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Daniel O'Connor

@darius.dons.net.au
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Software engineer, beer lover, general nerd. (He/Him)

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 20h
Usually I'm the one writing about AI. But recently, the tables were turned. Someone sent me a link to an 89-page book about "redefining living through Cam Wilson teachings", seemingly made by AI So, I bought it. Once it arrived, things got even weirder: www.abc.net.au/news/...
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Unfrozen Caveman Librarian @latefiennes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Original Tweet: “I like Hole better than Nirvana”

Quote Tweet: “me leaving the monastery”
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 20h
I don’t support AI companies banning people from hurting the feelings of AI but I do support BioWare banning players for cheating on Liara in Mass Effect because she’s your blue wife in STEM and you need to honor that relationship
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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 23h
"There might be a mine here" minesweeper.mikelacher.com (thanks @alexjaffe.bsky.social)
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Triple-A Minesweeper
Sweep to survive in the action-packed, AAA reboot of the classic puzzle game.
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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I really hate this sort of take. someone saying "we're better than this" is speaking aspirationally! you are not clever for insisting we aren't, you are giving people an excuse not to try to be.
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
like this is maybe the oldest human wisdom on offer. Need challenge to grow. Need others to offer you new perspective and new insight
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/10/2026
My wife’s brain is less internet-poisoned than mine.
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
seeing hacker news posts about margaret hamilton (rip), and forgive me, but i this is how it feels
wow cool robot meme, edited to show margaret hamilton standing next to a tower of code she hand audited, with an onlooker going "wow!! so much code!!!", and the point flying across the onlooker's head reads: engineering is about preventing problems through understanding the consequences of your decisions, both wanted and unwanted
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That catgirl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the-artificem  Nov 12, 2017
sometimes i think about how my all-girls catholic school's idea of a PE class was to pair two girls up, teach us how to dance tango (one of the most sensual dances) for a whole sem, and have us perform it as an exam with one girl wearing a dress and the other girl wearing a coat and tie and how theyre still completely baffled on why almost half of their students are gay

argumate Apr 29
so conversion therapy works but only in one direction huh
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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Your wife: spend time with your child You: no
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Haint-y Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We must not fall behind China in the development of the Wire Mother tech sector.
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
LLM (Large Line Man) solves math problem
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
new reality show called “dancing on the stars” and the premise is we launch people into the sun
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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lads. Bad news.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Enjoyed this thread. Have always wanted a duffle coat but have never gotten around to buying one. Gloverall makes a model called the Monty that I've long admired.
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton has died. Absolute legend, it was my honour to meet her and have a conversation with her just a few years ago, super nice and still sharp. Ave atque vale Margaret. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
news.mit.edu
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the true moral of this nasa story is this: if you present anything as a choice to management, be it testing or other safety critical work, they will see it as optional, and will default to saying no doing anything more than the minimum best practice means taking more responsibilities for delays
She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely. But they let her make a note of it. When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission—the first manned flight orbiting the moon—it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back. “I remember saying to a couple of guys there, ‘It’s the Lauren bug!’” she says, laughing.
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Daniel O'Connor @darius.dons.net.au · 08/10/2026
I was a bit worried when I saw his name on the credits at ep 1 but I think they pulled it off this time
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Ash in China @ashinchina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i do enjoy the loony tunes aspect of China's offroad community
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i do think it's worth stopping for a moment to recognize how extraordinary and how fucked up it is that this sentence exists.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/10/2026
they'll be packing me into a padded cell while i scream about how autocorrect used to be good
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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"snowpiercer is trying to say that class societ-" WRONG, snowpiercer is saying that it even in the worst circumstances that it kicks ass to be on a train
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Me showing an early hominid a comic from my book
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Zuul Nightingale🚪 @danaenight.northsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you change your UI to place the AI button exactly where the most used button in your entire app was, I wish you not just unending gastrointestinal distress, but to stub your little toe at least once a day, and to get a splinter under your fingernail at least once a week
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That's why
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Longbox Ronin @longboxronin.com · 07/10/2026
@beetlemoses.bsky.social new book is gloriously stupid, highest praise. Bone-dry, literal wit. He takes a ridiculous idea to its logical conclusion, then somehow makes it even dumber. Perfect timing. No overexplaining. I laughed my ass off. ARC via NetGalley. All opinions my own.
Monkeys driving a truck full of bananas off of a cliff
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Sages: a man's boner is not a woman's problem
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The reviews are pouring in!! Love you guys!
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Daniel O'Connor @darius.dons.net.au · 07/10/2026
Ah right I missed the operative word of course…
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Daniel O'Connor @darius.dons.net.au · 07/10/2026
Wouldn't you want the wok on the chimney (effectively) so you get a stream of hot air up the sides? Obviously you'd need a trivet to hold it up so it doesn't block the flow completely though...
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Daniel O'Connor @darius.dons.net.au · 06/10/2026
Now that’s a dangerous tap 🤤
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Daniel O'Connor @darius.dons.net.au · 06/10/2026
I think my wife would eat porridge for 80% of her meals if I wasn’t around so I don’t think it’s that uncommon 😂
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BEGGING people to look up terms before using them for library social media. “BBW” doesn’t mean Banned Books Week
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 05/10/2026
[my head swivels mechanically and my eyes glow red. I start speaking in a monotone Austrian accent] USE A PUBLIC GROCER TO BREAK THE SDA’S SWEETHEART DEAL WITH SUPERMARKET CHAINS
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Daniel O'Connor @darius.dons.net.au · 05/10/2026
Do they come and paint it the final colour when the last loan payment is done, or...? 😆
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Daniel O'Connor @darius.dons.net.au · 05/10/2026
Me driving past petrol stations now
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Jalopnik @jalopnik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In 1985, a crew of five British Royal Marines removed a first-gen Ford Escort's inline-4, bolted it back in, and drove the car for 32 yards in just 42 seconds.
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The Unofficial World Record For Fastest Engine Swap Still Stands Over 40 Years Later - Jalopnik
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Jade Monster @feleochadan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This one is one of my favorites
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 04/10/2026
no, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome
The she-wolf who nurtured Romulus and Remus, depicted in mosaic form as a maniacal black dog with sharp teeth and white eyes.
My dog, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the maniacal mosaic wolf.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Apropos of nothing, I get a lot of mileage out of this meme.
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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amazing work by @propublica.org and partners illustrating the lack of regulations around microschools in some states. www.propublica.org/article/prop...
In Arkansas, all it took was a few clicks on the Arkansas secretary of state website, $45 and an American flag to form a bona fide private school with the Arkansas Times.
We established a school with Mountain State Spotlight in West Virginia after filing our new school's name and location with authorities on a piece of notebook paper, then exchanging a few emails.
And with The Assembly in North Carolina, we filed an online notice of intent to open a private school at Ponysaurus Brewing Co. in Durham, while perched on its metal bar stools, eyeing glasses of a crisp kolsch.
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Just Jim will do. @justjim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good grief, how will this work? From what I understand there's barely enough meth to go around as it is.
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Big housing development set to grow Warrnambool's population by 50 per cent
An additional 15,000 people could call this Great Ocean Road city home when this development is complete.
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