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When I was a newspaper reporter, it was part of my job in Huntsville to go and witness the executions conducted at one of the prisons in town. I don't remember the exact number I was present for but it was close to at least a dozen, each of them via lethal injection. /1

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 2h

Aw yeah, doing role-based access control implementation on a new system. One of those nice, familiar jobs.

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the more subtly applications of Murc’s Law

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Raqefet Cave in Israel was a sacred burial site for the hunter-gatherer culture known as the 'Natufians' around 13,000 years ago. More recently, we've also discovered here the earliest evidence of BEER BREWING from grains. Even more remarkable because these people HADN'T INVENTED AGRICULTURE YET.

smithsonianmag.com

Traces of 13,000-Year-Old Beer Found in Israel

According to the authors of a new study, the discovery marks the earliest-known evidence of beer production among ancient peoples

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Current status: sitting a a backlog grooming meeting reviewing user stories adorned with screenshots of the feature I've already implemented.

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is my friend, Ms. Sausage

Tiny avocado and friend Ms. Sausage, a body pillow lengthy fluffy black kitty

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The first time I read anything by a singularity believer on the internet (~1997), they firmly believed that ethics was rational and that a super-intelligence would naturally be hyper-moral. This turn to a doomsday cult is very weird.

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My 10 year old yesterday after watching some science and video game videos on YouTube, “there were a bunch of commercials. Some of them were saying Josh Shapiro is a good guy. And some saying he’s a bad guy. What’s that all about?” So we had to talk about the upcoming elections and campaigns.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.

nytimes.com

Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)

The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.

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Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf @sahoni.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This feels like a cool opportunity to talk about food history as a whole. Who wants to learn about the complicated history of chili?!?

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Reminds me of one of my favorites

Everyone will not just

If your solution to some problem relies on “if everyone would just…” then you don’t have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At not time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to start now.

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I missed this one 3 months ago. But that's just an opportunity to share it now

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Reason #1237 why representation in media is important. My 8 & 10 year old are excited about the new Avatar (as in AtLA). They've seen someone online speculating that Pavi will be a weak Avatar because she's an amputee. And they immediately came to me to say how absurd that statement is because Toph

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Has Matthew McConnaughy said anything about the destruction in Big Bend. He narrated a 2022 documentary on Texas wildlife. Would love to have prominent Texans weigh in to stop the destruction. www.texasobserver.org/deep-heart-d...

texasobserver.org

A ‘Love Letter’ To Texas Wildlife

From ocelots to egrets, Deep in the Heart features breathtaking footage of 12 of the state's rarest animals in their natural habitats.

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Oh no! Surely somebody will help me eat 30 hard boiled eggs

56 deviled eggs garnished with a slice of pickle and bacon

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Hey, this is actually my speculative theory! One proposal of consciousness is a system that ruminates on memories of the past and fantasizes projections of the future. I posit that financial markets do both and the primary substrate of its mind is excel spreadsheets in place of neurons.

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I’ve definitely ridden bikes through the drive-thru. But my peak this achievement was definitely Jacki-in-the-Box at 2am with a roommate and two girls we met at a party squatting in a square formation and miming driving a stick shift for drunk tacos.

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Leftover Bolognese sauce means Italian Mexican pizza

A Mexican pizza like papa Taco Bell would have wanted

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

On a long enough timeline, your two-factor authentication code will be a combination of you and your person's area codes.

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Me re-reading my own posts and replies when they pop back up in notifications, "aw yeah, this is the great content".

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Sparrow / Liz @untonuggan.myatproto.social · 19/06/2026

Looking for a fun way to celebrate Pride month virtually? Consider learning ASL with from Queer ASL : You can learn to share your English pronouns in ASL! Work your way up to signing "I'm going to a queer dance party!" Classes start this coming week, but there's still available spots!

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Thinking about when my 5th grade teacher gamified the classroom. - trimesterly had a long-running creative writing assignment based on what we had learned in history - divided the classroom into small teams and had the groups make decisions to explore a map and unlock events

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Graham Platner once scissor-kicked Angela Lansbury

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Devolving into low-trust society is very bad, actually

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Land Value, Pigouvian, and Severance Taxes would solve this. Instead we get massive subsidies into all 3.

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Does anybody else look at their watch and count down to join a Zoom/Teams meeting right at the second it starts?

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Anyone else been chickening out on having something like this made because it could be too late by the time it's delivered?

Lawn sign reading "maybe it will happen today" with clip art champagne glasses

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Went a different direction with the savory oatmeal this morning. Italian sausage and pesto.

Oatmeal with Italian sausage, pesto, green onion, French crispy onion, and Parmesan

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Nearly two decades ago I was doing a lot of nighttime mountain bike riding. I loved this headlight set from NiteFlux. It had a flashlight form factor, but you could remove the light from the battery to affix to a handlebar mount. And the battery attached to water bottle points. Cool wrap storage too

A black canvas wrap secured with plastic clips on a wooden floor. The initials “NF” in white dots

The wrap unfurled containing various charging cables, mounts, and battery pack stick

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Noticed that my wife default calls the monsters “she” and I call them “he” when we’re doing a multiplayer Slay the Spire run. That’s interesting!

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Your children are full individual people with all the rights that entails. There is no such thing as a "parental right", only duties and power delegated to you. The power & authority is an huge obligation, and it is only meant to be wielded to protect their rights and provide that their entitlements

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Saturn @saturn-illus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Escher inspired Relativity Witch Hat Art 👀 this one took forever to plan

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Making slow but steady progress on a handstand!

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

No thanks: “trans exclusionary radical feminist” TERF
That right there: “Feminism-appropriating reactionary transphobes” FART

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Drew Starr @thedrewstarr.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

LOL this was literally me

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

We moved to this city 9 months ago with only an EV and truckful of bikes, and I just realized: I don't even know where the gas stations are.

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The bike rack at the boys’ new school leaves a bit to be desired

Two kids bikes locked up between a trash and recycling dumpster in front of a large red brick wall

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

If you want to know why conservative activists will never abandon Trump, consider that he has delivered where mainstream Republicans only humored their desire to eviscerate Civil Rights and Voting Rights, something the GOP could not have dreamed of a decade ago.

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N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Always pretty amazingly resistive people are whenever I’ve shared this. Basically, smaller plates/bowls, and taller skinnier glasses are repeatedly shown to reduce food intake. But anytime I’ve shared an article, people are compelled to say why it wouldn’t work. www.npr.org/sections/the...

npr.org

Deception Diet: How Optical Illusions Can Trick Your Appetite

Everything from the size of your plate to the color of your food may be telling you to eat more than you actually need. The good news is you can use psychology to your advantage, if you learn a few tr...

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