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Andrew Hearst @andrewhearst.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Less hair on head, more hair on face

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Andrew Hearst @andrewhearst.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Breaking Away (1979) Tron (1982) Blood Simple (1984) This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

What is fascism but a opportunistic infection of every parasitic instinct that should have been purged from society?

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

“He installed Matt Fraser, former Deputy Commissioner of the NYPD’s Info Tech Bureau, as the chief officer of the rechristened Office of Technology and Innovation, or OTI. And he put the office in charge of delivering a legacy project: a “one-stop” online portal for public services called MyCity.”

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

 You might know us from the guides we have put together, like the de-risking guide and the UX guide. Governments all around the world have used them to make services more accessible and add more value to the public — all while saving millions of dollars. You can still find them here: 18f.org/guides/

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18F Guides

A central resource for all 18F guides and methods

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Confirming what others have discussed or reported, 18F, the elite tech consultancy within TTS/GSA, was formally disbanded overnight. There’s a formal RIF, the legal system in which the government downsizes/layoff people. I’m told it’s 60 days on leave for all involved.

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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Alternative possible new taglines for The Washington Post: "Sure, I can write that for you" "Let's delve into this"

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/01/2025

Here's a quick piece I wrote up on how to understand DOGE as a very blatant attempt at procurement capture, a simple way of making government spending corrupt to benefit the tycoons. Please do pass it along & share any feedback! www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/D... (Thx for the nudge to write it!)

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Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Andrew Hearst @andrewhearst.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

C is for cookie. That’s good enough for me.

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Andrew Hearst @andrewhearst.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

My arrangement of the piano-and-whistling intro to Billy Joel’s “The Stranger.” It was the first album I obsessed over as a child; my sisters and I would fight over who got to hold the lyric sheet.

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Billy Joel's "The Stranger" Intro - Solo Guitar on Josh Williams Mockingbird With UAFX Enigmatic

YouTube video by Andrew Hearst

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Whatever I have to say about how cars ruin cities, @helenczerski.bsky.social has said more elegantly on Mastodon.

$Toot from Helen Czerski: The evidence that cars don’t work as primary mass transport in cities is everywhere: traffic jams, air pollution, accident rates, the shocking fraction of city space taken up by parking spaces, safety barriers/bollards etc. This 100 year experiment should be declared over, and we should put proper effort into the systems that HAVE been shown to work and scale: walking, cycling, e-cargo bikes, cheap/accessible/reliable public transport. This “argument” about LTNs is just lazy delay. #LTN #cities$

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2024

This is your reminder that thesaurus dot com is (almost certainly) using AI to generate thesaurus entries, and you should, if you can, use Merriam Webster to avoid accidentally destroying the planet via the fuckery machine.

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

A little disappointed we haven't been using the term "Generative Large Language Models" more often, since it leads to the satisfying acronym of GLLM—which we'd naturally pronounce as "Golem." (And yeah yeah... Tolkien's "Gollum" isn't far off the mark either.)

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Golem - Wikipedia

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Andrew Hearst @andrewhearst.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

I think we can agree that this is not a good content experience

Photo shows a Brooklyn construction sign with informational text that is blocked by a pole in front of it

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kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

anyone want ai to have your medical records and be your doctor

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Lilith, but scarier @nicepersonality.social · 09/11/2023

Someone once described the Facebook reactions, in order, as “the stages of learning about Morrissey” and that’s really stuck with me

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

“A list of words first recorded in English between 1918 and 1923 reads like a Jazz Age divination of the century to come, a catalogue of the origin of our lives:”

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

There is no worse music than 80s radio. Aesthetic is fucking poison. Literally everything. Prince, Madonna, Don Henley, Wang Chung, even "rock." A bestiary of shit sound: Linn Drum Squenced bass DI Superstrat (sub Rockman or JC120) Roland Juno String synth Gated reverb Emulator stabs I choose Ugu.

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

People getting hot about me disliking Prince, Sorry, I hope you find peace. I appreciate that it is a minority opinion. I also despise the Rolling stones if that helps. The greater point is that the same sounds were used everywhere, imposed on everyone at the studio, and they scarred all that music.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

The Triumph of Weaponized Nostalgia Past eras of stable white Christian patriarchal dominance are widely sanitized and mythologized in our political discourse. My new piece: thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-triump...

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The Triumph of Weaponized Nostalgia

Past eras of stable white Christian patriarchal dominance are widely sanitized and mythologized in our political discourse

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 16/08/2023

Another hall-of-fame letter to the editor from the Park Slope Food Coop newsletter ("Linewaiters' Gazette")

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 05/08/2023

I’ve spent much of the last year examining car bloat, the process through which smaller vehicles are being replaced by increasingly massive SUVs and trucks. What I’ve learned: Huge cars are terrible for society, often in ways that are hidden. THREAD

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

We had a good ten years where a bunch of nobodies like us could report on power centers and structural inequality and abuses of power and citizens from government, employers and their surrogates. The end of Twitter as that vehicle really was the end of that, which was obviously the point.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

ME: hey mr. tambourine man, play a song for me MAN: *tambourine noise* ME: great

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Andrew Hearst @andrewhearst.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

This Google autosummary kind of loses the plot

Screenshot of Google autosummary: Why does Billy Ocean have 3 lungs? Musician Billy Ocean has three lungs. The third lung is an extra pulmonary node central to his medically normal lungs. Modern-day root beer contains wintergreen and vanilla, as well as trace amounts of ginger, licorice, anise, juniper berries, and dandelion.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

There are just so many fucked up parts to this story: The abortion happened before Roe v Wade was overturned. A young man was involved but only got probation while the mom and daughter face jail. Facebook gave the cops their private messages. A friend turned them in. This is all just so so fucked up

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

kept asking if anybody could draw me an MC Escher picture, but all I got were endless blank stairs

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Andrew Hearst @andrewhearst.bsky.social · 13/05/2023

Let us praise the standpipes of New York, for they are the perfect height for tying one’s shoes.

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Andrew Hearst @andrewhearst.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

Reconnecting with my Twitter mutuals

Photo from the 1979 film Breaking Away, of the Cutters cycling team celebrating with trophies

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Jim Prosser @jimprosser.bsky.social · 01/07/2023

TIRED: Killing your service’s third-party apps WIRED: Killing your service’s first-party apps

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Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 26/06/2023

I slammed my brakes and did a skidding U-turn across 6 lanes of traffic to go back and get this shot.

A huge Krispy Kreme neon sign with the letter H in DOUGHNUTS blown out.

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Andrew Hearst @andrewhearst.bsky.social · 24/06/2023

Here’s a gem from 1980: The first 10 minutes of the first episode of David Letterman’s short-lived morning talk show on NBC. It was soon revamped for late night (and Late Night), where it made much more sense. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4dVVoJvCTs

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Dave's Morning Show Debut In 1980 | Letterman

"The David Letterman Show" debuted on June 23, 1980.#letterman #morningshow #debut Subscribe to Letterman: https://bit.ly/3GeOIAgFollow Letterman on Social: ...

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Andrew Hearst @andrewhearst.bsky.social · 22/06/2023

I made a typo and realized I inadvertently came up with an excellent name for a Thai restaurant or hospitality organization: Enthusiam

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