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Existential Dread Yesterday, like many of you, I read about Jack Dorsey announcing the end of employment for 4,000 people at Blocks after a strong year of profit increases. It's another splash in the pool of anxiety engineers and creatives alike are swimming in as we watch the astoundingly fast evolution of AI agents. Rumination How do we process this? Thousands of our career-siblings loosing the employment that our society is structured to make non-optional with a well-meaning "good luck" pat on the back from the people who just hired them. If you feel offended at this statement, and move to defend it as "the way things go in business", I understand.

Existential Dread

Yesterday, like many of you, I read about Jack Dorsey announcing the end of employment for 4,000 people at Blocks after a strong year of profit increases. It's another splash in the pool of anxiety engineers and creatives alike are swimming in as we watch the astoundingly fast…

Personally I think this is too much money to give to Donald trumps poorly trained but heavily armed Militia

Today, we remember the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust and honor the survivors who shared their stories so we never forget. "Never again" isn't just words—it's a commitment. With antisemitism rising, we can't be silent. We have to stand against hate wherever it appears.

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we pause to remember the six million lives lost to hatred. We must not only remember; we must also resolve to end antisemitism and all forms of hate and invidious discrimination. "Never Again" must be a lived reality, not just a phrase.

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prquicktest: Run Your PR’s Testing Instructions

We've been sneakily improving our manual verification process for server PRs over the past few weeks. Sneakily, because it hasn't been…

mrmurphy.dev/prquicktest-run-your-prs...

AI Plays Rollercoaster Tycoon AI autonomously manages a theme park in the classic game RollerCoaster Tycoon, placing rides, fixing infrastructure, and generating CFO reports, all via command line.

This is a fun blog post from the Ramp team on their experiment hooking Claude Code up to play Roller Coaster Tycoon. They discussed what Claude was/n't good at, but I wish they'd covered how those learnings applied to their problem domain more:

labs.ramp.com/rct

FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”

Do any other #developers hold an inappropriate feeling that PR reviews should be _fast_, and that if I'm taking hours to do a thorough review, I am guilty?

Handling Huge Increases in Test Code

Code written with AI agents gets substantially more robust when the agent has a feedback loop, like a good test suite. And agents like Claude Code are very good at writing big.. long... super long... test suites. I find myself not only generating more…

Freeing Up Flow With Claude Code & Linear MCP

I've been experimenting with using Claude Code to create Linear issues instead of filling them out by hand, and it's been a bigger workflow upgrade than I’d expected it to be. Too often I’ve made or come across Linear issues that are just a line or…

Claude Code Hooks for Fun and Focus My attention wanders. A lot. I'll kick off a Claude Code session, switch to check on something else, and 20 minutes later realize I've got a forlorn Claude tab that’s been waiting for approval for …19 minutes. A notification beep doesn't help much—it starts a quick game of "which tab was that?”. Not a huge time sink, since it takes only a moment to find the tab.

Claude Code Hooks for Fun and Focus

My attention wanders. A lot. I'll kick off a Claude Code session, switch to check on something else, and 20 minutes later realize I've got a forlorn Claude tab that’s been waiting for approval for …19 minutes. A notification beep doesn't help much—it starts a…

We're announcing a new partnership with StopNCII.org to prevent non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) from spreading on Bluesky. While NCII hasn't been frequent on our platform, these incidents are devastating for victims and preventing them is a top safety priority. 1/4

What About My Glow?? A Countenance Check After Going PostMo YouTube video by Sorta Mormon

If you’ve ever been a #mormon you may have said something like “I bet they are a member, you can see it in their eyes”

Here L does a “countenance” check. Did the glow disappear after leaving?

youtu.be/MjVeW7hgeGs?...

#postmormon #postchristian #lifeafterreligion #faithtransition #processing

It’s amazing how many different kinds of people there are. sex-working grandparents are part of this caring human tapestry.

All this time and effort spent trying to get the govt to do something about the murder of children in schools and they don’t lift a finger until a tran person is involved. I’m angry.

Transgender people are not suffering from a mental illness. Society is suffering from a structural illness.

Yep, that’s the point. Let’s be less warlike.

We should be manufacturing less war, and staying focused on defense.

Only someone who avoided the draft would want to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

I don't spend much time on social media, and when I do, I typically see stuff that's working for gender equality. I didn't realize how much money people are making on boosting crap patriarchal misogynist content, but this demo from Australia is concerning:

www.respect.gov.au

And I’m not just talking about “oh I respect their right to breathe as humans”.

I’m saying they deserve society pausing long enough and thinking deeply enough to understand how sex work, trans or straight, is important healing work that society needs but systemically abuses.

Sex workers are people who deserve respect.

Trans people are people who deserve respect.

Trans sex workers are people who deserve respect.

It has taken me a very long time to see and understand this. But I do now.

Almodovar’s legacy reminds us why preserving history matters:

📚 It gives activists and students the tools to challenge stigma.

⚖️ It shows how laws rooted in “morality” harm workers.

🌎 And it connects today’s fights against censorship & debanking to struggles decades old.

Now, decades of her papers, 125 boxes worth, have been preserved at @unlv Special Collections.

Her archive documents corruption, criminal justice reform, gender inequality, and the birth of the sëx worker rights movement in America.

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Oh man, we’re probably fucked, aren’t we?

Come on Tim Cook, don’t do this butt kissing gold statue gifting crap. Don’t play his playground-bully emotional game of favoring those who make him feel big, feel powerful. The way out of this is for the people in the positions of power to refuse to play.

If people's don't think of their own words and promises as meaningful, there is no way to accommodate them once they're in power. You have to resist them HAVING power. They will compromise and betray every institution that negotiates with them.

Happy 5th anniversary to this important moment in history