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Robot Impurity Photography @robotimpurity.com · 30/08/2026

I'll just leave at this: The best way to make money at photography is to sell all your gear.

Dave @techguydave.com · 02/06/2026

An ex-cop just stood up there and called the anti-Flock crowd "adversaries of Cleveland" because he thinks the system helps stop speeders (???)

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Dave @techguydave.com · 02/06/2026

More pressing business to attend to while a nurse speaks out against Flock and ways the city can reuse the money. Great representation there, @cityofcleveland.bsky.social

Photo of Cleveland city council president on his phone during a public comment against Flock

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Dave @techguydave.com · 02/06/2026

"I will not sit around and do nothing while my neighborhood around me gets destroyed". A man offering mentorship for poor/troubled youth in the area. This is the kind of energy we need to see more of.

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Dave @techguydave.com · 02/06/2026

"I hope [council] reconsiders over the summer whether you should be up there in that seat" A resident is mad over the council president's track record

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Dave @techguydave.com · 02/06/2026

Here we go with public comment

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Dave @techguydave.com · 02/06/2026

On to the third special presentation....

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Dave @techguydave.com · 02/06/2026

They're recognizing a group of youth from each ward who participated in a program which gave them experience in how the city government works. Kudos to them! 👏🏽

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Dave @techguydave.com · 02/06/2026

8:05pm - Roll call started

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Dave @techguydave.com · 02/06/2026

They're showing signs of life now

Photo of council president Blaine Griffin standing at his desk reading a sheet of paper.

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Dave @techguydave.com · 02/06/2026

Just got word that the new start time is 8:00pm now. The week a bunch of people show up to speak out on some issues they have a lengthy meeting run over. By an hour.

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Dave @techguydave.com · 02/06/2026

Mayhaps they don't want to face their residents who want to speak out against datacenters and Flock? 🤔

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Dave @techguydave.com · 02/06/2026

The June 1st Cleveland City Council meeting is off to a great start! 40 minutes late so far and still no sign of starting. 🧵

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"How I used AI so I didn't have to think" is a weird flex. www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

Every year, thousands of people in the Twin Cities hunt for a medallion that’s been hidden in the snow somewhere in a public park.

And every night, the Pioneer Press, a local newspaper, publishes a cryptic clue, leading hunters closer and closer to the medallion’s exact location. Staying up late to digest each day’s new clue is a tradition in my household, and we dream of what we’d do with the thousands of dollars in winnings.

Usually that brainstorming carries into the next day. My husband and I text each other about whatever harebrained rabbit hole we’ve fallen into as we try to find the medallion. But this year, I used AI — specifically, an AI-powered web browser — to help me solve the mystery.

AI browsers put an AI chatbot right in your browser window; you don’t need to switch to another tab. When you start chatting, AI scans the browser window for context.

It sounds simple, yet it has fundamentally changed how I interact with AI.

For this task, instead of peppering my husband with theories, I queried a web browser with built-in AI. I asked it to make lists of parks with certain features, to find records related to the history of the county, and to poke holes in my wildest theories. And, of course, I asked it to give me its own theories on where the medallion might be hidden.

In the process, I found that AI was often better at treasure hunting, and I also found that having the chatbot right there helped me engage with the internet in a deeper way. The AI browsers often pulled from sources that I wouldn’t have thought to search, and they tailored their answers to my questions in a way that a source on Google might not. There was also no need to get distracted in other tabs and wander into distant corners of the internet.

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Dave @techguydave.com · 24/05/2026

Hey, how's everyone doing? 👋🏽 Make sure to check in on each other every once in a while.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Thanks @bikenewyork.bsky.social for a great Five Boro Bike Tour. It's another way to help people imagine Life After Cars.

black, white, and yellow sticker for life after cars held up by black glove beneath highway signs as cyclists are seen in background.

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Dave @techguydave.com · 29/04/2026

I asked someone if they have time later this week, thinking it was Tuesday. What are we doing, chat

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Solarpunk Auntie @solarpunk-auntie.myatproto.social · 22/04/2026

I voted for Harris, and I get scolded because I have sympathy for people who have given up on the current process.

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Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Big "oil" could have stayed in the energy business forever by using their scandalous profits to lavishly fund the kind of renewable energy research the Chinese politburo invested in. They could have sold essential technology all over the world. Instead, they bought bigger boats. Idiots.

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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I love scraping the ice off my windshield on (checks notes) April 20th.

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Dave @techguydave.com · 17/04/2026

That and/or concrete should fix the behavior real quick.

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Miles Brown @solidarity420.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Science literacy rates are at an all time low

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Dave @techguydave.com · 14/04/2026

Probably moreso. But I won't judge people paying a few bucks for a ticket to have even a sliver of a chance at the dream.

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Dave @techguydave.com · 14/04/2026

But it does increase. 0.000000001% > 0%

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Kelly “always on her bullshit”💅🏽 @kellymc4.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This is why the term “cognitive surrender” needs to start being used QUICKLY. It actually clearly defines what these fools want.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Sick and tired of grift posters who point out government happenings and tell us "this should terrify us all". No, fuck you, it should piss us off. Being scared of these electeds shouldn't be the default reaction. In a proper democracy, they should be terrified of going against the people.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

same Overton Window-shattering tactic he’s always used: Even if worst doesn’t happen tonight - rhetorically he’s opened up possibility of the unimaginable, making lesser (but still horrible) actions seem moderate by comparison… all increasing likelihood that one day the worst really will happen

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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I don’t think it’s possible to be a human with empathy and actually process the words “a whole civilization will die tonight” coming from someone with so much power.

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Dave @techguydave.com · 07/04/2026

35%. He's threatening to perform a massive war crime, quite possibly even pressing the big red button. And his approval rating is still at thirty-five motherfucking percent. Reconstruction 2.0 can't ever possibly go far enough but we sure should try.

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Dave @techguydave.com · 06/04/2026

Gonna plainly state this one more time: If too many people believe that this administration isn't following Project 2025 and/or assumes the rest of the plan won't or can't be implemented then we as a country deserve the fallout. They're telegraphing their moves FFS. Everyone should be active.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 06/04/2026

Transportation politics is about dragging people kicking and screaming into change that results fairly quickly in a widespread consensus that we can't imagine going back to the way it was before.

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Dave @techguydave.com · 06/04/2026

Who said I'm sitting by and hyperventilating? Don't you worry, I'm out here actually doing shit. My issue is apparently a bunch of you Blue MAGA types think this admin are just bumbling around instead of executing a well-laid plan.

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Dave @techguydave.com · 06/04/2026

Polling numbers and voting doesn't matter if they can just literally ignore democracy. Holy shit we're cooked if this is how people are still thinking in April 2026. We might actually deserve this downfall.

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Dave @techguydave.com · 06/04/2026

Yes, I know. I'm pointing that out to the people in this thread who apparently think they're LESS prepared this term than last.

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Dave @techguydave.com · 06/04/2026

Yet somehow still pulling off Project 2025. I cannot see how you're this blind to the level of competence it takes to plan and run it. I'm not calling the entire admin geniuses but you're underestimating the key puppetmasters in place this term. Trump isn't in charge anymore.

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Dave @techguydave.com · 06/04/2026

Last time they didn't have an entire playbook being executed by competent people. This time they do. We shouldn't ignore that, they've been staying pretty damn close to it so far.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

And most of it starts in America for the North never holding the South responsible from the Civil war

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Dave @techguydave.com · 05/04/2026

The most impressive part is that absolutely nothing will shake off the absurdly high 30% approval rating baseline. Not even this.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

If you're concerned about Bluesky being better, then I'd encourage you to Repost things you like and want others to see. Hitting Like doesn't do much here. Low effort PSA.

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QT 🔞 @forbiddenqt.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This one still fuckin kills me

Tweet from Sean Leahy @thepunningman

"The bond's Name. James Name"
Pleased to... what?
"Bond Name's the james"
Are you alright?
"Bames Nond's having a strong, call a Bondulance"

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fema 🚲 @fema.monster · 01/04/2026

THIS IS NOT A JOKE. Feed platforms need your help today. Server costs are high and prices are rising. If you enjoy custom feeds like Urbanism+ then please donate. These services are what powers your favorite feeds and their futures are being threatened. Or donate because you hate Attie 🔥

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

probably completely obvious but the reason Project Hail Mary is doing so well (apart from being very well made) is that it is all about problem-solving, cooperation, self-sacrifice, and forming deep relationships with those from far away. All values that people feel a desperate need for right now.

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

We need to develop and build affordable housing in our city, just not… in anyone’s backyard, laneway, front yard, along a corridor, never on an avenue, heritage supersede housing and we all understand that under utilized parking lots are the heart of the neighbourhood.

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Emmett Initiative @emmett.click · 26/03/2026

we’re not going to get anywhere until we stop letting companies pay millions in settlements instead of putting their leadership in fucking jail

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