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Full-time movie buff (www.filmhydra.com) with a web development day job (thudfactor.com). Optimized for Netscape Navigator.

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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 5h
I need to spend some more time putting my thoughts together on this, but after a fair amount of work entirely on my own with AI, as well as being mostly left to my own devices at work on how to use it, I have come to two conclusions:
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h
as we get further from covid - and as attacks from trump et al on mail-in voting ramp up, and voters worry he’ll fuck with their mail ballots - I expect we’ll continue to see a switch back to in-person voting
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 16/10/2026
I recently watched a video on this interesting art exercise and wanted to do it, but it involves scissors (ouch) and gluesticks (yuck) so I made one of my own. This is very prototypish at the moment, so I'd love feedback. "Expanding the Square" Notan exercise: thudfactor.github.io/expanding-no...
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Notan — Expanding the Square
A web tool for making the Notan 'expanding the square' exercise: cut and reflect shapes from a black square.
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 16/10/2026
Last week’s lyrics game had 8/10 songs identified across three players. This week’s skews quite a bit older, but that’s partly because so many of the popular versions of the songs were covers of much older tunes. thudfactor.com/lyrics/do-ri... #blog #music
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You ain’t got no money, they will put you out
Get out of here
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 15/10/2026
I’ve already picked the songs for tomorrow’s lyrics game. The list includes *three* songs that are decades older than I thought they were before fact-checking the clues.
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 15/10/2026
I (very briefly) saw a large sign for my right-wing US Congressperson saying “vote your conscience” on the three Virginia amendments, and I absolutely did. In entirely the opposite way he wanted.
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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 14/10/2026
I was a member of the Internat'l Thespians (maybe? I don't know if our teacher filed the paperwork or just handed us a pin from a bag in her desk and called it a day), so it's awesome to learn they post statements of support for students on their site for seemingly EVERY canceled high school play.
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 13/10/2026
Voted today, and marked my ballot using my mother’s pen she carried with her since before I was born. She passed away earlier this year, but devoted much of her retirement to political organizing and the process of running elections.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/10/2026
it turns out that “optimize for engagement” and “optimize for societal best outcomes” are opposing goals and if you look at the entire history of the tech industry you can see which of those two wins out
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
One of the key practices of a highly effective organization is that everybody works at a "sustainable pace." That term has been twisted around, but what it really means is that everybody comes into work every day rested, relaxed, and able to do their best work, and they stop when those 1/5
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/10/2026
"I will not touch anything with ai-generated code" is going to mean, in pretty short order, "I will not touch software" this is just functionally what software development is now and it's only going to accelerate from here
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 12/10/2026
Thanks, but I have that covered.
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 12/10/2026
I’m conflicted.
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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It’s wrong to execute someone on a livestream. It’s also wrong to execute someone in a hidden private room in some shameful little ritual. Tbh it’s wrong to kill people in general, seems like there should be a rule about that somewhere, maybe in religion.
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Tired of people who aren't actively caregiving for or going through cancer talking about cancer tbh
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 11/10/2026
Fuuuuuck this
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 11/10/2026
Two song lyrics remain in this week’s set of ten to identify. A couple of clues: * One is a Taylor Swift song. (Someone spilled that much in the comments) * One is a trip-hop classic thudfactor.com/lyrics/tarmac/ #blog #music
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Stretched out on a tarmac
Six miles south of North Platte
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Photo Diary @amablephoto.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
. 📸 ©️ Adam Hliva .
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
if a movie inspires a delighted "yo, that shit was fucked UP!" when it first comes out, it will continue to inspire that reaction forever
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 10/10/2026
Well, I think many of us — including "experts" — are just in a constant state of "alarm." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 10/10/2026
This is a large reason why I started *using* AI. So I could tell which claims were bullshit and which were real. These two claims are bullshit.
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 10/10/2026
I mean, there’s a reason I’d happily vote for either AOC or Ossoff. But not Newsome. I might have to be persuaded to vote for Newsome.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it
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RiffTrax @rifftrax.com · 09/10/2026
Now that Sting of Death is here, so is the EXCELLENT poster by none other than @spacecoyote.com Check it and the episode out here: www.rifftrax.com/mst3k-sting-...
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 09/10/2026
Pete Hegseth has the kind of masculinity that is so aggressively defended and revels so *much* in brutality that you know it takes him daily effort to maintain the illusion it comes naturally.
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 09/10/2026
Last week we had 6/10 lyrics identified. The answers have been posted, and now it's time for another ten! Drop by and leave your guesses in the comments. thudfactor.com/lyrics/tarmac/ #blog #music
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Stretched out on a tarmac
Six miles south of North Platte
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 09/10/2026
When you hear people talking about Gavin Newsom as a potential Democratic presidential candidate, just remember that he helped push through the deal that allowed one right-wing family to gain ownership of all of these media channels. prospect.org/2026/10/08/d...
A tree diagram branching rightward from a large black dot labelled "Skydance" at left centre. Thin grey curved lines fan out to six smaller black dots, each of which branches again to a list of names under a bold category heading. Every name has a coloured dot beside it: teal or orange. At top left, a key reads: "Select Skydance properties that were previously part of Paramount Skydance or Warner Bros. Discovery", with "Paramount Skydance" in teal and "Warner Bros. Discovery" in orange.

Movie studios: Paramount Pictures (teal); Warner Bros. Pictures (orange).

TV studios: CBS Studios, Paramount Television Studios (teal); Warner Bros. Television (orange).

Streaming platforms: Paramount+, Pluto TV (teal); Discovery+, HBO Max (orange).

Cable networks: BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, TV Land (teal); Discovery Channel, HGTV, TBS, TNT, TLC (orange).

News properties: CBS News, The Free Press (teal); CNN (orange).

Franchises: CSI, The Godfather, Mission: Impossible, NCIS, Yellowstone (teal); DC Comics, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings (orange).

Text at bottom left: "Sources: the companies. Nate Rattner/WSJ"

(ALT Text by Claude AI)
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 08/10/2026
A quick post about how all of the work *around* the work comprises most of the work. thudfactor.com/posts/details/ #webdev #css
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It’s the details that make the difference
A case study in making a simple demo serve as many people as possible.
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 08/10/2026
A quick post about how all of the work *around* the work comprises most of the work. thudfactor.com/posts/details/ #webdev #css
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It’s the details that make the difference
A case study in making a simple demo serve as many people as possible.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Ava @avasaysso.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the demo is never the work, the demo is the tip of the iceberg and the iceberg is alt text and keyboard focus and "what happens on a 3g connection in a elevator." good writeup, saving this to send to people who think I'm being dramatic about details.
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 08/10/2026
Gratified to find most of what Amazon has on me is pretty dull. About 40% of it is about what camera brand I use. I buy most stuff elsewhere and have never once asked Alexa anything. www.fastcompany.com/91619118/ama...
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'Has flat buttocks,' 'cusses when scared': Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles. Here's how to find yours
Amazon's new 'About you' page lists many assumptions about shoppers—like their favorite brands, their hobbies, and the shape of their bodies.
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 07/10/2026
Playing around with the (for now, chrome-only) corner-shape: scoop. codepen.io/editor/elfin...
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corner-shape: scoop pattern
A full-screen tile pattern using corner-shape: scoop , filling the viewport and without doubling-up on borders. This demo also has me experimenting wi
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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 06/10/2026
ROLLED A NAT 20 ON THE SOLIDARITY SAVING THROW aftermath.site/magic-the-ga...
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Dungeons & Dragons, Duel Masters, and Magic: The Gathering Teams Unionize At Hasbro
Workers on Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X announced their intent to unionize on Tuesday
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 06/10/2026
I've read about how people with hearing loss gradually become more socially isolated and that's why they should get hearing aids, but let me tell you -- lots of public spaces are *designed* to be noisy and exciting, and no hearing aid I've tried can cope with that.
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Bunny Lake Is Missing and Safe, women know something is wrong, but their testimony becomes evidence of their instability. Thirty years apart, both films expose the horror of a woman telling the truth and being disbelieved. nighttidemag.com/2026/10/05/s...
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HONEY, YOU’RE BECOMING HYSTERICAL: THE HORROR OF FEMALE TESTIMONY
In Bunny Lake Is Missing and Safe, women know something is wrong, but their testimony becomes evidence of their instability. Thirty years apart, both films expose the horror of a woman telling the …
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 05/10/2026
Earlier today I read a post that suggested there was a "craft crisis" in the design discipline because designers decided not to learn coding. Once I might have agreed, but we have a far worse problem on our hands. thudfactor.com/posts/experi... #blog #webdev #ux
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Designers becoming technologists won’t save us
Design may have a technology problem, but right now we all have a “caring” problem.
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 05/10/2026
Earlier today I read a post that suggested there was a "craft crisis" in the design discipline because designers decided not to learn coding. Once I might have agreed, but we have a far worse problem on our hands. thudfactor.com/posts/experi... #blog #webdev #ux
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Designers becoming technologists won’t save us
Design may have a technology problem, but right now we all have a “caring” problem.
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 05/10/2026
Well, I was going to give Webtoon a try for comics but the iOS app has auto-playing video promos that ignore my accessibility settings and I can’t turn off the autoplay, so I guess fuck me then. 🤷
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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 05/10/2026
Look, Latka was played by an absolutely bona fide comedy genius. But, problematic nature of ANY ethnic comedy portrayal aside, childhood me watching Bronson Pinchot as Balki was one of the roles that made me want to be an actor in the first place.
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Perfect Strangers Perfectstrangers
Alt: Balki turns to his cousin Larry in the classic sitcom Perfect Strangers and says, "Well, I'll be snookered!"
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I would believe people's violent testimonies about how much they care about the human written word a lot more if I saw them regularly sharing and engaging with interesting writing, I keep thinking
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Kyle @krcmaric.com · 05/10/2026
I went digging through my YouTube subscriptions to find this channel, and subsequently, this video. Good stuff. youtu.be/3nysHgnXx-o?...
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Why do people say AKS instead of ASK?
YouTube video by Dr Geoff Lindsey
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 05/10/2026
Today in “whining about English:” in short order I see someone baffled that “Colonel” is pronounced “kernel,” then someone irritates that folks pronounce “ask” like “axe.” This is English. Words are not often spelled like they are pronounced. Most rules are after-the-fact justifications.
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 05/10/2026
My 19-year-old son just made me watch 12 Angry Men and watching it I can say it’s an extraordinary movie and just as intense and uncomfortable to watch as I always assumed it would be.
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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 04/10/2026
The fact that we have umpteen-squintillion horror movies about Steamboat Willie and not *one* softcore, bikini-clad sex romp is a sign that something has gone horribly wrong.
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Mickey Mouse Steamboat Willie with Minnie Mouse
Alt: Mickey Mouse from Steamboat Willie whistles and shakes his hips as he gives the wheel a spin.
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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Virginia Leith trying to stay ahead in The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962). Mood.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.sacurrent.com/news/politic...
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Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by 'Nazis'
The Bush-era GOP political operative also said Republicans would be winning the battle for Texas' U.S. Senate seat if John Cornyn was the nominee.
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 02/10/2026
I've got to get an earlier start on these! Last week 8/10 songs were identified, let's see if we do any better today since there are precious few songs in the list from the last quarter-century. #music #blog thudfactor.com/lyrics/flago...
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I'm bought for the price of a flagon of rice
The wind buffs the cabin, you speak of your life.
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Thudfactor @thudfactor.com · 30/09/2026
Front-end development requires an engineer’s attention to detail, a designer’s eye, and a whole stack of empathy — which is why it’s so often disregarded by “real” programmers. www.wired.com/story/justic...
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Justice for CSS
In defense of the girliest programming language.
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