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Luke Kanies

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Founder of Puppet. I helped create DevOps. Writing at lukekanies.com.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Vicki Rose @vickirose.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
This is a rough read. In particular what gets me are the details of a prominent survivor invited to spill her guts at an institution with a deep sexual assault problem, greeted with boredom by male frat members. Horrifying.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The jackals are out, as they usually are for a woman who speaks up in a way that challenges patriarchy. (And a lot of why victims don't come forward or withdraw--as a Weinstein victim did--is because the misogynist public and legal system launch their own punitive assaults.)
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Luke Kanies @luke.kanies.com · 30/09/2026
It’s us. Men are the problem, and it’s men who have to do the work. (I mean, others *can*. But we are the ones who *should*.) Don’t rape! Don’t sexually assault! Don’t harass!
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stop telling women what to do. Stop telling us to do all of the work. Stop acting like you know more about our struggle than we do. Stand up for your fellow human being without any reward because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Ffs.
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Updated information shows PPB killed the man and the dog. Absolutely shameful how some media talked about this man’s life like it was an afterthought, and unquestioningly put out copaganda.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We have to say it plainly: a lot of people—a lot of men—just don’t think that rape is very serious.
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tigard-stripes.bsky.social @tigard-stripes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"TriMet said the MAX Yellow Line saw more than 18,000 additional trips from Sept. 13 to Sept. 19 — a 35% increase compared with usual ridership." Stop making driving easier and they will come. www.kgw.com/article/traf...
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alex @dhul-qarnayn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That's because you (and I), unlike Kai, have had to actually hire people to do real jobs and aren't in the business of making up unspoken tests to disqualify otherwise perfectly suitable candidates. Kai has lived his entire professional life being a bullshitter on the air so the stakes are lower.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
folks: please use the housing org’s recommendations as input into your ranking, weighted by how housing compares to your personal priorities
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Joe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the thing with luxury condos is that they're mostly a myth. 1. within the same county, condos sell for 35% less than single family homes 2. within the same neighborhood, they sell for 43% less 3. within the same neighborhood and adjusting for some quality characteristics, they sell for 21% less
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 24/09/2026
somebody is gonna yell at me for sharing slop and i’m so sorry. but i just got this AI ad for a network install company on tiktok. flawless work, definitely the firm to hire. cc @tracketpacer.com
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ATProto PDX @pdx.atproto.camp · 24/09/2026
📣 TUESDAY, 10/6 at @codetv.dev studio! Bluesky CTO @pfrazee.com is going to blow our minds with his talk, 💫 Crazed Visions of the Future 💫 + time for demos and discussions RSVP here:
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ATProto PDX: October Meetup
It's time to join your fellow idealists, builders, and shitposters for another meetup about the atmosphere! Together, we’re doing our part to create a more social web so the internet belongs to us, Th...
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Will Garrison @vvill.dev · 24/09/2026
Crazed Visions of the Future, in Portland Oregon?!
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Xavier D. Stickler @xavierdstickler.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
A n'hood assoc. colleague remarked that "getting more housing downtown will be impossible" as the downtown is "already very built up." I hold a different impression of my community, so I took to Google MyMaps to graphically illustrate just how much land in downtown on which there is left to build.
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 23/09/2026
The City Council on Wednesday called on Mayor Keith Wilson to use his tie-breaking power for just the second time in his term. Wilson voted to approve the transfer of a contract Zenith Energy has with the city to an international investment firm called I Squared Capital.
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Mayor Wilson Rams Through Massive Fossil Fuel Deal in Second-Ever Tie-Breaking Vote - Portland Mercury
Mayor Keith Wilson on Wednesday used his power to break a tie City Council vote for the second time on his watch, this time to facilitate a massive fossil fuel deal. Wilson joined six councilors in voting to transfer a contract the city has with Houston-based fossil fuel company Zenith Energy to a Miami-based international […]
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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
approximately one industry in our civilization has figured out "systematically keep track of things that go wrong, and then systematically try to prevent them from happening again", and this is the result
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you want a sober view of why the federal government was so vulnerable to DOGE’s draconian efforts, what’s been lost, and how we might rebuild, read this donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-system...
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The System for Using Evidence to Improve Federal Programs Has Been Gutted
Here’s How We Fix It
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DJ Uncle Fishbits @unclefishbits.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Research units from across government have been gutted. More than 10,000 PhDs have left government. For example the research arm of the Department of Education lost 90% of their staff and the research office for the Secretary of Health and Human Services lost an estimated 60% of their staff.
figure shows dramatic cut in research staff
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 20/09/2026
If you want a Sunday morning longread I wrote up a rough version of the talk I gave at LDX3 this week on the Manager's Path in the Age of AI skamille.medium.com/the-managers...
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The Manager’s Path in the Age of AI
This week, I gave a talk at LDX3 New York. When they asked me to speak and asked me for a topic, I said that it was probably time I finally…
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Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · 21/09/2026
Damn, Camille does not mince words 🔥
Finally, we come to people. This one is just depressing. Has AI made anything easier about the people management/people skills era? If it has, it has been swamped by all of the new interpersonal challenges we’re hitting thanks to AI.

To start, there’s the increased expectations. Many companies think that that increased visibility and waves hands AI productivity means managers can start to manage far larger teams, with no help coming as we reduce managers and don’t hire new ones. And of course, some companies are also expecting managers to write code because that is apparently the only individual contribution that matters (the idea that managers don’t make valuable individual contributions to companies is so mind-boggling I could write a whole additional piece on it). And while you’re doing this, you have to manage the AI transition: make sure your team is using AI enough, not too much, and soothe their anxiety, and deal with their impatience, and you too have to use it but no one is bothering to teach you how to use it well or soothe your anxiety, you are just expected to figure it the f* out.

So is it any wonder 1 in 3 managers are considering going back to individual contribution roles? Hell, if you’re going to ask me to write code and manage a huge team of people, I might just prefer to say, thanks, writing code is enough for me so I’ll go back to doing that.
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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There’s no option for “he was right and I agreed with him”
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That's around 20-odd jobs per data centre.
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amb @amb.fyi · 19/09/2026
eliminating I-5 for a week seems to have caused remarkably minimal disruption to Portland's regional traffic flows. so why again do ODOT, Governor Kotek and the Oregon Legislature think we should spend three billion dollars (!) to literally double the width of lanes on I-5 through North Portland?
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Luke Kanies @luke.kanies.com · 18/09/2026
New cat just dropped
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Toby Zeigler @macsmiff.com · 17/09/2026
This might be shocking to some, but the police calling for the removal of an elected council member for criticizing them is not how democracy works. The police who live in the city have a chance to vote, just like everyone else. Just thought I'd clear that up.
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Rob Galanakis @robgalanakis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Portland Police do not want to be judged by their misconduct on the streets in 2020 like I should not be judged solely for the tweets I posted in that same year. I should be evaluated for my votes and actions as a councilor today, as the police should be evaluated for their actions too." 🔥🔥🔥
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 18/09/2026
ahahahahahahahaaha
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You really shouldn't be in politics if you can't take advantage of your opponent being sponsored by The Job Destroying Factory That Raises Your Water And Power Bills And Whose Creators Say It Might Kill Us All.
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 18/09/2026
EDITORIAL OPINION: In 2020, Portland protesters exercising their First Amendment rights faced rubber bullets, batons, and tear gas from the Portland Police Bureau.
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Knee-Jerk Reactions to Councilor Green’s Tweets Are Hypocritical and Dangerous - Portland Mercury
The police are supposed to keep protesters safe as they exercise their rights to free speech—not retaliate by shooting them with rubber bullets, striking them with batons, or spraying tear gas at more...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
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I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
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Boris @bmann.ca · 15/09/2026
You don’t really realize the breadth and depth of work that the Ink team has done until you see it blowing minds in one go. Ivy @spiralganglion.com did an amazing job presentating and of course huge work from the entire team over the years @wolkenmachine.bsky.social
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Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com · 15/09/2026
Anecdotally: I-5 being closed pushed some folks to transit, and this is a brilliant example of a) why we need to just demolish the inner eastside part of I-5 and b) why when we do that it will be just fine.
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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
talarico reminds me of how democrats spent years trying to "moderate" on immigration and getting nothing in return and now we have the best funded paramilitary force on the planet disappearing people across the country while running a system of concentration camps with no oversight
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
and like why are we centering the complaints of the parents who think the value of sports is "my kid might become a star" instead of the ones who are like "this is a great way to learn teamwork, move your body every day, work hard at a skill, and learn how to lose or fail at things with grace"
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Rockom Sockom NoBots @rockom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
induced demand illustrated
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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great reminder that the ongoing and intensifying American affordability crisis cannot be solved without major land-use changes (ending sprawl, accelerating infill development at scale) that enable people to ditch their cars and access cheaper/more sustainable mobility modes
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iain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I will definitely be dropping my ballot off at the library this year www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Sam Lloyd @llamsoyd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
lmao it sure is funny how every time a group of shitty-opinioned assholes keeps coming into Portland thinking they’ll walk all over us because fred armisen, they end up running away scared with their tails between their legs. very funny!
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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
FUN FACT: The reason we sell petrol by the litre but measure performance by mpg is because in the 1970s oil shock, British pumps had exactly the same issue and it was easier to put stickers over the word "gallon" rather than retrofitting all the dials.
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
you know who you want specifically not to be running your password manager, is anybody even slightly nazi-adjacent
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