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Bartikus

@bartikus.bsky.social
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Programmer, YIMBY, dad. Connecticut.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 23h
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 20h
Shipping costs used to be a huge component of the cost of goods. Paying surly dockers to spend a week unloading and loading a cargo hold by hand was expensive. It often was not worth it to import goods even if they could be made cheaper elsewhere, because of freight costs.
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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Normally I don't care about gas, but USPS added an 80 cent fuel surcharge to all packages. In an average year I get about 2,000 online orders, so that's $1600 the president is making me spend on postage that I could have spent on other things.
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Do guns next
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
he would’ve won tho
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If they were Steam-managed, Tribes and Titanfall would rank very high. Clearly i love my movement shooters.
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My top 10: 1. ArmA 2 2. The Finals (350h) 3. ArmA 3 (seems bugged; I don’t recall ever playing MP or campaign) 4. Battletech 5. Baldur’s Gate 3 (112h, despite never finishing once?!) 6. Civ 5 7. Brink 8. Starbound (60h somehow?!) 9. Shadowrun: Hong Kong 10. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The fortress of their bigotry is immune to new facts and evidence, because their racism composes the first principles through which they interpret all other facts - racism is for the helmet crowd *more true* than the historical evidence, in that sense.
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Should’ve been silent hill titanFall. A real missed opportunity, and we’re all poorer for it.
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Prior art: youtu.be/TlhIk7iPU9o?...
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Magdalena Bay - Secrets (Your Fire) (Official Video)
YouTube video by Magdalena Bay
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
so a bunch of the traditional environmental groups held a call to strategize against the permitting bill -- notably in which they acknowledged its net emissions effects but still were dead set in opposition -- and someone on the call leaked the whole transcript punchbowl.news/wp-content/u...
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why do some cities have empty years?
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@fairweatherphd.bsky.social what the f is happening
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Did you ever see this? It was on the Orange Site a while back, from a marketer’s POV. www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/what...
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What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications | Jacques Corby-Tuech
I wrote recently about what Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Apple are doing to your email: how four providers stopped being transport layers and turned into active intermediaries between brands and thei...
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These games have no right to soundtracks this good. 😌 Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Ace Combat 8 Wings of Theve Soundtrack - YouTube
The complete soundtrack of Ace Combat 8 Wings Of Theve
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Listening to the Ace Combat 8 OST. 🎶 “Elder Hand” has me dangerously stoked. youtu.be/-xuOO7qRShY?...
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Elder Hand - Ace Combat 8 Wings of Theve Soundtrack
YouTube video by Zaptroxix
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ceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026
the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Seattle Public Library celebrates its youngest branch turning 20 today. The South Park library opened when the city had 240,000 fewer residents than it does today. blog.spl.org/2026/09/09/h...
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Happy 20th Birthday, South Park Branch!
Twenty years ago, on Sept. 9, 2006, South Park neighbors streamed into their new library branch at the corner of Eighth Ave. S., and South Cloverdale. As a mariachi band played, more than 100 peopl…
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“I am that guy.”
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looking forward to Ace Combat 8 and once more leading a merry band of pacifists who somehow joined the military in killing thousands of people in a war which is morally justified to learn war is bad.
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Honestly, same
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They looked like monsters to you?
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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🦇bat bisque🦇 @badbisque.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
donald duck saying "salsa"
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026
New Yorkers should know whether the apartment they’re looking at is real. That’s why we’re working to require apartment listings to clearly disclose when images and videos have been generated by AI. Finding a home in New York is hard enough without artificially generating more problems.
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Is That Fireplace Real or A.I.?
Listing sites are littered with homes with fake fireplaces, improved views and virtual landscaping, raising false advertising concerns.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026
New report: "when done right, new homes are a force multiplier: they lower housing, transportation, and energy costs; strengthen resilience and insurance markets; improve state and local fiscal health; protect open and working lands; increase grid reliability; and reduce emissions."
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Dense is walkable is affordable is beautiful. bsky.app/profile/resn...
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This means that if the average American spent an additional $1,000 per month in housing costs to live in a city where they could get around without a car, they'd still potentially be saving money.
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Dense
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Chaddeus Stevens 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌹 @inv1nciblesummer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
These guys have spent the past 20 years meticulously calibrating their P(doom) and seem to have failed to once consider the actual political economy of how to stop the thing they’re afraid of. They thought the would just carefully explain it and the rest of the world would update their priors
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s slightly worse than that. If Trump is the fascist ur-Daddy, then his final act is as the ur-Family Annihilator.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 10/01/2026
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vaporwave graphic reading

SHITPOSTING THROUGH THE APOCALYPSE
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Ben Vaught @benvaught.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It doesn’t make sense to me that a bill to build more homes “did nothing to improve affordability” but also investors are cutting rents because of all the new apartments tnledger.com/editorial/Ar...
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 11/09/2026
This is YIMBYism working as intended.
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Induced demand
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
They’re twins. I don’t see the big deal.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Imagine if you just gave mathematicians 22 million dollars
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And this is why we need comedians (his name is Clayton English)
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dax @thdxr.com · 07/09/2026
if you are a programmer and you'd like to start a company it is helpful to internalize two big weaknesses you have 1. your instincts for anything outside programming are terrible. everything you believe is likely 100% backwards 1/2
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Supreme Court blocked the student loan forgiveness despite there being explicit statutory authority for Biden to do it and allowed the Iran War despite an explicit Constitutional prohibition on anyone besides Congress declaring a war.
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The Evil Dr. Joanna and Her Two Giant Demon Dogs @jlphistory.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
All I want this term is to go a full week without someone with more job security and a better pay cheque to not tell me I'm a fucking idiot because I want to teach my students history. I know this isn't the best take but if you want me to teach them something in addition to that, pay me.
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Officespace: No. No, man.
ALT: Officespace: No. No, man.
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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 16/12/2025
Bandit telling Bluey, "I understand you don't want to get in the robot, Bluey but if you don't your sister will have to do it again"
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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Based on their assessed value, for $3.5 million, the City of Seattle can eminent domain Sand Point and Broadmoor Country Clubs, turn them public, and unlock the 160 acres next to this station to be 20,000 homes in a dense walkable neighborhood
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@mattyglesias.bsky.social tells us to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears. It is his final, most essential command.
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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Lol, what is the Republicans expand it first?
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