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Edward Thomson

@ethomson.bsky.social

895 followers 222 following 126 posts

Product at vanta.com focusing on privacy and data security. Formerly Vercel, GitHub, Microsoft. Maintainer of libgit2.org.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Punk rock is DIY; it isn’t DAIY

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Dead sexy bottom bracket…

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I’m in bicycle mechanic hell

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Me in the national security team group chat

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Poor kid hasn’t figured out how to quit vi.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Nostalgia driven development; I finally got around to building my Cray Y-MP themed @raspberrypi.com case. Next step: Cray emulator and UNICOS install.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Meanwhile on the other site, when you ask its ai to draw you, you end up with a picture of its fearless leader doing you as drag.

The output of Grok when prompted to “draw me”, which is a very Elon Musk looking person, but bald and bespectacled, with earrings and a blue gingham shirt. While I am bald, and wear thick glasses, and earrings, and am prone to blue collared shirts… this doesn’t look like me. This is very much what Musk would look like if he were trying to look like me. It’s not a bad look for him, but it sure as shit doesn’t look like me.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Why, yes, I *do* have a corn Christmas ornament.

A metal Christmas ornament depicting scenes from Illinois, including a river boat, a barn, the likeness of Abraham Lincoln, the skyline of Chicago and, yes, an ear of goddamn corn.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

I hope this has more proof than their evidence-free couch-fucking rebuttal.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Just noticed on a rewatch of Halt and Catch Fire. Obviously no UIUC grads were consulted.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 05/06/2023

I understand wanting somebody in a particular geo or timezone to do the job. But why would somebody have to be there to even apply?

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