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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Slides for my #monktoberfest talk today, "Execution in the Kingdom of Agents: Reflections on Abstraction and Complexity"; video to come! speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/ex...

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Execution in the Kingdom of Agents: Reflections on Abstraction and Complexity

Talk I gave at Monktoberfest 2026; video to come!

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Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 02/10/2026

literally me last week trying to define "simplier" in the context of complexity last week for a specific project @bcantrill.bsky.social in his talk today at #monktoberfest

Photo of a speaker presenting to a seated audience in a bright room. The projected slide, titled "Abstraction and complexity," shows a two-axis chart. The vertical axis runs from "Engineered" (top) to "Emergent" (bottom), and the horizontal axis from "Complex" (left) to "Simple" (right). The quadrants are labeled Constructed, Revolutionary, Accreted, and Rebellious, with "Revolutionary" highlighted in bold. A citation beneath reads "The Complexity of Simplicity (TalosCon 2025)." The speaker, a man in a black t-shirt holding a microphone, gestures toward the slide. A live-captions screen is visible at right.

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@bcantrill.bsky.social referring to an AI-generated image of a factory as “Dickensian Richard Scary” at #Monktoberfest is sending me. Rebecca Solnit was the quote de jour yesterday (3x). Will Richard Scarry be today’s?!?

Richard Scary vehicle with quote from Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car”

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Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 02/10/2026

louder for the people in the back: "when the cost of writing code goes to zero, the things that matter are ideas, taste, & distribution (a.k.a. judgement, connection, and trust)" from a talk by Emily Lovell and Moon Davé at #monktoberfest

Slide that says:

when the cost of writing code goes to zero, the things that matter are ideas, taste, & distribution (a.k.a. judgement, connection, and trust)
- Lola Egherman, CodeDay

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Dan Moore @mooreds.com · 01/10/2026

Love the hands on definition of rest. #monktoberfest

Slide explaining what is rest. 7-9 hours of sleep, 2-3 hours of activities that switch off stress.

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Swarna Podila (she/her) @skpodila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I know @ericksoen.bsky.social is talking about this in the context of bike bus and agency, but “go where you’re loved” is a great motto to live by in general ❤️❤️ Choose your family, friends, your people where you’re loved for you who are and are given the space to grow and be better. #monktoberfest

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Dark Rober (shandrew) @shandrew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I already know the answer to this one, #monktoberfest: EVERYTHING

“What Technologists Owe Creatives”
By Joey Carpinelli

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Something I’ve learned over the last decade and a half of attending #monktoberfest: The ones and zeros in technology are secondary to the humans behind them. Empathy is the most powerful and most important product the industry can build.

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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 01/10/2026

Rudi giving shout outs to Eurosky, Latinsky, Northsky and New Disabled South "Our first era: community building" "Our next era: coalition building". Intersectionality is critical. "You can't have Black spaces without LGBTQ people" #monktoberfest

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Lord Jermaine Retail @lordretail.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Amazing Spider-man 1000's shorts are top notch! Maybe the best milestone issue I've read. You've got @brianmbendis.bsky.social & Stuart Immonen, @danslott.bsky.social & Marcos Martin, both A-game knockout stories! Noah Hawley will do more for sure. Even WWE's HHH has a story! Buy with confidence!

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Hà Phan @hpdailyrant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’ve always written with em dashes. You can find essays of mine written 10, 20 years ago with em dashes. I recalled being irritated when an editor from a magazine removed my sentence with an em dash and restructure it. Writing w/em dashes doesn’t necessarily mean it’s written by AI.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I worked in fashion for a decade and one thing that became extremely clear to me in that time is that no one has stricter or more extreme rules about what other people should and shouldn’t wear than people who will proudly tell you that caring about fashion is stupid

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

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Lord Jermaine Retail @lordretail.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

THIS is your book of the week. The legendary Spiderman & Avengers writer Roger Stern & The @mikemignola.bsky.social tell one of the best Doctor Doom stories. Finally back in print, required reading if you want to know Doom. If you already have this, buy it again. And one for your MCU fan friend.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.

A photo of Dolly Parton sitting at a desk and talking on the phone in a scene from the movie 9 to 5.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 22/08/2026

society is so complex and everything is so interconnected. (yeah, i know, i'm a deep thinker.) for example. good EV charging infrastructure in the USA can't exist without social services, healthcare, drug treatment programs, living wages, and other steps to disincentivize selling scrap copper 🥲

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This geode that resembles the Cookie Monster was discovered by gemologist *Lucas Fassari* in November 2020 in the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. #AGoodPlace

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

i love when they recover some 3000 year old clay tablet and its something totally relatable like “i hope this tablet finds you well but the group project is a disaster…”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Those raisins and that singing fish had our grandparents in a chokehold, you hear me? This is true across race and class. They went nuts for it.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.

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John Lovett @johnlovett.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Patton Oswalt filibuster is finally broken.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 03/08/2026

🥲 sometimes you don't know if people will see or experience a thing the same way you do. like you hope they do, you think they will, but you can never be quite sure, even after years and years of working on it. so, i'm not sure i'm going to accomplish much today other than a little soft crying

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Harvey & Joyce's adopted daughter Danielle is trying to raise funds to deal with Pekar's raw archive; basically four storage lockers full of notes, outlines, ideas, etc. Note this is not Pekar's comics per se. Those rights have been tied up in court for years. Long, ugly story. Worth backing.

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His Name was Harvey Pekar

Saving the legacy of Harvey Pekar:Urgent mission to rescue four full storage units of American Splendor history before its lost forever

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Brian Michael Bendis @brianmbendis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

VERY cool to be part of the Spidey legacy. VERY cool that people take screen pics and send it to us. What a list...

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

STRIKE STORY TIME with @opinorg.bsky.social ✨

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Lord Jermaine Retail @lordretail.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The fact that King in Black graphic novel is "temporarily unavailable" the week Queen in Black begins is the height of frustration for me. Acme Comics is fortunate to have excited readers, ravenous even, who want to read what came before & after. This is where I excel IF I have the tools to do it.

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Tom Cruise: Help Me Help You

ALT: Tom Cruise: Help Me Help You

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Star Trek Shots @startrekshots.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Main Engineering, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1991)

Warp core as seen through the Chief Engineer's office window. Date is approximate.

According to the website Forgotten Trek, the mechanics of the warp core were considered when the Enterprise-D engineering set was designed: "The vertical warp core had already been introduced in STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE. The thinking at the time was that the antimatter would be in a magnetic containment at the bottom of the engineering hull, sending antimatter up into the reaction chamber. The shaft above engineering, however, did not make sense. There was no place where the “matter” was coming from. Sternbach solved this problem by placing deuterium tanks at the top of the Enterprise-D’s warp core, which provided the necessary matter."

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Lord Jermaine Retail @lordretail.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Give this a read. There’s something to it and the way we consume media now and how success is measured. I have said for a while that most of our favorite shows, the timeless comfort shows from the past we cling to today and forever, would have been canceled after one or two seasons now.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/07/2026

My upcoming book is absolutely packed to the brim with em dashes—more em dashes than any well-adjusted human being could possibly need or want—and if any of you tries to claim they are the result of some soulless LLM rather than my own unhinged compulsion I will fight you.

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Retroist @retroist.com · 04/07/2026

Great moments in U.S. History.

Comic panel showing the Kool Aid Man walking past children with Benjamin Franklin. A child asks, “Excuse me sir, aren’t you Benjamin Franklin?” Franklin answers, “Yes I am. I’m also hot and thirsty.”

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Star Trek Shots @startrekshots.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Paul Winfield as Captain Dathon and Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in "Darmok", STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1991)

Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on El-Adrel aka ubiquitous filming site, Bronson Caynon.

"Darmok" began life as a pitch from Philip LaZebnik, later assigned to be reworked staff writer Joe Menosky by Michael Piller. Monosky struggled to adapt the difficult story which has been in development in one form or another since 1989; Rick Berman apparently hated the pitch but Piller was determined to make it work. According to Menosky, it was Piller who finally cracked the story after seeing Kevin Costner's DANCES WITH WOLVES: "So when Michael reconvened the staff to talk about it, I truly thought that I might be fired. But Michael was really excited. He'd just seeDANCES WITH WOLVES and was completely blown away by the scene with Kevin Costner's character and the Native American warrior around the campfire, who don't speak a word of each other's language, but finally make themselves understood. Michael announced, 'That's it: one man, one alien, alone on a planet, around a fire. They don't know each other's languages, they struggle to overcome their differences, and finally break through to communication. And maybe there's a big monster.'"

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The Iconfactory @iconfactory.com · 09/06/2026

June marks the Iconfactory's 30th year in business. To help celebrate the occasion we're kicking things off with a sale of some of our most popular apps, plus other surprises. 🤓🎉 Thanks to all our fans, clients and supporters, we wouldn't be here without you. blog.iconfactory.com/2026/06/the-...

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The Iconfactory Turns 30 – How Time Flies! • The Breakroom

Thirty years ago this month, three friends working at a small multimedia company in Greensboro, NC, decided to post a few fun sets of Mac desktop icons on an AOL webpage. Little did we know what we we...

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Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

$5 Pick up

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The only acceptable use of Claude

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

There should be a Bruce Springsteen anime and before you say no I want you to consider how many members of the E Street Band would look amazing in an anime

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.

An excerpt from EB White's Here is New York
There are roughly three New Yorks there is first the New York of the man or woman who was born here who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence is natural and inevitable second there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night third there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last the city of final destination the city that is a goal it is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition it's poetical deportment it's a dedication to the arts and it's incomparable achievements commuters give the city its title restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion and whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors or a boy arriving from the corn belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart it makes no difference each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love each absorbs New York with fresh eyes of an adventurer each generates heat and light to dwarf the consolidated Edison company

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Daniel Jalkut @danielpunkass.punkitup.com · 26/05/2026

My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Great. Now you’ve got to go out here and try to out-write the Pope.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

Someone on Threads writes: "The Met Gala feels like real dystopian shit.

People can’t afford groceries or gas. But we’re going to celebrate this event which is nothing more than wealth porn."

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Actually, I’ve explained this MANY TIMES This generation of Black ppl vote MORE than any generation since we got the right to vote But after the 1st Black was elected, WHITE PPL began turning out in historic numbers to vote for Trump. As this graph CLEARLY shows… The “crisis” is white people.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 21/04/2026

do you ever look back at your life and think, "i wish i knew what strange and interesting new snacks, drinks, and cereals came out last year?" i'm here for you, friend. here's my 2025 food garbage round-up: cabel.com/the-snacks-c...

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Behold: 2025's New Chips, Cookies, Snacks, and Cereals

Let's all look at the new snacks, chips, and cereals I found in 2025. Join the tasting fiesta. Why do I do this to myself.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I hopped on Live yesterday to talk about some books that informed our short doc. If you’re that kind of nerd, here are a few from that discussion

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 07/04/2026

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View looking SE from 2800 N Lake Shore Drive as the Chicago shoreline meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2026-04-07 11:06:04 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: 2800lsd.com // Current Temp in Chicago: 28 F | -2 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: NNE at 11 mph | 18 kph // Humidity: 54%

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

‘Power to the People, Y’all’ will premiere in Winston-Salem, NC, at the RiverRun International Film Festival on April 18th. Producer: Tressie McMillan Cottom Director, Cinematographer & Editor: Holland Gallagher Cinematographer: Patrick Lebby Producer:Johnica Rivers Key Art: Shefon N. Taylor

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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Abandon the em-dash in your human writing? The irony—and it’s a big irony—is that real writers use em-dash frequently, and for reasons. As a written signifier of verbal speech pauses, it means something different than what commas and semi-colons mean. It connects while separating. 1/4

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