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@suddenlygreg.com
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Software dev. Big ol' nerd. Dog-haver. Formerly at @alt18f.bsky.social. suddenlygreg.com

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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 3h
I love when FedEx says I should expect my package today but it started out this morning in a warehouse 1,200 miles away. Like gurl, c'mon. Get real. That's almost as bad as Windows telling you how long a file copy is going to take.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 16h
So on the one hand, this looks like someone having harmless fun. Just an Easter egg, right? On the other hand, the government shouldn't do this. It erodes trust. It is unexpected and inexplicable and confusing. This is not how you interact with the public.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 16h
bot say oop I did a illegal
A screenshot of america.gov. The user types into the input box, "Where is your privacy impact statement?"

The chat bot responds, "I'll look up America's privacy pages and any official privacy impact assessment. I cannot verify a published Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) titled specifically for America.gov."
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 22h
After seeing this, I contacted 1Password support and got a variation of "support the art, not the artist," which is a tacit endorsement of the artist. That is not acceptable to me. Turns out, Bitwarden is a very fine replacement, and today I canceled my 1Password subscription after 19 years.
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 29/09/2026
Several civic technologists, civil servants, and concerned citizens signed on to an open letter to GSA leadership and members of congress asking them to protect USWDS as a piece of critical digital infrastructure. I'm proud to be one of them. fedscoop.com/websites-jeo...
fedscoop.com
Websites ‘in jeopardy’ amid U.S. Web Design System takeover, coalition tells GSA
The letter comes after administration officials changed leadership for the system, implemented new AI tooling, and shut out members of an open-source community.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 29/09/2026
Ah, I wondered. Thankfully the government knows the law.
A screenshot of America.gov. The chat bot is asked, "Is it illegal to use tax money for campaign ads?" The chat bot responds, "Federal agencies generally may not spend appropriated (taxpayer) funds on campaign ads. That is a restriction on government money and official resources, not a ban on campaign ads paid with campaign funds. This is general information, not legal advice."
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 29/09/2026
Hey look immigration increased wages by slightly more than it increased housing costs, meaning that on those merits alone, immigration is a positive. www.axios.com/2026/09/28/e...
axios.com
The economic legacy of the Biden immigration surge
The post-pandemic immigration surge raised GDP in the average metro area by an estimated 1.5%. the research shows.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 28/09/2026
Scream in the forest. The trees like the carbon dioxide.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 28/09/2026
Let sleeping dogs lie, yes, but also take pictures. #dogs
An Australian shepherd dog sleeping on the floor with its head between its front paws. The dog's visible fur is mostly white, with brown patches around its eyes and black-and-gray ears.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 28/09/2026
I'm in favor of having giant businesses contribute financially to community health, but we already have a mechanism for it called "taxes," and we already have a board that can oversee it called "city council" (or your community's variant). We should use those first. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com
Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs
“Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out."
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 28/09/2026
I don't know why the sudden fascination in the news about furries, but I don't care that furries fly planes or whatever. I mean, I'd probably prefer they not do it wearing their fursuit head because of visibility, but... otherwise I don't care. Go off, y'all. Have fun. Live your best lives.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 25/09/2026
Brutal indeed, but also accurate.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 25/09/2026
I'm skirting the limits of my networking knowledge here. Does anyone know if, on Tailscale, I allow-list the 100.64.0.0/10 block to internal services, does that open my network to everyone on Tailscale, or just to my own clients since Tailscale is kind of a NAT? cc @tailscale.com
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 24/09/2026
Several people now have had discussion thread posts deleted and are blocked from further posts. If they're this brazen about flouting the First Amendment and public records law, why on earth would we trust their vague assertions that they want to follow the law around accessibility or anything else?
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 22/09/2026
Inside you there are two brains. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
med.stanford.edu
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 21/09/2026
"We produce two liters of snot, every day." - This Podcast Will Kill You So stay hydrated everybody, or your nostrils will shrivel into husks!
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Better than Ezra Klein (1) @mr-sshhhhh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
People think politics is something that happens to other people on the television.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 21/09/2026
🎵 Texas has a whorehouse in it! 🎵
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NYU Langone is paying the government $8.5 million in addition to ceasing gender-affirming care for minors. Cowardly loser shit.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 18/09/2026
@laurajnash.bsky.social Hi Laura
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 18/09/2026
You should be angry and concerned about what's happening to USWDS. Undermining this treasure will make government websites harder to use and will deny people the services they are entitled to. Here are some suggestions for directing your concern: drive.proton.me/urls/5FQC8BD...
drive.proton.me
Proton Drive
Securely store, share, and access your important files and photos. Anytime, anywhere.
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 18/09/2026
My 8yo says he wouldn’t make a computer do crimes, but if he did, he wouldn’t publicize it. I respect his choice to not run a frontier AI company.
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Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
concerning stuff happening right now at USWDS: -removing open-source contributors, -losing institutional knowledge, -departing from principles, -security risks through an “agentic-first” approach, and -making changes without sufficient human accessibility and usability testing.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ask and ye shall receive
thehandbasket.co
Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 17/09/2026
GitHub's APIs are pretty good. There are some weird quirks like how pull requests are issues in disguise, but still, a pretty good API. Forgejo's ability to migrate repos from GitHub, including all open and closed issues, PRs, and wikis, is thanks to that nice API. Both of these things are good.
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Simon Christiansen @simonchris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
cycloptiko
Inside of you are two wolves.
This will no longer disqualify you from an FBI career.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 16/09/2026
Props to this person for finding all the switches to disable Apple's new AI all throughout macOS 27. discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250... Boo to Apple for not having a single off switch, and for downloading 15-20 GB of model data that you can't get rid of.
discussions.apple.com
Turn off Apple Intelligence in macOS 27
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/09/2026
There are people who care deeply about delivering good government services working on figuring out what to do next, but you should know that this is happening. You should know how this administration is trying to make it harder for you to access the services and information to which you're entitled.
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/09/2026
The US Web Design System is load-bearing infrastructure for thousands of government websites. It makes it easy for small teams with no resources (i.e. most .gov teams) to make usable, accessible websites that work for everyone. Today, it's as close as it's ever been to being replaced with AI slop.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 15/09/2026
I bet one of the most fun parts of making a movie set in the 1930s is driving the cool cars.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 12/09/2026
I think I’m just about as excited for the Ocarina of Time remake as I was the original. Back then it was Nintendo Power that got me hyped - “You can ride a horse!” I remember exclaiming. Now it’s anticipating my husband playing it. (Unfortunately he already knows about chickens.)
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 11/09/2026
In addition to remembering the victims and the responders, also remember how it was used to whip the country into a nationalist fervor from which we have never recovered.
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
heartlandsignal.com
Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 09/09/2026
Socialism is the radical notion that people matter more than money.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
FUCK ICE
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Ethan (Comms open!) @ethanexion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A big Zelda: Ocarina of Time mural I drew for the remake. Bluesky gets it 1 day early! ✨ #nintendo #art #zelda
Zelda: Ocarina of Time mural with Link, Young Link, Zelda, Ganondorf, Sheik, the Deku Tree, and Navi
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The progression of certain thinkers from denying the validity of trans people to denying the validity of disabilities is a nice illustration of the way in which transphobic habits of mind can quickly evolve into a kind of acquired sociopathy.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 03/09/2026
Proposal: fines and damages awarded against corporations in civil suits should be based on corporate valuation, and it should scale non-linearly. Like, taking 10% of Mom's Diner's revenue hits hard, but taking 10% of Google's revenue doesn't... so take 50% of Google's.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 03/09/2026
I knew academically that arthritis was painful, but I guess I failed to imagine it because I am surprised at the sometimes achy, sometimes crippling, sometimes nothing-ness of it.
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⛩️ 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒚 𝑯𝒊𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊 ⛩️ @deathbyhibachi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Swing #Art by ungfio
Reaper skully sets aside his scythe to play on a swing
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 03/09/2026
Do conservatives ever articulate what they're afraid of? Like, there are lots of buzzwords, but, e.g., what about socialism actually scares them? And here I'm asking about voters. I know perfectly well what conservative politicians are afraid of: that their voters will stop being afraid.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 31/08/2026
Last week I hooked up the National Weather Service API's alerts endpoint to the AT protocol and now you can get alerts pushed to you via websockets in near-realtime. suddenlygreg.com/blog/2026-08...
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AT protocol and weather alerts
The AT protocol provides simple ways of distributing data while maintaining ownership. What if canonical government data was distributed that way?
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 29/08/2026
Has it ever occurred to you that we’re all just dirt, water, and sunshine?
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 28/08/2026
Sucks that the Univ of Minnesota libraries are closed to the public. If the past several years have taught us anything, it’s that knowledge is necessary to fighting stupid bad fascists. So here’s a helpful doc on how to assist good U people who want knowledge freed: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com
UMN Libraries Public Access
THE CONTEXT After slowly closing parts of campus off to the public over a handful of years, in January of 2026 amidst Operation Metro Surge, the University of Minnesota’s upper administration decided...
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 28/08/2026
Ah yes, we have only just now reached the brink.
A headline from The Indepedent reads, "Soon the 'Trump Earth': President's naming of Great Lake pushes US and his administration to brink of absurdity"
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 26/08/2026
I will never look as good in fishnets as Tim Curry, but I will always be grateful to him for demonstrating to us all that it's cool to be weird and queer is fun. But also, nobody else this week, please.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 26/08/2026
Something I've been noodling on for a while is how important the end of the Gettysburg Address is. I think we've generally lost sight of what Abraham Lincoln saw clearly: government of the people, by the people, for the people Those are three different things, but they are entirely about people.
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metal dot txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Well, what I always say, "I just want everybody to be treated good." I try not to get into the politics of everything. I try to get into the human element of it. I have some of everybody in my own immediate family and in my circle of employees. I've got transgender people. I've got gays. I've got lesbians. I've got drunks. I've got drug addicts — all within my own family. I know and love them all, and I do not judge.

And I just see how broken-hearted they get over certain things and I know how real they are. I know how important this is to them. That's who they are. They cannot help that any more than I can help being Dolly Parton, you know, the way people know me. If there's something to be judged, that is God's business. But we are all God's children and how we are is who we are.
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