Piper Thunstrom
@pathunstrom.bsky.social
Primary Social: https://ngmx.com/@pathunstrom
My Website: https://piper.thunstrom.dev
Staff software engineer. Python and
SQL specialist. Author and maintainer of ppb.dev. Queer. Gamer and game maker. Gunpla enthusiast.
My Website: https://piper.thunstrom.dev
Staff software engineer. Python and
SQL specialist. Author and maintainer of ppb.dev. Queer. Gamer and game maker. Gunpla enthusiast.
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I have a question.
January 15, 2026 at 4:55 PM
I have a question.
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Cancel. Genuinely. Cancel. A rejection at the border is a permanent mark against entry, forever.
If you insist, follow dangerous territory protocols: know your embassy details, make sure someone knows your travel details, and have funds for emergency legal, health, and departure expenditures.
If you insist, follow dangerous territory protocols: know your embassy details, make sure someone knows your travel details, and have funds for emergency legal, health, and departure expenditures.
January 15, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Cancel. Genuinely. Cancel. A rejection at the border is a permanent mark against entry, forever.
If you insist, follow dangerous territory protocols: know your embassy details, make sure someone knows your travel details, and have funds for emergency legal, health, and departure expenditures.
If you insist, follow dangerous territory protocols: know your embassy details, make sure someone knows your travel details, and have funds for emergency legal, health, and departure expenditures.
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As @alexandraerin.com said, if you're in the crowd it's not gallows humor, it's just part of the execution.
A reminder that gallows humour is for those with their necks in the noose to make, not us watching trying to be smugly dark and edgy.
January 3, 2026 at 7:53 PM
As @alexandraerin.com said, if you're in the crowd it's not gallows humor, it's just part of the execution.
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“It is not simple. I do not know what that means.“
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog
“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I like working with ...
anniemueller.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 PM
“It is not simple. I do not know what that means.“
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Got a friend asking for some accessibility focused reading, and it's been a minute since I started learning the topic.
Do you have a go to text to introduce the topic in 2026?
Please share!
Do you have a go to text to introduce the topic in 2026?
Please share!
December 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Got a friend asking for some accessibility focused reading, and it's been a minute since I started learning the topic.
Do you have a go to text to introduce the topic in 2026?
Please share!
Do you have a go to text to introduce the topic in 2026?
Please share!
Got a friend asking for some accessibility focused reading, and it's been a minute since I started learning the topic.
Do you have a go to text to introduce the topic in 2026?
Please share!
Do you have a go to text to introduce the topic in 2026?
Please share!
December 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Got a friend asking for some accessibility focused reading, and it's been a minute since I started learning the topic.
Do you have a go to text to introduce the topic in 2026?
Please share!
Do you have a go to text to introduce the topic in 2026?
Please share!
PyCon US 2026 call for proposals closes tomorrow (December 19) and if you do something you can apply a computer to, or are into a topic that affects computing, you might be interested in speaking!
us.pycon.org/2026/speakin...
us.pycon.org/2026/speakin...
Proposal Guidelines
PyCon US 2026
us.pycon.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
PyCon US 2026 call for proposals closes tomorrow (December 19) and if you do something you can apply a computer to, or are into a topic that affects computing, you might be interested in speaking!
us.pycon.org/2026/speakin...
us.pycon.org/2026/speakin...
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This is always the plan — they know the slop is slop so they will hire the original humans back at a cut rate to be slop wranglers, which involves more work and worse outcomes.
If they want to keep getting work, they can review (=rewrite) the AI slop, for 1/3 of their normal rate (which was already low to begin with)
Readers, we HAVE to complain about it, hold the publishers accountable and boycott these books
Readers, we HAVE to complain about it, hold the publishers accountable and boycott these books
December 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This is always the plan — they know the slop is slop so they will hire the original humans back at a cut rate to be slop wranglers, which involves more work and worse outcomes.
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Announcing the #GemFellowship, a grant program from Gem Coop and Contributed Systems!
If you have an existing Ruby project and could use funding, you should apply!
APPLICATIONS CAN ONLY BE SUBMITTED THIS MONTH.
Details: gem.coop/fellowship/
Show us your weird niche Ruby projects! 💜
If you have an existing Ruby project and could use funding, you should apply!
APPLICATIONS CAN ONLY BE SUBMITTED THIS MONTH.
Details: gem.coop/fellowship/
Show us your weird niche Ruby projects! 💜
gem.coop
gem.coop
December 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Announcing the #GemFellowship, a grant program from Gem Coop and Contributed Systems!
If you have an existing Ruby project and could use funding, you should apply!
APPLICATIONS CAN ONLY BE SUBMITTED THIS MONTH.
Details: gem.coop/fellowship/
Show us your weird niche Ruby projects! 💜
If you have an existing Ruby project and could use funding, you should apply!
APPLICATIONS CAN ONLY BE SUBMITTED THIS MONTH.
Details: gem.coop/fellowship/
Show us your weird niche Ruby projects! 💜
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You know, the best part of Cyber Monday is unsubscribing from all of the online vendors you’re unlikely to ever use again.
December 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
You know, the best part of Cyber Monday is unsubscribing from all of the online vendors you’re unlikely to ever use again.
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We gotta find some way to go back to a time when we didn't feel compelled to give our take on everything, because now we have a constitutional lawyer weighing in on the attack on a trans college instructor to say that giving a student a 0 for not following directions violates the First Amendment
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We gotta find some way to go back to a time when we didn't feel compelled to give our take on everything, because now we have a constitutional lawyer weighing in on the attack on a trans college instructor to say that giving a student a 0 for not following directions violates the First Amendment
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Also prompts the question: Would replacing the C Suite and the upper management doing that 57% with LLM driven chat bots actually cause any harm? And would the harm it causes be cheaper than the salaries?
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Also prompts the question: Would replacing the C Suite and the upper management doing that 57% with LLM driven chat bots actually cause any harm? And would the harm it causes be cheaper than the salaries?
I just read an interview with the narrative lead of a video game claiming that making games is harder than movies because they don't have one person calling all the shots and need to collaborate with a team of 400.
My respect for this company drops every day.
My respect for this company drops every day.
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I just read an interview with the narrative lead of a video game claiming that making games is harder than movies because they don't have one person calling all the shots and need to collaborate with a team of 400.
My respect for this company drops every day.
My respect for this company drops every day.
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OK, new AllPlay version of The Networks gets the official designer thumbs-up. Jeff Fraser made these tweaks while I was down for the count, and he did a masterful job sanding down the game's rougher edges.
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
OK, new AllPlay version of The Networks gets the official designer thumbs-up. Jeff Fraser made these tweaks while I was down for the count, and he did a masterful job sanding down the game's rougher edges.
Refs watching a replay where a player is shoved with both hands into the boards and needs to leave the gave to have no penalty is certainly a choice. #woho #SeattleTorrent
November 22, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Refs watching a replay where a player is shoved with both hands into the boards and needs to leave the gave to have no penalty is certainly a choice. #woho #SeattleTorrent
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As an OG Riveters fan, it is legit hard for me to root for Hilary Knight, lol.
I do not have this issue with Corinne Shroeder, because goalies are always to be respected, even if they were on a Boston team.
I do not have this issue with Corinne Shroeder, because goalies are always to be respected, even if they were on a Boston team.
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
As an OG Riveters fan, it is legit hard for me to root for Hilary Knight, lol.
I do not have this issue with Corinne Shroeder, because goalies are always to be respected, even if they were on a Boston team.
I do not have this issue with Corinne Shroeder, because goalies are always to be respected, even if they were on a Boston team.
It's been a minute, but the hockey posting may return.
Seattle Torrent inaugural game and I'm sporting my Izzie win Thunstrom jersey.
Seattle Torrent inaugural game and I'm sporting my Izzie win Thunstrom jersey.
November 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
It's been a minute, but the hockey posting may return.
Seattle Torrent inaugural game and I'm sporting my Izzie win Thunstrom jersey.
Seattle Torrent inaugural game and I'm sporting my Izzie win Thunstrom jersey.
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"Framing it just like this makes me want Israel to annex it" uh
a) You have ZERO stake in the harms or impacts here, bb
b) you'd want an aggressive colonialism done out of spite?
c) all those violations of human rights and international law don't bother you? Guess not, lovely
d) oh just fuck you
a) You have ZERO stake in the harms or impacts here, bb
b) you'd want an aggressive colonialism done out of spite?
c) all those violations of human rights and international law don't bother you? Guess not, lovely
d) oh just fuck you
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"Framing it just like this makes me want Israel to annex it" uh
a) You have ZERO stake in the harms or impacts here, bb
b) you'd want an aggressive colonialism done out of spite?
c) all those violations of human rights and international law don't bother you? Guess not, lovely
d) oh just fuck you
a) You have ZERO stake in the harms or impacts here, bb
b) you'd want an aggressive colonialism done out of spite?
c) all those violations of human rights and international law don't bother you? Guess not, lovely
d) oh just fuck you
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Rabbi here.
The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42.
It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.
The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42.
It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Rabbi here.
The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42.
It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.
The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42.
It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
Bluesky: we are a serious social network.
Also bluesky: sometimes the app just stops accepting touch inputs. Don't worry about it.
Also bluesky: sometimes the app just stops accepting touch inputs. Don't worry about it.
November 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Bluesky: we are a serious social network.
Also bluesky: sometimes the app just stops accepting touch inputs. Don't worry about it.
Also bluesky: sometimes the app just stops accepting touch inputs. Don't worry about it.