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Brett Nelson

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Software developer, player of games, and printer of 3d things. WIPDeveloper.com

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.
A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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communityharvestmn.bsky.social @communityharvestmn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last Sunday #communityharvestleague took down apples from two apple trees: Honey crisp and Haralson apples. Unfortunately past their prime so they were headed to #littlebluestravelingzoo farm 😍 if you are interested in volunteering, sign up at CommunityHarvestLeague.org!
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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The saliva of Gila monsters has been momental in the development of GLP-1 weight loss drugs. Imagine how much more powerful T-Rex spit would be. Sharks, I’m asking for $10 billion to help buy an island off the coast of Costa Rica…
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pathetic…..
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Minnesota 50501 @mn50501.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Official statement on today's DOJ press conference.
The DOJ came to Minnesota with accusations and a narrative already written.

But ten individual cases aren’t proof that Minnesota’s elections are broken. Charges are allegations, not convictions, and Minnesotans won’t let isolated cases be weaponized to cast doubt on millions of lawful votes.

Their obsession with Minnesota is telling. We are diverse, educated, civically engaged, and loudly opposed to authoritarianism.

They hate us because they ain’t us.

And they still can’t stop us.
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Minnesota 50501 @mn50501.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don’t let the loudest assholes be the only ones who show up. Vote early, bring a friend, make a plan. Just fucking vote.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Can I have more money?”
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Minnesota 50501 @mn50501.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Official statement on today's SCOTUS ruling. With the election approaching, please check your registration at mnvotes.org and act quickly on any official notice about your voter status.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE wants to deport Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a DoorDash driver who they just shot in Austin yesterday. The federal government can't shoot someone and then try to make them disappear to escape scrutiny. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez needs a doctor right now, not a deportation.
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Josh Collinsworth @collinsworth.dev · 21/09/2026
Hey, friends—I'm excited to share my new project! I call it Tupo. It's a daily logic puzzle with roots in sudoku, where every cell has to have a unique color-number combo. Give it a shot if you like daily logic games, and let me know what you think! playtupo.com
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Tupo · A daily sudoku-style logic puzzle with a twist
A simple logic puzzle of numbers and colors. One new puzzle every day, starting easy and getting harder through the week.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The more I hear about inverse proportion, the less I like it.
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Nathan Knowler @knowler.dev · 19/09/2026
nazi devs fuck off.
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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 19/09/2026
“These five paragraphs of Claude’s PR description could have been a sentence” is a the new “this meeting could have been an email”
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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026
i need to know what happened
sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"
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Josh Collinsworth @collinsworth.dev · 18/09/2026
If Pepsi started making their drink more like Coke, they wouldn't gain Coke drinkers; they'd lose Pepsi drinkers. Everyone who likes Pepsi would've lost every reason they ever had to buy it, and Coke drinkers would just keep on drinking Coke anyway. This is a post about Democrats moving right.
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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
TODAY'S COMIC: Someone! www.sheldoncomics.com/comic/someone/
PANEL 1: A tubby, bald man wearing a white collared shirt, with a blue and orange striped tie, holds a AR-type riffle with one hand, shooting into the air. The bright yellow light casts harsh shadows on him.
MAN: Please! Someone stop this weapon that I’m clearly shooting!

PANEL 2: The man bends over to reload the weapon with a “KLAK” sound.
MAN: The weapon keeps reloading itself, with SERO INVOLVEMENT FROM ME!

PANEL 3: The man continues to shoot in to the air.
MAN: I have no agency here! Nothing that I could do —SAY WITH MY OWN FINGERS — could end this!

PANEL 4: The man, still shooting the gun, turns his back, still yelling over his shoulder.
MAN: WHY IS NOBODY STOPPING THIS THING I KEEP DOING???
On the back of his shirt reads: LITERALLY EVERY A.I. COMPANY.

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Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the *FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller
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Josh Collinsworth @collinsworth.dev · 15/09/2026
Cancelled my @1password.bsky.social account today, after many years as a happy customer. I was kinda hoping they'd recant on the whole YoU cAnT jUsT sAy RaCiStS aRe EvIL thing and stop showering a white supremacist with money, but since it seems like they won't, I'll take my business elsewhere.
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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 14/09/2026
Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. Impossible to see this as anything but a statement of their values.
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Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately - Geoff Graham
Because I haven't published anything to it since August 31. And no one else has either. That's not a super long time to go silent but it is for a site that
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 12/09/2026
but sure just keep posting about tech on there yeh?
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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Appreciate this "ode to links" by @jim-nielsen.com They are a tiny but powerful artifact for sharing culture and ideas. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ode-to-...
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An Ode to Links
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yuuuuup…
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Dividing up AI users in 3 categories: Wizard: approaches AI academically & with appropriate guards & wards. Treats it like a tool. Warlock: Makes a pact for power with an alien entity without considering the costs. Is corrupted by the whispers. Cleric: worships their new machine god. Is insane.
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Minnesota 50501 @mn50501.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump has spent more than a year dangling “dividends,” “rebates,” and $2,000 checks in front of Americans. The amount and timeline keeps changing. The number of checks that have actually reached the public? Zero. Credit: @groundwork.bsky.social
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Minnesota 50501 @mn50501.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
And majpr news outlets are already tiptoeing around calling this a bribe. That's literally what it is.
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Eleanor Martinez @northstar1939.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Perfectly states what I've been saying for some time, now.
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/09/2026
Good news: he lost.
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Chris from 🇨🇦 @ichris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Another good write up of why folks are frustrated with 1Password’s CEO getting chummy with DHH + Omarchy. It may not move the needle on 1Password’s bottom line, but you can still choose who gets your money for the software you use.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026
so unfair that you might be attacked for just wanting a white ethnostate anyway after like a decade plus of usage i canceled my @1password.bsky.social subscription and switched to apple passwords. took 15 minutes.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
under trump, the post office was perverted to rig the election under biden, nothing was done - even the guy who was installed by trump wasn't removed under trump, the post office is again being perverted to rig the election the dems aren't a serious party
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Josh Collinsworth @collinsworth.dev · 31/08/2026
The unbelievable part about Batman is that we're asked to believe he's a world-class genius, but also that going out at night and punching whatever small-time criminal he happens to run into is literally his best idea for how to put his resources to work for the good of society.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026
Elon Musk, the top Republican donor, who appeared on stage regularly supporting Republicans, says worse things than the worst thing Piker has ever said *every day* on the website he bought. Why doe no one care?
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Nerd2Dye4 @nerd2dye4.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Rest in Peace, Peter Cullen. You voiced the first hero I ever looked up to, and put more humanity into that character than most people put into their daily lives. Original art by @glovestudios.bsky.social
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026
To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 27/08/2026
my employer has asked me to stop telling PMs "suffice it to say, it is out of my hands and into god's" when asked for project status updates
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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 27/08/2026
holy shit this would be a game changer
Summary
Persistent widgets are embedded browsing contexts, like iframes, but they can persist across same-origin navigations without reloading. Persistent widgets can be used via the <persistentwidget> HTML element. The <persistentwidget> HTML element takes a src attribute, like an iframe. In order to make the <persistentwidget> survive a navigation, all of these conditions must be met: 1. The navigation must be to a same-origin document. 2. The <persistentwidget> element must have the same src and id HTML attributes in both documents. 3. The <persistentwidget> element must be attached to the new document before its first render.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 24/08/2026
I wonder if he had any insider information.
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Raymond "Pumpkins" Camden @raymondcamden.com · 22/08/2026
Are we great yet?
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Minnesota 50501 @mn50501.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Downtown Minneapolis police just teargassed counterprotestors and protected Jake Lang's convoy driving *on the sidewalk* in front of City Hall. It cannot be repeated enough, law enforcement does NOT serve the people. FUCK YOU MPD, YOU PROTECT NAZIS!
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Vote like your life depends on it, or the life of a friend, relative, or neighbor. Because it does. We’re the decoys now.
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fishofprey.bsky.social @fishofprey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The #Salesforce #Winter27 release brings a nice bump to the Apex heap limit for both synchronous and asynchronous transactions so you can work with larger data sets and more complex operations. help.salesforce.com/s/articleVie...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/08/2026
your Tesla supports mass child death
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Chris from 🇨🇦 @ichris.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I’m going to suggest you turn off this setting on #Twitch if you use it to stream at all. Down near the bottom of /settings/security when you’re logged in on the web.
A Twitch settings interface displaying the option to toggle training for generative AI by allowing channel content to be used for training AI content models at Amazon.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12/08/2026
It's important to understand: social networks are not meant to be one-size-fits all! When Meta (which makes Threads, as well as Facebook and Instagram) creates platforms that have hundreds of millions of users, they do things like enable genocides, where tens of thousands of innocent people die.
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