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@serenitydiscko i hate it here so much, i'm literally never on anymore. i posted all of 7 times in 2025, and this was my first tweet of '26. twitter's always been the hell place, but at least it used to be a fun hell place. now it's just hell.
@bendreyfuss@TaylorLorenz lmao wait i was either part of this exact interaction or he said the same thing to me separately (or maybe it was just in a tweet we all saw, which is even more embarrassing????) for the life of me i can't remember *who* it was but i 100% know exactly what you're talking about
it's funny seeing this comment in the year of our lord 2025 because 1. no one has said this since 2013 and 2. it's even less relevant now because ai has usurped those jobs anyway and made "learning to code" irrelevant. a thing of beauty, a relic of a distant, equally dumb past
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