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Agreed. I don't think anything really _can_ replicate Twitter (which I consider dead as X is a vastly different beast that just stole its IP) as it was the first and only for so long. We couldn't fragment the communities at the time. I guess this is progress though?

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I confess I do miss my old Twitter account (not X). That really was a great community for what I do. A few current projects are showing me how many people I’ve lost touch with since it ended.

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My only real annoyance with macOS 27 is the “Running in background” displays of seemingly every app.

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The most exciting thing about packing for my trip tomorrow is a new suitcase. Yeah, I’ve hit “that” age.

Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 25/09/2026

Sounds right. It usually tells me what state it’s blocking. Most of them in the central time zone require it at this point.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 25/09/2026

This whole “feature” is one of the best examples I’ve ever seen of “security theatre.” It does nothing to actually help the people it’s supposedly intended for and instead actively harms all of us who are subjected to it.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 25/09/2026

I live in Chicago, and I still see this shit as I use Apple’s Private Relay (genuinely a good privacy option for my threat model) which randomizes my IP. I often have to turn it off on the page load to see Bluesky. It’s so insane I had to write it up (chriswiegman.com/2025/08/acce...)

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Accessing Bluesky with iCloud Private Relay

Last week Bluesky took the drastic step of blocking users from Mississippi due to their draconian age verification laws. In theory, as long as you aren’t trying to access the service from within Missi...

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Evie Nyx @evienyx7.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At this point in my life, "friends with benefits " are just my friends who have health insurance

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

tl:dr If you are treating humans and their labor as disposable resources for technology, you are advocating a dystopian future.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 23/09/2026

I appreciate that the city skyline looks an awful lot like Chicago :)

Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

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Crazy to think that if I’d bought $1,000 of amazon stock in 1997 I would have died of a cocaine overdose by now

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 22/09/2026

Honestly, that doesn’t feel too bad. Around here regular is $6+ at a lot of stations.

Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 21/09/2026

I haven’t been on it that long, first Mac was in 08 (though I had iPods a few years before that). It drives me nuts too. Honestly, I like the evolution and the change. They’ve been far better at it than Google too as their changes don’t continually replace entire products.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 21/09/2026

I’m pretty sure he’s really 3 orange cats in a dog suit.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 21/09/2026

It’s dropped enough outside, with a strong wind out of the east, that it really does feel like winter inside this morning. I’m loving it.

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I just realized that you could cut a clip of the Paul brothers speaking to our armed forces and seamlessly turn it into a scene for "Idiocracy".

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 19/09/2026

honestly same

a vending machine with a small printed sign taped to it:

the light inside
is broken but
i still work

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 19/09/2026

It took longer than it probably should have, but this morning I finally deleted my WordPress (.com and .org) passwords from my password manager.

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Now I’m waiting for a screenshot of a republican pointing out this is OK because Google’s Gemini said it’s OK to eat rocks.

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Last Friday I switched from Xfinity to Astound (both broadband as this building doesn’t get fiber). I switched because Google Meet (work’s platform) on Xfinity had been all-but unusable these past 2-3 months. It’s worked perfectly (Knock on wood). I’m honestly surprised at how much it’s improved.

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Agreed on all of that. Also reminds me of how many historians frame WWII as a repeat, if not continuation, of WWI.

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One realization that really strikes me with all this: WWI is what really ended the old European aristocracy. It took them from then to the 2010s (arguably) to regroup and come back, now in the form of a tech oligarchy and complete with the brutality and hatred that defined that class the 1st time.

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Oh my. Sorry, my friend. I used to get that. Always thought I hated winter. Sarasota broke me and now it’s summer I dread :/

If I’m grateful for anything it’s that I’ve spent most of my adult life trying to avoid driving. Even at current US gas prices we only spend $20-30/month for our car. I do feel for the many, many people I know who have to do long car commutes.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 15/09/2026

This morning the weather, for the first time this year, really feels like winter (not cold, but the heat isn’t on and it’s dark and wet outside). I’m really loving it.

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Oohh.. that looks like the “Compact” layout in Safari (one of the big things that keeps me using Safari).