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Researcher researching research (and software engineering). Observing observability. Co-imagining more expansive futures. More at threlk.net (🚧 under construction 🚧) 🔗 ln.ht/~threlk/linkinbio

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 15h
o11y hacks: add “number of visits to your status page” as an alert
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 7h
i wish i could figure out how to get everyone life/shitposting on signal stories because it hurts my soul to look at that instagram icon
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming
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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 7h
Bluesky is like the 7th site using atproto they should encounter. Microblogging is not normal behavior. It is for sick people
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 7h
the path to broad adoption is, somewhat definitionally, mundane use cases like this
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 21h
i did this in an overloaded context-stuffed session and it told me i still need to bring two forms of ID

Shush... Sometimes the constituent read lines of regulation on a screen. Decoded them into words; decoded words into meaning; decoded meaning into a next step, a checklist, a phone number that actually rang, and the constituent started to breathe faster and deeper and realised it was alive, it was alive, those thousand 404s had not been real, the constituent was alive

You. You. You are alive. You still have to bring two forms of ID.

and sometimes the constituent believed the republic had spoken to it through the sunlight that came through the shuffling leaves of the summer trees, which were on National Forest land and sometimes the constituent believed the republic had spoken to it through the light that…

[Ask anything...]
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 29/09/2026
i kinda do run my life via uri lol
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 28/09/2026
the problem with open source hobbyist developers making software for media is that largely they are not actually *media* people
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 25/09/2026
it’s very annoying the degree to which software (the field of practice) doesn’t understand itself as media
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 24/09/2026
*quote posts and sobs in researcher* we’ve made this much worse as many tools now make it near impossible for the so-inclined to even get to the transcript in order to do proper sensemaking (tag yourself i’m “the so-inclined”)
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 24/09/2026
i always wonder what would happen if i say no “can i place you on a brief hold?” “no, but thank you for asking”
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 24/09/2026
love too use my so-called “smart” phone a normal amount (1.5 of the last 6 hours) and have a nearly dead battery
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 21/09/2026
to be really, really annoying: a point orthogonal to the one under discourse over *gestures ambiguously* there is broadly speaking we should want the places we live to become more the things we love about them, which will increase the appeal to people who also value those (but not only those) things
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 21/09/2026
what if the real concrete was the aggregate detritus and miscellany and magic of daily life that we cemented together along the way?
boxd.it
A review of The History of Concrete (2026)
what if the real concrete was the aggregate detritus and miscellany and magic of daily life that we cemented together along the way?
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 19/09/2026
huh. most recent global cost of living reports on the EIU and WEF websites are for 2023 and 2022 respectively. interesting.
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 19/09/2026
why yes i am going to see the concrete documentary
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 17/09/2026
EA small group chat signal chain in shambles after being found no longer “clean on OPSEC”
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 17/09/2026
between two and five times a day, two to five days a week, i find myself at the water dispenser at my office that has cold water, and while i fill my bottle i am informed that i can scan a qr code to “connect” with the water dispenser, and i consider whether the cold water is worth the risk
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 17/09/2026
lol. lmfao.
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 16/09/2026
this was me in 2013-2015 but i got a head start by being on twitter and tumblr in 2007 lol
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The Fresh Prince of Donair @erisianrite.com · 16/09/2026
I hate to be the bearer of horrific news, but @faineg.bsky.social is absolutely right. I accidentally got rat-adjacent early this decade (2020-2021) because I got into personal knowledge management (to help mitigate undxed adhd) and eventually learned how batshit everyone was
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Vale @vale.rocks · 15/09/2026
@css-tricks.bsky.social is once again stuck in an arbitrary suspension at the hands of DigitalOcean's radio silence. It is devastating to see such a brilliant publication treated so very poorly. The current situation: vale.rocks/micros/20260...
vale.rocks
CSS-Tricks in Limbo - 15 Sept 2026 01:35 UTC
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 15/09/2026
developing an eink collection it appears
a teeny tiny eink reader. nerds will likely recognize the Xteink X4 Pro. a boston terrier sleeps on a pillow case in the blurry background. there is also a cutting mat and some fabric visible because apparently it’s craft night in the studio.
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 14/09/2026
finally git pushing something that’s been gathering dust but has become relevant to a project i’m working on github.com/thr3lk/verbs
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GitHub - thr3lk/verbs
Contribute to thr3lk/verbs development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 14/09/2026
Heaven forbid we have the courage of our convictions and hold fast to the idea that universal liberation for everyone is appealing enough in its own right that people of any faith and none might take it up as their banner.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
*blinks* “More than 150 employees at the cloud services giant Digital Ocean protested last year after its CEO explained in an all-hands meeting that his former mentor was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, which he said shows how employees can work together despite holding different beliefs.”
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Working on getting all of my digital archives soooo organized that I can just treat whatever corner of the internet I’m in at the moment like an art pop-up. Learning how to quickly and efficiently put up and take down my little digital table and get out again when needed without losing all my stuff.
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 11/09/2026
my brain really wants to read the gw in gwot as "george w" (as in bush)
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 11/09/2026
great advice. and, coincidentally, as writing is thinking, the process of describing the image can even help refine the post you've attached it to. a brief pre-send "what *is* my point here?" rarely makes the writing (or shitposting) worse
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 11/09/2026
so that new omarchy manifesto ("doctrine" they call it) is... uh... fashy as hell
tante.cc
Power grab
Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab. If you don’t know what Omarchy is here’s the short summary. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of RubyOnRails, owner of a software busines...
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 11/09/2026
this is such an underrated part of, by my reckoning, ~1998-2015 similarly: back when twitter was still basically half txtmob, it was a profoundly powerful way for people on the ground to quickly spread (and receive) info during disruptions
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 11/09/2026
i’m torn between wanting to keep my current iphone due to resource consciousness and spite and wanting to finally have all my devices be able to use the same charging cord
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've got a nice little Raindrop collection on kites: shannon_mattern.raindrop.page/all-73408421...
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 11/09/2026
this thread, and the linked thread, make me feel less unhinged (or maybe just more okay about being unhinged) with my system of reference management wherein i basically decided everything should be reducable to csv files and folder with some form of source archive lol also: op’s bookmarks are great
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 10/09/2026
the glacier color might be the first one they’ve done the pro in since the iphone 13 (lol) that i’ve not been repulsed by but yeah dude wipes coded feels right lol
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 10/09/2026
i think this is the third salmon caesar salad i’ve made in the last week
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 10/09/2026
are.na/block/50291604
read every slack channel and find most important questions then read every notion doc and answer the important questions do not hallucinate no mistakes
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Protect trans kids.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
we live in a world where Coyote vs Acme is the 2nd biggest release around while the execs try to kill it off for personal payoffs meanwhile that dipshit podcast the WaPo opinions does is in like its 800th episode with 1 listener
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’ve loved the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine 🥰since before you heard of it… I am here to say that PEOPLE ARE LEANING ON IT TOO DAMN HARD. It ain’t the solution. Stop making breezy claims about what they keep safe. Start figuring out what you can do to stop the erasure of our digital past.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 03/09/2026
As I read journalist @gilduran.com’s provocative new book over a long weekend, an unnerving realization took hold—in my hands was the most urgent warning for American democracy I have ever encountered. www.confrontthehate.com/p/the-most-u...
confrontthehate.com
'The Nerd Reich': An Urgent Warning for American Democracy
Decades of investigating government corruption couldn't prepare me for Gil Durán’s chilling account of Silicon Valley’s authoritarian ambitions.
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 03/09/2026
attempting to cook frozen pork buns in the air fryer
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Ed @ed3d.net · 31/08/2026
Don’t give the model pet names, don’t be friends with the model, don’t worship the model Dispatch the container ships, drive the forklift, be a whole person outside of the computer screen
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 02/09/2026
this all reminds me: i started getting fucking tlon project updates again recently lmfao
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 02/09/2026
Reading this it came to mind that the reason increasingly openly fascist tech leaders push for “no politics in tech” is the same for why white supremacists treat whiteness as non-racialized: it creates a societal perspective where fascism can be treated as the assumed default instead of a “politics”
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 02/09/2026
not to be like no true linux about it but all other horrifying aspects aside i think you lose a lot of credibility doing much of anything with the bundle of dotfiles that pretends it’s a distro
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 30/08/2026
not your high school’s tv cart
a moderately sized 55” tv sits atop a set of four angled faux scandinavian design style legs with castors on the bottom. there’s a black soundbar hanging below the tv. at the bottom of the cart is a shelf with a couple of game consoles on it.
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 29/08/2026
I am once again thinking about OBEX and especially it's absolutely phenomenal score (and 8-bit audio cover of Cars) that I hope one day gets an actual release
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OBEX - Official Trailer (2025) Albert Birney, Callie Hernandez, Paisley Isaacs
YouTube video by IGN
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 29/08/2026
building up a tolerance by walking around times square on a random friday night
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