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probably just paul

@enpaul.net
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Urbanist, engineer, activist. (he/him) Posts here will be about technology, politics, trains, cities, and being very tired. Spending my engineering time with @freedom.press working to make the cloud a better place

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 28/09/2026
"I built a custom AI that does exactly what I want!" you are subscribed to a service that offers customization options
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 21/09/2026
saw a bmw rear-end another bmw today lol
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 19/09/2026
I Am Once Again Asking You To Wake Me Up When September Ends
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 19/09/2026
[Nic Cage voice] I am Going to Become a Wikipedia Editor
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows a brain. The brain is saying "I'm 30 and YOUNG! I only recently fully developed!"
The second panel shows a heart. The heart says "I hear ya! I can keep going for DECADES more!"
The third panel shows a spine's face. It weakly says, "I am old".
We zoom out and the spine is using a walker. It continues, "so very old".
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 18/09/2026
"We can't control the LLM! It's so scary what if it does something we didn't expect!" these things need entire warehouses full of a trillion microscopic magic rocks and and a constant monsoon made only of lighting in order to go. just turn it off my dude, "alignment problem" solved
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The real reason I spend so much time at the circus school is that I have been slowly developing an immunity to clowns. This allows me to continue to do tech policy.
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 14/09/2026
On the one hand, I don't care what kind of rental car I get, just whatever the cheapest one is. On the other hand, what the fuck is a 2023 dodge hornet??
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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Look, abolish ICE, but also Milo Yiannopoulos, who had a measurable role in getting the Leopards Eating Peoples Faces party into power, got his face eaten by a leopard www.cbsnews.com/news/milo-yi...
cbsnews.com
Milo Yiannopoulos is in ICE custody facing a final removal order, sources say
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said Milo Yiannopoulos "chose to overstay his welcome."
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 26/08/2026
somewhere along the way my brain broke and I started spelling "y'all" as "ya'll"
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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My current retirement plant is to wait a few years, pray for climate change to cause day-long internet outages, and charge people thousands of dollars for... thinking. I'll be like the village elder. People will come to me and ask what to eat, what movies to watch, where to travel. I'm gonna be rich
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...
local12.com
Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart
A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/08/2026
also financial institutions add a mfa option that isn't sms please I'm begging you
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/08/2026
"Multi Billion Dollar Company Make a Website that Isn't Absolute Dogshit" Challenge (level: impossible)
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 10/08/2026
lord god please grant me even half the self confidence of a doordash driver that leaves their car stopped in the middle of a travel lane on a busy road for tens of minutes at a time
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 08/08/2026
"Our bread is low carb!" but at what cost
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 30/07/2026
This marketing about how dangerous their AI is analogous to injecting Teflon into the drinking water and then bragging it's never coming out, just like it's never coming off your pan.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 30/07/2026
As part of a series of updates to reduce the volume of AI slop on the platform, LinkedIn is introducing an actual button that lets you flag a post as something that “Seems like AI slop.”
theverge.com
LinkedIn actually adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button
It’s also removing an AI “enhance” feature.
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Finally some good innovation from LinkedIn.
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 24/07/2026
One of the cool things about combining a med dependent health condition with insurance that limits your prescription supply to a 30day max is that you're never more than 30days away from absolute ruin
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 22/07/2026
Are you a journalist who uses the Freedom of Information Act in your reporting? Well, you can now win $25,000. FPF is proud to announce the launch of the Penlight Prize for excellence in paywall-free public records reporting. Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social to learn more, and apply today.
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 15/07/2026
My favorite thing about verizon customer support is that no matter what you ask for they act utterly baffled as to why you'd want that. I could ask for help making phone calls with my phone number and the support rep would say "hmmm, I've never heard of this 'phone number' thing before"
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 13/07/2026
Not bad for the first bike ride longer than 10min in almost a year
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/07/2026
current stupid mood is "country song that ends with a gunshot"
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 09/07/2026
Proud to be the only regular poster in the #transit slack channel at work
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 06/07/2026
You'll have to toss me off the tappan zee before I call it the "govenor cuomo mario brothers" bridge
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 16/06/2026
another Cool Thing ™️ about private health insurance is that they send me about a dozen junk letters every month reminding me how awesome my coverage is, which taught me to ignore nondescript envelopes from them, which led to me missing a medical device recall notice. Perfect system, 5/7, no notes
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 12/06/2026
Currently having the quintessentially American experience of calling my insurance company to ask if I can have medicine please and then they shoot me with a gun
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 12/06/2026
My favorite thing about technology is how we give up our privacy so that it'll work better and pay lots of our money so it'll work better and let companies control everything so it'll work better and pay $11.99/month forever so it'll work better and then it doesn't fucking work
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/06/2026
Good morning! It's time for my once-a-month commute from my home in #Philadelphia to my company office in #NYC! This month I figured I'd try live posting my way through it and see what happens, so follow along if you'd like!
A picture of main street in my town, with an arch bridge over the road in the background
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 09/06/2026
"Chicago has amazing restaurants" "nyc's food scene is unbeatable" "you can't beat LA eats" It's just cities you guys. Cities bring diversity and diversity brings better food. The best Ethiopian food I've ever had in my life was in Boise Idaho
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 09/06/2026
Logging out of the production environment by hitting my computer with hammers
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 08/06/2026
testing different llms on my workstation has me feeling like the coma computer in project hail mary "What is two plus two?" > Two plus two equals four. "Correct"
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 07/06/2026
The most beautiful thing about linux is that every time I go to install a new program I learn about a version of linux I've never heard of in my life. This page has the usual alpine and arch, but also something called "conda-forge" and that's beautiful. I feel like I'm looking at birds of paradise
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 06/06/2026
I got got y'all. Been listening to a song for months now, just found out the artist's entire catalog is AI. Pretty sure this is the first time I've been fooled with literally zero suspicion.
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 05/06/2026
Blows my mind that there are people out there that bought a Chevy Cruz. Like, on purpose
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 30/05/2026
The bridgerton sound track must have revolutionized the wedding dj industry
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 28/05/2026
I love the YouTube music feature where it just starts playing random songs after you've finished a playlist. It makes it so much easier to mindlessly consume music as a product instead of appreciating it as art, which is really what I'm after
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 24/05/2026
before I go absolutely insane and cross the river styx to haul glusterfs back from the underworld, does anyone, anywhere have any official docs on the "docker volume cluster" feature? There are references to in the API and CLI...but no docs? am I going crazy??
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 24/05/2026
This is a pro ̶d̶o̶c̶k̶e̶r̶ moby swarm account btw, the k8s fanboys can get lost
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 15/05/2026
Love that selecting "help" from the right-click menu on windows now just opens a web browser to a bing search for the program you were running instead of opening a documentation book stored on your own computer. Just monumentally and fundamentaly worse UX in every possible way
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 14/05/2026
Probably my coldest take is that sometime (hopefully soon) in the future we'll look back at the time of constant social media exposure in the same way we look back now at cough syrups that included cocaine, THC, and alcohol
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 14/05/2026
My most authoritarian belief is that you should be forced to give a little note explaining why whenever you archive a repository on github
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/05/2026
In my heart of hearts I believe every person on this earth deserves to live with a little creature who gets unreasonably excited whenever you come home
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 11/05/2026
Running the country like a business by embracing the prevailing corporate philosophy of borrowing against the next decade to secure this quarters earnings
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 07/05/2026
*watching two pidgeons fight over an empty burger wrapper in the burger king parking lot* Who says being in a car deprived us of connecting with nature?
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 03/05/2026
The cool thing about hard jobs is it is never the part you think will be hard that's actually the hard part
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antlers @cervine.online · 03/05/2026
vscodium exists
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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 01/05/2026
just paid $8 to find out my last speeding ticket was over ten years ago ama
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