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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gandalf’s response to effective altruists.
*Other evils there are that may come; for Sauron is himself but a servant or emissary. Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

— The return of the king, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 18/09/2026
The USWDS documentation site is now preserved here, thanks to the amazing work of @suddenlygreg.com uswds.18f.org
uswds.18f.org
USWDS: The United States Web Design System
USWDS makes it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oh smart
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Search Complexity Lounge
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I would like to thank @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social and @danieldrucker.bsky.social for this incredibly concise encapsulation of how "superintelligence" discourse diverts energy and attention from the real, actual harms: >>
Screencap of a skeet & a reply. Wilson-Bates posted a copy of the Scooby doo ghost unmasking meme, with the masked ghost tagged “AI Panic” and the unmasked villain tagged “labor discipline”.

Drucker replied "Is it your view that superintelligent AI is impossible, or unlikely based on current tech, or not extremely risky?"
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Oh no my abused dog found the hole in the fence I neglect and has been going into the neighborhood leaving poop everywhere! We need laws for mandatory dog sedation and canine philosophy training! In fact, only nationalizing dog breeding will work. They will kill us all!” This is a post about AI.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New phrase for your toolkit: Contextual Fatberg For when slop accumulates so much that someone expensive has to spend time dissecting and removing it. Don’t pour AI slop into the drain, folks.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Make a band edible: Nada Surf n Turf
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I stumbled upon this little gem of an app for MacOS today. It keeps your intention front and center as you work. Perfect for that "Now what was I doing" problem. n10.app
n10.app
N10 - Attention Management App for Mac
For all of us who get stuck, feel overwhelmed, lose track of time, forget what we’re working on, or could just use a little help concentrating.
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Andboo Haunton 😷🎃 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know. So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute.”
allpoetry.com
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your futu...
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
StoryTime has search!
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As we ramp up opening the gates to StoryTime, we're making some requisite socials you can follow development on. Here's the Bluesky version: @storytimeteam.bsky.social Give us a follow if you're keen.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A very good boy.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This. Every day.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Take away customer feedback loops and watch a team eat itself alive.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
That looks neat!
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Looks mulch better
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I didn't realize how hard drag and drop features are to build when you take into account multi-select. Glad I did it though. Learned a ton. Multi-select is now live in StoryTime! app.storytime.team
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Irony drowned in that pool.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
www.peakdesign.com/products/cap...
peakdesign.com
Capture Camera Clip | Peak Design Official Site
Capture is a clip for rigidly carrying any camera on any belt, strap, or bag.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Looks like 'merica to me.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
how close to hemp color?
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
AS A numbed out design consultant I WANT my doodle near me, ready to be pet and sitting contentedly SO THAT I don’t lose my mind while digging the same digital ditches repeatedly
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Some more writing. www.fullstacksyntax.com/talking-with...
fullstacksyntax.com
Talking With One Another
I’ve been working on something with a couple friends over a couple years now. We think teams that talk together (like, a lot) not only make more human, beautiful, and valuable things, they experience ...
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
@erikahall.bsky.social what do you say to the researcher being told to try this? cookiy.ai
cookiy.ai
Cookiy AI: The World's First Agentic AI User Researcher
Transform months of user research into days. Cookiy AI acts as your dedicated AI User Researcher, conducting human-level interviews at 10x speed and 10x lower cost.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
America is searching for significance when we already had it. Tearing up the house searching for the thing in our hands. Each other.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
static.klipy.com
Prince John from Robin Hood: Double the Taxes!
ALT: Prince John from Robin Hood: Double the Taxes!
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Made a thing for Logitech Litra lights to turn on with your camera. github.com/cobyalmond/L...
github.com
GitHub - cobyalmond/Lumos-Litra: MacOS utility to control Logitech Litra lights.
MacOS utility to control Logitech Litra lights. Contribute to cobyalmond/Lumos-Litra development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Runoff voting in Texas means my mailbox is filled with mud trending toward manure every day the last week.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The color crayon magneta
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I wonder if "dev-writer"/"designer-writer"/etc is forming as a distinct category as a result of LLMs being pushed onto the industry. Obviously they have always been there, but there is now a very sharp divide between thinking/writing and...not
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I quietly wish for this every time.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
Dear Mr. Nadeau:

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness.

Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed, sometimes rather suddenly. It is quite obvious that the human race has made a queer mess of life on this planet. But as a people we probably harbor seeds of goodness that have lain for a long time waiting to sprout when the conditions are right. Man’s curiosity, his relentlessness, his inventiveness, his ingenuity have led him into deep trouble. We can only hope that these same traits will enable him to claw his way out.

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

Sincerely,
E. B. White
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Andboo Haunton 😷🎃 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Didn’t expect this to hit quite like it does but it did for me
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Or the worst part, killing one‘s own son to do so, like pagan kings of old.
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Andboo Haunton 😷🎃 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
media.tenor.com
a man with long gray hair is eating something
Alt: Short clip from The Lord of the Rings films showing the Denethor character — a corrupted ruler — eating sloppily at his richly appointed table. In the film, this scene occurs while people he sent to their death are fighting a battle.
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 25/01/2026
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something. "What are we holding on to, Sam?" That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
You can watch the original 1943 short film here: youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4
youtu.be
Don't Be a Sucker
YouTube video by US National Archives
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We are determined to make it so. The @unbreaking.org team has been working since the beginning to stand up a page focused on Archives & History. Our timeline (unbreaking.org/issues/archi...) and debrief (unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...) were just published today.
unbreaking.org
Archives & History — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
@erikahall.bsky.social I don’t believe any explanation is necessary.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Household has had the flu for almost a week. I’m coming to terms with the fact I now live in the Room of Requirement.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
www.fullstacksyntax.com/in-anger/
fullstacksyntax.com
In Anger
The word once scared me. Anger was the opposite of “safe”, as a child. To be In Anger was to be out of control, a violent grasping for something unnamed, but should be obvious to all who are in its pa...
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Old Man and The Sea
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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Someone has lifted the QuickTimeVR movie files from 1994's "Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual", upscaled them then built an in-browser replica of the ITM's "Tour" module. mijofr.github.io/st-panorama/ #StarTrek
mijofr.github.io
Trekorama!
360° of Star Trek
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Latest StoryTime Alpha update: We're taking on founding customers! buttondown.com/storytime-te...
buttondown.com
December Update
Hello! Nat here, with the latest news from StoryTime. If you’re reading this, you signed up to get monthly updates about our development process. If you’re...
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
youtu.be/porRsqLGhu0?...
youtu.be
OK7b Two Bits - OKLAHOMA
YouTube video by NJFilmTeam
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I hope they're telling the tooth here.
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Coby Almond @coby.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The dream.
Cody and the eagle from Rescuers Down Under risking through a cloud while flying.
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