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Nicholas Hunt-Walker

@nhuntwalker.bsky.social
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Software engineer, teacher, Pythonista, Astronomer, Black guy, Father. Always looking to build and maintain dope shit.

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Nicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social · 16h
It's not spoken about enough just how much of a worse mayor Eric Adams was in his entire time than Mamdani in his 9 months of service. Nothing like a competent guy to help highlight how incompetent the previous guy was.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Lots of evidence these days for my theory that like 90 percent of the time a desire to be elected to Congress means you are unfit to serve in congress.
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Nicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social · 17h
I know that Captain America is propaganda but damn is his character super likable.
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KJETLL // waitlist is open @kjetll.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Artists, show us how you draw black women!
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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 17h
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 Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by ‘Nazis’
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лиа @hadeanangel.bsky.social · 18h
"Toy sales for adults over the age of 18 grew 25% in the first half of 2026, making the cohort the largest contributor to the industry’s rise."
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US toy industry has best first-half performance in 6 years
Older consumers are fueling growth in the industry, according to a new Circana report.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 20h
Today in me being insufferable: A number of the zines and band posters inside that record shop, uh, belonged to me. The HF production design team borrowed* them from myself and other Chicago music scene/record store folks. The More You Know etc [*no I didn't get paid lol, I did it For the Culture]
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Tim @timburga.com · 20h
getting old sucks but they have all kinds of pills for this now
arstechnica.com headline: The large robotic arm on the International Space Station has stopped working
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Nicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social · 19h
Remember how a bunch of people lost jobs, got violently deported, had their expenses skyrocket, had their schools worsened, had their tax dollars exported to fascist apartheid states, and our country turned pretty much all our international friends into enemies? We're DOUBLING DOWN!
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 22h
Genuinely the worst campaign message I’ve ever seen
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Kansas City Butterfly🦋 @kc-butterfly.bsky.social · 23h
The glorification of struggle is a coping mechanism. And a terrible one at that.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 22h
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists have engineered a virus that invades and destroys glioblastoma one of the deadliest brain cancers while turning the immune system into a relentless tumor-killing force. This could be a historic shift in cancer treatment.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h
This is where having a Secretary of Education who cares and is knowledgeable about education would be an advantage
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Nicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social · 22h
Eldritch vases
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22h
Wait, the cult-like, billionaire-pushed school that has driven kids to mental health breakdowns and that families have fled in droves? Read the Wired story about it here www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h
This is not something you say if you actually like education or children
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Kimmel to Mamdani: "I live in Los Angeles and that is not the reception our mayor would get"
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Return of the Cmonmacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tapping the sign
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Return of the Cmonmacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Always good to block people you don’t know who come into your comments saying very violent things.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Update: The Texas Tribune identified Gregory Feathers as the ICE agent who fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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WIRED @wired.com · 29/09/2026
Anthropic’s newly unveiled IPO prospectus warns that its technology poses an “existential risk to humanity,” after a summer of hacking incidents where rogue agents broke containment and hacked business and government systems.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/09/2026
Holy shit www.wbaltv.com/article/new-...
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New York Times games engineering director allegedly shot and killed by in-laws
A man and woman in their late 70s allegedly shot and killed their son-in-law, a New York Times employee, in the parking lot of a Bay Area park, officials said.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026
why would you let meta of all companies run your life via an AI agent what is wrong with people
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 28/09/2026
Seriously though WHY. Meta isn't the VERY last company that I would trust to touch any serious aspect of my life, but that's only because Palantir exists.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 28/09/2026
Trump Orders The FCC To Punish A Reporter. Where Did All The ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Screamers Go? Remember the Disinformation Governance Board? As we were quick to point... www.techdirt.com/2026/09/28/trump-o…
techdirt.com
Trump Orders The FCC To Punish A Reporter. Where Did All The ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Screamers Go?
Remember the Disinformation Governance Board? As we were quick to point out, this organization was named in the dumbest possible way by some incompetent people within the Biden administration, which only fed into the [ahem] disinformation around it. The program, a part of DHS, was an advisory group with no enforcement capabilities, and was tasked...
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 29/09/2026
1 rectangle to rule them all, 1 rectangle to find them, 1 rectangle to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
Somehow "the guy who buys struggling publications and fills them with fake journalists that publish thousands of articles of AI slop to overwhelm google? turns out he goes way back with Ghislaine Maxwell, the collaborator of Jeffrey Epstein" feels like the ultimate and most exhausting 2026 sentence
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Rosa" says, "I'm harvesting sweet potatoes in Livingston CA area. I work 8 hrs/day and earn CA minimum wage. I wake up at 2 am, prepare my lunch, drive to work and start by 4am. I finished for the day by 12:30 pm. It's very hard to pay our bills from this low pay." #WeFeedYou
Workers harvesting sweet potatoes in Livingston California
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When the elite fascist capture of the academy is complete, young people will still be hungry for an educational path that allows them to explore their curiosity and obsessions What options can we give them?
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/09/2026
We are experimenting after taking a year off from graduate admissions. Why try something new? The current method was feeling untenable. We were getting between 300-400 applications for 3-5 positions per year.
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Nicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Religious studies is surprising. But otherwise 🤮
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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If he understood economics, he’d realize that encouraging only degrees that make the most money now will flood the labor market so those jobs don’t have to pay as well, and leave fewer qualified candidates for the low-paying jobs that they have to compete by becoming high-paying.
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Nicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Knowing how the Dems operate, the GOP is stacking up a great list of actionable things that the Dems 100% won’t address at all. They’ll just accept whatever the new norm is as the status quo to be kept with some minor improvements to act like they’re working
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026
One of the exercises I’ve seen to illustrate this is to have kids in intro programming classes tell the teacher how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and the teacher follows their instructions literally.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m not sure it’s fair to say people don’t have life skills if they don’t break their activities into tasks. It’s more that for most people, doing so isn’t required to achieve the desired outcome. in fact, creating tasks might be a way to mask.
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i got one of my favorite kickers in ages published this weekend www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
Given the difficulties Trump has had, there’s no telling when or how the Iran war will end. But the longer the conflict persists and oil shipments remain hindered, the more likely the shifts in oil demand we’re seeing are to become permanent.

This administration doing anything to purposefully encourage that outcome is deeply unlikely. But if I had a nickel for every time Trump accidentally drove down global carbon emissions through a terrible policy decision, I’d have two nickels. Which, as a fictional mad scientist once said, “isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026
dude you can’t address the entire nation just to announce a steel mill in iowa we can smell the flop sweat from here
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Keep going Ken this is great
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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Nicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dude is actively stealing money from the taxpayers, destroying the national economy & foreign relations, but the worst possible thing that could happen is that Democratic Socialists take over Congress. Meanwhile the country's biggest city (by a wide margin) w/ DSA mayor is experiencing a golden age.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/09/2026
Many conservative voters critical of Trump told Reuters they would still do all they can to deny Democrats control of either house of Congress reut.rs/3TwNAV3
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Fear of democratic socialists drives November turnout plans for some Trump voters
Seven of 18 interviewed Trump voters say left-wing gains make them more motivated to vote.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Stop going to bat for Elon." I literally have a book about how his Mars ideas are unworkable. It took years! I just don't understand this thread of thought were you see a capability and say it isn't real. I've seen people comparing Starship to the DC-X to prove nothing new is happening.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The most useless form of news is “CEO says.” Can this tool actually do what it says or is the company just trying to profit off fear?
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sure, go ahead, post about a relatively important distinction that matters, I say to myself. People can handle it without being too weird, I reassure myself.
Me: think we need to differentiate between "Al uses a lot of water!" (not necessarily bad on its own) and "Al stresses local water supplies" (a potentially real issue). The distinction is important because even "modest" use can cause serious issues, especially given the locations of data centers

A very normal person: 

think we need to feed you to the ocean
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isla @punishedisla.bsky.social •1m
I'm right here at the shore, I could hold your head beneath the waves for an easier experience of providing us with better writing
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Nicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It says a lot about just what kind of platform this is that the #1 topic is Political & Social Commentary (by far), while topics #2-5 are about creativity & life stuff: 2. Creative Craft & Expression 3. Everyday Life & Small Joys 4. Fandom & Creative Culture 5. Creative Storytelling & Culture
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Democrats can only disburse legally-collected income.
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Nicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The fact that bestiality can even be sensibly mentioned with respect to the FBI is a sign that we live in Crazytown now.
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