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Ben Curran

@bencurran.dev
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He/Him, builds cool stuff in the cloud with devops. Lego Builder, Dad Joker. 3D Printer, Electronics Tinkerer. Views are my own. Might also find me on Mastodon @bencurrandev@hachyderm.io Tiks of Tok @bencurrandev No bio, no posts = blocked

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 17h
Do I seem frustrated? I am. Microsoft keeps prioritizing AI geegaws & garbage over real features. Those AI Cracker Jack features are all fast and furious with no eye toward quality anymore. I just want my toolset that worked last Wednesday to work this Wednesday. But we can’t rely on that anymore.
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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 05/10/2026
Science is real Black lives matter Love is Love No human is illegal Women's rights are human rights Protect Trans kids Consent is required If you disagree with any of these, fuck off
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You can tell if you're a brave hero man by what you do when your mates insult or sexually harass a random woman, server or school girl. If it's jack shit then you are not a brave hero man.
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Will Velida 🇺🇦 @willvelida.com · 28/09/2026
Peak Zuck
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Ben Curran @bencurran.dev · 25/09/2026
Is anyone else getting a stupid unresolvable loop trying to age verify their Steam account? I’ve had a Steam account for 22 years now and APPARENTLY that’s not enough data to work out I’m an adult.
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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 17/09/2026
Hey I make sick apparel for people who like nature but also want to look cool, especially NZ folks, but also other folks, and here is a bunch of it: pepperraccoon.com
a screenshot of pepper raccoon's apparel selection, including caps, bandanas, t-shirts, and hoodies
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Ben Curran @bencurran.dev · 18/09/2026
DID THOSE TWO TWITS JUST RUN IT TO THE OPPOSITION 50 AND THEN GIVE IT TO A SYDNEY PLAYER? UNFORCED??? Fuck me. #SYDFRE
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One Nation’s surge has seen the mainstreaming of neo-Nazi talking points. Their supporters, candidates, and members of parliament have publicly denied and minimised the Holocaust, promoted conspiracy theories, and repeated antisemitic slurs. The far right is no friend to the Jewish community.
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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“The youngest surviving chick from the berry-fuelled bacchanalia has reached 150 days old…this fuck season has officially brought 90 kākāpō into the world.” Brilliant from @haydendonnell.bsky.social as always 💚🦜 thespinoff.co.nz/science/08-0...?
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Update: This was the best kākāpō fuck season ever
The world may be burning but at least the world’s fattest parrot has been boning.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 06/09/2026
WIS and INT are not the same thing. no one promised artificial general wisdom, only intelligence ;)
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6
Only cunts call it "X".

anon_opin GOLD from 2nd February 2024
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
if you want some perspective for how quickly conversations around tech/ai have changed: it was only last year that the US — grappling with fears that China was racing ahead in a tech that they'd once dominated and worried could be used for influence — finally banned ... TikTok.
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Kerrie B @wheels002.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Can we have this here in Australia? Shoppers should be paid for their efforts in serving themselves #auspol
New York introduced bill requiring 10% discount on all items at self-checkout.
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Will Velida 🇺🇦 @willvelida.com · 02/08/2026
Model Routing in Microsoft Foundry is a handy feature for routing simple tasks to cheaper models. In this video, I discuss what Model Routing, how it's just another model deployment in Foundry, and how you can configure your agents to use it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ6T...
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Stop giving your AI agents the same model! How Model Routing works for Foundry Agents
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This took me several weeks to make because I went through several years worth of corporate/investor/earnings reports but... here it is! The actual, long-term reason Sony killed physical discs, and why they can't go back. youtu.be/_Znc7MVsSlg?...
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everyone is missing the point
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InfoSec @infosec.skyfleet.blue · 21/07/2026
Critical ServiceNow AI Platform Flaw Exploited for Unauthenticated Code Execution
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Critical ServiceNow AI Platform Flaw Exploited for Unauthenticated Code Execution
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Ben Curran @bencurran.dev · 07/07/2026
Was it worth it Donnie? Was it worth it? Turning out like everything else you’ve touched.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.
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Aaron Wislang 🇨🇦 @aaronw.dev · 25/06/2026
🪿 What matters is not the eggs It is the Goose itself True value = The power to keep laying eggs 🥚
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Marc Watson @marc-irl.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
1 repost = 1 blub
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Earthling @ziyatong.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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@nluewmist / I’m finally reading Dune. This quote which in the first few pages hit hard; “once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only let other men with machines to enslave them.”
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
After Dark 2.0: Flying Toasters
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Ben Curran @bencurran.dev · 26/04/2026
@puzzmo.com What the heck is Encyclopedia Brown?!? That made zero sense in Circuits. First time I’ve ever used Bolts for an ENTIRE WORD.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Found it!
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 13/04/2026
Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.
a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position
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Yohan Lasorsa @sinedied.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Drasi team used GitHub Copilot CLI as a synthetic user to automatically test their tutorials, and found 18 real doc bugs. Treating doc testing as a monitoring problem is such a smart move 🧠 opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04...
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Attn All Lovers Of Doggos, Pupperinos & Furbabies—We Are Collecting Your Pets To Send Them To Beautiful Israel Where Theyll Become Champions
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Dez Fenton @butisitart.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.
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Savannah Ostrowski @savannah.dev · 13/03/2026
me after cosplaying as an extrovert
A weathered, humanoid figure, resting on cream satin fabric.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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Ben Curran @bencurran.dev · 02/03/2026
So a new social media thing called Retro is a thing and was made by one of the former Instagram designers, and is meant to be anti-social media because your friends and family matter? retro.app/@bencurran
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Add me on Retro
Photos with friends.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/04/2025
The LLM actively reduces the available context for the information it provides, which is bad. But even worse, it *trains people to accept information without context*
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.
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The Handbasket
100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports
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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
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Legs @diddia.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology. Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"
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Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Brenda has been my friend and mentor for 15 years, and not a day goes by when I don’t think about SOME piece of advice or random aside or thing she said and probably forgot about that fundamentally changed the way I see the world. I’m confident this documentary is going to be a banger. Back it.
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Game On: A Feature Documentary about Brenda Romero
Help Theresa Loong finish her documentary about Brenda Romero: visionary designer and mentor, shaping the future of game creation!
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (1999). Criminally underrated game.
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Emily Lauer @emilylauer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
This May we are getting BOTH a new Murderbot book by @marthawells.com , AND a new Radch universe book by @annleckie.com ! It's time to get excited. www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2026/02/18/s...
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Space Opera series with installments coming up!
This Spring two of my favorite space opera series will be getting new books: the next book in the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, and the next book set in the universe of the Imperial Radch, by …
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol
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GitHub Next @githubnext.com · 13/02/2026
And we're particularly excited about using this to help open-source maintainers. When we showed this to @frenck.social, the maintainer of Home Assistant, he wrote a workflow that reads the traces for bugs and figures out if they originate in the HA codebase or not. True noise elimination for OSS.
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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 13/02/2026
You vibed an app, for an audience of one. Add it to Tiny Tool Town. But You know what Tiny Tool Town REALLY needed? *TIKTOK MODE* Why not mindlessly scroll awesome apps rather than videos? Maybe one will help you or someone else! go hit tinytooltown.com and tap "SHORTS" for Shorts/Reels Mode
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Tiny Tool Town 🏘️
A delightful showcase for free, fun & open source tiny tools. Stupid-delightful software made with love.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This is the most desperate thing I’ve ever seen a CEO do in response to a competitor announcing good news. The world’s richest and yet its most pathetic CEO.
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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 11/01/2026
Splashing into 2026, the Trash Panda Gang Sticker Club is BACK with a new theme and style...it's 🐳 Friends From The Sea 🐳!!!! This month's holographic friend? The Orca! If you missed out on the set last year, you can join from the start and get every sticker here: pepperraccoon.com/products/tra...
A digital artwork of a leaping Orca whale against a dreamy sunset background. The layout says January, Orca, and has the Pepper Raccoon logo.
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CharliCenter-CX @cambrianera.radical.town · 06/01/2026
This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.
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The Game Club @thegameclub.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Join now and you'll get: * A copy of next months game to play * Access to join a Game Club in your area * Resources to start your own Game Club * A community built like a neighborhood - where we really do get to know and care for each other
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Ben Curran @bencurran.dev · 03/01/2026
Feed break of a cat on her favourite Batman towel.
A black cat looking over her shoulder at the camera on her favourite Batman towel
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The fact that Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov thought families of wierdos would be running the galaxy looked outlandish 30 years ago. Not so much nowadays.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
we have not "apprehended" the president of venezuela. we have invaded a foreign country and kidnapped its leader. what the fuck are we doing here, i am going to lose my mind
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Ben Curran @bencurran.dev · 31/12/2025
They’re celebrating Play Schools 60th Anniversary on stage at the Sydney New Years? Damn right the crowd is getting into it and doing the Wiggly Woo. They’re drunk millennials, not monsters.
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