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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you read and aren't a fan of Goodreads, I highly recommend checking out Hardcover at hardcover.app - good website + mobile apps + tons of cool features. My fav is seeing which books other users and I have both rated 4+, super handy for finding someone with similar tastes to get ideas for my TBR.

hardcover.app

Hardcover

We're a social network for book lovers to find life changing books, track what you read & want to read, and connect with passionate readers.

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

TFW when you are many hours deep in a rabbit hole investigating a nasty bug that you’re afraid you might never figure out (typecheck timing out after 3 minutes no matter what you do)… …but then you - the human - make a breakthrough that results in the AI coding agent replying “HOLY SHIT” 😎

Message 1: tsgo stalls during --noEmit typecheck · Issue #1671 · microsoft/typescript-go
Message 2: <Worked for 18s >
Message 3: HOLY SHIT. This may be the smoking gun.
Message 4: The issue reports exactly our pattern:

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is a VERY exciting time in my life right now

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 11/09/2026

My dad survived the Pentagon attack on 9/11. Before he died in Dec 2020, he wrote his military career biography - seriously, it’s a whole edited, bound production, this man loved his career in military public health. The following is his brief remembrance of the day.

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am very grateful to the friend who saved our IRC log from the morning of 9/11/2001... it's a powerful time capsule for our friend group.

IRC log started 11 Sep 2001 07:29:13 [All times are Pacific Daylight Time]
[REDACTED AUTHOR]: A plane just crashed into the World Trade Center.
[REDACTED AUTHOR]: SHIT!!! that's fucked up... its out of a movie or something!!!
[REDACTED AUTHOR]: No, it's true.
[REDACTED AUTHOR]: [08:59] <[REDACTED USERNAME]> wow
[REDACTED AUTHOR]: [09:02] <[REDACTED USERNAME]> 2nd plane just hit the building
[REDACTED AUTHOR]: [09:02] <[REDACTED USERNAME]> holy shit
[REDACTED AUTHOR]: www.cnn.com
[REDACTED AUTHOR]: huh? two planes?
[REDACTED AUTHOR]: Wait, second explosion may have been a bomb.
[REDACTED AUTHOR]: [REDACTED USERNAME]: no... I believe you (having checked cnn.com)... but it still sounds like its something out of a movie...
[REDACTED AUTHOR]: Fox News is reporting that a second plane has hit the second tower!!!
[REDACTED AUTHOR]: They just showed film of the second plane hitting the second tower!!!
[REDACTED AUTHOR]: aperantly the second plane was a large, twin engine plane...

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Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Okay I’m going to do a thread on “trust the science” and MAHA, from the perspective of a woman with a uterus who is also the parent of a child with a rare genetic disorder. 🧵

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I did Bulgarian split squats this morning, and that’s quite enough adulting for the day

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Yesterday I texted this link to my family about certain flavors of outshine bars being recalled due to having *glass* in them, and seconds later my son replies “So it WASNT a new blood orange flavor” and I am still giggling about it a day later www.fda.gov/safety/recal...

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Updated – Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, Inc. Issues Voluntary Recall on Select Outshine Fruit Bars Due to Possible Foreign Matter Contamination

August 18, 2026 - Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, Inc. is voluntarily recalling a limited number of select flavors of Outshine Fruit Bars due to possible foreign material contamination with glass. Products ...

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Be a Laurie. I think Laurie is probably sleeping pretty dang well at night

As the flight neared final boarding, another ICE officer accused Laurie of interfering with the operation and pressed her to help locate the passenger. Laurie declined to say whether the woman was on the flight's passenger list and told the officer he would need to contact the airline's corporate security department for information. "You're going to need a subpoena," she said. No arrests were made at the gate that day.

The next day, the passenger called her.
She had made it home. And she was with her child.

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

For weeks I've been obsessively working on a book recommendation site aimed at making it easier to say "If you loved <bookA> then you might like <bookB>”. It’s *finally* in a good enough state to share it: www.linkabook.com Here are some examples of it in action, and how you can tune the results:

If you liked: Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1) — Travis Baldree

Try reading:
1. The Keeper of Magical Things — Julie Leong (2025)
2. A Rival Most Vial: Potioneering for Love and Profit — R.K. Ashwick (2023)
3. The Wizard's Butler — Nathan Lowell (2020)
4. Can't Spell Treason Without Tea — Rebecca Thorne (2024)
5. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches — Sangu Mandanna (2022)
6. The House in the Cerulean Sea — T.J. Klune (2020)
7. Automatic Noodle — Annalee Newitz (2025)
8. Sunward — William Alexander (2025)

Book recommendations from https://linkabook.com/next/tp9x8ecrgk

If you liked: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — Rebecca Skloot

Try reading:
1. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End — Atul Gawande (2014)
2. When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi (2016)
3. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America — Ibram X. Kendi (2016)
4. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer — Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)
5. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted — Suleika Jaouad (2021)
6. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration — Isabel Wilkerson (2010)
7. Everything Is Tuberculosis — John Green (2025)
8. Outlive — Peter Attia with Bill Gifford (2023)

Book recommendations from https://linkabook.com/next/tp9x8ecrgk

If you liked: Piranesi — Susanna Clarke
With an emphasis on: magical realism
Dialled up: book dna match.

Try reading:
1. The Starless Sea — Erin Morgenstern (2019)
2. The Wood at Midwinter — Susanna Clarke (2024)
3. The Lost Bookshop — Evie Woods (2023)
4. Men Without Women — Haruki Murakami (2014)
5. Cursed Bunny — Bora Chung (2017)
6. Lanny — Max Porter (2019)
7. If Cats Disappeared from the World — Genki Kawamura (2012)
8. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories — Kelly Link (2023)

Book recommendations from https://linkabook.com/next/tp9x8ecrgk

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

My glyphs? iconic My tech debt? chronic My innerHTML? dangerously set

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I wish I could yeet perimenopause into the sun

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

In the last 24h I absolutely devoured what I think will be my favorite book of 2026: Ilona Andrews’ This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying #1). www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

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This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)

Outlander meets Game of Thrones in this blockbuster new…

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

So excited to have spotted this gem for my collection today

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Writing patterns that make me start twitching uncontrollably: “It’s not delivery, it’s DiGiorno - and no one is talking about it. Let me explain.”

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It is literally 106 miles to Chicago

A picture of a GPS showing a route to Chicago with 106 miles left to go

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

TFW you are a Gen-Xer at the airport and randomly end up meeting the voice actor (Victor Caroli) who was the narrator for the Transformers cartoon (and so much more) in the 80s!! tfwiki.net/wiki/Victor_...

A man and two women standing next to each other with an airport scene in the background

A screenshot of the top of https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Victor_Caroli showing his performances

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Homophones in the English language drive me nuts - they are pique irritation

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

“He’s like me, but in a different font” - my kid describing one of her coworkers

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

At my friend’s house for a bbq yesterday, and the friend said “Anyone want some more?” while grilling, and my bestie and I both immediately shouted out “please sir, some more?” So that’s how you can tell someone was a theater kid

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evil_sister.rb @wired.sister.haus · 30/06/2026

Frog asked the agent to write a spec for the proposed changes. "There," he said, "now I can understand the changes without reading any code." "But you're not reading the spec either" said Toad. "That is true," said Frog.

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I misread this as “bull shirt” at first, which is now going to become my favorite expression because there’s a lot of bullshirt going on these days

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The bit at the end of The Usual Suspects where the camera focuses on the feet for just a few seconds is just absolute peak visual storytelling

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Factorio’s latest update is a delightful read for any fans of the game, particularly those who work in the software industry - it’s clearly written by humans who love their customers and their craft factorio.com/blog/post/ff...

factorio.com

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Petition to rebrand Chuck Norris jokes as Mamdani jokes

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

eagles can apparently just swim around

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I added celery and cashews to my spicy chicken fried rice and I feel like I should win some kind of cooking award

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A couple of good geeky finds for my collection this week

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Good thing I got this outdoor dog bed

A small garden patch, with an outdoor dog bed in the sun, and a black and white dog laying on top of a green plant to the left of the dog bed

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

These are all different types of chicken

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Happy new murderbot day to those who celebrate!

A hardcover book Platform Decay by Martha Wells

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

There’s a really fun thread on the Dungeon Crawler Carl subreddit about creating a bingo card leading up to book 8’s release next week, I loved it so much I made a simple site to generate DCC bingo cards with ideas from the thread plus some of my own: dccbingo.lovable.app

A bingo card titled "DCC Bingo Card Generator" contains a 5x5 grid of squares, each with a different phrase related to the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. Some phrases include "Carl pulls a corpse into his inventory", "DONUT TYPES IN ALL CAPS", "There's a new Sluggalo with a funny name", "The view counter is buried to the right", and "Carl slams down on Protective Shell".

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I just scrolled past this and the *sound* I made out loud to myself, oh my

meme using an illustration of ancient Egyptians building a pyramid as a template.
Overlay text: "How tf did they build this without any"
Overlay text: "hopping on a quick call with key stakeholders"

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Yesterday my goodest boy Baxter started walking in tight circles in an obsessive way - long story short, it’s likely he either had a stroke or he has a brain tumor that crossed a tipping point in his forebrain. He’s only 9.5 years old and I’m not ready for this to be the beginning of the end.

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Unfortunately I have to report that making life changes such as eating better and exercising (mostly lifting heavy things) helped my cholesterol get into the normal range for the first time in *decades*. This is bullshit 😆

Screenshot of two cholesterol reports from bloodwork, showing total cholesterol at 234 in January 2026 and 184 in May 2026

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Reading things on social media is really annoying these days. Here’s why:

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 31/03/2026

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I am irrationally annoyed that they are gathering data on if I’m interested in a post **from a page I follow**

Screenshot of a social media post.
Midwest vs The Rest: "Midwesterners will understand this"
The image shows a hand holding a thick stack of slightly curled dollar bills, viewed from the short side, with the text "Midwesterners will understand this" implying the image depicts money that has gone through laundry.

Below the post there is a question: “are you interested in this post?” with an Interested and Not Interested button the user can choose.

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

While walking my dogs in the morning, we often pass two geese who hang out in the grassy area of a nearby park. The way they look keeps giving me "new album just dropped" vibes, soo....

Album art riffing on a Beastie Boys album depicting two geese on a grassy field in black and white with "GEESIE BOYS - PECK YOUR HEAD" text.

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Album art riffing on a Weezer album showing two Canadian geese facing each other against a bright blue background, with the word "geeser" in black text at the top right.

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Album art riffing on a No Doubt album, featuring a large goose in the foreground and a circular inlay showing two geese in a grassy field with trees, all set against a dark blue background with "NO DOWN" at the top and "Tragic Wingdom" across the lower portion.

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Album art riffing on a The Who album, featuring three stylized geese with unusual heads, two appearing to be wearing baseball caps, standing on a grassy field with a large concrete block in the background. The text "Goose next" is overlaid in blue at the top.

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

‪Do you suppose Mary was only called “quite contrary” at first because it rhymed, but then she got labeled as contrary, and then she had to live with that label her whole life? That poor woman.‬ ‪Source: someone whose name rhymes with “spacey”.‬

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I feel bad for people whose last name is “Telemarketer”

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

it’s kind of fun to use “biblically accurate” as an adjective for just about any noun

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KC Lemson @kclemson.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

just saw project hail mary… amaze amaze amaze

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

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