Ben Evans
@ogkittylyst.bsky.social
Usually kittylyst, someone beat me to the name here. So I'm the OG
Cisqueer author / educator / software eng known for #architecture #performance #observability #Java #JVM
Chaos acc: #cats #antifascism #queer >> #tech
More: @kittylyst@mastodon.social
Cisqueer author / educator / software eng known for #architecture #performance #observability #Java #JVM
Chaos acc: #cats #antifascism #queer >> #tech
More: @kittylyst@mastodon.social
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Ben Evans
@ogkittylyst.bsky.social
· Jul 19
Hey folks - just a reminder that @kittylyst.bsky.social is not me.
They beat me to the name here (which is just the way it goes sometimes) & about half their followers seem to be people who are probably looking for me!
But, no, I'm here.
They beat me to the name here (which is just the way it goes sometimes) & about half their followers seem to be people who are probably looking for me!
But, no, I'm here.
Rare worksafe Oglaf: www.oglaf.com/buoyancy/
Buoyancy
www.oglaf.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Rare worksafe Oglaf: www.oglaf.com/buoyancy/
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my "I ❤️ GATEKEEPING" shirt has people asking questions that they frankly would never even understand the answers to
November 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
my "I ❤️ GATEKEEPING" shirt has people asking questions that they frankly would never even understand the answers to
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All of the time -- and I mean ALL of the time -- I get messages from people in tech that if we just promoted people with the right engineering degrees, and the Technical People were in charge, all would be fixed. That is why I wrote Why I Cannot Be Technical. You either get it or you don't.
November 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
All of the time -- and I mean ALL of the time -- I get messages from people in tech that if we just promoted people with the right engineering degrees, and the Technical People were in charge, all would be fixed. That is why I wrote Why I Cannot Be Technical. You either get it or you don't.
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Alan Dershowitz redefining the semantics of "pedophile" isn't hairsplitting, according to the plain meaning of "hairsplitting"
by Steven Pinker
by Steven Pinker
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Alan Dershowitz redefining the semantics of "pedophile" isn't hairsplitting, according to the plain meaning of "hairsplitting"
by Steven Pinker
by Steven Pinker
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Latest Israeli attack on UNIFIL comes as it continues near-daily strikes on its northern neighbour in truce violation.
UN peacekeepers say Israeli forces fire on them in southern Lebanon
Latest Israeli attack on UNIFIL comes as it continues near-daily strikes on its northern neighbour in truce violation.
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Latest Israeli attack on UNIFIL comes as it continues near-daily strikes on its northern neighbour in truce violation.
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Sounds like something reminiscent of a Nazi policy, incredibly sickening. Shame on these people. Fake socialists.
Any Labour MP who stays in that party is ensuring they lose their seat. Any Labour MP who stays in that party is ensuring humiliation and embarrassment for the rest of their careers.
Any Labour MP who stays in that party is ensuring they lose their seat. Any Labour MP who stays in that party is ensuring humiliation and embarrassment for the rest of their careers.
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Sounds like something reminiscent of a Nazi policy, incredibly sickening. Shame on these people. Fake socialists.
Any Labour MP who stays in that party is ensuring they lose their seat. Any Labour MP who stays in that party is ensuring humiliation and embarrassment for the rest of their careers.
Any Labour MP who stays in that party is ensuring they lose their seat. Any Labour MP who stays in that party is ensuring humiliation and embarrassment for the rest of their careers.
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When reality bites: the rapid rise and chaotic fall of Reform UK in Cornwall
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
When reality bites: the rapid rise and chaotic fall of Reform UK in Cornwall
Resignations, suspensions and infighting lead to party losing crown of highest number of seats in the county
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
When reality bites: the rapid rise and chaotic fall of Reform UK in Cornwall
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Any Labour MP who does not resign the whip tomorrow or cross the floor to another party, stands with Yaxley-Lennon.
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Any Labour MP who does not resign the whip tomorrow or cross the floor to another party, stands with Yaxley-Lennon.
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A whale caught in crab nets is fighting for her life on the Oregon Coast near Yachats, with so many people rushing there before official help arrives at dawn. The whale is vocalizing distress, asking for help. It's devastating. We have to find a way to stop entanglements. Unconscionable.
November 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
A whale caught in crab nets is fighting for her life on the Oregon Coast near Yachats, with so many people rushing there before official help arrives at dawn. The whale is vocalizing distress, asking for help. It's devastating. We have to find a way to stop entanglements. Unconscionable.
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Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
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It’s easy to dismiss LGBTQ ppl when they describe a govt as fascist, or far right. After all, as one Irish paper put it, we’re always ‘dramatic’.
Is it as easy when the UK’s most infamous far right criminal says it*?
UK Labour = Fascism
Is it as easy when the UK’s most infamous far right criminal says it*?
UK Labour = Fascism
The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It’s easy to dismiss LGBTQ ppl when they describe a govt as fascist, or far right. After all, as one Irish paper put it, we’re always ‘dramatic’.
Is it as easy when the UK’s most infamous far right criminal says it*?
UK Labour = Fascism
Is it as easy when the UK’s most infamous far right criminal says it*?
UK Labour = Fascism
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We might have FINALLY met our match…
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
November 19, 2024 at 7:47 PM
We might have FINALLY met our match…
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
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This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.
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Chat, is "the rich are doing the 'fox' hunts again where the fox is a person" a recession indicator www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting
Nervous reporter is chased across English countryside by baying bloodhounds, in what could soon be only legal way to hunt with dogs
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Chat, is "the rich are doing the 'fox' hunts again where the fox is a person" a recession indicator www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
The delivery service having unaccountably failed to deliver the butter I ordered, I am regrettably forced to scoop out the rhino as best I can.
November 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The delivery service having unaccountably failed to deliver the butter I ordered, I am regrettably forced to scoop out the rhino as best I can.
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Just something to think about
November 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Just something to think about
Lovely piece on medieval mead-drinking by a friend - www.independent.co.uk/life-style/f...
Did the Vikings really drink mead? The truth may surprise you
Modern hipsters embrace the honey drink, but history tells a different story
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Lovely piece on medieval mead-drinking by a friend - www.independent.co.uk/life-style/f...
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Hey Megyn Kelly,
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Hey Megyn Kelly,
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
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X is in clear + systemic breach of its legal duties in the UK to remove unlawful content from its platform.
Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.
A new thread documenting this.
Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.
A new thread documenting this.
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
X is in clear + systemic breach of its legal duties in the UK to remove unlawful content from its platform.
Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.
A new thread documenting this.
Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.
A new thread documenting this.
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Cruelty really is the point with you isn’t it?
You ban people seeking help who are being murdered in an active genocide.
Trans users are sent death threats all the time and you don’t care.
You have allowed violent racist behavior against BIPOC since Bsky’s inception.
Tell me HOW your answer is no.
You ban people seeking help who are being murdered in an active genocide.
Trans users are sent death threats all the time and you don’t care.
You have allowed violent racist behavior against BIPOC since Bsky’s inception.
Tell me HOW your answer is no.
Our answer is no.
Conflating the topic of the discussion as support for the cause is a separate issue.
We’ve drawn this line since users have spoken repeatedly that they don’t want violent rhetoric here.
It’s just a near impossible task to do at scale consistently across languages/context.
Conflating the topic of the discussion as support for the cause is a separate issue.
We’ve drawn this line since users have spoken repeatedly that they don’t want violent rhetoric here.
It’s just a near impossible task to do at scale consistently across languages/context.
November 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Cruelty really is the point with you isn’t it?
You ban people seeking help who are being murdered in an active genocide.
Trans users are sent death threats all the time and you don’t care.
You have allowed violent racist behavior against BIPOC since Bsky’s inception.
Tell me HOW your answer is no.
You ban people seeking help who are being murdered in an active genocide.
Trans users are sent death threats all the time and you don’t care.
You have allowed violent racist behavior against BIPOC since Bsky’s inception.
Tell me HOW your answer is no.
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Why Isn’t Bilbo Baggins in The Zone of Interest? It's more complicated than you might think...
Why Isn’t Pennywise in The Running Man? It's more complicated than you might think... bit.ly/4a04Vvk
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Why Isn’t Bilbo Baggins in The Zone of Interest? It's more complicated than you might think...
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BREAKING: five arrested under Terrorism Act for Westminster bridge banner drop
Six Prisoner for Palestine are on hunger strike, facing two years on remand without trial. Their demands include immediate bail and the end of counter terror powers against people protesting genocide.
Six Prisoner for Palestine are on hunger strike, facing two years on remand without trial. Their demands include immediate bail and the end of counter terror powers against people protesting genocide.
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
BREAKING: five arrested under Terrorism Act for Westminster bridge banner drop
Six Prisoner for Palestine are on hunger strike, facing two years on remand without trial. Their demands include immediate bail and the end of counter terror powers against people protesting genocide.
Six Prisoner for Palestine are on hunger strike, facing two years on remand without trial. Their demands include immediate bail and the end of counter terror powers against people protesting genocide.
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"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"
‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
Kamala Harris criticized Joe Biden's Administration, saying they should have been more willing to publicly criticize Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza
The post ‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"