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VƎX Werewolf

@vexwerewolf.bsky.social

When corporate tells their employees to try and redirect complaints, it means you should ignore their advice. In fact, intensify the calls.

Ruby Kobold 🌹 -⃝⃤ @fluffyscales.bsky.social · Jul 25

LMAO I called Visa’s customer support service - the guy on the other line was like “are you ALSO calling about the video game payment processing? Please send us emails instead.”

Keep up the calls, folks, we’re definitely gumming up their works

Void🔞 | VGen @voiddebris.bsky.social · Jul 24

I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones

Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign

But we can EASILY top 1,000!

I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send!

↻💬♡ to boost

We CAN make a difference 💕

#itch #censorship

1/🧵

July 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM

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no.

@joles.bsky.social

applying for jobs again

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.

it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

May 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM

Stu

@ba2h.bsky.social

It’s finally time to crack open Gyarados! #pokemon

March 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM

Stu

@ba2h.bsky.social

@microsoft.com fuck you and your llm slop

February 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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lcamtuf

@lcamtuf.coredump.cx

I keep coming across all these "pseudocode" examples on Wikipedia and in academic papers, and what I don't understand is why the authors can't just learn a real programming language