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Tech and textiles. Entropy tamer, word wrangler, culture nerd, artisan, educator, historian, and high-tech 'creative type'. 🥑🏳️‍🌈🎭👗💻📚🤓

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 23h
"I’m about to head up to the attic right now to find that wicker fucker, dust it off, and jam it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables. When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO!" buff.ly/w93mWIl
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Why on earth does this BBC piece on Burnham telling an interviewer the UK security services confirmed Russian interference in the Brexit referendum require a response from a pro Brexit pressure group? It's literally our Prime Minister telling us about election security. It's nothing to do with them.
The prime minister told The Rest is Politics podcast that upon arriving in No 10, he had asked about possible Russian interference in the 2016 vote, adding: "I've had the clear answer that, yes, there was."

"I think we've been too much on the back foot on that actually and we haven't informed people sufficiently about the extent to which people are seeking to disrupt the political process from overseas," he added.

Burnham did not provide further details about the type or extent of Moscow's activity during the Brexit referendum.

Britain Unbound, a pro-Brexit campaign group, said Burnham's comments were "another crude attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the decision that the British people made in 2016".

It said that foreign interference in UK elections was "obviously unacceptable" but added: "There is no good reason to believe that Russian intervention influenced the outcome of the referendum in 2016.
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 07/08/2024
https://fwankie.neocities.org/
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I NEED A HIMBO
HOLDING OUT FOR A HIMBO 'TIL THE END OF THE NIGHT HE'S GOTTA BE BIG AND HE'S GOTTA BE KIND AND HE'S GOTTA BE NOT VERY BRIGHT
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Curiosity Guild @curiosityguild.org · 06/10/2026
Meet the Magcarus, tonight at Grave Mistake! Six stories of toxic inventions, a bloody revenge, battlefield overdoses, missing tombstones, the science of screw-ups, and one very well-preserved colonel. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/grave-mist... Doors 6:30pm, show 7:30pm Tonight at Public Works
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“HBO removed about 200 episodes of Sesame Street in 2022, so we realised any media we wanted to continue to watch or listen to could be gone, and we’d have no way to get it back" www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...
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‘If you can’t hold it, you don’t own it’: why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl
People describe their return to physical media – whether to protect data, support artists, or retain control of one’s choices
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 30/09/2026
Here's a small thing you can do for the future: 🌐 Find a webpage you care about. 💾 Save it. ✔️ That's it. One saved page becomes part of the web's shared memory. Try it today 👉 web.archive.org #ToolsYouCanUse
Cream graph-paper graphic framed by yellow line art, featuring a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine page, with the "Save Page Now" options circled in red. A yellow ">" chevron tagline below reads "tools you can use," pointing toward a yellow arrow.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If anyone's ready for a break from "elections don't matter, we can't win, & both parties are the same anyway," here's one. youtu.be/GlxveqpM4iM
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Stop The Doomerism. Do It For Farm Workers.
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 27/09/2026
Giving a small, well-organized minority of people a heckler's veto over new housing that follows democratically-enacted zoning laws is not "democracy."
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Some of this history has been sold back to us — classic Western styles transported to Japan, where they made into more fashionable garments, and then exported back to Western European and North American customers. Comedian Mic Nguyen captures this history humorously below IG nicepantsbro
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics may not be unreasonable at all. Nature and mathematics may meet because both are ultimately descriptions of structure. The surprises occur because humans notice the structures in one domain long before recognising the same structures elsewhere."
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ContextSans @contextsans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just leaving the SF Opera Simon Boccanegra. The crowd loudly booed Matthew Shilvock when his recording came on to welcome people to the auditorium, then burst into cheers when the orchestra seated themselves.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stop spreading fear, paranoia, & apathy where none is warranted. This behavior DOES actually persuades people to not bother to vote.
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Curiosity Guild @curiosityguild.org · 23/09/2026
History is full of people making good decisions. This show is not about them. Six true stories of very bad, no-good, grave mistakes! Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/grave-mist... Ian Cannon — War on Drugs: The Patron Saint of Overdoses Lin Lawhn — Sixteen Years of Piracy: Jeanne de Clisson’s Revenge
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
you can learn a lot about America by remembering that this man lived through the coronavirus
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Liberté, egalité, get your mistress her own properté
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As the TeamPCP cybercrime group carried out an unprecedented spree of software supply chain hacking this year, it had been infiltrated by an undercover analyst from Google's threat intel division. Google watched from inside, warned victims, even disrupted extortions. www.wired.com/story/an-und...
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An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply Chain Hacking Gang
TeamPCP pulled off the worst-ever software supply chain hacking spree and breached thousands of companies. Now Google’s threat intelligence group has revealed it had a mole inside the hackers’ inner c...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
hi hello it is me "normal" guy in tech please go after the guys running my industry I am not alone, I promise you
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 18/09/2026
At-home COVID tests were a breakthrough in the pandemic. Doctors talk about how to best use them now, especially during a surge.
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COVID is surging again. Here’s when home tests can still help
At-home COVID tests were a breakthrough in the pandemic. Doctors talk about how to best use them now, especially during a surge.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Always worth being reminded that Kids These Days/This New Generation is Cooked lamentations are as old as humanity. Probably older.
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 13/09/2026
Parivar Bay Area, an org serving trans immigrants and their families, has a chance to get funding coming up this week but needs your support. Please send an email to San Francisco's budget committee, bos@sfgov.org & Brent.Jalipa@sfgov.org subject “Support for Parivar Bay Area, File No. 260855” 1/
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
when I worked at 18F, we got 30 minutes/week to observe calls on the USA Gov 800 number - it was *astounding* how many calls were about scams related to benefits or owing tax money or claiming money from the government. it’s nightmarish
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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Damn they're sensitive about Epstein. 👀
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doodpatrol.bsky.social @doodpatrol.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
To be fair NYC is not Preston's backyard, or where most of his family's rental properties are so this isn't really contradictory.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you're not aware of what a massive piece of shit Ross Ulbricht is, read this excellent two-part series from @wired.com.
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The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 1
How a 29-year-old idealist built a global drug bazaar and became a murderous kingpin.
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ira @ira.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
O, blessed foghorns! Heralds of relief.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Democrats should assume they need to flip five seats now. He'll never be reelected, by either party, but we're stuck with him until 2029. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
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Fetterman Praises Trump in Video Broadcast at Republican Convention
The appearance of a Democrat lauding the policies of an administration that his party is claiming has made life harder for Americans was a stunning turn and a boon for President Trump.
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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
To repeat others: This is the coolest summer you or your kids will ever know
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suldrew 🏳️‍🌈 @suldrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
happy Connie Chan Green New Deal day to all who celebrate (she then opposed parks and housing and continues to do so)
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
...given who is apparently funding many of these anti-trans campaigns, Dems should TURN EVERY SINGLE TRANS-RELATED QUESTION they receive into a REFERENDUM ON MUSK, his bigotry, & unregulated billionaire contributions to elections. make your GOP opponents defend that! www.advocate.com/politics/ele...
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Elon Musk’s PAC makes transgender people its multi-million-dollar midterm target
America PAC is attacking Democrats in four competitive Senate races as the trillionaire prepares to spend at least $100 million helping Republicans.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Any news outlet that spent even one segment or one article on "Joe Biden is old" in 2024 should be going wall-to-wall with stories about the dementia-ravaged 80-year-old who keeps posting AI garbage and telling insanely obvious lies about himself. And yet
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/09/2026
"Our current state of unbridled free market capitalism—where food might kill you, but taxes are slightly lower—is the best version of society we can hope for. Trust us, America doesn’t get any better than this." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rel...
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Relax, If Food Is No Longer Safe to Eat, Just Eat Cake
“Liberals can grumble all they want about ‘affordability’ and ‘access to food that doesn’t leave them doubled over on the toilet begging for death.’ This is ...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Predictable and predicted: "revenue from audits plunged 35% in fiscal year 2025, meaning billions of dollars in taxes went un-collected. The drop coincides with a 27% cut in enforcement and collection staffing at the IRS, as part of Elon Musk's campaign to boost government efficiency."
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I keep thinking about how Republicans campaigned and fundraised forever off of the Clinton administration repatriating Elian Gonzalez to Cuba, how they told Cuban-Americans for generations that only Republicans could be trusted to protect their families and friends... and here we are
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Katie West @katiewest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If you're in Canada and want to tell Tim Hortons that their Harry Potter marketing campaign is shit, you can contact them here: www.timhortons.ca/support
help.timhortons.ca
Tim Hortons Help Centre
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LGR @lgr-yt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is amazing! SimCopter had a great soundtrack by Jerry Martin but the game’s files were highly compressed. So LucasVB got in touch with Mr. Martin and he was able to find most of the original high quality tracks! Awesome to hear “Hangar” in such clarity after 30 years archive.org/details/SimC...
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SimCopter original soundtrack (high quality)
SimCopter is a somewhat obscure game released in 1996 by Maxis, the studio behind the SimCity and The Sims franchises.In the game, the player controls a helicopter pilot in various missions across a c...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/08/2026
"Sure, this city isn’t near major job markets and doesn't have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency services, but it does have a series of dilapidated ranch houses located between a data center and a second data center that is currently on fire." buff.ly/03WTZvh
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Why Aren’t People Moving to This Town with Cheap Housing and Literally Nothing Else
“Sure, this city is in the middle of nowhere, isn’t near major job markets, and doesn’t have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency ...
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
lmao
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you are a liberal democracy, a key part of your foreign policy should be hurting the Republican Party in any manner you can.
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Da Sp00ky Jew 🎃🇵🇸 @dylanbickers.com · 26/08/2026
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🧪🦠🧬❤️💔❤️💔❤️💔❤️🕊️
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 20/08/2026
i swear to god, asking: “what is the problem you are trying to solve? followed by: “what information or data do you need to solve this problem?” are like, some of the single most important questions you need to ask a stakeholder on all kinds of projects, and so many people skip it
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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Discovering a new type of guy
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I was once talking to my 75 year old Chinese dad in passing about a trans friend of mine not getting along with her family and he asked why and I said err, because she's trans, dad.
He asked: "Oh, was she the only son or something before *waves hand*?" and I was like, warily, no she has two brothers. And he responded with a great deal of confusion: "Then what's their problem?!?!"
Later on: "Anyway, even if she WAS the only son, that's not her problem, that's THEIR problem.
They should have had more sons if they were going to be bothered about it."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
What this doesn’t say—but everybody in SF politics does—is Pelosi is suspected to be backing Chan largely out of pique that Weiner announced running to succeed her before Pelosi could essentially hand her seat to her daughter: www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...
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‘Rooted in pettiness’: Democratic women push back against Pelosi, rally to Wiener’s defense
Several powerful female political leaders in San Francisco are pushing back against Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi for her letter ripping House candidate Scott Wiener.
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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 19/03/2026
"After I threatened to fire any employee that complained everyone told me the microwaves were great. More than half the steaks get sent back by the customer. I now run 10 microwaves in parallel cooking 10 steaks. One out of the 10 steaks will most likely be good" www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...
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In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
Update 8/8/2025 – I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. I’ve seen some comments this is a rebuttal – it wasn’t meant to be! But…
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
One of the best job applications ever written came from the hands of Robert Pirosh in 1934. MGM loved it, took him on and in 1949 he won an Oscar for ‘Battleground’.
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