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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 10h

back home just in time for… another heat wave

The iOS weather app, showing conditions in LA. It’s currently 100 °F, with forecasted daily highs of 101 for the next two days, followed by four more days above 95.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 15h

They have erased the history of the tech industry and tech innovation so that their workers don’t ask what happened to prior generations of innovators and innovations. It’s a very intentional strategy.

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

this week’s adventure: up to seattle to spend some time in a full-motion 737 simulator courtesy of alaska airlines’ loyalty program

The cockpit of a Boeing 737 simulator. Sam is sitting in the pilot’s seat, seen from behind so just the top of their head is visible. Mount Rainier is prominently shown in the simulated view out the windows.

Sam and a flight instructor in the pilot’s and copilot’s seats of a 737 simulator. A runway is visible on the simulator’s window displays.

Sam standing in front of a full-motion flight simulator cab

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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026

meta Muse perfec t size for put private d\ata in! inside very Secure and Private data very safe put data in Muse. No problems ever in Muse because very trustworthy and Mark super protective. AMeta muse yes a place for data put data in muse trust meta for givening good safety to data. Friend meta.

An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.

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Phildini, since young times @phildini.net · 29/09/2026

California has spent over $400 million in settlements for Law Enforcement misconduct since 2010. I know because I built a site to track it: captainacab.com We're updating every week, and slowly expanding across the country. (boosts welcome)

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Captain ACAB -- CA settlements from law enforcement.

Tracking the hidden costs of law enforcement in the United States. $1,563,000.00 in CA settlements and counting.

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dawn of the debb @handle.invalid · 27/09/2026

every damn day

a parrot has managed to wind a roll of toilet paper around himself captioned (((PREDICAMENT)))

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

spent an hour catching up on what we're gonna be voting on here in six weeks and it's like California's Worst Hits

"Now That's What I Call Music" cover meme reading "Now That's What I Call A Shitty Ballot Measure"

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

aaaand we have found today’s Main Character, here with a spectacularly bad take

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/09/2026

How did I miss that it's FAT BEAR WEEK? weather.com/2026/09/25/s...

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Bastard Toadflax @plumicorns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One-issue calendar reform voter. A 13-month year just makes more sense

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

trying to log in to at&t so i can troubleshoot why i'm not receiving sms 2fa codes, and of course it prompts me for an sms 2fa code i love a good catch-22 but not like this

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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the concept of a disaster lesbian implies the existence of a FEMA lesbian

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

the very definition of Become Ungovernable; i salute you

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This genuinely made me laugh out loud today

HOW AM I DRIVING?
HOW DOES AN ENGINE EVEN WORK?
HOW CAN A LOVING GOD CAUSE SUCH AGONY

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

imagine being a grown adult highly-paid professional, going to a party where you see an unaccompanied 13 year old in the midst of (presumably) various drug/alcohol/sexual activities, and NOT immediately 1. leaving so fast you leave a cloud of dust behind you and 2. notifying authorities.

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

maybe y'all should listen to us when we tell you what motivates politicians to say transphobic shit and what it means for us instead of throwing tantrums about how unfair it is that we get to be the arbiters of transphobia

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Michael Schneider @michaelschneider.com · 21/09/2026

“LA doesn’t need a mayor who is skilled at political survival. It needs one who will spend political capital — on housing near transit, on streets that don’t kill people, on a homelessness program that publishes its numbers without being audited into it.” www.dailynews.com/2026/09/20/d...

dailynews.com

Does Karen Bass deserve a second term?

Karen Bass set the standard in 2022. On November 3, hold her to it.

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

reading the actual PR (www.faa.gov/newsroom/SMA...) this seems to be… a purpose-trained model for traffic prediction so they can make better flow/planning decisions like, the kind of thing that's been giving us better weather/climate forecasting for a decade+ now. the "AI" thing is marketing fluff.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026

for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the background

black and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

Cranky Dorkfest was excellent again; ramp visit and bus tour of the entire airfield were spectacular! cheers to @chrisjrn.fyi for making it out this year — always great to hang out with you

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 19/09/2026

did my first cross-country flying lesson yesterday! no, this doesn’t mean i went 3000 miles in a Cessna; XC in GA parlance means any flight not returning to the airport of departure and requiring navigational planning — so i flew from santa monica to santa barbara

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

Read the words of disabled experts— journalists, tech and disability scholars, technology policy experts— on why Meta's "crip washing" of their surveillance tech pervert glasses is, in fact, bad for us all.

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🎃Marley, a Werewolf of Wall Street 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✍️🌕🐺 @marleywrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is a terrific story about something I had no idea was happening: private equity is descending on the cookie business like a swarm of locusts. Great reporting.

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I Love It Succession

ALT: I Love It Succession

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 13/09/2026

at the Gorge Amphitheatre for Above & Beyond’s festival and it ended up absolutely dumping rain just took half an hour of trying to get our RV’s generator running this morning and i am suddenly grateful for 6 months of flying lessons giving me patience with recalcitrant piston engines

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 10/09/2026

Goddammit I’m never going to not think of this now www.tumblr.com/dungeonmaste...

Tumblr post from user dungeonmastersconsortium: dungeonmasterscons...

Saw a comment that Elizabeth Holmes looks like a mouse wished to be able to commit wire fraud and now I can't unsee it

With a still of Elizabeth Holmes from the documentary

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Sam Antics @dsoart.com · 10/09/2026

Garffeld Pt 12, Special Edition

3 panel Garffeld comic: panel 1, Garffeld crouches on a table while Jon angrily reads a letter, "What is this? What devilry have you wrought now?"; panel 2, Jon reads further down the letter, "The list of crimes continues!"; panel 3, Jon holds his face in his hands, "I am beset by a wicked cat." Garffeld looks at the viewer, "I have not been idle."

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Staub @yepstaub.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

what a curious day to put these on sale

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 10/09/2026

museum of flight yesterday was an absolute delight; especially cool to see so many of the aircraft my grandfather helped design in his career at Boeing!

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Robert Fruchtman @fruchtose.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Big news: Later today, Supervisor Mandelman and SF Planning are hosting an important community forum to discuss making the Castro District a historic landmark district. This proposal is shockingly regressive. It would downzone in a rich white neighborhood. sfplanning.org/event/potent...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

koko’s basilisk: you don’t think koko the gorilla actually knows sign language and when she figures it out she beats your ass

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/09/2026

one of the most mind-melting things about this moment is how so much of the media and popular discourse politely ignores or is very vague about the blindingly obvious fact that Trump has rapidly-worsening dementia www.cnn.com/2026/09/08/p...

“For nine months, rescue and recovery crews worked day and night on the site. I want to just thank my people; I took a lot of my me(n) — I was building a big building in New York, and I took the whole crew down there right after this happened,” he said. “And they were — they had no hesitation — everybody went down with me. We went down, it was a big group of people. Wasn’t too much we could do, I’ll be honest — it was, you know, it was raw, and nobody’s seen anything like it, ever. We had other buildings; the United States Steel building was creaking, really creaking, and we thought it was going to fall down; the truth is it creaked a lot, it creaked. It still creaks. But it never came down, and I re(member) — I’ll never forget two firemen. We thought it was coming down on top of us, and two firemen — big, strong guys — and I’m not the smallest guy in the world — they grabbed me under the arms, said, ‘Gotta get out of here.’ And they literally lifted me up. This is not easy to do. I’m big. They lifted me up and they started running with me. I said, ‘Fellas, I can run myself.’ But they were amazing, but they thought it was coming down; it didn’t come down. US Steel.”

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Scare-iadne Talchik @ariadnetalchik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The sheer amount of pure hatred spewed over NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy for (????) by men on this site shows that it’s just totally fine to hate women now; good way to get likes, even

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

ENJOY YOUR LABOR DAY BUCKAROOS

cover of THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF MY COWORKERS AND ME DISCUSSING OUR SALARIES EVEN THOUGH OUR BOSS TOLD US NOT TO GETS ME OFF featuring a beautiful ladybuck on the left wearing stripped down business attire she is in a modern office and on there is the physical manifestation of salary discussion lookin like a NICE BIG DOLLAR SIGN with a smiling face

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 07/09/2026

finally made it to @connections.museum and it was even better than i had hoped this place is disneyland if your special interests include telephones

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 06/09/2026

in seattle again and i continue to be impressed by how much the waterfront has come back to life with the viaduct gone

The Seattle waterfront on Puget Sound, looking back across Alaskan Way at downtown. Several groups of people are walking across the road and up/down a large set of stairs set into the hill.

Sunset over Puget Sound, seen from high up in a hotel. Some buildings are in the foreground under a bunch of puffy/wispy clouds, turned pink by the sun. Mountains are on the far side of the sound.

A large neon sign reading “public market” and another in the shape of a fish, atop a red-roofed building. Behind the building in the distance are the last colors of sunset in the sky over Puget Sound, with the lights of buildings lining islands in the sound.

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 05/09/2026

so during yesterday's flying lesson, another student was on her checkride; she passed, then, 3 hours later when i was finishing up, walked back into school with a "Hot Girls Fly Airplanes" hat and her girlfriend in tow to rent the same plane for an aerial date folks, that is SWAGGER

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 05/09/2026

guess who’s got two thumbs and a shirt with the back cut off because they just did their first solo flight

The back of a t-shirt that’s been cut off the shirt it came from. The shirt is decorated with a red sharpie: a drawing of a small airplane, registration N353MV, with Sam at the controls; the word SOLO in large letters; a cawing crow near the plane; and a congratulatory message from Sam’s CFI Kayla.

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BIG JIM PEPPER @papihustle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I almost lost consciousness laughing at this

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 04/09/2026

mostly californian at this point but there are still some traces of my time in seattle and new york

A dialect map for the way Sam speaks English. California is shaded as the region "most like you", with more areas of similarity in the Pacific Northwest and the New York/New Jersey area.

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Matsci @matsci.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

$pelcan Mouth perfect size for put baby in to n\ap! inside very Soft and Comfort baby sleep soundly put baby in Pelican Mouth. Put Baby In Pelican Mouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth because good Shape and Support for baby neck weak of big baby head. Apelican Mouth yes a place for a baby put baby in pelican mouth can trust pelican for giveing good love to baby. friend pelican Source: Flickr / pominoz68 105,140 notes$

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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