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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Dolly Parton Day (9/25), to those who celebrate (or just those who live in places where date conventions make that possible)

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ultimate man has seen things you people would not believe, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. He has watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.

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Darren Buck @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Guys, this is for real. Senate GOP and the administration want to pass a law that outlaws bikelanes on the 160K mile National Highway System. Imagine if adding protected bikelanes to many arterials would suddenly be against the law. Let’s not allow this.

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XaiaX ̆̈ (🍁) @xaiax.net · 25/08/2026

Seized from the group chat.

Two flashlights pointed at a wall, the one on the left is very very large and is producing just a small amount of light. The one on the right is a very tiny and it’s producing a tremendous amount of light. The one on the left is labeled “Das Kapital“ by Karl Marx, and the one on the right is labeled “9 to 5“ by Dolly Parton.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🎨Robert Ariail

Four-panel cartoon illustration: The first panel shows a man looking at a gas station sign that says, "Gas $4.00.9". He takes the digits down to the ground and builds a bicycle with them, and rides away.

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 11/08/2026

The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org

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Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet

“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026

Suresh reports on his experience talking with hundreds of executives (and, more importantly, their subordinates) about what (if anything) AI is doing for business in an essay entitled "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking": hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... 11/

hermit-tech.com

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Firefighter Dave would like to remind folks that, if you see an emergency vehicle running lights and sirens do the dance to go though the intersection on red, please look both ways before entering the intersection to make sure there's not a second one behind it.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Went outside. Smells like I'm about to get charged $50 for a mediocre pizza the cook scorched.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

App developer suggestion: Make a voting app for karaoke bars. Every singer pays a deposit to sing, and the audience votes on if it gets refunded or dropped directly into the bar staff tip jar.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The nice thing about being the semi-retired silverback at the station: When a 4-year old makes you an ice cream sundae with seriously excessive sprinkles, you can just say "oh, how pretty!" and enjoy it in front of probies who would die before enduring insufficiently manly ice cream.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Russia's most reliable air defense "Vanka360" holds all-around defense and guards against NATO drones 24/7.

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Mechanism and updated prediction for the epic fail of Lincoln Memorial Bioreactor's polyurea coating! First chemistry, then physics It was sprayed in big sections. In addition to pool edges, failure will concentrate at the OVERLAP SEAMS between sections because they likely barely bonded at all. 1/x

section of blue-tinted Rhino Pipeliner 5000 polyurea coating of Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool that's peeled off the surface and is bobbing in the puce-colored water

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"Countries that relied only on the normal tools (voting, suing, legislating) climbed back to democracy seven percent of the time... But! Countries that added a civil resistance movement on top of that... climbed back fifty-one percent of the time."

thefarce.org

Why Just Voting Isn’t Enough to Stop a Dictator

Three reasons to remember we are the only guardrails we have.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Sitting in the outskirts of DC, listening to the (average of) $68k/flight hour (per plane) being spent announcing the entry of the US into the third world.

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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

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Bessie the Cow @bovinebessie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Clearly the work of Sporos

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Because I got asked "so what would you do?"... Pump the pool dry. Put as many people as I can find in there 24/7 with scrapers (powered ones) to get as much unbonded liner out as possible. Refill in consultation with the water quality folks from DC water. Treat for mosquitos. Done by the 4th? Maybe.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Thought for the day: If he's not controlling the algae, he's probably also not controlling mosquitoes (it just takes longer for that to become obvious).

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The whole "sweaty-muscular-scantily-clad men cuddling aggressively on the White House lawn" thing has to rank as the creepiest Presidential observance of Gay Pride month ever.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Nothing more frustrating than driving past the downed trees and getting reminded that Fire only gets to play chainsaw games if the downed tree is preventing us from getting to a call, and otherwise, it's either DOT or DPW. (Or a landscaping company, if it's on private property.)

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Suggestion: Don't oppose datacenters because "AI Bad!". Oppose it because AI is very clearly a bubble, and given the time it takes to finish build-out, it's likely that a number of them won't get completed prior to the bubble popping. And they're even less reusable than a big-box store.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It's telling that my activity tracker only recorded 4 minutes of activity during a day of running around after professional athletes damaging themselves, but it's recorded 15 minutes of activity during the 30 minutes of (sponsored!) happy hour following.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Thought for the day: Pretty much nobody actually takes the time to fill out the "are you satisfied with your service" survey, especially when it's buried in a footer of the "your ticket has been closed" email. So if you take time to use your words, your comments are probably going to get read.

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

To quote the great Gene Spafford (let me know if he's here and I'll link him): There is no 'i' in 'team', but there is one in 'incompetence'.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Watching old X Files episodes, and thinking how much more quickly a number of the early episodes would have reached the same conclusion if Scully had just shot the bad guy the first time he menaced her.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Guys. Heads up. Let’s talk about Hantavirus. There have been SEVERAL bad takes and BLATANT misinformation circulating regarding this outbreak so I figured it was a good idea to make a thread about it. Stay calm. Stay vigilant. Know your facts. Here’s ALL you need to know. 🧪🧵⬇️

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Every time I take required computer-based training, I become increasingly convinced that the goal of the CBT is continued employment of someone's niblings who happen to work for a company that creates CBT. (Seriously, I should not need to randomly click screen elements to continue to the next slide)

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Apparently, I'm not supposed to use "sorry, the Medetomidine is wearing off" as an explanation for the meeting exceeding my attention span and the fidgeting starting.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Firefighter Dave sez: If you're wondering if that elevator "close door" button works, it does, but only when there's an override key (look at the elevator control panel - see that switch requiring a key labeled "firefighter operation"? Yeah.).

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Some creepy weird dude flyer-bombed my neighborhood over someone turning a house on a large (for the neighborhood) lot into 3 townhouses instead of a McMansion of approximately the same footage. Security camera got him, his car (seriously, if you have to drive to the neighborhood...)

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Why are we having a holiday for a carpenter calling out dead and finally showing up 3 days later? Have you ever dealt with building trades? I mean, I realize the dude probably wasn't union, but still.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Dear CNN, it's not a "historic moon mission" until they land on it. It's like saying it's a "historic NYC visit" if you never exit I-95.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Firefighter Dave reminds folks that people will be reposting April Fools postings for at least a week or two.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

After spending far too long trying to find matching socks without holes or stretched elastic or..., the contents of the sock drawer went to the garbage can and I'm starting again from empty. With a package of socks I bought a year ago with the intent of exactly this. Adulting, belatedly.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Happy Pi Day to those who use the default USAnian date ordering, and Happy Saturday to everyone else.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

As we go into "St. Paddy's Weekend!", Firefighter Dave would like to thank everyone in the service sector who will have to say "How about we work in some water? I think you've had enough for one holiday." sometime in the next week. The ones you cut off are the ones I don't have to cut out.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

But what I really wanna know is... Will CletusBubba be keeping the adultery plane?

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Firefighter Dave would like to ask the single-staircase folks to specify "type-2 construction" before trying to make the case for "all these other countries do it!"

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Firefighter Dave strongly recommends against attempting a shot every time the tangerine tantrum lies at tonight's SOTU. (Also, on behalf of bartenders everywhere: "dump the reminder of your drink on the bar if he obviously s**ts himself" is only funny in the abstract.)

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

No, I can safely say that is not why my childhood memories make me sad.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Yes, European taxes that cover national health care may be higher than American taxes that don't, but by less than the go-fund-mes (and sometimes direct cash payments) for other people's health care and social services that I also end up coughing up for every month.

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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

"Age is just a number!" So is big number at the bottom of the orthopedic surgeon's bill after I start believing that. I'm cheap, and my age has about 4 fewer digits.

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