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what UX research told ESPN that sports fans want the "looking ahead to the offseason" notification 0.02 seconds after their team is eliminated? Are there sickos who like this???

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

America, if tonight is your first time hearing Lou Merloni... welcome to Red Sox nation 😊

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

How are things going? I just used CMake to convert a semver string to a hexadecimal and pass it as a compiler define, and that dosn't crack the top 10 most cursed things I read this week.

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Screamo Friday is a proud tradition in my home. Some of these "metalcore" playlists on Spotify are super soft though. Gimme a band recommendation!

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Emily Lamb @emilyjoria.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Never been more Red Sox pilled

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The train I'm on is 99.99% zoomers going to Lolla, 0.01% me going to the allergist. Thankfully there's Bluesky, a social site for old folks like me 😊

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

is "Dear Maria, Count Me In" the official song of the A's or something? I've heard it at least 3 times during the Sox game tonight (not a complaint!).

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

What my brain sees when I land on a cppreference.com page.

Bulbapedia page describing the ways that the 'psywave' move can break a Pokemon game when certain unlikely combinations of game states happen.

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

POV: it's July and you get Pats push notifications from the @espn.com app

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I would rather eat a bucket of chalk (dry) than listen to this Apple TV MLB broadcast for one more inning omg go Sox, though 😙

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Annoying the Viking-hatted Norwegian couple rowing next to me: "SO YEAH IT'S CALLED 'LIGHT THE BEAM', SUUUUPER SIMILAR VIBE, YOU SHOULD CHECK IT OUT"

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SciPy Conference 2026 @scipyconf.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

🎉 Less than one month until #SciPy2026! 👉️ ti.to/scipy/scipy2... When people ask what SciPy is, it's tempting to say it's a conference about Python for scientific computing. But SciPy has always been much more than that.

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Found a Dunkin card from 2017 (forgotten Christmas gift tucked in a book). Redeeming it in the app just worked. Should be unremarkable but I 100% expected it to fail. Shout out to simple, boring, reliable tech stuff that works 🥰

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Hard to overstate how universally loved the Bears are where I'm from. More than any other sports team, celebrity, food, music genre, etc. People who say "I don't really watch sports" know what happened in the Bears game last night, know who Caleb Williams is. They belong here. This sucks.

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Shameka ❤️🏀 @shameka23.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Straight up, if you weren’t a Sky fan when we were in second to last place, don’t come hopping on the bandwagon when we are third from last place 😌 #WNBA

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a woman in a white t-shirt with #schittscreek written on the bottom

ALT: a woman in a white t-shirt with #schittscreek written on the bottom

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Dom Smith is the one that got away 🥲

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

And the Amtrak drops you off downtown on both ends, 0 cab/Lyft/bus required! Chicago folks who've never trained up for Summerfest - try it this year 😎

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Patrick Boueri @patrickboueri.com · 25/05/2026

I see far more local chicago content on here than i ever did on the bird app - it brings me so much joy. My politics is now happy neighborhoods and a sunny chicago day is the best

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

"If humanity is now defined by the presence of casual errors, American-centric colloquialisms, and a certain informal, conversational rhythm, then where does that leave the rest of us?" marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-... Really good piece from @marcusolang.substack.com

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I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.

I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Hate that playoff basketball requires a streaming subscription, love that the broadcast team is D-Wade, Candace Parker, and Kevin Harlan. I'd listen to another 100 games of this.

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

bout 7 years ago, I bought $10 tickets to see Cory Booker give his stump speech at a restaurant in Chicago. Made a typo in my last name, one I've never made elsewhere. 7 years of relentless unsubscribing later, still getting fundraising emails from random out-of-state Dems, addressed to that typo 🙃

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

✨everything sucks ✨ [1][2][3] [1] the big, obvious one [2] "AI" garbage everywhere [3] only villains and boring teams left in the NBA playoffs

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

There's a secret other game inside every Laker game! Try watching Marcus Smart off-ball (offense and defense) for 60 seconds, you'll see.

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Really good piece, expresses clearly what I've only been able to describe with "ugh 😫". Thank you @ky.fyi ☺️

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Just caught someone trying to sneak a security exploit into LightGBM via a plausible-but-huge PR 😫 They wrote out exactly how they were trying to trick us in a public repo. If I weren't so angry I'd think that was funny. 😡 LLMs made the big do-evil button easier to reach, a human chose to push it.

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This is a Neemias Queta fan account.

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

It's official ... LightGBM has moved to its own GitHub organization 😬 We hope it'll improve the health of the project and clarify its governance structure. If you encounter any issues, please report them here: github.com/lightgbm-org...

github.com

Moving to 'lightgbm-org/LightGBM' · Issue #7187 · lightgbm-org/LightGBM

Description In March 2026, LightGBM moved GitHub organizations, from Microsoft/LightGBM to lightgbm-org/LightGBM. This issue describes those changes. Why Now? Microsoft's Open Source Conduct Team c...

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

"Errors in your code mean you're doing something cool!" 😊 (spotted in a tutorial)

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Emily Lamb @emilyjoria.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

🎶 How does the wall keep us free? The wall keeps out the enemy And we build the wall to keep us free That's why we build the wall We build the wall to keep us free 🎶

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

If you look closely you'll see it... this is a Dave Roberts appreciation post 😁. Go Sox.

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I love this thread. I did a 26-hour Amtrak once and this is making me want to again.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason

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Emily Lamb @emilyjoria.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I cannot stress this enough - Chicago is not to be fucked with

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

outrageous pickup at Trader Joe's in the Chicago burbs today

ingredients of beer from first picture... rye ale with coriander seed and mustard seed

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

'pydistcheck' (github.com/jameslamb/py...) is a CLI for finding portability issues in packages (wheels, sdists, and conda packages). Stuff like "file is too big" and "compiled objects have debug symbols". v0.11.0 now available 😁 (example in thread)

Terminal output from 'pydistcheck', showing that scikit-learn 1.7.2 macOS wheels are 8.2 MB compressed and that that they contain 956 files.

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I, a person who's been to Minneapolis exactly once, am excited. Save the date!

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Go birds, but gotta respect how hard Kiké is Marcus-Smart-ing tonight

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Thank you PSF! This took courage, at a time when it's badly needed.

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

it is 2-2 in the 6th, why tf does Marlins Man have his visor rally cap'd lol

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Went to NBC to "just get eyes on" NBA opening night. An hour has passed and I'm still here 😅

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/10/2025

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Sox season ended like an hour ago and ESPN already sent me a "here are their key free agents" notification. YES I CLICKED IT, but still bruh cmon! Anyway go Sox, great season 🥲

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2025

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

1. Remain Calm. 2. You have the right to deny entry without a valid warrant. 3. You have the right to remain silent. 4. You have the right to speak with an attorney. 5. You have the right to not sign anything.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

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Janette Moser @mjmoser.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

DIRTY WATER AND TESSIE AND ETC LETS FUCKING GO

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

To you-know-who and all his ghouls: STFU about Chicago 😘

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