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Nick

@nickoneill.bsky.social
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Software generalist, political tech nerd for @5calls.org, by day at Tailscale

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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Here’s most of the script of the AirPods with camera announcement video
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Week who-knows-how-many of responding to political spam with “if a human responds to this I’ll donate”. The number of human responses will shock you!
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Whoops, we broke the capitol phone system again. Many users are reporting issues reaching offices in DC
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 24/01/2026
Ring the alarum-bell! Murder and treason!
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5 Calls @5calls.org · 11/12/2025
FUN FACT: Indiana constituents made 6000 calls via 5 Calls to oppose this redistricting bill. That's the largest number of state-level calls on an issue we have seen this year. 🤓📞🙌
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Jurassic Park Rebirth is a marketing premise (no one wants to watch a movie with the same old dinosaurs again!) made into a story premise (no one wants to go to the dinosaur park to see the same old dinosaurs again!)
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
The legendary cat meme that started an era
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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 22/10/2025
I just blurted out “I hate my senators” waiting for the train.
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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Ah, it’s that time of the year in SF that NOAA clearly has no idea how to predict. They should just say “it’ll be 90 degrees until it isn’t and then it’ll be winter”
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I hope everyone in attendance laughed and laughed and laughed at these total losers
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
If you know me, you've probably heard my screed on why we need the Western States Alliance to protect the rights of citizens where the federal government is failing miserably. Little did I know the (real) West Coast Health Alliance would be the first important step in that direction
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
this fucking idiot
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I love a good push notification failure
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5 Calls @5calls.org · 21/08/2025
Hey CALIFORNIA -- We just posted a special state-level call for YOU. Have at it 😎 **Pro tip: Enter a full address or 9-digit zip code to ensure you get the right contacts 👍 5calls.org/state/califo...
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Support Redistricting in California ⭑ 5 Calls
The Texas legislature has gerrymandered its Congressional districts to give Republicans five additional seats in the House of Representatives. Texas …
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
My toddler has entered the insane dictator paranoid of poison phase, everything I feed her is handed back to me “Here! You eat first!”
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Thanks weather app, for keeping me updated on the tsunami watch since we dismantled the weather service
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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 08/07/2025
JUST IN: ICE agents in San Francisco just now drove through protesters, used pepper spray, & brandished rifles at those who had gathered to try to stop an immigration arrest. A woman, holding onto the hood of an ICE SUV, was thrown off. youtu.be/GQ_YGzfaQLM
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ICE agents in San Francisco clashing with protesters
YouTube video by MissionLocal
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
“Tariffs next month” is the new “it’s infrastructure week”
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Man, fuck the nyt
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
is there really no OSINT repo for facist ICE agent doxing yet? where are these decentralized/uncensorable web people when you really need them?
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Where is all the reporting on the other signal chats that were archived on the hacked (by multiple people!) signal-with-archiving service? Are we still pretending that having some sort of ethical code helps vs government nazis?
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
In today's @5calls.org newsletter, I channel @pbump.com as we take a look at an interesting map of the most popular call in each state - a map that looks very familiar! buttondown.com/5calls/archi...
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What do Republicans call Congress about?
We have been diving into the call results from all of your calls to Congress this year (nearly four million since the inauguration if we’re counting) and...
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Not sure anyone needs yet another reason to love le Guin, but here is one
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Aaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
[internet waiting room] Me: [chanting] blogs, blogs- Other patients: blogs, BLOGS Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] BLOGS, BLOGS, BLOGS!
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
right, because we need an earthquake on top of all this
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
which brain genius decided that humans should be able to get sick, this sucks
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
So... Schumer no confidence vote next?
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Apple Music users with kids: are my recommendations permanently ruined? Is there a quarantine setting I don’t know about?
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Another round of media coverage of @5calls.org begins www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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This app is turbocharging calls to Congress about Trump’s policies
Can (and should) citizen engagement be as simple as a food delivery app?
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Never been more convinced that the way forward is via a Western States Alliance, a pact to govern by democratic principles and provide the things the federal government will fail to do in the states that we still control
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It is hard to imagine a bigger gift to China than what Elon Musk is doing to USAID right now. It’s the backbone of all democracy aid in the entire world. The other funder remaining now? China.
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Just a reminder for how we all got here
The "dominos" meme where the smallest block says "Democratic President Likes Arugula" and the largest says "South African Nazi Billionaire Coup"
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
who needs Pagerduty when you have @syntheticmethod.bsky.social to wake you up when the site is down (she also makes coffee)
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5 Calls @5calls.org · 28/01/2025
Trump's federal funding freeze is blatantly unconstitutional, only Congress has the power to spend federal dollars. Tell your reps to support a resolution opposing the freeze now:
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Block Trump's Unconstitutional Federal Funding Freeze ⭑ 5 Calls
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is a crucial federal agency tasked with oversight and administration of the federal budget. In a blatantly …
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I have been known to joke about unreadable domain and wifi network names but there is literally a congressional contact software provider named dotgov[.]com
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
unregretted user-seconds? My dude, every second I have to look at any tweet is a regret
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
How long after removing an account from Bluesky until you stop receiving push notifications for that account? I can only tell you the answer is longer than a week
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
This drone crisis is the perfect metaphor for the current political climate: a third of all people are convinced it’s a vast conspiracy to deprive them of *something*, a third are have actually seen a plane in the sky before, and the last third are like what is “drone?”
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
This drone crisis is the perfect metaphor for the current political climate: a third of all people are convinced it’s a vast conspiracy to deprive them of *something*, a third are have actually seen a plane in the sky before, and the last third are like what is “drone?”
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The current state of recipe sites
A screenshot of a recipe blog where barely a single sentence is visible between all the ad segments
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Verdict: do not eat. Honestly just unpleasant. Like eating little chunks of sugary pumice stone
A bag of skittles pop’d candySkittles pop’d candy
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Am I the only one rewatching Rogue One and finally, just now realizing its connection to Andor?
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Is this it? The best kottke post ever? kottke.org/24/11/cranbe...
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Cranberry Bogs Use Spiders Instead Of Pesticides
Hey what are you doing, let’s talk about cranberries! Surely you know, the cranberry is the Official Berry of my wonderful C
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Verdict: do not eat. Honestly just unpleasant. Like eating little chunks of sugary pumice stone
A bag of skittles pop’d candySkittles pop’d candy
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Tired: Apple Watch "loud environment" warnings from screeching BART Wired: Apple Watch "loud environment" warnings from screeching baby
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I’ve never been particularly convinced of the whole “covid messes with your memory” argument but after reading all these articles about people explaining their vote for trump, shit… that’s gotta be true
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Nick @nickoneill.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
nyt out here adding insult to injury today
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5 Calls @5calls.org · 07/11/2024
Hi there. Remember us? We never really left - the public made more than a million calls to Congress through 5 Calls last year - but we know it's been a while for some of you. It's not the greatest of circumstances, but welcome back.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 07/11/2024
From @roybahat.bsky.social, a call for startups that are supporting, or working on, worker organizing. also.roybahat.com/request-for-...
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Request for startups: worker organizing
As the first venture capital firm to focus on the future of work, we’ve invested in a surprisingly small number of startups for… workers…
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