I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too

We're just 1 month away from WDC2026! Tickets are just £99! This year we have an awesome lineup of speakers @paavandesign.com @duncanpetrie.com @amyhupe.bsky.social @joshtumath.uk @hidde.blog @cjforms.bsky.social @rivea0.bsky.social @jesslynnrose.bsky.social webdevconf.com

WDC2026 - October 9 2026, Watershed, Bristol, UK | Web Developers Conference

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rumours have it he's been going overboard on bandcamp friday again

I cannot believe that it's eight days until my wedding and the 1password chuds are making me add "change my password manager" to my bloody todo list. outrageous

this is excellent

Defector@defector.com · 4w ago

It's time to grow up: defector.com/its-time-to-...

tell you what lads, I am sick to my back teeth of waking up every day to find out about another figure in tech being fash, associating with fash, or funding fash; and long for the days when this caused some backlash in their immediate circles instead of a laudatory circlejerk on X The Everything App

I will ignore you so long that you'll think I've died if you ever make the mistake of sending me a voice note

Germ Network@germnetwork.com · last mo.

bsky isn’t ready for this but, voice notes are hotter than photos 🥵

the thing I'm contracting on has gone >15 years without a rewrite, and generally I really like it because rewrites are unnecessary, and it's not Just Another SPA (jQuery my beloved—we didn't know how good we had it) but today I came across a conditional check to see if the browser was IE5 for Mac 😅

if every single person on earth bought and maintained a claude pro subscription at $20/month, it would take 15 years for Anthropic to reach $30T in revenue what are we even doing here

Techmeme@techmeme.com · last mo.

Sources: Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunities are above $30T, topping SpaceX's $28.5T; Uber predicted $6T in 2019 (Corrie Driebusch/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · last mo.

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

there aren't enough beverages in the world to pour out. what an enormous loss to the world 🫗🫗🫗🫗🫗🫗

People Magazine @people.com · last mo.

🔗: bit.ly/4qC1fWV Legendary singer-songwriter and country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. Her nephew revealed the news in a Aug. 25 Instagram video. 📷: Getty

The "double square" is much less well-known than the "double diamond" methodology, but much more frequently practiced

Yup. I know bullies online who are perfectly pleasant offline, and what I take from that is "Oh, so you know how to behave when you might get punched." And to tell on myself, this is one reason I'm a nicer person online now than I was a decade+ ago. I stopped liking that version of me, a lot.

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · last mo.

One of the things us an industry need to stop doing is perpetuating the 'they say this on social media, but they're a sweetheart in real life' about awful people I've had other journos say this to me about some of the most pernicious grifters over the years, some of who crossed many lines this week

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last mo.

How do Londoners think the city has changed in 10yrs? Public transport: +7 net better Air quality -5 Intl reputation -32 Women's safety -34 Inequality -35 Crime -40 Community cohesion -40 Public spaces -45 Rough sleeping -54 Economy & jobs -62 Affordable housing -71 yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

sadly I can't be there but you should go if you can, LWS is a lovely crowd of smart and kind people

London Web Standards@londonwebstandards.org · last mo.

Tickets for our next meet-up - 15 September are now available. londonwebstandards.org/events/lws-s... Please help spread the word.

Kevin passed about an hour ago. The time to find his cats a home IS now, and I'm not one step closer to finding it. Please, friends.

Shecky@shecky.bsky.social · 2mo ago

FRIENDS IN THE NYC AREA: Okay, this is a tough one, but please bear with me. My wife's lifelong friend has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and is desperately seeking a home for his two cats when that time comes. The elder, Wally, is something like 13 years old and DELIGHTFULLY dim. The younger, Doris,

every time some discourse makes me learn the name of another youtuber i email the genx listserv and have them raise housing prices another 3.5%

hi I'm the excess deposits of immunoglobulin A in the blood vessels of the kidneys (I am aware this is incredibly niche content, if there is a single other person on Bluesky with aggressive onset IgA nephropathy I'll eat my hat)

Rebecca Ruth Seidel@caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I'm Cows!

if the government wants people to keep emergency alerts on there really, really, really needs to be an alert level below the current HEART ATTACK INDUCING SIREN FROM YOUR PHONE OMG PANIC, which imo, should be reserved for "active shooter within a mile of your location" and "incoming nuclear missile"

reminds me of contracting for a subscription-based publication where you had to phone up to cancel; I asked why this was the case when the software stack we used supported online cancellation—"oh, we implemented that a while back but had to revert it; too many people cancelled their subscriptions"

absolute horses@jcoglan.com · 2mo ago

"if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in" is a quote for the ages

Do I know anyone who’s built a website that’s needed to be accessible from China? Any tips / pitfalls etc I should be aware of?

I really enjoy this series of interactive explanations of various every-day technology concepts and you may, too

shri@shrikhalpada.dev · 2mo ago

the next "how the heck" piece is live! it's all about image files and the tricks they use to save space, from information theory to how our eyes work :)

I mean, we all joked about comic sans and everything, but what I wouldn't give to see it on a poster these days instead of that fucking dreadful slop font. Would go to war for comic sans, I would run through a wall for times new roman. Impact, I take back everything I said about you.

I'm looking for a new role as a lead frontend/TypeScript engineer. 👋 13 years of experience and I formerly led the web team at Unsplash. My CV: drive.google.com/file/d/1Hp7w... If you know of any roles, please reach out. I'd really appreciate if you could share. Thank you!

She loved her surgery cone for the first couple days (it made her feel powerful and intimidating) so we got her a courted ruff to look sinister in.

@mu.social hi folks—I fairly persistently (at least several times a week) lose my Mu auth status and have to re-auth to stay signed in. especially common if I open Mu links in new tabs. Firefox on Mac. is this a known issue? happy to help debug any way I can

New project! Two influential word lists made by language researchers define an "essential English vocabulary" for learners: one from 1953 and another from 2023. In this essay, Jasmine Nackash examines the differences between them and what that says about us. link: pudding.cool/2026/07/esse...

Thinking of starting a church for people who believe in dishwasher salt. I know there's others like me out there

I _know_ this is very 2013 of me but I find myself in need of a free (for non-commercial use) typeface with an outrageously good ampersand and I'm out of touch, help