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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Target thinking the boycott will ever end. US friends, once you put them out of business they won’t have any more parking lots

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I struggle to put words to how they are different...just that they are. -- Mikrates (oft-forgotten third cousin of Socrates)

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Same, though Bridgy Fed doesn't seem to be doing anything for me yet (likely user error...highly likely, in fact).

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Jumping back and forth between Mastodon and Bluesky lately. Different content and vibes.

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 05/10/2026

Thinking in plurals makes you a better collaborator because it organizes your thinking in a posture of humility. lesscomputer.ca/think-in-plu...

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Grabbed quick pics of these while I was in town.

A sign in a Portland, Maine, shop advising what to do if you see ICE in the neighborhood.

A sign on a shop window in Portland, Maine, that says “ICE not welcome here.”

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When did the state of Connecticut stop funding driver education? Have they ever funded it?

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Post-conference fuel for the drive home at the altar of the breakfast sandwich gods. #monktoberfest

A black and white photo of a building in an industrial lot. There’s a sign on the building that says Tandem Coffee Roasters. No clouds in the sky.

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pour one out for the transcription team this morning. #monktoberfest

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Easily 15. Yikes. And backatcha.

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Way too kind, my friends. All just a reflection of the amazing and amazingly kind humans that let me into their orbits.

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m no longer sure where I am.

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“How much time ya got, Sister Angie?” :)

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Something I’ve learned over the last decade and a half of attending #monktoberfest: The ones and zeros in technology are secondary to the humans behind them. Empathy is the most powerful and most important product the industry can build.

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Kai @kaiho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"What if changing the world looked more like care than war?" - Rebecca Solnit, via @ericksoen.bsky.social #monktoberfest

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bikes have a natural parallel to technology: how we design infrastructure, how we think of safety, mobility and freedom, the environment, and just plain having fun and creating opportunities for joy. @ericksoen.bsky.social nailing it in this talk about building a bike bus at #monktoberfest

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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 30/09/2026

Politico Reveals Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick Using Convicted Felon’s Self-Published Articles for Smear Campaign Against Bob Harvie | Dave Sommers, a long-time supporter who attended Fitzpatrick’s wedding to Fox News journalist Jacqui Heinrich, is penning propaganda for the #PA01 Republican.

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Politico Reveals Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick Using Convicted Felon’s Self-Published Articles for Smear Campaign Against Bob Harvie - Bucks County Beacon

Dave Sommers, a long-time supporter who attended Fitzpatrick’s wedding to Fox News journalist Jacqui Heinrich, is penning propaganda for the PA-01 Republican.

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These are the words I’ve been searching for to describe how Monktoberfest feels (and the community it’s built on). “…#monktoberfest is an antidote to bro culture.”

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@lisarokusek.myatproto.social dropping the names of badasses throughout her talk at #monktoberfest. It is clear, however, that she, too, is a certified badass herself.

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“We’ve built some awful things along with our marvels.” - @lisarokusek.myatproto.social #monktoberfest

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Laurence @piewords.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Working in tech during a technofascist acceleration is exhausting." Strong truth to by @lisarokusek.myatproto.social to start her #Monktoberfest talk

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@lisarokusek.myatproto.social saying the quiet part of where we are and what we feel out loud. #monktoberfedt

do no evil
the future was bright and shiny. we were building a better world for all.
every new shift in technology brought opportunities, problems being solved good things happening, happy customers happy employees.
life was good.

vibe shift
many people i talk to have a bone-deep love of building things and are having an increasingly difficult time pretending we don't see what we're building them into.
we had so many hopes. and then we arrive where we do.
working in tech during a technofascist acceleration is exhausting.

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lock up your whoopie pies and hide your lobsters. I'm coming for you, Maine. #monktoberfest

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I like to cook Sunday dinner for friends. I challenge myself with recipes beyond my pay grade. Today’s menu: Chicken Pinot Noir with Wild Mushrooms and Fresh Basil Duck Fat Smashed Potatoes with a Lemon-Parsley Gremolata Wedge with Gorgonzola Dressing Chocolate Affogato with Orange Liqueur

A photo of a black iron pit with simmering chicken and tomatoes in it. Steam rises. Wine bottles are in the background. Fascism is evil.

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The 2026 Monktoberfest Speedboat Run™️

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I despise the phrase soft skills, but your point is correct. Soft skills are hard. Seeing the shades of gray between black and white is hard.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What a lot of folks seem to be missing in trying to rank the best: The 21st century saw some *amazing* storytelling!

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My friend Joe created an organization called Stage United (stageunited.org) to inspire communities through greater access to live concert experiences. This is a shot of a member of the band Driftwood from the final show of his “Concert at the Commons” series in Doylestown, Pa.

A color photo of a man in a baseball hat playing a stand-up bass on stage. Stage lights shine down on him. The colors are a mix of blue, purple, and orange.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Covid to the left (arm), flu to the right (arm).

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There’s no going back to normal coffee.

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Had to check to make sure it wasn't one of my friends who race them both velodrome and criterium style: www.bikeworks.shop/team/news/da...

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Dan Turner Wins Golden Wheel

First Mass Start Pennyfarthing Race in USA track cycling modern history

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A striking thing about the various estimates of how many people Musk killed when he shuttered USAID is that, while of course the exact number is unknown, the estimates all point to a figure of about 750,000 deaths within a year, of which 500,000 were kids Mass murder isn’t “ill fated cost-cutting”

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That Hadestown broadcast rivaled seeing it in person. Also, if you can do Come From Away (or haven’t yet), add that to the list.

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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 20/09/2026

Did you know #PA01 Rep Brian Fitzpatrick fought in the School Board Wars in #BucksCounty - the topic of new PBS DocuSeries Bucks County, USA. Like Moms for Liberty, #PA01's Fitzpatrick endorsed Aarati Martino for school board, wife of local MAGA oligarch Paul Martino. WATCH : tinyurl.com/2pmyhush

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a screen grab of the image I shot for the Barry Levinson/Robert May documentary, "Bucks County, USA." You can watch the first two episodes of the docuseries on PBS: watch.whyy.org/show/bucks-c...

A photograph of a map of the United States on a classroom blackboard. There are wooden desks with red chairs in the foreground. The map is on a white background on the chalkboard. The map is a mix of red and blue to indicate political voting affiliation. There is a clock on the wall and children's drawings taped above the map. Morning sun shines through from the lower right of the frame.

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

He chose his party. His party chose its leader. There is no distance. He could always switch sides or -- as he tries to hoodwink voters -- file as an independent, but he doesn't because he's not.

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A fraction of a second of my work is in there, somewhere in hours of footage. A couple of frames among half a million. But being part of telling this story, about the place I've called home for two decades, matters much more than the screen time.

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