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Sir William

@sirwilliam.bsky.social
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Software engineer, bibliophile, & cat dad.

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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Walking around Chicago in the month of May
Aqua waves on Lake Michigan An urn full of flowers on a sunny day in Chicago’s Gold CoastA beautiful white and gray mottled pigeon Towers above Bughouse Square
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Himself
Siamese cat lounging in a high rise window
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Walking around Gold Coast today
A snowy churchyard viewed through a gothic archSnow in front of the Whitehall Hotel, Chicago Snow on the J's Dawg n Burger sign, Chicago
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Snow at 9⁰ falls as little crystals and glistens like gems.
View of snow falling on tall buildings in Chicago Gold Coast at nightCourtyard covered in snow
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The only thing that gives me solace at this moment in history is that everyone eventually dies.
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Saturday naps
Siamese cat sleeping in the sun
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Went for a walk last night
Chicago skyline including the Palmolive Building searchlight, above a snowy beach
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Bring back Technicolor.
On the set of Eggers Werewulf (2025) set in 13th c. England Maid Marian from Robin Hood (1938)Robin Hood (1938)Flight scene from Robin Hood (1938)
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Neon sign saying "Stop and Drink Liquor House"
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Window washers appear to be stuck
Window washers in a metal pod on a mechanical arm hanging over a city 60 floors upWindow washers in a metal pod on a mechanical arm hanging over a city 60 floors up
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Moonrise
Full moon over Lake Michigan, with Chicago high rise apartments in the foreground
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
That was an ok sunset
Sunset in Chicago
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The federal government is attacking US citizens in my town.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/10/2025
It's long past time for state and federal authorities alike to put an end to Stephen Miller's jerkoff fantasy of masked thugs kidnapping people of color off the street with impunity. Yes, there are Americans who want this. But they are a woefully small minority. Why are we still letting it happen?
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Trump is building a golden throne room with bribe money.
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
us-east-1 outage is like a national holiday
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Massive #nokings protest in Chicago today. So proud of this city.
A huge crowd of protesters on Michigan Avenue in Chicago
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Sunrise
Siamese cat sitting on a wind ledge with a sunrise over Lake Michigan in the background Sunrise over Lake Michigan
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 06/10/2023
Alien (1979): Cat box, art by Ron Cobb Flexible and adapted to living conditions in space, the Weyland cat box will make your feline friends' travels more pleasant, festive and warm.
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Night & day in Chicago IL
Sunset behind a skyscraperA black & purple butterfly in a sunny flower bad
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Any law that declares 11 million people living, working, raising families, and paying taxes "illegal" and deserving to be sent to concentration camps is genocidal and inherently a crime against humanity.
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Every artist is underrated.
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I once read how rainbows work but forgot the mechanics. This was a good one over Chicago today.
Rainbow over a cloudy Chicago skyline
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
For years, execs and managers were able to get away with pretending to do some kind of job - and AI has greatly accelerated their ability to pretend. Unfortunately, that led to garbage strategy and garbage execution. The "find out" phase of this AI-driven FAFO era is promising to be brutal.
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The AI Hangover Era (The Everything App Part 3)
Some leaders are starting to realize the extent to which AI has broken their ability to prioritize and ship value. Others are still doubling down.
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Writing code is such a small part of a software engineer's job if AI is a threat you're doing something wrong.
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I don't want immortality but I think it would be pretty cool to live around 300 years.
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Walking around in Rome
La Matriciana dal 1870, RomaMummified monks in Catacombe dei Cappuccini, RomaJewelbox bar at Palazzo Talìa, Roma Wine & oil shop in the rain, Roma
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
With @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social at St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia
Woman standing inside an Orthodox cathedral
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Spring time in Chicago
Blossoming trees in front of John Hancock Center Simon's TavernRed line station in the loopMansion in Gold Coast
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
It's easy to miss posts by your friends so I made a list of people I actually know. Expect me to like more of your unhinged opinions in the future.
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
My wife says the vampires in Sinners represent communists, who offer a post-racial society, but at a cost that the protagonist doesn't want to pay.
Screen cap from the movie Sinners showing the vampires waiting outside the speakeasy
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The perverse idea that computer science exists in some pure crystalline form outside human experience.
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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
A calculator that costs 1 trillion dollars, but it’s also wrong
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 30/04/2025
A bunch of tech CEOs are talking about being “AI-first”, the latest in a series of CEO fads like “return to office”, “founder mode” and “pivot to full fascism”. This one’s weird, though, because it only makes sense if… none of their workers are great at their jobs. anildash.com/2025/04/19/a...
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"AI-first" is the new Return To Office - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Denise Gough as Imperial Security officer Dedra Meero in the show Andor, over a HuffPost article about Pam Bondi
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
These guys.
Two rabbits in the grass
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
He has not yet risen.
Siamese cat napping in a window overlooking Chicago
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Ross Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
There weren't enough police for them to escalate the situation, therefore it was peaceful.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
No one ever started a trade war with penguins. Historic
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
“All I can say is that on this earth there are plagues and there are victims - and as far as possible one must refuse to be on the side of the plague” - Albert Camus
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Sunset in Chicago, looking north.
Sunset in Chicago, looking north
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
48 hours apart
Chicago weather 73⁰ sunnyChicago weather 33⁰ snowing
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Based on music from the period, the 1970s was just a lot of driving around on desert highways.
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Textile fragment with feline figure, Peru c. 900
Screenshot of a black cat woven into textile, from the British Museum
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Drop a performance that deserved an Oscar but didn't get one
Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises (2007)
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Mochi gained a pound this winter.
Siamese chonk looking at a city skyline
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Argon Dreamcast Evangelion @synthandlasers.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Democrats: "We have a plan to stop Trump's dangerous and terrible policies" The Plan:
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Our dystopian cyberpunk future is more banal than we were promised.
Meta advertising "chat with AI characters," one of which is an egg
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Marco Rubio looking like a painting of a jester in red (Stańczyk) by Jan Matejko, 1862Painting of a jester in red (Stańczyk) by Jan Matejko, 1862
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