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Tom Kramer

@bastable.bsky.social
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Still trying to learn this tech stuff after all these years. I make drinks, play games, practice Bass guitar and try to be a decent hooman daily.

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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 17h
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 17h
Grats to you too Dad.
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Accidental CISO @accidentalciso.net · 15/10/2026
Some of the most unfortunate decisions people make are just fear dressed up as responsibility.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/10/2026
this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
@lookitup.baby this seems your lane...
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I hope they maintain sane behavior!
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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Somewhere a CCB cries on the corner
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is your answer, you know it! Butter knife profile for the win!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Now Mike McMahon...
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Same. Rather waste my own time than ever get labelled 'the late guy" that friends/people roll their eyes at
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That is a set. I have 6 of the 9 on vinyl, have Life's Rich Pageant as my sub, HAVE to get the talking heads, and Heavy Metal soundtrack is my dream formative. Spin em up Man
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On a side music note, I just got both of these and trying to understand if there is a thematic connection...
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes
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Ice Cube in Friday Movie
ALT: Ice Cube in Friday Movie
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Own em all, would buy em all again.
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Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This was my point on last week’s podcast. The one thing they CAN do is lower health care costs. But groceries? gas? Not so much.
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Truly a masterpiece
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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reminder : Teaching children to read early, and how to read for pleasure, is the "cheat code" for all other education.
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good luck to him - depends on where in VA but there are enough different areas (NoVa, Tidewater, Richmond, whatever the f is in the SW) that there is likely a place.
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Drive safe man, you're gonna have driven for soccer to every spot in this state soon. As for son, not bad time to be in VA. Sis and Mom still there.
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
youtube.com/shorts/Yj9EH...
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The Reply All Storm 🌪️ Mushie & Birdie | Office Animation Meme | Original Audio: earlioessen
YouTube video by Under Studio
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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A key point: you do need a theory of communication, alongside a theory of politics, to be an effective operator I think the centre and left struggle, generally, with "playing the game" - it's not enough to just have policy prescriptions you think will work
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@bamaslymm.blacksky.app checking on ya man...
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Inspired me to pull these out while staining some butcher block...thanks!
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Ted Nguyen @tednguyen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Jesse Minter is a mad man. How do you even think of this stuff?
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thanks for Hipcheck!
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you need tools like Jira, the odds are that you're not working with agility—where we adapt what we're working on to incorporate lessons learned as we work—at all. No shop that works with any agility has the level of bureaucracy that requires tools like Jira. 3/3
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've worked with no backlog at all—feedback from the current thing told me what to do next. Huge backlogs and the tools required to support them are phase-gated (waterfall) up-front planning. Jira manages that bureaucratic planning system. 2/3
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Tools like Jira are bureaucracy-management tools, not Agile tools. You don't need a backlog at all to get work done—a handful of index cards or stickies work just fine, and more than a couple of weeks' work in that pile is too much. 1/3
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
de Toqueville wasn't far off...
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Seattle fans:
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Matt's Survivor Smile and Shocked Reactions
ALT: Matt's Survivor Smile and Shocked Reactions
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 07/09/2026
The Athletic Live premieres on Tuesday, Sept. 8 and will kick off with three livestreams every week before ramping up to five weeknight shows in late October. The show will be co-hosted by @fourverts.bsky.social, Max Browne, Daniel Popper, Zach Harper and @kofie.bsky.social.
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If you didn't measure productivity before you started using AI, a current claim that AI improved your productivity has no legitimacy whatsoever. And even then, how did you measure productivity? That's very hard to do.
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
But what bourbon does Cravonne drink? Feels like...a Weller Full Proof name.
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Shots fired
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 04/09/2026
I have been a 1Password customer since 2006! My whole family is on it! I have moved multiple enterprises to it! Let me just tell you how stoked I am to move 20 years of shit because these people insist on being fascist assholes
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is so basic. It is not USPS' job to decide whether ballots are eligible or not. That's the job of the state election officials. USPS' job is simply to ensure that the ballots get from election officials to the voters and then from the voters back to election officials. That's it.
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Thank you for sharing your recipe
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Man, you are all over. Pueblo to.Ft Collins is not a short ride
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm with BBBD, gotta have my legs and feet free.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 27/08/2026
Some people have reduced their own value to what can be accomplished with a computer, and consider anything that can match their limited capabilities to be as human as they are.
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'm just waking up, my brain for some unknown reason read that as "Fraggle Rock", and I was wholly confused for a brief period. Then smiled, so thanks for the inadvertent smile!
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Early 80s Staff blades?
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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly was so respected even the Black Sabbath subreddit has a rest in peace thread. Go find Ozzy and Lemmy, Dolly. They got the good shit.
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Soylent Green Goblin @lexdirects.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
WWDD? What would Dolly do?
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Tom Kramer @bastable.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I have nothing more than empathy to add to this ... You are not alone
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