"Here you go," the guard said, "in you go with the others."

The door clanged shut behind me. The cell was quite crowded, a quite homogenous group of men looked at me.

How to say it in Latin? "Cur in carcerem es?"

"We are also time travellers," one said in English, "here to warn Caesar."

#IdesOfMarch #TootFic #SmallStories #MicroFiction

50 and 60 year old developers posting on Hacker News about how Claude Code has reignited their passion for building software where they focus on solving problems versus the rat race of chasing frameworks is exactly how I feel. I haven’t felt this energized about being in tech in years.

Detractors in the comments argue AI agents take away the craft and fulfillment that they got from coding. Others are also skeptical of becoming unfamiliar with implementation details.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282777&media_id=3848026138765031916_63436162246&media_author_id=63436162246&source_quote_media_id=3848026138765031916&utm_source=ig_text_post_permalink

There used to be an old sign by the path, warning passers-by of the local sleeping willow, which would trap the unwary with fatigue, engulf them while they slept, and release them a hundred years later.

There was a new sign:

"This sleeping willow is full."

And a map of other locations to try.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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Yup.

Like I've said: roid rage isn't a real thing. It's not. Anyone that tries to tell you that it is a real thing, is probably trying to justify violence by petulant man-babies.

If you're thinking "But steroids can make you irritable!🤡" I don't care. All women get irritable. All women know how guns and knives work. But they don't shoot and stab and beat people every time they get irritable. Part of being an adult, is learning how to regulate your emotions. Keep your hands to yourself.

Steroids don't make big men angry. Steroids make angry men big. What would've been a 150 lb twerp, is now a 200 lb twerp. Steroids give them the opportunity to try to live out their violence. When I worked as a bouncer in college, I often had to hulk-smash roided out dudes that don't understand that steroids won't help them against me, and that fighting is a skill, and that they didn't have that skill.

I've never taken steroids. I'm an elite level natural powerlifter. Many powerlifters and bodybuilders aren't natural, which means that they do take steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. They don't rage on people.

I don't judge people who take steroids for sports. I certainly don't judge people who do gender affirming care. I am pro-gender affirming care. What I'm against, is violent people that try to blame steroids as their excuse for hurting people that they perceive as smaller than them.

No.

It's not the steroids. It's you.