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Mitchell Thorson

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Data visualization engineer. Otherwise reading books, riding bikes, listening to music, or talking a walk. Brooklyn, NY mitchellthorson.com

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Mitchell Thorson @mitchellthorson.com · 19/09/2026
Rode my bike all day. Crossed some bridges. 10/10 kinda day.
A wide river with a long bridge crossing over it. The sky is big and partly cloudy.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Tour de France Femmes keeps delivering banger stage after banger stage
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Mitchell Thorson @mitchellthorson.com · 05/08/2026
Being on vacation means biking in new locations
A bike is perched against a picnic table beside a bench swing. In the background are trees and a body of water. Boats are resting at anchor in the water. A bike is perched against a picnic table in the foreground. In the background is a wide expanse of water out to the horizon with some land lining the right side of the frame.
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Mitchell Thorson @mitchellthorson.com · 28/07/2026
I've watched this video so many times since Sunday. The power and speed of the riders and the energy of the crowd come through here in a way they never do on the regular broadcast clips. Bikes rule.
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 08/07/2026
I think about Pentiment all the time. I really liked it when I played it but I didn't anticipate how much it'd stick
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Tyler Fisher @tylerjfisher.com · 06/07/2026
Many people have asked how they can help support Sill. Now you can with Sill+, a new subscription tier for Sill. Today, Sill+ gives you beta access to the forthcoming iOS app!
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Become a Sill+ supporter
Get early access to Sill's iOS app with Sill+, a new subscription tier for supporting Sill.
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Mitchell Thorson @mitchellthorson.com · 02/07/2026
Love this quick look behind the curtain at one of my very favorite NYC dining spots: S&P Lunch www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdSy...
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‘The Last Human Restaurant in New York’ | Sandwich City | NYT Cooking
YouTube video by NYT Cooking
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Mitchell Thorson @mitchellthorson.com · 26/06/2026
Christmas came one day early… iykyk @intlanthem.bsky.social
A vinyl record. The artwork shows multiple musicians playing a live set in front of an audience in a black and white photograph. The artist is SML. The album title reads: Spontaneous Music Live
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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 15/06/2026
iTunes Library in 2009
iTunes Library in 2009
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Mitchell Thorson @mitchellthorson.com · 08/06/2026
My weekend in a nutshell. This game rules.
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Mitchell Thorson @mitchellthorson.com · 04/06/2026
Didn't plan to get absolutely hooked on a new game this week, but here we are. If you like puzzle/roguelike type stuff, do yourself a favor and check out this game.
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Mitchell Thorson @mitchellthorson.com · 04/06/2026
Excited to launch this new 📊 data tool today. @yonahfreemark.com dug into the data to provide a look at how much housing is located near transit infrastructure across states and metropolitan areas in the US. Click the link to the numbers for your state. #dataviz
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Mitchell Thorson @mitchellthorson.com · 03/06/2026
Tyler is really cooking with Sill. If you aren't already using it to find things to read, now is a great time to give it a try!
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Tyler Fisher @tylerjfisher.com · 28/05/2026
Hello journalism friends. Do you want your news organization's links on Bluesky to look fancy like this? Get in touch, I can help. blog.euphonos.studio/3lyfwrx7zn222
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Sill: The antidote to doomscrolling
Using Sill to make social media more sane
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Mitchell Thorson @mitchellthorson.com · 28/05/2026
The best news I've heard all day
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I keep hearing how the rainbow palette is ok, actually. But is it, really? #dataviz 📊 #cartopgraphy 🗺️
Rainbow colored map of sea surface temperature anomaly in the eastern Pacific. Zero anomaly is colored dark green, which adds significant visual noise and makes the map hard to read.Blue-red colored map of sea surface temperature anomaly in the eastern Pacific. Zero anomaly is colored light gray, instantly separating near normal sea surface temperature from the highs and lows.
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 14/05/2026
I have to say, I like seeing people get it. I really do. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mlqxgn3hzk2...
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The Thing About Griping About Bluesky - Aaron Ross Powell's Blog
Let a thousand mutually suspicious communities bloom.
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Mitchell Thorson @mitchellthorson.com · 05/05/2026
Such an awesome talk and awesome project by @teonbrooks.com
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 05/05/2026
Such a cool demo of @passports.social by @teonbrooks.com at @atproto.nyc 💥
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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 30/04/2026
Bandcamp Friday begins in T-minus 12 hours! From midnight to midnight PDT, we'll waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists and labels.
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brendan @schlage.town · 30/04/2026
I maybe went a *little* overboard and turns out we're gonna have quite a few awesome folks speaking / presenting at our coming @atproto.nyc meetup, swing by if you're free! also already seeing some interest in working groups e.g. to make a website & get local communities involved :D
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 24/04/2026
OK this piece by @reckless.bsky.social about why AI is unpopular among most people (anyone who's not inflicted with "software brain") is just solid gold from start to finish
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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Explained some details on how I run For You. The key ingredient is ✨tailscale✨ :)
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BOARDS OF CANADA @boardsofcanada.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
INFERNO. 29 MAY 2026. boardsofcanada.com
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brendan @schlage.town · 21/04/2026
Alrightttt it's on the calendar! Found a great central venue & excited to make this more of a regular *thing* w/ talks etc (ping me with your talk ideas btw!) + plz DM if you'd like to join a Signal chat for local organizers, could use some help w/ setup & planning future things :)
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 16/04/2026
Phenomenon of homes being used for investment or 2nd homes is rare overall—but a major issue in small sections of big, rich cities like New York. Some areas of Midtown & Upper East Side have >30% overall housing vacancy, with a large share of that coming from homes being used as vacation properties.
Overall vacancy rate, New York City and environs, 2020. Source: Yonah Freemark, using data at the tract level from US Census 2020.Share of units used as second homes (defined as "seasonal vacancy rate"), New York City and environs, 2020. Source: Yonah Freemark, using data at the tract level from US Census 2020.
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Mitchell Thorson @mitchellthorson.com · 11/04/2026
I love spring in Brooklyn
A close up of pink blossoms on a tree branch with a blue sky backdropA close up of a redbud tree branch with flowers getting ready to bloomA row of blooming trees in front of a basketball court in a public park
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Sol Cesto is a banger. Listen to @notquitereal.bsky.social and I talk about it in the back half of this ep of Side Story from last year. sidestory.show/12-the-succu...
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 08/04/2026
The five boroughs are home to at least 47 varieties of cherry and cherry-esque blossoms, 15 varieties of magnolias and 26 varieties of crabapples, according to Parks Department data. Here's where you can find them: www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/08/s...
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Mitchell Thorson @mitchellthorson.com · 08/04/2026
Spent last weekend in the woods. Saw many lovely things like trees, moss and lichen-covered rocks, the valley shrouded in clouds from above. Freshly full of gratitude for the planet we live on here.
A tree-covered hillside bathed in low sunset light. There is a golden glow where the sun hits the leafless trees on the mountain. The sky is partly cloudy, showing patches of pale blue sky. Moss and lichen cover a rock faceA view looking out over an overlook. In the foreground are a path through some trees. The path terminates at rock, beyond which nothing is visible except for a bank of clouds covering the valley below.
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Imagining some different worlds and what it might take to get to them.
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Mitchell Thorson @mitchellthorson.com · 03/04/2026
I've been getting by on second hand ThinkPads off of ebay running linux for the past 5 years. It has worked out great, and I have saved a lot of money compared with buying Apple. It has really shifted my whole relationship to technology as product and to consumerism etc. Highly recommend.
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Maybe we can call it the Black & Blue Marble? In any case, I wrote about the first picture of Earth from Artemis II: creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st... #space #moon #earth #NASA
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The Blue Marble, at Night
Earth from space at night from NASA’s Artemis II mission to the Moon.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 03/04/2026
Warning to open source maintainers: the Axios supply chain attack started with some very sophisticated social engineering targeted at one of their developers simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/s...
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The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering
The Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day, and it involved …
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jared @awarm.space · 01/04/2026
I can envision at least three separate businesses bigger than substack (in terms of actual value created) built on top of standard.site each with their own value props. When you go from moats to roads you stop building castles and start building cities and *everybody* gets a whole lot richer.
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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 01/04/2026
If all goes to plan, tomorrow night, a spacecraft with four astronauts will start its mission toward the moon - the first time since 1972. To illustrate the journey, we set out with a simple yet crazy idea: Let’s show this journey to scale. Here's the result: www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-...
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Artemis 2: Fliegen Sie mit uns zum Mond
Zum ersten Mal seit 1972 brechen Menschen wieder zum Mond auf. Unsere 3D-Animation zeigt die komplette Strecke der Mission Artemis 2 – und was dabei schiefgehen kann.
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Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me · 28/03/2026
Required reading for everyone following @kissane.myatproto.social’s awesome #AtmosphereConf keynote.
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Against the dark forest
The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.
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Jason Forrest @jasonforrest.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Come check out our #dataviz gallery in the NYC subway! We officially open next weekend but the exterior mural is up 24/7 for the next YEAR!!
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Anisota @anisota.net · 27/03/2026
Welcome to the new era of Anisota — featuring a hand-carved brand mark, foundations of an immersive game world, swipe gestures, & lots more. This is Anisota senatoria... A new, more peaceful kind of social interface that helps you be offline more and oneline better. Enter the forest: anisota.net
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Anisota for Bluesky & the Atmosphere
A new, more peaceful kind of social media interface that helps you be offline more and online better. For Bluesky and the Atmosphere.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.
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The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital
Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.
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geographyofrobots @geographyofrobots.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Happy Birthday NORCO
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 20/03/2026
Here's the thing: there is no going back to a different era of Twitter. This doesn't replace it, Threads doesn't replace it, Twitter doesn't replace it. That era is dead, no return, it was a very fun 5-10 year window or so that dragged on past its prime until it dropped off a cliff.
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Mitchell Thorson @mitchellthorson.com · 19/03/2026
I think all coding agents need remote multiplayer support for collaborative sessions in the terminal built in. Hop on a call, go back and forth, watch a prototype come into view. Multiple people per agent, not multiple agents per person.
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 18/03/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Mayor Mamdani ends the NYPD's criminal crackdown on cycling, a controversial anti-bike policy that the Adams administration admitted was based on community chatter, not actual data. buff.ly/4cIn2i3
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Aether OS @aetheros.computer · 14/03/2026
Sound on. Aether OS Alpha is online. aetheros.computer #atproto #atdev
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Mitchell Thorson @mitchellthorson.com · 08/03/2026
Perfect day in Brooklyn for a bike ride and sitting outside. After all these freezing cold weeks, a breath of warm fresh air.
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Mitchell Thorson @mitchellthorson.com · 06/03/2026
Here's my Bandcamp Friday pick: Extra Stars, by Gregory Uhlmann intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/extra-...
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Extra Stars, by Gregory Uhlmann
14 track album
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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 06/03/2026
Today is Bandcamp Friday.
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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 04/03/2026
I made an animated map of ship movements in the Straights of Hormuz using data from marinetraffic.com. Ship track frames rendered using #ggplot, base map created using #gdal, video editing using #ffmpeg, video player written in #svelte. 🎁 www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...
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Straße von Hormus: So legt der Krieg die Straße von Hormus lahm
Seit Samstag droht der Iran damit, Schiffe anzugreifen, die die Straße von Hormus passieren. Sehen Sie hier, welche Folgen das für den Verkehr in der Meerenge hat.
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