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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 01/09/2026

Picking a side and supporting your people is arguably more important than trying to attain some Edenic no-“AI” purity. Are you on the side of the fascists, polluters, and tech CEOs? Or are you on the side of the rest of humanity? Avoiding “AI” fabrications is a way to show whose side you’re on

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

AI for accessibility is broken by nature - "But the most frustrating part ... it couldn't resist adding a "Thanks for watching!" at the end of all that I was saying. ... Later, it got worse, ... adding "(Subtitles by opensubtitles.org!)"" From straye.dgirl.gay/blog/2026/ai...

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AI ruined some of my most precious accessibility tools.

Defending AI in the name of accessibility is a scam.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

really think the least-served political alignment right now is "people want to own their stuff, not have their stuff own them"

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Have you passed through the load-bearing gate and been stamped yet today?

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Andrew Kelley (Zig guy) put out this talk and I hope everyone watches it and upvotes it on HN. Possibly my fav tech talk ever. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4903...

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Don't Take the Black Pill [video] | Hacker News

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"Think deeply." There are two pieces here: 1. Take time before speaking or taking action when confronted with a problem. 2. Think for yourself. Do not give this away - to an LLM, to an autocrat, to a cult, to another person, etc. Always keep thinking for yourself.

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"Look for the gifts." Every challenging situation, every awful thing that I've experienced, was also a path with gifts along the way, and focusing on the gifts makes the path easier.

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"You can do some good." It's frustrating to see every injustice and focus on the things we can't control, but to go too far in the other direction and ignore injustice and live only for pleasure is hollow and starves the soul. Do some good. Just a little. Whatever you can. That is enough today.

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

"Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech" "your words... tied to your real life identity....Post an inconvenient message about a politician, or get a little too rowdy in a group chat, and you'll get ... a knock at the door. " news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4871...

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Congress is about to vote on the KIDS Act, which would open the door for a surveillance-state internet where you have to submit your driver's license or a facial scan to post/view content. Use the EFF's tool to quickly tell your rep.s to oppose this bill: act.eff.org/action/tell-...

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Tell Congress: Don’t Force Age Checks Online

Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sweeping internet bill that would pressure websites and apps to determine users’ ages before allowing them to read websites, send private messages, or ...

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sophie alpert @sophiebits.com · 25/06/2026

got frustrated recently at work about people writing using AI instead of using their brains! here's my take on it: sophiebits.com/2026/06/25/t...

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There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When I write code, it achieves two goals: The obvious goal - the code we get that run and does a thing. The less obvious goal - my own knowledge of that code, which enables me to debug, improve, and expand it in the future.

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

About a year ago I realized cocoa prices were rising, so I got about a year's supply of cocoa/chocolate. Red cocoa powder cost about 8$ for 8oz at that time, so 1$ per oz. My year's supply of cocoa is starting to run thin, and the price of red cocoa powder is still over 2$ per oz.

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I started sharing one thing I learned recently each time I give my stand-up update, and this has been so helpful for me. It reinforces all the things I'm learning, shares context and knowledge with my teammates, and sometimes sparks interesting conversations leading to more learning.

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I HATE being sick. Pretty sure this is just a common cold but it's so distracting and annoying. Sneezing and coughing, eyes watering, and feeling fuzzy headed. Ugh. Day 6 of this now.

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Just finished both seasons of "Restaurant to another world", and I appreciated that the chef was always putting in effort to do things to the highest quality, to learn new techniques, and to bring people joy, and that was his primary motivation rather than focusing on profit.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I wrote docs instead of slides for my latest internal tech talk, and now the docs are written. In the actual presentation, scrolling through the doc worked just as well as flipping through a slide, and it also encouraged making time for live demos and getting into the actual code.

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Also for any SWEs who need a laugh - this made me laugh so hard I could not breathe. My fav line might have been "a kafka topic for every interaction". 10/10 youtu.be/xE9W9Ghe4Jk?...

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Shipping a button in 2026…

YouTube video by Kai Lentit

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Look at this cursed thing. A spoon with a knife blade for a handle.

A plastic spoon with a plastic knife blad for a handle.

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Some things take time. Excellent post. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4746...

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Some Things Just Take Time | Hacker News

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I switched to Duck Duck Go a while ago. But eventually I'd like to get my budget updated to accomodate using Kagi.

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patak @patak.cat · 21/03/2026

ok, this is the line to me. what are you using lately? i'm thinking on paying @kagi.com. any insights on the best plan? is ultimate worth it? should i look into other search services?

theverge.com

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines

Let us know if you see more.

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Difftastic is such a quality of life improvement! I can't believe I have been doing code review without it all these years.

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Combo of using a standing desk and a balance board has been a game changer for me this year. I've felt myself getting stronger each day, and able to stand for longer. I dance and bounce around while working, and it boosts my energy and motivation. Highly recommend it.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 04/02/2026

This app did the thing yet again where it updated itself and turned “Require alt text before posting” off, so if you have that set, go into Settings > Accessibility and turn it back on (and if you don’t have it set, I recommend doing that)

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Some info about today's walk out/general strike: nationalshutdown.org Solidarity with Minnesotans, and with everyone impacted by violence.

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NATIONAL SHUTDOWN—FRI. JANUARY 30

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

We're now seeing a steady march of Catholic prelates with obvious backing from the Vatican saying hat it's time now to defund and liquidate ICE.

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The truth matters. Truth has inherent value. #eyesnotlies asks us to bear witness to the truth, and refuse the lies. Details here: bit.ly/EyesNotLiesA... Trigger warning for verbal description of violence and death.

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

You can blow bubbles in the rain. It works surprisingly well. And if you blow bubbles right as the rain has stopped, they will even land on the ground and sit there for a while before popping.

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Came online to share two fantastic and related posts: This is not the future - blog.mathieui.net/this-is-not-... Thin desires are eating your life - www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires...

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This is not the future

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dan @danabra.mov · 27/11/2025

internethandle.org

Internet Handle

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/11/2025

"We followed everything we were supposed to do" Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

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Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

It’s amazing how this story has gone from 0 to 60 in UK press. There’s been no mainstream coverage to date but this morning the story is leading BBC News site & bulletins. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts

Speaking exclusively to BBC News, CEO Sundar Pichai said the artificial intelligence boom had been an

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 18/11/2025

happy cloudflare outage day to all who celebrate

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Got curious today and found that you can use ‘undefined’ as a key in a JavaScript object. Yikes. Wow. Not something you’d ever want to do, except maybe for malicious purposes.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!! www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...

Sandra Oh and Lupita Nyong’o in TWELTH NIGHT

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flarnie.bsky.social @flarnie.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Thought this was a helpful, bite sized read - “5 things I know that I wish I’d known sooner” usefulfictions.substack.com/p/50-things-...

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50 things I know

And wish I'd known sooner

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