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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 21h

Famously, the Civil War was called “Civil” because of how polite everyone was at the time.

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is peak BlueSky You may not like it, But this is what it looks like.

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I mean, he did introduce himself. Were you not listening when they gathered round?

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A couple of guys take a job so they can buy gas for their Winnebago.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Many years ago, I wrote down this bit of a speech Obama gave to an audience in Silicon Valley. Because it absolutely NAILED the difference between government and business.

The final thing I’ll say is that government will never run the way Silicon Valley runs because, by definition, democracy is messy. This is a big, diverse country with a lot of interests and a lot of disparate points of view. And part of government’s job, by the way, is dealing with problems that nobody else wants to deal with.

So sometimes I talk to CEOs, they come in and they start telling me about leadership, and here’s how we do things. And I say, well, if all I was doing was making a widget or producing an app, and I didn’t have to worry about whether poor people could afford the widget, or I didn’t have to worry about whether the app had some unintended consequences then I think those suggestions are terrific.

That's not, by the way, to say that there aren't huge efficiencies and improvements that have to be made.

But the reason I say this is sometimes we get, I think, in the scientific community, the tech community, the entrepreneurial community, the sense of we just have to blow up the system, or create this parallel society and culture because government is inherently wrecked.

No, it's not inherently wrecked; it's just government has to care for, for example, veterans who come home. That's not on your balance sheet, that's on our collective balance sheet, because we have a sacred duty to take care of those veterans. And that's hard and it's messy, and we're building up legacy systems that we can't just blow up.

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton and Tim Curry were both younger than my parents are. Feeling lucky to still have them today.

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Being nice to the people around you is an asset. You need them when the weather will kill you dead-dead. It certainly doesn’t make you a sucker.

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

All week the first thing our little guy does after getting up in the morning is to point outside and vocalize loudly. We thought he wanted to listen to the birds or watch the trees. No, he wants to eat the tomatoes. ALL the tomatoes.

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FOHF @fohf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

ADHD medication falls foul of the same purity test as GLP1s. Namely that if people just “tried harder” to not be like that then they wouldn’t need the medication.

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

That’s it, wrap it up folks. No one is ever topping this skeet.

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Excellent, we need more examples of healthy masculinity that has the ability to take feedback and course correct - not just yell “don’t tell me what to do!”

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If you’re in the mood for some good news - we saw a Monarch butterfly for the first time *ever* in our garden recently. No pictures this time, hopefully we get some next time.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Just canceled my DashPass and sent this email to DoorDash. I encourage you to do the same if you support D.C. home rule. press@doordash.com and ir@doordash.com

Hello,

I’m writing to let you know that I just canceled my DashPass because of DoorDash’s disgraceful campaign against D.C. home rule.

DoorDash is urging Congress to nullify a new D.C. law imposing a 20 percent tax on food-delivery services—not merely by overturning that law, but by prohibiting the District from enacting any new tax without prior congressional approval. That is an extraordinarily sweeping assault on D.C.’s right to govern itself and an odious insult to the District’s residents.

I am especially disgusted by DoorDash’s public claim that it is somehow defending D.C. residents while actively seeking to strip us of our right to govern ourselves through our own democratically elected lawmakers. Please do not pretend that disenfranchising District residents is an act undertaken on our behalf.

I intend to publicize DoorDash’s attack on home rule as widely as possible and urge everyone I know to boycott the company.

Shame on you.

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Gonna be making use of this in November

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It’s cute how my AI coding agent gives estimates. “That’s a big job, 1.5-2 days of effort.” 15 minutes later - done, QA’d, live.

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’m also mostly made of potatoes, and I’m not even Polish.

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

My brother spent most of his adult life in a “real job”. He’s retiring to rural South America in his late 40’s because: - his body can’t take it anymore - it’s what he can afford

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A takeaway I have is that media outlets have not done enough stories saying, "The climate scientists have been right along and right now we are literally feeling the effects of climate change."

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Every American needs to see this and understand that the Republican Party has become an organized crime family.

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Why are all the birthday notifications for my friends starting with a 5 now? I feel attacked.

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Apparently some MMA person is saying some things. They might be bad things. I don’t know. I don’t listen to people who choose to get punched in the head for a living.

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

If your teeth are running you need to call the doctor, like, now.

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

7 months No amount of sleep deprivation will take away the joy of your baby having their first swing.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

A graph from Our World In Data showing a precipitous drop in child mortality starting in the late 1800s going from an average of 48% to global rate of 27% in 1950 to the 2020 infant mortality rate of 4%, with some countries having a rate as low as 0.3%

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Right. Pakistan. Does anyone believe this joker anymore?

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Emily C Taylor @pentapod.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

As of today, I no longer work for Netflix. 😮 Check out today's blog from Spry Fox, and then please... ✅ Wishlist / Follow on us Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2321960/... ✅ Sign up for our newsletter for beta info: playspiritcrossing.com ✅ Wish us the best of luck!!! #SpiritCrossing #GameDev🤞

A version of the "disaster girl" meme, but instead of the young girl smiling as the house in the background burns, she has been replaced by the character Nibbit from Spirit Crossing. Nibbit is a squarish bear with large round gold glasses, dark hair, and business casual attire. She is smiling, with her (tiny stubby) arms flung wide as the house behind her burns to the ground. The caption on the meme reads:
HEADING INTO 2026
NOW INDIE

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This needs to be seen by every person in tech. Being a model minority will not save you. Voting Republican will not save you. Republicans *will* strip you of your rights, starting with your right to participate in the political process.

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Anyone who uses the phrase “professional agitators” or “paid protesters” is not a serious person and can be immediately dismissed.

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Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This dude is intense and correct

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I don’t think federal officers should fire flashbang grenades and tear gas canisters into a car that has children in it, causing a baby to stop breathing and sending kids to the hospital. I think that’s bad, not good. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

At a time when multiple federal departments run by Donald Trump have posted Nazi slogans or imagery or songs in the last week—with the total number of incidents being impossible to count just on one hand—Trump is now demanding lists of Jews from U.S. institutions. Time to wake the fuck up, all.

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UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’

Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 14/01/2026

Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers “We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.” (Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic
Argentina

Adam Scharpf
Christian Gläßel

Abstract: Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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Don Neufeld @dnf.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I wish there was more morale outrage at the overt triggering of morale outrage to distract from the more covert morally outrageous things going on. It’s like Inception, but for suck.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Congratulations to Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/ajco...

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Moot Question @mootquestion.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Literal Nazi shit. Sub in “Jewish” and think about it

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