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Jim Menard

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Gray-haired coder. Musician. Husband and father. Liberal. That about sums it up.

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AI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed. Most organizations never had a model for developing engineers. They had an environment that produced growth by accident. AI just made the luck run out.

If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...

08.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 104 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 10

It said it liked your idea better than mine. Definitely not conscious.

07.03.2026 22:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not a bad ending. I was expecting something like, "...and then he took off his shoes."

03.03.2026 01:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

27.02.2026 03:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Aarrgghh of course. Time for a re-read, obviously

25.02.2026 10:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Arthur
Ford
Zaphod
Martin

25.02.2026 02:20 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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BROOKLYN

ICE IN CLINTON HILL
NYPD ASSISTING

LET PEOPLE KNOW

25.02.2026 01:33 πŸ‘ 587 πŸ” 504 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 24

Realized I never said "unquote" after reciting a famous poem in 10th grade. Sorry if you thought everything I've said since is Shakespeare

18.05.2023 15:18 πŸ‘ 2876 πŸ” 463 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 5

Since I have no idea what that is and I'm too lazy to Google it: of course you can!

22.02.2026 01:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Let's try this again πŸ‘‹

Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

21.02.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 13764 πŸ” 3498 πŸ’¬ 896 πŸ“Œ 187
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La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), πŸ“Έ by @tiltoncreative

19.02.2026 21:26 πŸ‘ 5636 πŸ” 1370 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 75
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Humble Book Bundle: Best of Humble Bundle: Terry Pratchett's Discworld by HarperCollins Encore 2026 Experience Sir Terry Practchett’s beloved Discworld series! Get 35+ books covering all corners of this comic fantasy universe and help support Room to Read!

have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books?

good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader

you won’t regret it

17.02.2026 21:19 πŸ‘ 784 πŸ” 388 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 31

Nobody expects the Donna Lee bass!

19.02.2026 13:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A smartphone is on an end table. It's balancing up on end, and speaking, so maybe it's animate? This is unclear. 

SMARTPHONE: Hey! HEY!

The phone is speaking to PORDLEY, who is trying to practice the piano. He looks up at the phone which is addressing him on its own.

SMARTPHONE: I can't help but notice you've been holding me less. I MISS you. I miss your nimble TAPS and SWIPES.

PORDLEY: It's because you're a PORTAL to HORRORS! Nothing personal. It's just...you ARE a PORTAL. And there are SO VERY MANY horrors.

SMARTPHONE: I'm a portal to EVERYTHING. Don't you want to see GOOFS AND SPOOFS? You LOVE goofs and spoofs!

PORDLEY: I DO love goofs and spoofs. 

SMARTPHONE: I've got SO MANY goofs and spoofs.

Pordley, convinced, reaches tentatively for the phone...

HORRORS ERUPT FROM THE PHONE. Of course! Of course!!!

A smartphone is on an end table. It's balancing up on end, and speaking, so maybe it's animate? This is unclear. SMARTPHONE: Hey! HEY! The phone is speaking to PORDLEY, who is trying to practice the piano. He looks up at the phone which is addressing him on its own. SMARTPHONE: I can't help but notice you've been holding me less. I MISS you. I miss your nimble TAPS and SWIPES. PORDLEY: It's because you're a PORTAL to HORRORS! Nothing personal. It's just...you ARE a PORTAL. And there are SO VERY MANY horrors. SMARTPHONE: I'm a portal to EVERYTHING. Don't you want to see GOOFS AND SPOOFS? You LOVE goofs and spoofs! PORDLEY: I DO love goofs and spoofs. SMARTPHONE: I've got SO MANY goofs and spoofs. Pordley, convinced, reaches tentatively for the phone... HORRORS ERUPT FROM THE PHONE. Of course! Of course!!!

They're still out there. The goofs and spoofs. If we can only find them.

Wondermark #1582; Limit Your Scream Time

14.02.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 586 πŸ” 231 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 16
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

10.02.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 31327 πŸ” 13768 πŸ’¬ 970 πŸ“Œ 1689
Zombo.com - No limits - You can do anything Welcome to Zombo.com β€” a colorful, playful place where you can do anything. There are no limits. Zombo is unlimited.

This is an act of cultural vandalism: zombo.com

RIP zombocom, 1999-2026. You could do anything at zombocom.

Anything at all.

08.02.2026 10:47 πŸ‘ 123 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 6

there should be a high fantasy author who hates writing about food. "and then king aelfrid joined the dwarven feast and quickly wolfed down some ham and a corn or whatever. back to magic"

08.02.2026 00:19 πŸ‘ 1896 πŸ” 165 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 10

Only Murders in the Building

08.02.2026 02:28 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Irritable Bowel Syndrome?

07.02.2026 23:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

05.02.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 4614 πŸ” 1805 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 38

how to pronounce gigawatts

03.02.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is who runs this account

03.02.2026 01:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

I would never put on the ring of ultimate evil because unlike you fools I am in fact made differently, it could not corrupt me because I do not crave power and am smart enough to see through its deceit, smart enough to rule justly, maybe even smart enough to wield it safely

31.01.2026 10:23 πŸ‘ 91 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

25.01.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 1218 πŸ” 447 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 23
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some bits of wisdom from tunglr

21.01.2026 10:29 πŸ‘ 7049 πŸ” 3117 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 88

1,000 XP to the first character that makes a pride flag out of dragons

18.01.2026 12:57 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I hope every panel is at right angles to every other

16.01.2026 23:58 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The ones with the metal panther artwork, I hope

16.01.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dear artists, it's hard avoiding wondering if what we do is irrelevant or an insult when it's harsh, scary, dangerous & violent out there, but one thing is always true as stone: someone will need what you do, someone won't, & you won't know the difference. Err on the side of hope. Create if u can.

15.01.2026 23:54 πŸ‘ 227 πŸ” 87 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

books are so cool because there are NO FUCKING ADS IN THEM

17.11.2025 16:46 πŸ‘ 511 πŸ” 131 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 7