Monoid Mary
@argumatronic.bsky.social
just a solarpunk hillbilly living in the gasoline crack of history
i get my glory in the desert rain
i get my glory in the desert rain
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Monoid Mary
@argumatronic.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Mothers
she knows the shape you're in
thestore.substack.com
for those of you who know me from elsewhere, i haven't been doing social media a lot, but i have been trying to write more on substack. i wrote this on mother's day, and ... it's kinda still where i'm at. trying to figure out how to enter a new phase of my life.
thestore.substack.com/p/mothers
thestore.substack.com/p/mothers
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Most software is just a database plus a finite set of access patterns written by professional programmers. What we find is that the set usually doesn't meet users' needs because the professional class either doesn't know what users want, doesn't have enough budget to do it, or is actively […]
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functional.cafe
February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Most software is just a database plus a finite set of access patterns written by professional programmers. What we find is that the set usually doesn't meet users' needs because the professional class either doesn't know what users want, doesn't have enough budget to do it, or is actively […]
sunday
go to church
come home and eat sourdough pancakes
make menu plan
make bread doughs for this week (baking the breads comes later)
feed the starter and make sourdough discard crackers
make bread crumbs from last week's bread
take books and magazines to little library
this is a nice routine
go to church
come home and eat sourdough pancakes
make menu plan
make bread doughs for this week (baking the breads comes later)
feed the starter and make sourdough discard crackers
make bread crumbs from last week's bread
take books and magazines to little library
this is a nice routine
February 2, 2026 at 12:55 AM
sunday
go to church
come home and eat sourdough pancakes
make menu plan
make bread doughs for this week (baking the breads comes later)
feed the starter and make sourdough discard crackers
make bread crumbs from last week's bread
take books and magazines to little library
this is a nice routine
go to church
come home and eat sourdough pancakes
make menu plan
make bread doughs for this week (baking the breads comes later)
feed the starter and make sourdough discard crackers
make bread crumbs from last week's bread
take books and magazines to little library
this is a nice routine
this year the CSA is offering two different beef shares. you can get 1/8 of a cow (with brisket) or 1/8 of a cow (without brisket). what kind of sicko is not wanting brisket!?!?
January 26, 2026 at 10:31 PM
this year the CSA is offering two different beef shares. you can get 1/8 of a cow (with brisket) or 1/8 of a cow (without brisket). what kind of sicko is not wanting brisket!?!?
also, write letters to the editors. it's a pretty normie thing to do, and probably "cringe", but they need to know normies are turning against them.
www.aclu.org/documents/ti...
www.aclu.org/documents/ti...
January 26, 2026 at 6:39 PM
also, write letters to the editors. it's a pretty normie thing to do, and probably "cringe", but they need to know normies are turning against them.
www.aclu.org/documents/ti...
www.aclu.org/documents/ti...
i'm not saying you gotta hand it to the NRA or anything, but tbh i think it's going to be kind of difficult to keep up the fascism if you lose the support the gun groups
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NRA and pro-gun groups call for ‘full investigation’ into killing of Alex Pretti
Groups typically aligned with Trump call for investigation as NRA wades into the national dialogue
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 11:33 PM
i'm not saying you gotta hand it to the NRA or anything, but tbh i think it's going to be kind of difficult to keep up the fascism if you lose the support the gun groups
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Reposted by Monoid Mary
Programmers are prone to high-context writing; for various reasons, they tend to expect a lot of prior knowledge from readers. When the reader is Claude and "the text contains enough information to act upon it" is a machine-testable claim, people seem to have started to notice all the details […]
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functional.cafe
January 25, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Programmers are prone to high-context writing; for various reasons, they tend to expect a lot of prior knowledge from readers. When the reader is Claude and "the text contains enough information to act upon it" is a machine-testable claim, people seem to have started to notice all the details […]
i used to think i made slow food, but my food has been getting slower and slower over the past year. my bread takes like a week to make, with various gentle stages, letting the moisture and fermentation render fresh whole grains very digestible. i soak beans for two or three days before i cook them.
January 24, 2026 at 8:17 PM
i used to think i made slow food, but my food has been getting slower and slower over the past year. my bread takes like a week to make, with various gentle stages, letting the moisture and fermentation render fresh whole grains very digestible. i soak beans for two or three days before i cook them.
yeah we were revolting against those famously lawless brits who refused to send troops to bring order to our chaotic streets, seems legit
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "Our country was founded on law enforcement"
Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out & get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that. We're not gonna have it"
January 24, 2026 at 8:15 PM
yeah we were revolting against those famously lawless brits who refused to send troops to bring order to our chaotic streets, seems legit
reading a book about Polish Solidarity in the early 80s and saw a Polish official refer to some definitely true news as "fake news"
it's like we've been fighting the exact same guy since time began
it's like we've been fighting the exact same guy since time began
January 24, 2026 at 5:23 AM
reading a book about Polish Solidarity in the early 80s and saw a Polish official refer to some definitely true news as "fake news"
it's like we've been fighting the exact same guy since time began
it's like we've been fighting the exact same guy since time began
Reposted by Monoid Mary
Our heart goes out to everyone fighting the civil war; anyway, here's a marketing update
January 23, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Our heart goes out to everyone fighting the civil war; anyway, here's a marketing update
getting sort of mad that other places are apparently getting all the cold winter we aren't getting this year
i am pretty sure it hasn't been below zero once this year, maybe one time in december? it sucks! i want it to be so cold that stepping outside to get wood is a near-death experience.
i am pretty sure it hasn't been below zero once this year, maybe one time in december? it sucks! i want it to be so cold that stepping outside to get wood is a near-death experience.
In some parts of Vermont, the National Weather Service forecasts wind chills as low as 40 degrees below zero. Much of the state is under an extreme cold watch.
What to know about the cold weather blast heading our way
Nearly half the U.S. will experience ice, heavy snow or extremely cold temperatures over the next few days.
www.vermontpublic.org
January 22, 2026 at 9:11 PM
getting sort of mad that other places are apparently getting all the cold winter we aren't getting this year
i am pretty sure it hasn't been below zero once this year, maybe one time in december? it sucks! i want it to be so cold that stepping outside to get wood is a near-death experience.
i am pretty sure it hasn't been below zero once this year, maybe one time in december? it sucks! i want it to be so cold that stepping outside to get wood is a near-death experience.
everything i read about previous resistance movements suggests they are much less about heroics than about logistics
January 21, 2026 at 4:47 AM
everything i read about previous resistance movements suggests they are much less about heroics than about logistics
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I don't care about web standards anymore. I want my agent to behave adversarially on my behalf against the server and do its best to extract content and present it to me in a way that is helpful
January 20, 2026 at 4:51 AM
I don't care about web standards anymore. I want my agent to behave adversarially on my behalf against the server and do its best to extract content and present it to me in a way that is helpful
> Luther had faith in the people to read the text, and, with help, understand it.
this is a topic dear to my heart, in no small part because of the absurd backlash i got for having made the first chapter of the h-book about the lambda calculus
this is a topic dear to my heart, in no small part because of the absurd backlash i got for having made the first chapter of the h-book about the lambda calculus
Some thoughts from Julie and me about why "simple platforms for programming-made-easy" aren't changing the world. https://chris-martin.org/2026/the-programming-reformation
The Programming Reformation
chris-martin.org
January 18, 2026 at 10:58 PM
> Luther had faith in the people to read the text, and, with help, understand it.
this is a topic dear to my heart, in no small part because of the absurd backlash i got for having made the first chapter of the h-book about the lambda calculus
this is a topic dear to my heart, in no small part because of the absurd backlash i got for having made the first chapter of the h-book about the lambda calculus
yeah this is a great essay:
> It might look like a world where the most engaged and informed citizens are, paradoxically, the least capable of careful reasoning, because they've spent so much cognitive energy responding to controversies that they have none left for contemplation.
> It might look like a world where the most engaged and informed citizens are, paradoxically, the least capable of careful reasoning, because they've spent so much cognitive energy responding to controversies that they have none left for contemplation.
@argumatronic.bsky.social yes, people describe this as DDoS towards everyone on the internet. Sounds about right to me
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discourse-is-a-distributed-denial-of-service-attack/
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discourse-is-a-distributed-denial-of-service-attack/
The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufactured with default passwords that nobody ever changed, all simultaneously requesting his homepage. No single request was malicious. Each packet was
www.joanwestenberg.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:40 PM
yeah this is a great essay:
> It might look like a world where the most engaged and informed citizens are, paradoxically, the least capable of careful reasoning, because they've spent so much cognitive energy responding to controversies that they have none left for contemplation.
> It might look like a world where the most engaged and informed citizens are, paradoxically, the least capable of careful reasoning, because they've spent so much cognitive energy responding to controversies that they have none left for contemplation.
sometimes i recall that i took my kids to Philipsburg and made them stand on the street in the cold while i read to them Richard Hugo's "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg" and i'm surprised by it still but they stood there and earnestly listened and have never forgotten it, such is my power as a mother
January 18, 2026 at 12:29 AM
sometimes i recall that i took my kids to Philipsburg and made them stand on the street in the cold while i read to them Richard Hugo's "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg" and i'm surprised by it still but they stood there and earnestly listened and have never forgotten it, such is my power as a mother
1. i've always wanted to make a yoyo quilt, and i found i could make one with crochet
2. sourdough discard crackers always taste like they have cheese in them
3. king arthur has an extremely easy and delicious sourdough discard cracker recipe freely available www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/easi...
2. sourdough discard crackers always taste like they have cheese in them
3. king arthur has an extremely easy and delicious sourdough discard cracker recipe freely available www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/easi...
January 18, 2026 at 12:19 AM
1. i've always wanted to make a yoyo quilt, and i found i could make one with crochet
2. sourdough discard crackers always taste like they have cheese in them
3. king arthur has an extremely easy and delicious sourdough discard cracker recipe freely available www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/easi...
2. sourdough discard crackers always taste like they have cheese in them
3. king arthur has an extremely easy and delicious sourdough discard cracker recipe freely available www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/easi...
imo this is a major problem with social media, and not fixable by any particular site: a constant stream of new things to consider, the need to react, gradually chipping away at your own will. hence the great age of the zombie, of a more mindless conformism than any dystopian author imagined.
I had to give up Cursor because I felt my executive function slipping away. Rather than my intent being the initiator of all actions, Cursor's suggestions acted as a constant stream of prompts for me to consider. For someone already prone to getting lost in a coding task, it's a bad way to sink […]
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functional.cafe
January 17, 2026 at 7:09 PM
imo this is a major problem with social media, and not fixable by any particular site: a constant stream of new things to consider, the need to react, gradually chipping away at your own will. hence the great age of the zombie, of a more mindless conformism than any dystopian author imagined.
stancil is managing to be both the hero we need (dedicated and courageous IRL) and also the hero we deserve (annoying as hell online)
You’re correct, I do not actually want full-scale war, barricades on the street, citizens fighting cops, because that would destroy my city and maybe get me killed. I realize from the perspective of someone yearning to watch a revolution on their phone, that’s disappointing
January 15, 2026 at 6:45 PM
stancil is managing to be both the hero we need (dedicated and courageous IRL) and also the hero we deserve (annoying as hell online)
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People are getting weird because of the internet. They're losing their individual voices and interests, sinking into slothful cults and depressions. This needs to stop, the internet needs to either be destroyed or rebuilt into small distinct communities where people can reverse this creepy weird […]
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functional.cafe
January 13, 2026 at 6:12 PM
People are getting weird because of the internet. They're losing their individual voices and interests, sinking into slothful cults and depressions. This needs to stop, the internet needs to either be destroyed or rebuilt into small distinct communities where people can reverse this creepy weird […]
i made my first challah today. it's sourdough, almost entirely whole wheat, and i think my braiding turned out reasonably well, considering it's my first time. also, and perhaps most importantly, it's delicious.
January 13, 2026 at 10:31 PM
i made my first challah today. it's sourdough, almost entirely whole wheat, and i think my braiding turned out reasonably well, considering it's my first time. also, and perhaps most importantly, it's delicious.
TYPED HOOOOOOOOOLES
typeclasses.com/typed-holes
typeclasses.com/typed-holes
January 5, 2026 at 11:19 PM
TYPED HOOOOOOOOOLES
typeclasses.com/typed-holes
typeclasses.com/typed-holes
i do both! people make fun of me for the ways i arrange my books as aesthetic objects, but our house is so dominated by books that if i don't impose some aesthetic order on them, the house starts to feel unlivable
Broke - arranging your books by colour
Woke - arranging your books by height
Woke - arranging your books by height
January 4, 2026 at 9:57 PM
i do both! people make fun of me for the ways i arrange my books as aesthetic objects, but our house is so dominated by books that if i don't impose some aesthetic order on them, the house starts to feel unlivable
are you going to buy that magazine?
January 1, 2026 at 6:54 PM
are you going to buy that magazine?
is neil diamond the most popular songwriter that no one seems to ever want to admit they like
December 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
is neil diamond the most popular songwriter that no one seems to ever want to admit they like