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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 29/09/2026

Sometimes technology can replace jobs in a way that improves overall quality of life and safety and that is not reassuring to those who lose their jobs, and society really needs to provide a safety net for people caught by that

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 27/09/2026

Exceedingly beautiful location for @twitchyliquid64.bsky.social's wedding

A view of hills in front of an ocean bay, a lightly cloudy sky above

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 25/09/2026

My experience is that while yes this is literally true what actually happens is that you get given an iron ring so that you can open beer bottles with it

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 25/09/2026

APPARENTLY people are just not familiar with the "The Aristocrats!" joke and so it keeps falling flat when I use it as an analogy for the security model around bearer tokens

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 25/09/2026

Giving a talk at an SF tech company and finding my phone has roamed onto an ex-employer's WiFi because apparently they moved since I left and are now upstairs from here

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 25/09/2026

Have just been informed of the existence of "Irish Nachos" and I preferred the beforetimes

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 24/09/2026

Tories will happily argue about race being socially defined and all unite about gender being reality coded

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 17/09/2026

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 17/09/2026

Wait hang on sorry is Matt Mullenweg trying to assert that he was technically incapable of generating a plaintext version of his Signal messages? Because dude that is absolutely a solvable problem

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 17/09/2026

Trying to explain to 20 y/o me that I have to explain Sankey diagrams to my parents in an effort to explain US politics and I think he'd be happier than I am

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 14/09/2026

"Ted Maul appears in both Brass Eye and The Day Today, and Alan Partridge obviously exists in The Day Today, so in the Alan Partridge timeline did Noel Edmonds murder Clive Anderson" is the question I did not know I needed

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 14/09/2026

The fun thing about the Omarchy "We will fix Linux on your laptop with AI" approach is that it's unlikely most of that will ever go upstream, and then they will have to deal with (a) the actual cost of rebasing everything for new releases and (b) the user cost of things breaking with new releases

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 13/09/2026

Could be watching the Taskmaster season with the Glinner apologist, instead watching Taskmaster New Zealand and it's stupendous

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 13/09/2026

Republicans will be all "You're asking me why I support a president who called for the murder of all children under the age of 2 when we should be talking about why gas prices are Joe Biden's fault" and Democrats will walk into every trans rights rake and alienate everyone

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 13/09/2026

Libraries in the software sense are called libraries because back in the day there was a cupboard full of paper tape implementations of functions that had already been written and if you wanted to use that function you took it out of the physical library and copied it into your code then returned it

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"The Transformers do not endorse the views of the President" okay, great, yeah, it's very normal that you had to say that. This is an ordinary world where things make sense. It's normal that I'd wake up to an official statement from cartoon robots denouncing the man who has the nuclear codes.

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 10/09/2026

The Flintstones would still be alive today if they hadn't taken up smoking, they just didn't know the risks back then

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 09/09/2026

I would simply not, if I were a married man with no children, say "Sex is a reproductive function" and then engineer a set of circumstances in which this ends up being part of English court record for the rest of history

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 08/09/2026

Day trip to the cetacean institute

A view of the San Francisco skyline from the waterfront in Sausalito. The bay fills the space in between.

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 07/09/2026

Extremely short but specific dream in which I learned there was an internet subculture devoted to a conspiracy that we never see Sonic's left arm (which we obviously do) because it's "weird" and now I wish I had any artistic ability whatsoever because I want to share the "Weird arm gang" memes I saw

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 07/09/2026

The UK government should absolutely deal with the current situation in the same way it did in the troubles - accept that the police are corrupt, send in the army to restore order, and then have the army murder the victims oh wait hang on

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Bayesian" means "from the Bay Area".

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 05/09/2026

The Pacific end of the Panama Canal is east of the Atlantic end

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 05/09/2026

The longest sperm cells known to exist are produced by Drosophila bifurca, a species of fruitfly. Uncoiled, they are 20 times the length of the fly itself. The only explanation we have is because they somehow started competing on sperm length, which is a great argument for biology being stupid.

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 02/09/2026

How is "I want to reopen a road that is falling into the sea and is currently a well loved park" not immediately disqualifying for a nominal progressive political candidate

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 01/09/2026

As the author of Rails, I resent the implication that I'm any less qualified to build a Linux distribution than a fully trained professional!

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 31/08/2026

Assigned Trans-Neptunian Object At Birth

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 31/08/2026

Facing the inevitable consequences of complaining about a design choice on the internet (I have been invited to another working group spec meeting)

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boneless skinless @destroy.computer · 31/08/2026

it must really suck when you are on a mission and then you slowly realize you are someone else's tutorial fight

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 25/08/2026

Weird how "Don't speak ill of the dead" is unnecessary when there's simply no ill anyone wishes to speak of

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Brian Richardson @siliconchef.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In line with recent tariffs, Trump has given Canada 50% less White House to burn down this time.

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 22/08/2026

Every single day's news lately just feels like The Day Today's war segment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3BO...

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The Day Today - WAR!

YouTube video by Jmagunda

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 21/08/2026

You know what even locally hosted LLMs are great at? Reverse engineering the proprietary code of big tech and writing copies that are, we are repeatedly told by big tech, not copyright infringing. I am really looking forward to AI companies trying to thread that needle in copyright law.

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 16/08/2026

Initially thought this was Densha de D which made things even more confusing bsky.app/profile/phil...

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

BART sponsored the Densha de Go cabinet this year, holy shit #MAGWest

Bay Area Rapid Transit has a flyer on the Densha de Go cabinet.

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Loopy Logic @giraffeloopy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Zero Cool went on to work for Crowdstrike. You know the rest.

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tallestdude @coreyc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate #hackers

Screenshot of the scene in the movie "Hackers" about Zero Cool crashing 1507 systems on Aug 10, 1988

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 10/08/2026

For anyone deploying Linux into Entra environments who has users who wish they could enjoy Outlook this much: check out Himmelblau bsky.app/profile/lisa...

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Lisa Forte @lisaforte.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It’s crazy to think this little girl’s dream was to log into Microsoft Authenticator 20 times a day and answer whether she’s “enjoying” outlook and would recommend it to friends Living the dream

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 10/08/2026

Man the difference in overhead storage space in CRJ-700 derivatives vs the EMB-170 derivatives is somewhat ridiculous

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 10/08/2026

The concept of Buckfast is hard to explain to Americans

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 07/08/2026

This seems like an unfortunate design choice

A row of windows taken from a roughly straight on angle. A text decal reads "UBC Life". The f is in a recessed window.

The same windows, photographed from an angle. The f is now invisible due to being set back, leaving the text "UBC Lie"

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 07/08/2026

I'm in Vancouver and the University of British Columbia blocks my PDS so I can't use Bluesky on the campus WiFi and I cannot get over the choices I've made that have brought me here

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 06/08/2026

Campaign for transit system cards to very clearly have the relevant city name printed on them so I don't have to spend ages figuring out which one in a stack to take

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 05/08/2026

The more I think about it, the more surprised I am that nobody has actually done this yet

Portion of an Achewood comic.

Nice Pete: [[thought]] I see those fancy California boys think I am of low mind. Oh if they knew the house I have spent with my van and my IEEE member directory.

[[Nice Pete cocks his head to one side.]] Nice Pete: [[thought]] FOOLS! I have invented a USB device which can collect votes from the Internet and drive a knife through your heart!

[[Nice Pete raises his hands.]] Nice Pete: I AM THE FATHER OF MODERN DEATH! I HAVE OPENED A NEW CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF MURDER! THEY CALL ME CRAZY, BUT THEY CAN'T CALL ME GUILTY! NOTE WITH MILLIONS OF HANDS ON THE BLADE!

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