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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 26/10/2025

Has anyone ever combined something like Wikipedia with something like McMaster-Carr? A community-edited catalog and taxonomy of materials and parts?

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 17/10/2025

For my bsky peeps: Catalyst had her first sea trial today! Went swimmingly. (Which is to say, nobody had to swim).

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent. Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income. We can’t afford to NOT do it.

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 03/10/2025

🚄 new train map from planemad alert: api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/pl...

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Rail World

A map made by planemad

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 03/10/2025

It's that time again: ✨we’re hiring✨ We're looking for a @godotengine.org IDE Engineer to help us build the next generation of collaboration tools inside the engine itself! More detail here: inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-ide-engineer (Remote role 🌍🌎🌏)

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Godot IDE Engineer

Help build native, visual version control for collaborative game development in Godot

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 30/09/2025

Not certain about the photo but I endorse the text :)

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 26/09/2025

If anyone wants to see some random in-progress photos of the boat photos.app.goo.gl/7csRvGWWy7CW...

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9/25/25 catalyst · Thursday, Sep 25 📸

Shared album · Tap to view!

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 22/09/2025

been a blast so far working on this with @inkandswitch.com, @toposinstitute.bsky.social + others

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 22/09/2025

Stockholm’s ferries and archipelago *swoon*

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Denis Trailin @denis.trailin.ca · 03/09/2025

I have a friend who was a designer at an engineering firm who got laid off during covid. He took the time to get really good at backcountry skiing thanks to CERB and rejoined the labour force when the jobs came back.

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 03/09/2025

People on CERB were underemployed and happy and productive (just not economically). COVID was a weird time but that part was great.

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 03/09/2025

Interesting. I have positive feelings about UBI because of observing the CERB program in Canada during COVID, which (anecdotally, for many people I know) kept huge numbers of service industry and arts workers who were suddenly without work able to still pay rent and buy food.

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 26/08/2025

I started with Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City which I think is as good a place as any. His books all broadly take place in the same world and hit many of the same tropes but I haven’t found reading order to matter that much. Alternatively you could start with Devices and Desires.

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 25/08/2025

I have a vivid memory of watching TV coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake as a child, and they were interviewing someone who had been a collector of pottery. “I’m going to start collecting again,” she said. “But this time, maybe baskets.”

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 24/08/2025

my US map is pure red these days

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 23/08/2025

how long until you buy a spacemouse though

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 23/08/2025

Have you read any KJ Parker?

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 30/07/2025

The civilized way to get to remote forests is on a boat. Barefoot.

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 29/07/2025

Techbros couldn’t have invented GPS because to have it work at all requires the use of distant black holes; basic research that gov’t needs to fund over decades that tech never will. They don’t realize yet that they’ve turned off the faucet of the tech hose by defunding science.

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 30/07/2025

I’m enough to remember when Twitter’s API was the standard demo for all kinds of new tech. (then they killed it to protect ad revenue).

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 13/07/2025

I’ve just had a fantastic electronics designer drop off my electric boat projects for personal reasons, and another EE/robotics hire who had to withdraw before starting. Would really love to get some more help in that area! Let me know of any leads.

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 05/07/2025

happy to chat. If you want to reach out by email, I'm avi@avibryant.com.

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 28/06/2025

Thanks @mcfunley.com. I guess I should post this here!

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 04/05/2025

the cat is weeks from being in the water but months from “production”

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Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com · 10/03/2025

Here it is — very happy to officially release the book that @marianoguerra.org and I have been working on for the past 2½ years. If you bought it in early access, thanks for your support! 🙏 If you haven't bought it yet, please check it out!!

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 21/02/2025

My assumption, but only assumption is: it’s now impossible to sell to the US because the tariffs (as designed) make it more expensive than US domestic supply. Leading to a glut in Canada without enough demand.

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 21/02/2025

I’m on the board of the island’s recycling org. We ship scrap metal off island. We used to get $175/ton for it. Post US tariffs on metal, we now get… $25/ton.

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 05/02/2025

“Ahead” and “behind”

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 03/01/2025

Interesting! I have the X1 with AMS and multi-filament is soooo slow and wasteful that I never use it.

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 02/01/2025

I would totally buy this.

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 31/12/2024

Sure, so the movie version about the Stripe lads will star Mo Chara as John, right?

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 30/12/2024

Some buddhists believe you will be reincarnated forever until you finally understand them. This is like a monad: see, each individual life is like a container of an immortal soul that gets conditionally passed along, with some transformation during its lifetime…

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 30/12/2024

I did my own research on this and I’ve come to the conclusion that you’re a big meany.

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pvh @pvh.ca · 30/12/2024

Local-first hack weekend coming up in YVR! I'll do an intro to local-first dev, show off some unreleased Ink & Switch work, and maybe release a new version of the React hooks for Automerge that work better with React 19. Come hang out and make stuff! lu.ma/2ul5uwdl

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DWeb Local First Weekend · Luma

Welcome the first DWeb Local First weekend, a weekend of shared learning and coding! Local first software What if we could build collaborative applications…

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 28/12/2024

You should watch Metropolitan. It’s very well reviewed.

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 28/12/2024

Continuing a tradition I started last year, I posted an annual update about what I’ve been working on at avibryant.com.

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The latest on Avi Bryant

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 26/11/2024

Allowing gay marriage = forcing everyone to be gay Therefore: Allowing dense housing = forcibly evicting anyone in a detached house

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 21/11/2024

I can never remember, is a ham and cheese sandwich supposed to be one slice of ham between two slices of cheese, or one slice of cheese between two slices of ham?

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