Yvonne Lam
@yvonnezlam.bsky.social
I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
I don't have an ounce of chill, so I love this.
Being intense is understood as a necessary and fundamental aspect of playing a professional sport like hockey, but something that women are repeatedly told not to be in their personal and professional lives. The show also inspires and rewards intense attention from fans, even for small details.
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I don't have an ounce of chill, so I love this.
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Tchaikovsky scholars are welcome to explain why the nutcracker pas de deux and sixth symphony finale are mirror images of each other, theories much appreciated, the more fantastical the better
December 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Tchaikovsky scholars are welcome to explain why the nutcracker pas de deux and sixth symphony finale are mirror images of each other, theories much appreciated, the more fantastical the better
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Everyone participates in society, but only some participation is counted as contribution.
It’s tempting for post-work traditions to say the problem is formalizing obligation, but really what is absent is a job guarantee framework that takes responsibility for whether all participation is dignified.
It’s tempting for post-work traditions to say the problem is formalizing obligation, but really what is absent is a job guarantee framework that takes responsibility for whether all participation is dignified.
December 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Everyone participates in society, but only some participation is counted as contribution.
It’s tempting for post-work traditions to say the problem is formalizing obligation, but really what is absent is a job guarantee framework that takes responsibility for whether all participation is dignified.
It’s tempting for post-work traditions to say the problem is formalizing obligation, but really what is absent is a job guarantee framework that takes responsibility for whether all participation is dignified.
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“I’m descended from wolves”
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“I’m descended from wolves”
welcome to devops
"We are democratizing combat engineering via a microservice approach. Every soldier will be empowered to innovate by designing and building their own personal fortifications." —Roman Thought Leader
I find the seemingly standard public education/reenactor phrase, "every Roman soldier was a [combat] engineer" more than a bit frustrating.
Every Roman soldier could be a *laborer.* The legions also had much higher status specialist engineers, the praefectus fabrum or architectus.
Different jobs!
Every Roman soldier could be a *laborer.* The legions also had much higher status specialist engineers, the praefectus fabrum or architectus.
Different jobs!
December 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
welcome to devops
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Some questions I'm interested in seeing people explore:
What definition of white supremacy are white people deciding to use when grappling with these things?
What let's you know that what's happening right now is rooted in white supremacy?
What definition of white supremacy are white people deciding to use when grappling with these things?
What let's you know that what's happening right now is rooted in white supremacy?
December 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Some questions I'm interested in seeing people explore:
What definition of white supremacy are white people deciding to use when grappling with these things?
What let's you know that what's happening right now is rooted in white supremacy?
What definition of white supremacy are white people deciding to use when grappling with these things?
What let's you know that what's happening right now is rooted in white supremacy?
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One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
Adding to Mount To Be Read
a lot of great work on early modern science, and early modern history generally, has come out of the history of alchemy!
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Adding to Mount To Be Read
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i have no idea why they want to go on TV every single week and assert things that anybody who actually uses their own wallet knows is false, but we could stop indulging them
December 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
i have no idea why they want to go on TV every single week and assert things that anybody who actually uses their own wallet knows is false, but we could stop indulging them
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Elinor likes to help (*) my partner work at his desk.
(*) prevent him from typing
(*) prevent him from typing
December 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Elinor likes to help (*) my partner work at his desk.
(*) prevent him from typing
(*) prevent him from typing
Platforms have made it weirdly harder to do this kind of thing.
A very niche and difficult problem: a personal tool on phones to organize your GIF and meme collection that can be used as a keyboard to auto-insert images on use.
So I can make my smol collection of memes from The Morning Show and just type them in when I want. No more GIPHY or Tenor, lol
So I can make my smol collection of memes from The Morning Show and just type them in when I want. No more GIPHY or Tenor, lol
December 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Platforms have made it weirdly harder to do this kind of thing.
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Interesting to reflect that OLPC hailed from a moment when SV orthodoxy maintained tech should “change the world for the better.” That pretense, of course, has fallen away. But SV’s model of improving the world had a tendency to be damaging in itself.
December 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Interesting to reflect that OLPC hailed from a moment when SV orthodoxy maintained tech should “change the world for the better.” That pretense, of course, has fallen away. But SV’s model of improving the world had a tendency to be damaging in itself.
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"false emergence is equivalent to the false goalpost of easy arrival riding on the wings of ersatz hope rather than hard-won care, and it is in caring that a future may arrive."
today in pocket theatre, i write abt playwriting at the end of a world. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...
Playwriting at the End of a World
Capitalism's Folly
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
"false emergence is equivalent to the false goalpost of easy arrival riding on the wings of ersatz hope rather than hard-won care, and it is in caring that a future may arrive."
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Wow, it's a baked and then fried croissant stuffed with a Catalan custard similar to creme brûlée.
December 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Wow, it's a baked and then fried croissant stuffed with a Catalan custard similar to creme brûlée.
Saving "Playmobil approach" to describe how the software industry thinks of work.
Apart from anything else, this really embodies the Playmobil approach to workforces that politicians often fall into — it’s all very well and good to laud “frontline” NHS workers but without backroom staff the entire service would actually collapse.
Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!
December 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Saving "Playmobil approach" to describe how the software industry thinks of work.
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a lot of these techbro libertarian guys, when they open their mouth, all I hear is "I can't wait to be converted into a paperclip!" no matter what they're actually saying
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
a lot of these techbro libertarian guys, when they open their mouth, all I hear is "I can't wait to be converted into a paperclip!" no matter what they're actually saying
At this point, I would vote for the microwave.
"Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country."
December 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
At this point, I would vote for the microwave.
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Yes! I love this. More of this energy.
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Yes! I love this. More of this energy.
Right after reading this post, I saw a fantastic clump of threads about taste, class, and wealth in my feed.
bsky.app/profile/arri...
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The workshop began by tackling less fraught issues: How founders look and smell. Each attendee received a gift bag containing a comb, 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner, mouth wash, a lint roller and a discount card to Wilkes Bashford, a local high-end clothing boutique.”
Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style
As Silicon Valley grows in power and prominence, some insiders say it’s time for the tech industry to remake its slobby image. An etiquette camp for founders showed how.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Right after reading this post, I saw a fantastic clump of threads about taste, class, and wealth in my feed.
bsky.app/profile/arri...
bsky.app/profile/arri...
@thelasttheorist.bsky.social @bakerdphd.bsky.social in case you know someone who'd be interested in pitching/writing this
Someone please pitch @contingent-mag.bsky.social on this. We need a mailbag that people can share with friends and family who believe the university spokesperson line that this is about costs or low student demand. It’s not true in this case and it hasn’t been true with the humanities either.
“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
@thelasttheorist.bsky.social @bakerdphd.bsky.social in case you know someone who'd be interested in pitching/writing this
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This would have all been a lot easier if I wasn’t so worried about the stupid humans.
December 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This would have all been a lot easier if I wasn’t so worried about the stupid humans.
December 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I Love You To Death
What’s your favourite movie that YOU KNOW is fantastic, and you couldn’t care less if movie snobs would say it “isn’t real cinema?”
December 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I Love You To Death
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So true 😂
December 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
So true 😂