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People on bluesky - follow @ap.brid.gy if you want me to be able to follow you back. Ⓐ🏴 software engineer and occasional street food vendor. Sincereposter in […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@thomasjwebb, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 8h

The twin problems with media beloved by nerds - 1) There's too much of it and I'm too overwhelmed to get into it 2) there's not enough of it and now I'm emotionally invested in something they never made a sequel for

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 9h

[Death and dementia] @JessTheUnstill my grandma put in an advanced directive around the time she started having symptoms. She knew what was going on at first at least. But of course she was too Catholic to end her own life. If I'm not completely blindsided by it, my plan is to do what she […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Here is the scam: * ask an LLM to generate a document that seems like advice on how to get more customers for MLM sellers * ask it to make it seems like exclusive secret information that can be applied easily online * list your advice document for sale on facebook marketplace targeting agents […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 29/09/2026

@kahuxtable.bsky.social Yama Uba is one of my favorite modern acts. I got to see them when they played in Kyoto, where they played a song from that new album.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep ErinReed Ky Gov. Andy Beshear, who vetoed a sports ban in in a state Trump carried by 30% and is likely presidential nominee, tells CNN's Jake Tapper he has one message for Dems: "We don't throw anybody under the bus." www.erininthemorning.com/p/ky-gov-bes...

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KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”

The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 29/09/2026

I love this time of the year (in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere). It's finally cold enough I don't get uncomfortably hot when hiking but it's almost too cold when I start. It's a great time to spend all day outdoors and experience the whole range of temperatures nature offers […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 29/09/2026

If any friends in LA want to meet up with me, I'll be down there multiple times this month! I'll be at #GameSoundCon 20-21 and #MusicTectonics the following week. I'm also going to be in SoCal this coming week...

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 28/09/2026

I don't want to poo poo anything that gets results. If it's really true that the only way to preserve some legal integrity to the FOSS community's strategy of working within the system is to be assholes to maintainers then I guess that's what we have to do. But that approach comes with real […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 28/09/2026

I'm worried about this pattern of people assuming the absolute worst of open source projects, even ones who eventually do the right thing. Believe me, I tend to assume the worst of humanity, but there are real costs to harassing maintainers before double-checking that what they're seeing is […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 28/09/2026

RE: spore.social/@kzodasnowman/11732420… Fucker's literally just a Republican

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 28/09/2026

Bot-jacketing real humans is an evil that cannot be blamed solely on big tech companies working on making dead internet theory true. The individuals doing this kind of trolling are also the problem. They're contributing to a general cynicism where people stop caring what's real altogether.

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 28/09/2026

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social I think part of what people are worried about are the evils that come from trusting it too much, so that might end up creating an incentive to downplay its capabilities, even though capability can also be an evil (like when machine learning helps oppressive states […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 28/09/2026

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social I think the can't do math observation is a genuine experience people have though, because there's such a huge range of quality, where people who can code (which includes mathematicians) can get a lot more out of it.

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 28/09/2026

Peter Thiel says what I already knew a lot of people believe - that evil is at least competent because it means that you're doing something. This probably makes him well-loved by the vast swaths of people who are evil because they uselessly sit back and allow wicked people to get their way […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Complex software behaving in unexpected and sometimes harmful ways has been a persistent problem since software was invented. The phenomenon used to be called “bugs” or “defects”, but I guess “going rogue” sounds cooler. It also implicitly frames “rogue” behavior as some kind of inexplicable […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 26/09/2026

@aaronrosspowell.com I think a big part of their confusion also comes from the inverse - they think lack of expressed language comes from lack of internal experience.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I'm kind of obsessed with this old puzzle. You need to move the piano to the lower LEFT corner by sliding the pieces. Curious if anyone has done any math things with such tile puzzles? It's easy to move it to the lower right, and possible but kind of hard to […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

An "promotional" wooden puzzle from the Argonne van and storage co. It is nearly 100 years old. You slide rectangular blocks labeled as boxes.

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 26/09/2026

@futurebird cleaning up around the libs because the HOA requires it

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 26/09/2026

@eri transphobia offends me more as a biology nerd than as a trans person. It's like fingernails on chalk hearing people describe biology of all things as "immutable" and "binary." On what planet?!

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Aaron D. Proctor @racetoperu.neocities.org · 26/09/2026

Bruno Kramm of Das Ich has passed away, per Reddit. www.reddit.com/r/industrial...

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 26/09/2026

@skinnylatte I just looked it up and of the three citizenships my kids now have, the one with the weakest passport is the US, lol.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 25/09/2026

I have not paid attention to the story about the lesbian bar and still don't really know what the story was, but apparently Jesse Singal was the one who first pushed it. He is basically Chaya Raichik, but gets taken more seriously by mainstream outlets. It's fucking always him.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Given that cops have been admitting to using Flock cameras to surveil, stalk, and harass women they know--- and in some cases, were in relationships with--- I have more questions.

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 25/09/2026

Oh I also have to issue a correction for something I said a while ago. “Turtle Island” does NOT refer to The Americas as a whole, just the continent of North America.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 25/09/2026

To me, flora and fauna is a good indicator. The Americas were wildly different from each other until they got connected and that was a whole thing. S. America actually had more connections to Australia (via Antarctica, when it was much more habitable). It was the land of marsupials and terror […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 25/09/2026

I didn't realize until a few years ago that in many parts of the world The Americas is considered a single continent. And I don't care much one way or another about that in isolation, because "continent" is an arbitrary concept. However, it makes no sense to turn all of The Americas into a […]

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Chris Lombardi @chrisaintmarchin.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy. www.wsj.com/politics/policy/rfk-jr-…

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 25/09/2026

@JessTheUnstill never in the public “debates” about trans women in sports do they even consider the possibility that trans women are at a disadvantage (and there’s evidence for this). They barely even seem to be considering no advantage as a possibility.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 25/09/2026

[me bemoaning my electrolysis situation again, boring] The other thing that sucks aside from insurance not paying for electro for me because of loopholes and fraud is that all the electrologists near me are booked solid. I love my electrologist but even if money wasn't an object, I'd probably […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 24/09/2026

@thevhswizard is there some good software that already exists that could be the basis for this, perhaps with a new frontend?

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 24/09/2026

@aaronrosspowell.com I also worry that mainstream people who only think in terms of the partisan duopoly are blissfully unaware of red-brownists and fascist entryism.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 24/09/2026

One thing that encourages me is that despite individual Democrats capitulating on trans rights, I think if the polling holds, we will elect the most pro-trans congress and senate in US history.

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 24/09/2026

@sarahjeong.bsky.social this is the problem with traveling while elderly or with medical conditions. Maybe one can withstand everything going right, but not what you just went through.

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Kory Bing @korybing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Watching the new @miniminuteman.bsky.social video about the abrupt and stupid decision of Drexel University to close the Academy of Natural Sciences, and I was mad about it before and now I'm REALLY mad about it www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxyf...

The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 24/09/2026

RE: kolektiva.social/@QueerSatanic/1173… The problem with antisemitism (and bigotry towards Palestinians, and any other kind of bigotry) isn't just that you might offend someone. Somehow, leftists have regressed to having the same understanding of this as Trump supporters.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026

Political winds do not only flow from voters to politicians, they go in reverse as well. Democrats running ads like these signal to the general public and their voter base that this issue now has support by both parties, and that hating trans people is publicly acceptable. They do harm to us.

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 23/09/2026

@erininthemorning.com and the more money there is in politics, the truer this is. We (trans activists) don't have the budget to randomly run pro-trans rights ads.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 22/09/2026

RE: mas.to/@zzt/117315981046837397 Well shit, that's unfortunate. I don't think most nerd organizations have a good immunity system against entryists so maybe the foss community was always a ticking time-bomb. It's just weird how much a branch of machine learning has become a catalyst […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 22/09/2026

Has anyone ever gotten a meaningful discount from one of those employee benefit discount things (e.g., PerkSpot)? Like, if you buy a coupon book from some borderline scammy fundraiser for, like, a high school soccer team, those are actual coupons that will actually lower the price of the product […]

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it's not notable or new that reactionary straight white male bounders get in their feelings when marginalized people achieve recognition of any kind. it is notable that the NYT is printing pro segregationist gibberish in support of an openly white nationalist administration. 1

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 21/09/2026

Support for anti-trans politics is linked to authoritarianism more generally (see Riley's Law). I think that is key to understanding how strongly that's associated with paternalism and law-and-order crap among anti-trans Dems. They don't want anti-maga sentiment to turn into anti-systems […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 21/09/2026

One good thing us tech nerds can do to staunch the damage done by political campaigns is to assist people in ad blocking. No one actually wants to see ads, especially the vitriolic, repetitive campaign ads. In a moment where there is a massive anti-maga backlash in the US electorate, the […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 21/09/2026

I need to go camping soon or, failing that, something that involves camping chairs and dirt and me experiencing both temperature extremes.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 20/09/2026

When homophobes are caught being queer, it's almost never in a wholesome way but something more sinister, involving power imbalances, exacerbated by the darkness they promote politically. So of fucking course Boebert's likely bisexuality is expressed in an evil way (improper relationships with […]

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quasisocial 🏴 @quasisocial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

THIS IS NOT A DRILL I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL very very exciting

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · 20/09/2026

Mary Peltola is saying she doesn't "want men in women's bathrooms." It used to be that GOP governors would veto anti-trans bathroom bills. Just last week maga Democrats were telling trans people to calm down and suggesting that anyone who would say that Democrats will make things worse is "not […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 20/09/2026

In a dream sequence I had last night, a travelogger made a video "Are You Guilty of Whenaboutism?" And it was just about people bringing up trips they went on while someone is talking about a totally different trip they were on. And I mashed that share button to say dammit, I'm guilty of this […]

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