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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It would’ve been better to just cave from the get-go. Vacillating back and forth like this makes these broadcasters look even more feckless and unsteady than we’d suspected they were www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...

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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)

The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 18/09/2026

I am raising funds for a South Minneapolis family in need. They owe $1800 in back rent, and every bit helps! Can we make this happen for them today? We keep us safe. I believe in us! V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and help if you can! Thank you 💛

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?

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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows

The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.

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Old Splooky 👻 @phoopherah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It makes absolutely no difference that he or the gov candidate say this shit out loud. It doesn't matter if they genuinely believe it or not. It *will not* garner them more votes from the Texas right, no matter what. All it does is endanger our trans siblings and keep leftists politically homeless.

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 04/09/2026

It seems more and more like the Lord of the Rings movies were luckily made at the exact right time to catch a convergence of high quality CGI and peak quality practical props and effects.

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CARROT @carrot-app.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I gotchu

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 25/07/2026

The Stanford Bunny 3d model is made up of 69,451 triangles. The Infocom in-joke number was 69,105 like "count leaves" in Zork. A difference of 346 triangles made us miss out on a silly running bit.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2026

It's just like MAGA, except it wants a more tolerant, egalitarian society, where everyone has healthcare and the material prerequisites of a life of dignity. I guess from the perspective of the theater critics in media, that difference is invisible.

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 22/06/2026

MOTORSLICE #1. This game is weird and wacky and amazing. Fight construction equipment with a chainsaw and traverse some kinda massive decaying industrial world with Mirror’s Edge like movement. youtu.be/vXs9541hFpA

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MOTORSLICE #1

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 24/05/2026

Rocket League Unreal Engine 6!!!

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 14/05/2026

“Choose Your Own Adventure” books were great prep for the LLM era. Consider your choices carefully. Some paths lead to treasure. Some lead to instant death.

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 15/04/2026

On a Mac: dash is the dash key en-dash is option+dash em-dash is shift+option+dash. I’m not going to stop using them just because AI follows good typesetting rules.

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puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

gem coop update #4: we have an experimental gem source with a 48-hour cooldown built in! there's also updates on what non-gem-coop stuff we've all been up to, as well. gem.coop/updates/4/

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We’re excited to introduce gem.coop – a new server for gems in the Ruby ecosystem. We aim for fast, simple hosting, that is compatible with Bundler but optimized for the next generation. It’s built fo...

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 08/01/2026

It sure would be nice if I could setup spam rules for text messages. Like if the message contains any Unicode font shenanigans: 🚮. Or the phrase “chip in”

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 20/11/2025

The problem is undocumented immigrants you say? So document them bestie. Imagine if the ICE budget was applied to immigration applications and review and heck why not help out the huge backlog of all court cases while we’re at it.

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 19/11/2025

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 16/11/2025

I guess a lot of PC gamers have really wanted a console all along, but only the right kind of console.

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 31/10/2025

What is it with political donation solicitation text messages obsession with the phrase “chip in”? Is that some thinktank script at work?

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AGTMADCAT 🇺🇳 @agtmadcat.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Love when @hankgreen.bsky.social makes a video screaming what I have screaming in my head. It's good to not feel so alone.

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Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

YouTube video by Hank Green

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

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puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade. Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more. You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...

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RubyGems.org | your community gem host

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 02/09/2025

My weekend project! Fun command line games and things starting off with the classic game of life. It was a good project to learn the bubbletea and lipgloss libraries from @charm.sh! github.com/sdball/funterm

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GitHub - sdball/funterm: Command line fun things to run in the terminal

Command line fun things to run in the terminal. Contribute to sdball/funterm development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 29/08/2025

If you see this, post something monochromatic

A photo of a tree top with every little branch covered in a transparent sheath of thin ice hanging upside down over a paved path.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Maybe it’s because I’m a state legislator, but I’m worried about the under reaction here. She didn’t spend the night on the House floor. She’s being DETAINED AGAINST HER WILL BY REPUBLICANS UNTIL SHE FOLLOWS THEIR ORDERS. This is 🦇 💩

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

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The Art of Asty @theartofasty.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 08/08/2025

C'mon Netflix I know you have the data.

A screenshot of a Netflix search with the query "What's a good action movie I haven't watched yet?" The search results are "Oh darn. We don't have that." and the suggestion to search for another movie, show, actor, director, or genre.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/08/2025

I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.

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Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.blacksky.app · 25/07/2025

43 hours to raise $8,205 dollars to publish the first All-Black Women Fantasy graphic novel anthology. Omg I can feel it, please share, boost and support this groundbreaking campaign #sdcc #indiecomics #blerd

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 24/07/2025

“Won’t that be grand? (sarcasticly) Computers and programs will start thinking and the people will stop.” TRON, 1982

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 21/07/2025

The real vibing in vibe coding is being done on the AI side as it generates responses that try to best fit the given prompt.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Our govt has disappeared a 82-year-old--decades after he fled torture from Pinochet's regime. He went to govt office for a new green card Then, nothing. "Inquiries to immigration officials, prisons, hospitals and even a morgue yielded no information. Leon’s name was not in ICE’s online database."

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 17/07/2025

The generational trauma meme but realizing the government is largely made up from the leftmost generation.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Imagine. If. Biden. Had. Done. This.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Do any of these reporters writing about how using the a/c is bad for the environment want to write about AI instead or

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I am really glad—truly—that more outlets are covering FEMA’s unacceptable response in Texas. But for my original reporting to receive ZERO acknowledgement (especially when I know many of these outlets originally declined to cover this story) is simply maddening. I would literally never do that.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I am going to be so fascinated to read the post-mortem about how a revolt lead by tech billionaires lead to a gutting of both scientific research, university education and immigrant labor, all key prerequisites to the very existence of their industries.

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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 02/07/2025

And hey we have minimum age requirements. How about we try some age limits? Maybe if you’re retirement age you gotta move on from representing.

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 02/07/2025

I am extremely over my government representation being entirely based on my geography. How about representatives based on demographics? On interests? On relevant commonalities?

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election. A new generation of leaders is here.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The game is not over, but the self-styled “world’s oldest democracy” has proven far from uniquely resilient; in many ways, it’s been the opposite. This democracy’s immune system has turned out to be shockingly weak.

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 27/06/2025

I firmly believe that LLMs are the tetraethyl lead of the 2020s like TEL was for the 1920s. Hopefully it won’t similarly take 50 years to stamp it out.

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