sorrels
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there's just ONE WEEK left to order our adorable and only semi-murderous Watcher plushie... so let's do a ✨ giveaway ✨
to enter, just follow @makeship.bsky.social and @sunsetvisitor.studio and repost this post!
the giveaway ends in 2 days! hekki grace and good luck!!
to enter, just follow @makeship.bsky.social and @sunsetvisitor.studio and repost this post!
the giveaway ends in 2 days! hekki grace and good luck!!
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
there's just ONE WEEK left to order our adorable and only semi-murderous Watcher plushie... so let's do a ✨ giveaway ✨
to enter, just follow @makeship.bsky.social and @sunsetvisitor.studio and repost this post!
the giveaway ends in 2 days! hekki grace and good luck!!
to enter, just follow @makeship.bsky.social and @sunsetvisitor.studio and repost this post!
the giveaway ends in 2 days! hekki grace and good luck!!
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this is one of the most striking and agonizing things I've read. the tech industry, broadly, globally, is fucking cancerous.
new blog post: being mad at the job market stanwixbuster.co.uk/blog/posts/2...
Being a Game Dev Makes you Unemployable
Thoughts after getting “a job”
stanwixbuster.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
this is one of the most striking and agonizing things I've read. the tech industry, broadly, globally, is fucking cancerous.
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who up at the recursive function
who up at the recursive function
who up at the recursive function
October 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
who up at the recursive function
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really like the bit of my work where I get to actually go and look at what's inside Big Important Software Projects that everyone's been taught to believe are inscrutable arcane magic and go "see, it's just programming, you can figure it out"
October 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
really like the bit of my work where I get to actually go and look at what's inside Big Important Software Projects that everyone's been taught to believe are inscrutable arcane magic and go "see, it's just programming, you can figure it out"
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it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
October 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
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2010s: be sure to put some sort of dog interaction in your game for a Polygon writeup
2020s: be sure to put a perfect square of negative space in your HUD for Northernlion to nest in
2020s: be sure to put a perfect square of negative space in your HUD for Northernlion to nest in
October 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
2010s: be sure to put some sort of dog interaction in your game for a Polygon writeup
2020s: be sure to put a perfect square of negative space in your HUD for Northernlion to nest in
2020s: be sure to put a perfect square of negative space in your HUD for Northernlion to nest in
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I don't think "tummy hort" should be allowed to make you feel like you're Straight Up Literally Dying. Like your brain should really be saving that signal pathway for actual emergencies. "gut flora disliked the cheese" is not a legitimate reason to slam the Multiple Organ Failure break-glass button
September 7, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I don't think "tummy hort" should be allowed to make you feel like you're Straight Up Literally Dying. Like your brain should really be saving that signal pathway for actual emergencies. "gut flora disliked the cheese" is not a legitimate reason to slam the Multiple Organ Failure break-glass button
yay google redesigned the clock app Again and now the alarms page isn't completely terrible (editing an alarm *finally* just opens a modal)
unfortunately they also redesigned the regular "clock" page and forgot to turn on tabular numbers. so the time jumps around every second 🫠
unfortunately they also redesigned the regular "clock" page and forgot to turn on tabular numbers. so the time jumps around every second 🫠
August 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
yay google redesigned the clock app Again and now the alarms page isn't completely terrible (editing an alarm *finally* just opens a modal)
unfortunately they also redesigned the regular "clock" page and forgot to turn on tabular numbers. so the time jumps around every second 🫠
unfortunately they also redesigned the regular "clock" page and forgot to turn on tabular numbers. so the time jumps around every second 🫠
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ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
January 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
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Radiant Silvergun warning screen text
August 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Radiant Silvergun warning screen text
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"do what you like" is a bit like hearing "did you try winning the lottery"
the thing that makes people like their job is stuff like having agency and feeling that the work is meaningful, being trusted as a peer, etc
and then way down the bottom of the list is things like "the actual work"
the thing that makes people like their job is stuff like having agency and feeling that the work is meaningful, being trusted as a peer, etc
and then way down the bottom of the list is things like "the actual work"
I agree with @caseynewton.bsky.social who writes the Platformer newsletter. "The best productivity hack in the world is simply liking your job."
For 30 years as a college teacher I told my students: If you can't wait to get to work because you're so into what you are doing then you did it right.
For 30 years as a college teacher I told my students: If you can't wait to get to work because you're so into what you are doing then you did it right.
August 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"do what you like" is a bit like hearing "did you try winning the lottery"
the thing that makes people like their job is stuff like having agency and feeling that the work is meaningful, being trusted as a peer, etc
and then way down the bottom of the list is things like "the actual work"
the thing that makes people like their job is stuff like having agency and feeling that the work is meaningful, being trusted as a peer, etc
and then way down the bottom of the list is things like "the actual work"
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"Anybody claiming to be able to upload you, *now*, is a con artist. Do not, under any circumstances, get inside their machine."
"Lena" isn't about uploading
Quite a lot of science fiction isn't about what it's about.
"Lena" is about uploading, but uploading isn't real. It doesn't exist.
It might exist at some point in the future, but that just seems prett...
qntm.org
August 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"Anybody claiming to be able to upload you, *now*, is a con artist. Do not, under any circumstances, get inside their machine."
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welcome to the club of people who have to use a vpn to get anything done. other members: russian federation, people's republic of china
July 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
welcome to the club of people who have to use a vpn to get anything done. other members: russian federation, people's republic of china
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driver vendors will deliver The Most Suspiciously Named Executable You Have Ever Seen In Your Life, then ask you to give it administrator permissions and let it install kernel-level code
July 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
driver vendors will deliver The Most Suspiciously Named Executable You Have Ever Seen In Your Life, then ask you to give it administrator permissions and let it install kernel-level code
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Went to a LARP a couple of months ago. Had a life-changing time. Decided to write about it: novemberkel.ly/2025/07/06/w...
Wing and a Prayer – November Kelly
novemberkel.ly
July 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Went to a LARP a couple of months ago. Had a life-changing time. Decided to write about it: novemberkel.ly/2025/07/06/w...
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"you're acting childish"
do you remember being a child. being powerless. subject to the whims of the people with real power. do you remember how that felt. how it felt to have your concerns ignored because you were too small to stand up for yourself.
you should try to remember that
it might help
do you remember being a child. being powerless. subject to the whims of the people with real power. do you remember how that felt. how it felt to have your concerns ignored because you were too small to stand up for yourself.
you should try to remember that
it might help
December 12, 2024 at 4:17 PM
"you're acting childish"
do you remember being a child. being powerless. subject to the whims of the people with real power. do you remember how that felt. how it felt to have your concerns ignored because you were too small to stand up for yourself.
you should try to remember that
it might help
do you remember being a child. being powerless. subject to the whims of the people with real power. do you remember how that felt. how it felt to have your concerns ignored because you were too small to stand up for yourself.
you should try to remember that
it might help
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Putting on a welding mask and opening the PC case. Stars spill out like comets, burning, like faeries in long-striding boots. I jam a screwdriver past tentacles of light, and fix the fan
June 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Putting on a welding mask and opening the PC case. Stars spill out like comets, burning, like faeries in long-striding boots. I jam a screwdriver past tentacles of light, and fix the fan
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fi you've worked at a company that sends out employee well-being surveys and you answer them going "I am having a really bad time" and nobody ever responds to this, this depersonalises you and deepens your despair
now picture a child developing the same disposition towards their teacher
now picture a child developing the same disposition towards their teacher
June 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
fi you've worked at a company that sends out employee well-being surveys and you answer them going "I am having a really bad time" and nobody ever responds to this, this depersonalises you and deepens your despair
now picture a child developing the same disposition towards their teacher
now picture a child developing the same disposition towards their teacher
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they should make a way out other than through
June 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
they should make a way out other than through
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getting to use an interoffice pneumatic tube system would fix me
June 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
getting to use an interoffice pneumatic tube system would fix me
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