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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h

Some generalizations I've come to while eating all these sandwiches: - Sandwich shops in government civic center areas: fast, average price, sometimes crappy - Sandwich shops in financial districts: fast, expensive, usually very good - Sandwich shops near high schools: average price, pretty good […]

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h

If you ever wondered what an apocalyptic sex cult's lair looks like (the main cult, not the murder spinoff with the derelict boat), here is "Lighthaven" in Berkeley. Nice place. Used to be a B&B. I bike past it all the time […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

streetview of Lighthaven, 2740 Telegraph Ave in Berkeley

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

After the Ukraine war is over, we should extend the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention to include autonomous anti-personnel drones.

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

How to tell whether you are using pbmplus vs netpbm. pbmplus: % pnmcut a usage: pnmcut x y width height [pnmfile] % pnmcut -foo usage: pnmcut x y width height [pnmfile] netpbm: % pnmcut a pnmcut: Unable to open file 'a' for reading. fopen() returns errno 2 (No such file or directory) % pnmcut […]

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h

If the city can cut down the Willard Park basketball hoop with zero process, I figure I can cut off this tire popper after reporting it to them multiple times over nearly a year.

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

Poor Boy from Railroad Stop Deli in West Oakland

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 22h

It's astounding how hatefully right-wingers talk about American cities. #PoliCartoon by me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social

Four panels and a tiny kicker. The same blond, bearded man addresses the reader, wearing boots, jeans, a red shirt and brown vest.

PANEL 1
On a quaint small-town shopping street, he cheerfully raises a finger.

MAN: I tink the best of America is in the small towns – the wonderful little pockets of what I call The Real America.

PANEL 2
He stands before a garbage heap, brown high-rise apartments and a plume of smoke.

MAN: Elite liberals are destroying American with their terrible “New York” values. That’s why their cities are burnt-out shells!

PANEL 3
In close-up, he yells with bulging eyes. Behind him: a rat, burning buildings, a cart of possessions, a syringe, poop and a masked person poised to throw a Molotov cocktail.

MAN: DEM CITIES ARE DISGUSTING, RAT-INFESTED HOLES THAT NO HUMAN COULD LIVE IN!

PANEL 4
Now on a peaceful farm with a sheep, cow, red barn, silo and crops, he clasps his hands and looks upward sadly, shedding a tear.

MAN: And why do coastal elite snobs say such hateful things about their fellow Americans?

KICKER
Barry raises a finger. The man closes his eyes smugly.

BARRY: Don’t you live in a coastal city? And didn’t you go to Harvard?
MAN: In my heart I’ve always lived on a farm.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

If I don't keep my car roadworthy and crash into yours, it hasn't gone "rogue", it's my negligence and I'm responsible. If my dog attacks you, I am liable. There are no rogue AIs, just negligent AI companies. Prosecute them.

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ceej @ceej.online · 08/02/2026

Before we get started, I just want to say thank you to all of my subscribers. This has been a dream as long as I can remember and I couldn’t have done it without you. It feels surreal to finally say it, but this is the final episode of Nutting In Every Country In The World. Welcome to Vatican City

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Hey Rationalists, do you need another derelict boat as a seasteading / murder lair?

the Royal Star, semi-abandoned and begging for some neo-Zizians to steal it

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

"Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions" […]

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Today I got an actual root beer float.

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Italian Hero from Oxbridge Market on Silver

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Rach "pumpkin spice butt girl" @ykantrachelread.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

every branch of right-wing pseudo-intellectualism is named something like "super-rational objective humanist altruism" and then you look at what they believe and it's some variant of "corporations should legally be able to murder kids"

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

A carpenter friend in California told me today that the price of copper has gone through the roof -- e.g. $100 for a short section of pipe. He said the data centers are hoovering up raw materials in such a frenzy that the cost of essentially all construction materials is insane. I haven't seen […]

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@iandunt.bsky.social You chaps really need to do a pod on the Effective Altruist cult and the “AI safety” weirdos. They’d just be weird and funny if they didn’t have billionaire followers and a VC president in tow. A great Ian Duncan has a great over view […]

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I was vaguely aware of Aella for (a) doing a gang bang, (b) being a Rationalist, and (c) not showering. It just occurred to me to wonder if not showering is part of the Rationalist meme. Oh my yes, they are apparently all stinky idiots. Now wondering if they all do gang bangs too. Not that […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

While trying to explain how we could use the art of war to defeat the raccoons to my husband. I was having trouble remembering the Roman general from the battle of Trebia... and I was like "Fabulous Gluteus Maximus??" nope. That's not it. It was: Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus You can […]

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

INTERVIEWER: Can you explain this gap in your resume? ODYSSEUS: Ok it’s actually a really long story

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields — for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments. Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors […]

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@RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Nate Cohn (New York Times) wrote about Senate elections: "Just about everything has gone right for the Democrats so far. They enter the final month of the campaign in a better position than anyone would have imagined when the year began. Democrats are cooking with the same recipe across all five […]

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

They were out of root beer, I got a Coke™ float.

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Stacey Campbell @stacey-campbell.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Most of Greater Los Angeles is the same temperature as (or warmer than) Badwater and Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley today. #losangeles #cawx

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The Classic Italian, from Cool Guys Market on Holloway

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@lmc Predicted high temp for today is 92°F! Hydrate!

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

little endian big endian super endian mega endian economy size endian

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Big ol' Zeppelin over Alameda right now.

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Eggplant and artichoke hearts, from Ruby's Café in Emeryville

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Site of yesterday's fire on the Berkeley shoreline.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 01/10/2026

Taylor Lorenz is preparing for her "why I left the left" right-wing grifter pivot. Do not trust her. www.thefp.com/p/two-drinks-with-tay… (If you do not know "the free press", it is Bari Weiss's right-wing false-balance propaganda outlet, so talking to them *at all* is […]

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@rollovereasy Peter should know that the McLaren Park water tower has an official name: La Grande Tank

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