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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s still Lake Ontario outside of the US. He can only change its name in the US.

Lake Ontario, as viewed from the Netherlands

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Mis-stuffed lions are a whole genre. There’s also a derpy lion in Museo da Ciencia in Coimbra, Portugal.

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The market is crying out for new copies and new editions!

“Networks of New York”, used, sold by Amazon dot com for $219.86.

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

They bring out my cranky old man where I point at dollar bills and holler about how it says “legal tender for all debts public and private” and also the flag has a gold fringe which means maritime applies and also ….

THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE says US currency

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Winter Olympics is coming up, so here’s my favorite bobsled fact: there’s only 17 courses in the world! It’s more like Mario Kart (just try to get real good at a fixed set of levels) than anyone wants to admit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

There are a total of 17 bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton tracks around the world in use for competitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bobsleigh,_luge,_and_skeleton_tracks

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Timeline cleanser: Dutch snow day

A snowy scene along a wooded canal with a bicycle being ridden through the snow in the foreground

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I've been using Cursor as my IDE for more than a year now - vim for short things on the command line, but when I’m doing something big enough to require an IDE, I use Cursor. Apparently this means I’m one of the top users? Anyway, this means I’ve got opinions. (🧵)

I’m a top 7% user of Cursor and pressed tab more than 4e5 times this year.

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

We did this to ourselves. It didn’t have to be like this.

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Sometimes the timeline provides a gift

A list of things said to have been ruined by women

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Wikipedia says India is more populous than China…

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

A tough day at the office for GitHub operations.

Lots of red dots on the GitHub status page

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

A nice timeline cleanse from my run this morning.

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

The entire stock market, with its options and futures and ETFs and everything else, is based on just mixing and matching the stocks ~4000 companies. That’s so few companies on which to base so much of the financial industry!

In 2019 there were only 4266 publicly traded firms in the United States.

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

7% of Democrats and 31% of Republicans are unashamed gutter racists.

Results of a poll showing that 7% of Democrats and 31% of Republicans view being white as an important part of making someone American.

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Ammunition makers (Olin, Northrup Grumman, etc) hate the idea of rail guns because it means they sell pieces of metal and not complicated multi-piece stuff with chemicals in it. The Wikipedia article has all the weird language I associate with a heavy pr campaign. eg

Almost aggressively neutral language on the Wikipedia page for rail guns: Any trade-off analysis between electromagnetic (EM) propulsion systems and chemical propellants for weapons applications must also factor in its durability, availability and economics, as well as the novelty, bulkiness, high energy demand, and complexity of the pulsed power supplies that are needed for electromagnetic launcher systems.

Who was asking about this? Why did this text get put in the header? Smells like a PR campaign bumping up against Wikipedia’s NPOV

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

When you begin the day by scraping ice off the windshield of your cargo bike, that counts as a cold day.

A Lovens cargo bike with a rain cover that is still 20% covered in snow and ice and sleet.

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Got it and am reading it! Thanks for the recommendation!

The World and All That It Holds on a table with a trivet used as a chaotic bookmark

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Here's how American's voted in 2020 I think it will be really interesting to do the same chart when the dust settles after all the 2024 votes are counted. sankeymatic.com/build/?i=IIW...

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

An old photo from an old article, but only the paint changed while I was there (it ended up being black walls instead of white) observer.com/2010/12/goog...

The 8th floor hallway of the telco hotel portion of 111 8th Ave in NYC. The ceiling is packed full of metal conduit filled with fiber, each conduit representing an inter-network link. It’s the Internet!

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Somewhere between “very online”, “way too very online”, and a third secret thing.

I am user 91,276, having joined on May 26, 2023

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

The American Book Center in Amsterdam knows what's up.

"DEMOCRACY MAY NOT EXIST, BUT WE'LL MISS IT WHEN IT'S GONE" painted in block letters on the window of a closed bookstore in Amsterdam, NL

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

That's what happened to "The Familiar"! I even spoke to the author about my worry about that happening and he signed my book saying he was determined to properly finish it...

June 29, 2016

For Peter.
And here it begins.
Just like one day, here, it will end too.
-Z

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Ah yes, the famous sport of football, starring the Cincinnati Bengals and <squints> PEC Zwolle

A Dutch soccer theme room with semi-random Americana and American football memorabilia strewn across it

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

@mathykim.bsky.social this was a pretty funny notification to get. “Why is this a nightmare scenario? I thought Kim liking things was a GOOD thing?”

“Kim liked your post
This is a nightmare scenario”

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