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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Ben McCarthy @benricem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When you're ready to take antagonising creators to whole new levels

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One side of this war has an elected legislature but it doesn't really have any power compared to the supreme leader and the council of guardian jurists, and the other is Iran.

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Marcel @marcel.fyi · 14/09/2026

Here’s a very detailed post about how I scan and edit my watercolor comics. uarrr.org/how-i-scan-a...

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How I Scan and Edit My Watercolor Comics

From beige sketchbook paper to clean, crisp digital files

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CommodoreBlog @commodoreblog.uk · 12/09/2026

When angels deserve to die..

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Ainslie Cruickshank @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's been another tough year for gray whales — as of mid-August 187 have washed up along the west coast of North America, many of them showing signs of starvation. I wrote up a summary of what's been happening over the last few years for @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/gray...

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Gray whales are washing up dead on the West Coast. The reason is alarming

Up and down the Pacific coast, dead gray whales are mysteriously washing ashore—and scientists think they know why

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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly removed multiple online resources for companies on how to measure the carbon footprint of their supply chains, called Scope 3 emissions. Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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EPA Removes Online Scope 3 Emissions Guidance for Companies

As the Trump administration rolls back environmental rules, it’s also taking down resources that help corporations understand their environmental risk.

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Harshil @harshil.net · 10/09/2026

Hmm this definitely changes how I'm thinking about the iPhone Duo's proportions

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Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 06/06/2026

Hi, just because a software tells you it’s “reasoning” or “thinking” doesn’t mean it actually is. You won’t believe this but programmers can make software lie about what it does. Maybe programmers need more guardrails.

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was trying to get through to one of the staff of this site yesterday but like, this is psychosis. The people who run this site think AI is alive. How do you come back from this

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Nil Coalescing @nilcoalescing.com · 07/09/2026

Present grouped data as a multi-level donut chart in Swift Charts, where each outer ring reveals a more detailed breakdown and each subgroup aligns with its parent category: nilcoalescing.com/blog/Buildin... #iOSDev #macOSDev #SwiftUI

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Building a sunburst diagram in Swift Charts

Present grouped data as a multi-level donut chart, where each outer ring reveals a more detailed breakdown and each subgroup aligns with its parent category.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wow, the Trump EPA is proposing a change to the definition of “discharge of a pollutant” that would exempt moving boats and ships from National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program requirements. Let the dumping begin*! *Let’s not. Please comment in the Federal Register.

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EPA Moves to Redefine “Discharge of a Pollutant” - Eos

The EPA is proposing a change to the definition of “discharge of a pollutant” that would exempt moving boats and ships from pollution regulations.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Instead of giving up, scientists and UN officials recommend trying to limit excessive warming and then bring the temperature back down to the agreed-upon threshold. But it still will mean decades of increased weather-related disasters, rising seas, extinctions and melting ice and glaciers."

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For the first time, a key UN report says the 1.5 C global warming threshold is lost | CBC News

In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Officials say the...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting. Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.

Cover from The Economist from two years ago "Say goodbye to 1.5°C; why climate policy is off target". It has a graphic of the Earth with an apple on its head, and a arrow shot through the Earth.

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

this wave of AI has legitimately killed a huge part of what I loved about seeing stuff online, what I loved about being an educator, and what I loved about sharing my own work I just don't feel like doing it anymore

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Francesco Marini @lightskies.net · 27/08/2026

Just realized. Sean Connery is dead. Sam Neill, dead. Tim Curry, dead. Someone should check on Scott Glenn and Alex Baldwin…

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 27/08/2026

Update: this horrific and devastating event was not caused by a GLOF but something else, similarly worsened by climate change - a huge chunk of ice that fell off a glacier and plunged into a river 😱

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Photos: A Deadly Flood Tears Through Nepal and Tibet (Gift Article)

An ice avalanche that started high in the Himalayas tumbled thousands of feet, releasing vast amounts of energy that pulverized the ice into a significant volume of flood water.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Age assurance is a privacy nightmare. Enshrining it as the industry standard means the end of meaningful online anonymity, and it ‘forces’ Meta to collect more data about all of us — including adults” that can be used “for whatever else they decide it’s useful for. That’s bad.”

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Nil Coalescing @nilcoalescing.com · 26/08/2026

Visualize data distributions by building a histogram and a 2D density plot with the Swift Charts framework: nilcoalescing.com/blog/Plottin... #iOSDev #macOSDev #SwiftLang

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Plotting data distributions with Swift Charts

Visualise data distributions by building a histogram and a 2D density plot with the new Swift Charts framework.

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🕹RetroGuyBry🎮 @retroguybry.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Wow, Impressive! Dragons Lair FMV by daddlerTL and Mac #Commodore64Ultimate Download: tinyurl.com/2p9n3mab

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Natalia Panferova @natpanferova.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We can visualize data in our iOS apps in so many ways with Swift Charts. But it's important to understand the framework well to build beautiful and interactive charts that stay accessible and performant. Our new book can help you make the most of it: books.nilcoalescing.com/swift-charts... #iOSDev

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

They keep taking away the wrong 80-year-old. 🥺

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Francesco Marini @lightskies.net · 26/08/2026

Damn. Goodbye Dr. Frank-N-Furter (and Pennywise, and Dr. Yevgeniy Petrov, and too many others to list). RIP Tim Curry.

A close-up of Tim Curry as Dr. Frank N Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show with dramatic makeup, featuring bold black eyeliner and bright red lipstick, curly dark hair, and a lascivious smile and look.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The goal now is just to discipline labor and crush any popular anticapitalist movement. They’ve achieved a level of wealth that makes profit and loss pure abstraction, now they’re just focused on social control. Fighting taxes isn’t about wealth, it’s about starving the state of resources

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 15/08/2026

"AI’s Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds" > AI companies are the fossil fuel industry's best friends. futurism.com/artificial-i... And yet so many people I know in tech keep finding excuses to justify not only using the tech but even working on the tech itself

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AI's Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds

AI is giving the fossil fuel industry a major leg up, a new paper has found, indicating its carbon footprint extends beyond data centers.

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Francesco Marini @lightskies.net · 13/08/2026

And so it ended like this for us, about fifteen minutes before maximum coverage 🤷🏼‍♂️ Really cool until then, though.

A dramatic sunset with the sun behind some low clouds is depicted with golden and orange hues in the sky. Silhouetted trees and buildings are visible in the foreground, while a tranquil field stretches below the sky.

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

84 years ago, on the 11th of August 1942, actress/inventor Hedy Lamarr and composer/inventor George Antheil received a patent for a frequency hopping "Secret Communications System" which later served as a basis for wireless telephones, two-way radio communications, and Wi-Fi. #otd #history🗃️

Detail from a portrait of Antheil, by American photographer Berenice Abbott, c. 1927

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School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology @soest.hawaii.edu · 10/08/2026

Scientists at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are using drones to deploy suction-cup tags on humpback whales, revolutionizing marine mammal research. This method allows researchers to tag whales from a distance, minimizing disturbance and enabling data collection on previously inaccessible whales.

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Tagging whales from the sky: New methods revolutionize research

Marine mammal research has attained new heights as scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are deploying noninvasive suction-cup tags onto humpback whales using drones

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Maybe this will finally get politicians to care about climate change: “The brutally hot summer is set to cost the EU economy €180 billion this year — that’s equivalent to roughly 1 percent of GDP, which is all the growth the bloc was expected to generate in 2026, according to new analysis.”

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Europe’s scorching summer is erasing its economic growth, says report

Dutch growth is set to be almost entirely wiped out, and France could be pushed into a contraction.

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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 10/04/2026

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

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RFK Jr. Lied His Way Into Office and American Health Is the Victim

He is pushing quackery as science as health secretary

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Natalia Panferova @natpanferova.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

SwiftUI introduced a range of new toolbar customization APIs in iOS 27. They give us more control over how toolbars adapt as apps become resizable and appear in more contexts. I explored all the new additions, with examples showing how each one works: nilcoalescing.com/blog/Adaptiv... #iOSDev

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Adaptive SwiftUI toolbars in iOS 27

Control which SwiftUI toolbar actions stay visible, move commands into overflow, pin an important item and configure navigation bar minimization with the new iOS 27 APIs.

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NSSpain XIV @nsspain.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

🎉 First speaker for #NSSpainXIV: Matthew Cassinelli! He'll be diving into "Preparing Your App for Siri AI: App Intents Deep Dive", straight from the guy building suprcomputer to automate Siri AI integration 2nd time on the NSSpain stage 🤩 📍 Sept 17-18, Logroño 🎟 ti.to/nsspain/2026

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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Have none of our new overlords ever seen Black Mirror?

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NSSpain XIV @nsspain.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

NSSpain XIV afterparty: LOCKED IN 🎉 September 17th, we’re taking the party to Bodegas Amézola de la Mora, La Rioja’s first ever château 🏰🍇 A family-run, women-owned bodega from the 1800s, surrounded by vineyards, about to be surrounded by iOS devs with a glass of wine in hand. 📍 La Rioja

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"At points during the study period, more than 100 million people were under heat alerts. But not one segment connected the nearly back-to-back extreme heat events to #climate change, including segments that described the conditions as historic, exceptional, or record-breaking" 🤯 #EndClimateSilence

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In a normal world, this would be a huge story.

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Francesco Marini @lightskies.net · 05/08/2026

So, I finally read Emily Wilson’s criticism, and… 🤷🏼‍♂️ I was gonna articulate my disagreement, but then I stumbled upon this article which explains way better than I could almost all the pain points I found in Wilson’s essay. Go give it a read, it’s worth it. slate.com/culture/2026...

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As a Classicist, I’ve Defended Emily Wilson’s Odyssey Translation. I Can’t Defend Her Review of Nolan’s Movie.

Emily Wilson used baffling arguments to flay Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s poem.

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Francesco Marini @lightskies.net · 05/08/2026

Finally went and saw The Odyssey. Great movie. Yes, they changed the story a bit, but it’s still really good.

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NSSpain XIV @nsspain.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

NSSpain XIV afterparty is set 🍷 Sept 17th @ Bodegas Amézola de la Mora, La Rioja’s first ever château. 19th century bodega, vineyards all around, a room full of iOS devs. See you there 🤩 #NSSpain26

Aerial view of a vineyard estate surrounded by rows of grapevines, a winery building, winding country roads, and a dense green forest under warm golden evening light.

Guests gather outside a modern winery tasting room with large white umbrellas, enjoying a social event overlooking the surrounding vineyards on a sunny day.

Historic underground wine cellar with vaulted stone and brick arches, warm lighting, and rows of wine bottles stacked on metal racks for aging.

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