Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Have they seen pretty much _anything_ else that's on Twitter? 020
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Seems like you're implying that we are not already in a golden age. Risky business that. 060
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Wait, is what happens here "discourse"? I was thinking of it all as either "hype" or "cries for help". 001
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In all fairness to him he may be one of the dumbest people ever to serve in Congress so I can see how he would be inclined to spend his and his constituents time on this. 050
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026How to explain this to my pseudo-engineer colleagues. 000
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'm glad you asked because we got a great story out of it. People thinking they're dunking on you for asking need to chill. Or its just bots looking for "engagement" 080
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I read "Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages" by Carlota Pérez this weekend and it is the bible of tech bubbles for a reason. www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/tec... My half-baked notes: blog.thefactoryfactory.com/blog/reading...lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 010
Reposted by Joshua NobleGordon @gordon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026don't want to hear you talk about a bubble unless you've read the bible 081
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I didn't realize that I liked Henry Rollins as much as this article made me like him. very much looking forward to this album: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comHow two punk icons are giving the Cramps a second life“If you lose culture," Henry Rollins explains, "the society dies.” 1305
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Somewhere is a very similar photo of me, though the teeth in my case are shifted one to the right. Had crowns but knocked them out and got full implants. Crowns are so much better sadly 000
Reposted by Joshua Noblepmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Bauhaus Milhaus 56103102124
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I may be misunderstanding the proposal but I thought it was to address where there aren't nearby grocery stores, eg "food deserts". Would geographical distance not mitigate the effect on other stores, especially in transit/walking oriented metros? 120
Reposted by Joshua NobleThe Onion @theonion.com · 24/07/2026The Onion looks back on 250 years of American exceptionalism. Watch now on youtube.com/theonion 640758
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Great news: USA has broken the Preston Curve, an econ theorem that says wealth to life expectancy is a log curve. Poor to middle income = huge gains in life expectancy, middle to rich = modest gains, rich to richer = no gains. Bad news: we broke it in the wrong direction. www.nber.org/papers/w35470nber.orgThe U.S. Mortality Crisis as a Preston Curve ReversalFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 010
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Why acquisitions make some powertools so much worse while not affecting others: www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-power...worseonpurpose.comYour Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose | Who Really Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?How TTI and Stanley Black & Decker took the same playbook in opposite directions. One invested $206M in R&D and grew to 4,000 workers. The other is $6 billion in debt and closing its hometown factory. 021
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 07/07/2026"Friends don't let friends use ollama" sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-...sleepingrobots.comFriends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama | Sleeping RobotsOllama gained traction by being the first easy llama.cpp wrapper, then spent years dodging attribution, misleading users, and pivoting to cloud, all while riding VC money earned on someone else's engi... 000
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Business AI for Business transforms your Business into AI Business www.instagram.com/reel/DZCtsqh...instagram.comEmily Mattheson on Instagram: "hope I get it! #vo #voiceactor #voiceover"146K likes, 2,894 comments - emilymattheson on June 1, 2026: "hope I get it! #vo #voiceactor #voiceover". 000
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 27/05/2026This is deeply saddening. CDN was a bright light in a dark media landscape that desperately needs meaningful local coverage of events, politics, and culture. 020
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I believe this is a quite funny conceptual art prank. 110
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 23/05/2026However I have wider feet and find Altra and Topo both quite friendly brands. 120
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 23/05/2026One thing about waterproofing trail runners is that never letting water in means never letting it out either. Most trail shoes will lets some water in at some point but waterproofed ones won't dry until you take them off, can be quite a problem on longer runs. 220
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 17/05/2026In person and in private, apparently he is a bit of a jerk. Living in Seattle a lot of people had run in's with him and always came away unimpressed 000
Reposted by Joshua NobleNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I'm sorry some of you dislike Bluesky. My experience here is pretty good. Maybe it's because I don't think of myself as a political operative posting to win elections or transform politics. I like writing, reading, and interacting, and found here better than elsewhere. To each their own, I guess. 3473851
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Something non-Americans don't about appreciate about us is that our built environment is just a place for to put cars and chain stores. You'd be staring at your phone if you were stuck in an American city too. They're mostly characterless horrible places to be alive. 000
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Something gloriously touching in this song about an bleakly anonymous urban-ish part of an mid-tier American city: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd3k...youtube.comSmokey Brights - "Northgate Way" (live from The Rabbit Box)YouTube video by Smokey Brights 100
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 04/05/2026My father had a stroke and went from mostly normal political science professor to raving MAGA. The brain is an organ and much like lungs or fingers, damage to it makes it work less well. 030
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 04/05/2026There seems to be a thinking that goes "sure the past had brutal infant mortality, every disease, diabolical cruelty, material deprivation of every kind, but [gauzy metaphysical revanchism of one kind or another] was better so today is obviously worse in every way". 140
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Caveat that I grew up in small town Wisconsin and have strong nostalgic feels for KwikTrip whereas QuikTrip is a place I got gas a few times. 000
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 04/05/2026They have to be called KwikStar in states that have a QuikTrip. They are unrelated companies and also KiwkTrip is superior. 100
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 03/05/2026This is what institutionalized treason looks like. Not in the most nationalistic sense, more in the Hobbesian "war of all against all" sense. Any and all political action is zero-sum self-interested plundering and hoarding. No common good or possibility of altruism, just exploitation. 030
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I am consistently baffled by Pydantic. It feels as though it exists solely to generate the maximal number of minimally interpretable runtime errors. 000
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Plugging into "the future of tech" does not feel like something I want to willingly do 000
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 01/05/2026It's hard to feel like ideas matter right now. Hot takes pitching a substack to a barely literate audience with a 30 second attention span. Dismal times. 000
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 01/05/2026It'd sure be cool to live in a country not run by a violent racist power-hungry clique. 010
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Why do so many OpenSource projects rely on Discord? It is tremendously annoying to use in all possible ways. I am not a gamer, I do not want games, I do not want things gamified. The login experience is tremendously bizarre. There has to be a better platform. 010
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Also, are hardcore 2A people more excited that so many Americans are using guns or disappointed that we seem to be so bad at it? 000
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 27/04/2026In America, we may need one of those "It has been ___ days since" signs for presidential assassination attempts. We can just put it up at border crossing and airport so people know what they're in for when they come in. 100
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I should stop, I could make a public nuisance of myself here 000
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 26/04/2026media.tenor.coma man in a hat and coat is standing in front of a glass door .ALT: a man in a hat and coat is standing in front of a glass door . 020
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 26/04/2026media.tenor.comthree men in hats are standing next to each other and one of them is saying i don t know boss .ALT: three men in hats are standing next to each other and one of them is saying i don t know boss . 100
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 26/04/2026media.tenor.comNick Nolte Im Right GIFALT: Nick Nolte Im Right GIF 210
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 42, and post the second sentence: "When the Byzantine emperor Justinian banned the ceremony in that year, both the Orthodox and Monophysite churches sent missions to Nubia." Africans: History of a Continent - John Iliffe 010
Joshua Noble @fctry2.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Like, am I elite because I think he's absolutely insane? 010
