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Ben @burriscommaben.bsky.social · 1h
quoting this knowing that now you'll have to click to find out what server this person is talking about (and they are absolutely correct). What kind of server could be so contentious, literally so full of potential discontent (let alone content)? "braver than the troops" gets thrown around a lot..
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 13h
How much was the licensing on that? (Or is it fair use???)
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 03/10/2026
OK, the clock is ticking on my thermal label printer. Just had to re-install Rosetta for the print drivers, which means it’ll break in macOS 28. I’ve got it shared via a Windows PC; what are people using these days to bridge to AirPrint (which should work without drivers)?
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 28/09/2026
I’m more impressed he picked Studio 60! (Disclosure: I think the first half is solid and the second half gets too preoccupied with itself.)
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 26/09/2026
Got a new zoom lens for my Nikon Z Fc, and the moon was looking very pretty tonight…
A picture of the moon. Probably the best picture I’ve taken of the moon with a decent amount of detail, especially around the edges. But it is, after all, the same moon that everyone else photographs (with the noted exceptions of the Apollo and Artemis astronauts).
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Brittany 📸 @photos.brittanyhildreth.com · 25/09/2026
film’s not dead, and as it turns out, neither was my kiev 88. (though it did eat 3-4 rolls of film in the loading process, RIP my wallet) 📸: Kiev 88 🎞️: first 3 photos pro 400h (RIP), rest portra 800
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Brittany @designatedwitter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I am cautiously optimistic about this reaffirmation on moving forward with Destiny!
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Richard Ⓐber @richaber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So A24 wants to mine the Creative Commons for profit, but doesn't want to honor the terms of CC licensing?
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The Verge @theverge.com · 20/09/2026
The company is claiming ‘worldwide rights’ to a film that has to be released under a Creative Commons license. www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
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A24’s reputation is on the line with the SCP Foundation movie
A24 is claiming ‘worldwide rights’ to a film that has to be released under a Creative Commons license. 
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 13/09/2026
Anyone had any luck using an Obsidian vault as an Astro content collection? Everything I’ve tried so far either doesn’t translate the links in Astro correctly or fixes the links beforehand and breaks them in Obsidian.
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Kye Fox @kyefox.com · 11/09/2026
Matt Mullenweg might be rich beyond reason, but I've never stepped on my dick in such spectacular fashion I got sued and alienated everyone in a community I spent decades of my life building, so I guess I have that going for me.
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 09/09/2026
Been reading up on the EUPL; it’s basically AGPL but allowing static linking? (So kind of an LAGPL, lol?) I kinda like this.
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 08/09/2026
Hot take: @iconfactory.com should get them as, IIRC, both originated in their Twitteriffic app?
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Brittany @designatedwitter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Would.
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 04/09/2026
Given where I am in the world, Atlanta and Charlotte makes sense… mydialect.us/quiz-standar...
Dialect map with Florida and the southwest in red (more alike), the Midwest in blue (less alike).Cities most & least like you
Interpolated from the nearest survey responses.
MOST SIMILAR
1. Miami, FL (53%)
2. Charlotte, NC (52%)
3. Atlanta, GA (52%)

LEAST SIMILAR
1. Minneapolis, MN
(47%)
2. Milwaukee, WI
(48%)
3. Houston, TX (48%)

What gave you away
Answers that point most strongly to Virginia.
Do you use "spigot" or "spicket" to refer to a faucet or tap that water comes out of?
I say "spicket" but spell it "spigot"

What word (s) do you use to address a group of two or more people? y'all
Which of these terms do you prefer for a sale of unwanted items on your porch, in your yard, etc.?
yard sale
caramel
with 3 syllables ("carra-mel")
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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
MapQuest has 1.5 million downloads since not changing the name of a lake on a map. The people desperately want someone to stand up to this frail loser. And apparently it’s gonna take a mapping company you forgot existed.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 03/09/2026
MapQuest shouldn’t be topping the App Store charts. But it very much is—and its story might be a template for other legacy apps to follow if they want to make a splashy comeback. tedium.co/2026/09/02/m... new @tedium.co
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MapQuest's Unlikely Cultural Revival in 2026
MapQuest didn’t seem like it was built for 2026. But its marketing savvy and cultural backbone might prove a useful template for legacy tech companies.
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 02/09/2026
Bold of them to leave out the drama while showing a picture of a sketch *written for the drama.* (see alt text if you don’t remember)
Screenshot from the linked article showing Conan O’Brien hosting The Tonight Show  in the background is a prop from the previous sketch: a “dinosaur skeleton” holding a garden hose that shoots “caviar” onto an Italian supercar they “bought” in order to waste as much of NBC’s money as possible in the final days of his run as host.
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 31/08/2026
Nothing in this announcement suggests it’s anything other than the same FAST channels you can find on Roku, Plex, and a long list of other apps. But hey, new spot for @electricnow.bsky.social?
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 27/08/2026
The Gumroad founder is a true believer. He got big into NFTs, worked with DOGE (until they fired him for giving an interview where it was clear he believed the stated—not actual—mission), and was pushing for more AI code early. I’ve never had my opinion crash so hard: oddevan.com/2025/04/04/b...
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Bumps In the Gumroad
It’s hard to overstate just how much my opinion on Gumroad has changed since the beginning of 2025. I’m not mad, just disappointed. Incredibly disappointed. Strike One: Unintended Consequences Let me ...
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 26/08/2026
I did not need to know this. I mean, I knew it existed; I just didn’t need to know it was *good.*
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some people might not be aware, but it is entirely possible that without Dolly Parton we wouldn’t have had a COVID vaccine. She partly funded Moderna’s research and gave the largest individual contribution to make it all happen. Just gives you an idea of the kind of person she was.
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Brittany @designatedwitter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We went to Dollywood every year w/ my mom’s family. We listened to her music. And then she helped make the COVID shot happen. As close as it gets to a good rich person, she never forgot her roots. She’s part some of my fave childhood memories, and enabled my adulthood to continue. Rest well, queen.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 25/08/2026
I just finished up a complete rewrite of my 2015 Columbia House piece. I more explicitly underline the story underneath the story: Every sketchy SaaS business model has roots in business models like Columbia House. tedium.co/2026/08/24/c... updated @tedium.co
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Columbia House: The First 12 Cost A Penny, But …
In the 1980s and 1990s, Columbia House could do no wrong—it was a great way to get 12 CDs for a penny. But its business model predicted a lot of bad e-commerce.
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 25/08/2026
One day… One day I’ll actually be online in time to participate in one of these…
Screencap from Return Of the King where Aragorn says "But it is not this day!"
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 23/08/2026
Shelving Smolblog: oddevan.com/2026/08/22/shelving-smo…
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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
How many cases? Since the Truman Administration (!)... 51. Well, okay, that's clearly a crisis. That's more cases than there are trans athletes in professional sports.
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CocoEagle @cocoeagle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I cannot express this any better.... the frustration is real
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 19/08/2026
"What is the single most damaging policy pursued by the Trump administration" is a depressing question with no clear winner, but attempting to nuke mRNA research into bedrock has to be a strong contender.
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dame @dame.is · 19/08/2026
hello bluesky, this is going to be just as jarring of a change for me as it will be for you all… my demands are simple: hire me and i can go back to being an ever-changing incorporeal sky avatar dame.is/available
Left side: glowing neon text reading "dame" against a gradient background transitioning from bright blue at top to purple at bottom. Right side: portrait of a smiling person with short dark hair and glasses, wearing a brown corduroy jacket over a coral-colored shirt with a pendant necklace, against a muted green background.
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 19/08/2026
My foray into using Gitea Actions to have a privately-hosted git repository that will automatically build and deploy on a schedule has hit a sizable, but entirely predictable, roadblock. Not bad for an evening, but still a ways to go.
Screenshot of an error log that begins with "failed to pull image", lists a bunch of URLs and paths, and ends with "no space left on device", meaning my cheap ass ran out of disk space on the entry-level server I'm renting.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/08/2026
I just typed out a comment to a post, re-read it, thought "Oh, right, I'll look like a fucking creep if I post that" and then deleted it, which is a reminder that the reason I came up with "The failure mode of 'clever' is 'asshole'" is because I need the warning as much if not more than other folks
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 13/08/2026
This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Josh Collinsworth @collinsworth.dev · 06/08/2026
I wasn't sold on this until I got to the implementation. It's so smart I'm probably gonna spend my day redesigning at least one or two of the theme toggles I've built.
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 05/08/2026
And until I know what skills I do and don’t need in a post-AI world, I don’t want to lose any of them.
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 05/08/2026
Posts like this are what make me afraid to even touch the stuff for fear of cooking my brain this badly. If it’s trolling: congratulations, it worked. If it’s genuine: yes, because that’s what I’m doing now. If it’s (as I suspect) written by genAI: 🙄
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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Yes, you kind of have to wonder how Leonid Kantorovich, who discovered linear programming and the algorithms that underlie AI, manage to do it without AI. Maybe it's because he didn't outsource his brain to the primitive computers he worked on.
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 04/08/2026
I thought it was an Adam Savage quote?
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Brittany @designatedwitter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A year ago today, I told the rescue that we wanted to make him ours. The next day, he came home to us. I was so very nervous about the whole thing, I felt like I took the joy out of the process. I shouldnt have worried: Vinny brought it with him. Here are some moments from our first year together.
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 01/08/2026
Yes, that is how products work. Oh, wait, you’re Microsoft. Okay… So you have something you want to sell. If people aren’t buying it, then you need to find out why and either fix the problem or pivot to another product…
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The “We must adapt more memes into movies!” people had better be coming for Spiders Georg. Spiders Georg is blockbuster material.
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 25/07/2026
Remind me again which party helps small businesses?
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 25/07/2026
I have Aetna, and many non-CVS pharmacies are in-network. Probably depends on the plan. That being said, the reimbursement on my ADD meds is so low the local mom-and-pop pharmacy has politely asked me to fill it elsewhere despite being in-network. Which, IMO, is even more insidious.
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 24/07/2026
Correction: CW is staying on 62; channel 7 is going full independent (“more local news and programming”) which, LOL. What’s the over/under on their ratings vs channel 16 after the switch?
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/07/2026
Indeed, down to the last day. We're a smidge under $35,000 going to World Central Kitchen ( @wck.org ) and I would love if we could get over that line (you can move the donation sliders so they can get more). So if you're in a non-Commonwealth country and want a bunch of my stuff in ebook form, go!
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 24/07/2026
So CBS is moving from channel 7 to channel 4.(something) in a week. Wow. (And it sounds like they’re moving the CW from 62 to 7?) This affects upstate SC and Asheville, NC.
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dame @dame.is · 22/07/2026
Save your money and buy Keychron’s fully programmable num pad instead for $120: www.keychron.com/products/key...
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Keychron Q0 Max QMK Wireless Custom Number Pad
Keychron Q0 Max is a full-metal custom number pad with a macro column and rotary encoder knob on the left side. Applied as a separate numeric keypad or a huge customizable key set with QMK/VIA support...
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Evan Hildreth @oddevan.com · 22/07/2026
Incorrect. Why would I want to be 72 inches high? The other number is nice.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/07/2026
As ever, I never say never, and also, right now it's not on the schedule. It's in development in LA right now, and if that moves forward, it might move onto the schedule. Make sacrifices to the movie gods!
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