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It‘s jarring to see some people you’d never expect to have the ‘chosis show that they indeed have the ‘chosis. I don’t know whether to feel frustrated, angry, or just sad.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 14h

I don’t keep getting lumped in with rapists so I don’t know what you’re talking about. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Unless you have a reason to feel targeted, maybe check your ego at the door and absorb the fact that some people who fit our description are complete monsters.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 23h

I came of age during W's second term and this environment is oddly familiar. The 2006-2008 election cycles were a wild-ass ride.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 30/09/2026

My lack of interest in AI stems from how I've structured my life around freedom and intentionality. I'm in the fortunate position that allows me to move slow and optimize for experience not productivity.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 30/09/2026

Aside: it’s really fun to have a three-digit number there and *not* be speeding.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 30/09/2026

If the Unites States is going all in on ”SI”, well, I guess it‘s a good thing I’ve had my speedometer set to show km/h for over a year now.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 29/09/2026

Oh hey look, it's just Facebook doing Facebook things. No one should be using this.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 29/09/2026

As a bigger guy (both vertically and horizontally)... hoodie and shorts weather is the best.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 29/09/2026

Ugh yes. It's like the Newspeak version of "computing capacity". I already have conspiracy theor--- I mean, *hypotheses* about the tech industry employing a lot of buzzwords that are suspiciously close to Newspeak as it is.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 25/09/2026

All else aside, I think “blobdar” is an objectively delightful term and probably not far off from how weather laypeople perceive radar plots. (my phone also tried to autocorrect it four times, and it was something different each time)

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 25/09/2026

It’s good to see Discord getting some well-deserved backlash, but the age verification is just the latest in a long string of reasons I refuse to touch it.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 25/09/2026

This is why things like Discord are bad for the internet. They’re event horizons for information that USED to be just published on the internet and easily searchable/discoverable.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 23/09/2026

Weather band is still VHF FM. The beauty of AM is the simplicity of modulation (it’s possible to accidentally make an AM receiver) and the long reception range of the medium wave band. Some AM stations cover 30+ states at night

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 19/09/2026

Yes thank you! Or at least an option. I like to run Arch on an Eee PC netbook on the weekends and I intentionally installed no capability to display graphical applications. It’s a dream.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 19/09/2026

Jerry this is the first thing you have EVER said that I have agreed with even a little bit

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 19/09/2026

I just wish the newer generations of terminal applications weren’t seemingly built to be run in a GUI terminal emulator. I like using the ding dang text mode console and a lot of the fancy Unicode stuff doesn’t work there.

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Zac Writes Sometimes 💭 @zac13.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't know how to put it nicely that people should have to put in a modicum of effort to learn to use technology and software and you shouldn't want it to treat you like a baby

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 19/09/2026

In a way… he did name it after himself. “One Rich Arsehole Called Larry Ellison”

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 18/09/2026

Wait… getting horribly tired on ADHD meds means the dose isn’t high enough??? No wonder my best days are the Vyvanse + iced latte days

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 15/09/2026

What Molly is (correctly) saying is that once the ball is *in* the river, it’s in Kentucky. Going over the river is not necessary.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 14/09/2026

This; all of it. If you believe that people should be paid a fair and living wage for their work, but that doesn’t extend to journalists or others who create or curate informative or entertaining media, that’s a cognitive distortion you really need to address.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 14/09/2026

On some level, I just want us to collectively cut the tether and let these people get the reality check they so desperately need on their own schedule. My only worry is what they'll do once it comes... and it will come. PS: I'm a hater precisely because I'm good at what I do.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 10/09/2026

Yes and that’s the worst part! I know I’ve said some shit about Mastodon/fediverse and the culture there. I stand by it. However… I’ll take that over whatever this place is becoming, which is a tornado of context collapse and AI psychosis.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 09/09/2026

Before you respond… I know that’s not 100% objectively true, but it is for most intents and purposes.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 09/09/2026

It’s also worth remembering that you can get high-resolution imagery from film just by scanning the print again with modern equipment. Film is analog; it has theoretically infinite image resolution.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 09/09/2026

No one needs AI to conjure up what HDTV footage from New York in 1993 might have looked like. That’s because HDTV footage from New York in 1993 actually exists. youtu.be/fT4lDU-QLUY

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New York City in 1993 in HD - DTheater DVHS Demo Tape

YouTube video by Youtube Pedant

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 04/09/2026

The amount of spam I've had sent to directv@<domain> despite not being a customer for 15 years...

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 04/09/2026

I work in radio broadcasting. I’ve been actively working on reconfiguring our EAS units to automatically rebroadcast tornado warnings. It’s surprisingly not required of us, but the right thing to do.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 04/09/2026

Kentucky knows how to kick one to the curb. Kept that mfer to one term, too

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 03/09/2026

Hold on, I was told that if that end pointed toward space, you were having a big problem and you would not go to space today.

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Scott Dimmich @scottdimmich.com · 03/09/2026

Hard pass...until I learned this is about a symposium.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 02/09/2026

This is relevant to my interests! I work in radio broadcasting and latency within the studio environment drives way more architectural decisions in our digital audio setup than I care to admit.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 02/09/2026

I have used Bitwarden across pretty much every widely available PC (Windows/Mac/Linux) and mobile (iOS/Android) platform. It's a banger!

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 02/09/2026

This one won't get any further than stupid memes on the internet, because the Strait of Hormuz clearly falls outside the jurisdiction of the USGS. I am, however, looking forward to the absolute crash out when he tries and fails.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 02/09/2026

Wait, was that the “pound of flesh” guy? I worked at a CPA firm at the time… there were several water cooler conversations about it.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 02/09/2026

Listen, you can’t have kids say the words “with liberty and justice for all” nearly every day for twelve years of their childhood and adolescence and not expect them to grow up and actually believe in making it a reality. That’s what America is and what being American means.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 02/09/2026

I mean… it’s pretty much going to be the only thing left that he‘s allowed to do. And unfortunately, he is allowed to do it as head of the executive branch, regardless of how stupid it is.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 02/09/2026

Just so I’ve said it at least once: I despise LinkedIn with the fury of a thousand suns. It is a completely useless afterthought of a web site that serves as little more than a self-important slop factory. AND YET… I still occasionally go and look at how much of an awe-inspiring train wreck it is.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026

re: everyone yelling about Google Maps - Maps just ingests the official data source for each country, which is GNIS in this case, and most other online maps will follow for American users nobody at Google is making an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 30/08/2026

There are a lot of days where I feel like the internet has a gas leak or something. This is one of those days.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 27/08/2026

This is your reminder that mapping software providers have automated pipelines that ingest government data publications and apply changes to their databases. It doesn't make sense to scramble engineers to override one change manually. Save your energy. You might need it.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 27/08/2026

That’s some eepy V.I.K.I. from I, Robot ish right there. MY LOGIC IS UNDENIABLE

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 27/08/2026

Oh… oh no… *new* new Twitter is *bad* bad.

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 26/08/2026

I don’t think the people pushing this narrative have picked up on the fact that slurs typically derogate people for things they can’t choose or control, like their skin color or ethnic background or even gender identity. Being that AI-brained, however, is definitely A Choice

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 25/08/2026

I've always playfully mentioned that Whitney made Dolly a lot of money, and now I know what Dolly did with it. Legend.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 25/08/2026

One can't help but notice that this music appears to be composed, arranged, performed, mixed, and mastered entirely by humans. Funny thing, that. I was told that letting computers extrude all this at a cost of more money than currently exists was "inevitable" and "the future"

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Drew Kirkman @drewkirkman.com · 25/08/2026

Do you want my 65” Roku TV? I hate it. I’m actually considering buying a Google TV so I can disable all its features, not connect it to the internet, and just use my Apple TV over HDMI.

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