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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 36m
I am obsessed with this Kei truck: gracejdm.com/products/sub...
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Subaru "Kei" 2000 Sambar Truck 4WD 5MT
Year 2000 The significant demand among farmers in Japan for the rear-engine, 4-cylinder vehicle design. Known for its exceptional durability, this model has earned the nickname "Porsche of the Farm Ro...
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 5h
Car from The Blues Brothers with a giant PA system strapped to the top.
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 6h
Oh yeah, that's the stuff. normanwlong.bandcamp.com/track/karsti...
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Karstic Flow, by Norman W Long
from the album Un dialogue entre terre et mer
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just in time for Bandcamp Friday: www.goodexperimentalmusic.com/good-experim...
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Good Experimental Music: September 2026
This time around we have turntables made of stone, scores from installations, drones that are unafraid to be dramatic, and horns playing with themselves.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes and it's when the true customer became the investor.
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Garry B. (Sallow Moth) @gonemage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you missed out on the Sallow Moth vinyl for the new album…keep tabs on our Bandcamp this Friday.
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Looking at AI through the lens of human agency/power continues to offer an interesting way to critique any promise of future benefits.
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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 29/09/2026
The newly launched America.gov website is an LLM built on data from decades of actual work from people who made digital gov accessible and secure. Meanwhile, the current fed refuses to do anything well, so this LLM is a guaranteed security, privacy and accessibility risk. So yeah don’t use it.
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
\m/
Marguis of the Neptune Theater where IGORRR is playing and Secret Chiefs 3 is opening.
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New accessory just dropped.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We're approaching the time of the year where the arboretum is absolutely magical.
Gold leaves starting to turn in the arboretum A stairway in the arboretum in the magical light
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 27/09/2026
I dunno. The article felt more like an op-ed. Sure, Pinehurst is opening without much density around it. But should we build density first and then rail? Ballard did that and got completely screwed by Sound Transit. I think you build what you can when you can. And let's get those upzones moving!
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is correct and when I call songs like "Ordinary" and "Choosin Texas" slop this is more what I mean than any claim they were produced by AI in order for music to sit in the background it can't create any friction with settled expectations (settled expectations=one type of whiteness as property)
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unusual amount of squirrel content today. 📈
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I just saw a person carry a dead squirrel bare handed and then deposit it in the bushes of a stranger’s home.
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Effective public transit prob fits in there somewhere as well.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New Washington state point-in-time count data shows that homelessness grew everywhere last year, including in Pierce and Snohomish Counties (adjacent to Seattle's King County)...which is so weird because I was told all the homeless people come to Seattle for the easy living and free drugs??
deptofcommerce.app.box.com
Box
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This description made it an instant listen, ngl. orbitalgate.bandcamp.com/album/engine...
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Engineering His Planetary Dominion, by Orbital Gate
10 track album
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All four have socialist/labour mayors.
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's a visceral example of AI deskilling, but I wonder how many CEOs at this level a) have enough addresses that the answer is not reflexive and b) have delegated this low level information to assistants and other people that make their lives possible.
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Around 3:20 I am pretty sure supernatural forces are being summoned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_keS...
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Äijö (Värttinä)
YouTube video by 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Gotta love watching a trio like Slift let it rip...they would be so fun to see live! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQmr...
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SLIFT - Live From the Street (Official Live Video)
YouTube video by SLIFT
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh yeah, what are you gonna do? Release the bees? Or the puke? Or the bees with puke in their mouths and when they fly, they shoot puke at you?
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Nick @nicksattele.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Change in number of movie theaters in UDistrict by mayor: Bruce Harrell: -3 Katie Wilson: +1
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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The state of engineering these days.
WanderWatterson:
you're now just a condom between claude and your production server getting fucked
Screenshot is taken from Reddit.
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
+ degraded critical thinking, creativity, and connection to other people.
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
More "synth-driven death-metal hyper-rock" is coming in November! pharaohoverlord.bandcamp.com/album/7
pharaohoverlord.bandcamp.com
7, by Pharaoh Overlord
5 track album
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Notes from the community meeting.
Image of a metal utility pole marked with stickers and graffiti. One white ovular sticker says “For assholes By assholes, Meta Ray-Bans”.

The other is a black line art image of the Statue of Liberty that says “JURY NULLIFICATION”.
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Something to reflect on for the UX designers out there as well.
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🎶Without grace and running🎶
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 21/09/2026
Big 2026 mood
An ad for an AI company, name redacted. It reads, “Everyone dreams of going fast. 6000+ teams already are.” Beside it, an MTA safety poster reading “Please slow down. Avoid Slips, Trips, and Falls”A closer crop of the same image. Only “dreams, fast, and already are” remain visible from the ad. Next to it, an MTA safety poster reading “Please slow down. Avoid Slips, Trips, and Falls”A yet closer crop of the safety poster. The small text is now visible

• Walk carefully on stairs, keep to the right and hold the handrail
• Face forward on escalators
* Never run in the subway
• Always watch the gap as you enter and exit trains
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are hiring for several positions in the UW Information School, including a tenure-track position in Library and Information Science. Please share with anyone interested in these areas! Deadline October 30. Job: apply.interfolio.com/192127
Screenshot of job ad that reads: "The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to our Library and Information Science (LIS) research, with areas of relevance including, but not limited to:

Libraries - Academic, Digital, or Public 

Librarianship - Leadership, Innovation, or Education  

Information Technology - Ethics, Public Interest, and Justice-Oriented Approaches  

Data - Archives, Public / Open, and Humanistic or Scientific Applications

Artificial Intelligence - Public Interest, Library or Cultural Heritage-Centered, Open-Source Applications in Information Institutions  "
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Variation on a theme from @spavel.bsky.social's latest: "wondering what will happen is another way of folding your arms and doing nothing. Instead, look around, and ask yourself: is this what I want to happen next? And if not — what is?" productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/assigning-...
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Assigning agency to AI means surrendering your own
Claude is not a colleague, collaborator, or sentient being. It is a SaaS product.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
LOL "Siri Classic"
From a post at 9to5Mac:
https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/20/five-ways-that-the-new-siri-ai-is-frustrating-iphone-and-apple-watch-users/

How to turn off Siri AI and go back to old Siri
The easiest way to disable Siri AI on your device and quickly switch back to classic Siri is to use controls in Screen Time. Open the Settings app and navigate to Screen Time -> Content & Privacy Restrictions -> Siri and change Allowed Siri version from “Siri AI (Beta)” to “Siri Classic”.

You can then go back to this menu later and toggle it back if you want to try Siri AI again.

If you don’t want to use Screen Time, you can also go into Siri settings directly and turn off Siri altogether. When you re-enable it, you should be able to choose between enabling Siri Classic or Siri AI.
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just in case you appreciate Apple's packaging decisions, this is how they chose to ship a keyboard, trackpad, and 1 meter Thunderbolt cable.
A cardboard box that exceeds the volume of the products contained in it by more than 25x. Apple made their shipping materials limitation my problem because now I have to get rid of an unnecessarily large box and the massive amount of material used to fill the void that was not taken up by the three products I ordered.
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026
no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This It Follows reboot looks like a decent scare.
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Principal Skinner meme where the Simpsons character asks "Should we remove complexity from this system?" and then rhetorically answers "No. It is the user's burden."
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This 20 min (!) track drones and throbs like the sounds of some kind of alien contraption until the very end when the power is cut and the machine is sustained by decaying inertia until it comes to a stop. Astonishing! mayadunietz.bandcamp.com/track/sound-...
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Sound of Difference and Connection Around a Unison ex. 1, by Maya Dunietz & Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop
from the album The Sound of Difference and Connection
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
hey @parks.seattle.gov there are numerous cars parking and driving along the car free portion of lower woodland bect to pump track - because the bollards here are insufficient. in the dark. in the daytime. with kids and cyclists walking around.
lower woodland car problem
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If an offensive ad makes it through your marketing/corporate bureaucracy and into production, your apology doesn't matter.
Norman Rockwell Freedom of Speech guy. Everyman in a blue plaid shirt and brown jacket/pants standing up amidst a seated crowd of adoring onlookers, stating an opinion.
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Might be time for another manufacturing run of these. subscribe.adbusters.org/products/bla...
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Blackspot Unswoosher — Culture Shop
Made from organic hemp and vegan leather, with soles fashioned from recycled tires. Hand-crafted by unionized workers. Ideal for kicking corporate ass. Only siz
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Speaking of feeling things...OMG this! tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/aesthe...
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Aesthesis, by Thorn Wych
10 track album
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm thinking about this post again. Specifically, this line: “Design is what happens to you when you encounter it.” superposition.jem.computer/design-is-ho...
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Design Is How It Tastes
If our design specs only tell models what the interface is made of, they have already forgotten what the interface is for
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Napalm Death doing Tiny Desk and now a review of the new Krallice? NPR is bringing it!
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Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Spirit Halloween is going to sell out of this costume so fast!
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