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Rob Weir

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lotta computers, lotta problems

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10/09/2026
Semaphore xkcd.com/3295/
Comic. [Two identical machines face each other with a gap between them. Each is mounted on a box with a cable connecting it off-panel, webcams pointed at each other, and two flags at different angles that can move.] [caption] Networking tip: Separate sensitive components with a semaphore gap.
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Martin Heneghan @martinheneghan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He’s been prime minister for five minutes and he’s already playing with the emergency alert.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 11/08/2026
Trick Play xkcd.com/3282/
Comic. [diagram of a football field with people on each team represented as O or X. Arrows and dotted lines between players indicate passing or dribbling, but at one point a player simultaneously passes to two different players who both shoot at the goal; the goalie can only defend against one.] [caption] The math department team’s opponents hate it when Banach passes to Tarski.
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Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🎼this is all my fault
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
in tears at the guy throwing down the kangaroo after that PK
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/06/2026
Sports Commentary xkcd.com/3262/
Comic. [A person and a second person with a ponytail sitting at a table with a screen showing a soccer game behind them.] PERSON 1: They could be in trouble. Over the last 36 years, they’ve gone 0 for 2 when they’ve scored in the 37th minute to lead 2-1 against a team whose country comes before theirs alphabetically. [caption] I wish sports commentators hadn’t discovered p-hacking.
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I encourage all foreign followers I have to read this, knowing that you will be totally unable to discern anything about its true cultural significance. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
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Masked band TISM stung with $18,000 Sydney Opera House fine
The anarchic, ARIA-winning group have been stung with an $18k fine by the Sydney Opera House as they announce their first national tour in more than 30 years.
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Mariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
AGE 12: Fell off of bike at high velocity onto gravel road, biked 5 miles home. AGE 45: Used wrong pillow, back was nonfunctional for two days.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/05/2026
Artist Profile: Noah Kahan theonion.com/artist-profile-noah-ka…
Influenced By: Growing up listening to oldies like Hozier and Bon Iver
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Thinking back to one of the greatest hater editorials of all time, along with its sheepish correction (49 years later): 🧪https://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/1920editorial-full.pdf
His Plan Is Not Original. 

That Professor GODDARD, with his "chair" in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react --to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out dally in high schools.JULY 17, 1969: On Jan. 13, 1920, Topics of The Times, an editorial- page feature of The New York Times, dismissed the notion that a rocket could function in a vacuum and commented on the ideas of Robert H. Goddard, the rocket pioneer, as follows: "That Professor Goddard, with his 'chair' in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react - to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." Further investigation and experimentation have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th century and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well as in an atmosphere. The Times regrets the error.
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lynn @chordbug.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
highly unfortunate max-width on this div
"copy your public key" from digitalocean wizard but the command is cut off at a point where it looks like a command that would copy your private key
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/04/2026
As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free
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Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
inside pitchfork are two not-that-different wolves
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2026
Artemis II lifts off
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Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
why they are all called Milton
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
"My name may be forgotten when it comes, but the time will arrive when great outbreaks of cholera will be things of the past. And it is the knowledge of the way in which the disease is propagated which will cause them to disappear" Happy birthday to John Snow! His name & his work is not forgotten.
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Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
release the other 48 states, sufjan stevens
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
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Rob Frightcis @robertfrancis.co.uk · 22/11/2025
Southampton thrashing Charlton Athletic.
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Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
They didn’t like it, but they had to go along with it.
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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 20/10/2025
'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Cloud Provider Region Where This Regularly Happens
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Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
extremely exciting to see Labour doing a worse job pushing ID cards than the imaginary Labour did in the first episode of series two of Stephen Fry and John Bird’s underrated Absolute Power
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Absolute Power - S2E1 - Identity Crisis
Dailymotion video by muriloethelyn9298
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers
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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Why have no representatives of the company director community come out and publicly condemned this vile attack? It's because of one simple and inescapable fact: company directors hate Britain. They should all be forced to swear allegiance to King and country or face deportation
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 23/05/2025
"I couldn’t possibly know what works best in an office building that I never intend to have to be in, but I can tell you what looks good, and that’s a large space filled with miserable people."
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I’m the Person Who Designs Open-Plan Office Spaces, Despite Never Having Actually Worked in One
I’m the person who designs offices that have no walls or sound barriers so you have a tighter sense of community while you and your coworkers shout...
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 09/08/2024
Not to take anything away from a smart, effective interviewer, but: the reason Isaac Chotiner is so feared is because he prepares for the interview and asks follow-up questions, techniques that make him like unto a cat on an island of flightless birds
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/03/2025
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Fact check: Liberals say that Trump is like Hitler but Trump is only planning a reich that lasts 100 years.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/02/2025
yep
Musk’s total idiocy is structural: it goes back to the very origin of the Greek term idiotes, a person who cannot understand the shared political life of the city. These people cannot understand that their wealth and power are not their sovereign creations but the shared product of the wider state and society that supports and sustains them. Cryptocurrency is the perfect embodiment of this structural misrecognition: its advocates say it represents wealth outside of the state and society, but its notional value is wholly determined by its price in fiat money, created and sustained by the state. (It also functions a lot like “race” and “IQ:” as a repository of social value that provides a haven from degradation, but I’ll address that another time.) Here’s the thing: They can only see corruption around them because they are wholly corrupt.
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Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I cannot wait for some future Snowdon-esque leak to reveal that the entire game War Thunder was an intel op by a non-aligned power to exploit the overinflated egos and weird boosterism of service members at permanent UN Security Council members.
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The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Post-Culture Review @PostCultRev

ORSON WELLES: This Super Mario, he is the true exemplar of the "holy fool." He does not truly love, he does not even think, he is purely devoted to a false ideal

INTERVIEW: And Luigi?

ORSON WELLES: I met him at a party once and he struck out with Anne Bancroft. Horrid little man.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Could Donald Trump be a moderating influence on an Elon Musk presidency?
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Love Actually (2003) is a beloved Christmas classic but what many fans don’t realise is that the country it’s set in, “England”, wasn’t just made up for the film - it actually exists! It has a population of 69 million people and its chief export is gas turbines.
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Raven of the Omens @ostentatiouscorvid.northsky.social · 15/12/2024
He's trading his goods He's living in Ur His copper is suspect Claims one customer Ea-Nasir is coming to town
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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
"What do you mean the sign about looking upon my works and despairing is still standing??? No! That's the worst possible - if the *works* are gone but the sign is still up then I'm gonna look like a fucken dickhead! Why didn't you make the works out of the same shit you made the sign out of?!"
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Frances Robinson @francespurple.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
It's revenge bedtime procrastination o'clock! My new Substack is up, including panto (love), Octonauts (like) and Julia Donaldsons (meh): open.substack.com/pub/squareey...
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Advent Horizon: Time to Stay In and Watch TV
Christmas specials – are they actually special?
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
not rid me of this meddlesome priest or go kill that priest, but we are inviting the last guy who killed a priest to a party
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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
A while ago, I made this meme after reading a book about the history of Project OXCART and the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
Left: Buff Doge as SR-71 Blackbird in flight. Captioned with: "I can cruise for extended periods at over 3 times the speed of sound in the stratosphere and withstand temperatures that would melt lesser machines"
Right: Cheem as SR-71 Blackbird on the ground. Captioned with "I need special runway that don't five me RESONANCE", "plz vacuum my runway b4 i use evrytiem", "no splashi with tapwater, only distilled", "no rouch me with cadmium, it hurt", "feed me special fuel", and "im LEAKING"
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mave @mave.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Don’t be discouraged if you didn’t get it all done this week. The emails can wait. The laundry will keep. The strange, glowing orb hovering silently in your living room isn’t going anywhere either
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Lydia Kauppi @lydiakauppi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Big fan of whatever is happening here
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Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
he’ll call app Britain
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
As a wealthy pundit living in an affluent suburb of a coastal city, I feel that it's my duty to explain to my middle-class readers in flyover country how regular Americans feel about things.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Yoon Suk Yeo has learned his lesson by Susan Collins
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onion person @junlper.beer · 02/12/2024
oh no where are divorced guys going to invent new slurs at now
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London Reconnections @lonrec.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
It's that time of year again, and so here is the 2024 London Reconnections Christmas Quiz! ❄️🚇🎄 www.londonreconnecti...
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The 2024 London Reconnections Christmas Quiz - London Reconnections
The leading source for independent news and analysis about transport in London and beyond. Award-winning coverage of transport infrastructure and politics alongside stories about the history of the Capital's transport networks.
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catren parker dot come @jon-snow-420.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Jafar: guards! seize him! Jason Statham VO: that was Jafar. grand vizier, plonker, and weirdo. I knew he was a real bastard, but as I was about to discover, he was also a cunt
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Wake up babe a new "I called your tailor" dropped
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
He forgot the first rule: don't get high on your own supply www.economist.com/briefing/202...
Chart by The Economist showing tweets by Elon Musk from 2014 to 2024, by time of day. There is a considerable increase in volume after he bought Twitter at the end of 2022, and fallow periods throughout the day seem to dwindle
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