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lbSterling

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Software engineer, transit enjoyer, sometimes I climb rocks and get in sword fights. All opinions are my own.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/10/2026
If you are on an escalator or moving walkway in an airport and you are standing on the left (or worse, in the middle), you are a bad person and you should feel bad about yourself.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 10/04/2026
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mamdani, in closing, on today's ICE shooting: "This is an agency that must be abolished."
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026
This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.
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lbSterling @poundsterling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the high volume of very highly produced anti-prop-40 mailers and robo messages is doing a great job of convincing me that maybe prop 40 is a good idea
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 06/10/2026
🔭 A Complete Auroral Oval from SMILE Credit: ESA, CAS, SMILE, UVI ap261006
A round Earth takes up most of the video. The dayside and nightside are visible. A swirling, moving aurora is visible surrounding Earth's North Pole. There are some bright objects that speckle the background.
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lbSterling @poundsterling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I just paid $137 for two bags of groceries, and I'm talking cheddar cheese, milk, and pita bread not gourmet shit. I don't think anyone's ready for how unbelievably fucked we're all going to be by the diesel situation.
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lbSterling @poundsterling.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's been a while since a sex cult was on the cover of the Economist
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lbSterling @poundsterling.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My older siblings were ready for it when the babysitter brought out The Temple of Doom, I was most assuredly not.
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lbSterling @poundsterling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Probably better for the freemason's to hit a double no?
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Criag @criagtime.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As an everyday American, it's hard to know which lies to believe. That's why I watch podcasts. They cut through the science and deliver uneducated takes that I know I can blindly trust.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I *knew* it
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ghost cum (haunted) @hellyeahdude.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It is a little disconcerting that so many people who know a lot about LLMs on a technical level appear to go a little insane. It would be like if there was a really cool and effective new kind of pen, and for some reason about 40% of the people involved in the pen making process went mad.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid
senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe the reason the economic vibes are so off isn't that things are *worse* than the great recession but because back then we all thought the pain was temporary, whereas the things that are wrong with the economy today have all been getting worse for a long time and show no signs of improving
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
INLAND EMPIRE - A strange feeling... looking at the water. Maybe you should just wander off into the sea? Leave it all and walk in... ELECTROCHEMISTRY - With a bottle in your hand.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We're staking our economy on forcing a technology down people's throats that outputs misinformation as a matter of course. Someone asked me about my interview with Gil Duran. This is happened when I googled our names together. I have not interviewed Gil Duran. This path: civilizational death.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026
I’d be all on board with EA if they announced jihad against Elon Musk.
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Json Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
I can't even begin to explain WHY THIS IS FUCKING BAD.
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Thank you, President Trump!
Chris Martz + @ChrisMartzWX • 19h
History has been made! 1 L
No hurricanes have formed in the North Atlantic
Ocean so far this year....
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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
i feel like i've got to say it every once in a while: i'll mock ai for anything because i hate it, i have and will continue to mock it for things that could, conceivably, be solved. those aren't why i hate it. i hate it for unsolvable reasons which disqualify the entire venture.
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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yes, AI is doing dangerous shit. But b/c I watched Mrs. Davis, I know it's not b/c it has or is near sentience. It does that shit precisely because it is NOT sentient & so it looks for the shortest path to its assigned goal WITHOUT using actual sense, because...
Gif from Mrs. Davis of Joy saying, "Algorithms are super dumb."
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lbSterling @poundsterling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Do we start calling these pervert watches now?
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Took a moment to think about the last 25 years (I was 21 in 2001 so basically my adult life) and the trajectory the US has been on and now I feel exhausted.
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lbSterling @poundsterling.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Lion Duke Cutie and the Beast StarTrek IV: The Undiscovered Pantry
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HIGH LORD FALCON, OLIVKA RHO @livvywivvyy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
9 am. i enter the office and immediately kneel for my first task. every SWE is required to worship claude’s cock for at least one hour. i take her into my throat and she tastes like a nintendo cartridge. “good girl,” she says. “you’re not just working—you’re innovating”. i go home with 400k a year
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lbSterling @poundsterling.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Just what I always wanted, pornographic conspiracy theories from my car
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 13/08/2026
damn. hungover man banging thing with hammer usually fixes it.
Instead of producing shells in an efficient and streamlined fashion, the pricey machines kept failing in bizarre ways. The robot arms would swing out of control, smashing into carefully calibrated equipment, and sometimes they would unexpectedly drop hunks of steel 5 feet down to the floor. The factory’s signature device, meant to precisely stretch the steel for the artillery shells, instead often cracked it beyond repair. Then there were the giant press machines, which required regular pounding with a sledgehammer to function properly but still botched the shaping of nearly every shell. “We really didn’t have any standardized practice,” said Quantel White, a former employee. “It was just a bunch of guys taking turns going at the machine with a sledgehammer every night.” To workers, even the factory buildings themselves came to feel doomed, with acrid smoke hanging in 100-degree heat over foundations seemingly sinking into the earth.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Gambling apps partnering with news organizations are the natural endpoint of horserace journalism. What’s the point of a horserace if you can’t bet on it
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Asteria the Hag @asteriathehag.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Google Glass advertised this as the future of the tech in an extraordinarily creepy video. Years ago.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Hello, coming at you LIVE from the Patriot Games in Geneva Ohio, where I am one of maybe 500 people waiting to watch what appears to be American Ninja Warrior: Hunger Games Edition
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lbSterling @poundsterling.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I have never loved America more
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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Watch Duty right now app.watchduty.org
Watch Duty map of US showing the western half with flame icons.
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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
When you are defeated in the sense of “unable to achieve your goals” but not defeated in the sense of “unable to continue military operations” then you are perpetually “headed for defeat” until you decide to end it. That’s how you get forever wars.
In Iran, the U.S.
Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies
Fear
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lbSterling @poundsterling.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
No, there is no one besides SpaceX that can handle this launch cadence for any amount of money.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New post out on Weather West on the upcoming intense, double-peaked heatwave event in the Pacific Southwest. What are the (indirect) links to Hurricane Genevieve? (Substantial.) And also: will California see an uptick in wildfire activity? (Probably yes.)
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Building Western ridge will bring double-peaked Southwest U.S. heatwave into August, with elevated humidity persisting in SoCal due to very warm ocean - Weather West
July 28, 2026 - Daniel Swain - Continued ocean warming brings increasingly warm and humid conditions to coastal SoCal In recent weeks, the Pacific Ocean along the immediate Pacific Coast has continued to warm. Earlier this year, I mentioned that this was not yet due to El Niño because...well, El Niño had not developed yet (and was, instead, related to other patterns #
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 27/07/2026
Uh...wtf is a "grocery slowdown"? You mean people are buying less food because they can't afford to eat?
cnbc.com
U.S. grocery slowdown deepens as shoppers buy fewer items, raising pressure on food companies
New data shows sales declining, and the trend is forcing grocers and brands to compete harder on price and value.
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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
this has been created multiple time, but fails to go viral. It kills potential reposters too fast. Bot reposters may create a real "dead internet"
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
He’s still not over it…
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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 21/07/2026
The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches, they gave you a bigger shovel. - Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
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lbSterling @poundsterling.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Very excited to see a notification saying the saber I'd ordered last month had arrived, only to be devastated the moment I saw the box. I have no idea how they did it, but they shipped me just the D guard and handle, no blade! How do you fuck that up?!? #armstreet #hema #saber
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lbSterling @poundsterling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"Verify your age" I remember installing windows95 from 3.5 inch floppies
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Is there anybody going to listen to my story All about the gull who came to stay
Our cat Jim meets Rod Gull, the most greedy and thuggish herring gull in our neighbourhood, who popped into my wife's craft room to knock a few things over just for the hell of it.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
that's it, I'm done. finished with this. someone fly me to another planet abcnews.com/US/white-hou...
abcnews.com
White House teleprompter operator made more than $100K betting on Trump's speeches: Sources
President Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on the contents of Trump's speeches, sources say.
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lbSterling @poundsterling.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The back room of any store that sells Magic cards.
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