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@emru.bsky.social

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haunted skeleton. cool aunt. backyard kid in california. fan of the devil’s lettuce, not of the devil’s advocate. professional cat herder. a bit too human for tech. em or emily, she or they.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

note that there is basically no such thing as a widely-accepted and culturally-revered American image of a blue collar *woman*

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, can anyone else even *be* blue collar? When was the last time we had a blue collar woman in the public eye?

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snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 3d

oh you’re absolutely right, I forgot about that!

snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 4d

you’re right, and statistics agree with you, I didn’t know that 89% of nurses identified as women, and 77% of teachers. I thought those jobs had gotten more diverse than they actually have.

that pretty much solidifies for me that teachers and nurses *are* the female equivalent of blue collar jobs.

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snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 5d

HEY ITS HALLOWEEN AND THE WORLD IS ALREADY A TERRIFYING PLACE RIGHT NOW SO IF TEENAGERS WANT CANDY TONIGHT: GIVE IT TO THEM.

I DONT EVEN CARE IF THEY WEAR A COSTUME. LET THE CHILDREN KNOW THERE IS STILL JOY AND KINDNESS YOU FUCKING MONSTERS.

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snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 5d

oh they would have gotten me with this one because I would have demanded a picture without a thought

snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 5d

I know these aren’t gendered jobs, but that perception definitely existed of teachers and nurses a few decades ago and I feel like those count as unionized/blue collar jobs.

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snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 7d

for the folks jealous of Southern California weather:

it is October 29th, the high today is 90 degrees and the low is 57.

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Anne Bertucio @annebdh.bsky.social · 9d

If your company is a heavy Python user and has surplus budget to assign before EOY, now’s a great time for an unrestricted donation…

Python Software Foundation @python.org · 9d

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language

www.python.org

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snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 9d

wdym that color leather looks gorgeous with his coat

snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 13d

now please go take a nap or something

snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 13d

I finally just subscribed so I could come back here and tell you that your fear is not based on fact.

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snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 15d

every single person who leaves a company leaves behind a locked trunk of tech debt in the form of “things only they knew.”

if you think “AI will solve this!” I actually have a special oil you might be interested in purchasing, I collect it from snakes for this very reason.

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snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 15d

tell me again how AI is going to solve the incidents that humans can’t, when the knowledge you’d use to train the AI walked out the door two years ago in the head of human who wanted different working conditions?

Ana Visneski @oceanbound.bsky.social · 16d

This article by @quinnypig.com nails it

www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...

Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS

column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

www.theregister.com

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snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 15d

I hate to tell you this, but it’s gonna take all week to feel rested again, my on call friends.

snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 16d

the amount of interdependency on each other’s services in tech, coupled with the fact that most people don’t change their default region in AWS from us-east-1, means that even if you don’t have a single service running in that region, someone in your engineering org still got paged last night.

snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 16d

hugops to uhhhhhhh everybody?

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snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 16d

hugops to uhhhhhhh everybody?

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snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 17d

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Miss Piggy dressed as The Mona Lisa (obviously how she snuck in undetected)

snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 19d

oh I believe it, and I will continue to have nightmares of being on calls like that, and I will continue to have to know everything about it.

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snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 19d

I had to come back here to tell you this call *did* come up in a dream last night. you did warn me, I listened anyway. like the video from the ring.

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snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 20d

oh hell yeah I was looking for new slippers yesterday!

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Ian Coldwater 📦💥 @lookitup.baby · 20d

BIG BOAT STUCK

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 20d

Interesting events on the Norwegian/Swedish border, where the Hagland Captain is still stuck next to the Svinesund Bridge having failed to successfully identify the wet bit that runs underneath it.

Photo of the unfortunate vessel, suspiciously close to the shore and even more suspiciously not moving...

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snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you big boat, we needed this.

snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 21d

every time I go to a spa I feel like it’s only a matter of time before they’ll go “hey! who let you in here?” and fish me out with one of those pool skimmers an toss me over the fence like I’m a frog that found a jacuzzi.

snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 21d

hockey games, the only socially acceptable place to scream at a bunch of white guys to do a better job.

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snot factory @emru.bsky.social · 24d

can’t revert the commit
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