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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

OK. Also getting a fairly random failure to save to Dropbox. This might be because when I created a PDF it gave it the name with .fadein.pdf as the extension.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Hey, @fadeinpro.com, FYI hard crash in 5.05 when I click 'proofread' on a fresh document. Tahoe 26.1. Edit>Writing Tools>Proofread, or Show Writing Tools>Proofread Works OK in other apps

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

ps thank you for including the option to disable Fade In access, that's a huge one for me!

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

ps on Mac upgrading from 5.0.0 beta in the app doesn't work. It downloads but doesn't install. I had to go to the download page.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Does the solve the problem that when you have multiple unsaved document you get stacked dialogs and no indication of which document is being saved?

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

(I have a longstanding cloud solution for all my writing projects and apps so the Fade In feature is not relevant to me... when I press cmd-O I just want to see (and expect to see) the Finder dialog)

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

A big one for me is that fact that opening a document now takes an extra very irritating click to specify that it's 'on my mac' when I don't use anything else. Otherwise, great work!

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Whenever I see a craze like this I think about killer whales putting dead salmon on their heads as a fashion statement. It's the same thing.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

War is peace. Peace is war. Same as it ever was.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 22/06/2025

who needs state media when the private outlets will defend the empire to its dying breath?

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Dan McDonough @danluvsbeer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

My son once asked me, "Is today Father's Day?" And I said, "I don't know, do we do that?" And he said, "No, but I feel badly about it."

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Matthew Champion @matthewchampion.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

200 people spent millions on Trump’s memecoin and were rewarded with this dinner www.wired.com/story/a-heli...

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The panopticon. I will be selling panopticon hammers.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

An AI tragedy in three acts (the string I gave it is random)

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Once upon a time the most famous person in the world -- Christ, Beatles, Elvis, Michael Jackson, the Pope -- was famous for being good at something. Now the two top ones are known for being an idiot and an asshole respectively. Yes, and you know who I mean too.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"It'll never just say, 'Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?'"

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Once again, the curse of our age is the Counterreformation of the Most Special Boys

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

There are three things at minimum that would need to change IMO - citizens united - gerrymandering of congressional districts - the way the senate is elected

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

And the second-order problem is that even if the next admin is relatively sane (deus volens) the US system has shown that it's vulnerable to capture. This is a huge systemic constitutional problem which it's bafflingly hard to see how the three branches / states could go about solving.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Applications to Canadian universities are through the roof (but there's also a big foreign student scandal at the moment so that's friction). But you're exactly right -- why would anyone make new investments in the US at the moment when there's no way to plan ahead?

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

So, for example, capital has somewhere else to flow in search of returns, which it didn't the last time.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Plus unlike the last time where it was a global phenomenon, this time it's, if not exactly local, then epicentred on the US. The extrinsic supply lines outside the US are working fine.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

- someone still wearing a straw hat, shorts and flip-flops when it's snowing outside

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

He actually looks and acts more like a PM than JT ever did. Also, he isn't an annoying little dipshit, which is probably his main electoral asset. He's not a natural retail politician, interestingly.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Something something Tolkein something something Bilbo Goggins

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

*will not actually work for scale

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This is the GOPs Brexit, which will simultaneously crater both them and the economy.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I don't even like Booker but he, AOC and Bernie (the entire trio I'm no particular fan of, bit warmer to AOC than the others) seem like the only ones who get this moment.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

As the spouse of a librarian, YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE how much use libraries get. It's insane.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Carney is (a) good at this and (b) represents the views of almost all Canadians of all political spectra, apart from some wierdos out west.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

When I was baby KGB agent we'd spend years digging tunnels, tapping phone lines & honey trapping civil servants to get 2% of what team trump incompetently send to a journalist.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I’m sorry but I’m still thinking about the Secretary of Defense texting “We are currently clean on OPSEC” to a group chat that, unbeknownst to him, included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine.

All along, members of the Signal group were aware of the need for secrecy and operations security. In his text detailing aspects of the forthcoming attack on Houthi targets, Hegseth wrote to the group-which, at the time, included me we are currently clean on OPSEC:
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 24/03/2025

In another blow to legacy media, I'm hearing that the Trump administration plans to remove The Atlantic from its war-plans group chat. The outlet will be replaced in the chat by the Gateway Pundit.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

ah, ok. Those top-loader ones scare the bejaysus out of me.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

the obsession with USAID and the US Institute of Peace (which studies peaceful transitions to democracy) are particularly instructive. they believe that all protesters are paid. what's the solution? dismantle the payment agencies which pay the protesters.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

silicon valley is especially vulnerable to this. the idea musk (and andreeson, and thiel) had was that a blue checkmark made someone famous rather than denoting that a person was already famous. they started selling them and immediately found out that they were valueless, and were confused.

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John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The springs, man, that's not a DIY thing in my book.

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