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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

President Drumpf signs $300bn war guilt clause at Versailles in front of European powers.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

```sh ❯ ./radar snth@bsky.social 📡 [RADAR] Scanning for snth.bsky.social... 📡 [RADAR SCREEN] User: Tobias Brandt (@snth.bsky.social) Status: Active Last Seen: 2026-05-28T19:42:15.865Z -------------------------------------------------- Just vibe coded a 60 line POSIX script ... ```

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

How does AI feel about all those "Let us know you're human" banners?

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

This is awesome! The only thing better than being spoilt for choice is not having to choose at all.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

That notwithstanding, we need things like #Bluesky to keep our voices alive. However, imho Exiting is a actually a much better vector for change. Some more thoughts here: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580...

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Very interesting, thank you! The following stood out to me: "Exit and voice them... | Hacker News

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

As our Voices are becoming increasingly silenced in online discourse, either through cancelling or self-censorship, Exiting becomes one of our last avenues to effect change.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

"Exit is associated with Adam Smith's invisible hand, in which buyers and sellers are free to move silently through the market, constantly forming and destroying relationships. Voice, on the other hand, is by nature political and at times confrontational."

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

"Exit and voice themselves represent a union between economic and political action."

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_V... "... is an influential treatise written by Albert O. Hirschman. The work hinges on a conceptual ultimatum that confronts consumers in the face of deteriorating quality of goods and services: either exit or voice."

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Exit, Voice, and Loyalty - Wikipedia

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Why wouldn't you play your favourite song on repeat until the marginal utility of one more play is less than that of the next best song? Neurotypicals are so weird!

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Link is working fine now. Thanks What Second Brain are you using? I'm just in the process of transitioning from Logseq to Obsidian.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

For anyone wondering about F3, here are links to the paper and current HackerNews discussion: pdf: db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/... HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4543... I haven't read it yet but based on the abstract and authors (incl. Wes McKinney & Andy Pavlo), I will be reading it.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Hug of death? I can't seem to access your post.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Grindr outage during Charlie Kirk memorial buff.ly/nJuwZ88 2024: Grindr outage during Milwaukee RNC buff.ly/JELMirt 2008: Sydney brothels say pope’s visit will help business buff.ly/Ez96mBe I guess the story of the Pharisees just hit different for me.

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Grind(e)r outages corresponding to Kirkapalooza are not causal or correlative

Needless to say a small sample size but amusing if only to ask about other such social networking sites. Perhaps apocryphal rather than apocalyptic. GROK The X post humorously links a Grindr outage…

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I've cancelled my @filmandseries.bsky.social subscription. "Sorry kids, but that orange 🤡 on TV is why we can't have nice things." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Miranda Heath @mirandaheath.website · 11/09/2025

I'm working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software. If you're a part of the OSS community, I would love to hear your thoughts, either here on Bluesky, or privately via email (see post). Thanks 😊 mirandaheath.website/report-on-bu...

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Report on Burnout in Open Source Software

I am currently working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software, and am inviting the OSS community to share their thoughts!

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

How do you pronounce Biemlfdlkk? www.economist.com/business/202...

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Watching the F1 Grand Prix at Monza, Italy this weekend, i was struck by how much the Parabolica resembles one half of the Circus Maximus. Le plus ca change, le plus c'est la meme chose!

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Seriously, how? There has to be some tradeoff. First I thought they're skipping POSIX semantics or strong consistency but the reliability benchmarks are better. Looking forward to see some independent reports.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Compromise is the shared hypotenuse of the conjoined triangles of success.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

* Antony emphasized that it is the citizens of Rome who ultimately determine the duration they want to back any elected official, including the Dictator-for-Life.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

* The proposals were approved decisively by a supermajority of 250 votes in favor and 5 against, also removing the second-consul veto to align legislative timing.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

* Consul Mark Antony of Caesar's Populares faction proposed the amendments, arguing that while the title of Rex (King) was barred by tradition, the position of Dictator was not subject to term limits.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

* Rome's Senate approved sweeping constitutional changes on the Ides of February, allowing for an indefinite dictatorial term and extending it to a lifetime appointment.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I'd be up for doing that some time. Unfortunately I've been swamped with #life the past few/weeks months so not a great time for me currently.

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

1/5. @paradedb.bsky.social has raised a $12M Series A to bring Elasticsearch workloads to Postgres. 🧵

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Congratulations on the Hindley-Milner type inference extension! I hope to look at that some time.

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Julian Hyde @julianhyde.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Database tables are unordered, but functional programming languages work best over ordered lists. Which should Morel prefer? Both! We now have "list" and "bag" types, and full relational algebra over both. blog.hydromatic.net/2025/06/06/o...

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Ordered and unordered data

Despite what the relational model says, some data is ordered.

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Julian Hyde @julianhyde.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Is it possible to do serious programming (such as solving Wordle) in a query language? If not, what's missing? The video of my DataCouncil talk is posted. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwFs...

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More Than Query Future Directions of Query Languages, from SQL to Morel

YouTube video by Data Council

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 06/06/2025

this is a pretty fun project! it is basically a decentralized WordPress plugin package manager, using DID PLC as an identifier and store for package signing keys; and atproto for discovery/indexing of plugins in the ecosystem. github.com/fairpm/fair-...

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 06/06/2025

The urge to start a podcast is equivalent to the urge to create a DSL* * (a domain-specific language, which is something the most genius and widely loved programmers do, everybody's stoked when I do it)

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Yes, and how many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, and how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows That too many people have died?

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Yes, and how many years must a mountain exist Before it is washed to the sea? Yes, and how many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free? Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head And pretend that he just doesn't see? #ee2a35 #000000 #ffffff #009736

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The journey of learning often feels like an intimate, and sometimes difficult, conversation. What follows are two voices in that dialogue An homage to #TheNational and #Rust # Hey Rust, I think I know just what the feeling is snth.prose.sh/hey_rust

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The National - Hey Rosey (Official Video)

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