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23 year old software engineer | User #88,122 | Brighton resident | Doing tooling and social good stuff | Signal: astrid.580 | Discord: justsomedev | Mastodon: @astrid@treehouse.systems | πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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Hey everyone, so my time with Vantage comes to an end at the end of this month. I feel so lucky to have worked on the stuff I did.

I am looking for full time work. If anyone knows anyone, my DMs are open. People at Vantage are able to vouch for me and the services/experiences I can produce.

06.03.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I need to normalise sound and being outside of a tiny cube again, had a particularly bad mental health spiral, thanks Met Police

05.03.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I cooked a ready meal! That's recovery slowly but surely!

05.03.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It keeps flickering I'm not sure if its someone its quite petrifying

05.03.2026 12:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Reminder that when I did a single Git commit about the free speech union that was public interest, the Met Police seized all my electronics, questioned me, and cautioned me in under a month. The wheels of justice can run fast if its a trans person they want to hurt.

05.03.2026 12:54 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have no lighting and I have no clue wtf is going on but there's noise everywhere and I'm in a corner aaaaaaaa recovering from MH issues in loud environments suuuuuuuucks

05.03.2026 12:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The problem before is I couldn't even wag my tail properly because I had so much stress and now I don't but I have to deal with all the reasons I didn't have a waggy tail

04.03.2026 18:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a group of puppies are sitting on a swing set in a park . Alt: a group of puppies are sitting on a swing set in a park .

yesss :3

04.03.2026 18:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like a puppy wuppy that’s slowly starting to wake up

04.03.2026 12:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I have medication finally woo

04.03.2026 12:33 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

yep

02.03.2026 22:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you've been wondering where I've been, the met have caused a lot of damage to me (a lot more than I thought at the time), my life is damaged, and I want to die.

02.03.2026 22:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Anthropic is like a puppy that took all the puppy tweats but then a wolf comes over and all the puppies whimper

28.02.2026 14:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's a few things I'd change within the party when campaigning to ensure we use all campaigners properly (having a meeting to air such soon) but the people there were great

27.02.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

(this does include me and I am eating puppy tweats rn)

27.02.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

puppy tweats to all that voted or helped in Gorton and Denton (or as I call it Pawton and Denton :3)

27.02.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

oh *sigh*

25.02.2026 21:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

(There’s a not fucked seen account here)

25.02.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I can’t find them

25.02.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck wrong one

25.02.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@policeseenuk.bsky.social hey something for you here

25.02.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I will be in Gawton & Denton tomorrow. If you can, please do the same!!!

25.02.2026 11:31 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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David Lammy considering bringing AI to the courts in a bid to get through more cases | LBC Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy is to push for more use of artificial intelligence to cut court backlogs.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/lamm...

Sorry for the slop source but holy wtf. You've heard of vibe coding, now we've got vibe incarceration.

24.02.2026 13:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry I've been quiet about certain things, lets say that I'm evaluating my legal options πŸ˜‰ - blog post about overall culture soon, but not touching on grounds that fit into that

23.02.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yep this is all literally why the met cautioned me

I don't think my crime was having it in a git repo, I think my crime was having it in a git repo whilst trans

22.02.2026 12:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

OH FUCK it just hit me lmao, maybe they still think I'm a part of Bash Back and I'm going to do criminal damage

(Hi Met Police, I know you are a big fan of the Astrid socials, just to remind you I am not a member of Bash Back)

22.02.2026 12:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I have to surrender myself to a police station at their whim when they send a letter, not for further questioning but to get my DNA and fingerprints taken because the Met's team of highly gifted detectives can't make a fingerprint scanner work.

22.02.2026 12:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They haven't actually sent me that letter yet.

22.02.2026 11:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The cops were meant to take my DNA for the crime of committing a CSV file to Git, apparently its optional but the police seemed to see it as wanted for me (in case my crime spree of committing a CSV file that was already public was related to a unsolved murder or something I guess).

22.02.2026 11:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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title: "The UK breeds a culture of fear in technology"
description: "Regulation pushed on the wrong people, dehumanisation of some, and no support for the rest. What could go wrong?"
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writing a thing

22.02.2026 09:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0