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Christopher Coleman

@mellowfish.blog
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Conservative Theology, Liberal Politics. Love to write some quality code. #ActuallyAutistic Mastodon: @mellowfish@ruby.social

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Avdi Grimm @avdi.codes · 16/08/2026
Dunno why this didn't post yesterday
A black bee collects nectar from the center of a bright orange flower, with a blurred green background.
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Avdi Grimm @avdi.codes · 16/08/2026
Good morning
Close-up of tall green grass blades with distinctive yellow horizontal bands and some pinkish streaks, creating a striped pattern throughout the dense vegetation.
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Avdi Grimm @avdi.codes · 13/07/2026
Good morning
Bright orange nasturtium flower with delicate red veins in its petals, surrounded by green leaves, some with white variegation, set against a blurred green background.
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ADHD Jesse @adhdjesse.com · 09/07/2026
[spends months building up a new daily routine] [forgets one day] [never does it ever again]
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/07/2026
So there's been a lot of talk in AI circles about Jevons Paradox and @hankgreen.bsky.social has one of the best explainers of it I've seen (including that it's not a paradox), but I want to add something to it. Towards the end of the video, Hank says... www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6sY...
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Unfortunately, You Need to Know What the Jevons Paradox is
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Avdi Grimm @avdi.codes · 02/07/2026
Good morning
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 03/07/2026
Holes xkcd.com/3266/
Comic: Holes. Elevation is to scale relative to sea level and ground level. Land shapes and horizontal distances are not to scale. [Lines for every 1k meters starting from -12k up to +4k: Bingham Canyon Mine (US), Veryovkina Cave (Georgia), MPONENG Gold Mine (South Africa), Sanford Laboratory (US), Giant Crystal Cave (Mexico), Derinkugo Underground City (Turkey), WIPP (US), Restof Salt Mine, with an arrow pointing at the bottom that reads “oops” (US), San Andreas Fault Observatory Borehole (US) CFB North Bay (Canada), Woodingdean Water Well (dug by hand) (United Kingdom), Diefen-Bunker (Canada), Deep Underground Command Center (Canceled in 1965) (US), Lake Peigneu, with another oops arrow next to it (US), Sydney Opera House Parking (Australia), Onkalo Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository (Finland), Hudson River, Delaware Aqueduct (US), Raven Rock (US), Wieliczka and Bochina Salt Mines (Poland), Atchison Storage Facility (US), Snolab (Canada), Detroit Salt Mine (US), Hongyancun Subway Station (China), Nuclear Test Shafts (North Korea), Super Kamiokande Neutrino Detector (Japan), Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy), Peak above Gran Sasso, Modane Laboratory (France), Peak above Modane Laboratory, Gotthard Tunnel (Switzerland), Peak above Cheyenne Bunker and Gotthard Tunnel, Cheyenne Mountain Bunker (US), Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russia) - deepest artificial point below surface at -11917m, Lake Baikal (Russia), sediments under Lake Baikal, IDDP-2 Borehole (Iceland), Dead Sea (multiple countries), Ryfylke Tunnel (Norway), Pantal Remis Mine with another oops arrow (Malaysia), Great Blue Hole (Belize), Joides Resolution Expedition 307 (Atlantic Ocean), Deepwater Horizon Borehole (Gulf of Mexico) - deepest artificial point below sea level at -11944m, Glomar Challenger Hole 504B (Pacific Ocean), Mohole (Pacific Ocean), Joides Resolution Expedition 329 (Pacific Ocean), Mariana Trench (Pacific Ocean)]
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
And one thing I should make clear: I am aware that portable air conditioners and kits to attach their hoses to various types of windows exist. But those things are horribly inefficient, and while I'm not saying you can fix anything about the situation, the absurdity of these regulations is evident.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
OK, so just as I have to yell at my fellow Americans "air conditioners *are* heat pumps!" to combat basic ignorance of what the tech actually is, Europeans need to hear "heat pumps *are* air conditioners" because y'all are making arguments which don't make sense if you see why heat pumps are good.
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Avdi Grimm @avdi.codes · 23/06/2026
I wrote a post about an emerging divide I've been noticing when I talk about working with agents avdi.codes/is-successful-agentic-co…
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Is Successful Agentic Coding a Delusion?
Somewhere in the mid-aughts eXtreme Programming (XP) practices became widely-discussed in software. From that time forward, a strange chasm emerged in the disco
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 22/06/2026
there is no such thing as "responsible use of generative ai" in research
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 21/06/2026
*white* women for Trump. The majority of white women voters have voted for Trump all 3 times. Three. Times.🤷🏿‍♂️ The majority of Black, Asian, Hispanic, or indigenous women, have never voted for Trump.👍🏿 🙂🙃 Because US white women voters, vote against all other women voters.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/06/2026
i dunno but using a machine that always regresses to the mean (llms) to simulate “diverse populations that are not readily accessible” seems the oppose of good science to me… no matter how popular it has become in behavioural sciences
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Avdi Grimm @avdi.codes · 19/06/2026
Good morning
Close-up of bright orange butterfly milkweed flowers and buds with green leaves and blurred greenery in the background.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 14/06/2026
I came to Amsterdam for a wedding. I left with a warning about America.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 05/06/2026
look at my peonies
light pink peonies pictured from the top capturing the full blossom
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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Your codebase has gaps that only exist because the right people know to step over them. AI doesn't know where to step. baweaver.com/writing/2026...
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AI Didn't Create These Problems. It Just Stopped Routing Around Them.
Every guardrail we need for AI is a good practice we should have already been doing. AI exposes the systemic gaps that experienced developers have been quietly routing around for years.
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pettter, stuff scientist @pettter.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Wikimedia Foundation has never been as great as they have wanted to portray themselves at, but apparently they've gotten significantly worse over the last ten years or so. If you're a wikipedia editor, sign the solidarity petition: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Wikipedia:Wiki Workers United solidarity - Wikipedia
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Very cool report out. Worth a read. Now I'm gonna rant a lil' bit:
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That Dragon Guy @paintyourdragon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Literally weeping this basic shit is what governance was always supposed to be and we have become so used to corporate corruption and theft that the most basic concept of "making people do the things they are legally obligated to do" seems revolutionary
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Yes, I agree. Only billionaires should be allowed on this mission. As many of them as possible. We wouldn't want any of them to feel left out! What an exciting opportunity for all of us.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Okay, so obviously this is very dumb, but for an explanation of why: The "rules being eased" is really "unwinding the phase-out of HFC refrigerants." HFCs are responsible for the extremely high global warming potential of refrigerants, and our previous saner government was working to fix this 1/x
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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Years ago in 2011 I was in a small Missouri town that got wiped off the face of the world by a tornado. Like every other weather situation I got to the basement, laughed a bit, said this one too will blow over and it's not that big of a deal.
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?
The reactions of some researchers on Twitter finally being held responsible for not having read the very paper they submitted are... something. Mainly, they don't think they should have to check every citation or make sure the data is real and accurate. Because it's too hard, I guess.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 17/05/2026
🤣LOL! They really did Eve Washington dirty with this one! Imagine being a highly skilled Black woman with a degree in CompSci from the top journalism university in the US. You write code to debunk the myth that the VRA gave Black people an unfair advantage.♥️👍🏿 And they frame it like this?🤡
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/05/2026
BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/05/2026
A lot has happened, but not much has changed.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
🎯🎯
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 10/05/2026
Some of my Dutch friends think it's funny how much this photo freaks me out. My US mind can't comprehend it. You're not supposed to live that far below the ocean. But Dutch are like "Meh. It's fine. We solved this problem hundreds of years ago. It just works. Walk up the hill to go to the beach.
Photo of the Netherlands showing a large portion of the coast very far below sea level.

One can't help but think that a big enough storm surge will submerge the whole thing.
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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Only 3% of cases go to trial. They make jail torture and extremely dangerous on purpose so that people get desperate a take a plea just for the relief of going to prison which is sometimes less brutal and terrifying.
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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Someone—a defense attorney!—once told me ‘we can’t afford to try all the cases.’ He believed that idea made sense! If you can’t afford to try them then you fucking DO NOT get to incarcerate people and rob them of their freedom. ONE OR THE OTHER. But the people who run this system think this is OK.
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Avdi Grimm @avdi.codes · 08/05/2026
Good morning
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 08/05/2026
Yep. This is why when places end cash bail, the conviction rate goes down. Because a lot of those convictions were just innocent Black folk taking plea deals for crimes that they 100% did not do, to avoid a life destroying year in jail. Like this.
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Prosecutors should not get to claim pleas as wins. At best they should have their own column, like a bye in a round robin tournament. But pleas are coercive as they function now — “we will torture you with inedible food, noise, and separation from your life until you give us what we want.”
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The fact that the Republican Party always has legislation to make it harder to vote or to disenfranchise Black people ready to go whenever the Supreme Court takes another whack at the Voting Rights Act tells you...a lot.
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Avdi Grimm @avdi.codes · 07/05/2026
Good morning
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Hank Green wanted to know "How much leaf would it take to power a human being? How would you do that math?" So in accordance with Science Law, here's my crack at it. youtube.com/shorts/eTwe8... @hankgreen.bsky.social
Screenshot of the short. It has a pic of Mr Green's original question at the top, & me (Sarah Taber) speaking direct to camera in the middle, with the caption "Hank Green wanted to know 'If people had leaves...'" at the bottom.

Text of Hank Green's original question: "I was just thinking, if you wanted to calculate how big a leaf would have to be to power a human, what would your strategy be? Like, if a human were to be photosynthetic, roughly how much surface area would they need?"
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Ufuk Kayserilioglu @ufuk.dev · 10/04/2026
/like
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Aaron Patterson @tenderlove.dev · 10/04/2026
I guess the people who prefer MCP servers think this is a Skills issue?
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 05/04/2026
I like the way he broke it all the way down.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/04/2026
Someone on Instagram asked (disingenuously, I suspect) why videos from space don't show Earth "spinning at 1000 miles per hour." At first glance, sounds like you should see that! But: 1. To see the spinning accurately, you'd have to be not drifting with respect to Earth, & that's hard to set up 1/2
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Ahead of Easter this year, I mourn Father Pierre al-Rahi, the Maronite Catholic parish priest of Qlayaa in Marjayoun (South Lebanon) who stayed behind to support his parishioners only to be killed by Israel on March 9 in a double tap attack. May his memory be a blessing.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 03/04/2026
They fired another General! Seemed too woke! He's gotta go!🤡 * West point graduate * Platoon commander * Combat veteran * Military parent * Talked about humanitarian missions, and rapid response to Puerto Rico, Houston, and other hurricane affected areas * Talked about treating people with respect
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"One On One" with Fort Carson Commander
YouTube video by KOAA 5
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Christopher Coleman @mellowfish.blog · 03/04/2026
Chuckles nervously in #Autism
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a cartoon character sitting on a bus with the words i 'm in danger above him
Alt: a Simpson character sitting on a bus with the words “i'm in danger”
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