Anna Spysz

Just shipped a major update to stripe.dev, feeling really good about it!

This is one of the most thoughtful and well-argued essays I’ve read in a long time. My favorite part is that we’re still fucked (boo!), but not in a fundamentally different, world-ending way (yay!)

Do as the founders intended and play The Onion Voting Simulator 3D! onionvs.b-cdn.net/s/stole_stic...

It's strange how Democratic Socialists - who are being denounced by both parties - turned major deficits into balanced budgets in both New York and Seattle.

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

This was seriously a blast! Thanks #commityourcode

If Catwoman had been based in Portland she would have just been Catlady

Why are you looking at me that way? You don’t audibly say “bless you” when your cat sneezes? Weirdo.

I mean, nukes or not we’re heading to this future where we’ve lost so much knowledge. Our corporations make Vault Tech look like Amnesty International.

This is obvious to anyone who has ever dealt with a hangry male

Can someone please tell me what they put on hotel mirrors to make squares that are completely not covered in condensation, and why that stuff is not on my snowboarding goggles?

This is an incredibly insightful thread

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!

Watching World Cup final in 2026 is like voting in 2020 - not so much for the team you like but against the team that’s horribly corrupt

The latest GTA game looks awesome.

This is my favorite thing I've written for @mcsweeneys.net in a while. Hope you folks enjoy it! I think the headline pretty much clears up what it's about.

Kids today must be the most well-rested generation in history, because I was up till 3am scrambling to skim the reading, changing the margins and upping the font by .2 just to get those 10 pages done by morning.

I haven’t seen so many ineffective crosses in Mexico since Hernán Cortés couldn’t convert the Aztecs in 1519

my hot take is that this is the actual america 250. just a ton of different people coming together, showing people what makes America weird and fun. people being welcoming. and yeah there’s some bullshit too, which is also very true to America! but the good and community far outweighs it rn.

This should absolutely be a red card-worthy offense

Best Norway v England match since 1066 coming up

Between music festivals and tech conferences, I just realized that I’ve spent a non-trivial amount of time with branded lanyards around my neck

Nailed it as usual

This is basically a Democratic campaign ad. Air it as is with no changes.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands

In-flight wifi is truly Schrödinger’s internet: it both works and doesn’t work at the same time

We are a pitiful nation led by inferiority complexes with deep pockets.

This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.

Coming back to Bluesky after weeks off today is a trip

Not Giles too 😭 Wrap everyone else who was on Buffy in bubble wrap stat!

Call your reps -- blue, red, purple, it doesn't matter -- about the proposed OMB science funding rule. The house can stop this. Let them know it matters for your district.

Make some noise about this 🧪 www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

He's a master of distracting us from crimes he's already committed by continuously committing new crimes. 5 months until the Midterms. #AccountabilityIsComing

Once again, no longer satire bsky.app/profile/npr....

I can’t believe we’re sleepwalking into this shit.

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

One problem with self-censorship is it's invisible. We only see the news we see. We might never really have a sense of much important news wasn't reported because of intimidation by Trump, Weiss, Carr, the Ellisons etc.

WE FUCKING DID IT LETTTTSSSSS GOOOOOOOOO

It's a machine that makes you stupid, but it's also a machine that makes you *insufferable* www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I think I may have finally had my a-ha/oh shit moment with AI. On @dev.to: dev.to/annaspies/fr...

Just checked and this is still a startlingly great piece of writing. The escalation between paragraphs! The rhythm! The comma placement!

The headshot guys (Two Dudes Photo) at Sessions are freakin’ miracle workers. I never thought I’d get a headshot I actually liked while over 40

Saw something at Stripe Sessions you’d never see at re:Invent: a queue to the ladies’ bathroom