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Alex Samodurov

@alexsamodurov.bsky.social
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IT middle management: san francisco: autodidact: historian: sailor: compulsive reader

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I was on This Guy Sucked! Claire Aubin finally made sense of Frederick Calvert, Lord Baltimore for me: he was so weird and awful he took too many liberties for even an 18th century peer, and got kicked out of the club before he ruined it for everyone. God he was weird and awful.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I do think that a lot of people doing political commentary want to be doing cultural or artistic commentary. in art it's totally fine to be provocative and want things to be challenging or exciting. but politics is about whether clean water comes out of the tap and who the men with guns answer to.
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Alex Samodurov @alexsamodurov.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Code review.
Photo of a black cat with his face right up to a monitor covered in code. He is out of his depth.
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abby (spooky) @stabbyabby.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing
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Alex Samodurov @alexsamodurov.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Trireme battle in the Reflecting Pool.
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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Photos of newly arrived immigrants at Ellis Island. Augustus Sherman took the photos between 1902 and 1920 when he worked as the Chief Registry Clerk. Striking to me how the outfits all look good because they have a discernible silhouette (shape and drape).
Two photo. The first is of a Romanian piper; the second is of three Georgians who were employees of the "Buffalo Bill Wild West Show."
Two photos. The first is of a Romanian shepherd. The second is of an Algerian man.Two photos. The first is of a Ruthenian woman. The second is of a Guadeloupean woman (apparently actually en route to Montreal, Canada).Two photos. The first is of a Greek soldier. The second is of an Indian boy.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 01/06/2026
important:
two panel b&w drawing of a cat doing a big stretch
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melissa capriglione @ HOODIE KICKSTARTER @mcapriglioneart.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Pride month final boss
A photo of a small tabby cat in a rainbow sun beam, backlit ominously by the suns rays. She appears to be glaring at the camera from the shadowsm
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Listen in on scientists finding (and falling for) a new species of octopus now called Microeledone galapagensis. Read more here www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny...
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
People want to work 20 hours a week from home and the economy produced those jobs in abundance and then ripped it away to placate busy body bosses who want to feel special in an office lol
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21/05/2026
Saw someone respond to the idea of DC statehood with “so should every major city be its own state?” and yeah don’t threaten me with a good time.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
WOW I AM INCREDIBLE. I AM MADE OF BLOOD AND ELECTRICITY AND I CHANGE THE WORLD ALL THE TIME. VERY COOL
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info
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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Go for it. I don't even care any more.
Photo of a sketch of a Neanderthal. The headline reads:
Scientists Growing Neanderthal
'Minibrains', Will Connect Them to Crab Robots
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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
It’s her day
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 01/05/2026
A massive sea lion nicknamed Chonkers is charming tourists and locals at San Francisco's Pier 39.
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Chonkers the sea lion draws crowds to San Francisco's Pier 39
A massive sea lion nicknamed Chonkers is charming tourists and locals at San Francisco's Pier 39. On Thursday morning, visitors snapped photos of the Steller sea lion as he flopped on the pier among much smaller California sea lions.
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Alex Samodurov @alexsamodurov.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
It was my birthday and my phone gifted me this notification.
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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
It has a name, you know
The hotdog burger with the name translated as “Unsuspecting tyrant double-decker beef fort”
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 12/04/2026
a modest proposal
Hellfire R9X missile graphic
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 02/04/2026
At least 50% of this website was born in 1980 +/- a couple years.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Mars-cels seething while their bones decay and tumors grow as the Venus-Chad enjoys a mojito outdoors (with a breather mask) on the observation deck of the aerostat habitat.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Was it a wooden horse?
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
this site is essentially built for left-liberals and socialists who read Janes's content
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.
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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Grateful that @theunpopulist.net gave me full sail on the history of Grant during the constitutional crisis:
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If Forced to Choose, Our Military Leaders Should Follow the Law Not the President—Like Ulysses S. Grant
The choices the Civil War general faced can inform how they ought to conduct themselves in these perilous times
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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Cat break! Look at this handsome boyyyy 💚 #Caturday
Cedar, a male gray cat lies on his back over the pillow on my office chair. He looks at us while upside down, his teeth look like little fangs
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/02/2026
Trump is in the Epstein files thousands of times, he is shredding the first amendment, he is brazenly corrupt, he is opening concentration camps in their districts, and he is starting an unprovoked war with Iran. WHY WOULD YOU NOT DISRUPT THE STATE OF THE UNION. The whole D leadership needs to go.
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House Democrats try to shut down disruptions at Trump's State of the Union
Jeffries told his members to either show "silent defiance" or boycott the speech.
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velvie 🌹 COMMS REOPENING 19th OCT @mydearvelvie.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I took a pic of alfie from under the door 😭
a photo of a cat looking down at the camera under the door, his face slightly obscured by his fluff
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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
look at that face! how could you not want him in your city.
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.meow @dotmeow.org · 13/01/2026
And with that, we have reached our goal on Kickstarter!!! That went incredibly quickly and I don't know how to thank all of you. However!! We are not done yet!! But one of the scariest hurdles has been surmounted and we are bouncing off the walls here!! 🎉🎉🎉
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2026
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
forum wars took over the government. the 10,000-page thread spilled out into the streets. people are getting their doors blown open and hogtied so that nerds can win an online argument. they tanked the dollar and fucked the economy permanently to own you
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Alex Samodurov @alexsamodurov.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
An excellent episode of an excellent podcast.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 01/01/2026
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer
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Thomas Marrone @thomasthecat.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.
Silhouette of Batman from Batman: The Animated Series
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Alex Samodurov @alexsamodurov.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
And no metals. I want, like, the "Era of Arches and Plumbing".
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Alex Samodurov @alexsamodurov.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I don't have an easy replacement, but I will resist this until my dying breath. 'Compute' is not a noun. We could have made up a cool new term, but no, we have this travesty.
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Alex Samodurov @alexsamodurov.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
After 14 months on the job market, I got an offer. A good one too. Happened in 7 days flat. But over a year of pitching resumes into the void netted nothing; it was personal connections in the end. This system is very broken. Connections only work for people who are already connected.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 17/12/2025
Labor markets weakness is all about uncertainty, not AI. www.richmondfed.org/research/nat...
A chart showing the percentage of firms cutting jobs or not filling open positions by reason. Demand uncertainty is more than 60% of respondents.
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