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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 1h

The Obama-era US Web Design System was a critical part of professionalizing and making useful so many government websites. The Trump Administration's new websites ignore it completely in favor of having Grok "just make something pretty." www.washingtonsun.com/trump-white-...

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'Sloppy' Code and Accessibility Issues: The Trouble With Trump's Silicon Valley-Inspired Web Design Project

“Some of these sites feel like another round of ‘move fast and break things,’” a former federal web designer told NOTUS.

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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 2h

I went from "Oh, I haven't listened to this one in a while..." ... very quickly followed by "I remember this with an organ..." ... to "Damn aging brain cells, you're remembering Animusic!" Animusic 2 came out 21 years ago in November. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eso...

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 1h

It sorta weirds me out that someone thinks a book on computer science (not languages or algorithms, but the fundamentals) from 2009 is "too old" to be useful. I've found papers from 1959 useful! www.reddit.com/r/compsci/co...

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 1h

A study of the methodologies and surveys conducted over the past 40 years shows that the finding "1 in 5 college women experienced sexual assualt" is a solid and reliable figure: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28375675/

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, this! I do this all the time: Write your `commit.md` file FIRST. Write down what the bug is, what changes you think you're going to make, and what you needed to understand to make the changes in the first place. Edit as needed, but use your commit as a place to think. yedhu.me/posts/commit...

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Commit Description as a Thinking Tool

Before the AI era, I wrote pretty long commit descriptions (or commit bodies) for major changes. It took me about five to ten minutes to draft and reread them to make sure I didn’t miss anything impor...

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 1h

You have to wonder why the Republicans have lost interest in fighting the abortion fight. Especially since it's classic Iron Law stuff: once you've won, you need to "keep winning" by tightening the screws. www.thebulwark.com/p/an-evangel...

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An Evangelical Kingmaker Is Lost in the Age of Trump

Four years after Dobbs, evangelical leaders are confronting a Republican party increasingly uninterested in abortion.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 2h

It cost half a million dollars, plus 100 hours of labor. It analyzed half a million people. It resulted in zero arrests and one false positive. It invaded privacy and traumatized people. I'm sure British Railways thinks its anti-crime AI is a massive success: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests

Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 3h

Today's great dyslexia: "The `activate` key is `true` by defalse."

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 7h

RUN FOR COVER (1977) Acrylic on illustration board H. Beam Piper is, of course, best remembered for the Fuzzies of Zarathustra. My involvement with those books began in 1976 when Ace, guided by Jerry Pournelle, repackaged the two original novels: LITTLE FUZZY and FUZZY SAPIENS. #art #booksky 🪐📚

A white haired man stares down a horned and tusked alien boar-like creature as it prepares to charge. Pappy Jack cradles a little fuzzy alien creature in one hand while gripping a laser rifle by the stock with his other. The beast turns intense orange eyes towards the pack of fuzzies that are panicked and looking for cover. The beast’s intentions are clearly hostile from the bristling of its mane to the set of its hooves on the flora covered rise.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 17h

Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic

Sunset with giant mystery cones Prototaxites https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prototaxites-fossil-explained-why-this-prehistoric-colossus-still-baffles-scientists-1773173

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 7h

I would watch every single one of their ads, too, and not toss their Act Blue texts right into spam.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 5h

"Potent eroticism?" In this economy?

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 15h

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 5h

Sometimes this works the other way, too, though. I came out as a queer/kinky writer in the early-to-mid 90s, and made a public face of it to the point that when the "carapace hardened," I was obligated to live up to not indulging any ugly impulses I may have had or risk my reputation. Worked, too.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 5h

I wonder if there's a distinction between a personal duty and a moral duty. When you die, you'll forget everything. There will be no "you" to remember. And yes, eventually, you'll be forgotten. But there's a difference in the before and afterness of that:

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 5h

Every morning, I wake with a song in my head and try to figure out what it means. I'm not sure why, but this morning DJ Earworm is playing Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." Okay, then. Whatever.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 5h

It really is remarkable that the right wing's safety net is so strong the only way to fall through it is the "dead girl or live boy" route, while the rest of us are given a tattered lace over a concrete floor.

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Brandon Santiago @4brandonjs4.bsky.social · 16h

Jada’s Intrusive Thoughts #chloe #jada #yuri #comfort

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 8h

www.programmablemutter.com/p/in-praise-... Like O'Brien, the prospect of being completely forgotten gives me hope and a sense of peace.

Striving to be a Dorothea is a noble vocation, and likely the best we can hope for in any event; sooner or later, we will all be forgotten. In the long course of time, all of our arguments and ideas will be broken down and decomposed. At best we may hope, if we are very lucky, that they will contribute in some minute way to a rich humus, from which plants that we will never see or understand might spring.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 5h

Not escaping the accusation that Republicans (and not a few Democrats) are in it for the money, not for the honor or duty of serving their constituents.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 8h

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 7h

Is it rude to say, of scalies and dragons, "On a scale from one to ten... ?"

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 20h

I think one of the undercurrents of our fractured political reality is that basically everyone has come to realize that the people who rule the world do not possess any particularly impressive level of intelligence or capability

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 16h

I cannot imagine a truly educated man saying, "I do not need to be able to write in order to think." You confine yourself to the limitations of your own head when you do that. You lock yourself away from the experience of seeing ideas connected before your eyes, choke the canals of intelligence.

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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 20h

SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never listened to Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *plays video* please explain this video of you [SMITH]: That is Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure"

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 16h

I had this realization recently that I hadn't played a video game since mid-July, when I finished Pragmata. I just really don't want to see anything computer generated for awhile. (Mandelbrot and other math things... okay, that's okay.)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16h

seriously: every western regime should deny any and all relief and sabotage this administration as hard as possible

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 17h

If you want to know why so many kids are refusing to give positive answers to questions about queer identity, consider that in half the states their teachers are terrified of the mob that will come for them if they say supportive things about LGBTQ students: www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/teac...

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Teachers in red states are terrified to stand up for LGBTQ+ students - LGBTQ Nation

Teachers in red states that witness anti-LGBTQ+ bullying say they risk disciplinary action & community backlash for intervening.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

You know, eight hundred years after the War of the One Ring, there would be chin-stroking conservative professors in Middle Earth bemoaning the destruction of the One Ring and writing long articles about how Sauron had a point.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 17h

"I don't understand why liberals mythologize Bilbo Baggins. He helped people kill an endangered animal! And his nephew Frodo clearly inherited his taste for destroying great artifacts of historical importance." bsky.app/profile/elfs...

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 18h

Oh shit, that response, though.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 17h

That's one way to deal with the cost of art supplies.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 17h

I've lost count of the number of "think of the children!" anti-gay, anti-trans Republicans who have been arrested for possessing CSAM, sexual assault on a minor, or sexual solicitation of a minor.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 17h

I've also seen big titty Deathclaws, so furries ain't limiting themselves. You know what I've never seen? Borderlands E621. No Skags or Bullymongs. I've seen Rule 34 Revenants and Whiplashes from Doom! Six-armed, white-furred Bullymongs ought to be a cinch.

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GlentheFossa 🌲 Banned in all Red States + UK @glenthefossa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

furries turning night stalkers from fallout into ladies with fat tits is a tremendous innovation imo

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 23h

It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"

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JP Robichaud @jprobichaud.bsky.social · 19h

Just rewatched John Carpenter's THE THING with @laurenjane.bsky.social and I'm hard pressed to think of another movie that stands up to as many repeat viewings as this one does. An absolute unquestionable masterpiece of suspense, suspicion, and dread.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22h

Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims

Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.

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

Five years ago, when a Seattle burger chain raised employee wages & benefits the Reicht wing lost their minds, screaming the result would be $20 burgers & the company would end in bankruptcy. Today, the chain is even more popular than ever. Never let them try to tell you a living wage can’t work.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 19h

@kennyjacoby.bsky.social on X: NEW: I analyzed seven years of Cornell's sexual violence case data. Expulsions are very rare. 1,216 reports of sexual assault, DV and stalking, 2018-2024 162 formal investigations. 51 findings of fault. 14 suspensions. 7 expulsions or dismissals.

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Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive

A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 19h

Once upon a time, there were designated federal Thingknowers. Entire agencies of Stuff. Sure, elected and appointed officials might not have particularly listened to them, but they were there.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 19h

What's really annyoing to me is that this is happening for the stupidest fucking reasons due to this administration not understanding: 1) Things and also 2) Stuff

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Dangerous Gain of Function” policy from the feds is real tough to comply with when they haven’t quite said what the policy is yet. This might mean it’s not written yet.

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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I didnt know it gets funnier than a whole ass United States Senator accusing a man of being at a Hawks game in ATL when he was at a Hawkeyes game in MD, BUT... He let every media outlet know he had a big moment coming so they all saw him clown himself and watched Amy Klobuchar clean up the pieces.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 18h

A scheduling kerfuffle tonight meant that Omaha and I were in the wrong places when one of us needed to get the cat's meds, but she had the car. So I rode my bike to the one pharmacy that sells it, about 6 kms away. This being Seattle, it started to rain, fairly hard. And it was glorious.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 20h

Love between two women is a beautiful thing. It's also not bad when you're the one between the two right women.

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Shawn Wildermuth @wildermuth.com · 29/09/2026

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