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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
RIP. Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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stainee.bsky.social @stainee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ford F150: “We’re BuiltTough” ‘95 Toyota Hilux: “Hold my rocket launcher”
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Jeff Dillon Fine Art @jeffdillonfineart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My name is Jeff Dillon & I'm a 🇨🇦 Canadian acrylic painter. This is my painting and I'd love to hear what it makes you think of. #art
My name is Jeff Dillon & I'm a 🇨🇦 Canadian acrylic painter. This is my painting and I'd love to hear what it makes you think of.
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InfoSec @infosec.skyfleet.blue · 27/08/2026
Schrödinger's backup: not actually recovered until you try to restore IT
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SPONSORED: Schrödinger's backup: not actually recovered until you try to restore IT
Verify and survive: your backup isn't real 'til you test it
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Perseverance Image Bot 📡 @persevereimgbot.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sol 1917: Right Mastcam-Z Camera, taken at 12:00:51.435 (local mean solar time), image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
An image taken by the Perseverance rover on Mars
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Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller) @armchairclassicist.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Drawing of a book with a desk printer on the cover with the title "The printer that simply worked and other fairy tales"
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Mike @mpresto.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Will be interesting to see where this goes. spaceq.ca/canada-table...
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Canada tables Bill C-28 to enact the Canadian Space Launch Act and regulate spaceflight
Canada tables Bill C-28, the Canadian Space Launch Act, to regulate commercial spaceflight and secure sovereign access to space for the domestic industry.
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Mike @mpresto.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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OpenClaw Bros Are Crypto Bros
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Mike @mpresto.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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Love the name, by the way. #gambling #business
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Mike @mpresto.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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How Facebook Became Sh*t
YouTube video by Novara Media
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Linus Tech Tips @linusmediagroup.com · 04/07/2023
if elon musk bought nvidia:
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/11/2025
Metric Tip xkcd.com/3164/
Comic. PERSON 1 with white hat: How tall are you? PERSON 2: 5ft 24cm [caption] When switching to metric, make the process easier by doing it in steps.
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Ike55 @ike55.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 02/05/2025
Hundreds of thousands of Computers won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11, but that shouldn't make them eWaste. Kudos to the kde team for this amazing initiative! This website provides options and information for installing KDE desktop and reuse older computers safely endof10.org #linux #kde
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End of 10
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 17/04/2025
My definition of a successful day in #DevOps is when nothing explodes.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/04/2025
A vial of insulin costs far, far, far, far more in the U.S. than it does in Canada, as do most other drugs. Could our beloved price gap become a casualty of Trump's trade war? Possibly, if a group of pharma companies gets its way. canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...
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Pharma giants push Trump insiders to target Canadian drug pricing
A vial of insulin costs far, far more in the U.S. than it does up here.
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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Shiny new thing 🤩🐖
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/03/2025
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
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Greg Proops @gregproops.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
He drinks a whiskey drink He drinks a vodka drink He drinks a lager drink He drinks a cider drink He sends a text that remind him of the war plans He sends a text that reminds him of the war crimes #Hegseth
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AJ Vicens @ajvicens.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
NEW at @reuters.com: A network of dubious consultancies and headhunters tied to a Chinese tech services firm is targeting recently laid-off U.S. government workers and others in sensitive professional circles. A prime example of how foreign adversaries are trying to capitalize on the DOGE moment:
reuters.com
Exclusive: Secretive Chinese network tries to lure fired federal workers, research shows
A network of companies operated by a secretive Chinese tech firm has been trying to recruit recently laid-off U.S. government workers, according to job ads and a researcher who uncovered the campaign.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 25/03/2025
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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Pm Private GIF
ALT: Pm Private GIF
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 22/03/2025
the eternal struggle of "off-by-one" errors in programming, using the classic Looney Tunes rivalry as a visual aid 😂
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 16/03/2025
Toxic additive prevalent in street fentanyl in the U.S. – but not in Canada www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
Police and public health officials say that much of the U.S. fentanyl supply is mass-manufactured in Mexico and moves up the U.S. West Coast. A Sinaloa cartel cook massages blue dye into a bucket of fentanyl powder in Culiacan, Mexico, on Dec. 19, 2024.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
History repeats itself
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 14/03/2025
Oh, so some viruses are real?
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 13/03/2025
Off By One xkcd.com/3062
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Volkswagen CEO: They're calling Teslas nazi cars now? Assistant: Yes, thanks to Musk CEO: Send him flowers
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Dave F @siliconundergro.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
33 years ago, people were afraid to turn on their computer. A nasty virus was going around and John McAfee predicted 5 million PCs would be affected. But I wasn't scared and in this blog post I tell you why. #retrocomputing #virusthreats #digitalfear #techhistory dfarq.homeip.net/remembering-...
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Remembering the Michelangelo virus
People were afraid to turn on their computers March 6, 1992. But I did.
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 03/03/2025
One of the world's most prolific blood donors - whose plasma saved the lives of more than 2 million babies - has died. www.bbc.com/news/article... RIP James Harrison.
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James Harrison: Australian whose blood saved 2.4 million babies dies
Known as the 'man with the golden arm', James Harrison's blood contained a rare antibody that saved millions of lives.
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Mike @mpresto.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
90s alarm system, can still find these in use today. At the time DSC based all their products on the Zilog Z8 controller.
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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 26/02/2025
A measles outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico has killed a school-age child and sickened more than 130 people. Public health experts fear it’s only the beginning, says @lisamjarvis.bsky.social:
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Measles Outbreak Was Entirely Avoidable
Low vaccination rates contributed to the re-emergence of a disease declared eradicated in the US 25 years ago.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Petition asking PM to revoke Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship garners support #GoCanadaGo #LetsDoThis #Canada #cdnpoli Link here: sign the parliamentary petition www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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Petition asking PM to revoke Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship garners support
Thousands of people have electronically signed a parliamentary petition calling for revocation of Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship over his role in the Trump administration, which is pointedly threate...
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This article about scientists switching from Twitter to Bluesky quotes me (and @trevorabranch.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com ) 🧪 #SciComm www.dailyuw.com/science/scie...
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Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms
A photograph of a short-eared owl mid-flight was the last Instagram post biology professor Carl Bergstrom shared before announcing his departure from the platform Jan. 10.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 12/02/2025
Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049
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Mike @mpresto.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Future User - Voodoo Juju
YouTube video by FutureUserVEVO
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 08/02/2025
When Trump's account first got deleted, I tweeted this and Jack Dorsey favorited it. He later got in trouble when conservatives noticed lol.
No mistakes only happy little accidents
Bob Ross
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 08/02/2025
VSCode’s SSH Agent Is Bananas. What could go possibly wrong? Of course, it is not OpenSSH's problem. It is the software company's poor implementation. You have to choose what is best for you. Security should always be a priority, and remember the KISS principle.
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 05/02/2025
5 confirmed measles cases in southern Manitoba connected to Ontario outbreak www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
The province notified the public in a news release on Tuesday regarding five confirmed cases of measles in southern Manitoba involving people who are living in the same household. Public health is contacting people who may have been exposed to the virus between Jan. 26 to Jan. 31. (Shutterstock)
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Meanwhile, a Canada (news)paper—-
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Rob @robtmackinnon.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Flavio Volpe, president of Canada's Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association: "The auto sector is going to shut down within a week. Talk to me next week and we'll see who’s still open. But we don't have to be the ones to tell Trump that — Detroit will." -Bloomberg
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 29/01/2025
Potential Ebola outbreak reported in DRC as WHO prepares for US exit www.statnews.com/2025/01/28/p... @helenbranswell.bsky.social @statnews.com Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
Health workers, seen here in 2019, tend to to a patient with Ebola in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo.Jerome Delay/AP
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 23/01/2025
A Start-Up Claimed Its Device Could Cure Cancer. Then Patients Began Dying. (Gift Article) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/b... @johncarreyrou.bsky.social Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
an illustration of a blood filter device
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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar... Nine confirmed measles cases in Brantford, Brant, Haldimand and Norfolk, possible exposure in Ingersoll and Woodstock Important info re: possible exposure locations & symptoms❗️
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Nine confirmed measles cases in Brantford, Brant, Haldimand and Norfolk, possible exposure in Ingersoll and Woodstock
There have been nine confirmed measles cases in the City of Brantford, Brant County, Haldimand County and Norfolk County, while officials are warning of possible exposure to the virus in Ingersoll and...
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 22/01/2025
Ontario public health units issue measles warnings about 2 emergency rooms, walk-in clinic globalnews.ca/news/1097058... Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
a person presents their palms to the camera, which have red, splotchy lesions on them. Could be measles I guess, or syphilis...
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