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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Did you... copy my cat?
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The season 5 premiere of what now?
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@crowlines.net getting rep in the latest @noclipvideo.bsky.social documentary on @thatgamecompany.com
Vincent Diamante, composer, wearing an excellent blue button up shirt featuring a cute white kitten, lemons, and leaves
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'd blame the Chromium devs
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As I slowly age and all my remembrance of family and a life lived leave me, this will be the final thing that remains in my memories
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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 21/09/2026
et voilà, a portrait of Garrett Langley, CEO of Flock, rendered from leaked Flock license plate camera images. Plates were redacted before rendering.
Bust of a man, outdoors. In the background, sky, telephone pole, Flock safety camera and solar panel. Rendered from a mosaic of smaller images.Tight zoom of a mosaic of license plate camera images featuring a swath of red vehicles and an empty street in other areas.
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Shoutout the best bootleg kigurumi, nyan cat.
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Amazing! The way the teeth come in, terrifying and impressive.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
GEFILTE PHISHING
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I enjoy bsky specifically because it has less users
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Ah, same Latin root as caveat. Kinda makes sense. 𝘊𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 "𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦" 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘣 𝘤𝘢𝘷ē𝘳𝘦, 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 "𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥."
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Learned a new word today, "caveating". Not at all what I would have guessed. noun (Fencing) Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Support game developers by buying their indie games in a bundle that supports game developers. It's a win-win.
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
@stfj.net little typo on www.puzzmo.com/play/hue-com...? that breaks the Josef Albers link in the design notes
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@aster's finished Hue Complete Me #1021
Play the best daily puzzles on Puzzmo
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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 12/07/2026
We have canceled our sponsored stream with SNK. We have heard the concerns from our community regarding this partnership, specifically the company’s majority ownership by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, and the human rights concerns tied to the Saudi government.
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Very cool
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Waaaaat, amazing!
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Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Godzilla-sized ladies with big silver trays. It's how they used to move stuff in this town.
Cover of the February, 1929 issue of "Minneapolis," an organ of the Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Association. A big young woman in a standard-issue diaphanous gown bearing a gigantic tray laden with cars, trucks, flour sacks, tractors and crates. In the background is the Minneapolis skyline in 1929 along with a zeppelin.
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Can't believe this is relevant, but @zachweinersmith.bsky.social here's some Wodehouse content
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Every social media account should maximize engagement. Every company should maximize growth. Just... don't question it.
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Why do they call them fire engines? Shouldn't they be extinguisher engines?
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The curse of applying the silicon valley mindset to everything else in life
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Wear SPF 5 sunscreen...
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The Turing Test wasn't created to test machines, it was created to test us. AI doesn't pass the Turing Test, we fail it.
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Is the cat doing journalism?
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
@samreich.bsky.social is like Q for content creators www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUXU...
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
At first glance I thought that was a giant pack of novelty cigarettes
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
To be fair, they have a natural wall already. And you've gotta watch out for the changelings. Still, probably worth it for the hot springs.
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
put your fist in the air like @wck.org if all you want is to feed 'em @knaan.bsky.social
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Melita Curphy @missmonster.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Skrunkly Skranklin' Space Gremlin is finally finished !! WHEW! See you at @neotropolisevent These creatures were pests with a habit of chewing on docked starship guts, a behavior that caused dread in pilots, reminiscent of Old Earth wartime " gremlins". It was discovered they ...
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Going to start a distillery + cocktail bar called "When in Rum"
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
They really shouldn't have stopped with ASCII before adding the sarcasm key. That was, an attempt, at text-based internet- comedy, if you will check the balance again 🙇
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I don't mean to be contrarian, but I think you may have calculated that incorrectly
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
How much left?
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Forgot the word "Lucifer". Had to keep jabbing at my brain, "another world for the devil, but when he's hot"
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Nothing like laying down on the grass under a tree in your local community park listening to the birds.... no. no. no. no that bird
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I think the old man next to me on the train is a plant. 80, tan loafers, navy sport coat, on the phone. “Economy is doing great” “CA still has worst taxes and highest poverty rate” “Lockheed is selling so many F-35s” “No ammunition problems” and he just got kicked out of business because he’s coach
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Haha, fair enough
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I have $100 if you have a haiku that also compiles in C
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Arrival
Three panel comic. (SPOILERS for the movie Arrival, but it’s like a decade old at this point so personally I think it’s chill.) Panel 1: the aliens from arrival are communicating in their circle writing language to Amy Adams’ character. Panel 2: Amy Adams is back with the other humans, standing in front of a whiteboard, and frantically trying to explain the meaning of their language, connecting their symbols to words like “WAR”, “HUMAN”, “PURPOSE”, etc. Panel 3: the aliens are hanging out drinking brews and one of them is like, “and then I drew a circle with a bunch of squiggles!” His buddies are cracking up.
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I think we have actually invented witchcraft
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I just want to share things with my friends and see things my friends share with me. In chronological order. Using "the algorithm" to achieve growth is the opposite of what I want. But, I'm not a shareholder...
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Deeper down I'm just a clown, starting ballroom brawls with cupid. Fuck that naked baby angel doll, yo, two more buttery nipples.
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
But when I pray, she kisses back too much. And it's hard to feel real gangster when you're always getting kissed.
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Kids these days have lost the way with their podcast-sponsored BlueChews. They need to return to the path of god with Hymns. #paidadvertisement
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
If you're running out of ways to go fuck yourself, I will innovate.
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dmertl.bsky.social @dmertl.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
An ambulance full of books, for emergency reading
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