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I do tech stuff, mostly for banks.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Been on GLP-1’s for two years. Things nobody who hasn’t been on them tells you: - you need protein. A lot of it. Otherwise your body goes into starvation mode cause you’re eating so little. 50g a day minimum. You need to plan how you’ll do it every single day.
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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I would say that the deal to allow Putin to rebuild Russia’s refining capacity would constitute as treasonous behavior on the part of Trump but at some point I might need to re-enter the USA for family or work reasons. So I’m not saying it. Also, guillotines are pretty cool.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 28/09/2026
USB-C is the best technology in so long. I bring ONE type of adaptor on business trips now (to charge my computer, my phone, my tablet, my earbuds, my watch, my headphones). I'm sitting in a meeting right now using my Mac and am borrowing the cord from a ThinkPad user. Standards win.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 28/09/2026
like if you think it’s fly tipping, repost if you bet dogging
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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is fantastic innovation in brain cancer diagnosis. I’m just so sorry Steve had the BBC telegraph his terminal condition to the world. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Brain tumour diagnosis cut from weeks to hours with rapid new NHS test
The test means patients can start treatment sooner and are spared weeks of uncertainty.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This does suggest Britain is a) very good at integration b) actively attracts the world's smart and ambitious people who want to get on and do well for themselves Both of these are very good, competitive qualities to have and should be celebrated.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
See also: presswatchers.org/2026/07/the-...
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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch
Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Why yes person I haven’t met before or done full due diligence on, I - a high profile figure - will gladly accept this secret dodgy money. You’d better not be a journalist filming this!
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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I knew Milo when he was a tech journalist in London specializing in the tech startup scene. I was friendly with him. He had some sort of psychotic break and turned into a monster. Or the monster was there all along and he was cosplaying as a nice guy. Cut off all ties years and years ago regardless.
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Kanye Exec Milo Yiannopoulos Detained by ICE in Louisiana
Milo Yiannopoulos has been apprehended by ICE in Louisiana ... TMZ has learned.
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026
The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan

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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.
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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I went on Facebook today because my husband convinced me I needed to do a birthday proof of life post. I’ll give Zuck an annual user but I avoided the algorithmic feed which is my red line. He says I got some likes. Ironically I still use insta because there’s still a non-algo way to use it.
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jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Is it just me or was the national phone alert for wildfires that just went out rather unnecessary? I'd hate to think of how many women there are out there trying to escape from abusive relationships who just had their secret burner phone go off like a fog horn.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026
I am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...
Cover of the book "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack. The top right corner says "Author of The End of Everything" and the bottom left says "Brilliant and thrilling! - John Green". The cover motif is a space image made of puzzle pieces.
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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I’m in the UK and I’m very happy not to see any eulogizing tonight about a horrible human paid as a columnist to write terrible things about his fellow humans. Rod Liddle was a terrible person and I think the world will be better off he doesn’t write another word.
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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Am I the only one who thinks that being so careless with space launches that you alter the surface of the moon should be a criminal offense?
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I wrote up a short blog post giving my thoughts on the new Anthropic cryptanalysis results against HAWK and AES. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/s...
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Some notes about Anthropic’s new results
Yesterday Anthropic published two new cryptanalysis results, both outputs of Claude Mythos, their (still) unreleased advanced model. The first of these results attacks a signature scheme called HAW…
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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A man visits Paris where he makes several friends, one of whom dies.
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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Yet another “study” that clearly didn’t include the gays (which I am of).
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It’s a really funny runner how every issue in American history that apologists claim “no one” knew was wrong has a corresponding Quaker going “this is wrong”
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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I really wish Apple TV had an “AppleTV+ only” mode. I don’t really care to see what I already know I’m watching on the other streaming services. I’m on my Apple TV to watch AppleTV+. That’s it. Every other service gets its own app. Why not yours Apple?
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
this wouldn’t work legally because a President has no authority to remove a Supreme Court justice. however the President could instead simply drone strike them. it sounds like i’m being snarky but as a result of the immunity decision this is the actual law.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
you ever seen somebody so good at what they do that his opponents were chanting his name and carrying him off the stage afterwards
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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The design of the guillotine was intended to make capital punishment more reliable and less painful in accordance with new Enlightenment ideas of human rights. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillot...
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Guillotine - Wikipedia
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Technically, they’re Remains now.
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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I’ve said for years as a US immigrant here that the UK government’s approach to retirement savings being Calvinball is about the only way our tax system is systemically worse than the US approach. US tax treatment for retirement savings changes maybe once a generation. Here it’s twice a year.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/06/2026
Like I said: admitting to liking Elon Musk must become socially equivalent to admitting you pleasure yourself to a picture of Pol Pot on a nightly basis. This creature is not redeemable, and anyone who defends his genocidal insanity is complicit.
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Rui Pinto, count your days @thombomb816.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 19/06/2026
Anyone who has worked with Ukrainian engineers and scientists will confirm what I'm saying. Inluding the Russians 🤣 Guess where the center of gravity was for Soviet science and technology directorates. What the Ukrainians needed was not Palantir, it was raw real time geospatial and intel feeds.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 19/06/2026
Any time you hear a story about how Palantir finally supercharged Ukraine's drone targeting with Gotham, assume it 100% bullshit "halo effect" -- taking credit for stuff they had no part in. Your average Internet cafe in Kyiv has more engineering talent than all of Palantir combined. I promise.
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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Translation.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Every country with any kind of archaeological sites of significance, 1600 to 1950:
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
India in the late 1600s:
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
me: am i going a bit far, calling musk a 'classic fascist' with the same core values as hitler? musk: i am concerned about the ethnic purity of the german people
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
LOL, the Trump admin just shut down the newest Claude model for *everyone* because Anthropic has no way to ensure it can't be accessed by foreign nationals in the U.S. Wouldn't surprise me if the underlying cause was Elon Musk telling Stephen Miller to do this because nobody wants to use Grok.
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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I really hope someone in Madonna’s team actually tells her how much the gays hate what her team did to our main social network. We don’t forget and we’re gay; we don’t forgive. I might have liked the songs but now I will avoid them at all cost.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Re: Patagonia v. Pattie Gonia I spoke with a trademark attorney and two scholars of Indigenous Patagonian history to understand both the legal and ethical question everyone is asking. The answers are way more complex than social media is making them out to be.
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Can Patagonia© own Patagonia?
And more importantly, should it?
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Okay, time for the panda discussion. It's kind of a meme that pandas are rubbish, but the reason they are like they are is rooted in natural selection and it's worth talking about!
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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I’m a coeliac. And yet I am addicted to Great British Bake Off (and the spinoffs like Professionals, which is airing now). Despite the fact that I’ll never eat anything they make and I don’t even remember what a lot of this stuff tastes like it’s incredibly feel good telly. Even when they go FUBAR.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/06/2026
Air conditioning is unapologetically a good thing because it helps people not die. And one good thing about air conditioning is that it largely needs to run during the day when solar power is at its maximum: it can and should align with clean energy goals.
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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Has anyone worked out the best steel blend to use for a guillotine blade or how heavy the weight on top has to be? Just curious on an academic level. I’m sure material science has moved on since 1789.
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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I am a massive tennis fan. And massively judgmental about male tennis outfits. Don’t know why the players allow their sponsors to ask them to look like retirees when they’re specimens of physical perfection. Novak makes sure he always looks on fleek. The rest of them can learn that from him.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 28/05/2026
Joe Gebbia should be in prison at least until this has all been fully investigated and all responsible have been prosecuted. thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/05/2026
I really do encourage people to read the complaint here they tried! they had an agreement about pattie not selling merch with similar logos! pattie decided to ignore it, there are emails and everything the whole thing sucks
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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
So a million years ago I got to the final round of the application process at Deep Springs. I went and stayed on the campus for a weekend. This is not a reproducible model. This is my story.
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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
For some reason today I went onto Wikipedia and was reminded that the guillotine was developed as a humane approach to capital punishment, was a refinement of previous beheading machines dating back to the 13th century, and was the moderate option in the French Revolution.
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