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Friday. 3:14pm. #release.

I post:

I think we should merge the retry change today but leave rollout at 0% until Monday. Keeps the branch current without risking a Saturday incident.

Good sentence. balanced. humane.

I read it twice after sending. correct order.

👀 appears underneath.

On-call guy.

Eyes is not agreement. Could mean reading. Could mean concern. Could mean screenshotting for later.

No thumbs. Give me thumbs.

Nemesis replies thirty seconds later.

+1. Merge now, enable Monday. Code movement and traffic movement don't have to be simultaneous.

okay. my proposal almost exactly with different words.

👍 from engineering manager.

👍 frontend.

👍 on-call.

On-call has eyes on mine and thumbs on his.

Judas.

Maybe Judas is too much. Or maybe it's not too much enough.

Still. I've taken two of Judas's shifts. One with three hours notice. I did not ask questions because "trust."

apparently should have asked one question - "do i have your loyalty?"

Nemesis gets a fourth thumb. Product adds ✅.

A checkmark. Almost governance. Good god, what is happening.

Product did not react to mine. Product once put a checkmark on "technically legal, though frowned upon."

Cannot be trusted with alliances...

I hover Nemesis's thumbs.

Manager. frontend. on-call. mobile.

Mobile.

I wrote "raises the bar" in their promotion packet.

Raises the bar for being a jerk maybe!

Design has reacted nowhere. Neutral. Or offline. Hard to build a coalition without Design.

I start typing.

Yes, that's the distinction I'm making.

too hurt.

Delete.

Exactly.

No. That is his word. He says exactly after other people's points.

Delete.

Nemesis adds 👍 to my original message.

My first thumb.

Nemesis?

Could be agreement. Probably pity. I don't want pity!

On-call removes 👀 and adds 👍.

Judas is back.

No. Judas saw Nemesis react first. This isn't loyalty. OBVIOUSLY, bending to the wind!

Two more thumbs arrive. Manager and frontend.

My message now has four.

Same as his.

No timestamps on reactions. Ten minutes from now this looks like broad immediate support.

It was not immediate. I was here. I saw the timeline unfold. I saw the sheep waver. So much gall.

Nemesis posts:

Great, I'll merge it and leave the flag disabled.

I need to react. Not reacting is now a reaction.

I add ✅.

Execution acknowledgment. Nothing political.

Judas adds 🚀.

A rocket.

We are specifically leaving rollout at zero until Monday.

I stare at it.

Judas may not be disloyal.

Judas may not know what is going on.