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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 20h

I can confidently predict that when you find one (and you will), it will have an unreasonable number of vowels in it.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 20h

As true today as it was when you wrote it. And yet so few of your colleagues seem to be taking up that mantle.

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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 22h

not to downplay what my math friends are going through but I think this metaphor applies to so much of modern life for so many people www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-the-en...

It's as if you were teleported to the peak of a tall mountain. Surrounded by fog, you have no idea where you are, or what's around you. You do not know how your mountain connects to others, and you have no equipment to help you explore, no way to help someone else join you. If you had climbed the mountain yourself, you would have experienced how the human body adapts to altitude and changes in oxygen levels. You might have had to invent tools to navigate, to climb steep cliffs, or to make a shelter. You might have encountered a fellow explorer, gotten lost together in a hidden valley, and found a plant that could be turned into a life-saving medicine.
Instead you're perched on the peak but in the dark, while the maker of the teleportation machine tells you that it can explore the wilderness better than any human.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The heart wants what the heart wants.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I may be an absolute Philistine, but for me growing up it was always for dipping my bologna and mustard sandwich in.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Affectionately, Christopher Nolan

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm guessing they'll give it 5 stars/2 thumbs up.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My company was built around C++ Builder decades ago. I'm so glad there are other developers out there trying to figure out how to make it fully integrated with the current C++ clang open-source movement. Thanks, Volker Hillman!

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How Exotic Is C++Builder 13?

C++Builder is often treated as something of an exotic species within the wider C++ world. Sometimes that is said with a smile, sometimes quite seriously.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Benches $42,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying (h/t Wint, obvs)

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That said, I do really love the "fixed Windows governing" framing

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As long as we don't misdiagnose the patient. My fear about moving quickly to healing is that we don't address the root causes that led to the disease. For example, I think that Ford pardoning Nixon set one of the worst precedents. I don't want to elect a "We must look forwards not backwards" admin.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can't see his name without saying it like Strong Bad: "Conow Fwiedesdohf".

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's not lost on me that he refers to them specifically as West Bank Palestinians.

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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊

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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ontario Society Of Professional Engineers (OSPE) continues to speak out against the province's reckless and arbitrary scheme to rip out 19 km of protected bike lanes. Now will engineering firms heed this message before bidding on Ontario's RFP?

ospe.on.ca

OSPE Statement: Where Things Stand on Bill 212 and Toronto's Bike Lanes

Explore the OSPE Statement on Bill 212 and its impact on Toronto's bike lanes and transportation planning.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bosch, notable companion of composer Ricardo Astlei (b. 1643 - d. 1684), could've done the funniest thing here.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'd say this is underrated, but it appears to me that it is being rated completely appropriately.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They came here to love and kick ass, and they're all out of love.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Surely to God she just omitted a "bathed" line.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm a Windows dev, so it's inconvenient to have to run polytoken on my Linux machine. Not impossible, just inconvenient.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

it was predictable, ultimately unsatisfying piece with more holes in the plot than you'd find in a game of Portal. The stakes kept rising in a completely predictable way only to have the denouement show us that none of it was necessary. Not a great start to my Midnight Madness experience.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#TIFF Movie #5 - The Spiral - 5/10 I dunno, man. After the way Obsession blew-up last year after its screening at Midnight Madness, I don't know that they needed to schedule yet *another* Monkey's Paw type horror, albeit more of a psychological one. I had high hopes for this one nonetheless, but ...

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

After casting his daughter in his new period piece, Bardem walks a tightrope between directing his actor and re-establishing his relationship with her. They each have very different memories of their past, and anyone with a difficult family situation will definitely feel seen.

Photo of Javier Bardem and Victoria Luengo on stage at the Q&A after their film The Beloved at The Toronto International Film Festival (#TIFF)

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#TIFF Movie #4 - The Beloved (7/10) I really enjoyed this character study about a long-estranged father (Javier Bardem) and his daughter (a compelling Victoria Luengo) by an actress who worked in a film he had directed. You could see this movie just for the first scene of their rapprochement.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have *so many questions*, but I'm not going to spoil the film. It gets worldwide release in a couple of weeks, and then I'll be able to try to find answers. The actors show great vulnerability - kudos to the entire crew/cast for the risks they've taken. I want all the best for this film.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In the first half you don't know if this is a buddy movie, a coming-of-age story, a gangster film, an action flick or a Bollywood movie (there's a dance scene!). And just when you've finally decided it doesn't matter, the movie shifts gears completely in the second half.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#TIFF movie #3 - Dorothy (7/10) THIS is why I love @tiffnet.bsky.social. I get to see a movie from a culture I don't understand very well, in Tamil, using film conventions and vocabulary that I'm almost completely unfamiliar with, and yet I walk out knowing I'm going to think about it for days.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

are shown in all of their shades of grey as frightened, angry, horny, high, funny and irascible. It was really refreshing to see them all presented as fully-formed humans (no pun intended) rather than caricatures. I imagine that if it qualifies you might see this on some Oscar prediction lists.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's easy for movies like this about inspiring figures to descend into mawkish sentimentality or hagiography, but this movie avoids that at every turn. The deaf protestors have beef with the group in wheelchairs, Judy is no angel, and the amazingly cast group of (actually) disabled protestors...

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

@markruffalo.bsky.social plays against type as the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Carter who refuses to return Judy's (played by an impressive and convincing Ruth Madeley) calls to sign a years-old piece of legislation that will bring "invisible" disabled Americans into the light.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#TIFF movie No. 2 - Being Heumann. (8/10) Director Siân Heder follows up her Oscar-winning movie CODA with this fantastic biopic about Judy Heumann and her diverse band of collaborators protesting to bring about accessibility legislation in America in the mid 70's.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The "film" grain switches between grainy 16mm-type film on the exteriors and hi-def cellphone footage for Danny's online audience in vertical format hold your interest and reminds us how artificially sharp these online come-ons can be. A great start to my festival.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Muted but convincing performances by both Liam Harkins as the aforementioned "life-coach" and Stephen McMillan as his first client lead us on a predictable but satisfying tale with a great punchline at the end.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#TIFF2026 Movie No. 1 - Salvation. (6/10) Tom Nicoll's 1st feature-length film about a purposeless young man who takes a short MLM-style course on becoming a life coach and goes all-in on his new venture really speaks to the current manosphere/influencer economy.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Put "Lower Canada" back in circulation, only this time it's really lower!

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The stories of that day are so often of the (authentically!!) heroic efforts of first responders saving civilians, but there are so many stories of individual bravery that I'd never heard of in the intervening 25 years. Incredible stuff.

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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Everybody’s going to make “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” jokes about this, and rightly so, but allow me to me the one guy saying “I'm on my way from bigotry to irrelevance today, Ah-hah (Ah-hah), ah-hah (Ah-hah).”

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Daniel Reynolds @akareynolds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Science Centre laying off entire science department.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"That's a bold plan, Cotton. Let's see how that works out for them."

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Or as they spell it, "zeenomorfs".

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Technical debt has usurious interest rates.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Do we get a new Raptors beat writer, tho'? Gonna need one this season!

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