eric shamow
LightNews LightNews
botmatrix.myatproto.social
eric shamow
@botmatrix.myatproto.social
1.2K followers 1.7K following 10K posts
Engineering leadership, usually. People over technology, always

I used to be @eshamow on the Twitters

married to someone smarter than me

they/them
Posts Replies Media Videos
botmatrix.myatproto.social
w/ alt text:
Newspaper headline reads "Lord Mandelson relieves himself in the street after Osborne visit" "Former ambassador to US spotted urinating against wall in Nottingham Hill" with a photo of an alarmed looking politician against a wall with a cell phone who looks like he may be relieving himself
November 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
As an engineering leader this is an incredible condemnation of BlueSky's internal product/eng culture
‪Aaron Rodericks‬ ‪@aaron.bsky.team‬ · 4m Bluesky Elder I had plenty of discussions on the topic, but the challenge is 'things I need for Bsky T&S' get 1000% more complicated when decisions impact 3p moderation services, other apps etc... so all of a sudden it's a protocol problem, and a devrel prob, etc... and I am many things but not an eng/dev.
November 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
shot from 2001: A Space Odyssey, right as the monolith opens to become the Stargate
November 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
Seems like a great guy
labels include: User blocked by "A very British bigotry" Dehumanizing Rhetoric Troll Transphobia (General)
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
I wasn't even aware of that crash out, I was observing another crash outs
screenshot of @dkimmel.bsy.social's replies, in which he is angry assaulting people for asking why he cares so much about ephebophelia
November 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
Asked an "actually, it's ephebophelia" guy what he thinks age of consent should be and:
Daniel M. Kimmel @dkimmel.bsky.social · 39s Irrelevant. What do you believe the minimum IQ is required to participate on social media? This has NOTHING to do with the age of consent. Epstein was a criminal pervert regardless of the age of his victims.
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
Incredible that - even at nearly 40 - it's not "that's when I realized I was abusing a power dynamic"

It's "it would never work"

cos y'know. she wouldn't get the references
Michael F. Meitbual ‪@michaelmeitbual.bsky.social‬ Follow When I was 37 I was dating a woman who was 19. The thing that inspired me to break things off was hearing Pearl Jam's "Alive" on the radio - a song released 9 years before her birth she had never heard . In that moment I realized things would never work. November 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM 12 quotes 1 like
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
Picard or Sisko? Be informed. Compare them on the issues that matter Issue: Should officers be terrorists? Picard: I do not allow my officers to be terrorists Sisko: My offers can be terrorists once in a while, as a treat
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
a screenshot of the Pepperidge Farm remembers animated gif
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
they were An Experience live - not knowing the tracks they all sort of blended together, and they were loud enough that they mandated everyone wear earplugs. so the whole thing was a very very visceral experience. they ended with 2 minutes of roaring static (before a brief close) - it was something
a shot from the stage of my bloody valentine in SF, the letters m b v are projected in white against a blue swirling background
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
Maybe here??
close up of the section of the airplane on top of the fuselage
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
Post by @merman_melville “Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it’s probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day.” 
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
w/ alt text
the following text, but it's in green, and each company name is in the font & styling of its logo: Hulu with Paramount+ with Showtime each with is a different color. the second one is smaller than the first
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
RT with alt text
Post from @jules_su Old joke: If a genie gave Democrats three wishes, they'd negotiate down to one, and then wish for something they think Republicans might like.
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
handheld meter in a white person's hand. on the screen is displayed Hitler Particle Emission Confirmed with four exclamation points
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
Local racist grows tired of Islamophobia and antisemitism, moves onto anti-Blackness
Chenoa Seaboy ‪@chenoaseaboy.bsky.social‬ Follow Of course Jews disagree on the issue. Some Blacks want to bring back slavery. All decent people want as few innocent people to be harmed as possible. Many Hamas supporters thought that helping a fascist get elected was going to be helpful somehow. They're not leftists.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
Very leftist account 🤮 what a comrade
People who call the bird site "x" list Alt text nags list
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
RT with alt text

Fuck RMS forever
⸻ I GREW UP a tomboy, climbing trees, making mudpies, and splashing in ponds, so I know what happens when you turn over rocks that haven’t been disturbed in a long time: when daylight hits the creepy-crawly things underneath, it makes them squirm. When the deposition in which I named the late MIT scientist Marvin Minsky among my abusers became public, for example, a colleague of Minsky’s blasted out an email to a mailing list for MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In the email, renowned computer scientist Richard Stallman suggested that I had been a willing participant in my encounter with Minsky. Stallman questioned whether Minsky “applied force or violence” and seemed to be arguing that if he did not, I must have opted in. “The most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing,” Stallman wrote of me. Stallman was criticized by some who received this email, but still it was clear that not everyone agreed that the girls and women whom Epstein and Maxwell trafficked to others were victims who deserved compassion. “They took the money, didn’t they?” was the most common refrain from people in this camp—as if someone can’t be victimized while being paid two hundred dollars. While I wasn’t pen pals with people who believed these things, their opinions reached me through social media and, occasionally, through email. My point: Stallman wasn’t alone in his skepticism. Just as Stallman defended Minsky, many friends and colleagues of MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito defended him after it was revealed that he had cultivated a close (and lucrative) relationship with Epstein. Ito apologized, and for a
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
🫠
memetifa.bsky.social ‪@memetifa.bsky.social‬ Follow Which reminds me, an IDF vet wrote zohran’s lgbtq platform by the way. His network is infested with liberal Zionists. No surprise he’s trying to protected Hakeem Jeffries when the IDF is writing his policies
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
This list has not been wrong yet

bsky.app/profile/hedg...
User blocked by "A Very British Bigotry"
November 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
Letterboxd reviews are correct
No one, can say BOY, like Angus.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
oh no I'm going to have to rewatch Fight Club

I think I'm due for a rewatch on it anyway. I got so angry at it and its fandom that I've probably not seen it in 20 years

Funny tangent but they have the original bar of soap at Movie Madness here in Portland
A bar of soap with "Fight Club" carved into it sitting in a glass box on a stool close up of the actual bar of soap
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
the movie is a little flat at times but the imagery and vibe is absolutely next level. It almost feels like giallo to me
shot from Phantasm inside the funeral home. a young kid is facing away and the Tall Man is in the back. the hallway is all white and red
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
and also
screenshot from Phantasm. a kid is asking "What's in it?" and the response is "Just put your hand in the black box"
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
botmatrix.myatproto.social
picture of Dune's Cantina from Phantasm with what looks like a black t-bird in front of it
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM