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Séamus Aran

@seamusaran.bsky.social
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Dad, ontolomancer, indoorsman

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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
❌ Screens instead of gauges ❌ Screens instead of buttons ❌ Cameras everywhere ❌ Always-connected cellular modem to exfiltrate your data Yeah I’ll pass. There is a tiny sweet spot where EVs existed but before all cars became panopticon boxes, and it’s like one Nissan Leaf from 2014
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Animal pharmaceutical company: This pill protects a dog’s heart. We’re calling it HeartGuard. Human pharmaceutical company: This pill protects a person’s heart. We’re calling it xXanserajazz.
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The millennial urge to read in a nook
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A one-act where a trio of theater majors talk endlessly about staging Chekhov’s “Three Sisters”, but never actually do
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Footlong meatball on Italian, provolone, toasted, lettuce and oil & vinegar. Copied this order from my best friend at camp in 5th grade, been getting it for 30 years 🥲
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Car “safety features” in 2026: * Driver facing cameras * Various iterations of autopilot * OTA updates to your touchscreen infotainment system Car safety features I actually want: * Physical controls * No cellular modem * Forward visibility
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Donuts are so passé. We do Tire Hearts now
Tire skid marks on a road, in the shape of a heart with a half-circle arc around top
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you’re a nerd of a certain age then I think your gait was probably influenced by GTA
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Imagine hating an entire ethnicity lmao what the fuck is wrong with you
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The straights are, once again, not ok. Seriously the bar is on the floor for men. He did a lil cleaning MARRY HIM
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Nicky 2 @nickyflowers.com · 10/09/2026
every day there's some fucking shit
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Having a cuppa & watching #palmersfc highlights like it's 2017
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So, Quiznos and Blockbuster tonight?
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Context switching is the mind killer
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My new favorite theme park
A sign reading RESTLAND across the entrance to a graveyard
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Windscreen” vs. “windshield” neatly explains how connected British and American motorists feel to the world around them whilst driving
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.” - Stanisław Lem
hailey’s skeet about how people who resist AI are in for a “massive generational L” and I can just feel myself getting dumber even typing out those words
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New garage door openers are on WiFi now. If the internet is down your garage door won't open. So Spectrum decides if you can enter your house, and Spectrum customer service is an AI chatbot now... Like I cannot tell you how much this is exactly the plot of 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Love a good walk in the woods. Reminds you that none of this human drama matters at all. What matters is Bird Drama
A trail leading into a forest
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Another rare basketcase, way too close by for my own good. It’s a Staaaaag #triumph #weirdcarbs
A Triumph Stag sitting in an overgrown lot. It’s rusty, but top-down-patina rusty not bottom-up-compost rusty
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Was Bingo the name of the dog or the farmer though? A classic variable scoping problem
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Cloudy, breezy and 18°C / 64°F in northeast Ohio My favorite kind of weather is when wherever I am feels like Cape Breton in the fall
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I found him abandoned behind a gas station, poor lil guy 🥺🥺🥺 Of course I had to take him home! He’s getting along ok with the others. It’s just til I can rehome him #oldcarbs
A Mercedes-Benz W126 S-Class, a 560 SEL no less, rotting away amidst overgrown greenery in a broken down backlot
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My reference for network speed is and will always be our family's 56k modem from the '90s. So 3 KB/s is fine and 6 KB/s is blazing Which is nice, because even the terrible ssh speed of my farthest-from-the-access-point Raspberry Pi (~1.2 MB/s) still feels quick 20 years later
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
[ Lived in, born in, parents ]: 🇺🇸 Grandparents: 🇬🇧🇵🇱🇺🇸🇺🇸 Great-grandparents: 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇵🇱🇵🇱🇺🇸🇺🇸🇵🇱🇵🇱 First ancestor born in 🇺🇸: 1709 (Province of New York) Been to: 🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇩🇪
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Look at my touchscreens and engine covers Gd modern cars are so stupid. This is supposed to be a good one as well. Like I am biased to toward liking a sportwagon and I'm sure it's Very Fast but like. Where's the personality? Where's the beauty?
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Kindness is everything, sure. But health insurance would go a long way
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Whoever owns the American Queen Paddle Wheel in Cincinnati is an absolute tesseract of intersectionality
According to Google Maps, the American Queen Paddle Wheel identifies as Black-owned, veteran-owned, women-owned, Latino-owned, Asian-owned and LGBTQ+ owned
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I only care about tweets from one X and it's not that one #mrrogers
it's X the owl from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
As a software developer, is there anything better than deleting lines of code
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
#AI is just Kaonashi / No Face from Spirited Away It looks human but there's nothing beneath the mask. It eats until everything is consumed. It generates wealth but nothing of value is actually created If we're going to be saved, it will be as a girl's side quest while fixing her boomer parents
Kaonashi / No-Face from Spirited Away, standing mildly on a bridge
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Unfortunately my brain is the primary tool I have for fixing my brain and I'm sure you can see the problem here
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"If it's not a hell yes, it's a hell no" is a folksy way of saying "floor(truthiness)"
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I added a comment to the #fcc feedback form too. Absolutely bonkers.
An FCC "Express Comment" form with the following: A warning label for LGBT content is a ridiculous idea. If we're worried about a tiny minority of people being some kind of threat to the fabric of American society, maybe consider a warning label for content featuring billionaires.
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
On my lunch breaks I usually end up reading some bleak shit about technology. Then I go back to my job, using technology to make more technology.
grapheneos.social
GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)
Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API ar...
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
There's a certain kind of appropriative racism I'm going to dub "wiggotry"
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Relevant to my interests: '60s American cars on Enkeis
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
How many "flexible, no-code logic engines" will I personally work on at SaaS companies until MBA bros discover we're just repackaging the Warcraft III Trigger Editor? This has already been perfected
The WarCraft III Trigger Editor displaying a complex system of game logic including a main loop
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I love when people pronounce "robot" like ROW-butt. Sadly I've never heard "chatbot" pronounced "CHAT-butt", but I'm gonna start
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Sleep when the baby sleeps. Mow the yard when the baby mows the yard. Catch up on laundry when the baby catches up on laundry. Fix the broken dishwasher touch panel when
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
You know what's insane is that in many parts of the US it's illegal to run a grocery store within walking distance of houses. Allowing small-scale commercial use in residential areas would do so much good
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
No game will ever match the cozy ambiance of a rainy stage in #fftactics on #psx. It just won't happen.
Sweegy Woods in the rain from Final Fantasy Tactics for PSX
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
My toddler: Beep beep vroom vroom Me: Chugga chugga choo choo Toddler: [impressed] Me: Benefits of a classical education
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Where do conspiracy theorists buy that red string for their cork boards? Seems nice, a little stretchy, pleasant sort of texture to it
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The only good gachapon is Neko Atsume
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The Millennial dream of typing on a game controller #diy #electronics #keyboard #project
A disassembled remote for a Sony NSG-MR1, hooked up to an Arduino Mega and laptopThe remote for a Sony NSG-MR1, which is a full qwerty keyboard plus a bunch of navigation and media buttons. The whole thing is about 13cm wide.
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Not so much Lady Godiva, more Lady Boniva
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
When I ask "How can we fix it?" I don't mean "How do we prevent this from happening again?" I mean "How should we wrest power from the people who have no incentive to fix it?" and then the other thing
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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Donatello Member, Ninja Teams (1984 - present) · Does machines
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