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bolson @bolson.org · 30/09/2026

This is beautiful. 527,001 known asteroids; 35,165 satellites and probes. Best viewed on the biggest screen you have. space.bl2.net

a fuzzy donut of asteroid belt objects, with two big ears for the Jupiter Lagrange-point trojans

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bolson @bolson.org · 29/09/2026

google/fitbit is correctly detecting that I'm on my bike, but making shit up for heart rate data it can't possibly have because I'm not wearing the thing. Now that I know they're making up data, how can I trust any of their data?

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bolson @bolson.org · 27/09/2026

Variation: some people have gotten lucky as if they flipped heads 30 times in a row, believed it skill, and are wholly unprepared for when their luck changes

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bolson @bolson.org · 27/09/2026

if beef didn't already exist and it was growing fast we'd all hate it. I am also rationalizing being in the tech industry and the tradeoffs that come with that; and I was also already a grumpy vegetarian

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bolson @bolson.org · 27/09/2026

just finished @adapalmer.bsky.social 's "Inventing the Renaissance" and it finishes with as resounding a pep-talk of optimism of humanity as I have heard anywhere. Beautiful stuff. Love it.

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bolson @bolson.org · 24/09/2026

{song} is ok, but {artist} has better stuff But at this point {song} has its own network effect and people like it because people like it. Everyone knows it because everyone knows it

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bolson @bolson.org · 24/09/2026

Amazing. I once bought a custom built suit that only worked if you stood around statuesque in it. (Indochino is garbage, avoid)

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bolson @bolson.org · 24/09/2026

'this way lies madness', but, so does the other way, so maybe sometimes wisdom is choosing the better madness

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bolson @bolson.org · 22/09/2026

The best model of systemic racism in the US is "Caste" by Isabel Wilkerson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste:_...

en.wikipedia.org

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Wikipedia

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bolson @bolson.org · 17/09/2026

The new "ai" stuff can do some neat tricks, but I'll be really excited when the trillion dollar companies profiting off of everything ever written are taxed to give back to everyone now alive #UBI

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bolson @bolson.org · 14/09/2026

@datadoghq.com your docs are bad and you should feel bad. The Python SDK has no notes on using the new personal access tokens. The best way I've found to design a new query is to use the web 'explore', then turn on browser debugging, reload, and watch what queries it does

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bolson @bolson.org · 13/09/2026

I believe they will "cheat like hell", they will id-challenge people, they will throw away ballots, they will intimidate with armor and guns

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bolson @bolson.org · 13/09/2026

Some part of the AI debate is essentialism. The belief that a thing is better _because of the story behind it_. Sometimes this is a compressed bundle of beliefs around labor and justice and sustainable economy; but sometimes it's just magic.

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bolson @bolson.org · 12/09/2026

Make a band edible: Buns n Roses

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bolson @bolson.org · 11/09/2026

Vaccine hangover I'm not _really_ sick I'm only _practice_ sick

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bolson @bolson.org · 09/09/2026

qntm is the scifi-horror writer for our age

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bolson @bolson.org · 09/09/2026

I hear getting a tattoo on the sole of the foot is a terrible idea, but if I was drunk and getting a tattoo right now it would be ⏚ ("earth ground") on the sole of my foot (because I'm a little bit electrical engineer and a little bit hippie)

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bolson @bolson.org · 08/09/2026

"my coworkers are all smart nice people" is the "A- minus is the bare minimum" of my corporate existence. Across many jobs in my career it really is an outlier where there are shitty people around. Lucky me?

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bolson @bolson.org · 07/09/2026

Can the Bernie fan club survive him? Yes, because he helped build up AOC and Mamdani and others

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bolson @bolson.org · 07/09/2026

The flip of "why does everything cost so much?" Is "why is everyone paid so little?"

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bolson @bolson.org · 02/09/2026

I do not like async/await (Sam I Am) It effectively adds another type to functions that has to be type-checked or type-coerced and it's _tedious_ I always run into it as a burden: "oops, that's async so now I have to do async stuff" In both Rust and Python it's just an awkward extension to me

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bolson @bolson.org · 31/08/2026

Gaming addiction? Don't WASD your life away

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bolson @bolson.org · 31/08/2026

probably pissing in the rain, but I went to google maps and right clicked on Lake Ontario to select "Add a Missing Place" and filled it out for "Lake Ontario"

Google Maps, as I right-click on Lake Ontario and select "Add a missing place"

I filled out "Add a place" form on Google Maps to report that Lake Ontario, a Historical Landmark, was missing

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bolson @bolson.org · 31/08/2026

I don't expect there's anything actually deficient in Safari, so it seems pretty self-dealing for #Google to offer a checkbox where GAFYD admins can insist that gmail only be used from Chrome

"Your organization recommends Chrome for safe app access"
which popped up when I opened work GMail this morning (in Safari)

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bolson @bolson.org · 30/08/2026

I guess they can't publish "Lake Fuck You Make Me", but it really is disappointing to see "Lake Compliance In Advance"

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bolson @bolson.org · 29/08/2026

Make your favourite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Lady scientist talks to aliens

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bolson @bolson.org · 27/08/2026

I threw some leftovers in a bowl and microwaved it, and realized I'd accidentally made a perfect single serving green-bean-tatertot-casserole. This feels like an underexplored part of my Minnesotan heritage and didn't expect it to land so hard at breakfast today.

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bolson @bolson.org · 26/08/2026

A song I was dancing to at an off grid rave in 2015 just came on the mall muzak

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bolson @bolson.org · 26/08/2026

Church of Bluesky is unanimous, Dolly Parton canonized as Saint Dolly. Miracles too numerous to count

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bolson @bolson.org · 23/08/2026

Thinking about github outages vs self hosting and you know, _tradeoffs_, but maybe a big win is that self hosting doesn't have to scale, it just serves your project

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Waiting for society to acknowledge that Wikipedia is the real paper of record.

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bolson @bolson.org · 21/08/2026

my least favorite government is crapping on one of my favorite agencies, the Census Bureau! They had one job, be good data nerds and provide the country with good data, and of course the worst government hates that and just wants the Census to be a mouthpiece for stupid crap

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bolson @bolson.org · 21/08/2026

I hope there's a whole bunch of rebuttal poems "fuck you, I wanted those plums" possibly a screaming punk song or two on the topic

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bolson @bolson.org · 19/08/2026

SQL is the worst way to access a database, except for all the others that have been tried from time to time

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bolson @bolson.org · 19/08/2026

is 50 TB a lot? well, it depends. On S3 at standard pricing it's a bit over $1000/mo to store it. I could buy hard drives to store it for about $2000. A PBS station's 70 year archive could have had a local copy for $2000.

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bolson @bolson.org · 19/08/2026

anyone talking about fixing the budget and not talking about cutting military spending isn't serious about fixing the budget

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bolson @bolson.org · 18/08/2026

today I am grumpy for SqlAlchemy existing when I already know SQL, and now I need to learn another crappy wrapper that thinks it is genius (none of them are)

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bolson @bolson.org · 18/08/2026

My fantasy AI robot recognizes invasive plant species and nips them at the root. It's solar powered and crawls around at sloth speed and sticks to a couple acres by GPS and keeps them clear of the invasives threatening that area

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bolson @bolson.org · 14/08/2026

mashup Captain Janeway Twin Peaks Log Lady The Captain's Log does not judge

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bolson @bolson.org · 13/08/2026

some people are worried about all the things being woke some people are just worried about Cthulhu being woke

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bolson @bolson.org · 11/08/2026

yay for habitually carrying around rope, and fixing the strap on my bike panniers which broke on the way to the office

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bolson @bolson.org · 11/08/2026

To complete the picture t*p should be shouting "Goal! I win!" as he misses and backflops

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bolson @bolson.org · 11/08/2026

I'm not sure about my emulsifier I have separation anxiety

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bolson @bolson.org · 10/08/2026

"modern" to me means "now" I was disgusted to learn that "modern art" means a period of time ~150-50 years ago and _not_ now. Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance" has a lovely little rant about a couple dozen fields defining modern varying by decades and centuries and millenia

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bolson @bolson.org · 08/08/2026

Whatever. My best crafting days are when I'm sewing costume AND soldering electronics

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brainwane @harihareswara.net · 06/08/2026

Via @jacobian.org "The Django Software Foundation is hiring an Executive Director! Main responsibilities: fundraising, managing staff and day-to-day operations, and generally helping the DSF mature. We’re looking for candidates with a history of nonprofit leadership....

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bolson @bolson.org · 05/08/2026

Unit-test tautology: it has no opinion about if the code under test is "right", it just tests that the code does what the code does. Now you have two things you have to change when you want to change it.

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bolson @bolson.org · 04/08/2026

`git submodule` is terrible and no one should use it As with many things git, it may be possible to build a reasonable flow around this thing with horrible user interface and horrible user experience traps but I'd probably rather have `git checkout repo@version` in my Makefile

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