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Blenster 🅅

@blenster.com
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I used break things and write detailed reports but now I'm management. Rapid Prototyper. Maker. Apprentice Knifemaker. Sometimes I try to help explain social situations to dudes. Trans rights are human rights and Black lives matter. I love you.

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 3h
😸😽🎃🤍..
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 8h
We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs
Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22h
Shoutout to the 🐐GOAT🐐, respect greatness www.macfound.org/videos/2026-...
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Ellora Derenoncourt - 2026 MacArthur Fellow
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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 23h
I've done this and this thread is correct: (It's still the bare minimum that can be done.)
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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 29/09/2026
Apropos of nothing, a song with a factual statement: (Best played LOUD)
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Dead Men Don't Rape
YouTube video by Delilah Bon - Topic
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026
Slab Graveyard xkcd.com/3303/
4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: Any plans for Halloween? PERSON 2 with beret: Me and my friends are gonna check out a slab graveyard! (2) PERSON 1: What’s that? PERSON 2: When dense crust subducts, geologists think it might pile up at the bottom of the mantle. [illustration of Person 2’s related theory] (3) PERSON 2: We’re going to hide in the crust and ride it down to see. Wanna come? It’s gonna be spooky! (4) PERSON 1: Won’t that take millions of years? PERSON 2: Lots of time for ghost stories! PERSON 1: I think I’m good. PERSON 2: Too spooky? I understand.
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/09/2026
It continues to be interesting to me just how many men, when presented with a clear and obvious answer to a test of morality and empathy, will nevertheless choose to "devil's advocate" themselves into a position of complete assholery
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Mei, lvl. 38 Warlock of the Expensive Paper @meithemouse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meanwhile, the Cat Dispersal Process continues unabated.
Four panels showing the arduous process of adopting a dog, such as going to a shelter, finding one that looks at you, filling out paperwork, and bringing the dog home. 

This is followed by two panels where she is living comfortably before a cat unexpectedly crashes into her life, specifically through the ceiling, which is only slightly an exaggeration most of the time.
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Bianca 'BiaSciLab' Lewis @biascilab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My SEC-T talk "Veilid: The Private Internet we were all Promised" is up on YouTube! Please take a chance to watch and support it because this message about the future of privacy needs to be amplified 🌎💫 #cybersecurity #hacker #conference #womenintech @sec-t.bsky.social youtu.be/8ung6ooAL7w?...
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I identify primarily as a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of.
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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 28/09/2026
Just got the time and date for my team's next ISO 9001 audit and honestly really looking forward to it! In 2 years I've taken my team from "bottleneck" to "Strength of the Company" on the last audit so I am excited to show off our progress again.
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amos @fasterthanli.me · 27/09/2026
"grok" was such a good word. why'd he have to take it from us
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
One of the things that annoys me the most about being an adult is the lack of intellectual curiosity from other adults.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A lot of things are shit right now, but recently a friend lost his guitar on the subway and a music producer found it, posted on Insta, and with the help of the internet tracked him down and RETURNED IT! Sometimes, the world is still a lovely place and people are still kind. 🥰🎸
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 26/09/2026
Train your security staff, not the model
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026
Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation
Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is
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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 26/09/2026
Oh I've had this happen a few times:
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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 25/09/2026
Honestly had the same "ick" when this popped up and began wondering about the finances behind switching to Apple or something else.
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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 25/09/2026
This:
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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 25/09/2026
Same. I would not disqualify someone for bringing in an iced coffee and I also offer water for folks. I'm looking for other qualities in a potential hire than their drink of choice.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/09/2026
Voyager Instruments xkcd.com/3302/
 3-panel comic. (1) [Person with shoulder-length hair gestures at diagrams on wall in front of table with three people.] PERSON 1: As the radioactive power source on *Voyager 1* weakens, we’ve been turning instruments off to conserve power. (2) PERSON 1: Only two instruments remain. Do we want to lose the plasma wave subsystem or the magnetometer? (3) PERSON 2 with ponytail: You know, if we just turned off Greg’s LED underlighting– PERSON 4 with short hair: Absolutely not. PERSON 3: Dammit, Greg. PERSON 4: I will *not* allow us to look uncool in front of aliens.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/09/2026
Please help Sanctuary Supply Depot help our neighbors! They do such important work on a tight budget, and they are in need of funds to meet demand right now. linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...
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Mutual aid group in Mpls getting basic necessities to our houseless neighbors
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/09/2026
If you’ve been considering getting or reupping an IUD or other long-term contraception for yourself or your daughters, don’t wait. Now is the time
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/09/2026
Saw a woman on TikTok who said she quit corporate at age 46 to become a beekeeper because “I would literally rather get stung by 10,000 bees than write ‘per my last email’ again” and you know what? I respect that
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Computer crimes are already illegal. I do not think “we knowingly deployed software we can’t control” is a legitimate defense against break those laws.
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
if y’all don’t know what a bald eagle *really* sounds like, consider this your sign to go find out
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 23/09/2026
I'm going to need everyone to wear a crop top to my funeral:
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23/09/2026
admitting you were wrong about something costs you absolutely nothing and i wish more people understood that. i train people for a living, i get things wrong live and in real time in front of people to whom it matters a lot for their jobs, acknowledgement is always better than denial.
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Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy #BiVisibilityDay!
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Bisexual Pride Heart Animation
Alt: Bisexual Pride Heart Animation
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The Official Pulpit of CULT OF THE DEAD COW @cultdeadcow.com · 23/09/2026
futurism.com/artificial-i... @doctorow.pluralistic.net knows what time it is.
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Is There a Secret Reason for the Industry-Wide AI Slowdown?
Is it really just a matter of ensuring the safety of their AI models that's motivating tech leaders to call for pumping the brakes?
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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 23/09/2026
Well I was on Debian and I've been eyeballing Arch...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/09/2026
Glamour Of Lamborghini Negated By Indiana Plates
Glamour Of Lamborghini Negated By Indiana Plates
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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A drawing of a dragons enjoying apples. The caption reads, "I can respect my need for fun and my need for rest."
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Jack Rhysider @jackrhysider.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The time has come! I've made a new podcast, and it's ready for everyone to listen to! It's called LOW. It's a 5 part series about the weight of being, and the wreckage of waking up. It's available in all podcast players right now, free. Just search for LOW or go to thisislow.com.
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Tanya Janca | SheHacksPurple @shehackspurple.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AI agents are escaping. 😬 OpenAI and Anthropic have both reported incidents where agents crossed security boundaries and accessed things they weren't supposed to access. But here's the question I think we should be asking: would you even know? twp.ai/9Oa3jT 1/4
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Writing "wisdom" I hate: WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW. This is the worst advice ever. It would be better if it was KNOW MORE SO YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT IT. Every good writer I know is constantly researching and getting new information and asking experts. It's a terrible bit of advice!
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/09/2026
When I gave my keynote last week about community defense in Minnesota, someone from Ukraine came up to me afterward and said thank you for talking about what it’s like to be under attack and fight back, because most people can’t relate. I wish we couldn’t, but hey Ukrainian friends: we see you.
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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy Equinox 🐾🍂🤍
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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 22/09/2026
Stories worth bearing witness to and learning from; when you see something similar speak up:
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
WIRED asked 634 women what they really think about working in tech. They told us about harassment, bias, unequal treatment, and the everyday indignities that still shape life in the industry. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
Organize *with* people, not *for* them. It’s different
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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.
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