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Justin

@suckminimally.com
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I'm here because the billionaires aren't. I write code, make user interfaces, drink coffee, read, and try to make things a little better for people. (he/him) Known as "monitron" in some places. suckminimally.com

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Justin @suckminimally.com · 08/10/2026
Farewell to Margaret Hamilton, the woman who put the "engineering" in Software Engineering and did it better than I or most of us can ever hope to. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A little known fact about the CARS universe, is that post-World War 2 many Volkswagens, BMWs and Mercedes fled to Cargentina to avoid the Nuremberg Time Trials
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 27/09/2026
Weirdly enough, learning this made me think a lot clearer about how certain kinds of algorithms and circuits work.
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 27/09/2026
Ooh I know this one. It’s kind of cool. It’s not that they know how long they are, but that each follicle is programmed to shed its hair and start over on a time interval. Constant rate of growth + period = consistent overall length. Their schedules are staggered so you don’t go bald all at once.
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 19/09/2026
Gold Bond Medicated Chowder
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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Seed Shanty
Song birds sing a sea shanty aboard a schooner boat loaded to the deck with bags of seed: “Seed, Seed, Seed! All the seed we need!”

Captain Robin Cornwallis has seen something through his spy-glass which causes him grave concern, even as the singing continues (“On this we are agreed…”)Spyglass view: A pirate ship approaches. At every level of the ship, it is crawling with scurvy, rascally squirrels, each with their eyes aimed at the bird’s ship. “Seed, seed, seed!” the crew continues.
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 17/09/2026
I found them intriguing but never stuck with them. I could congratulate myself and say I knew something was off, shallow, stunted, dangerous about their thinking. But I have to admit it’s more likely I just got distracted by something else shiny. Got lucky, in other words, and didn’t join a cult.
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 17/09/2026
Thinking about the number of times I got linked to Rationalist or Effective Altruism stuff over the years (LessWrong, Slate Star Codex, Aella) and the fact that more than once I *tried* to start reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, and being SO THANKFUL that I bounced off of them.
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 16/09/2026
There's always a king bean. First among beans, safe up on his throne. When the grinder roars awake, he looks down with pity on his doomed brethren. But, what can be done? Fate blessed him with his place, as it doomed them to theirs. Forever he will reign, even as his subjects dwindle. Yes. Forever.
A low-angle photo of the smoked plastic bean hopper of my espresso machine. The machine is black and the backsplash behind it is made of teal tiles in a cube pattern. The hopper is full of medium roast coffee beans. In the center of the hopper is a gray plastic handle used to lock or unlock the hopper from the machine. On top of that handle rests a solitary coffee bean.
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 15/09/2026
Oh, this is a great idea. I would have used my quarterly pass today for sure!
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 12/09/2026
Now we need an editing timelapse for your editing timelapse.
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 07/09/2026
Just a reminder that going down Wikipedia rabbit holes is way better for your mental health than doomscrolling, and it’s equally endless
A screenshot of the Wikipedia page “List of lists of lists”
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 04/09/2026
This Bluesky Trending item appears to be 100% fabricated by @bsky.app ‘s LLM. I can’t even find any posts that it could be referring to, and it certainly isn’t true in my map apps.
A screenshot of the Bluesky iPhone app Explore page. The #4 trending item is:

Maps revert Lake Ontario name
Google and Apple Maps reversed course, restoring Lake Ontario’s name after backlash.
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 31/08/2026
Can we all agree that there is NO safe and efficient way to transfer grocery store refrigerated tortellini from the plastic package to boiling water?
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Every day I have to hear about some asshole
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 16/08/2026
It also kind of looks like an old school O’Reilly book cover?!
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 13/08/2026
And yes I realize the irony in my making this meta-meta-discourse post and thus becoming part of the problem
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 13/08/2026
The bluesky meta-discourse (e.g. today’s “bluesky lost to threads”) is extra amusing to me because I never see any of the original posts saying mean things about bluesky. I only see the people complaining about said posts, and hundreds of them! Maybe if we stopped giving them oxygen…?
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 10/08/2026
Noooo! Not the librarians! 😭
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Data centers
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Your bad art is better than AI slop.
four frame comic. first frame shows a typical AI poster that says : All chatgpt flyers look the same, especially with this font! the text above it reads : I won't go to your event if the poster was made by AI. second frame shows a still frame from a Hank Green youtube video. text above reads : I won't read your post or email and I won't watch your video if they were made with AI. third frame shows an AI restaurant poster of burgers and chicken in a window. text reads : I won't patronize your shop  or restaurant if it is advertised with AI. last frame shows an MS paint window with badly written : Your bad art is better than AI slop. text reads : if you can't take the time or make the effort to interact with me yourself, then why should I do it?
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 05/08/2026
lol I'm not sure where exactly it fits on the scale, but Everybody Wants to Rule the World was involved. By contrast, when I first opened the door, The Commodores' Easy was on. Either one was preferable to my ride this morning, which featured more genres of Christian music than I knew existed!
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 05/08/2026
When I get in a rideshare and the driver glances at me in the rear view and switches over to White Person Music
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/07/2026
say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 27/07/2026
It might be my favorite movie, so seeing folks talking about it makes me very happy too.
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 19/07/2026
My brain auto-rewrote this to “the mcgriddle is a mcmiracle of mcmodern mcnology”. Thanks for helping me discover a new dumb thing about myself
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 19/07/2026
(The car being stopped is, of course, yellow and has a leaf sticking out of the hood. It was NOT Ai certified)
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 18/07/2026
Honey stop the car
A big sign with trees in the background and various attention-getting decorations on the periphery. The sign says “Never Buy A Lemon Again - MAKE SURE IT IS Ai CERTIFIED - AiCertifiedUsedCars.com”. It also has an AI generated illustration of an android looking like a cross between a Transformer and Iron Man. He is holding a shield that says “AI Certified Used Cars.” His right foot is on the hood of a much smaller car that is somehow also a lemon (as in the fruit) - rounded and yellow with a pebbly texture and a small green leaf sprouting from its hood.
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 17/07/2026
I’m so annoyed with the Taco Bell finger-pointing that I decided to go there for lunch to support them. I don’t even like Taco Bell very much. Basically what I’m saying is I’m a saint
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 15/07/2026
Ah I suspected as much. The post I replied to even includes a favorite LLM-ism, “it’s not x, it’s y”
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 15/07/2026
And so you’ve decided to fight back by (checks notes) using it in every last one of your posts?
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Many, many years ago I worked for a certain legal news website to which Lindsey Graham subscribed. Anyway i hardcoded it to always spell his name wrong in the top corner, no matter how many times he tried to manually correct it.
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 11/07/2026
Thanks to the schism discourse on here I am now aware of the word "dicastery." Rather than look up what it means, though, I've decided to just believe it's the place where Hot Wheels are made
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Laura C 🎮 🎨 @vibrainium.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I feel a weird sense of survivors guilt mixed with solidarity. I'm not sure if I'm part of these particular numbers, but in May I found out my position is being eliminated in January. I couldn't tell you if it's better knowing ahead of time or not, but personally knowing SO many of the people -
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 09/07/2026
Do you think people with dually pickups will get mad if I compliment them on their trucks’ “child-bearing hips?”
A view of a pickup truck from the rear. It has two wheels on each side of the rear axle. The body has been widened to accommodate these, leading to a distinctly humpy appearance.
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 09/07/2026
Man you're so right, this was my entire childhood. To the point where I saw Spaceballs before I saw any Star Wars
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 03/07/2026
I haven’t played Dark Souls but Atlus games are the same. Don’t spend enough time with that one guy? Story ends 20 hours early. Don’t pick the “right” dialogue choice 10 times in a row? Get the ending where you personally bring about the end of days
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 02/07/2026
For that matter, what’s a comic book?
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 30/06/2026
My “fix” has been to put my emoticons between backticks (an inline code snippet). Not ideal but it does give them a nice monospace flair
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 30/06/2026
I’m going to subtitle all my presentations “A Very Long Presentation” going forward
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 29/06/2026
Brands, take note. If you don't get the response you want at first, you can ALWAYS TRY YELLING
a crop from an iPhone screenshot showing two notifications from the Domino's app.
The first, from Saturday 4:22pm, says:
Build the exact pizza you want—choose your crust and up to 7 toppings, then feed the craving. Terms apply.
The second, from 4 minutes ago, says the exact same thing BUT IN ALL CAPS!!!
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 28/06/2026
Happy birthday!!!
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 26/06/2026
Sounds about right. I feel like the near 50-50 Techbro/Neo-Luddite and Hopepilled/Doomer splits explain a lot about me. It’s been forever since I’ve taken one of these. If you want to try: britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...
Quiz results indicating that my closest match is Zohran Mamdani. I’m apparently 91% Woke (vs Chud), about half and half Techbro/Neo-Luddite, half and half Hopepilled/Doomer and 80% Davos (vs Dubai)
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 26/06/2026
Read the alt text for hints!
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 25/06/2026
This is SO GOOD I read it twice in a row
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 25/06/2026
In case anyone was thinking about listening to James Carville about anything, may I humbly remind you of this: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/o...
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Opinion | James Carville: Three Reasons I’m Certain Kamala Harris Will Win (Published 2024)
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23/06/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Justin @suckminimally.com · 21/06/2026
“Father figure” would be an excellent crossword clue for DADBOD
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