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Nick Ball @nickball.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Friendly reminder in CA you can: - drop your California mail ballot off at *any* polling place or ballot drop box in California, even outside your county, up until 8pm on election night - if you live in a "voters choice" county, you can vote in person at any polling place within the county

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Nick Ball @nickball.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

So many damn things need to be fixed in the next admin (and if we ever have a functional Congress), but funding/staffing for controllers has to be a priority. One controller working multiple positions at a NY airport is unconscionable. This is totally a systems failure.

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Nick Ball @nickball.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Svelte is so damn good. I'm way more of a backend guy, and it is the first (non-Astro) web framework in a long time that's been a joy to use. Love the redesign (and your recent atproto stuff). I'm going to shamelessly borrow some inspiration for a similar photo site I've been wanting to spin up.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/01/2026

Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky? Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices? NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN... Press release: www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 22/12/2025

After successful donation matching yesterday today I'm going to match donaitions for St. Jude Children's Hospital Send me your receipt and I'll send you mine 💞 RT if you can't donate to share with others I'm matching up to $10,000! www.stjude.org/donate/donat...

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Give hope to kids with cancer

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Nick Ball @nickball.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

"Meanwhile, Chamberlain, which was sold to private equity firm Blackstone in 2021"... enshittification and “private equity ruins everything” sometimes feel a little cliché or on the nose, but you know... patterns. www.theverge.com/tech/839294/...

theverge.com

Chamberlain blocks smart home integrations with its garage door openers — again

More cause for RATGDO

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

*** 11th ANNUAL BULL CITY FOODRAISER FUNDRAISING THREAD *** It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids! ➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua... ➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise... (Plus other donation options in thread!)

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

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Robin @robinsloth.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Justice Jackson ends her dissent with a devastating condemnation of the Court's use of the shadow docket and the horror of what's happening here:

I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604 U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at
1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See, e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With
more and more of our most significant rulings taking place in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are now less willing to face it.

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Nick Ball @nickball.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Pet peeve of mine with Broadway shows, always seems to happen.

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Nick Ball @nickball.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Sigh. The last thing we need to come out of this dumb election is for yet another fake election integrity story. California isn't using Starlink to count or transmit votes. medium.com/@dropcompute...

medium.com

California isn’t using Starlink to Count Votes

Stick to the Facts

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