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Christina Wodtke

@cwodtke.bsky.social
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Contains multitudes. Author of Radical Focus and many more. Lecturer at Stanford. Often somewhere with a beach and ruins.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
girl stop typing and hit him with your car
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(1/2) Since I haven't seen anyone else mention this one... It was an open secret that Dolly Parton secretly funded a massive number of southern high school bands, most especially predominantly Black high schools. A marching band member in her youth, Dolly never forgot the joy that playing snare drum
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(spo)okie 🎃 @okie.gay · 25/08/2026
Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar
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Dan Saffer @odannyboy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton is the anti-Elon Musk
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Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It me. And Nina.
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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
beef with the wind
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 02/07/2026
It's giving gender reveal that turns into a raging wildfire
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 02/07/2026
THIS IS SO REAL!!!!!!!!
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.
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Goodbye to seasonal viruses as we know them: the first universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergies is now closer than ever
Scientists are getting closer to a universal nasal vaccine that could protect against respiratory viruses, bacteria and even allergies
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Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK
Back Of Gatorade Bottle Features Recipe For Gatorade Casserole @andrewfleer.com actually collecting the ingredients for this for some reasonIt's so wet

An unbaked Gatorade casserole 
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Update: 30 minutes later, it's still very wet.

Maybe 20 more minutes?







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We're going to try just a little longer. 

For the record, it smells horrid

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After an hour, I think this is the best we're gonna get

Baked Gatorade "casserole" 
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Gatorade casserole soup in a bowl 
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Y'all I'm scared to try it







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It smells like hot tuna, with a lingering sweetness of the Gatorade
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Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Shocked, I say …
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Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This made my day www.reddit.com/r/UnderRepor...
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From the UnderReportedNews community on Reddit: A Giant Inflatable Elon Musk appeared in Times Square in NY this morning. The workers said they have no idea who owns it, they were just paid to put it ...
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Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Those who don’t learn from history. … Or as bugs bunny would say, what a ultramaroon.
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Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Profoundly offensive
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Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Been watching Columbo and wow it stands up well. I see why it’s copied so widely
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/03/2026
I understand what these words mean when these words get put together but I don't understand how these words could possibly be together.
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Stephane Bura @stephanebura.com · 03/03/2026
My instinct is to adopt the opposite strategy: build a LLM on a game's world model. The challenge being decribing a world in operative terms that both make sense for a LLM and can be interacted with using such an interface. The way LLMs are built right now makes interating toward this a nightmare.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.” —JG Ballard
a photo of JG Ballard
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Dr. Susan G (she/her) @madtownmama.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
💔
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Resistance? On Saturday night, Claude overtook OpenAI’s ChatGPT to claim the number one spot in the App store, a position it still held as of this morning. techcrunch.com/2026/03/01/a...
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Anthropic’s Claude rises to No. 1 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute | TechCrunch
Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/02/2026
Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.
To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com]
From: roger schank
Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM
Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence
intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed
(this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature)
it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what
thinking and feeling about her
hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why
hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag
roger schank
http://www.rogerschank.com/
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/02/2026
these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 23/02/2026
"Pantry is empty of the four kinds of food your kid will eat." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/par...
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Parenting Blizzard Bingo
Parenting Blizzard Bingo
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Can we talk a bit about the terms “First Amendment absolutist” and “free speech absolutist,” and whether they have any agreed-upon meaning? I promise to try, to the utmost of my ability, to Be Respectful Of Other Opinions. /1
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
HELL yea
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Byhalia ICE Facility Plans Ditched Amid Mississippi Opposition, Wicker Says
A proposed ICE detention facility that would have held 8,500 immigrants in a warehouse in Byhalia, Mississippi, won’t happen, Sen. Roger Wicker says.
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Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
that makes me smile
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16/02/2026
If you (whoever you are) give a few dollars away a month, you're beating Elon Musk in relative donations.
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Juan Luis @juanlu.space · 15/02/2026
"Showing someone a finished prototype and watching them shrug isn’t research. It’s a slow, expensive way to discover you guessed wrong." Vibe-Coding Is Not Need-Finding, by @cwodtke.bsky.social eleganthack.com/vibe-coding-...
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Vibe-Coding Is Not Need-Finding
Last month a product designer showed me her new prototype. She’d spent two weeks vibe-coding a tool for tracking “gratitude journaling streaks.” The interface was beautiful. Confe…
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 14/02/2026
This Is Cute (10 Photos) Sometimes art doesn't have to be big or serious. It just has to be cute! Here are 10 tiny, fluffy, and adorable pieces of street art that will definitely make your day a little sweeter. More: Almost Too Cute (9 Photos) 🦇 1. Shhh, He’s Sleeping — Calgary, Canada 🇨🇦 A…
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This Is Cute (10 Photos)
Sometimes art doesn't have to be big or serious. It just has to be cute! Here are 10 tiny, fluffy, and adorable pieces of street art that will definitely make your day a little sweeter. More: Almost Too Cute (9 Photos) 🦇 1. Shhh, He’s Sleeping — Calgary, Canada 🇨🇦 A bookstore in Canada found the cutest little visitor. A tiny bat decided to take a nap right on their door frame.
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Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Add the private army he's building and things are only getting grimmer and grimmer.
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Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
the fuck you say?
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Kristina is family. Trust that if she is asking it’s both needed AND going to where it should go.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
Roses are red Love is a gamble Obey us or else You get the mop handle
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 09/02/2026
Kellan wrote another good blog post so I am having thinky newsletter thoughts laughingmeme.org/2026/02/09/c...
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Code has always been the easy part
When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature in...
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
"Need-finding happens before you have a solution. You’re listening to people describe their lives, their frustrations, their workarounds. You’re hunting for problems that actually exist..." Worth reading the whole post from @cwodtke.bsky.social: eleganthack.com/vibe-coding-...
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Vibe-Coding Is Not Need-Finding
Last month a product designer showed me her new prototype. She’d spent two weeks vibe-coding a tool for tracking “gratitude journaling streaks.” The interface was beautiful. Confe…
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement:

“Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer.

“Today, we demand accountability.

“In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota.

“Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.
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Rusty Shackelford @pfcilng.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Yup here’s the gift link for everyone www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
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Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents
See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation on Saturday.
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capster.bsky.social @capster.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
If I sent a letter saying I would continue to inflict violence and murder on a community unless that community made legal concessions to me, I would go to prison. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read Bondi’s Letter to Minnesota’s Governor
Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on Saturday that blamed him and other Democratic officials for allowing “lawlessness” in the state. It was not immediately clear ...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
ICE guys: so yeah you're pretty much going to abolish us now, huh
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 23/01/2026
A Chinese factory mistakenly stitched a frown on a Year of the Horse plush toy and it became a surprise hit. Meet the ‘Cry-Cry Horse’, the perfect mascot for 2026. [news.cgtn.com]
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From a stitching mistake to viral hit: Meet the ‘Cry-Cry Horse’
With the Year of the Horse approaching, a netizen in Hangzhou recently shared photos of a stuffed horse toy that came with an unexpected flaw – its mouth had been stitched upside down.
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Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I watched the new Starfleet Academy and I liked it. People who don't like it are those purists that think that we should just keep making the old Star Trek or Star Trek: The Next Generation over and over again.
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5 Calls @5calls.org · 22/01/2026
PSA: You do NOT have "until Jan 30th" to call your reps about ICE. The House is voting on the DHS appropriations bill TODAY (1/22) 🚨🚨
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
These are too good 🤣
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Video Of Trump Getting Distracted And Looking Out Window To Admire Ballroom Renovation Sparks Flurry Of Memes
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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
132. T. Kingfisher’s Snake-Eater Sometimes a woman's best friend is her dog. Sometimes it's her septuagenarian trans grandma neighbour with a shotgun. The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a…
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132. T. Kingfisher’s Snake-Eater
Sometimes a woman's best friend is her dog. Sometimes it's her septuagenarian trans grandma neighbour with a shotgun. The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a paying subscriber through WordPress is what subsidises me to write more of them.
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Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 18/01/2026
You get the users you get—with their existing habits, their limited attention, their varying levels of motivation, their phones buzzing with notifications from seven other apps. Of all the languages, @cwodtke.bsky.social decided to speak the language of facts. eleganthack.com/the-formula-...
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The Formula That Changed How I Think About Design
A few years ago, I stumbled across a formula from Kurt Lewin, a psychologist working in the 1930s and 40s: B = f(P, E) Behavior is a function of the Person and the Environment. Lewin was explaining…
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Adrian Howard @adrianhoward.com · 05/01/2026
Since the AI bubble hasn't quite burst — a small batch of some more sceptical pieces on AI in the first issue of the year :-) mailchi.mp/7dde6332c467... Including work from @emilydileo.bsky.social, @cwodtke.bsky.social, @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social, @lizthegrey.com, Lizzie Matusov, & more.
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Quiet Stories #194
Your Chatbot Is Not Your Knowledge Management System, Before You Cite That Study, Nine Risks Caused by AI Notetakers & more.
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