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Jay @johnson.wtf · 4h

Whelp. Guess this is it. 🪦

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 17h

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes, that was an earthquake on the Kitsap Peninsula! If you are in the area, you can contribute to citizen science by filling out a report here: zpr.io/UA6upKKXB4C3 to tell us if you felt the shaking or not.

zpr.io

The Earthquake Event Page application supports most recent browsers, view supported browsers. Or, try our Real-time Notifications, Feeds, and Web Services.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 28/09/2026

So-called “inclusionary zoning,” the practice of requiring home builders to rent new apartments at a loss to low-income tenants, is a tax on new housing that worsens the housing shortage and raises rents overall in exchange for a handful of means-tested units. It’s bad policy!

thecooldown.com

Greater Boston builders say affordable-unit rules stall housing, but Boston won't budge

Developers and city leaders across Greater Boston are clashing over whether affordable-housing requirements are helping address the region's housing shortage.

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Jay @johnson.wtf · 29/09/2026

Ooo I just fully closed my bedroom window for the first time since like … March? 😱🤩🎃

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins

Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just want to provide a little excerpt of what Strauss's condescending questioning of SDOT staff actually looked like today. SDOT explains that funds for Third Ave are being transferred, and Strauss says this means the department thinks Third Ave is "in the state that it should be at this time."

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Jay @johnson.wtf · 29/09/2026

How to tell a company is probably toxic and maga as fuck 😬

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Jay @johnson.wtf · 28/09/2026

it's getting close to time to start thinkin about bringing the plants inside for the winter 😯

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 28/09/2026

I'll be at NYCC Booth 3560 next month, come get a really stupid sketch drawn badly by yours truly

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Jay @johnson.wtf · 28/09/2026

Almost a new month, so let's try writing a new resume again 🤪

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gambling and porn addiction have both gotten way worse now that you don't have to physically go to a place that's kind of gross for them

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Jay @johnson.wtf · 28/09/2026

I have never been on the "Nilay needs to arrest this CEO!" bandwagon... Until this episode. Truly never wanted to reach through my phone and grab someone by the scruff of their neck and shake them and shout "act like a normal human being for once in your life"

theverge.com

Cloudflare’s mission to save the web from AI… with AI

Making money is easy. Making it go to the right people is hard.

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Jay @johnson.wtf · 28/09/2026

3rd different show I’m working this weekend 😮‍💨

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Jay @johnson.wtf · 28/09/2026

Done with the symphony! Now to run to another theatre for an electrician call 😮‍💨

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feral streep @feralstreeep.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this entire discourse is totally pretend in 2026 because ain’t nobody getting interviewed or hired in this job market and even fewer unemployed people can afford iced coffee lol

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Jay @johnson.wtf · 27/09/2026

Back for another show 😮‍💨🤠

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Jay @johnson.wtf · 27/09/2026

When a guy reaches up and his shirt rides up a lil bit so you can see his tummy and happy trail a lil bit 😮‍💨🥴

static.klipy.com

Blanche Devereaux Golden Girls Retro TV

ALT: Blanche Devereaux Golden Girls Retro TV

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

important context here is joe lonsdale is a self admitted rapist

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

in response to all the deranged biphobia of the last week, it's time to watch the most bisexual film ever made

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Jay @johnson.wtf · 26/09/2026

for everyone getting all bent outta shape about taylow swift appropriating hiv/aids blahblah whatever... How many of y'all actually knew "Patient 0" was an hiv/aids reference before people on the internet told you to be mad?

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Jay @johnson.wtf · 25/09/2026

Update: made it to the gig and did the full work list

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Jay @johnson.wtf · 25/09/2026

Getting ready to go to an electrician callout wondering why my phone hasn't been charging... The other end of the cable wasn't plugged into the outlet 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

en.wikipedia.org

Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 24/09/2026

a lot of AI pushback would disappear fast if product managers stopped completely disrespecting user agency

Got it, thanks for clarifying! You are dealing with YouTube’s auto-playlist generation, where clicking a single song or album forces it into a "Mix" playlist layout with a custom queue. Unfortunately, YouTube intentionally designed this feature so that if Autoplay is active when you click a music-related video, it automatically forces the video into a Mix panel.

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 25/09/2026

Car-Free Pike Place Market Pilot Deemed Too Successful to Continue: tinyurl.com/uund6kej

People and flowers take up space on street of Pike Place in front of the Public Market Center sign

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026

Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026

I kept walking to my seat a few rows behind him. His staff or security are not happy with me. But Oz holds a position of public trust and is using it to make life unlivable for human beings in America. I should be the least of his problems. If you see Oz, let him have it. Let them eat crudités.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 25/09/2026

Rising fuel prices are pushing airfare skyward — meaning travelers will need to plan even earlier for holiday trips.

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As oil prices rise, so will airfare for holiday travelers, experts say

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

yep, good enough for me 👍

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Jay @johnson.wtf · 25/09/2026

Even crew has to wear a suit and tie at the Symphony 🕴️

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 25/09/2026

Olivia Rodrigo partners with Taco Bell to release a ‘you seem pretty pink for a Baja blast’ drink. Every purchase supports Girls Inc., a nonprofit that provides “mentorship, pro-girl environments, and research-informed programs to prepare girls to realize their full potential.”

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

He did it, this is the final boss level of white people going can I say it?

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 24/09/2026

Too many industries, from nursing homes to grocery stores, have fallen victim to private equity takeovers. I'm working with @warren.senate.gov to stop Wall Street's looting and put people over profits.

This image features photos of Sen. Warren and Rep. Jayapal with text highlighted in blue text that reads, "Sen. Warren, Rep. Jayapal introduce Stop Wall Street Looting Act." The text describes it as legislation aimed at reforming the private equity industry by holding private investment firms accountable and empowering workers and protecting investors. The background shows the U.S. Capitol building.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...