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Wicked witch of the test
@witchofthetest.bsky.social
Cormorant enthusiast and software tester. You can call me Veerle (pronounced 'fearless' without the ss).

Alt txt: profile pic me giving the horns on a white unicorn statue. Banner a cormorant with its wings spread in the sun.
Hear me out.

This, but for housing
The UK is to ban the resale of tickets for profit for concerts, sport and other live events in a major shake-up of the secondary ticketing market
UK to ban the resale of tickets for profit
The UK is to ban the resale of tickets for profit for concerts, sport and other live events in a major shake-up of the secondary ticketing market.
www.rte.ie
November 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"Reducing immigration will not necessarily increase the number of jobs available for British people as some employers are responding to tightening immigration rules by increasing outsourcing."

Hey chat I'm starting to think the capitalists in charge never even cared about reducing unemployment
"a fall in net migration of 300,000 a year would increase the deficit by about £20 billion. The government are already having to make unpopular tax rises and spending cuts in the upcoming budget, but would have to make more if the deficit increases."
The coming collapse in immigration to the United Kingdom - UK in a changing Europe
James Bowes analyses the fall in net migration to the UK as a result of government policies and explores some of the political and economic consequences.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Hot take - even as a joke, I don't really like the idea of ppl blaming interns for taking down production

Even on the chance it happened to be true (and there are definitely cases where it wasn't an intern), if an intern was able to do that, that's a problem with the processes and systems in place
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
What a fucking surprise
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I have been ruined by living in the 21st century because I read this as Dream Theater releasing two sex bots
October 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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yes but you'd also get 20% of the vote for speaking like a nazi without publicly identifying as one
You'd get done for showing a swastika here in Germany. Or any other nazi emblem. Quite rightly so.
🚨 Swastika Nazi strikes trans
woman after she films his swastika.
📍 WinCo @ Citrus Heights, CA.
⏰ 10:00am-10:20am PST

He shakes in line for 3.5 minutes before leaving.
Incident report will be released this evening.

Have you seen this Nazi? Our tip line is located in our bio.
October 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
@volkskrant.nl I rest my godvermaledijde case
October 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Hai @volkskrant.nl , deze man is een vermoede pedo die vrienden was met (onder andere) een bevestigde pedo, kunnen jullie uitleggen wat er tragisch is aan zijn 'val' en voor wie?
October 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans.

(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).

www.worldofmoose.com
Website of artist, cartoonist & tweeter Moose Allain
Welcome to the website of artist, cartoonist and prolific tweeter Moose Allain. Please fell free to have a poke about.
www.worldofmoose.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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that’s just a job. nobody gets to speak freely at a job. you’re selling your time and freedom. it’s called decorum.
June 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Idk man, maybe the bigots and sex pests are, but that sounds like a YP www.foxnews.com/media/white-...
White men are ‘walking around on eggshells at work’, afraid to speak freely: Survey
A survey shows two-thirds of young White men are "walking on eggshells" at work and afraid to speak freely, facing hostility and discrimination.
www.foxnews.com
June 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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If you’re thinking, what can we do? Well, I’ll tell you one thing you can do: look at the patterns of the past and then REJECT the next big disruptive technology that comes along and seems like an “emperor has no clothes situation.”
June 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Absolutely not.

Every time someone tries this, I point out how it biases against Black speech. Every. Time. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Also from the launch of the Perspective API and its "toxicity" score.

Police don't kill too many Black kids."
Score: Not toxic.🤦🏿‍♂️

"Police kill too many Black kids.
Score: 80.28% toxic.😮
May 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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May 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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With the stories of how more than 5,000 streets were named, we are (we think) London's biggest repository of the capital's topographical knowledge.

(That's a lot of big words...)

Find out how your London street got its name.

londonstreetguide.com/a-to-z/
March 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Same though
The birds are back and they’re horny out of their minds.
March 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This is the very first thing that has made me consider going back to the hell site.
March 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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"Moreso even than cryptocurrency, AI is entirely nihilistic, with zero redeeming qualities. It is a blight upon the world, and it will take decades to clear up the mountains of slop it has generated in the past two or three years."
#NihilismAndTechnology
Great article on why nazis love AI Art. No longer do memes and communicating agenda require nazis to have a single creative worker in their corner willing to sign off on a hideous vision of society, AI offers direct brain-worms-to-audience communication newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
newsocialist.org.uk
March 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Veerle Verhagen linking battlefield tactics with improving Agile software delivery. She’s such a good speaker #PeersCon25
March 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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The news is there's no news at #peerscon25 with @witchofthetest.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Pipeline workshop with Szilard Széll, we're talking about what quality is and not a single person mentioned Weinberg. Good job team 💙 #PeersCon25
March 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Aaaawww yeeeaaah it's #PeersCon25 time, babyyyy!
March 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM