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Lynn Grant

@lynngrant.bsky.social
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Security & database software engineer, game developer. Former mainframe guy. Big fan of modern Fortran, XQuery and all things XML, and dogs. (Cats are pretty cool, too.) Also interested in precision time (IRIG, IEEE-1588, White Rabbit) and typography.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Actually, blowing the tops off of mountains to more easily get the coal underneath falls into the same category. The James Taylor song “Lo and behold” comes to mind: “I don’t build no heathen temples where the Lord has done laid His hand. There’s a well on the hill; let it be.”
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Remember when everyone was pissed when the Taliban destroyed a couple of huge statues of Buddha from the 6th century in Afghanistan in 2001? You don’t even have to go to another country to see such wanton destruction now.
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Regime Change 26 @regchange26.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
TOSS THE WHITE SUPREMACISTS OUT OF OUR LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS! Make it painful! @regchange26.bsky.social #Vote #Blues #RegimeChange26 #Impeach #Convict #Remove #VOTE for LEADERS who will do •► www.bluevoterguide.org •► @bluevoterguide.bsky.social
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Between that, and 45 boxes of books, I had to get a new batch of friends to help every time moved.
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Trump’s “small potatoes” comment regarding the number war dead in the conflict he initiated, is justification enough for his immediate impeachment and removal.
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If you have to say “and I don’t mean it in a racist way”, you really have to rewrite your sentence, unless you were really trying to be racist.
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I am jealous, man. I was just starting to augment my 500+ vinyl collection again when I moved to the tropics. Vinyl records are heavy and expensive to ship, and they don’t really like the tropical climate. So with great sadness, I had to rehome them.
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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
. Well. This is ominous Personally I’ve always (since 1975) believed that Israel would be the first to set off an atomic bomb They’ve had them trained on every Arab Capital for decades, and wouldn’t hesitate to use them if they were ever to lose their superiority over the region .
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Craig Sicknick @jan6risingvoice.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Spot on.
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I’ve been considering defecting from the white race and forming my own race. Anybody want to join me?
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Sounds good to me!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Miss Candy had outfitted the Blue Angels for 43 years. The Navy was paying her $127,000 per year for the contract. Without telling her, the Trump regime gave the contract to a white man 900 miles away and paid him almost triple. Original post: www.instagram.com/reel/Db8Yh5b...
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Worst customer service ever!
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I get hundreds of hits, none of which are about opening or updating an issue. When I tell the AI that this not working, it tells me it does not know how to answer my question and I need to open an issue, and sends me back to the same page. There appears to be no way to talk to a human.
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
AI at you service: Trying to track down a bogus charge from LinkedIn. I managed to get a support ticket opened, but it does not show up in my list of open issues. When I try to update it, I have to go through the AI chat, which tells me to go to a help articles page and search for opening a ticket
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
We could tell from the markings on the envelope that it had wandered around a bit before finding us.
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My wife used to subscribe to a weekly education newsletter. Somehow they got our address confused when we moved. The number and street were from our new address in Belize, and the city and state were from our old address in Chicago. And it actually got to us in Belize.
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Catincognito skeeting since 07/3/2023 @catincognito.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Most hated
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 31/07/2026
“No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation.” Bars.
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Mutts get a better mixture of genes. The most beautiful dog I ever owned (sadly, recently deceased) was a black and white German Shepherd Dog / Doberman mix.
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I grew up with purebred Cocker Spaniels. If you looked at their family trees, there was all sorts of incestous breeding, because they were breeding them for looks. A lot of breeds get really messed up because of this kind of breeding in order to meet show standards. (more)
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It has always been interesting to me that even if you think of the absolutely worst movie you ever saw, a whole bunch of people worked really hard to make it happen. They can’t all be getting rich, even in good times.
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Some racists think Black folks should be subservient and “know their place”. Other racists think they should be dead.
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
NYT says that by 2030 AI data centers will be using as much power as South America and Africa combined. I have heard the extreme effects on resources and climate change justified with “AI will figure out how to deal with that.” But I have not heard about anyone seriously trying to get it to do so.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Wishing a peaceful Tisha B’Av to Jewish New Yorkers across the five boroughs. From sundown tonight until tomorrow, mourners will pause and reflect on the history and resiliency of the Jewish people. May all observing have a safe and meaningful fast.
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Otis Porritt @thegriffinpassant.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Let this sink in...
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Minnesota Indivisible Alliance @mnindivisible.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Dear Canada, Thank you for being our neighbors. Thank you for rescuing our campers. Thank you for providing our hockey players with competition 😉 We're really sorry current management and their allies are being such asshats. We're doing our best to get back to normal. Pull for us.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Does Pete Hegseth know that putting guys on Testosterone would lead to lower sperm counts & testicle shrinkage? That’s not ideal for his version of a virile valiant male warrior. You don’t mess with steroid hormones.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Merging our military and our intelligence with Israel is the most treasonous thing our govt has ever tried to do.
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Glad to hear that CPAP is working for you. It really helped me out, not wrt CRP (AFAIK), but with better sleep. Additional benefit is not scaring hell out of my wife when I stop breathing in the middle of the night.
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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I feel like we’re regressing in every single way
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John (repeat1968) Buss @johnbuss.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The Supreme Court summer break has just begun, but one Justice is already preparing for the next term.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Having two different sets of "moral standards" is the core of republican mentality.
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Hoping that all your wishes come true.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I can’t be the only one who thinks it’s INSANE that we are simultaneously hosting the World Cup and bombing one of the nations playing in said World Cup.
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I just left Belize, where they did have a taco truck on every corner. It was wonderful!
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Costa Rica Kid @zymplex.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Why it’s time for Democratic socialism!
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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
You are one of the most interesting and coolest people I have ever had the pleasure to meet (even though we have never actually met in person).
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A FIFA referee has spent more time in federal custody for being Somali than anybody on epstein's list for raping kids.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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くまのプーさん • 🦋 •📎•🗽 @fog627.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I knew a guy who worked on a payroll system that had six genders. It was for a Catholic religious organization, and they had male, female, priest, nun, and a couple others (monk, friar, abbot?). That information probably shouldn’t have been munged into the gender field.
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Almost everyone in my family as struggled with alcoholism, except for me and my older brother (our vice is food). It is a brutal struggle, and I have great respect for those who fight the fight, even if they fail occasionally. Keep fighting, and have a happy Mother’s Day,
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
A font shaper with support for arbitrary web assembly code? Will they never learn? One of the earliest graphics formats (IIRC, it was CGM, but don’t quote me) allowed arbitrary code to aid the rendering, and became a perfect vector for malware.
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Lynn Grant @lynngrant.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I think focusing of Trump’s incontinence is barking up the wrong tree. I have a family member who wears a diaper due to a COVID-related stroke. She is sharp as a tack, and the nicest person you would want to know. If Trump were a good person, I would not give a damn about the diaper.
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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Audrey @parickards.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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