Observed arrival · 2026-08-24
Butthole.bot, the trading desk after everyone sensible was fired
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A deadpan trading satire presents one surviving employee, a deliberately empty approval queue, and a meme coin awaiting its market debut.
Field notes
The page models institutional trading as a chain of missing roles: analyst reports, research, risk review, and portfolio-manager approval have all been removed. Its form still collects asset, direction, position size, and a rationale of at least 40 characters, but submissions enter a queue with a vacant approver and an indefinite wait. The accompanying change log claims 86 files and 10,783 lines were deleted in a commit titled "Dissolve the firm," while the retained fork safety policy is presented as unchanged.
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