Glenjamin

Your Harry Potter dollars funded this.

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

The correct line on the Reform concentration camps story is "Reform will spout any nonsense to distract voters from the £5 million donation to Farage, the JCB corruption story and the many other stories showing Reform only cares about their rich donors, not about ordinary people."

if you step in a turd, you don't scrape it off the floor, put it into a box, and offer it around your friends "look what i stepped in, take a whiff" but that's pretty much what people do when they're linking to the telegraph

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

Agentic engineering is driving the cost of code to zero but the cost of good taste and product sense is going to go sky-high.

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead

I got a great question on my Ramadan thread: do Muslims also need to avoid consumption by proxy in videogames? Does consuming in-game food or drink break the fast? Basically: does your character have to go fast? The answer is no, unless you happen to be playing Sonic the Hedgehog.

for what it's worth, i've found the key to being good at something, beyond the usual time money and access to equipment, is simply enjoying being bad at something if you can't enjoy sucking at a thing, you'll never spend time on it

What's that you say! It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too: "There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done." All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.

Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.

Accenture claim that tech debt costs $2.4T in the US alone. Which they should know, because they caused most of it.

If we don’t signal our virtue every now and again - then so many believe they are utterly alone - “virtue signalling” is not there to say “aren’t I good” but “there are more of us than you might imagine” and “fuck you for demanding that only the brutal and the bullies may speak”

@quinnypig.com do you have any good guidance for submitting AWS SLA claims? I could see that being popular right about now

Somehow this one didn't get wiped from the @honeycomb.io laptop before I bought it after leaving. @lizthegrey.com and @charity.wtf feel free to use this if you want, although questionable if you'd want to

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

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

thinking about ruby's "MINASWAN" meme coupled with "hippies are nice but not kind, punks aren't nice, but kind" meme

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

“how does the customer encounter the problem, what’s stopping them from solving it today, how will this feature help them overcome it, and why should the business care?” — @spavel.bsky.social uxdesign.cc/low-fidelity...

www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.

chocolate is good for some applications. chocolate does not go in everything. too much chocolate all at once will kill you. some people are allergic to chocolate.

Fun fact: There is not a single District in the UK with below 60% support for increased renewables. Even people who are climate science deniers want more renewables. All sensible parties should hammer reform for this.

📣 NEW RESEARCH 📣 Did you know that using a car for over 50% of out-of-home activities lowers your life satisfaction? shorturl.at/s56Bh

There's not a single crime in the history of the UK that would have been prevented by a bathroom bill. Not one Bathroom bills aren't about safety, they're about trying to exclude LGBT people from public life. That's it

My analysis of the EHRC "interim update" is out — in the form of an FAQ — laying out my thoughts on the state of the law, and how employers and service providers can best remain trans-inclusive. Just my academic thoughts, not legal advice, but hopefully of use. www.wearequeeraf.com/faq-ehrc-int...

Most of Conservatism is based around not knowing what the past was like but being really fucking annoying about wanting to go back to it.

@danabra.mov yo! Do you know if there’s any good tooling that’ll help visualise which modules have ended up as client vs server when using “use client”? We’ve been playing about with next for a static site and accidentally put a load of stuff in the client

alas the buy-to-let landlords in charge of this country will not save us

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

If an MP is doing the rounds insisting that trans women have to use men's toilets, the interviewer needs to be asking what law says so, and what the consequences would be for breaking said law. At the moment what we have is a supreme court ruling and *advice* flowing from that.

Can you not see how insane "Gender Critical" is that it can justify violence against someone doing a wee and washing their hands? He isn't an outlier, this is the normal baseline position. He's just less able to conceal his hatred than many

lots of great replies to this, I think my conclusion is that even though most of my JS projects are pretty simple, they usually have a kind of "everything affects everything else" design that I think htmx isn't a good fit for

Step 1: draw a high level outline of what you want it to eventually look like Step 2: when making changes, try to make ones which move you closer to that vision & repeat