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Adam Luptak

@luptak.bsky.social
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Maker, tinkerer, out-of-shape-but-still-aspiring athlete. Eng manager @stripe, formerly tech director @ rallyinteractive.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/06/2026
While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...
Verge headline: The world's first trillionaire is a killer
by TC Sottek

Image of Elon Musk doing a "fascist salute" in the form of an oil painting on a wall
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 22/05/2026
any generative art/data viz freaks out there in the atmosphere. I am in dire need of thy most holy allyship for a dangerous mission at the start of june. pls respond
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 15/05/2026
I'm not surprised. Writing code plays a much smaller role in the overall software lifecycle than most people understand.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/05/2026
Among the first agencies President Donald Trump gutted after taking office for his second term was a Department of Homeland Security team that had repeatedly disproved his stolen election claims.
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8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
From dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key ta...
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The Verge @theverge.com · 20/01/2026
We’ve decided to make this story free for all readers, forever. We hope you’ll support this reporting by sharing it.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/01/2026
Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.
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Adam Luptak @luptak.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
No cheating, reskeet with the most recent photo of your pet.
Two white miniature schnauzers, both of whom badly need haircuts, sit near water and food dishes and look towards the camera. Their bangs hang over their eyes, not fully obscuring them (but close).
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Once more for the folks in the back: accessibility is a human right. Your web standards godfather shares thoughts on a small atrocity.
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Accessibility is a human right, cruelty a human wrong.
Once more for the folks in the back. Calibri is easier than Times New Roman for folks with certain visual disabilities to read. That’s why the Biden Administration chose Calibri for their digital communications: to include more people and make life just a wee bit easier for the disabled. And who in their right mind could object to that? You know who, and they’re not in their right mind—unless you’re talking far-right.
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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 09/12/2025
🌧️ hey yeah it’s launch day. had a blast making this website with the inimitable @likethecolour.red, a Bluesky Account & in many ways a dear friend whose outlook on life inspires me deeply :) this is a project made with love for the web, friends, and reiselust. i'm excited to share it with you.
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Strangers By Spring
Strangers, By Spring is a blog about escapism, romance, and rebirth.
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Adam Luptak @luptak.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Great writeup of Stripe City, our physical celebration of the successful businesses of BFCM. All credit and props to the entire team involved! www.itsnicethat.com/articles/mic...
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Stripe’s miniature, motorised city is a model marvel and tribute to the hidden world of commerce
Operated by a 24/7 crew of model makers, animators and craftspeople over the Black Friday and Cyber Monday period, this living, breathing diorama ups the ante for creative marketing.
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Adam Luptak @luptak.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Definitely scratching the itch of my love for models and miniatures. (Experience best on desktop) bfcm.stripe.com
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Ghost @ghost.org · 28/11/2025
Our first billboard! Live from Stripe City bfcm.stripe.com
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Courtesy of the world’s richest man who just got a trillion-dollar pay package from his feckless board: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 14/09/2025
The Trump administration is ending the 50-year war on cancer. “It’s an absolutely unmitigated disaster. It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
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Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Tim Walz: "Where are the don't tread on me people? You are being tread on every single day. These folks are enriching themselves. The most successful thing he's done is grift off the American people."
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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 05/09/2025
A very good list of concerns a “boring” (we prefer experienced) developer might have. Very useful for people who aren’t developers to read too. daverupert.com/2025/08/got-...
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All the concerns that make you a boring developer
I was thinking this morning about how once you understand that your technology choices have security, performance, and accessibility considerations you become a much more boring developer.…
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Adam Luptak @luptak.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Oh no, I have discovered that Slack has a character limit on who much you can write in a single message.
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Adam Luptak @luptak.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
“I don’t have to say this is in the United States, because this is always in the United States.”
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The one person in our world who needs to hear this will never read it, but you can. And you should. Every word! Hat tip: @andrewhinton.bsky.social
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America by Design Fail
Trump fired the best designers in the Federal Government
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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
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Harry Roberts @csswizardry.com · 18/08/2025
🤳 Over the weekend, I did some research. What are good, representative, real-world devices for performance testing in 2025? csswizardry.com/2025/08/low-...
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Low- and Mid-Tier Mobile for the Real World (2025) – CSS Wizardry
Discover the most representative low- and mid-tier mobile devices for web performance testing in 2025.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
This is profoundly bad. The data generated by NASA feeds research in many, MANY disciplines. I, for instance, am a historian, and my dissertation (now book project) uses satellite imagery as a major source for exploring the historical relationship between people and the environment.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
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Eric Klug @klugalters.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Smaug, painted after an illustration by Tolkien himself. The border is borrowed from an early book jacket for The Hobbit.
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Nathan Knowler @knowler.dev · 29/07/2025
ICYMI I am looking for my next role. Hopefully something design systems and accessibility related. Ideally using Web Components APIs. Shares, tips, and referrals appreciated!
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The era of climate migration is upon us. Residents of Tuvalu are slowly resettling in Australia. This is only the beginning… www.wired.com/story/the-fi...
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The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.
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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This news dropped the same day as this marvelous work from UF on a new immunotherapy method that could treat a variety of different cancers. We are so close to life changing, life saving breakthroughs, and ignorant ghouls are throwing it all away www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sensitization of tumours to immunotherapy by boosting early type-I interferon responses enables epitope spreading - Nature Biomedical Engineering
Lipid particles loaded with RNA coding for tumour-unspecific antigens can enhance early responses of type-I interferons, mediating the success of immune checkpoint inhibitors as well as epitope spread...
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Adam Luptak @luptak.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
There are many, many aspects of the current administration that fill me with white hot rage, but as a child of two parents fighting cancer, everything they’ve done to interfere with progress in the fight against cancer is particularly personal for me.
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Nate DiMeo @natedimeo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u... let’s pause to note that yesterday, as the administration slow-walks recovery from the Texas floods, they muster a small army to march through a park to scare LA. They succeeded only in clearing out kids at summer camp and a few people literally feeding the poor.
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Federal Agents March Through L.A. Park, Spurring Local Outrage
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Casey Dreier @caseydreier.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive: www.planetary.org/press-releas...
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Every living NASA science chief unites in opposition to unprecedented…
The entire past leadership of NASA’s science activities have released a joint statement condemning the proposed 47% cuts proposed to the agency’s science…
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Great op-ed @usatoday.com from longtime TB Fighter Quinn Yates: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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11,000 more TB patients died after Trump's USAID cuts. That number will rise. | Opinion
The potential for thousands of new deaths from TB is not worth the less than 1% in federal savings that came from cutting USAID.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
America is a system and that system has crashed. @lopatto.bsky.social and @sarahjeong.bsky.social don’t mince words here www.theverge.com/policy/69730...
The People have rights against the powerful. That is what America is about
It’s notable that these words keep getting repeated — almost like those “unalienable” rights of “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” are really important. The Reconstruction Amendments — the 13th, 14th, and 15th — weave together the threads of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence. They were a critical update, you might say, one that patched the Founders’ system-destroying error of perpetuating slavery while simultaneously declaring all men to be created equal. The 14th acknowledges that states, too, can be tyrants. Whether it is George III, the feds, or the slave-holding antebellum states, the People have rights against the powerful. That is what America is about.
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
With the House bill now passed, I wanted to re-up two important stories: The bill benefits the rich, and inflicts deepest harm on the poorest Americans, data show www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b... The deep federal aid cuts will not arrive immediately. A timeline: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
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Poorest Americans Dealt Biggest Blow Under Senate Republican Tax Package
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2025
Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/07/2025
Funding cuts to USAID by the Trump administration could lead to more than 14 million additional deaths globally over the next five years, according to a new study.
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USAID cuts may cause 14 million more deaths in next five years, study says
The analysis, published in the Lancet, estimates the agency’s programs saved 91 million lives worldwide over two decades, playing a vital role in global health.
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50501 New York @50501newyork.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The Supreme Court just severely limited the federal courts’ ability to fight the Trump regime, taking away their authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. This is an assault on the rule of law and proof all three branches of government are part of this regime.
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Live updates: Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions, but leaves fate of birthright citizenship unclear
The Supreme Court ruled that individual judges cannot grant nationwide injunctions, but the decision left the fate of birthright citizenship unclear under an order by President Donald Trump.
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
In case you wondered why Trump can't afford to pay for disaster relief: they are diverting disaster relief money to fund concentration camps
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Adam Luptak @luptak.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
It’s pretty far down the scale of human suffering, but man, I really wish that Google hadn’t bought Nest and it was still a functioning independent company.
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orinoco boo @nocontroller.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
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Adam Luptak @luptak.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Spending my evening building a U-Wing LEGO set while watching Rogue One
LEGO minifig of Cassian Andor, from Star Wars (“Rogue One” and “Andor”). Shallow depth of field; assorted LEGO pieces are out of focus in the foreground, and a cropped TV playing Rogue One is out of focus in the background.
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Daniel @danfrompasco.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Call your senators and demand they vote no. Nothing in this bill is popular. Nobody wants this
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 11/06/2025
When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.
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It matters. I care.
It matters. I care.0:00/295.5529711× Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later. “Who cares? It d...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/06/2025
what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!
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