#tech-humor
i’m a tech-services librarian. i don’t know if dad humor would wear well professionally, but i’ve considered starting my message with “I am away from the office. My current status is hopefully Mending but definitely Withdrawn.” 📚
Just got the best out-of-office message I've ever seen from a fellow academic:

"I am currently away on leave. If this is an emergency... well, I doubt it. What could possibly be an emergency in my line of work?"
November 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Designer Paeng Min-wook created The Third Eye, a satirical robotic device that warns distracted smartphone users of obstacles. It highlights tech dependence while offering real-world utility, blending humor, safety, and social commentary.
November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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From vacuum tubes to #freesoftware, #LPI Board Chair Emeritus Jon “maddog” Hall’s LinuxFest Northwest 2025 talk captured the humor, determination, & experience shaping his decades-long #opensource journey.

See how curiosity & collaboration drive progress in #tech: lpi.org/femf

#FOSS
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This charming if hagiographic article about Cormac McCarthy's insanely huge personal library and the overwhelmed scholars trying to go through it is full of unexpectedly funny evidence of the man's omnivorous curiosity. /v @meganabbott.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The Age of the Gestapo Face Mask is ending, as the Age of the Scramble Suit begins! The tech is still under development, but I hear that Palantir is making developmental strides! 😎

Ok, that is humor, but all good humor has a dash of truth.* /1

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November 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
big tech is making money hand over fist and we're all trading gallows humor jokes about whether we'll make it through the next round of layoffs
October 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Think you need to be an artist to add visuals to your docs? Think again!

In our latest episode, Dennis Dawson—the tech writer behind the Write the Docs sketchnotes—shares why visuals and humor make docs more effective, plus practical tools and techniques you can explore right away.
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Many of his videos do a great job of balancing social critique with silly humor, using the humor to accentuate the absurdity of giving so much trust to tech, and even highlighting the ways this tech makes us more isolated and less competent/sufficient. LLM psychosis is too serious for that approach
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“I don't try to be funny. I'm just funny. And if you ever try to be funny, then you're not funny.”
– Dennis Dawson (@dennisdawson.bsky.social), the artist behind the Write the Docs sketchnotes

In our latest episode, Dennis shares why plain language + visual humor leads to better docs and much more!
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
First of all, Musk is a putz. He doesn’t understand symbolism or humor. Years of Twitter posts confirm this.
Second, it’s very common for online tech bros (or online theo bros) to co-opt LOTR. It’s a whole thing.
October 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of The Not-Boring Tech Writer: Humor and visuals in technical writing with Dennis Dawson. Have a listen:
Humor and visuals in technical writing with Dennis Dawson
In this episode, I talk with Dennis Dawson, a technical writer with 40...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The book isn’t out yet, AI genius.
October 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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#catgear #designparody #luxurylife #industrialdesign #GenAI #SynthArt #AIart #aiartist #aiartcommunity #GenerativeArt #AIchallenge #BuilderofNightmares
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October 29, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Rolled out of bed and #RandomGameSaturday is the most obvious thing on my bookshelf, Sam & Max Hit the Road!

This game helped develop my comedic voice in writing and performing probably more than anything else, and getting it to run with a boot disk on a home PC was an important learning for me.
October 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Fuck lying and delusional #Trump and Cronies in #ICE 8647
Fight #TACO and his Clown Show on every front 24/7/365
October 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
It feels like the whole tech industry has transitioned from getting money by making a business case to potential funders to catering to the whimsical shithead senses of humor of dumb money guys
October 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM