Sue Smith

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2024-09-07 23:08:13

One of my neighbours has taken to digging in his garden late at night and there are fewer non-murder related reasons I can think of for this than I'd like tbh

2024-07-26 19:47:57

Wikipedia should shut down an hour before the #Olympics opening ceremony and demand a ransom from all the broadcasters frantically trying to come up with facts about the different countries

2024-07-24 20:00:26

HTTP Keanu is now also available at keanu.codes establishing a pattern that may lead to subsequent variants...
https://www.keanu.codes/

2024-07-23 17:56:03

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Like I want the world to go to shit the minute I die because I'm not leaving any children behind me, what the fuck is wrong with these folk

2024-07-23 17:54:05

Women can't care about the future unless they have kids, from the guys who brought you such classics as, of course I respect women, I have a daughter 💩🤡

2024-07-22 20:47:32

Fun fact: We use "Hex" colour codes on the web because the first websites were made by witches!

2024-07-21 16:08:13

While we're at it, is there any possible use of the word "talent" that isn't riddled with bias? Isn't it invariably a distraction from opportunity as the determining factor in achievement? I think it maybe needs to get in the bin alongside merit tbh.

2024-07-21 11:41:37

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This again with the crowdstrike discourse, folk arbitrarily suggesting it could have been a "DEI engineer" (they mean Black). We could get into the reality that underrepresented candidates overwhelmingly need to be *more* qualified to get in the door, but it isn't about competence is it, it's just overt white supremacy.
How do these folk think people get hired by default. Hint: it's not a process that prioritises excellence. 💩

2024-07-02 22:57:50

I don't put content warnings on "politics" in part because everything is political
To me this is where the balance tips between individual and community interests, I get that these are subjects that cause anxiety, but reducing visibility comes at greater collective cost imo and the weight of responsibility for avoiding it therefore lies with the individual
Unfollow, block, mute, curate your feed, limit your time on social media 👍🏻

2024-06-27 17:44:55

Amazing stuff
"The first Parkinson’s patient in Scotland to undergo a groundbreaking treatment has described it as a “miracle” that has helped him regain his independence."
https://news.stv.tv/north/man-with-parkinsons-first-in-scotland-to-undergo-miracle-procedure-to-prevent-tremors

2024-06-26 20:39:19

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@npub1typ…c8hh I am genuinely glad to have had this experience because it's always the case eh? We just don't always need to accept it lol.

2024-06-26 20:33:28

I've got a cancer clinic appointment in two weeks that might result in me getting signed off, and might not
One of the things I find it hard to talk about with folk who haven't done this is the way you need to kind of hold two possibilities in your mind, and be ready to accept whichever one you get
At any moment there are so many things that could happen to you, but having an illness with a managed pathway forces you to conceive of them in a way that doesn't make for typical conversations lol

2024-06-26 10:09:59

Something I wish I knew about jobs when I was younger: *a lot of the time* when someone in a leadership position is talking, they're spinning a bad thing as a good thing because their position depends on it

2024-06-21 12:20:39

My pet hate is things being called learning that are not learning
Today's edition is required corporate compliance checkbox training

2024-06-16 17:35:55

Re last boost, I actually hesitate to post these days because of how dreadful the replies are. Often white men will advise me to restrict visibility of my posts if I don't want replies. I don't want to be less visible, I want to be able to choose who can interact with me. Maybe have a think about what the fediverse will be like if those of us on the receiving end of the most toxic shit have to hide our posts.

2024-06-16 11:07:41

The "lesser mortals" here presumably being the cancer patients who don't have top tier private healthcare and teams of servants looking after them round the clock.. Amazing stuff 💩
https://files.glasgow.social/media_attachments/files/112/625/968/690/512/046/original/2bffa023d455dcb5.jpg

2024-06-14 23:06:03

You can like your own tweets now and no one will know
https://files.glasgow.social/media_attachments/files/112/617/476/930/313/426/original/ce2cd20058a03d13.jpg

2024-06-14 09:30:16

Folk who don't come from privilege and are trying to get into tech: sign up for things you don't know how to do yet.
Privileged folk do this ALL THE TIME and will even be hired for senior jobs with zero relevant experience. Typically their playbook is finding someone junior to them to actually do the job they were hired for.
You can pick things up, for coding work there are typically tons of free online resources, do not opt out of opportunities because it's something you've never done before.

2024-06-11 14:53:18

This but for programming tutorials
https://x.com/CaelanConrad/status/1800455408873865330?t=PwrEOk1V1ttErUNfM23Uqw&s=19
https://files.glasgow.social/media_attachments/files/112/598/551/476/517/954/original/135830d5786aa5ec.jpg

2024-06-04 17:20:25

These days whenever I'm in a pub like stereo in glasgow where they've had gender neutral toilets for many years, it strikes me over again how utterly dishonest transphobic "feminism" is
It's one of the safest pubs in the city, because they've actively, intentionally cultivated it as a safe environment *largely through inclusion*
The idea that policing people's bodies to decide which toilet they can have a piss in would somehow make some of us safer is such manipulative nonsense

2024-05-30 10:19:52

Folk using "algorithms" to refer to everything that's wrong with the web the way folk believed "miasma" caused the spread of disease pre sanitation

2024-05-24 22:14:41

I love #Glasgow
https://files.glasgow.social/media_attachments/files/112/498/361/093/956/740/original/4baba0b56e64c8b8.jpg
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2024-05-24 10:10:25

I've worked a lot with non profits, open source, community projects, public service organisations etc etc over the years and there is a phenomenon I refer to as "but we're the good guys" syndrome
When folk have their identities all bound up with a job or activity and you say something that challenges them on some basic facet of what they believe they're doing it for, it makes them feel their very identity is under threat and they can really lose their shit!
You see a lot of this on mastodon

2024-05-24 09:27:44

Saw this question on twitter:
"what is your go-to phrase before you get disrespectful?"
Sharing because there is one absolutely definitive answer in Glasgow, it is "excuse me" and if you hear that you are about to die 👍🏻

2024-05-21 19:52:34

Where does the idea of "rising above it" come from, this idea that folk on the receiving end of nonsense are only deserving of sympathy if they are somehow unaffected by it..? It seems christian, turn the other cheek and all that, so am guessing it's a relic of some patriarchal crap, you're supposed to take whatever is dished out to you and not fight back.. Surely that can only benefit those who hold the balance of power! 👎🏻

2024-05-20 12:09:49

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Side gripe: a lot of these efforts are based on nostalgia for a past or perceived lost web that's meaningless to almost everyone on the web today, I don't want something we had or believe we had, I want something better that's shaped by the folk who'll be most affected by its future

2024-05-20 11:50:34

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Didn't we learn this from open source already?
This shit is how you end up with spaces at best lacking inclusion and more likely hostile to a diverse representation of voices
Wanting to get paid for work isn't an optional extra for the overwhelming majority of people in the world ffs

2024-05-20 11:47:12

Not linking directly because I don't want to shit on projects I believe are genuinely trying to make the web better, but every time I see a post about "the small web" or a more "humane" web or whatever that includes phrases like this about content: "created without the motivation of financial gain" I sigh so deeply lol
I am begging ethical web enthusiasts to understand what an extreme privilege it is to spend time working on something without worrying about money

2024-05-19 22:28:17

This Golden Girls line from Dorothy to Blanche 😂
"I'm in no mood to hear a story about you and some yahoo cracker pawing at each other under a magnolia tree"
https://files.glasgow.social/media_attachments/files/112/470/104/180/570/385/original/83a137e8b5dceea2.jpg

2024-05-19 12:52:37

I see there's a new flavour of that "Europeans take the entire summer off" patter about Europeans having shorter school hours.. 💀
Can we just agree that getting kids to spend their days training to be productive workers is terrible, this race to the bottom shit does my head in

2024-05-15 18:04:32

A computer cannot take it, therefore a computer should not dish it out

2024-05-12 14:53:04

The hardest problem in computer science is being born into generational wealth

2024-05-10 23:12:06

I SAW IT 😭
Surprised to get such a good view in Glasgow, saw someone else post the great tip of looking through your phone camera
#aurora
https://files.glasgow.social/media_attachments/files/112/419/312/578/125/069/original/bf51a9a77e9e319b.jpg
https://files.glasgow.social/media_attachments/files/112/419/313/429/477/940/original/6425e49eba2a7e96.jpg

2024-04-26 12:08:27

Mind at the start of the pandemic when we had an undeniable demonstration of who the essential workers were and it was almost all low paid folk..
And proved we could immediately get homeless people off the streets..
Then returned to normal..

2024-04-18 21:06:25

I need a method to figure out which delusions are helping me and which ones are hindering 🤣

2024-04-18 12:04:46

A fun milestone in the trajectory of a startup is when they hire someone who's job it is to try to stop the ceo from pursuing personal beefs with users who give negative product feedback

2024-04-07 10:39:34

In the tech industry there is a belief that there are "technical" and "non-technical" roles, and that legitimacy in the non-technical roles is dependent on being technical enough. So all these folk in essential roles are meant to be technical but have chosen the non-technical (and typically therefore lower paying) roles because they have some personal passion for whatever the non-technical role is.

2024-04-05 10:27:06

"Lavender has played a central role in the unprecedented bombing of Palestinians, especially during the early stages of the war. In fact, according to the sources, its influence on the military’s operations was such that they essentially treated the outputs of the AI machine “as if it were a human decision.” "
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

2024-03-28 18:46:54

I keep seeing people make the mistake of thinking they can fuck with kind people. People who are kind by default are usually the ones you really don't want to mess with, because they actually care about the world around them. The kindness is the other side of the babayaga coin. 👍🏻

2024-03-23 16:42:59

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub1ke6…z7av my own personal record was 12 plus two take home assignments and a transatlantic trip for an onsite interview

2024-03-23 16:24:34

Always good to get a reminder that outside tech it is normal to hire someone after one or two interviews

2024-03-22 15:04:48

People refusing to let their kids get the HPV vaccine *which prevents cancer* because they think it encourages them to be sexually active must be some sort of record for something, idk what 💩

2024-03-22 14:25:37

Have to share this tweet thread, best story about the town I grew up in
https://twitter.com/NaePasaran/status/1771175076932579505
https://files.glasgow.social/media_attachments/files/112/139/796/884/806/541/original/dfd77dee97de7722.jpg

2024-03-22 13:28:25

False equivalences make me think of folk who complain about shit like double negatives, people who think you can reason about the complexities of human life using basic arithmetic 🤡

2024-03-22 11:50:19

Debates about whether the rainbow lanyard is "political" all over social media today, if you are not LGBTQIA+ maybe consider that for some people this is not a thought experiment, inclusion is quite literally a matter of life and death
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24202713.greens-scottish-parliament-rainbow-lanyard-ban-regressive/

2024-03-22 11:39:55

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@npub19lt…qfjk apologies I assumed this was what your reference to medical treatments was, conflating these things with the rights of LGBT people is however incredibly irresponsible

2024-03-22 11:33:32

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@npub19lt…qfjk this sounds like transphobia and therefore goodbye

2024-03-22 11:27:10

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@npub19lt…qfjk Scientology is a choice, so is being an antivaxxer. These things are absolutely not the same, LGBT rights are human rights.

2024-03-21 00:38:12

Here's the thing I can't get my head around, I almost never reply to folk on social media unless they're a mutual or they replied to me first.. Maybe also if they explicitly asked for information and I have it..?
I _kind of_ get replying to dunk on someone powerful, but replying to ordinary punters you don't know *to disagree, be critical, or patronising* is.. Where the fuck are folk learning this is appropriate

2024-03-15 15:11:56

Our house is one hundred years old, we've got a guy doing some work in the garden and he said it looks like it had a bomb shelter at one time..
Every time I think about the history of the house it kind of messes me up to know that our parents and their families were crammed into tenements without proper sanitation a couple of miles away while folk lived in these amazing houses with their own big gardens etc.

2024-03-14 22:51:52

I am so pissed off about how impossible it's become to search for stuff online, are we going to be telling future generations about how that was a real thing once 😭

2024-03-10 16:59:35

Reminder that a cashless society makes life even harder for homeless, undocumented, and low income folk 👎🏻

2024-03-10 13:41:37

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@npub1t8u…c7sk Have to push back on the disparaging of clip art 🤣

2024-03-06 21:29:02

Hoping this wee woman is having a great day https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/06/hunt-pensioner-defaced-margaret-thatcher-statue-slur-20414158/

2024-03-01 15:16:59

Got to love how most websites now resemble yer da's popup ridden malware infected pc from 20 years ago

2024-02-21 21:41:35

Men please for the love of fuck please assume there's a chance the person already knows about the thing you're telling them about

2024-02-21 14:48:48

Stop equating bad behaviour with [mental illness / disability / neurodiversity] challenge

2024-02-11 15:06:28

There is a category of reply person on here I consider blockable. When you post about a behaviour that bothers you they reply saying you should try being empathetic...
Listen, I grew up surrounded by folk with various mental health issues, with the impact ranging from harmful to abusive. Some of the people I care most about I absolutely have to restrict exposure to. It is ESSENTIAL to set boundaries that keep you healthy, it isn't your role in life to absorb other people's shit.

2024-02-04 17:25:09

Whenever I hit the block button I like to sing the theme to the 1980s kids TV show Chock-A-Block
https://files.glasgow.social/media_attachments/files/111/874/363/087/439/218/original/acad4e14bdc2b681.jpg

2024-02-04 11:35:48

In case you were wondering how JK Rowling's women's rights crusade is going, she's been busy attacking Glasgow Women's Library (the only accredited UK museum dedicated to women's history and a charity that offers literacy and numeracy services for women) for displaying a *comic* about transphobia written by a lesbian woman 🤡💩

2024-01-26 23:07:34

Tried to google trauma dumping but autocorrect changed it to trauma dumpling, the results however did not disappoint
https://files.glasgow.social/media_attachments/files/111/824/757/518/957/095/original/58ffd617c457664c.jpg

2024-01-24 20:16:27

When a tv show says it contains "adult themes" I'm expecting it to be about stuff like hurting your back, having indigestion, going for a nice nap

2024-01-20 19:34:32

Small boast incoming.. A number of years ago I did a non profit thing with my pal where we worked with trade unions to facilitate youth activist projects with some help from open source tech.. We were in a Glasgow pub there and I asked the young guy if the staff got the tips (please always do this).. He starts telling us all about how they organised and it turns out his first experience of this was through events we ran 🥰

2024-01-17 11:24:18

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@npub19fc…ay3c I feel like whatever the fuck this is, is a larger subcategory of the replies on here and part of what makes it more annoying than twitter was

2024-01-11 00:54:00

"Adopting rightwing policies on issues such as immigration and the economy does not help centre-left parties win votes, according to new analysis of European electoral and polling data."
"..the analysis shows that centre-left parties promising, for example, to be tough on immigration or public spending are unlikely to attract potential voters on the right, and risk alienating existing progressive supporters."
Will they cut this shit then?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/10/adopting-rightwing-policies-does-not-help-centre-left-win-votes

2024-01-10 00:46:30

We've reached the X Files episodes they allowed Duchovny to write and direct, they are dreadful and I blame Alan Alda for this

2024-01-02 14:30:28

Going to run a series of workshops for men in which we practice saying "I don't know" for an hour

2023-12-27 17:00:54

If you're bored and fancy making something both educational and daft, doing your own version of HTTP Keanu is ridiculously easy
🪄 Remix a copy https://httpkeanu.glitch.me/
🖼️ Add your own pics in Assets
📋 Each time you add one, grab its URL and go into codes.js
🔍 Find the relevant code number and replace the 'pic' URL with the one for your newly uploaded image

2023-12-25 00:03:31

MERRY CHRISTMAS 🪩🎊♥️
And a reminder of the hashtag #JoinIn to talk shit with folk, whether you are on your own or wish you were lolol
https://files.glasgow.social/media_attachments/files/111/638/122/452/794/981/original/91a125e3f67696f9.jpg

2023-12-21 12:04:12

Two years of explaining to folk that I can't be around someone WHO HAS TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID because I have appointments at a CANCER CLINIC

2023-12-20 12:57:02

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@npub19lt…qfjk You completely agree with me but felt obliged to include a "correction" / qualification.. I am sure you don't want to be a mansplainer, in which case you should try not to send women replies like this

2023-12-20 08:53:11

As someone who went from poverty to being in a high tax band I can assure folk you are never worse off by earning more money because of taxation, rich people claiming that are talking shite 👍🏻
And as someone who mostly interacts with people in other countries for work I can assure you high earners have a fantastic quality of life in Scotland, so the claim that they'll be "forced" to leave is just sheer fucking greed, good riddance to anyone who feels that way 👍🏻
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-67759418

2023-12-03 09:54:27

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@npub19lt…qfjk this article is unsurprisingly all over social media, mostly people on the left who are talking about it, it might detoxify labour to tories but they already have a party afaik

2023-12-03 09:47:34

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@npub19lt…qfjk I don't think you realise how destructive Thatcher's politics were tbqh, praising her is a betrayal of Labour voters that will imo massively backfire here, describing her politics as "entrepreneurial" is itself a gross distortion of what she represented and represents, it's not a game, these are issues that literally destroyed lives within living memory

2023-12-03 09:37:14

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@npub19lt…qfjk the celebration of someone who destroyed the communities of your core supporters is a hell of a conclusion to draw from the fact that corbyn failed as a political leader, people don't need more thatcherite options, they need a real opposition vision they can get behind, take a look at scotland, principle driven politics never stopped getting votes

2023-12-03 09:26:13

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@npub19lt…qfjk that's the strategy they've tried and failed on for some time now, the basic idea that your politics should be a manifestation of principle is the one thing they seem to be determined not to try

2023-12-03 09:16:38

Fuck is the point in this guy https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/02/keir-starmer-praises-margaret-thatcher-for-bringing-meaningful-change-to-uk

2023-11-24 01:00:05

A guy tasting the food on masterchef tonight said "ten out of ten in terms of my engagement" hahaha christ

2023-11-09 11:35:36

Men will literally
Develop entire AI platforms
Instead of
Investing in tech writing

2023-11-03 15:16:33

Tip for folk visiting Glasgow: if you're parking your car on a street and a wee boy offers to "watch yer motor" this is not in fact an optional service 👍🏻

2023-10-22 10:29:44

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 yeah I wondered what that was too..

2023-10-22 10:20:44

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 I'm more curious about the artist, where it first appeared etc but was a long time ago!

2023-10-22 09:56:39

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 yes I know all of that 🙃

2023-10-22 09:31:33

"Who needs Margaret Thatcher when you've got De La Soul?"
Looked it up before but haven't managed to find the origin, presumably is from the time..
https://files.glasgow.social/media_attachments/files/111/277/936/461/281/767/original/fde56e3c1179ee68.jpg

2023-09-16 20:16:42

It's Blues Brothers time again, a great reminder that the best comedy is equal parts clever and stupid 👍🏻
https://files.glasgow.social/media_attachments/files/111/076/658/520/566/957/original/22c066e1e6cf442c.png

2023-09-03 09:07:15

We had our own version of burning man on the council estate I grew up on in that there was typically at least one car on fire

2023-08-19 12:01:14

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@npub19lt…qfjk clicked this hoping to find xslt and was not disappointed 🥳

2023-08-11 11:03:37

Listen, there are always folk who don't just want to have a lot but also want others to have less than them, and they are in no short supply in the tech industry, clearly fuck them
But this UPS thing is so much more interesting than that
The fact that they haven't negotiated for subsistence wages but for a good wage.. it's a shift from what we typically think of as the terms in these situations, it challenges the storyline on what the power balance is

2023-07-07 18:17:16

The year is 2025, there is now one social network for every twelve people in the world, each dedicated to discussing the other social networks that are available

2023-07-01 14:12:49

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@npub19fy…n5nv I have absolutely nothing to feel bitter about and enjoy a very happy successful life 👍🏻

2023-07-01 08:37:21

As the token poor kid who got to go to uni I can assure you the idea that policies like affirmative action lower standards is extremely hilarious. You want to see low standards? Surround yourself with the privileged LOL

2023-06-06 20:37:25

There's a clip of Alexei Sayle I've been trying to find online for so long but to no avail
"In the olden days, people used to be named after what they made: Carter if they made carts, Cooper if they made barrels, Thatcher.. if they made people SICK"
https://files.glasgow.social/media_attachments/files/110/499/186/927/058/869/original/47c838d7ec3de867.jpg

2023-06-04 09:31:10

Who says what is and isn't a weed? IF THE BEES LIKE IT IT'S NO A WEED 🐝👍🏻

2023-05-23 18:23:04

Less than 51 weeks until #Eurovision

2023-05-19 21:59:10

In tech we use the term "dogfooding" to refer to eating your own software before throwing up and then chasing your tail / licking yourself 👍🏻

2023-05-13 07:49:15

Some recent male behaviour reminded me of this absolute classic
https://files.glasgow.social/media_attachments/files/110/360/261/739/705/052/original/b97823f1e38de3fc.jpg

2023-05-11 15:37:37

The chat about AI assisted coding has been rattling around my head as it indicates our failure to articulate the skills in software development, so I wrote about it on the @npub1wvr…ur2y blog
Hint: It's no just writing code pal
https://blog.glitch.com/post/software-development-isnt-writing-syntax

2023-05-07 12:15:22

"A clip of Celtic fans singing against the coronation ... caught the attention of BBC’s ‘Have I got news for You’, who reached out to us to offer a fee of £200 to use the footage on the show.
We decided it was only right that money was donated to a local Glasgow foodbank and invited others to contribute to the cause.
Within less than 24 hours, the fundraiser had amassed over £12k for the most deprived people in Glasgow.."
https://celtsarehere.com/celtic-fans-amazing-response-to-coronation-weekend-fundraiser/

2023-04-30 21:27:39

It's funny how the tech adjacent scandals like fyre festival, theranos, wework shocked folk en masse because it's the same stupid shit that goes on routinely in software startups but in those cases it was applied to actual stuff out in the world beyond the computers lolol

2023-04-17 20:09:39

My toxic trait is going "LOOK IT'S [INSERT TIME] AND NOT COMPLETELY DARK YET" every single night between spring and the summer solstice