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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s harvest season. Which means all the Asian beetles and box elder bugs have migrated from the nearby fields to my house. Here’s hoping the first frost comes soon.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah. Guess I remember fondly my time living there in the late 2000s when the dems held several statewide offices and the governor hadn’t had their power usurped.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What D+ advantage do you think NC needs to overcome the present level of blatantly corrupt gerrymandering?

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And then there's the new system to book travel. I didn't think it could get any worse than the old system...but somehow it did. You want that flight that shows on the airline website? Sorry, nope. Oh, you want to filter only hotels that aren't filled? HA!

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wait, did I miss an opportunity to meet up with you in London?

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Oh, shoot, I should probably start mine

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Burger night. Phase 1 complete.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Start the next “alternative drinking glass” trend. Mason jars are so passé.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I'd prefer it if our other senator ran instead.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It's almost like all those models were trained on — all — the things we've all written on the internet

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The setting for our local one is quite ideal too. Outdoor tent? Woods and large farm fields? Junkyard across the street for a final showdown with the villain(s)?

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Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · 15/04/2026

Got to talk at @aidotengineer.bsky.social conf last week about the need for collaborative AI engineering. All our current coding agents are single player. We're trying to scale up individual productivity, but creating tons of alignment problems in the process. We have no good tools for...

Title slide saying "One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment Why we Need Collaborative AI Engineering"

Slide saying "Alignment and communication is the new bottleneck"

Slide saying "Human context is not in the codebase"

Business context & financial resources, Political dynamics, Product vision, User research insights, and Organisational history are not in the codebase.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Powerpoint is NOT a documentation tool. If you have to document things with a lot of text - write a document. If those documents need diagrams, create and insert them. Also, if you are giving a presentation and I can get all the info from your slides, you used too much text.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Cleaning out the fridge - good. Cleaning it out because it died…again - bad. How hard is it to build a reliable refrigerator that isn’t $15k+? I hate that it‘s far cheaper to replace a consumer model every 6-10 years than it is to buy one with a 20-30 year lifespan.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

When I was in South MPLS all that awkward stuff (too big, too long, too little used) went on a bookshelf at the bottom of the basement steps. It was my "auxiliary kitchen storage."

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The last time we were this close to the moon we were embroiled in an unpopular war and led by a corrupt, criminal president. We had the good sense to impeach that asshole…may this next part of history rhyme with the last.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Especially those that served as projectiles thrown at ICE agents in Minnesota

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Yeah, I'm not a fan of DCTs for this reason. Not sure if it's a tech limitation or an implementation one.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Which e-tron do you have? Most should just do this so long as you don't have auto-hold engaged.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I've got an ID.4 too and do, occasionally, use "B" mode. It's kinda nice in slow-and-go traffic when I have no rear-seat passengers (kids) who are prone to motion sickness. But, like you, most of the time I just want to coast and not lose energy to the conversion process.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This! My pet peeve is whenever someone equates 1 pedal driving as an EV must have. Tesla did it because they were too lazy to try and make blended braking work well. 1 pedal is actually less efficient in many situations. No knocks against people who like it, but it isn't "better" or EV table stakes.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The worst part is finding out there are solutions to your issues, but the company (which is the same one that built the product) has blocked them for "security concerns."

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Glad you're having success. The filament/decorative bulbs I've purchased are prone to developing an annoying flicker after many months of use.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Got a preferred one? The Feit Electric ones at Menards seem to fail pretty frequently.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Solar energy, battery chemistries, fusion research, carbon capture (if we can get the energy to do it from clean sources), AI (AlphaFold and the sort...not LLMs) for scientific research....

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The latest version of @benjaminpercy.bsky.social’s The End Times made its way through the snow to my side of North End. Time to check in on my fellow townsfolk.

Issue number four of The End Times, sitting on my table.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I find it easier to read blogs on an e-ink device. Less distraction, more immersion in the content. To that end, I finally got around to cleaning up and releasing the (admittedly vibe coded) solution I use to push Atom-enabled blogs to my ReMarkable. Check it out: github.com/pholleran/at...

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

My Menards has a lot of recliners in stock, and sofas. Maybe selection varies by store ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I used to joke that to get healthcare the US should declare war on Canada and then immediately surrender unconditionally. It was only ever meant to be a joke…

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Just spent the better part of an hour purging old emails, no longer needed Google Docs/Sheets/Slides, and files in my drive. It's almost as satisfying as purging physical things.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Apparently they're counting "hit with a dildo" as an attack.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

4/ - As we demand action from our elected officials we also need to demand action from those who fund them. It's our taxpayer money being spent to fund these un-constitutional, un-American, un-accountable goon squads. And it's our consumer dollars that get funneled into campaigns and donations.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

3/ - So why the silence? Are they just hoping the dementia-ridden faux-king will toss them some crumbs and/or contracts? Are they content to fight for a slice of a shrinking pie (fewer people with less purchasing power)?

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

2/ - Fewer people in America mean fewer consumers to buy goods. Fewer people to pay taxes to fund services. Everyone who gets a paycheck pays taxes, even if they're undocumented....though undocumented folks don't get the medicare/medicaid/social security those taxes pay for.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Corporate America's silence is deafening, and confusing from an economics perspective. We live in a largely service-based, consumerist economy. Labor availability in the service sector is lower than demand. Any reduction to the labor pool will only hurt businesses more. 1/

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Twenty years ago I bought a set of All Clad tri-ply stainless steel cookware. I've used it daily since and, unless I warp a piece or two on my induction stove by accidentally heating them too fast, they will out-last me.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I’m having spice cabinet envy

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Can't wait for it to arrive in my part of North End

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The Niro has a max DCFC rate of 85kw. Since that's a max rate, you're only likely to hit it under ideal conditions (10% SOC at start of charging session, mild ambient temps, and a DCFC capable of delivering the power)

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

This'll solve that hosing affordability issue....

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

At least they have all those porch rockers

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Same. Night manager at a grocery store.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Might be time for me to start paying for a print subscription again.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Guessing it’s in part due to lots of younger workers on the oil fields in western ND. Why buy if you don’t intend to stay.

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Phil Holleran @pholleran.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Chicago tavern style pizza > deep dish

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