Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Boy, a whole bunch of people learned how to type em-dashes on their keyboards recently. Must be some sort of computer-literacy trend. 000
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 25/04/2026You're older than you've ever been And now you're even older And now you're even older And now you're even older You're older than you've ever been And now you're even older And now you're Older Still. 092
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Every person in this chain of "ur dumb, no u" is wrong. The actual reason they landed in the water is that NASA HSF is an extremely hidebound organization and Artemis is the product of that culture. Soyuz has been landing on land for half a century. The boeing starliner landed in New Mexico. 110
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Unlike many, I do not feel the need to leap to the defense of the Catholic Church just because they are beefing with the right wing nationalists. These two groups are actually both bad. 000
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 28/03/2026He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For imposing Tarriffs on us without our Consent: He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people 100
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 25/03/2026In the polling biz this phenomenon is called the 'Goose Gap' 071
Reposted by Technical Debt JubileeMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/03/2026“The huge flaw that has been revealed in US might is not in the military but lies at the very heart of the American system: with the President as Commander-in-Chief.”chadbourn.substack.comDefeatedHow Trump is destroying the US as a world power 27404118
Reposted by Technical Debt JubileeMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026The International Energy Agency has announced that this energy crisis caused by Trump and Netanyahu’s war is worse than the 1970s oil crisis and the one following Russia's invasion of Ukraine combined. Record-breaking work for all involved. 18418152
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Historians in 2530: "While the magical elements of the story are clearly a matter of faith, the consensus of all serious historians is that Harry Potter was a real person that inspired our current dominant religion" 000
Reposted by Technical Debt JubileeMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026The chaos continues.chadbourn.substack.comIran War Update 7Events from the last 24 hours 815550
Reposted by Technical Debt Jubileeredsolver @redsolver.dev · 10/03/2026Hi! SkyFeed is struggling and I need to find a solution. If you don't know SkyFeed, it's a service I built 2 years ago, enabling anyone to build and publish feeds using a visual block-based editor. SkyFeed is still hosting the most feeds on Bluesky, but that comes at a cost [1/X] 30489236
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Why do they not attend to this matter?? 000
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 10/03/2026If we ever make it out of the mess we're in, the new constitution needs to include votes of no confidence and snap elections. 000
Reposted by Technical Debt JubileeMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Things fall apart for Trump.chadbourn.substack.comIran War Update 6Events from the last 24 hours 920745
Reposted by Technical Debt JubileeMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Catch-up.chadbourn.substack.comIran War Update 4Events from the last 24 hours 713542
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 03/03/2026My take on this is that he has military sci-fi nerds whispering in his ear. Some goddamn Jerry Pournelle fan has got him thinking he's going to be the leader of the co-dominium or some shit. 010
Reposted by Technical Debt JubileeMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/03/2026we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.reuters.comPentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources sayTrump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f... 10074902193
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 28/02/2026The only thing the US will accomplish with this action is to further prove to all other nations that the only way to deal with is to strike us preemptively, never negotiate with us, and that nuclear weapons are simply a necessary deterrent to our unchecked aggression. 000
Reposted by Technical Debt JubileeDave Kooi @davekooi.bsky.social · 03/12/2025“Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling” ~Miguel de Unamuno 012
Reposted by Technical Debt JubileeWHO @who.int · 03/12/2025Yes Pearl, we agree! Persons with disabilities need to be involved in making decisions within the health sector. This International Day of Persons with Disabilities, learn more and help push for truly inclusive health systems 👉bit.ly/3SJBjbW #HealthForAll 326995
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 23/10/2025You have to hand it to Trump, he succeeded where United flight 93 failed. 000
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Happy Mother's Day! This morning I made my wife a proposal of an intimate nature, the word for which I suppose could be misheard. To my surprise, she agreed (normally she needs at least coffee first). I proceeded down under the sheets. She stopped me, asking: "Hey, where's my cuddleandkiss?" 000
Reposted by Technical Debt Jubileehightstowndemocrat.bsky.social @hightstowndemocrat.bsky.social · 23/04/2025 011
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 07/04/2025People out here on LinkedIn just straight up advertising that they're building the Terminator 032
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I'm sure they're thinking of a solution, but it's kind of ironic that this massive datacenter initiative is building out in Texas, the state with the most notoriously unstable power grid in America www.theverge.com/2025/1/21/24...theverge.comOpenAI and Softbank are starting a $500 billion AI data center companyNvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are among the technology partners. 150
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Have we done the "Trump is a weakling" discourse to try to pull off a William Henry Harrison 2.0 yet? 010
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 09/01/2025@thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social I can't believe you're letting your guest lively get away with asserting that de-platforming didn't work when what actually happened is that the large social platforms were taken over by conservatives and conservative content was being algorithmically promoted 020
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 04/01/2025My father-in-law fed my wife's novel manuscript into an AI tool without her permission, because he thought it would be cool to have it make a fake 'podcast' of people discussing her book. I'm at a loss to be able to explain to him just how badly he fucked up, in so many ways. 020
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 13/12/2024If I ever get back into racing sailboats I'm going to use this to be extremely annoying. 040
Reposted by Technical Debt JubileeData for Progress @dataforprogress.org · 11/12/2024NEW: Sixty-one percent of voters would support Biden publishing the Equal Rights Amendment and adopting it as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/12... 26729
Reposted by Technical Debt JubileeNanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Every single concession to security theatre that the US has made since 2001 - the Patriot Act, data collection at the border, surveillance - is going to be in the hands of Kash Patel. This is why we say to build security systems with the worst of governments in mind, not the best. 04311
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 12/12/2024So after talking to my kid, I have learned the answer to the question 'who's the left wing Joe Rogan' is Vaush. 010
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Fires are far more common in gas cars than EVs, something that might surprise you if you are exposed to the modern media environment. 110
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 11/12/2024The Anacostia encampment is the setting for a number of chapters in Polostan, the new book by Neal Stephenson I'm reading atm. The thirties of his narrative are chock full of parallels to today 010
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Oh this is clearly good, what could go wrong etc. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comDeus in machina: Swiss church installs AI-powered JesusPeter’s chapel in Lucerne swaps out its priest to set up a computer and cables in confessional booth 000
Reposted by Technical Debt JubileeNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Syria is the most displaced nation on Earth. 60% of its population - 14M people - forced from their homes by the regime’s brutality. Today, a golden thread has connected cities around the world as the Syrian diaspora gather to celebrate the end of Assad. Here’s a 🧵 of global celebrations 🟢⚪️⚫️ 👇 14743239
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 08/12/2024A thousand times this! And the media is complicit! 030
Reposted by Technical Debt JubileeNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/12/2024🚨BREAKING: The capital is taken. #Syria 🇸🇾 419444
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Bernie would have beaten Trump in '16, clintonistas continued rage at him in 2024 is just their admission that they know it. 110
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 07/12/2024This is the winning platform, you're welcome. 041
Technical Debt Jubilee @ianwsmith.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Free speech does not and should not protect a website from criminal punishment for abetting espionage, change my mind. 120