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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 18h

This year, more than 9,000 volunteers contributed nearly 20,000 observations, setting a new observation record for the Monarch Blitz! Together, they documented over 91,000 milkweed plants and more than 29,000 monarchs (at all life stages)! 🌿🦋 Explore the full results ⤵️ www.cec.org/news/monarch...

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Monarch Blitz Celebrates 10 Years and Sets New Observation Record

Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), 6 October 2026—Thousands of people came together this summer to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the International Monarch

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dfkaye.bsky.social @dfkaye.bsky.social · 21h

We used to call influencers “salesmen”

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dfkaye.bsky.social @dfkaye.bsky.social · 21h

Tech industry out of ideas, now at war with itself, falls back to TPS Report industry www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...

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Software developers are not okay

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Eric Pazdziora @ericpazdziora.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Opera doesn't make money. Opera’s what you spend money *on*.” “But . . what do you get out of it?” “You get opera. You put money in, you see, and opera comes out,” said Salzella wearily. --Terry Pratchett, 'Maskerade'

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David Bushell 🪿 @dbushell.com · 22h

blogged: A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over dbushell.com/2026/10/07/s...

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A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over

The one where I provide employment advice.

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dfkaye.bsky.social @dfkaye.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

tech sophist says 50 years reading philosophers taught him no one understands consciousness, denies without evidence humans are special with respect to consciousness, declares without further evidence that of course machines are conscious. no one understands yet one can conclude. your brain on AI

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dfkaye.bsky.social @dfkaye.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“don’t trust ZIRP-era advice“ (such as think for yourself, express opinions, or trust other people), say ZIRP-era “thought leaders” who turned out to be opportunistic collaborators all along

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dfkaye.bsky.social @dfkaye.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

JUST LOOK AT THEO “even if the slop is bloated and non-accessible: The stuff built by most web developers nowadays is also usually bloated and non-accessible”

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Sindre Sorhus @sindresorhus.com · 01/10/2026

Due to AI, I have disabled external pull requests on all my repos. Open source, as we have known it, was fun while it lasted. (It’s been 15 years for me) I will still maintain projects and handle issues.

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dfkaye.bsky.social @dfkaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Generational change this month. My father passed away a couple weeks ago, and my son is moving out today. I am still not moving to a beach in Bali or wherever.

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dfkaye.bsky.social @dfkaye.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Over the last few weeks, a new team has removed contributors from the repository, deployed artificial intelligence tools, blocked people from commenting, deleted posts, and—“ AI as an accessibility overlay to replace an entire team fedscoop.com/trump-team-a...

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A Trump team wants to automate U.S. Web Design System accessibility testing. Experts are worried.

GitHub community and accessibility experts are concerned about a reversal of progress amid potential AI reliance and plans to “automate as much accessibility testing as possible.”

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GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are aware of possible red warnings that XSLT will be removed from Chrome, Edge, Firefox etc, and are working to change the technology that GPC uses. There is no need to be concerned in the meantime. Apologies for the temporary inconvenience.

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 28/09/2026

✍️ The AI Artist Paradox heydonworks.com/article/the-... Where AI is *either* intelligent or unintelligent, its usage precludes you from making art.

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The AI Artist Paradox

Whichever way you cut it, you cannot be an AI artist.

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Greg Restall @consequently.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I’m delighted that a paper I co-authored with my brilliant colleague, Franz Berto, on some connections between logic and the psychology of reasoning, has been accepted for publication in the Review of Philosophy and Psychology. We sketch some possible connections between System 1 and System 2 […]

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Who’s ready for No Kings? We’re getting an early start on making signs! ✊💚

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Moto Perpetuo @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

Cleveland Orchestra musicians have ended their strike after reaching a new three-year contract. The agreement includes 5% salary increases in each year, a greater role in auditions and improved workplace safety provisions. Read more at moto-perpetuo.com/cleveland-or... #ClevelandOrchestra

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 26/09/2026

In flight wifi is spotty so I'm writing code the old fashioned way.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026

A historic milestone for New York’s youngest learners: Universal 2-K is here. Our two-year-olds are ready to learn, explore and build a strong foundation from day one. This is what it looks like when we invest in our kids.

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The Look Book Goes to the First Day of Preschool

The city’s universal-2K program launched September 10 as an inaugural class of 2-year-olds joined Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center.

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dfkaye.bsky.social @dfkaye.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In other words he’s just another liar. www.piratewires.com/p/jacob-coxo...

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dfkaye.bsky.social @dfkaye.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hart Crane the poet lived and worked as the great literary poetic philosophers of his time recommended (reason is the devil, live instinctively). His work and life turned out largely accidental and chaotic. He died by suicide in 1932. blog.bustikiller.com/2026/09/25/o...

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One month without AI

Several months ago, I decided that AI contributions were no longer welcome in a FOSS project I am building and maintaining - LibreWeddingPlanner. It’s not that it got a lot of contributions with AI - ...

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dfkaye.bsky.social @dfkaye.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once you start using it, you cannot stop. You have to use it all the time or be fired.

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This is Classical Guitar @thisisguitar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Summer Workshop Survey (takes 3 mins): I am potentially planning an in-person summer workshop to teach and interact with my classical guitar students and followers. If you're interested give me some feedback. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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This is Classical Guitar Summer Workshop Survey

I am potentially planning an in-person summer workshop to teach and interact with my classical guitar students and followers. This would be an intimate workshop-style teaching event rather than a fest...

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 24/09/2026

worth noting that instead of using their newfound powers of slopomancy to rehabilitate one technique in particular that has worked the same for 25 years, they are electing to take it out behind the woodshed: github.com/whatwg/html/...

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Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? · Issue #11523 · whatwg/html

What is the issue with the HTML Standard? XSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v2.0 and v3.0, adding features, and growing apart f...

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Moto Perpetuo @handle.invalid · 25/09/2026

Cleveland Orchestra musicians have gone on strike after contract talks failed to produce an agreement. Concerts on 25 and 26 September have been cancelled, with a 15-concert European tour due to begin on 2 October. Read more at moto-perpetuo.com/cleveland-or... #clevelandorchestra

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World Health Network @thewhn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Prior infection doesn’t guarantee protection from getting COVID again. Reinfections can happen, and every new infection is another opportunity to develop Long COVID. Reducing the number of times we’re infected still matters. #COVID #COVID19 #LongCOVID #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir

World Health Network graphic on a black background with white and bright pink text. Large headline reads: “More exposure doesn’t equal better protection.” Supporting text reads: “Getting COVID doesn’t protect you from getting it again. Repeated COVID infections create repeated opportunities for developing Long COVID.” The top includes “whn.global” and the World Health Network tagline, “Science for a safer, healthier world.”

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dfkaye.bsky.social @dfkaye.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wonder what’s happening with the careers of these no-longer relevant studs kirby hotheads declaring your career over if you disagree with them

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Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Forthcoming in the 'Review of Philosophy and Psychology' -- where Greg and I show how a little logic goes a long way in the psychology of reasoning: philpapers.org/archive/BERR...

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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You’ve just made a website, but now you're unsure where to go from here. Here are ideas for things to add and techniques to learn. 32bit.cafe/websiteideas/

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32-Bit Cafe

A web space community that focuses on building websites for self-expression and creativity, made up of professionals, hobbyists, and enthusiasts of the personal web.

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dfkaye.bsky.social @dfkaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Brian Marick on property-based testing (2021) For the Lakatos reference alone ~ testing in general, not just “properties,” is driven by conscious refinement by counterexamples. www.crustofcode.com/arriving-at-...

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Where do properties come from?

A not-infrequent response to my skeptical essay [https://www.crustofcode.com/a-reluctant-rebuttal/] on property-based-testing (PBT) is that I left out an important benefit: it makes you think about pr...

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

After a certain plurality of the population make accumulating wealth their sole goal in life, then everybody else finds they have to do the same to keep from falling off the economic cliff entirely. That's why you can't allow an economic system to exist that makes accumulating wealth its sole […]

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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This summer, our Living Farms team visited growers around the country to celebrate 4 years of creating wildlife habitat on farms. Over 5 field days, we shared the kinds of stacking benefits farmers could see by installing pollinator habitat & becoming Bee Better Certified! xerces.org/news/organiz...

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Supporting Farmers with Conservation Innovation Grant Field Days

Through a series of five field days, Xerces Society staff brought together farmers, technical service providers, and regional experts in soil, water, and crops to talk about the stacked ecological and...

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SFist @sfist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The second-oldest winery in Sonoma County and one of the oldest continually operating wineries in the state, Gundlach Bundschu, has filed for bankruptcy, three months after its sibling property shut down. buff.ly/7Udwz9b

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Gundlach Bundschu, One of California's Oldest Wineries, Files for Bankruptcy

The second-oldest winery in Sonoma County and one of the oldest continually operating wineries in the state, Gundlach Bundschu, has filed for bankruptcy, three months after its sibling property…

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 23/09/2026

someone pinged this thread and I can say a year on that everything I expressed here has got very much worse bsky.app/profile/jcog...

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dfkaye.bsky.social @dfkaye.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Two weeks later both pama and pmam patterns have regressed, topping out at 90 bpm, whereas pimi and pmim are now both hitting over 100

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dfkaye.bsky.social @dfkaye.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The theorbo “offers opportunities to play with other instruments and is in demand in early music, although there are relatively few theorbo players” **Theorbo player’s market right now** www.dailybaltic.com/40210/tartu-...

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Tartu classical guitar festival opens with baroque duo - Daily Baltic

A classical guitar festival running from Tuesday to Saturday has begun in Tartu, ERR reported. The programme features concerts by internationally known musicians and performers at the start of their c...

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dfkaye.bsky.social @dfkaye.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Understand, plan, implement … This process is how good software is built, but it gets so easily forgotten, just rushing forward. And unlike a house, you never really finish building it” Explaining so they understand is the only bottleneck. Always has been www.manager.dev/newsletter/c...

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Explaining to business people why building software is still hard

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 22/09/2026

Why is social media so humourless? Why is it so easy to get into trouble by saying something you thought was fine, but others found offensive? This is because of how most social media platforms are designed (Essay, audio, and video versions included.) www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/03-why-...

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Why is social media so humourless?

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

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dfkaye.bsky.social @dfkaye.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good people refuse to do bad things (set Coxon and Haugen aside; ask whether you would do what they did) carette.xyz/posts/good_p...

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Good people refuse to do bad things

On the responsibility of engineers

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