iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The moment of panic when you realize that decades of code is written based on an assumption of how a base library works, but that assumption isn't anywhere in the documentation. I guess the best I can do is add it to our regression tests to trip if their library update changes things

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N.S. Dolkart sans nap @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Still a few days left to get my first novel on Kindle for two bucks!

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For a week I've been wondering who benefits or not in a situation where someone buys resale tickets to a show at over face value, then decides to sell tickets less than they paid (maybe an artist gets sociopolitical issues and handles it poorly) and then the whole event gets cancelled for weather.

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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N.S. Dolkart sans nap @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Please share this one! I reviewed all 9 Massachusetts ballot questions, and gave explanations and a recommendation for each. It’s under 20 minutes long, less time than it takes to even read the voter information packet. #mapoli youtu.be/cJdvMnLpMpE?...

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Stoughton Politics With This Guy: Ballot Questions Review

YouTube video by Stoughton Media Access Corporation

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think I'm sort of in that "feeding shelter cats to coyotes" situation, but with ear buds. I'm just not sure what the predator is

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Even hotter take: the fact that ebikes let teens in the suburbs suddenly have freedom to move around the public realm unsupervised is precisely why many older people are trying to ban them (using safety as a pretext)

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm always wondering why people prefer slack/teams over email. Categorization is worse (no folders/tags) threading is worse. (more threads are by author, not subject) The immediacy breaks concentration. But this is one flaw in email that messaging fixes

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 29/09/2026

FOI docs: UK police's six-month live facial recognition trial in London railway stations scanned 500K+ faces, leading to no arrests and one false-positive alert (Daniel Boffey/The Guardian) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/09/2026

Recent Events have me once again considering: the cube

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Someone told me once going to a lawyers office and seeing a gold plated one of these on the shelf. When asked about it the lawyer said that he won the case for these devices to be imported at the lower "radio" tariff and not the higher "clock" tariff

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've long viewed it as: hardware engineers work towards miniaturization, software keeps expanding to fill available space and any optimization was done to fit within hardware constraints. The proliferation of data centers is a symptom of just adding hardware to the problem

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was a bit disappointed when I realized that the Critical Mass bicycle demonstrations were a worldwide phenomena and not a Boston area movement named with a pun

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Zetsubo @zetsubo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An engineering student, especially a civil engineering student, really *should* get a working knowledge of history and urban sociology. The things we design serve the public, we should be able to conceptualize their effects on it.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.

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Vic! Perfecto @victorperfecto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

...oh SHIT

Andy Richter and Conan O'Brien circa 1998

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There it is. That feeling of an 8pm caffinated coffee on an empty stomach

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Everyone screaming to "BUY EVs" and completely ignoring the fact that we need to redevelop our transportation infrastructure away from a singular form of mobility. This is the definition of unintentional car brain.

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 19/09/2026

When I first started using a bike for transportation I avoided all inclement weather. But over time, I started venturing into riding in the rain (& eventually snow/ice). I slowly figured out what gear keeps me warm & dry (as dry as possible) in what type of rain.

One of Laura’s children sits in a rain enclosure in the front of their bunch cargo truck that is being ridden in a two-way protected on street bikeway in the rain

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why do most people say "oh, your email got sent to my spam folder" in a tone that makes it sound like its my fault its there and that they never checked it for the document I already told them I sent

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

20 yr old me was just assuming Michelle and I would be together forever, so disappointed forever just finished. Impressed by the life we built. Disappointed that the career change he just made took him away from music, rather than keeping him in it

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I learned this week that the New York Times was founded 175 years ago. There is a useful set of pieces floating around on this for journalism history buffs. But what struck me is that means the Times was founded 25 years *after* the black press which will celebrate its 200th birthday in a few months

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this--THIS--is the truest recession indicator

Sticker on a cooler at a convenience store advertising Arizona iced tea cans at $1.50 each.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The key thing here is *certain* trips. You don't have to suddenly go car-free! But even replacing a handful of weekly car trips with a bike can lead to savings. Car dependency is a systemic problem, but at the same time, many people are in a position to make changes like this.

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Everyone in my life right now is say "we don't really need a sukkah this year. I guess I have to decide if *I* need one

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A year or so ago @claytonsmalley.bsky.social was handing out sets of these stickers and they wound up stuck on all sorts of object in and around the Orleans casino

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 15/09/2026

This is one of the funniest threads I’ve read in ages. At no point does OP break, and the landlords, well, www.reddit.com/r/Landlord/c...

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He had no choice.

car driving over a bike lane and sidewalk going around a garbage trucks

Garbage truck slows down important man forcing him to drive over the bike lane and onto sidewalk to get around - City looks to remove garbage service.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have one bike that I describe as "such a piece of junk that if it gets stolen at the train station I'll be more upset about walking home than the bike." but every time I say it I know its a lie

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ugh. I just stepped on a bag of potato chips I left on the floor by my desk. The potato chip dust I just created will still taste the same

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Towns around me are ending connections to Flock with similar statements *although these devices have been a helpful part of investigations, concerns from residents has required careful consideration...* The statements seem too similar and I wonder if Flock themselves is giving them talking points

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N.S. Dolkart sans nap @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Read this article. Not only is the science interesting, but grappling with the first section, about why the awards were held in Switzerland for the first time, is important.

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Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It has arrived. My girlfriend said, "Please never wear this."

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Mika Fae Queen of Night 🏳️‍⚧️ @msmaxwellmusic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

gentle reminder that unless you have physical archives of things, it will not be legible longterm. We are living in the Dark Age of Technology.

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Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If one Nazi comes on here and says "I'm a Nazi" and 100 responders say "Fuck Nazis" they'll ban those 100 people. If one trans person says "I'm trans" and 100 nazis say "Fuck Trans people" Bluesky will ban the trans person.

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"I wanted to change the wording, so I took the PDF you sent, imported into Microsoft Word, and then made a new PDF" (as opposed to the path I would have picked of sending me the text changes and updating them in inDesign)

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/09/2026

“I have never awarded a prize to a queer sex shop. That is a surprise.” -Martin Schultz, former head of the EU

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When I started shifting some of my travel to bicycling, the guidelines I picked were if the trip was 1. under 5 miles 2. Under 20 lbs of cargo 3. daylight 4. not inclement weather 5. no passengers, consider biking rather than driving. I started expanding that a bit

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Auuuulet 🍂👻 @aulet.es · 26/08/2026

"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I don't remember where I read it, but around the time of David Bowie's death someone said if your entertainment diet is based off of boomers keeping public attention longer than deserved, and you get upset about a celebrities passing, the next decade or so will be rough

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🎃🦇👻 Sam Miller 👻🦇🎃 @kaisermiller.family · 25/08/2026

I've heard people say "I could never be a defense attorney because I would have to defend bad/guilty people," but sadly I've never heard someone say "I could never be a prosecutor because I would have to prosecute good/innocent people."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026

Did you catch that the Trumpies want to permanently end appliance efficiency standards? They have saved US consumers billions of dollars over the years, but they are a mild inconvenience to the makers of less efficient appliances, so.

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DOE wants to ‘permanently end’ appliance efficiency requirements

A proposed rule would create an “obstacle course of restrictions” bogging down the Department of Energy’s appliance efficiency program, a consumer advocate said.

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Andrew Langmead @alangmead.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Ugh. Broke the key to my Abus u-lock by thinking it was the Abus battery lock on the bike and snapping the key into the lock

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 23/08/2026

The fact that apparently Rita Moreno walks around with a copy of the video of her appearance on the Muppet Show on her phone and still shows it to people is incredibly relatable because who among us wouldn’t if we had?

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wyethearth.bsky.social @wyethearth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It’s notable that alllll of the people who were so vocal about the “ills” of cancel culture are now noticeably silent after Jason Arday is dead from being hounded for weeks by white supremacists in the media. I guess cancel culture is only when cishet white men & women face accountability?

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