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Coté @cote.io · 2h

If you're not one of my fellow marketers, you're not allowed to look at this thread. There's plenty of videos of Abe Lincoln serving Sam Altman a sando for you to peep.

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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 1d

Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1h

Temeraire? So good.

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1h

Good morning skitches!

Coffee pouring from above into a cup with two red stripes around the rim. The saucer also has a red lined rim

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 10h

Sensible thread klaxon

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

scienceforeveryone.science

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12h

It is my firmest belief that all interesting people are, at least a little bit, on a quiet and constant hunt to find our own Secret Garden.

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 6d

This - which I explored today - is the kind of thing I live for on walks in the deep countryside: a 200+-year-old abandoned walled garden, totally overgrown and teeming with wildlife and ghosts.

Finding lost magic places like this, untouched and undeveloped, always fills me with weird kind of hope.

The entrance to the walled garden I found today, with its broken door and big ivy hat.

An interdimensional portal in the walled garden I found today

A hole in the wall of the walled garden I found today, leading to 1785.

Ruined potting sheds in the walled garden I found today.

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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 14h

During a government shutdown, the Trump administration is bailing out Argentina, whose president is fond of saying, “The state isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.”

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 14h

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d

We love a good 94.2% Waning Gibbous!

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 19h

tell me about your pathways into platform and API decisions these days. how have things changed?

Are you looking for language SDKs?

Great REST APIs? Both?

SDK or API.

Are frameworks doing some of this work for you?

What's the role of docs in 2025?

Are LLMs making decisions for you?

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 19h

sorry. you did understand me. that is what i meant. we absolutely are in a parlous situation.

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 20h

My comment is evidently more ambiguous than I thought.

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 20h

i am not arguing that we should keep politics out of tech - i am arguing that the people that say we should should then have the consistency to shut the fuck up about it.

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 21h

One simple way to keep the politics out of tech, if that's what you actually want, is to stop talking about politics all the time and stick to "building".

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 23h

Good morning skitches!

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 23h

Dad

Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1d

It's better.

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1d

I always share black cats

Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 1d

Voidbeast continues to regard its alien captors with deep suspicion, but allows that there may be some signs of civilization.

A black kitten stands warily about 2 meters from the photographers. It has golden green eyes and a sceptical ear tilt.

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1d

100 per cent ostriches ffs

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1d

Seconded

Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · Aug 13

Visionaries, Rebels and Machines by Jamie Dobson, highly recommended

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1d

Yeah I may have a good conversation coming your way

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1d

🤦🏻

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Kate Holterhoff, PhD @kateholterhoff.com · 2d

We are all Dr. Brunkow 😴
“Dr. Brunkow said she did not expect to win a Nobel Prize. ‘My phone rang, and I saw a number from Sweden and thought, well that’s just spam of some sort, so I disabled the phone and went back to sleep,’“ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

www.nytimes.com

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1d

Were your ears burning? I was mentioning you to AWS a couple of hours ago...

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1d

👇🏻

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

We all give Atlassian products shit. Yet we all use them, and the company running them appears to not be evil.

Not a bad thing these days.

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1d

Never seen on demand t-shirt printing by hand at a tech conference before. This is very cool. Well played cprime. Smart way to stand out at Atlassian Team '25.

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