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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's hilarious as a German-American in Germany when I blend in enough that I get to hear devastatingly fitting criticism of Americans

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just once, I'd love for an astropy feature to not feel like a monkey's paw bargain

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Last night a massive hornet got stuck in my home office and then vanished so now I'm wondering if there's a wormhole something worse

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GamesMarket @gamesmarket.global · 17/08/2026

Burn With Me by Munich studio @nozomugames.com will release on 12 October 2026. The game combines hand-drawn graphics with live-action hand movements, creating an eerie atmosphere. www.gamesmarket.global/burn-with-me...

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Burn With Me by Nozomu Games Releases October 2026

Burn With Me by Munich studio Nozomu Games will release on 12 October 2026. The game combines hand-drawn graphics with live-action hand movements, creating an eerie atmosphere.

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Remember when you were little and you messed up, saying "I didn't hit that button! I jumped!!!!" Well we at Sony decided to make that justified!

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Watch as suddenly a bunch of content / blogs go ascii-only for unclear "elegance" reasons.

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

NixOS rollback-ability is great, but it'd be nice if I could write some sort of personal test suite to know when something non-catastrophically breaks so I know immediately... instead of noticing my Rust environment is broken ten minutes before a Rust job interview :|

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Took a longer search than expected, but I FINALLY found our eclipse glasses

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Rolling a D20 for how Deutsche Bahn'd I get today XD

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My seat on this flight is gonna be without power.. okay I'll just read... all the books I want to read are mysteriously not opening correctly on my kindle lol.

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Makes me so happy that my new highest rated contribution to <other platform> is from sharing a physics fact. :)

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Weird when you see cruel people talk about kindness and cruelty in a way that shows they should know better. Like... do better then? Implement your ideas on the matter? It's like people have no self-reflection

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Fabian Pimminger @fabs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Wisst ihr noch bei diesem Netflix Film "Don't Look Up". Wo der Wissenschaftler im Fernsehen einen kompletten Breakdown hatte? Wir sind jetzt genau an dieser Stelle in der Story. Don't look up.

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Klub Kofta Studio @klubkofta.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A player found out the ACTUAL name of my game's upcoming character from the Google Search AI - I had NEVER told the name to anyone. The only place this info exists is inside my own Google Doc, and this was NOT me speaking to the AI! #GameDevs #GameDev #indiegamedev #indiegame #Google #GoogleAI

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm never superstitious but I make an exception for WiFi / cellular connections. Something ethereal is going on there

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CMU Mellon College of Science @cmuscience.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

As part of the @departmentofenergy.bsky.social Genesis Mission, CMU and @uwartsci.bsky.social are building AI-powered tools that unify astronomy data across major surveys, accelerating discoveries about dark matter, dark energy and the evolution of the universe. 🧪⚛️ #Cosmology

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Powering the Future of Cosmology With AI

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and partners at the University of Washington are collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on a new Genesis Miss...

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Crazy how much the experience requirements for software jobs are inflating as more engineers get laid off. What was once five years is now ten. What used to require bachelors wants masters and phd's

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Getting FOMO from my brother sharing all the cool stuff he's doing with his 3D printer

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"The moderation team will check your review and allow it to be posted if it meets our guidelines" Uhhh. I didn't write anything I just rated it on the scale you gave me...

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Womp womp. Not gonna be able to visit pgh this time around

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Tax stuff in Germany is scary to me because rather than forms saying "<Situation> applies to me" it's always like "<Law> <Section> <Paragraph> applies to me" and then it's good luck figuring it out.

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I always, always get reverse culture shock when I visit the USA again

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It never matters what you learned or how many textbooks use a given notation... the equations you see in the Wikipedia article will always be different

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I’m going home this weekend! I’ll be giving a (free and family friendly) talk about sharks and marine biology at the Pittsburgh zoo! Hope to see yinz there! www.pittsburghzoo.org/event/why-sh...

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Why Sharks Matter: How To Save Sharks and Why We Should - Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium

Sharks are some of the most misunderstood, most ecologically important, and most threatened animals in the world. Join Montgomery County resident and marine biologist Dr. David Shiffman to learn all a...

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

lmfao at this Oracle ATS that crashes when you have the word "Typescript" in your job experience text. ...mood tho...

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I love this job listing I found: Part-time, 6 months, requires "Extensive experience" in this knowledge domain they and their affiliates seem to have invented about a decade ago. When I see this I kinda wonder if it's one of those roles where they already know who they'll hire, but must be "fair"

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Sometimes a "batteries not included" API is like a toy with batteries not included. Other times it's like unshielded power lines hanging from the ceiling of a condemned building.

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CCC @ccc.de · 12/07/2026

When the web is written by „AI“ for „AI“, we’re losing both accuracy and humanity. That was not how it was meant to be. www.theregister.com/columnists/2...

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It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls

Bots, not people, are now the ones who use the internet the most

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

German Masters Program Admission Rejected. What's even the point

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I was _just_ starting to get myself to stop obsessively checking my job boards multiple times per day... and then yesterday I logged on to notice another job posted 2 hours before with only 6 hours left to apply. How in the world?

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So much of jobseeking these days seems to depend strictly on whether you can make it past the first mostly-automated filter. 😔

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What did Hubble see on your birthday? Love this tool - enter your birthday and see some images Hubble took on that day over the years. science.nasa.gov/specials/app... (not my 0th birthday of course, I am older than Hubble)

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Hubble Birthday App

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Don't watch anything that's been given just over three stars. It's the only way to avoid pi-rated content

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Why can't there be something like 'sacrificial anodes' for food?

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Finally _finally_ found an archived handbook containing at least a fraction of the documentation I need to make progress at last!

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If you start sending me a bunch of voice messages in the middle of a text conversation I'm just gonna assume you want the conversation to end

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 24/06/2026

No less than 60 million stars in one image. It's possible thanks to ESA's Euclid mission. For just one day, Euclid turned its gaze to the crowded heart of the Milky Way and captured the largest, most detailed photo ever taken of our galaxy's centre in visible light. Let's dive deeper 👇 🔭 🧪 ☄️ 1/8

A dense field of tiny stars fills this square image taken by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. The lower and central areas are dominated by bright yellow and gold colours, forming a textured background similar to fine glitter or sand. Dark brown and black patches cut irregularly through the yellow regions, like ink stains or clouds of smoke. Toward the upper left, the colours shift to purple and reddish tones, blending gently into the surrounding star field. Small blue points of light are scattered across the image.

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Does anyone else alternate their IDE font between 8pt and 16pt (or less extreme)?

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

aaaaand why exactly is this nixos package running a full test suite as a part of the routine process??

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Today I learned that apparently chrome's print menu unhelpfully deduplicates print ranges. Apparently a lot of apps do but I never knew because Gnome's print manager lets me do it

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Joshua Freudenhammer (rainybyte / jfreuden) @rainybyte.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

One of these days it won't take me 4 hours to write a letter / email. But today is not that day 😮‍💨

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