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Colin Rafferty

@colin.rafferty.net
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Early Gen X. Retired senior programmer, preferring C++ and Emacs Lisp. Married with two kids. Member of the all-powerful bike lobby. he/him colin.rafferty.net email: firstname at lastname dot net @colin@rafferty.net on mastodon

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👺 hell camino acid 👻👹 @sexdracula.rocks · 27/09/2026
deliberately misunderstanding people’s objections to the pervert glasses as an objection to the glasses part is so fucking funny man
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 26/09/2026
In all seriousness, this explains Nextdoor.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 22/09/2026
Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter!?!
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump said that if I didn’t vote for him, gas prices would double. It looks like he was right.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 12/09/2026
Six minutes until the store opened up, and my saved phone wasn't even there. But still made it under the wire for 9/18 delivery.
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Emi @emiphemera.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I don't care what your abstract thoughts are about abortion, what you think you're accomplishing or who you think you're saving. If you're against it, on demand and as a choice between provider and patient, you wish me dead and you wish that my daughter was never born. Fuck you.
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reminder #2: Please do not use a cable lock for anything important!
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Peter Bhat Harkins ✔️ @push.cx · 09/09/2026
I don't want iphone duo I want iphone halfo. Make another mini you cowards.
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 07/09/2026
This is literally what bond traders did with Mortgages when they resecuritized the securitized loans.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 06/09/2026
We’re only looking for singing Hitlers.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The only difference between football and other youth sports is the amount of brain damage it causes.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 05/09/2026
The best thing about working the polls is how many happy voters there are. Everyone voting is having a good time.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 05/09/2026
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Noodlesoft - Simply Useful Software @handle.invalid · 04/09/2026
Hazel's 20th anniversary is in a couple of days so to celebrate, everything is 35% off this weekend (until end of Monday). If you've been on thinking of buying or upgrading, now's the time! store.noodlesoft.com
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The nature of politics is talking to people and having relationships with them. If you don’t want to do that, find another career. If you don’t want to do that with the real-world humans you represent… well, you’ll have a lot of company at the Capitol I fear, but you fundamentally suck at your job.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 01/09/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you’ve seen live, and one has to match something in the quote tweet. Queen Pat Benatar Cheap Trick The Police The Go Gos Billy Joel Midnight Oil (outside Exxon headquarters) Violent Femmes Lisa Loeb Amy Mann
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 29/08/2026
The banquet scene is haunting.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 26/08/2026
While I kind of disagree with this, I never understood subtitled animation. I mean, it’s already dubbed.
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Harold Fjord @haroldfjord.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Pascal's wager but instead of Hell, I'm going to pinch you
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 25/08/2026
As a native New Yorker, I refuse to believe in Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge. Clearly his wikipedia entry is fake.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 25/08/2026
I just bought this a second time because the first one is stuck on my Kindle.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 21/08/2026
colin.rafferty.net/mirrors/Report_-…
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Dear trump, I wrote you, but you still ain't callin' I slept in the locker room, the trunk, and dmed you im a bottom
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 19/08/2026
Gods help me, but I would try the Brown Sugar Cinnamon.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Helmets are often misinterpreted as the solution to safety. Put simply, they aren't. Helmets protect your head from an uncontrolled fall. Proper infrastructure is what protects you from multi-ton vehicles. Don't conflate the two, they are worlds apart.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 17/08/2026
In 1989 I stretched my ACL to spaghetti and tore my MCL and the orthopedist told me I'd be in a hip to toe cast for 6-9 months. The most important bet of my lifetime was choosing the 6 weeks in an immobilizer + PT. I'll eventually need the surgery, but will be walking out of the recovery room.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 17/08/2026
Alt text is very important.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 17/08/2026
My crazy idea: Have all automated enforcement revenue go into an annual lottery that every resident *who hasn't gotten any moving violations that year* is automatically entered to win.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 16/08/2026
Once again, Bluesky ops is demonstrating why alt text is a good idea.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 09/08/2026
Lemon Drop Martinis before dinner.
Two martini glasses, each containing an opaque yellow liquid and a lemon twist, on a quartz countertop with a brown subway tile backdrop.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026
I don’t like when people think Being A Dick is the same thing as Having Balls. It’s not. Not even close. In fact there’s a Vas Deferens between them.
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 09/10/2025
Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme
tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 09/08/2026
Having read and loved The End of Everything, I didn’t bother to wait before preordering How to Build a Universe.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 08/08/2026
3. Wizard of Oz 2. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles 1. After Hours
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“We should return to an older and more accurate name for the Civil War: the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. If a country unquestioningly adopts language that obscures its bloodiest crimes to absolve their worst perpetrators, how can we expect successive generations to remember the new assaults on democracy
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Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 02/08/2026
Walter Peck
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 31/07/2026
"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We desperately need people to understand the difference between e-bikes and e-motos
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 31/07/2026
Grade school principal, airline chef, milk delivery man. Note that Ike would request me whenever he flew Eastern.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 29/07/2026
This is really unfortunate. One of the nice things about Lyft's (previously Motivate's) bike share systems is that each region is unique.
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 27/07/2026
I really loved Wilson's essay! It reminded me of things about The Odyssey that I'd forgotten & which enriched my experience of the film! I disagree with some of its points & find that *exciting*, because it's helping me sharpen my own thinking about it through the lens of her expertise!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/07/2026
WELP I WAS ANNOYED AND HAD THE TIME: “When men say she should be grateful for the attention, they’re saying a woman’s scholarship only gains true meaning when a famous man shines a light on it.” news.chanda.science/archive/an-o...
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An Odyssey Through Testimonial Injustice
On reading Dr. Emily Wilson, properly
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79G...
youtube.com
Neuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 26/07/2026
They did a whole movie about this in The Nasty Girl
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 23/07/2026
Wealthfront, which does “direct indexing”, proactively sent me an email reminding me how to opt out of individual stocks, calling out Space-X by name. Thank you.
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Colin Rafferty @colin.rafferty.net · 22/07/2026
"Benjamin Netenyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any war criminal at large."
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