Matt Brunt

The sentence gets worse as it goes on

Remember folks, the AI is not *actually* doing this; it is querying its training-data for statistically-likely things to appear to do under the given conditions, and replicating the highest-probability outcome.

Those glasses are SO FREAKING COOL! 🤩

It's a great talk! :D

Design for Developers - Lex Lofthouse - NDC Copenhagen 2025 YouTube video by NDC Conferences

I didn't realise my talk from NDC Copenhagen had been uploaded to YouTube... I just read the top comment and it's made my day 🥹

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZwd...

Reminder that Blue Monday isn't a real phenomenon, it was made up by the boyband Blue in 2002 to make me wanna call you in the middle of the night, make me wanna hold you 'til the morning light, make me wanna love, make me wanna fall, make me wanna surrender my soul

Screenshot of an email: Subject: [PIPEXP-1192] Login Access Request To: me Good morning Kimberly! =^uwu^=;; I’m sorry to hear that you’re having trouble logging into Jellyfin! It looks like your SSO account was indeed deactivated on 2025 Dec 15. According to our records, 1. On or about 2025 Nov 15, you were broken up with by ___, who noted this as a “final break” on vis event report sheet. I’m also seeing that Ve ticked the “Unilateral” box, meaning it isn’t contestable. 2. Our Salesforce shows you aren’t close to any other polycule members Unfortunately, our solo-poly access policy doesn’t allow us to extend resources to unpartnered members after the 30 day grace period following your break. This includes entertainment resources (Jellyfin / *darr / nzbget / Pornhub for Enterprise™ seat), as well as O365™, Adobe CC™, and shell access on the Nix clusters. We’re so sorry for your loss, cutie!! 😭💜 If you have any questions, you can reply to this email to generate another ticket, or you can contact zzzoeee@ from our Partner Infra team (note: three Zs and three Es in their LDAP, we have a lot of Zoes here!) —- Regards, ___ (🏳️‍⚧️she/her, UTC -5) Partner Infra Platform Experiences team As a courtesy, a copy of this email has been sent to your manager listed in Workday™ New name or pronouns? Dating someone new? Just visit go/update-me to update your account! Include this line in your email to comment on the ticket: 250e084a-b937-47a6-948d-b519112ad35a

sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣

Lineker & now Ince. Even for those not paying attention it should now be obvious that the sort of people who whine loudest about “cancel culture” are the ones doing the cancelling.

The far right’s commitment to “freedom of speech” is an authoritarian joke & the BBC has disgraced itself.

Lots of fun, well done!

The @yowconf.bsky.social team have been 10/10 incredible on this conference tour!

We're now in Sydney, the last of the 3 cities and it's been such an incredible time here.

Much love to them all <3

Hey sorry I missed this question, I don’t check bluesky much 😅

As for putting pressure back into delivery (I’m assuming as a way to slow things down for quality purposes?) tracking bug reports vs deployment times is a good way to be like “here’s cause and effect”

The slide says “Hey D.M. Can we try?”

One of @brunty.me ‘s slides is something I get to hear all the time.
#yow25

🔥

Geeking out with @brunty.me at #YOW25

I suggest that we start using the phrase "Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too." as shorthand to explain how little we want to be at any given terrible event.

🧙‍♂️What can D&D teach us abt dev teams? Turns out quite a lot. Join @brunty.me's talk Dungeons, Dragons & Developers at #YOW25 to explore how adventuring can lead to better software.

🎟️ MEL 4-5 Dec yowcon.com/melbourne-2025
🎟️ BNE 8-9 Dec yowcon.com/brisbane-2025
🎟️ SYD 11-12 Dec yowcon.com/sydney-2025

The Anakin and Padme 4-panel meme. In the first panel the text "us-east-1 is down again and has caused our app to break" in the second panel: "So you're going to learn from this and build a more robust failover in future right?" and in the final panel "Right?!"

Not long now before YOW! Conferences where I'll be speaking in Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney! ✈️🇦🇺

Come along and learn about how Dungeons & Dragons and Software Development teams aren't so different after all... 🧙🏻‍♂️🧑🏻‍💻

yowcon.com/melbourne-20...
yowcon.com/brisbane-202...
yowcon.com/sydney-2025/...

I miss sitting outside in the chicken enclosure just listening to them chirping and coo-ing as they went around hunting bugs and seeds. Peaceful.

<3

HOW DOES THE REST OF YOUR FACE 😂

The way I just cackled at that.

I hope you recover and get back to normal ASAP <3

Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards Measure could be announced as soon as Friday as government looks for ways to tackle illegal immigration to the UK

Ahh yes, digital so everybody can use it.
Because *everybody* uses a smartphone right.... right?

Also 'BritCard'... eww.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

big eww

Mockup drawing of a UK parliament petition where the petitioner has asked for "good thing please" with description "we think the UK needs this". Government responded: "No."

Every UK petition is like this

Feeling like I need to be put on a rack right now with how my back needs to be stretched and cracked

The lettering is done in simulated sidewalk chalk. Next time you think art doesn't matter, consider how scared the fascist are of sidewalk chalk.

Next they'll outlaw playing hopscotch. 🏳️‍🌈

This thread explains why we’re so upset and feel like the rug has been pulled from us.

We’ve done everything asked by the Government, filled in every box, followed every gatekeeping process, did everything they said we had to.

Yet now they decide that actually that’s not enough for them. 🤬

The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”

Scooby doo unmasking meme. The masked villain says "Protect children from obscenity!" And the unmasked villain says "control and intimidate the masses into obedience"

Every fucking time.