Ben Evans
@ogkittylyst.bsky.social
Cisqueer author / educator / software eng known for #architecture #performance #observability #Java #JVM
Chaos acc: #cats #antifascism #queer >> #tech
Cornishman in Barcelona.
More: @[email protected]
Chaos acc: #cats #antifascism #queer >> #tech
Cornishman in Barcelona.
More: @[email protected]
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Ben Evans
@ogkittylyst.bsky.social
· Jul 19
Hey folks - just a reminder that @kittylyst.bsky.social is not me.
They beat me to the name here (which is just the way it goes sometimes) & about half their followers seem to be people who are probably looking for me!
But, no, I'm here.
They beat me to the name here (which is just the way it goes sometimes) & about half their followers seem to be people who are probably looking for me!
But, no, I'm here.
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fun fact: the big air snowboarding ramp at the winter olympics is only 5° steeper than the cheese rolling hill.
February 10, 2026 at 3:10 PM
fun fact: the big air snowboarding ramp at the winter olympics is only 5° steeper than the cheese rolling hill.
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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My "I was never a close friend of Peter Mandelson" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
February 10, 2026 at 10:24 AM
My "I was never a close friend of Peter Mandelson" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
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Other Wuthering Heights movies are but placeholders until the one star who was born to be Cathy becomes available.
February 10, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Other Wuthering Heights movies are but placeholders until the one star who was born to be Cathy becomes available.
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BREAKING: PLUMMER ALSO DID HVAC WORK
February 10, 2026 at 7:41 AM
BREAKING: PLUMMER ALSO DID HVAC WORK
Looks like key person risk is back on the menu, boys!
Uh. I'm not working on an engineering team right now. So I don't have pessonal experience. But from what I'm hearing? It's not looking good. No, backlogs are not getting shorter. There are more "projects" in flight though as people let AI churn on problems.
How many enterprise companies have meaningfully reduced, or eliminated, their software engineering backlogs. Are we at the point where GenAI is paying off in production?
Are salaries increasing to match this new level of productivity?
Are salaries increasing to match this new level of productivity?
February 10, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Looks like key person risk is back on the menu, boys!
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![Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing to diagram on wall as she talks to two other people, one with short hair.] PERSON 1: The high carbon content of the skeleton indicates that the individual lived less than 12.6 billion years ago, after the first round of stellar nucleosynthesis. [caption] Cosmologist carbon dating](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiaaaa2fduedn5fusan4xvikaehxgps2yxdlv7vb3j7ep323zta2u4@jpeg)
February 10, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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New acrylic painting of the frankly gorgeous Karim Diané as Jay-Den Kraag from #StarfleetAcademy. (Acrylic on cold-pressed watercolour block.) #StarTrek
February 10, 2026 at 11:20 AM
New acrylic painting of the frankly gorgeous Karim Diané as Jay-Den Kraag from #StarfleetAcademy. (Acrylic on cold-pressed watercolour block.) #StarTrek
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"What separates us from liberals is the repression of ourselves, our prejudice toward others, and our severe lack of character which makes us fawn in the shadow of oppression; persecuting those just like us"
February 10, 2026 at 5:10 PM
"What separates us from liberals is the repression of ourselves, our prejudice toward others, and our severe lack of character which makes us fawn in the shadow of oppression; persecuting those just like us"
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No, not the paedophile you're thinking of. A different one.
BREAKING | Starmer’s paedophile-linked peer and former comms chief quits Labour Party
trib.al/B3DT9BW
trib.al/B3DT9BW
Starmer’s paedophile-linked peer and former comms chief quits Labour Party
Matthew Doyle has apologised for his past association with a paedophile councillor Sean Morton
trib.al
February 10, 2026 at 5:02 PM
No, not the paedophile you're thinking of. A different one.
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That’s what’s up.
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 AM
That’s what’s up.
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Yes, he’s dressed up as a cup of coffee, but he’s also wearing his councillor’s hi-vis jacket. Important health and safety tip, there.
Council has 'slipped its clutch' on park café closures, councillor says
Newcastle councillor Doc Anand said that the closures of cafés in Exhibition and Paddy Freeman's Parks extended beyond food and drink
www.chroniclelive.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Yes, he’s dressed up as a cup of coffee, but he’s also wearing his councillor’s hi-vis jacket. Important health and safety tip, there.
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If you are geekily inclined, ReedPOP (whose parent company is named as having connections to ICE) is also the event organizer behind all the PAX shows, Star Wars Celebration, NYCC, Chicago Comicon, and Emerald City Comicon; read this thread to see what action you can take to voice your opposition.
Kinda feels important to know that ReedPOP's parent company has ties to ICE. There's some things we can do in the comics community to make our voices heard. 1/3
Open letter from BookCon authors: reactormag.com/authors-open...
Check the RELX, LexisNexis, and ReedPOP ties yourself: www.relx.com
Open letter from BookCon authors: reactormag.com/authors-open...
Check the RELX, LexisNexis, and ReedPOP ties yourself: www.relx.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:02 PM
If you are geekily inclined, ReedPOP (whose parent company is named as having connections to ICE) is also the event organizer behind all the PAX shows, Star Wars Celebration, NYCC, Chicago Comicon, and Emerald City Comicon; read this thread to see what action you can take to voice your opposition.
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Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
February 9, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
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🎯from Green MP Siȃn Berry:
“The public is fed up with the outrageous profiteering of rolling stock leasing companies as they line the pockets of shareholders with record profits, while rail passengers are made to pay the bill with rising rail fares."
“The public is fed up with the outrageous profiteering of rolling stock leasing companies as they line the pockets of shareholders with record profits, while rail passengers are made to pay the bill with rising rail fares."
Public backs rail nationalisation in latest transport poll
70 per cent of Labour voters, want the government to nationalise rail rolling stock.
www.theargus.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 4:42 PM
🎯from Green MP Siȃn Berry:
“The public is fed up with the outrageous profiteering of rolling stock leasing companies as they line the pockets of shareholders with record profits, while rail passengers are made to pay the bill with rising rail fares."
“The public is fed up with the outrageous profiteering of rolling stock leasing companies as they line the pockets of shareholders with record profits, while rail passengers are made to pay the bill with rising rail fares."
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It’s very good of Prince William to distance himself from his horrific uncle Andrew, while on a visit to hang out with journalist-murdering bastard Mohammed bin Salman. I
February 9, 2026 at 10:19 PM
It’s very good of Prince William to distance himself from his horrific uncle Andrew, while on a visit to hang out with journalist-murdering bastard Mohammed bin Salman. I
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Following a petition signed by 114,659 people, today (16:30-18:50) Parliament held an excellent debate on Russian influence in UK politics. MPs I'll list in this thread know, offered details and remedies.
Full debate starts 4 mins in:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXlk...
+The Citizens live notes ⏬
Following a petition signed by 114,659 people, today (16:30-18:50) Parliament held an excellent debate on Russian influence in UK politics. MPs I'll list in this thread know, offered details and remedies.
Full debate starts 4 mins in:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXlk...
+The Citizens live notes ⏬
February 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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Following a petition signed by 114,659 people, today (16:30-18:50) Parliament held an excellent debate on Russian influence in UK politics. MPs I'll list in this thread know, offered details and remedies.
Full debate starts 4 mins in:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXlk...
+The Citizens live notes ⏬
Following a petition signed by 114,659 people, today (16:30-18:50) Parliament held an excellent debate on Russian influence in UK politics. MPs I'll list in this thread know, offered details and remedies.
Full debate starts 4 mins in:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXlk...
+The Citizens live notes ⏬
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"we fired all of our Black and Brown journalists and media critics and for some reason are writing bad articles about the Bad Bunny halftime show"
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 PM
"we fired all of our Black and Brown journalists and media critics and for some reason are writing bad articles about the Bad Bunny halftime show"
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Bad Bunny performs.
The NYT: What is sugar cane?
WaPo: What are politics?
Fox News: What is Spanish?
The NYT: What is sugar cane?
WaPo: What are politics?
Fox News: What is Spanish?
February 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Bad Bunny performs.
The NYT: What is sugar cane?
WaPo: What are politics?
Fox News: What is Spanish?
The NYT: What is sugar cane?
WaPo: What are politics?
Fox News: What is Spanish?
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The showed us cute missing dogs & we consented to turning our doorbell cameras into a mass human tracking system.
Mark my words, Ring's Search Party will become the next Flock.
Only instead of just being sketchy cameras installed in parking lots, it will be everywhere. That's their play.
Mark my words, Ring's Search Party will become the next Flock.
Only instead of just being sketchy cameras installed in parking lots, it will be everywhere. That's their play.
February 9, 2026 at 8:57 PM
The showed us cute missing dogs & we consented to turning our doorbell cameras into a mass human tracking system.
Mark my words, Ring's Search Party will become the next Flock.
Only instead of just being sketchy cameras installed in parking lots, it will be everywhere. That's their play.
Mark my words, Ring's Search Party will become the next Flock.
Only instead of just being sketchy cameras installed in parking lots, it will be everywhere. That's their play.
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Most recent skeleton of a bison in the Iberian Peninsula found in Navarra. Just 4,000 years ago. www.rtve.es/noticias/202...
www.rtve.es
February 9, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Most recent skeleton of a bison in the Iberian Peninsula found in Navarra. Just 4,000 years ago. www.rtve.es/noticias/202...
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the use of performance enhancing drugs by olympic athletes is getting out of hand
February 9, 2026 at 9:00 PM
the use of performance enhancing drugs by olympic athletes is getting out of hand
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Nostalgic Warden Has Seen 3 Generations Of Family Come Through Prison https://theonion.com/nostalgic-warden-has-seen-3-generations-of-family-come-1819574637/
February 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Nostalgic Warden Has Seen 3 Generations Of Family Come Through Prison https://theonion.com/nostalgic-warden-has-seen-3-generations-of-family-come-1819574637/