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AKA Brian. Middle aged he/him geek in Tucson. Not tall. Now works as low-level cog in prison-industrial complex. Blogs: randomgeekery.org Toots: masto.hackers.town/@randomgeek Married to bsky.app/profile/iammrsgeek.bsky.so…

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Throwback to when I put Trainspotting quotes on the Obi Wan Kenobi show
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 30/09/2026
we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone
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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm just glad Lil Bub isn't around anymore to see what they've done to her Internet.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have literally seen dudes tailspin because of a super-casual "Pretty rapey/racist/weird/etc., dude." from a friend. Fuck some girl/brown person and their dumb opinions, they don't care about us. But they are 100% not prepared to hear it coming from you.
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Samantha Soma @sisoma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sharing, with deep appreciation to @randomgeek.bsky.social, who unearthed this Jerry Van Amerongen classic that’s been apparently haunting us both for years and years.
B/W cartoon panel of a woman holding a pan, looking expressionlessly at her male partner who is repeatedly slamming a can of soup against the counter, disgregarding the can opener immediately to his left. He is wearing a buttondown shirt with two pens in the chest pocket, indicating his technical prowess in other areas. 

Text reads: Cohabitation Axiom No. 6: The less it appears you know how to do, the less you’ll have to do.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, working at a desk. A brain next to her says, "We need to take breaks!"
The second panel zooms in on Sarah's face. She is annoyed. She says, "What if I don't listen to you?"
The third panel shows the brain smiling.
The fourth panel shows the brain reaching towards a lever. The brain says, "I'LL MAKE YOU."
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Skooma Cat @madorilynx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lol, theres a burnt down Carl’s Jr here in Tucson, look what they did to the sign.
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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Adventure (1980, Atari 2600) That led to D&D and many other RPGs, programming, art, world building, etc etc (I was already hyperliterate Tolkien kid so it was inevitable, but finding a secret door in Adventure was the triggering event)
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DK Liao @chosenconcept.dev · 16/09/2026
PSA: my vector graphics library for Godot and Unity is currently free on itch. I’m in desperate need of feedbacks please do try it out! #gamedev #indiedev #godot #unity3D
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I would literally not be who I am now if I hadn't watched Aeon Flux/The Maxx.
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Cyannabelle 💙 @cyanschism.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
yoooo i tamed a crow
a screenshot of minecraft in which a crow is sitting on the player's shoulder
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Friends! Can I ask you a favour? My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low. Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends? jerthorp.me/learning
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LEARNING | jerthorp
Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding. Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026
Great piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on how the effective altruism cult has helped destroy actual philanthropy - with dangerous and deadly results for many people in need:
realtimetechpocalypse.com
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 16/09/2026
ooh, I like this take - all the elements are present, so call it what it is: not liminal (which was never quite right, tbh), but gothic for a new generation of people who don’t remember why we built that shit in the first place, or what it was supposed to be *for*
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 13/09/2026
#OneThingIveLearned: Before I invest time / energy in an app, I've learned to always check under the hood first. Who is behind the app? Do they have a biz plan or sustainability plan? User docs? etc.
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Before I invest time in learning a new app, I look under the hood
I used to be much more spontaneous in jumping into new apps because they just looked too cool or useful or amazing. Now I tend to be more cautious and try to look under the hood first. Why? Because I've been burned way too often, spending a lot of energy and time learning how to use an app and integrate it into my life....only to have the developer abandon it after just a short time, find out that it doesn't live up to the shiny window dressing, find out that the company is just luring in as man...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 08/09/2026
Here is our draft definition of 'artificial intelligence' from 1981. It was written by a lovely human.
Index card with Merriam-Webster's draft definition of 'artificial intelligence' from 1981
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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Do you understand how angry it makes me that I, certified cynical disaffected directionless latchkey kid Gen-X youth of the late 20th Century, have been looking back wistfully at the 1990s as a more innocent time?
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Dani Fiend 👹 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Whenever a beloved celebrity dies, I check to make sure they weren’t transphobic. Gloria Steinem went from Transsexual Empire-inspired transphobia in the 70s to full support in later life. Heroes change their opinions when they realize they’re wrong. www.transgendermap.com/issues/topic...
Anti-trans views and reconsideration
In February 1977, amid increasing anti-trans sentiment surrounding transgender athletes in general and Renée Richards in particular, Steinem published an anti-trans article titled
"If the Shoe Doesn't Fit, Change the Foot." Steinem claimed "transsexuals are paying an extreme tribute to the power of sex roles. In order to set their real human personalities free, they surgically mutilate their own bodies..." Steinem also embraced the conspiracy theory of "the transsexual empire" promoted by Janice Raymond.
In 2013, Steinem addressed z "words circulated out of time and context" from those previous writings:
So now / want to be unequivocal in my words: / believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make. And what / wrote decades ago does not reflect what we know today as we move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of identity and expression.
In 2021, Steinem signed an open letter supporting trans women and girls, saying, "I am proud to sign this letter because we all must fight against the unnecessary barriers placed on trans women and girls by lawmakers and those who co-opt the feminist label in the name of division and hatred."
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that genehack guy from that dead bird site @extremely.website · 30/08/2026
NEW ON genehack.blog: Weeknote #100 (20260823-20260829) genehack.blog/2026/08/weeknote-100-…
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Weeknote #100 (20260823-20260829)
trip digits ahoy
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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
catching up on US politics "Lake America?" what do I do with the HOMES mnemonic HAMES? no that doesn't work SHAME aw hell
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
When I was a kid there was a popular series of history books that were like 90% cutaway illustrations like this of castles, temples, tombs, etc. Oh MAN I have not had that weird itch scratched in ages.
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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
youtu.be/M1_CLW-NNwc?... what do you MEAN this video is 17 years old
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OK Go - A Million Ways
YouTube video by OKGoVEVO
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There seems to be a clear status association with food types in the Homeric epics, in which unlike real Greeks, the epic heroes never eat fish, and only really talk heavily about roasted meats. Archaeologist Flint Dibble calls this 'food porn' for listeners. penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Jou...
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Homeric Heroes and Fish — Classical Journal 12:328‑330 (1917)
Brief note by John A. Scott: Homer was from Smyrna, where fish is not good. Part of a very large site on ancient Rome.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I have not been able to read my full timeline in a while but I see today is an excellent day to remind people that "social media addiction" is a made up thing and accepting that framing and using that term is actively harmful www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Overestimates of social media addiction are common but costly - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Overestimates of social media addiction are common but costly
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Jenn @geekgalgroks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'm watching Rocky Horror with the audio description on and holy fuck I didn't realize how many small visuals I was missing.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Well, How 'Bout That?
Alt: Dr Frankenfurter saying, "Well, How 'Bout That?"
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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
They want me to wear a tear-away lanyard at work for safety but I try to wear tear-away pants and they get all mad.
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Tormund Giantsbane from Game of Thrones
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Published in the Boston Globe a few weeks before ChatGPT was released in 2022.
I tell my students that writing — in the classroom, in your journal, in a memo at work — is a way of bringing order to our thinking or of breaking apart that order as we challenge our ideas. We look at the evidence around us. We consider ideas we disagree with. And we try to bring a shape to it all. Sometimes my students see the process differently. They see writing a paper as a hoop they are being asked to jump through, a way for me to evaluate them and pronounce them successful or not. In other words, they see writing solely as a product. If the end point rather than the process were indeed all that mattered, then there might be good reason to turn to GPT-3. But if, as I believe is the case, we write to make sense of the world, then the risks of turning that process over to AI are much greater.
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Tom Brazelton @tombrazelton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
There’s a gas station near where I work where one of the employees calls everyone “boss” and his name tag reads “Old Man Dan.” He is awesome. That is all.
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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Magickal girl
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Inbal Breda @greyannis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Might as well post it here! A magical girl animation I've been slowly chipping at over the weekends for ages.
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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
current activity: making banana bread current status: surfaces are clean; I am covered in flour
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 06/08/2026
Today’s #Yardbug nearly gave me a heart attack when she unexpectedly landed beside me on the deck - but she’s just a moth. An enormous, terrifying, harmless moth.
She was longer than my thumb, I shit thee not. This is an American hornet moth, a mimic that can be a problem when its a larval thing - as the caterpillars bore into some native trees, and a bad one infestation can kill one - but this is the only one I’ve ever seen in my yard, and I think she’s magnificent. She was very chill, so I got a little closer for this pic. I love her fuzzy little body, which you can’t see without a macro. An excellent job of mimicry indeed!Same creature from underneath - she looks like an enormous black and white hornet, but as you can see from this angle, she has no actual stinger.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"We may think companies are immoral, but that’s because we assume they are coldly dedicated to their bottom line, not making billion dollar decisions based on something someone sent them on Facebook."
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We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/07/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Jingo
The crowd looked at the last melon. They were street people. They knew the score. When the object can be under one of three things, and it’s already turned out not to be under two of them, then the one place it was certainly not going to be was under the third. Only some kind of gullible fool would believe something like that. Of course there was going to be a trick. There always was a trick. But you watched it, in order to see a trick done well.
Lord Vetinari raised the melon nevertheless, and the crowd nodded in satisfaction. Of course it wasn’t there. It’d be a pretty poor day for street entertainment if things were where they were supposed to be.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 17/07/2026
A glass door with a hand-lettered sign reading:

NO!!!
SOLICTATION!!!
except Tamale lady
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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“Millennial grey” is an alien with stocking cap, eco-friendly flying saucer, and an impressive vinyl collection. I am accepting no other interpretations.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
short version: the best version of Robin Hood ever put on screen is effectively a gay shakesperean proto-furry. oo-de-lally!
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Wrong turn (1/3)
Page 1 of comic. A village of alien denizens on a planet with a massive black hole in place of a sun. Narrative text reads: We were a peaceful folk. Every day, we’d rise and sing to our sun. Until one day…Page 2. Narrative reads: “It sang back.” A neon blue green comet flies out from the black hole, impossibly. The aliens stare up at the sky.
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Sarah Forde 🌙🪡 @sailorastera.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Happy anniversary of that time the post office asked me to provide evidence that my package was not delivered.
A series of photos of me pointing to places where packages could be like inside of a mailbox or on the front porch or in my hands except there is nothing there
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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Please hold. We are currently experiencing weather.
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David Rankin @asteroiddave.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Crazy ass storms rolling through Tucson. 81mph gust registered at the base. Haven't seen rain and wind like this since the 2021 season. Hello El Nino.
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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
On July 4th Americans celebrate the birth of Blonde Jesus with meat, trauma, dangerous explosions, and semiautomatic firearms, just like their messiah did to the poor and the dirty foreigners and especially the elite globali—hang on let me check my notes again
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Kinopio @kinopio.club · 02/07/2026
Add Due Dates to Cards with @ [New] Type @ to add due dates to cards. Reminders will be sent on the day of. Bring it all together by combining checkboxes, tags, @-user mentions, and due dates, to do full project management.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Efficiency, optimization, productivity: celebrated as universal goods. These ideas are especially influential in economics, engineering, and computer science. But what if they reshape our systems and lives in ways we rarely notice? 🧵
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 18/06/2026
Sludgineers is an oddly satisfying active incremental game about cleaning up pollution #Sludgineers #IndieGame #Demo #Unity
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Sludgineers is an oddly satisfying active incremental game about cleaning up pollution
Like chilled-out games? How about incrementals where you keep upgrading through a vast tech-tree and get to clean up various location? Sludgineers is for you.
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Modrinth @modrinth.com · 09/06/2026
⭐ Featured projects ⭐ 🫨 Crash in style with Sable-powered ragdoll physics! 🎴 Collect cards with your favorite Cobblemon! 💐 Bring a flowery flourish to your GUI! 🔦 Combine your beacons for a bigger beam! ...and a few more modrinth.com/collection/rGtanKpz
A Minecraft player model has been rag dolled, and is slowly falling into a hole.A screen reads Booster Opened! Press ESC to receive your cards. Below are cards with images of pokemon.A image of a Minecraft player inventory screen with blue flowers. Text in the GUI reads "East Penguin. Get on Modrinth."A square of Minecraft Beacons have been placed in series with one giant beam being emitted.
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Pixel Prophecy @pixelprophecy.com · 07/06/2026
Painted this #Minecraft fanart on my phone in the café just now! 🦄✨️ #digitalart #art #noAI
Photo of a phone with stylus shpwing the
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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I got the Nineten of Sowrds. Is that good?
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Jacob Graveison @jacobdavison.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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