Autumnal Chris 🍁♿️🍂
@chrislike.bsky.social
Recovering humanist, software developer, stroke survivor. Delighted in detail. I take pictures in Western Mass. (he/him)
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*dies*
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
*dies*
This is an excellent newsletter that you should subscribe to.
My last software job made all of these mistakes continually. I found my best product design alignment happened when the leads hung out at a table all day in public and filled whiteboards with passerby.
My last software job made all of these mistakes continually. I found my best product design alignment happened when the leads hung out at a table all day in public and filled whiteboards with passerby.
Ever been in a meeting that fucking sucks? Rhetorical question.
Unfortunately, getting people to what you want requires that you tell them about it — and that's a meeting. Trying to get rid of meetings simply creates a dysfunctional work environment. The only fix is to design the meetings right.
Unfortunately, getting people to what you want requires that you tell them about it — and that's a meeting. Trying to get rid of meetings simply creates a dysfunctional work environment. The only fix is to design the meetings right.
This meeting could have been a picnic
Well-designed meetings are just as important to our work as well-designed artifacts.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This is an excellent newsletter that you should subscribe to.
My last software job made all of these mistakes continually. I found my best product design alignment happened when the leads hung out at a table all day in public and filled whiteboards with passerby.
My last software job made all of these mistakes continually. I found my best product design alignment happened when the leads hung out at a table all day in public and filled whiteboards with passerby.
DO NOT CROSS PICKET LINES!!!
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
DO NOT CROSS PICKET LINES!!!
This Trader Joe’s receipt from 2015 makes me want to cry.
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This Trader Joe’s receipt from 2015 makes me want to cry.
Donated. I love watching videos of Chicagoans chasing 🧊 away while whistles sound in the background.
October 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Donated. I love watching videos of Chicagoans chasing 🧊 away while whistles sound in the background.
My search engine results for “How To” articles are now crammed with ai slop. I can’t tell until I click on it and start reading. There is no way I’m going to trust the instructions written by a “best guess this is what you want to hear” machine.
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 AM
My search engine results for “How To” articles are now crammed with ai slop. I can’t tell until I click on it and start reading. There is no way I’m going to trust the instructions written by a “best guess this is what you want to hear” machine.
In the autumn, when the mosquitos have all been eaten, I return to my backyard birds; a cold weather birder.
October 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
In the autumn, when the mosquitos have all been eaten, I return to my backyard birds; a cold weather birder.
I am always here for a good viola joke.
I presume that orchestra people have vicious stereotypes about clarinetists that could be deployed here. I once heard three performers riff on violists for ten minutes and it was frightening.
“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”
October 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I am always here for a good viola joke.
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You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.
October 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.
What is your favorite kind of person to block?
October 11, 2025 at 5:21 AM
What is your favorite kind of person to block?
Holy shit
October 3, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Holy shit
Reading this article felt like vindication of all the unease I have felt about the AI bubble. 🫧
A very efficient, distilled and to me pretty persuasive version of the bear case against AI economics.
No surprise, this is very good. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
September 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Reading this article felt like vindication of all the unease I have felt about the AI bubble. 🫧
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ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
September 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
Guerrilla activism is my favorite.
A small but growing movement has sprung up in Nashville that is radical in its simplicity: People are building wooden benches and placing them at bus stops where there is no other place to sit. nashvillebanner.com/2025/09/22/g...
Activists build benches for Nashville bus stops - Nashville Banner
A small movement in Nashville is building wooden benches and placing them at bus stops without seating, providing a simple solution for the elderly, unhoused and others.
nashvillebanner.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Guerrilla activism is my favorite.
I thought anthropomorphism ran amok after the iDevices came out, now look at what people think about LLMs!
what would an LLM do if it were bored with nothing to do?
September 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I thought anthropomorphism ran amok after the iDevices came out, now look at what people think about LLMs!
On Amtrak as in real life, the Vermonter is much nicer after the New Yorkers get off.
September 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
On Amtrak as in real life, the Vermonter is much nicer after the New Yorkers get off.
I’m visiting my parents who are streaming church this morning. I just heard a prerecorded message that exhorts the faithful to “tap your phone to the disk on the chair in front of you or one of the giving kiosks around the auditorium.” They also accept crypto.
September 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I’m visiting my parents who are streaming church this morning. I just heard a prerecorded message that exhorts the faithful to “tap your phone to the disk on the chair in front of you or one of the giving kiosks around the auditorium.” They also accept crypto.
Your timeline has been blessed by the ghost of inky cleanliness. May your fountain pen ink refills be eerily clean in this spooky season.
Today is studio clean-out day so I hope everyone enjoys the scream I scrumpt when I opened the bottom desk drawer and discovered a small piece of paper towel which I had apparently used to wipe my fountain pen after refilling it
September 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Your timeline has been blessed by the ghost of inky cleanliness. May your fountain pen ink refills be eerily clean in this spooky season.
I finally got to hold a few Kaweco Sport fountain pens today after a few months of fogging up my computer screen. My verdict: too small for my hand. Even posted, the resin pens felt easy to snap and the steel or aluminum sports felt too tiny.
September 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I finally got to hold a few Kaweco Sport fountain pens today after a few months of fogging up my computer screen. My verdict: too small for my hand. Even posted, the resin pens felt easy to snap and the steel or aluminum sports felt too tiny.
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I may or may not have run full speed outside, in my pajamas yesterday, to take this picture.
#sunrise #nature #photography
#sunrise #nature #photography
September 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I may or may not have run full speed outside, in my pajamas yesterday, to take this picture.
#sunrise #nature #photography
#sunrise #nature #photography
Bill Watterson has been my guiding star throughout my life. Just ask my mother.
September 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Bill Watterson has been my guiding star throughout my life. Just ask my mother.
I commented. Opposed, but then you could probably guess that.
The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration
Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
The Trump White House Is Trying to Price Law Students Out of Public Service
A proposed Department of Education rule would make borrowers ineligible for loan forgiveness if the administration doesn’t approve of their work.
ballsandstrikes.org
September 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I commented. Opposed, but then you could probably guess that.
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Imagine that we are roommates. You ask me to restock the toilet paper. To prove that I did so, I show you the receipt.
The next morning, when you are in need of toilet paper, you find that the drawer is empty. This is because I have invented a new innovative method that I call Lean Shopping.
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The next morning, when you are in need of toilet paper, you find that the drawer is empty. This is because I have invented a new innovative method that I call Lean Shopping.
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September 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Imagine that we are roommates. You ask me to restock the toilet paper. To prove that I did so, I show you the receipt.
The next morning, when you are in need of toilet paper, you find that the drawer is empty. This is because I have invented a new innovative method that I call Lean Shopping.
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The next morning, when you are in need of toilet paper, you find that the drawer is empty. This is because I have invented a new innovative method that I call Lean Shopping.
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