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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I remember reading in the 90s some guy (sorry guy, don't remember your name) who said if the US ever invades Canada it will be over fresh water. I still think this is unlikely to happen, but at the rate they are consuming their fresh water supplies, well maybe...?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Crazy to think back that there was a whole Knight Rider arc where Kitt gets basically destroyed by some weird compacter truck and then they rebuild it(him?) and he's got like PTSD and can't do his slick car moves like he used to. 10 year old me was really worried Kitt would never be okay again.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ahem. "Source files"? You mean "file", right?

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hear me out: nothing. White space is a Luxury and You Don't Deserve It.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I hate every interface that makes me search for the search.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

One useful thing about taking philosophy is you learn you cannot defeat a determined skeptic. There's no assertion you can make that someone fully committed to not buying your argument can't undercut, even if things get pretty wild. The worst of them wouldn't even concede "I think therefore I am."

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My dad (retired plumber) has this poster up in his garage. A true delight for me to encounter it in the wild.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Not content with strong positions in Ohio, Florida, and California, LeBron makes a bold gambit for Pennsylvania. Pete Buttigieg rumored to be investigating Embiid's doctors. Does AOC know something about Jaylen Brown we don't? Will 76ers in '27 usher in James '28 for America?

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Utilitarianism seemed so clearly correct to me in university and now after years in the real world of being bombarded by galaxy-brained utilitarians I'm become the most basic virtue ethicist. Be kind to people. Be compassionate. Be honest and strive for justice. Be a human being goddamnit.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Maybe we'll build the pipelines really big so the submarines can travel through them, because by the time they're done we won't be shipping oil.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Really an impressive achievement given how annoying Word was 20 years ago.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

We both know that's not what's taking you so long in there.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'd rate it a post, but not a Post. You've got a long way to go before I consider you a Poster (Poaster? What are the kids saying?)

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I'm just disappointed that he didn't demand a trial by combat, which I believe is his right as a knight of England

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Yeah the cousin shows up at at the very end - feels tacked on tbh.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Every time something asks me to rate it I remember that some AVP somewhere is living or dying by their KPIs, and that warms my heart as I grade it 1 out of 5 stars.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Mining crypto of course - isn't that what every internet connected device is supposed to do?

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Until you start paying for my therapy I'm going to do as I damn well please.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I want to get this but video games taught me never to pre-order and I'm too overwhelmed to manage heuristics by category so I apply it to everything now.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Tech bros want everything to be automated and "scalable" so they can reap all the rewards without pesky employees. But anything (and everything) related to information that is automated can and will be gamed, ultimately destroying its value.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I probably never would have reduced my internet usage of my own accord - but the general experience of almost any online interaction is so terrible now I am moving in that direction - and enjoying life more?

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

With rapid efficiency and great self-satisfaction?

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Unless it's Metallica I guess, then it's bleed(me)

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This is why C is superior - forces the powers that be to get explicit: bleed(you);

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Had the realization today that those of us who spend too much time on the internet and retain some modicum of self-awareness are not "somehow okay." We're functional alcoholics, shaking our heads and saying of others "they gotta get their shit together" before cracking open another tallboy.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Isn't that their charm? Long after they've gone over the edge you realize they haven't even begun to plumb the depths of the abyss. RE6 though? That was baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I think about "I want to buy your rock" all the time these days.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Long after DS9 ended the world is still shitting on Miles O'Brien

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Sucks watching the Liberals govern like Conservatives. The only weak silver lining is I get a chuckle every time I think of Pierre Poilievre. He missed his shot and now he's gotta sit on his thumbs until his party gets bored of him. The most pointless man in Canada at the moment.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"Courage - it couldn't come at a worse time" is a pretty great lyric tho

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

You wish. Korn if you're lucky.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

One pop culture fact I am incapable of keeping in my brain is that Seth Green was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It somehow surprises me every time. But he was there for like, what, three seasons?!

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Guess we're about to find out.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Took me 10 years of not playing the Witcher 2 until I said fuck it and finally booted up the Witcher 3 anyway.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

(and no, it wasn't because I was manning the queue)

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Once I was flipping through a power point deck that referred to a phone line for clients as a "queue for servicing members." My colleagues didn't understand why I was choking on my coffee.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I remember Fortnite as "the bad knockoff of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", was stunned a year or two later to see it had become some kind of juggernaut.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Otherwise known as "Negative Delete."

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

My "favourite" Giorgio Mammoliti memory was when he was pushing for a casino in Toronto and basically referencing problem gamblers was like "They're our gamblers, they should be our revenue, and they're going down to Niagara." Like these people were an oil well for him to tap.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

This is one of those "every social science is history" kind of things, like "every STEM field is actually physics"

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

We've spent decades up here undoing the influence of Don Cherry maligning non-Canadian team captains. All of that destroyed in a single moment.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Can't believe you told us when you won it but not where. Someone's lost their fastball.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I'm not really an expert in anything but wherever I've worked the greatest shortage has always been "people who even kind of understand what we do here" and if anything AI is going to exacerbate that problem. If I had any advice it would be hone and protect your ability to understand things.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Thinking too hard about Cars as my kid watches for the umpteenth time is probably the habit I engage in most often that brings me no joy.

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Chris Hanney @chrishanney.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The thing I always come back to is - the characters in 6 are so much more real and realized. Outside of Barrett, and I guess Vincent, I find the characters in 7 to be a bit childish? I know they're young, but idk, as Logan Roy would say, they're not serious people.

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