!
Damn everyone that won't damn Chuck Schumer!
Damn every one that won't put lights in his window and sit up all night damning Chuck Schumer!
Damn everyone that won't damn Chuck Schumer!
Damn every one that won't put lights in his window and sit up all night damning Chuck Schumer!
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Damn Chuck Schumer!
Damn everyone that won't damn Chuck Schumer!
Damn every one that won't put lights in his window and sit up all night damning Chuck Schumer!
Damn everyone that won't damn Chuck Schumer!
Damn every one that won't put lights in his window and sit up all night damning Chuck Schumer!
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I don't know why democrats expect their high propensity/high info voters who pay attention to every election and news cycle to just forget about everything
April 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I don't know why democrats expect their high propensity/high info voters who pay attention to every election and news cycle to just forget about everything