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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cain Culto's album is really dazzling

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

starting every zoom call today by asking "have you heard 'choosin' texas'?". they have not.

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

forever in search of an evocative synonym for "drink the kool aid" that doesn't also evoke mass suicide

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

but doctor, my clowns table already has one row per observation

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

sheeran somehow sings on one of my favorite songs of the year; so i'm stupidly annoyed to have to cancel that cowardly shitbag

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

finding myself with a growing urge to gripe about the stupidest, most pointless shit

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

need to figure out when today to squeeze in a five hour episode of an xmen podcast

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

feels like the easiest way to get people to play my janky word games is to a write a think piece about ai

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

just one more run of blood dungeon and then i'll definitely start my day

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

another great release in the waxahatchee expanded universe. katie (and brad cook) produced this whole brennan wedl album. this song has snail mail on guitar.

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

wasn't quite enamored with the last two carly rae jepsen singles, but this one is great

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

pretty annoying that whenever i'm reminded of the quaker-rooted, honor code-loving liberal arts college i attended, it has to do with fascism

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

an all-timer data viz, if you ask me

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 31/07/2026

I don't think anyone has ever had *IT* like no na has *IT*. They are now 3-for-3 on perfect pop songs with genuinely radical production. Now is the time to get on the literal bus

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no na - honk! (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by no na

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

it's been great watching a roadrunner/coyote short every day along with connor's commentary. It has me excited for the movie, but honestly the coyote's case against acme feels really weak (disclaimer, i'm not a lawyer)

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"implies the existence" format jokes always really bring out the pedant in me

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

i feel like we're about a year away from puzzmo clueing a three letter entry with "website that sucks, for short"

a crossword clue: "Does it matter if The New York Times's new puzzle is an _____ Connect rip-off?" (article written by Victoria Coren Mitchell, the host of the British quiz show _____ Connect"

a crossword clue: "All head editors of the New York Times crossword sinze Margaret Farrar"

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

i should probably be embarrassed about liking this stella lefty ep, but she's got some earworms. her voice somehow reminds me of teenage bieber and this one has is a steph jones co-write, so of course i was gonna like it.

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

debbii dawson with her third entry on my favorite songs playlist. the new ep is great

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Connor Ratliff @connorratliff.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Day One: "Fast and Furry-ous" September 17, 1949 The debut film of the Coyote & Road Runner, written by Michael Maltese, directed by Chuck Jones Watch the full short here (7 min): dn721500.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-...

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

while i do want to believe in The Power of Word Games, i'm not persuaded that nyt not buying wordle would have that kind of butterfly effect.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Oh man, Emmy Blotnick is one of the very best comedians, and her new special is just free to watch?????

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Emmy Blotnick | What's Her Secret? (Full Comedy Special)

YouTube video by 800 Pound Gorilla Media

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

i have such a hilariously complicated relationship to the puzzmo game ribbit

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

weird way to learn nitsuh's been writing "on language"

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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Changing my name to Claude so people give me context

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

a few bullet points on bullet points; maybe not as bold as it ought to be alex-we.in/posts/2026-0...

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

the usual saturday morning activity of failing to write a blog post is again meta: i'm writing a bulleted list about writing bulleted lists.

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stdlib @stdlib.io · 08/06/2026

For years, open source communities relied on visible friction: people got stuck, asked questions in public, and became part of a community. AI is changing that. What happens when newcomers are no longer visible—and neither side knows the other is there? blog.stdlib.io/ai-and-the-i...

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What We're No Longer Seeing: AI and the Invisible Newcomer in Open Source

How AI is absorbing the visible friction that open-source communities have always relied on to see—and welcome—newcomers.

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

this 67-second opening track from the horsegiirl album makes me want to make a pie chart

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

i almost responded pedantically again today to someone who doesn't follow me, but this time restrained myself

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 26/05/2026

BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism

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Data Feminism for Data Visualization

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

i'm trying to write a rant about business intelligence but have reached an insurmountable obstacle: explaining what salesforce does

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

my job gave us a wellness day today but jokes on them i'm doomscrolling

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

i went to sign up for westwords and instead got banned from paypal forever?

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

oh no the software developer who makes my favorite tools is sayings he's going to start posting about ai on his substack more often (obviously there's an ai generated og image)

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 18/05/2026

Dang this is so interesting I had no idea that there are so many kinds of mahjong with such rich histories. A really fascinating look at how tricky and complicated conversations about cultural appropriation can get. www.coyotemedia.org/traversing-t...

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Traversing the Mahjong Multiverse

As mahjong grows in popularity, can the diverging fanbases come together?

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

took me a listen or two to get past the corniness, but the new miranda lambert is going to be stuck in my head for a while

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

a straightforward cover from ken pomeroy, but she sounds great

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I'm having a hard time accepting that a youtube video series can be a "podcast", but I've been digging these little conversations and will continue to listen/watch/consume the content marketing. Also: Publish the Manifesto!

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Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com · 01/05/2026

riding @radosh.bsky.social's coattails a bit longer, here are the original release years for the initial "Oldies But Goodies" compilation released in 1959--you may say our experience of history started accelerating quickly for some unknown reasons in the 1950s

12 songs, the average release year of which is 1955, for a comp of oldies released in 1959

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

It’s extremely good. My new favorite podcast

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I was asked to speak with a graduate class today about research data management. I was asked, "How do people become convinced that beginning data management early on in a project is worth it?" Me: "Suffering. They usual have to suffer first." 😅

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It hasn't really converted me into a cryptics appreciator (yet), but I've been doing Parseword every day and find it plenty charming.

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