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Greg Walker

@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 · 6h
12 minutes remaining... 2 seconds remaining... 1 week remaining... 14 minutes remaining... November remaining... Done! Oops no wait 3 more minutes...
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 6h
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 · 18h
I responded to the support ticket today to let them know I was disappointed and canceling my subscription. They merely said goodbye.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 20h
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 · 20h
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 · 29/09/2026
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
Oh hey, look!
A screenshot of America.gov. The chat bot is prompted, "Is Donald Trump in the Epstein files?" The chat bot responds, "Yes – the Justice Department's official list includes the name 'Trump, Donald.' That means the name appears at least once in materials released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act."
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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
Just stop email. Nobody uses it anymore. When you buy stuff online, give them your LinkedIn account so they can send your receipt there.
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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
Rolling Stone is still living in the 90s, I guess, when everyone heard the same things because of radio.
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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
And frankly I don't want faith organizations managing large-scale community health. Let them manage the health of their church communities, yes! And they should participate in broader community health because they exist in it! But I don't want their religion to determine what constitutes "healthy."
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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
The Party of Mind Everyone Else's Business
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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
Similarly, if I setup DNS records pointing to my Tailscale IPs, only my clients could reach it, right?
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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 · 23/09/2026
His predecessor deleted records from Slack. This is an administration rampant with disregard for anything they don't like, including the super basic and simple laws that we get training on every single year.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 23/09/2026
I guess it has been deleted again?
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 23/09/2026
It's been fixed by the author! Thanks for pointing it out. :)
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 22/09/2026
That makes sense! And they do look cool in all sizes. The ghosty riding a box down the stairs greets me every time I go down and it’s a delight!
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 22/09/2026
The other day you posted a bigger version of another piece and I wondered if you are re-creating them in larger sizes, or if the larger ones are prints?
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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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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 18/09/2026
This guidance has been so incredibly valuable to me. Having not just a component library but also explanations for when to use it, how to think about the accessibility of it, when to do something else, etc., is wonderful.
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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
Even obvious things need to be said sometimes.
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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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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 17/09/2026
It is okay and good to continue to be excited about things, even if they are not important. I got excited last week reading about BepiColombo. Nothing that mission learns about Mercury will do me any good, but it's still neat.
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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
Uff.
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Greg Walker @suddenlygreg.com · 16/09/2026
It's fascinating that this person references "the team" despite, as far as anyone knows, it just being one person.
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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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