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maker of things, designer of experiences, science and tech researcher, collaborator. working on increasing collective survivability. (tinkerkid in other spaces)

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
today’s soundtrack williambasinski.bandcamp.com/album/the-di...
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The Disintegration Loops - Arcadia Archive Edition, by William Basinski
9 track album
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My latest for @newscientist.com
Two scientists walk past numerous enormous shelves, each divided into sections containing a huge array of weird items. One says:
“We still don't know what any of this is, where it came from, or what it does, but you have to admit we've shelved it all beautifully.”
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
I shouldn’t be this emotional about a city deciding hey maybe kids shouldn’t starve all day Like how low is the bar. Anyway, thankful to the people who fought for this.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...
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Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]
Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 05/09/2026
Here's a great test for whether "commercial off the shelf" (COTS) software is actually COTS: Do they list the price prominently on their website? If yes, it's probably COTS. If no, it it's just three raccoons in a COTS trench coat.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Across this singular 11 day mini-lab, we invite participants to finally get around to watching the precise and generously observed body of work from Frederick Wiseman.... The city becomes a living classroom for thinking about observation, civic engagement, and documentary practice."
uniondocs.org
UnionDocs – Wiseman’s New York
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“On the Bauhaus campus in Weimar, Opposite Office has installed a micro-architecture in a tree from which they will be working” www.domusweb.it/en/news/gall...
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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Red panda rendezvous
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“… and a million other things that I probably haven’t even noticed but are giving professional typographers aneurysms as we speak.” gizmodo.com/instagrams-n...
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Instagram's New Wordmark Couldn't Be a Better Metaphor for Tech
Hey Meta AI, can you design me nine of the most soulless glyphs the world has ever seen?
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 12/08/2026
Solar eclipse today. Save your eyes from the sun.
A city. There is a solar eclipse in the sky. The sun is using its one muscular arm to throw trident rays at the earth. Eyes with legs run in the other direction. One shouts, "Run, Jerry! It's got a trident!"
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“In this exhibition, handwritten reflections by shelter residents and frontline staff are translated onto upcycled aluminum street signs fabricated by the Department of Transportation’s Sign Shop.” storefront.nyc/program/publ...
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Storefront for Art and Architecture
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Olalekan Jeyifous just opened an exhibit of speculative archival remnants at the Walker. From a location “[n]either utopian nor dystopian, the enclave emerges from the histories of the Mississippi River yet exists outside of fixed time… as a keeper of ecological, spiritual, and industrial memory”
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Olalekan Jeyifous: Hydricosmic Litanies
Olalekan Jeyifous's new exhibition, which takes inspiration from the Mississippi River and the novel The Famished Road by Ben Okri, treats the river as a site and symbol of memory, transformation, and...
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Seattle-based (very good coffee company) Caffe Vita is donating 10% of all orders made through Sunday to fighting wildfires in the Pacific Northwest www.caffevita.com
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Caffe Vita Coffee Roasting Co.
Independent and locally owned coffee roaster since 1995. Our coffee is always fresh and hand-roasted on site at one of our three roasteries in Seattle, Brooklyn, and Phoenix.
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Networks of New York was a great book the first time it was published. Looking forward to @lifewinning.com’s soon-to-be-released updated version. Her work has always been relevant to our sociotechnical worlds, and become even more so over time… networksofny2026.bigcartel.com/product/netw...
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Networks of New York, 2026 Edition (PRE-ORDER)
SHIPPING SEPTEMBER 2026! Networks of New York is a book by me, Ingrid Burrington. It helps readers identify indicators of physical internet and telecommunications infrastructure in New York City. Usin...
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
stumbled on a streaming program described as "team investigates disturbing reports of aggressive mutant sharks in the Marshall Islands, exploring whether the region's atomic past is to blame." / we appear to have reached the 'nuclear history, but make it shark week' phase of popular culture.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Kio Stark @kiostark.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Come join me and @erikahall.bsky.social on Friday, August 14 to learn about why and how you should talk to strangers! tl;dr it's good for you, it's good for the world, and it's not as hard as you think. www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-tal...
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How to Talk to Strangers
There are 8 billion new friends out there. Or at least encounters that can make memories and good stories. And that’s all life is, really.
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Kelli Anderson on her next transformative project, This Book is a Record Player kellianderson.com/newsletter/r...
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This Book is a Record Player — Kelli Anderson
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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Just 340 days until the women’s world cup begins
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 16/06/2026
New virtual event! 250 Years of Resistance Join @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social and @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation about the inspiring history and extraordinary capacity of ordinary people to resist and organize for a better world. Friday, July 3rd Live from Chicago Get tickets:
events.haymarketbooks.org
Register now – 250 Years of Resistance: Brian Jones and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in Conversation – National Public Housing Museum (919 South Ada Street))
250 Years of Resistance: Brian Jones and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in Conversation – National Public Housing Museum (919 South Ada Street)), Fri Jul 3, 2026 - Take a break from the bizarre and depressin...
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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Meet Enoki!
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It is absolutely nuts and absolutely true.
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
“In this framework lies an argument for self-representation — artist and community-led exhibitions that offer nuanced and instructive dialogues about a region too long defined by outside eyes.” www.hcn.org/articles/oke...
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O’Keeffe Country was never O’Keeffe’s to begin with - High Country News
Indigenous Tewa artists reassert their relationship with the land in a new exhibition at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Did you miss Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 20 this winter? One more chance! This Friday evening at the Roxie in SF. Join me to talk back to the screen. sfdocfest2026.eventive.org/schedule/69a...
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25th San Francisco Documentary Festival
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a libi rose from the dead 👻 @rose-alibi.interferencer.com · 15/05/2026
hey! as I try to figure out an install party for the MAL in the fall, I'm looking for women and non-binary folks in the Denver/Boulder area who are Linux users and would be comfortable helping people install Linux. introductions via DM appreciated... 🌈
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“There’s a very famous saying in Montana that ‘Whiskey’s for drinking and water’s for fighting,’ and when you take water that you’re not entitled to, that’s a big deal here,” said Posewitz. www.hcn.org/articles/the...
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The billionaires’ club at the center of America’s public lands fight - High Country News
A controversial land swap orchestrated by the mega rich could be ‘a harbinger of what’s to come’ for public lands under Trump.
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
15 or so years after listening to kesha on nearly endless repeat first inexplicably got me through a super long, hard work day / listening to kesha on nearly endless repeat is again / working. #thingsThatMeasureTheDay
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Jem Cohen, one of the most thoughtful and beautiful filmmakers of our time, is teaching a weekly online workshop may 10-24 : www.littlevalleyschool.org/workshop#dat...
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Online Arts Workshops | Little Valley School
Enrollment now open for Little Valley School's month-long virtual workshops where forward-thinking artists challenge participants to reevaluate their habits, perspectives, and practice.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
It’s a world of mixed expertise and ai has made dunning Kruger a social contagion.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 17/04/2026
Apparently a record number of scientists are getting into politics, which is very good, but my questions are: How many of them are good at science communication, and how many of them are highly trained in the social implications of their fields? Because those are all different kinds of training.
nature.com
‘Science needs defending’: record number of researchers run for office in US mid-terms
Many Democrats making the switch to politics are motivated by the Trump administration’s cuts to science — whereas energy and AI are a pull for some Republicans.
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School for Poetic Computation @sfpc.study · 15/04/2026
What does it mean to reclaim what was already taken under racial capitalism? Join us for Stealing Back the Archive, a critical theory class focused on bootlegging across colonial & digital histories. ▬ W/ Kandis Williams & Jaylyn Glasper Apply by 04/27: sfpc.study/sessions/sum...
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jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Mail art club is happening! Resist despair! Practice wonder! Subscribe and get art & letters from @patriciogv & me every month 💌
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
your three-bun moment of calm
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is a really big deal.
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
the best news. (via @jaykaydee.bsky.social )
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Dr. Iris Long died yesterday at the age of 91. It’s unlikely that you’ve heard of her. But she was the one who taught ACT UP members how to teach themselves the science. She created ACT UP’s drug tracking procedures, & she invisibly influenced much of today’s grassroots community health advocacy. +
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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1846
Paddington in Throne of Blood (1957)
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 07/04/2026
I will go to my grave hollering IF YOU TEACH PEOPLE WELL WHILE TREATING THEM WELL THEY CAN LEARN
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/03/2026
If you're interested in historical drones, I've got a whole article series going on the ancient history of drone tech.... little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-three-dr...
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The Three Dreams You Need to Make a Drone: Preface
To build new technology, we must imagine it first. Every technological marvel that humanity has ever come up with came into being by this process of imagination, of both individual and collective musi...
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Cressa Maeve Áine @beeragon.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Hi! I don't think Toho has a bsky so I'll post it - my first commissioned work for all the official Godzilla channels and I handmade everything that isn't a toy. Enjoy xo
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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1824
Paddington in Fitzcarraldo (1982)
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School for Poetic Computation @sfpc.study · 10/03/2026
Gather in-person with the School for Poetic Computation for one- & two-day workshops that bring our study into shared space! ✿ Consensual Hacking w/ Melanie Hoff ◻︎ Counterveillance w/ American Artist ✴︎ How to Find What You’re Looking For w/ Sam Lavigne & Maura Brewer Sign up: sfpc.study
Horizontal neon yellow and blue starburst poster reading "Spring Workshops 2026" in the center, with "In-person," "School for Poetic Computation," "April," and "NYC" spaced around the star-shaped border.
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/02/2026
Thread!
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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Some reflections and process on working with our Advisory Group on Design and Disability - “generative friction” and how we meet to create access and ideas. www.vam.ac.uk/blog/project...
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Design and Disability advisory group process • V&A Blog
One of the key phrases that is central to disability politics is ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’, and as an exhibition that firmly aimed to place disabled culture and identity at its core, it was...
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
radio mixtape from the composer of Cowboy Bebop www.nts.live/shows/guests...
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Yoko Kanno 13th February 2026
Playing Soul, RNB, Classical. Beloved Japanese soundtrack composer Yoko Kanno, famed for her jazz scores on series like Cowboy Bebop and Wolf’s Rain selects an hour of music for NTS, from French class...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 31/01/2026
the only opsec thoughts I will share on the timeline are: everyone’s needs vary because people face different risks. feel free to ignore anyone telling you there’s only one way, and take a little time to threat model your own situation. more here: freedom.press/digisec/blog...
Five questions for risk assessment
A risk assessment, or threat model, helps you identity your digital assets and create a plan to keep them safe. Knowing what you're facing is key to ensuring you have the appropriate safeguards in place. Risk assessments change depending on your context, which makes them a great place to start when working on a new story.
Start here
• Ask yourself these five questions (remix to suit your needs):
• Assets: What am I protecting?
• Adversaries: Who am I protecting my assets from?
• Adversary's assets: What might they be capable of?
• Likelihood: How big of a risk is this to me now, based on who I am in the world?
• Your resources: What can I do to protect myself?
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s. @sew.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
watching the entirety of Andor season 2 (for the first time) on january 5-6, 2026, is a complicated choice / (and it turns out to feel like a choice of hope). #thingsThatMeasureTheDay
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
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Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
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