Mary Dickson
@marythought.bsky.social
Software developer, knitting, parenting, Seattle stuff
@thebethocracy.bsky.social hi! I would like to loop you in to an ongoing SPS transportation/safety issue. What is the best way to do that (email? Can you message me?)
December 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
@thebethocracy.bsky.social hi! I would like to loop you in to an ongoing SPS transportation/safety issue. What is the best way to do that (email? Can you message me?)
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very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
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the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
Rep Sarah McBride on the steps of the Capitol
YouTube video by David Steinglass
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
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Remember: These are the stakes. If passed, it would be the biggest blow to trans right in the US in the 21st century.
US House to vote on transition medicine ban for anyone under 18
The text of the bill, including proposed amendments, makes acting to facilitate social and medical transition legally the same category as felony fraud, making the affirmation of transgender youth pun...
theneedlenews.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Remember: These are the stakes. If passed, it would be the biggest blow to trans right in the US in the 21st century.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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13 years ago today.
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
13 years ago today.
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♫the itsy-bitsy spider
climbed up the water spout
down came the rain
and washed the spider out
out came the sun
and dried up all the rain
and the itsy-bitsy spider
climbed up the spout again♪
SISYPHUS: okay wow
climbed up the water spout
down came the rain
and washed the spider out
out came the sun
and dried up all the rain
and the itsy-bitsy spider
climbed up the spout again♪
SISYPHUS: okay wow
December 12, 2025 at 4:48 AM
♫the itsy-bitsy spider
climbed up the water spout
down came the rain
and washed the spider out
out came the sun
and dried up all the rain
and the itsy-bitsy spider
climbed up the spout again♪
SISYPHUS: okay wow
climbed up the water spout
down came the rain
and washed the spider out
out came the sun
and dried up all the rain
and the itsy-bitsy spider
climbed up the spout again♪
SISYPHUS: okay wow
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December 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Me to the AI industry
sorry for ruining your entire life with my perfect and beautiful thoughts
December 11, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Me to the AI industry
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/ extremely ranty and relatable
Reality Check
Like this newsletter? Why not listen to the podcast version on Better Offline? Part 1 is out now (here're other links), and Part 2 comes out Friday May 2nd!
I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I hav...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/ extremely ranty and relatable
Trolling the recruiters who ask about my GenAI experience by referencing the two independently intelligent humans I have created and trained.
December 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Trolling the recruiters who ask about my GenAI experience by referencing the two independently intelligent humans I have created and trained.
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The incredible grassroots anti-ICE organizing in LA, Chicago, NC, and now New Orleans is probably the most hopeful political thing I’ve seen all year.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...
New Orleans Is Watching You, Fuckers.
As the feds chase immigrants, a city chases the feds.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The incredible grassroots anti-ICE organizing in LA, Chicago, NC, and now New Orleans is probably the most hopeful political thing I’ve seen all year.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...
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It's frankly astonishing the billions of dollars wasted in on new software and tools in service of various initiatives, without first ensuring the organization can accept and handle change.
Especially because making change is literally what goes into working on software.
Especially because making change is literally what goes into working on software.
Learning culture moderates how software organizations adopt tools and the implicit rules we're giving developers want what they can do, experiment with, push back on, and share.
And software has spent years dismissing it in favor of sloppy ad hoc velocity benchmarks
And software has spent years dismissing it in favor of sloppy ad hoc velocity benchmarks
December 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It's frankly astonishing the billions of dollars wasted in on new software and tools in service of various initiatives, without first ensuring the organization can accept and handle change.
Especially because making change is literally what goes into working on software.
Especially because making change is literally what goes into working on software.
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The Pantone color of the year being white feels like a microaggression
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The Pantone color of the year being white feels like a microaggression
Can't make this shit up
December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Can't make this shit up
Spotted at my kid's school
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Spotted at my kid's school
Does everyone remember how Pete Hedgehog texted war plans to journos and his spouse including the phase, in caps, "THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP" 🤣🤣🤣 I'm sorry that just cracked me up again (& the fact that he's experienced 0 consequences) abcnews.go.com/Politics/ig-...
IG report on Hegseth's use of Signal app complete, classified findings sent to lawmakers: Source
An investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of the Signal app is complete and its classified findings provided to Capitol Hill, a source says.
abcnews.go.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Does everyone remember how Pete Hedgehog texted war plans to journos and his spouse including the phase, in caps, "THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP" 🤣🤣🤣 I'm sorry that just cracked me up again (& the fact that he's experienced 0 consequences) abcnews.go.com/Politics/ig-...
It is never ok to call a person or group of people "garbage."
December 3, 2025 at 5:36 AM
It is never ok to call a person or group of people "garbage."
I hate to waste airtime on that dingbat in the Whitehouse but HE put the national guard there in the first place. I don't wish gun death on anyone but save us the manufactured outrage and extended news cycle.
November 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I hate to waste airtime on that dingbat in the Whitehouse but HE put the national guard there in the first place. I don't wish gun death on anyone but save us the manufactured outrage and extended news cycle.
Plot twist! I have been summonsed
November 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Plot twist! I have been summonsed
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter