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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So, I don’t know exactly why this is happening, as I’m no longer involved, but I do have some experience with the collection of npm download counts. This smells WAY MORE like a data collection error, not a sudden unexplained behavior change on the part of the entire world in tandem.

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Emily L @laskin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A pair of new translations — both reported pieces from freelancers still working in Russia — out today with @thedialmag.bsky.social www.thedial.world/articles/new...

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Online in Russia — The Dial

Two reports from The New Tab, a magazine in exile.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 08/07/2026

I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.

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Emily L @laskin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I appreciate @acollierastro.bsky.social’s desire to not make anyone feel dumb, which is noble and the correct stance for an educator. But I am a former academic from basically the wordsiest of disciplines and I composed in LaTeX. Because Word is the literal worst. She is 100% right about this!

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Emily L @laskin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I'm doing an experiment! Write to me at chat@emilylaskin.com if you want to get an email newsletter from me between 1 and, idk, 20 times a year.

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Emily L @laskin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

New translation! Read about one of Russia's political prisoners, jailed for "distributing" a book that's available to the public in Russian libraries and for free on the Internet. en.thenewtab.io/grigory-skvo...

en.thenewtab.io

Why Russian Photographer Grigory Skvortsov Was Sentenced to 16 Years for Treason

Russian photographer and musician Grigory Skvortsov was sentenced to 16 years for treason after sharing publicly available materials on Soviet bunkers. This is the full story of the case, the archives...

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Emily L @laskin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I wrote about how much I hate ballot propositions and whatever the hell else you call direct democracy measures, because I'm a contrarian asshole but/and I care about political power. emilylaskin.com/2026/06/dire...

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Yes, I hate direct democracy

wordcel at large

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Having love and lost is way worse than never having loved at all. Like it’s not even close.

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Plasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

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Emily L @laskin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

It's Beltane! Days are still getting longer, but by a little bit less every day. They'll be getting longer and longer slower and slower until the summer solstice. Anyway, here's my music selection for this season. open.spotify.com/playlist/4qV...

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Spotify – Web Player

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

iNaturalist except it's for mapping the diversity of types of guy, a collaborative effort to identify every type of guy.

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Emily L @laskin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Hi science journalists and child development folks, I am looking for information on the impact of traffic, active vs. car commute, and commute times on toddlers. Point me in any direction!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

wired.com

USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew

Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.

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v @avi.im · 17/04/2026

Here is an insane piece of lore inside SQLite's source code I am researching VACUUM and I was studying their code. In VACUUM, SQLite creates a temp file prefixed with `etilqs_` Here is why:

** 2006-10-31: The default prefix used to be "sqlite_". But then
** Mcafee started using SQLite in their anti-virus product and it
** started putting files with the "sqlite" name in the c:/temp folder.
** This annoyed many windows users. Those users would then do a
** Google search for "sqlite", find the telephone numbers of the
** developers and call to wake them up at night and complain.
** For this reason, the default name prefix is changed to be "sqlite"
** spelled backwards. So the temp files are still identified, but
** anybody smart enough to figure out the code is also likely smart
** enough to know that calling the developer will not help get rid
** of the file.
*/
#ifndef SQLITE_TEMP_FILE_PREFIX
# define SQLITE_TEMP_FILE_PREFIX "etilqs_"
#endif

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Emily L @laskin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I am basically a homebody and I was childless in 2020/21, so covid social isolation truly was easy mode for me. But it did suck for a lot of people and I don't quite know how to put this but I think we should cultivate more gratitude for people doing shitty hard things for the collective good.

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Kat8Cha @kat8cha.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Anyway ALSO everyone should read American Hippo by @sarahgailey.bsky.social because nothing says 'yes fun' like both riding hippos and man eating hippos and queer people. torpublishinggroup.com/american-hip...

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American Hippo

River of Teeth, Taste of Marrow, and New Stories

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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

you don't see husbands realizing they forgot their anniversary and searching for a gift and seeing the necklace their wife wanted in a window for $50 and pulling out an empty wallet and moths flying out and then seeing a poster that says "BOXING MATCH FIRST PRIZE $50" and saying "hmmm" much anymore

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

[an awkward minute passes as Death struggles to pick up change from the countertop] Death: (embarrassed) ha ha slippery coins Drugstore Clerk: nah man it’s cuz you got them bone hands

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/04/2026

Yeah bsky.app/profile/grav...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

media.tenor.com

a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face

Alt: a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I lowkey hate how much this delights me 😂

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mcc @dryad.technology · 03/04/2026

The other possible doctrinal conclusion is that blasting rope to waluigi hentai is not a sin

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FirerMcFirer @aradfirer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I made it my life mission to reference this as many times as I can

A tweet by @Llama In a Tux (dated Sep. 10, 2022):
Don't you understand? The human race IS an endless number of monkeys. And every day we produce an endless number of words. And one of us already wrote Hamlet

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Classic laughter demon summoning fuel

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Angine de Poitrine, Vol II Sarniezz is the stand-out hit, imo. Utzp is legitimately hilarious. open.spotify.com/album/3FqqIe...

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Vol.II

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Emily L @laskin.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Next year in peace. Free Palestine.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young representative named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

At this point, if someone ran for president on the single campaign promise that they'd hang Trump and Hegseth for war crimes, they'd have my vote. Hell, I'd knock on doors for them. That is not even an extreme leftist thing, "killing fascists" is like, a 1940s-era conservative position.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

why is this so funny to me

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Guy who keeps hinting at the fucked up problematic media he likes and finally reveals he's talking about Scooby Do.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

London Liverpool Street, London Laugherpool Street, London Loverpool Street.

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Look, it’s right there in the name, “le mort d’auteur” only applies if the author is dead. If you really are that desperate to spend your time and money on the terribly built fictional world of the transphobia-supporting racist antisemitic franchise, you know what you must do.

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This is clearly a fake image. Earth is nowhere near that close to Saturn.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/03/2026

Trump: “okay can you guys just say I won and we go back to status quo, no harm no foul” IRGC: “lol, and furthermore lmao”

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I’m not crying your crying 😭

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

the airport really is the ultimate pressure point for senators, huh

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I extremely hate that "prove this wasn't authored by AI" is a thing that people think is worthwhile or possible. It's not just foolish and harmful — it's embarrassing. (See what I did there?)

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 23/03/2026

Many moons ago I used to give a talk to coding bootcamps about how to be a web developer. It was very popular and I gave it over 30 times. At long last I have got around to making it into a website, so more people can read it: stuffeverybodyknows.com

stuffeverybodyknows.com

How to be a web developer: Stuff Everybody Knows

A guide to the rest of your web development career, by Laurie Voss

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Periodic reminder: "ask" has been used as a noun in English since Old English "ascian" (and its variant "acsian" as well.) Both "ask as a noun" and "pronouncing 'ask' like 'aks'" are *centuries older than the word "ask"*. When someone complains about either, they are admitting to prideful ignorance

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

We’ve modernized those old stodgy “academic” “subjects” and replaced them with poop from a butt. That’s right. No more long hours studying, just to be a bore at parties. Now, students will have that stamp of academic approval on the poop from their butts as they prepare to enter the job market.

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

There's no "good guys" in a war, even "self defense" is monstrous cruel violence. But like, Israel blows up a bank, and so Iran releases a target list of every tech megacorp with offices or data centers in the area? Feeling very "I'm glad you're in a dilemma." www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

media.tenor.com

a man is holding a microphone in his hand and says `` good '' .

Alt: Donald Glover reaction gif. He's saying "Good. I'm glad. I'm glad you're in a dilemma." with a look of cold rageful schadenfreude.

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isaacs @isaacs.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

One easy way to remember the difference between a calque and a loanword is that "loanword" is a calque and calque is a loanword. Dandelion is a loanword that comes from a calque.

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