Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year? 36677192
Reposted by Patrick Fessenbeckerliz @bookjanitor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this is a thing that engineers are so bad at understanding that an entire second profession exists to do it for themnngroup.comTask Analysis: Support Users in Achieving Their GoalsTask analysis is the systematic study of how users complete tasks to achieve their goals. This knowledge ensures products and services are designed to efficiently and appropriately support those goals... 1395
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerGourd @gourdisin.space · 29/09/2026Me when I'm in a bad mood at the Museum of Science and Industry genetics exhibit 1213
Reposted by Patrick Fessenbeckerliz @bookjanitor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026the first time i’ve actually feared an algorithm could do my job 0113
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Working on some slides and uh whatever algorithm is running the powerpoint design suggestions has taken a *dark* turn 2245
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I just want to make sure Bluesky knows about the absolutely lovely moment two weeks ago when, during a Zoom meeting with one of my undergraduate engineers, he played some jazz guitar for me. 170
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The greatest book review line ever, I think in a piece on Chalmers: It’s one thing to bite a bullet here and there. This book consumes a whole arsenal. 160
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“May The Forms Be With You: Our Neoplatonist Roots” 1101
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerCrystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The most beautiful and brilliant essay by the most beautiful and brilliant Sarah Tindal Kareem. pshares.org/issue-articl...pshares.orgVita NovaI had some vague idea that I would one day write a book (maybe a comic picaresque memoir) about having cancer, but it also feels like maybe I don’t have time for that. With what rapidity life follows ... 23110
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Jesus Christ put this in the hall of fame 020
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerDoctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? 312419
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerPloughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"I am used to dealing with the dead." Read Sarah Tindal Kareem's essay, "Vita Nova," in the Summer 2026 issue of Ploughshares: pshares.org/issue-article/vita-nova 096
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerKatie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Overheard: Mom (to her kid): Do you have a license to drive? Kid: No. Mom: Then you don't have a license to cross the street on your own. Kid: . . . Mom: Did you hear me? Kid: What, do I need a license to be annoyed, too? 4484
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026evidence you've committed homeschooling? The state confiscates your cars. 020
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I think this is right and also phrased with the right amount of generosity — 010
Reposted by Patrick Fessenbeckerweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Watching old friends become cringe and thinking there but for the grace of god 1016211
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My kid just asked why Chase Bank is named after a member of the Paw Patrol and frankly America’s youth need answers. 071
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerJ. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 20/09/2026james talarico and mary peltola are not campaigning against trans rights or executing a Turn Towards The Center; if you are, currently, claiming that they are, you are actively participating in a GOP rope-a-dope and you should stop thread: 113132
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerAnthony's Spinning Circles here too! @circlesspinning.bsky.social · 20/09/2026They got Mamdani!😂😂👊🏾 2268
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerDag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026At the millennial retirement home, this will be piped in over the speakers (instrumental version only). 1156
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerMa$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026For example here is one where they think they can out run a woman athlete in a sprint. 391228374
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement 904654842
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerDead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Tapping the sign 131056129
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Alarming all my traffic engineering students by assigning them the design task, "create a cowcatcher for a bus, with sufficient strength and durability for impeding obstacles." 011
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026WHERE'S PAPA GOING WITH THAT AX? except that it's 2026 in Boston and fucking Dad turned the furnace off and is trying to heat the house with the fireplace again. 010
Reposted by Patrick Fessenbeckerwhet moser @whetmoser.com · 18/09/2026dudes rock www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...nytimes.comCan Two Friends Complete a Game No One Has Ever Finished? (Gift Article)The Campaign for North Africa, a staggeringly complicated World War II board game, has stymied players for decades. Now two guys in England are giving it a serious go. 5732108
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Indivisibles are advising Democrats to fire their advisors www.politico.com/news/2026/09...politico.comDemocratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AIDemocratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them. 1834592
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerShana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good. 160185263411
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 17/09/2026I will never stop putting Goya weirdo illustrations on articles about the current GOP 4717
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerMichael Bench-Capon @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If we want to see if AI can do a better job than we can of the next 100 years of maths why don't we make one with the last 100 years of maths removed from its training data and see how it does 1122
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerMaterialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Consolidate The Police is a really obvious reform that never got as much discussion as it deserved 1624623
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Phrase "cold-blooded killer" really taking a beating these days, maybe we need to trot out "tyranny Sue killer" 130
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerMichelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o... 34835184
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I have been working on a theory that a major force driving reactionary sentiment is the insanity of youth sport travel teams, so this tracks. 3333
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerPatrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Local whaling captain says he views white whale as “already caught” 161
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerAndrés Gattinoni @andresgattinoni.com.ar · 10/09/2026Local neighbours say they view Godot as "already here" 141
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Local whaling captain says he views white whale as “already caught” 161
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Local man says he views Gal Gadot as his girlfriend. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comTrump says he views strait of Hormuz as ‘American territory’President at rally in South Carolina makes comments on key strategic waterway and jokes about bombing Iran 54810
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerColin @colin-fraser.net · 10/09/2026A more realistic version of The Matrix where instead of batteries we’re CAPTCHA solvers 631033
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026A Democrat should file a bill on Monday for everyone to get $5,000 checks right now to see if Mike Johnson, John Thune and congressional Republicans will advance and pass it. Call their bluff. Pass the bill. 27562831621
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerAriel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026new likert just dropped 717530
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerElle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign 24550261557
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is incredible discourse bait, the only follow up we need is a survey of which Taylor Swift songs are working class. 161
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerEmbrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 08/09/2026You know, it never occurred to me before that the default Batman is Protestant coded and now I’ll never be able to unsee it. 5171
Reposted by Patrick FessenbeckerPatrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026God help me, I have had this thought about edtech. It seems like there's a possible future world where no one subscribes to Canvas but every school has a committee of half-time teachers that uses AI code to link up spreadsheets and maintain an app for parents. 1121
Reposted by Patrick Fessenbeckerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026to place the sexual and reproductive exploitation of black women at the center of your understanding of american slavery is to see that the system was forced birth and this, in turn, should lead to a more expansive vision of what the 13th amendment actually guarantees. 363072531
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026God help me, I have had this thought about edtech. It seems like there's a possible future world where no one subscribes to Canvas but every school has a committee of half-time teachers that uses AI code to link up spreadsheets and maintain an app for parents. 1121
Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I mean, I’m an AI skeptic, but I’ll take up this challenge: it changes the nature of humanity because every major technology changes humanity. Phones, cars, and plumbing all changed humanity too. 5131