muttzi
@muttzi.bsky.social
pro-social smartass. harmonic dilettante. ludic dabbler. go birds. liberal technocrat. TL applying functional programming to infra automation by day. technology sans humanity is garbage. for a more perfect union.
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This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 11:03 PM
This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
I have no words
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 1:10 AM
I have no words
when your Death Star blow up, return with a glow up
The Empire Strikes Back with Big Naturals.
Improve a movie title by adding "With Big Naturals"
January 22, 2026 at 1:09 AM
when your Death Star blow up, return with a glow up
I can’t get past how shallow the non-talky gameplay feels over a long stretch (tho very fun in spurts), but to give CP2077 its flowers: it is a high water mark for first person storytelling in games, and the best example I can point to of a coherent artistic vision that is infeasible outside of AAA
cyberpunk 2077 is legit one of the best games of the decade and if you disagree you’re not a real gamer you’re just a reddit browser who doesn’t actually play video games
January 21, 2026 at 9:34 PM
I can’t get past how shallow the non-talky gameplay feels over a long stretch (tho very fun in spurts), but to give CP2077 its flowers: it is a high water mark for first person storytelling in games, and the best example I can point to of a coherent artistic vision that is infeasible outside of AAA
The problem with Geese imo is that all their tracks are neat jams that could be developed into good songs, but are always structurally flaccid. Best comparison I have is Presidents of the USA, whose first album occupies that same skittering roots grunge space, but with actual momentum to the writing
just not seeing the appeal of the band geese. they are derivative of better bands in several obvious ways, which in and of itself doesn't necessarily mean a band is bad. but it all comes together in something vaguely annoying.
January 21, 2026 at 8:45 PM
The problem with Geese imo is that all their tracks are neat jams that could be developed into good songs, but are always structurally flaccid. Best comparison I have is Presidents of the USA, whose first album occupies that same skittering roots grunge space, but with actual momentum to the writing
I’m always saying that Trump 1 being defeated at Four Seasons Total Landscaping was like Napoleon being defeated at Leipzig
“everyone hates you, you fuckin American” idk what you’re talking about, I am a proud citizen of the greatest country in the world: PHILADELPHIA
January 21, 2026 at 7:07 PM
I’m always saying that Trump 1 being defeated at Four Seasons Total Landscaping was like Napoleon being defeated at Leipzig
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I'm a deeply flawed individual, but I bring joy to the world.
January 21, 2026 at 5:01 AM
I'm a deeply flawed individual, but I bring joy to the world.
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"It is not mainline liberalism that has lost adherents; it’s everyone else. Across the world the center-right has disappeared, virtually overnight. ... One could say the same of libertarianism." www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...
Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did
We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:50 PM
"It is not mainline liberalism that has lost adherents; it’s everyone else. Across the world the center-right has disappeared, virtually overnight. ... One could say the same of libertarianism." www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...
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I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
oh so this was Kim Kitsuragi’s whole deal
January 20, 2026 at 11:00 PM
oh so this was Kim Kitsuragi’s whole deal
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Daily bunny no.3204 don't take kindly to strangers
January 20, 2026 at 5:44 AM
Daily bunny no.3204 don't take kindly to strangers
Man, ain’t this the truth. A struggle I’ve always had as an ADHD-er is that the mechanical act of coding (esp. when you’re one to also sweat the details) is a minefield for executive dysfunction. Bucketing my work into isolated tasks of design and analysis has done wonders for my day-to-day output
And has essentially made me insanely less likely to procrastinate. Which has also turned me into a beast.
January 19, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Man, ain’t this the truth. A struggle I’ve always had as an ADHD-er is that the mechanical act of coding (esp. when you’re one to also sweat the details) is a minefield for executive dysfunction. Bucketing my work into isolated tasks of design and analysis has done wonders for my day-to-day output
what skipping to implementation without first writing a TDD does to a mf
January 19, 2026 at 10:29 PM
what skipping to implementation without first writing a TDD does to a mf
If your engineering culture is such that changes can be merged that no one is accountable for, then you have way bigger problems than whether PRs are being generated using LLMs
Actual Engineering Manager here.
Everyone talks about Vibe Coding, but I don't hear a lot about Vibe Debugging. My nightmare is that something burps out a mess of code and *no one is responsible for it*. If one of my people writes it... well they get to fix it. If no one writes it.......
Everyone talks about Vibe Coding, but I don't hear a lot about Vibe Debugging. My nightmare is that something burps out a mess of code and *no one is responsible for it*. If one of my people writes it... well they get to fix it. If no one writes it.......
January 19, 2026 at 10:25 PM
If your engineering culture is such that changes can be merged that no one is accountable for, then you have way bigger problems than whether PRs are being generated using LLMs
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Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
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they’re going to need to impose consequences that are felt in a personal way by the people in charge
ruining Trump’s big sports show, travel bans for the GOP (or, hell, all of congress), travel bans for rich Trump allies, sanctions on the Trump family
they feel invincible, change their minds
ruining Trump’s big sports show, travel bans for the GOP (or, hell, all of congress), travel bans for rich Trump allies, sanctions on the Trump family
they feel invincible, change their minds
Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.
January 19, 2026 at 5:01 PM
they’re going to need to impose consequences that are felt in a personal way by the people in charge
ruining Trump’s big sports show, travel bans for the GOP (or, hell, all of congress), travel bans for rich Trump allies, sanctions on the Trump family
they feel invincible, change their minds
ruining Trump’s big sports show, travel bans for the GOP (or, hell, all of congress), travel bans for rich Trump allies, sanctions on the Trump family
they feel invincible, change their minds
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authoritarian regimes are actually more sensitive to public opinion than democratic ones because they do not have a reliable mechanism to reset their legitimacy (ie actual elections)!
How is it that so many people think that authoritarianism is a way to bypass completely public opinion?
January 19, 2026 at 8:59 PM
authoritarian regimes are actually more sensitive to public opinion than democratic ones because they do not have a reliable mechanism to reset their legitimacy (ie actual elections)!
Especially on this site, where the population of Yanks self-selects for those who have spent the last decade aware-and-vocal about how fucked our country is for treating this man as normal
I think a big part of the disconnect here is that a lot of Yanks are surprised that the rest of the world is just now realizing things are as batshit as they are.
like i feel like Yanks do not get how utterly batshit the moment we are currently in is
January 19, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Especially on this site, where the population of Yanks self-selects for those who have spent the last decade aware-and-vocal about how fucked our country is for treating this man as normal
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and yes, if you are an American who claims to be anti-Trump and pro-international solidarity, but whine about the prospect of being mildly inconvenienced: you're a child. grow up.
January 19, 2026 at 6:51 PM
and yes, if you are an American who claims to be anti-Trump and pro-international solidarity, but whine about the prospect of being mildly inconvenienced: you're a child. grow up.
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Girl in a Red Kimono (1893) by Dutch artist George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923)
Oil on canvas
82 x 54 cm
Museum of Art, The Hague
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Oil on canvas
82 x 54 cm
Museum of Art, The Hague
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
January 19, 2026 at 6:59 AM
Girl in a Red Kimono (1893) by Dutch artist George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923)
Oil on canvas
82 x 54 cm
Museum of Art, The Hague
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Oil on canvas
82 x 54 cm
Museum of Art, The Hague
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Tom Killion (American Artist, born 1953)
Tennessee Cove, Marin Headlands, 2013
Woodblock Print, Ink, Color on Paper, 11.5"×13".
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Tennessee Cove, Marin Headlands, 2013
Woodblock Print, Ink, Color on Paper, 11.5"×13".
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
January 19, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Tom Killion (American Artist, born 1953)
Tennessee Cove, Marin Headlands, 2013
Woodblock Print, Ink, Color on Paper, 11.5"×13".
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Tennessee Cove, Marin Headlands, 2013
Woodblock Print, Ink, Color on Paper, 11.5"×13".
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Dem leadership really needs to be talking to our allies on this, not just to the American people, because this is a dire threat to our future, and we'll have less work to do reclaiming trust the harder we stand up right now.
Dems need to emphasize the damage *has already been done* via threats.
Dems need to emphasize the damage *has already been done* via threats.
Yes.
It’s not targeted at our allies.
That correctly identities the problem.
It’s not targeted at our allies.
That correctly identities the problem.
He’s making a completely different point about how fucked up life is here for most people. It’s not targeted to our EU allies.
January 19, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Dem leadership really needs to be talking to our allies on this, not just to the American people, because this is a dire threat to our future, and we'll have less work to do reclaiming trust the harder we stand up right now.
Dems need to emphasize the damage *has already been done* via threats.
Dems need to emphasize the damage *has already been done* via threats.
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Most alt history looking thing I’ve ever seen on Wikipedia
January 19, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Most alt history looking thing I’ve ever seen on Wikipedia