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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

You think YouTube bad? Amateurs next to Twitter. Cleanse it all with fire.

Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Eyes pop open 5.37am. First waking thought is formatted as a query. SELECT * FROM breakfast WHERE contents = 'coffee' AND brew ILIKE '%strong%'; i don't think that's a good sign.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Banff. One of the most beautiful places I know. A great few days away from The Crazy. Snow, Mountains, Hiking, Rest.

Banff valley from the Cosmic Rays Station.

Looking at a gondola from the Sulphur Mtn. Trail in Banff.

About 6,000 ft up on the Sulphur Mtn Trail.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

2FA - pull up the Auth app. 3 seconds left. Tension mounts. The green light flashes, the flags go up... << insert mission impossible theme >> ...boom... Intuit login... accomplished. I'm Tom Cruise hanging from a rope, man.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

"Work me." For 20+ years, I've worked at the bleeding edge of technology and media. This is about the latest "big shift" in live production - on-prem to decentralized. It's huge, and will fundamentally change how a lot of productions happen. Fifteen minutes of pure geek! youtu.be/qvheqlf54ro?...

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SVVS 2025: Decentralized Production At Scale. Real-World Application

YouTube video by Silicon Valley Video

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I am "if you stretch too hard in the morning you pull something and it feels like you broke a rib" years old. goddamit.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Podcast guest... "when we got pregnant." I've never been comfortable with that phrase. My wife gave birth to two kids. We raised them. But we were not pregnant. She was. Pregnancy is an awesome power and responsibility. And it is not mine. Parenting - yes. Pregnancy - no.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

DEI is a concept that evolves, not disappears. The logical outcome of the US administration's language is that any job failure not by a straight, white man will be blamed on gender, race, or sexuality. It's justification for saying everyone is inferior to the white man. Dangerous times.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I have questions, United. 1. What's up with the man-baby?

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

First time landing in SFO for about a year. Holy shit. Y'all need to settle down on the AI ads.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Trump is a rapist. For Trump voters, either... 1. Your *opinion* is right, and a grand jury, jury, two judges, and a federal appeals court is wrong. 2. You're ok with a sexual predator being President. It's a binary. I just don't get it, and I can't get past that.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

USA/CANADA - Tension Strange times as a fairly recent emigrée to Canada. I know and love so many in the USA. And the government is becoming less human. A cold, dispassionate view of suffering, briefly alleviated only when profits align. Don't know what to say. Hard times ahead.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Afternoon walk on a beautiful day in Victoria...

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The Overton Wormhole. NYTimes, 2023: "Trump is a fascist, a liar, and fundamentally dangerous for the USA." NYTimes, 2025: "Six Flags Panama Canal: Flume Zooms for America." What the actual f**k.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I've turned into the guy who buys Christmas lights on clearance for next year.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Greetings all! My kid's band just released their first EP - record release party/concert, and the works. Follow and like their album on the streamers - even if Screamo isn't your thing. :) Help all musical youths!! open.spotify.com/artist/4Ih6S...

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Coup D'état

Artist · 1.1K monthly listeners.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

In the year of our lord 2024, we are still using a leading "the" in alphabetizing movie titles. If I'm looking for "The Shining," I'm not looking under"T". So much AI and fancy shit, and yet...

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

#netflix - but with the sound of a VHS thunking into a machine every time you hit play.

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 14/11/2024

Ok thread of all the useful info all in one: Block list , how to make a starter pack , and more ( so I can’t quit googling lol)

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Ahem. Testing. I'm not entirely sure I can manage more than one platform at a time and keep it active. Threads is super fun rn, but coming back here to try and share the love.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

I'm in awe of Cowboy Carter. On my 2nd listen-through now. I'll need to sit with this for a while to really get it. But god damn... what a statement. Beyoncé was right. This isn't a country album. It's a Beyoncé album. Ameriican Requiem -> Blackbird, and DollyP -> Jolene? Damn.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

One thing I *love* about BSky - when famous people die, there is an honest, but not vicious, reckoning about them. Like Joe Lieberman today, and most of my GenX brethren saying some version of, "yeah, that guy was a fucking tool." Which he was.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

God dammit. I keep getting sucked back into the Bad Place, and forget how much nicer and more pleasant it is over here...

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

I hate talking this way about Alabama. I grew up there. Lots of friends there. But it's an increasingly dangerous place if not white, Christian, cis-gender hetero, male. This decision is very, very bad. It's a full-throated support for US theocracy based in scripture. www.al.com/news/2024/02...

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Fearing prosecution, UAB pauses in vitro fertilization after Alabama embryo court ruling

A statement from the university said they are 'saddened' for patients who are trying to have babies

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

I have had SO many people ask me over the past decade, "Why VR?" This is why. open.substack.com/pub/meldingp...

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

...meanwhile in Canada...

Photo of Canadian Global News, with a lower third saying, "Dozens of unauthorized pills claiming to help boost sex game off the market across Canada over the past year."

Unrelated - have a great New Year. You are worth it. :)

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Hey everyone... at year-end, I always do a music best-of meta-list for myself. I got a lot of requests for it from friends this year, so put it in an easer-to-digest format. For your listening pleasure... meldingpot.substack.com/p/best-music...

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Best Music of 2023

MetaList and my list!

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

No idea how I missed this when it came out. I'm on Part3, and it's... bad.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

There is a new injustice every day. Slam the Overton Window shut. Do not accept every little incursion with an "oh well." DEFY. Do it. In big or small ways. It all counts.

US Capitol building in a distressed monochrome with the word "DEFY" at the bottom. Created in midjourney, I think v4 is when I did these. I'd post the prompt if I remembered it...

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

2024: the USA decides its future. Continuity of liberal democracy, or authoritarianism, chaos, hate, and collapse. DEFY. Do it. In big or small ways. It all counts. The racists, fascists, and Christian nationalists must not win.

Midjourney image I created of the US Capitol, dark and foreboding, with the word "DEFY" in capitol letters in front. I forgot the prompt, or I would put it here.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

Faith in humanity temporarily restored.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

For that prick? Bring more...

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Using Twitter now creates the same cognitive dissonance as watching Weinstein-produced films, being in awe of Gauguin, or listening to Wagner. Truly, truly awful people doing interesting and inspiring work. The world is a difficult and imperfect place.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Just once, could the richest person in the world not be a nazi shit-gibbon, or building a penis rocket, or chopping up journalists? It's a REALLY low bar, people.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Bluesky is consistent meme anarchy. Log on tonight, and am like... Christians? Skydiving babies? Jesus and the UN? F*cking what??

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

My favorite time of the political calendar: close enough to an election and they let James Carville out of his cage, feed him whiskey, and put him on air.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

This album was released a few weeks ago, and it continues to grow on me. It's not the style of music that usually appeals, but it is so... magnetic. Something about it. Really beautiful, and alive. open.spotify.com/album/6IR9zT...

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Songs & Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog

Moondog · Album · 2023 · 17 songs.

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

fuck birds all my homies hate birds

A medieval drawing of a woman holding a bird on an anvil hitting it with a hammer, while a group of animals watch

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Knowing what products are in what aisles at the grocery store, pharmacy, and Costco, and have a pre-programmed map in my head of what the fastest path is.

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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

So yesterday, a lot of ppl shared a claim that 40 Israeli babies were decapitated at Kfar Aza, a kibbutz near Gaza. Here’s a bit of insight about how we approach a claim like that as reporters: 1) Figure out where the claim was coming from. In this case, it was a single Israeli TV reporter.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

I can play a Chopin Etude, and had my water shut off more than once before I discovered auto-pay. (My wife loved randomly not being able to take a shower a few times per year. Tried to play her Etudes. Didn't help. So much for romance...)

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

A LOT of unused 3 and 4 letter combinations in English. I mean come on... Do we really need "onomatopoeia" when we could say, "gok"? I'm gonna figure this shit out.

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Lucas @boomtown.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Or as it really went for the people there... "I have no announcement to make on... . . . . <senator?> . . <really mitch... not cool...> . <i give up... is mccarthy hiring?...> . . . . ...that subject."

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