Tyler Oakleaf

Ya know, these guys spending billions of dollars to distort my perception of reality make some interesting points

I would like to see more companies admit this - being a public company no longer means running a successful, thriving business. It strictly means delivering growth to investors, every single quarter, who do not care at all about the product the company sells or the people who produce it.

“I just give all my friends gold bars and gee shucks I never have to organize or advertise or have an uncomfortable conversations at dinner. Things just turn out the way I want. I guess it’s just the power of positive thinking.”

“For heaven rest us. I’m not asbestos.” These ten song lyrics that will literally give you cancer. - BuzzFeed probably

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

And we *could* have Medicare for all. And we *could* tax billionaires’ wealth. And we *could*…

That Block layoff took $1 billion/yr out of the pockets of workers and increased the company market cap by $5 billion. Total transfer of wealth from labor to capital > $6 billion.

Gwen and us coders using AI: we keep a little bit for ourselves 😉

If you aren’t pocketing 20x on each of your workers how do you even sleep at night? - Jack Dorsey probably

“Workers lives have no intrinsic value” -Billionaires

“greed is good” “might makes right” It’s a crazy world where rhyme and alliteration are enough for most people to justify their moral cowardice.

CEOs of big tech companies who the Trump administration listens to have decided to ignore the slow descent into fascism. www.resistandunsubscribe.com

Get as many people as possible to unsubscribe from OpenAI, from ChatGPT.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

im getting disturbing reports that donald trump is doing exactly what he said he would and the results are exactly as disastrous as everyone said they would be

Someday I’ll have to explain to my grandchildren that “trumped up charges” was a colloquialism prior to this idiot. And they won’t believe me.

When people say “stop making things political”, they mean you should stop making them feel uncomfortable that the system that oppresses you benefits them.

none of us are "activists" -- we're moms and students and neighbors and friends and we want to spend our Sundays hanging out and doing silly things, not patrolling our neighborhoods and filming ICE and organizing protests but we have to protect each other or none of us will ever be safe

Again, my big takeaway from four-plus years of reporting on the Trump Hotel DC— Norms aren’t laws and, unless they’re enforced quickly, laws ain’t shit.

Sometimes I miss Bo Burnham. I hope he’s out there somewhere living his best life

Happy new year, we’re at war with Venezuela for no reason.

I can't find it now, but someone wrote something like "Saving time doesn't add to efficiency if it adds work for other people/team. That's just passing off your responsibilities." Efficiency is an org wide measurement.

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

Today I realized how much tech social media has degraded when I saw a title for a video on building “functional” web apps, and it took me a few seconds to realize “functional” meant “working” and not an alternative to OO/procedural

Footage of me giving claude code background on the bug I’m trying to fix youtube.com/shorts/RMUcU...

Reminds me of this more disgusting analogy.

KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action. Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

so much suffering and sacrifice only to to agree to terms that will beget more suffering and sacrifice.

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast Reduce unplanned tech work to improve tech quality, speed, reliability...

This might be one of the most monumentally insane things a government has done

Read this thread. This is what @katmabu.bsky.social was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.

I was in a meeting recently and not a single other person knew what I was talking about when I mentioned "The Mythical Man-Month" and "No Silver Bullet". I was the only non-tech person in the room! READ SOME BOOKS ABOUT WHAT YOU DO (is what I screamed in my head).

Building Ikea furniture this weekend reminded me of two challenging life facts: * If it's not aligned, more force won't help. * If it's aligned, more force won't help. Take that, #996.