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Matthew Frank

@tightheadpop.bsky.social
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I build people, teams, and organizations that build software. Besserwisser. Sophisticated honky, gringo. He/they/y’all

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 4h
The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Friendship is about community too and I aint trying to be friends with someone with anti-community beliefs. If a belief you have would implicitly or explicitly lead to less people thriving in our "community" its an "anti-community" belief.
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“You’re 45, so it’s time to get a colonoscopy.” Cold. Impersonal. Uninspiring. “Two score and five autumns have cooled your brow, so we must search your corn-maze for haunts.” Mysterious. Fun. Seasonal.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The economy is now so bad that MAGA can’t even afford to rent the libs.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Spoiler alert and whatnot. You don't have to completely understand how someone lives their life in order to LET someone live their life.
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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 17/09/2026
Who run Beautytown?
A very old-fashioned yellow shingle for a business called MASTER BLASTER HAIR CARE. I took this picture in Cincinnati, Ohio
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It is truly wild to see a software company do press releases about their software being shitty, unpredictable, and unreliable like that's a good thing. We have a word for this, and it's malware.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We must stop these socialists before they tell companies who they can and can't hire, threaten executives into giving the government part ownership of their companies, pick winners and losers through selective tariffs, subsidies, and regulation, and dictate private sector personnel and HR policy.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
CBS Miami got the actual grand jury report implicating Ashely Moody and Ron DeSantis in stealing Medicaid funds to put into political campaign. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/08/2026
i do think a lot of mainstreamers have missed the ball on how musk has moved past "rich guy with funny opinions on race science" and into "literally just a nazi"
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/08/2026
BUTLERIAN JIHAD NOW
LIVE
BREAKING NEWS

JUDITH BUTLER BEGINS HOLY WAR

QUOTED AS SAYING "THE AGE OF THINKING MACHINES IS AT AN END"
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Love how this dude discovered the cheat codes of "what if I listened to constituents" and "what if I modeled good behavior" and "maybe I behave like a normal person should." These are apparently dark secrets that have been hidden from other politicians.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
People are SUFFERING. We have to stop acting like everything is okay. It’s not okay. The conditions under which we ALL are living are killing us.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Disappointed to see this from him, I thought he was dead.
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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Trump administration wants to bail out private equity landlords, the same ones who pad their leases with junk fees they can raise at any time, leading to thousands of evictions. prospect.org/2026/08/14/t...
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Trump’s Planned Landlord Bailout Would Funnel Billions to Private Equity - The American Prospect
A Justice Department settlement for the COVID eviction moratorium won’t just go to mom-and-pop owners.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 13/08/2026
The world’s most visible white African chose Africa to be the locus of his vendetta against humanity That’s not an accident… that’s the synthesis of white supremacist ideology and the fulcrum of totalitarianism
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
Who counts as being part of a society and subject to its protections can *never* be assumed. Who gets to be counted as a *human being* cant even be assumed in perpetuity. Cant get caught lackin.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 06/08/2026
Every single Republican and gender critical person, including JK Rowling, supports this happening to you. They brag about building a future in which this type of humilating incident is common.
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Man, we are about to see some *crazy* panicked attempts at voter suppresion in this state
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The original sin of software development
Infographic comparing two views of software development. On the left, a complete feedback loop surrounds a central business goal ("Reduce missed medication doses"). The loop flows through six stages: Understand → Specify → Build → Ship → Learn → Adapt, showing that each shipped increment is an experiment whose real-world feedback informs the next iteration. On the right, a contrasting diagram shows a limited view of development as only Specify → Build → Ship, enclosed in a dashed red outline labelled as the process many teams mistakenly optimise. Beneath it, a warning explains that this narrow focus leads to local optimisation, including building the wrong thing faster, more work in progress, delayed feedback, misalignment with business goals, and little real progress. The overall message is to optimise the whole learning loop, not just software production.
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Matthew Frank @tightheadpop.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
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Just The One, Please.
ALT: Just The One, Please.
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Matthew Frank @tightheadpop.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What’s your sign?
A laminated paper sign that reads 
“CAUTION: Future Salad Bar”
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It's basically the homicide equivalent of Trump scandals: there are so many, every day, that people tune out Police have killed 708 people so far in 2026. That's an average of ~3.4 killings per day, every day, for each of the 208 days we've had so far
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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It should be illegal for public officials to sign NDAs regarding public business and the use of public money. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
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How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (Gift Article)
A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/07/2026
North Carolina’s Lawrence Academy has never reported Black enrollment higher than 3% in a county whose population hovers around 60% Black. It received $518,240 in vouchers in the 2023-2024 school year to fund 86 of its over 200 students. (Published Nov. 2024)
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Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Isn’t it amazing the way life can seem too short, and intrinsically magical, yet at the same time feel like a long, uphill road, potholed with fuckwits?
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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
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Matthew Frank @tightheadpop.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
youtu.be/COMWwwv_MTk?...
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Cibo Matto - Know Your Chicken (Video)
YouTube video by Warner Records Vault
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Matthew Frank @tightheadpop.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Every five minutes without a goal, another ball is added to the field
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026
We fucked up because we took culture away from kids and fed them algorithms.
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privateideation.bsky.social @privateideation.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I want old school Chicago throat slitting. You don’t just punish your enemies, you privilege your friends and clear space for your enemies enemies. Example: have the UAW write a bill that encourages mechanics at dealerships to unionize and get auto industry support by adding direct sales. 1/
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 14/07/2026
It's no longer about whether it could be you... that is no longer the issue at hand... it's a matter of moral clarity it shouldn't have to be you, look like you, or be close to you ... to activate your advocacy because that's how morality works
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The news should be covering ICE like a serial killer on the loose
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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Many GOP representatives quite often are just clumsily aping the degeneracy of their base to get ahead: the degenerate base - millions and millions of people - are the intractable problem.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It is really wild how much Black causes have been completely abandoned or lowered in priority by many Dems and many people, from moderates to progressives to the left. As we enter fascism, we can’t keep our eyes off the core of how we got here. Not to mention simply not abandoning Black people.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Mitch McConnell is one of the very worst Americans of this century, a force of selfishness and spite who laid waste to our political institutions and social stability like no foreign enemy ever could.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
All the more reason it's in our national security interests to tax billionaires into millionaires
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I saw The Blair Witch Project way too young and it made me afraid of projects
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It's wild that we were one or two SCOTUS judge votes away from ICE being authorized to deport any U.S. citizen who was born in America whose parents aren't American citizens. Seriously f*ck every one of you who voted for Trump in 2016.
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Live updates: Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship and ruled states can ban transgender athletes from playing on girls sports teams. Follow for live updates.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Qualified immunity is a Calvinball nonsense doctrine, woven ex nihilo by the US Supreme Court Its sole purpose is to protect government officials from the consequences of their own bad decisions, when they violate the rights of the citizenry It has no basis in any law passed by Congress 1/
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 29/06/2026
And nobody cares except us. I’m on like six unemployed black woman listservs, where everyone’s freaking out, and nobody’s like “I’m running on trying to get y’all jobs.” It’s like we’re being erased from American society.
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Flat Pluto Coven @adhdgobl.in · 28/06/2026
Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence.
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 28/06/2026
This is what they wanted They looked at their Black neighbors and said "fuck you, even it costs me" And they voted accordingly This one of the bleakest, most recent, examples of the idea that republicans AREN'T voting against their interests, you just didnt understand what their interests are
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Matthew Frank @tightheadpop.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I have specifically tried to buy a Toyota 3 or 4 times since the 90s and I have never owned one. The sales process and dealer add-on extortion racket just don’t mesh with my principles.
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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I think we just passed oops.
A timeline of climate change concern.
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