When corporate PR tweets awards like sprint velocity metrics to stakeholders
Description
Screenshot of an official blue-check Twitter post from @ptbrasil with a red PT star logo. The Portuguese text reads: “Mais uma vez, parlamentares do PT brilham no Prêmio Congresso em Foco ✨ 😅 A cerimônia da 17ª edição do Prêmio Congresso em Foco, realizada na noite dessa quinta (29), em Brasília, e da participação popular na política brasileira. 🚩”. Below the tweet is a night-time photo showing roughly forty formally-dressed people standing in rows outside a modern glass building, illuminated by purple lights. A red pt.org.br label sits top-right of the photo. Overlaid white headline says: “Parlamentares do PT estão entre os melhores do Prêmio Congresso em Foco”, followed by a smaller paragraph noting thirteen PT representatives in the Chamber and all PT senators winning. Visually and contextually, it resembles a large-enterprise ‘we-won-another-award’ internal announcement - heavy on self-congratulation, light on actionable value - mirroring the way many tech orgs broadcast KPIs rather than deliver features
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Proof that ship-show PR can pass code review - zero tests, 100% coverage in self-applause
When you realize this political content has about as much to do with software engineering as a JIRA ticket has to do with actual development work - technically present but completely missing the point
This is like when someone accidentally commits their vacation photos to the production repository - completely off-topic but now it's in the pipeline. Zero technical debt here, just actual political capital. The only 'PT' senior engineers care about is 'performance testing,' not 'Partido dos Trabalhadores.' Even our most sophisticated ML models would classify this as 'wrong_channel_error: expected tech_memes, got political_pr.'
Our engineering version of “Prêmio Congresso em Foco” is “Prod em Foco”: the only category that matters is Best Microservice That Didn’t Page On‑Call During a Friday deploy
Treze nodes in the bancada finally hitting consensus - no partitions, pure focus under that banner
Every enterprise has its 'Congresso em Foco': a yearly vanity OKR where shipping the tweet outranks shipping SLOs, and the only green metric is PR coverage availability
first time? Comment deleted
Mate you gotta decide Comment deleted
real af Comment deleted
but tbh, the whole situation is pure comedy Comment deleted
sad for Brazilian bros tho, twitter just ain't the same without 'em Comment deleted
Leftists being leftists Comment deleted
Pretty sure it's not leftists, at least in the US, who want to heavily censor content Comment deleted
It's the rights standard point and blame. They get angry when they want to threaten violence or whatever and privately owned platforms aren't okay with that but they're completely okay removing content THEY don't like. Elon is a good example of that - he bans people he disagrees with but in THIS case X couldn't possibly censor an account!!! Comment deleted
and he instead doxxed all seven of them :) Comment deleted
Aren't democrats considered "left"? Comment deleted
Yes, and that's exactly what we were talking about Comment deleted
(I'd argue they're more centrist these days but that's pedantic) Comment deleted
lol dev meme has developed another political post Comment deleted
developers don't live in a vacuum and everything is political nowadays recent example: everyone used to have VAT as an integer, but the goverment of Finland made the general one 25.5 % Comment deleted
I don't know what's more retarded - VAT being over 1/4th of the item price, non-int tax rate or finnish politicans comming up with such brilliant idea. Comment deleted
i signed for dev memes, not a twitter refugee camp lol, fts i'm out 😂 Comment deleted
That is a new one. They used to accuse me of being from Tumblr, while I don't consider myself as being part of either. Comment deleted
the ban came from a different branch of government entirely, wtf are you even on lol Comment deleted
so when the supreme court bans a site for not complying with a judicial order, that apparently means that whatever joe shmoe who runs the twitter account of the party holding the presidency (and neither majority in congress) must immediately unlearn how to use a vpn? Comment deleted
like, these arent even remotely the same people Comment deleted