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Kevin Koperski @kk.social · 29/09/2026

Huge win for the Chicago Bears tonight! Almost makes up for Rohan outlasting Mordor in @middleearth.quest.

Kevin Koperski @kk.social · 26/09/2026

11pm on a Friday night and the hot water heater decides it's a good time to start leaking. Fun times.

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Serious question. Why do domain prices increase? Does the cost of administering a domain increase for a registrar? Is it purely profit motivated? Security costs? It all FEELS random, but maybe it's regulated?

@middleearth.quest I haven't received a "You found something" DM in two weeks, even though I still receive the battle DMs. Is that normal? Just curious. (Lies. I'm not just curious. I'm a greedy Uruk who wants better gear.) Thanks!

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Listen, Google. Take all the nifty phone/app streaming tech in the new Googlebooks and add it to Android XR. The single best use case for streaming a phone interface is in VR. Passthrough isn't bad, but it's not the same. Let me flick my finger and look at my phone screen. That would be awesome.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The new Meta VR glasses look solid, but I just can't buy more Meta products. I love my Quest 3, and Meta has done as much as anyone to further VR/AR tech, but I don't want to support that company anymore. Maybe they'll change one day... Probably not.

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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 24: Don't worry whether it will be any good. Whatever it is, write it first. You can always fix it later.

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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 22/09/2026

Clean energy is the cheapest and fastest way to meet rising electricity demand, but the Trump admin is choosing to prop up expensive, polluting fossil fuels instead. Earthjustice is fighting to keep us on a path toward a cleaner, more affordable energy future.

earthjustice.org

3 Ways We're Keeping Trump from Raising Electricity Bills Further

Earthjustice has won some key victories, including the first court case challenging the Trump administration’s abuse of emergency powers for coal.

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Kevin Koperski @kk.social · 21/09/2026

I think if Google had manufactured their own premium Googlebook, I wouldn't hesitate to buy one. But I've had too many Dell, HP, Lenovo clunkers over the years to trust them or want their branding on my laptop. Maybe we can get a Framework Googlebook!

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: Industrial heat without burning fossil fuels? Use cheap renewable electricity to heat cheap materials. Store the heat. Use when needed. It’s already happening: 50+ thermal battery projects have been built worldwide. More here: janrosenow.substack.com/p/thermal-ba...

janrosenow.substack.com

Thermal batteries aren’t coming. They’re already here.

Half of all operating thermal batteries came online since 2025. Policy, not technology, is now the main constraint.

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Kevin Koperski @kk.social · 19/09/2026

Renewables can improve lives, clean the atmosphere, and eliminate a lot of dependencies and conflict around the world. Glad more Republicans are starting to see that, even if they're motivated mostly by profit instead of a desire to help humanity.

politico.com

A solar industrial complex is turning Republicans into believers

A Georgia solar-panel factory — and the jobs it provides — is making renewable energy fans out of state Republicans.

Bailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad · 18/09/2026

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If you had to host PDS, Relay, labeler, CDN, client, and an AppView just to run an Atmosphere application, I would never recommend AT Protocol and tell you to find a better stack. But like the Atmosphere solves the cold start problem for having users, it does the same for devs.

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Kevin Koperski @kk.social · 18/09/2026

With a pint of ale and a smelly blanket, I don't think I've contributed much to these victories, but I am no less willing to partake in the celebration. Now I've got some arrows, har har har. Stand back.

Kevin Koperski @kk.social · 16/09/2026

Wasn't there supposed to be a media event for Googlebooks tonight? I just read that preorders open Sept 21, but any news before then? I'm an Android user, and I want to believe, but I'm not convinced a Googlebook will meet my use cases any more than a Chromebook. Hard to be convinced with no data.

Kevin Koperski @kk.social · 15/09/2026

My first attempt at an Atmospheric blog, throwing it back to 1995, when I built my first website on the internet. The possibility. The potential. That's how I feel about the Atmosphere today.

atmos.pckt.blog

A Bit of Backstory

Wherein I breathe atmospheric possibility

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It's arguably the most fun I've had on social media in a very long time.

I honestly don't know how to process the Chicago Bears scoring 59 points in the first game of the year. How is it possible to exceed the hype? And there was room for improvement! Insane. Go Bears!

Not exactly a great start for the Bears. I'll write it off to too much adrenaline.

Kevin Koperski @kk.social · 12/09/2026

We're pickin' our teeth with their broken axes. Long live Sauron!

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It's really hard to choose between all these awesome #atproto blogging tools. Feels like I need to write more so I can blog on each and support them all. Sadly, I'm not prolific enough for that.

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Kevin Koperski @kk.social · 12/09/2026

What's with Big Ten Network and FS1 failing to cut to college football games on time? Two Illinois games this year, and both were already underway. Remember when local networks could cut over even when a national broadcast did not? With all today's technology, can we not do what we once did?

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Kevin Koperski @kk.social · 11/09/2026

One thing that fascinates me about 9/11 is how much we all remember the weather. It was a perfect day in the NYC metropolitan area. Sunny. Cool. Early Autumn crisp. I went for a run, which was a little abnormal. Then the world changed. And we all remember the weather.

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Kevin Koperski @kk.social · 11/09/2026

Sunshine. Confusion. Disbelief. Shock. I remember the morning of 9/11 in too much detail. From northern NJ, we could see the smoke. My coworkers had family and friends at WTC. The phones were down. It's all so visceral. My first child was born 3 weeks later In Hackensack. She turns 25 this year.

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Kevin Koperski @kk.social · 11/09/2026

Something felt wrong watching this #NFL game. Maybe daylight for a night game? Or the fact it's on Netflix? Then I realized it's being played in Australia. The Southern Hemisphere. Of course! All the shadows must be upside down. And the football spirals in the opposite direction. Nailed it.

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Richard Ferro, MD MSc @richferro.com · 10/09/2026

I think the Atmosphere needs to start talking about renewables given all the AI-related emissions going into the... Atmosphere. I recently purchased the domain atproto.solar. And I'll offer that domain to anyone who's able to run a PDS that operates 100% on solar/renewable energy. Let's chat.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 09/09/2026

Looking for full-time, remote senior/staff or tech lead level work. TypeScript is my strongest suit, but I'm a flexible polyglot. Boosts for visibility appreciated!

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I'm not an iPhone user, but I think Apple's foldable looks like it might be the best foldable yet.

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I'm sorry, but a pint of ale is NOT a low-grade find. It's glorious. Cheers! @middleearth.quest

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Whoa. Apple going all-in with the "always listening" AI device.

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Kevin Koperski @kk.social · 08/09/2026

Watching this Apple event, having watched Google's recent events, I miss onstage presentations instead of long tv commercials. They were events. They were shared experiences. Presenters had to engage an audience. Now we're watching infomercials, and they're not remotely exciting or entertaining.

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I think Facebook's Muse joins Grok in the category of AI tools I don't intend to use because I fundamentally disagree with their company ethos. But that's just me.