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fairlysadpanda.bsky.social

Senior backend engineer, CCP Games London. VR games developer and artist. Sometimes do politics, mental health and north London permitting. Liberal Democrat, somewhat hawkish, very pro-Europe. I use she/her pronouns, and I hope you have a lovely day.

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Gonna snipe this with another software hot take; vibe coding is only a thing because it's easier than doing web searches in a world where Google et al are increasingly useless. It's not too surprising that a profession defined by "getting a computer to think as I'm lazy" picks lazy tools.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I'm inventing a political science term. Scotlandization. A multi-party democracy where a nationalist party is opposed by an infighting harem of non-nationalist parties, thus making overall poll numbers a crapshoot In England it's going to be 1v1 fights between Farage-and-co vs Lab/LD/Grn at any GE.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Shower thought: public sector pay should rise at the same rate pensions do.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Anecdote: my sis who lives in that Runcorn constituency was able to recall being leafletted by the Green candidate but had seen nothing from the LD. LD vote folded, Green vote held, Labour lost the seat. Think Labour should be very worried about assuming progressive voters will be squeezed

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Just had an wave of existentialist horror when I sat here looking at my Spotify account and realized how enshittified music is now. Automatically generated playlists, algorithmic recommendations trumping the ability to actually browse. Decided to just put Radio 3 on.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

At the moment I think the data says Farage is PM in 2029, there's no way of reading the data in any other way. Totemic issue (immigration) + extremely efficient vote share to go from 5-360 or so. Labour need to recognize their "offend nobody" big-tent politics is dead and pivot.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

#VRChat queues are the worst-implemented pieces of garbage design in the entire app and it would literally be better if we still had to spam-join to get into busy instances. Crashed? Get fucked Event notification late by 30 seconds? Get fucked Not on the priority list? Get fucked

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Only take on the locals is that this is probably the clearest sign you need that the Tories are toast. Reminds me of stories like 2011 (first warning about how bad 2015 would be for the LDs). I'm not pricing in Reform as the government but they're a certainty for at least LOTO unless we get events

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I know this topic is tough for folks but if anyone out there cares, today's judgement is bad enough as a trans woman to now be starting the process of leaving the country for a safer one. This is an incredibly dark path that this Labour - Labour! - government walks.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Considering the make-up of arts/engineering/science grads and young professionals, hostile transphobia in the UK is a real footgun to "go for growth" when these are people most easily able to emigrate. Anyway I'm vistiting Toronto in June for no particular reason, any food recommendations?

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

A #gamedev horror story Discovering the FOSS "MIT licensed" game you've been contributing to has been unclearly licensed for six years, but your main repo advertises the project as MIT, and a bunch of forks have then re-re-licensed as AGPLv3 Headaches

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments