Jay Chan
@jchan1e.bsky.social
ADHD knowledge seeking void shouting computer scientist, skill hoarder, and renaissance man. (He/they)
Be kind. It means everything and costs nothing.
Be kind. It means everything and costs nothing.
Here's hoping tonight's dreams don't fuck me up like last night's...
November 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Here's hoping tonight's dreams don't fuck me up like last night's...
Caught up on the news today, and am frankly livid over how the govt shutdown ended, but it came with perspective
It's never been clearer that the Democratic party is what a multi-party state would call a coalition of too many distinct positions, from real progressive to what conservative used to be
It's never been clearer that the Democratic party is what a multi-party state would call a coalition of too many distinct positions, from real progressive to what conservative used to be
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Caught up on the news today, and am frankly livid over how the govt shutdown ended, but it came with perspective
It's never been clearer that the Democratic party is what a multi-party state would call a coalition of too many distinct positions, from real progressive to what conservative used to be
It's never been clearer that the Democratic party is what a multi-party state would call a coalition of too many distinct positions, from real progressive to what conservative used to be
Life is a miracle
A freak chance upon 100,000 other freak chances
Often squandered by shortsightedness or greed
And frighteningly easy to cut short
Be kind
It costs nothing
And means everything
A freak chance upon 100,000 other freak chances
Often squandered by shortsightedness or greed
And frighteningly easy to cut short
Be kind
It costs nothing
And means everything
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Life is a miracle
A freak chance upon 100,000 other freak chances
Often squandered by shortsightedness or greed
And frighteningly easy to cut short
Be kind
It costs nothing
And means everything
A freak chance upon 100,000 other freak chances
Often squandered by shortsightedness or greed
And frighteningly easy to cut short
Be kind
It costs nothing
And means everything
Today I met a man lying in front of a car with a bleeding dent in the back of his skull and a desperate fear of death in his eyes.
And we were both powerless to do anything to help.
The ambulance arrived within 2 minutes. He was still breathing when it left for the hospital.
I hope he makes it.
And we were both powerless to do anything to help.
The ambulance arrived within 2 minutes. He was still breathing when it left for the hospital.
I hope he makes it.
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Today I met a man lying in front of a car with a bleeding dent in the back of his skull and a desperate fear of death in his eyes.
And we were both powerless to do anything to help.
The ambulance arrived within 2 minutes. He was still breathing when it left for the hospital.
I hope he makes it.
And we were both powerless to do anything to help.
The ambulance arrived within 2 minutes. He was still breathing when it left for the hospital.
I hope he makes it.
The reason they want to harvest your data so badly is for targeted ads.
Therefore
Blocking ads is an act of rebellion that actively hurts the most socially corrosive industry we have.
As a nice bonus, it drastically improves your quality of life on the internet, and cuts your data usage in half.
Therefore
Blocking ads is an act of rebellion that actively hurts the most socially corrosive industry we have.
As a nice bonus, it drastically improves your quality of life on the internet, and cuts your data usage in half.
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The reason they want to harvest your data so badly is for targeted ads.
Therefore
Blocking ads is an act of rebellion that actively hurts the most socially corrosive industry we have.
As a nice bonus, it drastically improves your quality of life on the internet, and cuts your data usage in half.
Therefore
Blocking ads is an act of rebellion that actively hurts the most socially corrosive industry we have.
As a nice bonus, it drastically improves your quality of life on the internet, and cuts your data usage in half.
Oh yeah, I'm married now.
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Oh yeah, I'm married now.
Woke up early to drive to the airport, and the whole time, my neurons are dancing.
But not in the way people dance, more like how dolphins dance.
But not in the way people dance, more like how dolphins dance.
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Woke up early to drive to the airport, and the whole time, my neurons are dancing.
But not in the way people dance, more like how dolphins dance.
But not in the way people dance, more like how dolphins dance.
Tonight, my good friend gave me some wisdom while I was stressed over my impending wedding.
"The alchemy of time's passage is that when an event goes from being in the future to being in the past, all the negative stuff surrounding it just kinda melts away, and you remember the good moments fondly."
"The alchemy of time's passage is that when an event goes from being in the future to being in the past, all the negative stuff surrounding it just kinda melts away, and you remember the good moments fondly."
October 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Tonight, my good friend gave me some wisdom while I was stressed over my impending wedding.
"The alchemy of time's passage is that when an event goes from being in the future to being in the past, all the negative stuff surrounding it just kinda melts away, and you remember the good moments fondly."
"The alchemy of time's passage is that when an event goes from being in the future to being in the past, all the negative stuff surrounding it just kinda melts away, and you remember the good moments fondly."
Ethiopian food
Very good
Very good
October 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Ethiopian food
Very good
Very good
The trouble is we have a bad habit of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
October 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The trouble is we have a bad habit of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
What good even are methods without any madness in them?
October 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
What good even are methods without any madness in them?
Your eyeballs do SO much averaging even before your brain gets involved with post-processing.
October 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Your eyeballs do SO much averaging even before your brain gets involved with post-processing.
Use your imagination.
October 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Use your imagination.
GitHub sent me an email this morning. Google put it in my primary inbox. It didn't go to spam. It didn't go to the Promotions tab. It was even marked as Important.
It was an ad for Microsoft Copilot, telling me about all the places they're shoehorning it into everyone's workflows.
It was an ad for Microsoft Copilot, telling me about all the places they're shoehorning it into everyone's workflows.
October 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
GitHub sent me an email this morning. Google put it in my primary inbox. It didn't go to spam. It didn't go to the Promotions tab. It was even marked as Important.
It was an ad for Microsoft Copilot, telling me about all the places they're shoehorning it into everyone's workflows.
It was an ad for Microsoft Copilot, telling me about all the places they're shoehorning it into everyone's workflows.
YouTube's algorithm seems to think there's some perfect video for me that's a blend of every video I've ever clicked on, and every day it keeps trying to get closer to that by narrowing the range of slop it shows me, incapable of comprehending that that's exactly wrong.
October 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
YouTube's algorithm seems to think there's some perfect video for me that's a blend of every video I've ever clicked on, and every day it keeps trying to get closer to that by narrowing the range of slop it shows me, incapable of comprehending that that's exactly wrong.
If we continue with letting Republicans get away with the old KGB strategy of flooding public discourse with clear lies while AI slop tools make it hard enough to discern truth that we instead prioritize emotionally inflammatory narratives when voting and writing public policy, where does that lead?
October 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
If we continue with letting Republicans get away with the old KGB strategy of flooding public discourse with clear lies while AI slop tools make it hard enough to discern truth that we instead prioritize emotionally inflammatory narratives when voting and writing public policy, where does that lead?
Today, for the first time in my life, it occurred to me that I could've used caffeine to stay awake on long road trips.
October 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Today, for the first time in my life, it occurred to me that I could've used caffeine to stay awake on long road trips.
Birds is dinosaurs
Bones is rocks
Bugs is shrimps
Hiccups is when your body forgets it's not fish
It is fish tho, like all tetrapods
Blood is seawater we brought onto land
Cephalopods is aliens (not from space)
Orcas is smarter than you
Words mean whatever we want; dictionaries just keep track
Bones is rocks
Bugs is shrimps
Hiccups is when your body forgets it's not fish
It is fish tho, like all tetrapods
Blood is seawater we brought onto land
Cephalopods is aliens (not from space)
Orcas is smarter than you
Words mean whatever we want; dictionaries just keep track
October 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Birds is dinosaurs
Bones is rocks
Bugs is shrimps
Hiccups is when your body forgets it's not fish
It is fish tho, like all tetrapods
Blood is seawater we brought onto land
Cephalopods is aliens (not from space)
Orcas is smarter than you
Words mean whatever we want; dictionaries just keep track
Bones is rocks
Bugs is shrimps
Hiccups is when your body forgets it's not fish
It is fish tho, like all tetrapods
Blood is seawater we brought onto land
Cephalopods is aliens (not from space)
Orcas is smarter than you
Words mean whatever we want; dictionaries just keep track
None of our problems are new, they're just moving faster.
October 9, 2025 at 6:28 AM
None of our problems are new, they're just moving faster.
Not enjoying the stage of debt where interest starts charging interest on itself.
October 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Not enjoying the stage of debt where interest starts charging interest on itself.
The colder weather is finally here
October 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The colder weather is finally here
No matter how you divide people, you have to have empathy for the ones on the other side of the line. Lawful/criminal, native/immigrant, rich/poor, you will find yourself on the other side of that line one day. Would you be okay with being treated in the manner you voted for?
October 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
No matter how you divide people, you have to have empathy for the ones on the other side of the line. Lawful/criminal, native/immigrant, rich/poor, you will find yourself on the other side of that line one day. Would you be okay with being treated in the manner you voted for?
Being okay is different from being okay with what's going on. Achieving the former in defiance of the latter is necessary to survive. Because it's been over 9 years, and Normal isn't coming back.
October 5, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Being okay is different from being okay with what's going on. Achieving the former in defiance of the latter is necessary to survive. Because it's been over 9 years, and Normal isn't coming back.
The present has arrived.
October 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The present has arrived.