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Dan Freedman

@dfreedm.bsky.social

212 followers 358 following 82 posts

lit.dev engineer, UIUC alum, open source enthusiast, he/him. Opinions my own, etc. Mastodon: @azakus@mastodon.social

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

What the dietician looks like

Anthony Hopkins as John Harvey Kellogg from The Road to Wellville

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Buddy wants to recreate Bart's megaphone cannon.

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

So you want boob lights or butthole lights?

Photo of overhead lighting fixtures. On the left is a light that looks puckered in the center, like an anus. On the left, twin packs of dome lights with a white plastic cap that look like boobs.

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

New Tote bag time. Hopefully offline folks understand what team I'm playing on soon enough.

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Forced to watch a Priceline ad about their new AI agent, and I wondered if it would be as easy to abuse as Chipotle's Short answer: yeah, I think so

A screenshot of the Priceline AI agent chat, which is meant to help book vacations.
At the top of the visible section of the chat reads "Yeah, let's sketch out that app"
The Agent then responds about how to build a task-tracking web app "so you can code on the road".
It lists out Core Features, a Data model, and starts to list UI layouts.

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Spent a gorgeous Spring afternoon outside

A bounty of flowers in a garden of a mansion. Red, pink, and white flowers, flowering citrus trees. In the background is a close bundle of tall trees that have been trimmed into a column of sorts.

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I don't think they considered the ramifications of using a cute mascot that has to literally burn to be useful.

The little lump of coal mascot Coalie aflame in the burner of a boiler, looking distraught and sweating, with a little thought bubble "mine baby mine"

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

A black and white graphic in the style of the 'Come and Take It' flag. In the center is a silhouette of a large submarine sandwich, with a star above it and the text 'COME AND TAKE IT' below.

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Saw some beautiful egrets while riding on the Bay Trail today

Egrets gathering around a small pond near the Bay Trail. One egret is larger with a yellow bill, and there are five smaller ones with black bills nearby. One of the egrets looks like a young one still getting their adult feathers.

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Checking in from Redwood City California

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A children's "bead activity table". The table has a child height base with a cartoon sea animal motif. The sides of the bar have a couple wheels and gears that children can spin. The top of the table has wild squiggly tracks for bright colored beads to move around from one end to the other.

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Absolutely unable to meet the moment. Pathetic

A text message from the DNC with the following content:

Team Kamala here - asking if there ANYTHING we can say to convince you to make a contribution to the Democratic National Committee after Trump's speech last night?

Please let us try:

What if we told you the DNC is leading the fight to stop Trump's tax cuts for billionaires while taking away health care from millions on Medicaid?

What if we told you that the DNC is also on the front lines of electing a Democratic House and Senate that can put a check on Trump after the next election?

There is no organization better positioned to move resources where they are needed when they are needed most.

If everyone getting this text donated to the DNC today, they would have the resources they need and not have to ask again for months.

But not everyone gives. So Kamala Harris and Democrats everywhere are counting on people like you who understand the stakes to chip-in. What do you say?

Use this link to donate directly to the Democratic National Committee today.

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Department of Defense training on Canadian invasion plans:

A poster for the 1995 movie "Canadian Bacon".
The poster is reminiscent of a WW2 propaganda poster.
The top has a large banner, saying "Help America Fight The Canadians" in white text on a red background.
In the next third of the poster, a large boot in monocromatic black on white with a maple leaf impression in the sole appears to be about to step on the Statue of Liberty and New York skyline, drawn as a heavily shaded white and blue.
Under that is the title "Canadian Bacon" with a much smaller "A new comedy from the director of "Roger & Me".
The final section of the poster is the credits

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

My morning commute making an unexpected stop in Silent Hill

The view from a train looking over low rise buildings and a parking lot. The fog is thick and low, hiding everything behind the first row of buildings, and everything down the side streets.

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Just an amazing sunset at Ocean Beach today

The sunset at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. The beach takes up roughly the bottom third of the photo, which looks gray and is disturbed by many little mounds and footprints. In the middle, the waves are swelling, with a handful of people visible between the sand and sky. The top two thirds of the photo is the sky, with a gradient fading from light blue, to yellow, and then a deep orange just on the horizon. Clouds cover half of the sky in large, dark bunches, lit from underneath with the deep orange of the setting sun.

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this screenshot in the next few years

Screenshot of an article link from The Atlantic titled "No, that wasn't an 'Onion' headline"

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

If you haven't already, go vote!

"I voted" sticker on a blue shirt with white wave and palm tree print. The sticker says "I voted" in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Tagalog

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

We regret to inform you that Cindy Brady is a fucking fascist

Headline from Variety Magazine

CBS Studios killed Brady Bunch revival over Cindy Brady Actor's hate speech; she says her political views made her "too dangerous"

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Jean patterned crocs, captioned as "Jrocs"

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

The modern obsession with denim has gone too far

A fully denim skater mini dress, complete with yellow topstitching. The word "Jress" is overlaid on an angle.

An advertisement for a "Blue Jean Tropic Smoothie" as part of a promotion at Nordstrom's cafe entitled "Denim Days". The drink is dark blue. The word "Jeuce" is added underneath.

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

The NHL is broadcasting the finals with an ASL stream on ESPN+, and it looks super interesting. The audio is there without the normal commentators, and they have two ASL commentators on screen at all times.

NHL ASL stream, showing the the ASL commentators, crowd noise meter, and who's on the ice at all times.

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Max has an ASL "dub" of the Barbie movie. I don't think I've ever seen this before, and it looks cool!

Barbie movie with an ASL interpreter in the bottom right corner

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 24/06/2023

🤢

Flavored coffee that claims to taste like Twice bars, Snickers bars, and M&Ms

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 06/06/2023

Next Stop: The Abyss

SF Muni train sign that has corrupted to being no longer readable

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 04/06/2023

Pride celebrations at Filoli today

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 29/05/2023

Absolutely gorgeous day

Photo of San Francisco from Crissy Field

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 27/05/2023

The biggest issue with smashing HBO and Discovery channel stuff into one app is now I can't tell if this show's genre is softcore pornography or reality dating

A promo image for a show named "Put a ring on it" with a scantily clad Black woman being caressed by an attractive Black man in a suit, with another man holding her other hand while offscreen

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

This is where I skeet from

Game of thrones style chair made from keyboards

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Dan Freedman @dfreedm.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

Same energy

Truck with big printed banner on the back saying "We have gone from a John Wayne Society to a Peepee Poopoo society".

Also with a handmade "Farm Use" license plate while driving on a highway

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