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Tim Weigel

@timweigel.bsky.social
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Getting along like Unicode in an ASCII file. In a love/hate (but mostly love) relationship with Alabama, Mobile in particular. I like SQL. And, of course, EVERYTHING I post here is on my own behalf, speaking only for myself, etc. unless explicitly stated

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Michael W|Warren Lucas @mwl.io · 11h
I have a medical issue coming that's going to limit my keyboarding for a couple months, so I need to try dictation again. Native MacOS dictation is kind of crap. What are folks using for long document dictation on their Macs? #writing
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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 12h
The other day, @gruber.foo posted a short post about the MagSafe Duo. I've still got mine, and it's a permanent part of my travel kit. The only complaint I have (and it's not much of one) is that the rubbery outer casing material has discolored over time. It’s otherwise in perfect shape.
From left to right: a coiled USB-C Lightning charge cable with a black Velcro tie sits next to a folded MagSafe Duo charger, and the leftmost keys of an Apple wireless keyboard are visible on the right. The MagSafe Duo’s casing is noticeably discolored with age compared to the white Lightning cable and keyboard keys.An unfolded MagSafe Duo charger showing the iPhone and Watch charging pads. The discoloration of the outer materials is in sharp contrast to the white charging pads and keyboard keys.A MagSafe Duo charger with the Watch charging pads flipped up, with an Apple Watch Ultra series 1 on the pad. The Watch has a weathered green Alpine Loop wristband. An Apple Wireless Keyboard is visible on the right.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/01/2026
"ai" is not a genie that can't be put back in a bottle, it's a pillar of smoke that dissipates unless you keep burning money
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/09/2026
"we can't uninvent this" we can't uninvent my car either but it still doesn't go anywhere without gas in the tank
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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 25/09/2026
After making my definitive laser-based ranking of Steven Universe gems, I have one question: Is writer Rebecca Sugar into lasers? Because if not, it's a helluva coincidence. www.aiweirdness.com/do-they-even...
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Do they even lase? Definitive ranking of Steven Universe gems by a laser scientist
Do they even lase? A laser scientist ranks Steven Universe characters, from D-tier all the way to S-tier, and proposes a few more characters and fusions.
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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 24/09/2026
I haven't come here for fundraising in a while but our trans health program needs $$ for adult patient surgery letters. We can't write, but refer& fund, and are trying to help people as fast as possible. We had more than 400 visits since Jan, and many of them are hoping to take this next step. TY!
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Help us support our trans patients
Gender affirming care is more than just appointments Obtaining affirming care when you are trans is not easy in Alabama. Hormones are banned until a person is 19 years of age, there are very few provi...
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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 25/09/2026
Reupping this one more time for traction. This fund is for letters for insurance approvals for surgery, mental health support from experienced trans-focused providers and wrap around needs like ubers to appointments, medication supports and more...
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the sign in front of the local Bob Evan’s says “have banana pudding for breakfast” and i could only think “here we are in this very problematic year of twenty twenty-six and look at Bob out here just providing solutions”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago
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Graham Annable @grickle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Seasonal threat. #grickledoodle #fall #autumn #horror #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor
Leaf-covered humanoid made of autumn leaves perches in a bare tree while two children on the pavement stare in alarm; caption reads, "The children had always been warned to watch out for the 'Fall Guy'."
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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Normalize taking a sick day for mental health
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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I built some tools as a pilot back in May, and the leads didn't want them because they said they were too complicated to learn. A colleague re-implemented a subset, but less well, and the leads can't stop talking about how great and smart my colleague is.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Grateful for those of you who react with surprise when learning that Alabama taxes groceries, as it's a reminder that this isn't normal.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My column this week. It’s great to see the emerging consensus that the Alabama grocery tax should be fired into the sun. But Alabama’s entire tax system falls heaviest on those least able to pay, and lightly on those who can.
alabamareflector.com
The grocery tax must go. But Alabama's tax system needs a complete overhaul. | Alabama Reflector
Alabama taxes people based largely on how important the state government views them. And that makes life in this state more expensive.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yep and it's why a lot of "trad" men absolutely do not want to be with trad women. Trad women come with responsibility & delayed gratification. That's an instant non-starter for a lot of these dudes. Just one reason the tradwife craze is so gross.
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Pandy Fackler 🍂 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
hope you brought urine!
A doormat in target that says how you brought wine in cursive but it really looks like hope you brought urine
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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The mug warmer I got for my desk continues to be one of the best purchases I've ever made. Highly recommended if you are slow in drinking your hot beverage of choice while at your desk, but want it to remain hot without the occasional trip to the microwave.
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batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Pretty done with stories about dudes snogging chicks who were drugged unconscious—let’s return to simpler tales where if a guy saw a chick bathing naked, she turned him into a stag and set his own hounds on him to rip him limb from limb.
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Andy Clark, Nerdling Herder @andycruns.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
John Candy in Home alone saying 

We can take you to Chicago, we’re driving to Milwaukee. You see we’ve just pulled out of ed sheeran’s tour…
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026
True story.
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jason. @vagrantmachine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Four of my favorite spaces along the Oregon Coast. Find your spaces, people. 📷: Oregon (various)
A color photo taken of a stretch of beach along the Oregon Coast. Clouds rolling in.A color photo of a coastal scene along the Central Oregon Coast. Tidepools make up the foreground.A color photo of an empty beach along the Central Oregon Coast.A color photo of the Cape Perpetua area along the Oregon Coast during a sun break in the storm clouds.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mine. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black-and-white photo of a kitchen scene. A shorthaired tabby cat is sitting on a chair, peeking over the edge of a table and using one paw to steal some kind of food items off the table. It’s a pile of small, light colored objects. I think it might be cereal.
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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm not a trans person, but I'm the proud father of a trans person and despite everything, my kiddo is still the happiest and the most comfortable within herself that she's ever been. Be you. There are lots of us who love you and support you.
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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Star Trek: Lower Decks has become my new comfort show. My wife is such a good sport about my repeated rewatches.
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Boiled Owl Leather Goods @boiledowlleather.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Introducing my A5 Journal Cover! Fully customizable, handmade to order in Canada from top grade Italian veg tan leather. Features dual magnet snap closure, vertical sleeve pocket, + horizontal pocket w/ pen strap. See next post for video tour boiledowlleathergoods.com/products/jou... #journaling
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Scott Cory @jscottcory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of the earlier examples of "listen to the women" in tech. There are many others.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
photo of paulina borsook
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@MohanadElshieky

Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working
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Hannah Vernon 🇨🇦 @hannahvernon.com · 15/09/2026
A Plan Analysis Skill That Refuses to Let You Cite Cost I have been testing the rules in my own T-SQL style guide against real instances, which means reading a lot of execution plans. Partway through, I started using Erik Darling's sqlserver-query-plans plugin[1] for the reading. It changed one of…
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A Plan Analysis Skill That Refuses to Let You Cite Cost
I have been testing the rules in my own T-SQL style guide against real instances, which means reading a lot of execution plans. Partway through, I started using Erik Darling's sqlserver-query-plans plugin[1] for the reading. It changed one of the posts, and not by finding something I had missed. It stopped me reaching a conclusion I was already comfortable with.
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Zaire @zeestermeester.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hey, about three months later I am still looking for work. I have done senior level work, I’m comfortable owning zones, writing cutscenes, and environmental narrative. Open to working in other mediums as well.
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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's fun when the source data are so bad I wind up questioning MY faculties.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Age of man is over the other lotr goblin says the age of man is what? Over they are both speaking to walkie talkies
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walruslifestyle @walruslifestyle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
leave it to my parents to have a kid like me. they would do something like that.
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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's a stressful day, but one of my auto-generated playlists served up some late-90s Chemical Brothers and Leftfield and my soul is somehow soothed by the beat.
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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Me: Oh, I'm an astrophysicist, but I don't write hard sci-fi! Also me: *making a spreadsheet of all my planets' ephemerides at epoch so I can simulate Hohmann transfer times at the time of any scene*
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Willow, but not Vamp Willow @salixwrosette.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The real reason “we can’t have good things” is that “there’s no profit in it.” No one gives a shit about something that would be uniformly life-enhancing if there’s no rich bastard accumulating wealth involved.
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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why yes, I AM crabby today! Thank you for noticing!
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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All the frustrations of a junior with none of the satisfaction, all starting at the low, low price of $20/user/month*. * God help your credit card if you enable overages.
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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
An oddly Bond-villain-esque approach, but I'm open to anything at this point.
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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Me: "We have a schema change in the source, so comment out the old field X in staging, add the new source for X per the usual naming rules, and then map new X to existing destination field X." Claude Code: "Got it. I've changed everything to field name Y." Me: "... This is why you're read-only."
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The Register @theregister.com · 13/09/2026
The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker
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The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker
Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware
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ThePitCrewOnline @thepitcrewonline.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Rally Chile 2026, Saturday’s Report #WRC By @warrennel.bsky.social www.thepitcrewonline.net/2026/09/13/r...
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Rally Chile 2026, Saturday’s Report
The second full day of action then dawned bright and sunny and with no rain overnight on the stages, the roads would be dry and covered in gravel for the early crews to sweep clean for the later runne...
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”


p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

 "It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
i'm thinking we, as a species, lost the plot. don't know where. but if we're talking about AI rights while the rights of trans people, pregnant people, immigrants, and Black and brown people are daily eroded, we messed up somewhere.
theguardian.com
Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights
Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools. Has he glimpsed digital consciousness – or simply been seduced by an algorithm?
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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
People want to give AIs rights? Fine. Let’s tie them to gay rights, civil rights, trans rights, all human rights. Take care of our fellow humans before we extend rights to things that aren’t even sentient or conscious. Frankly, animal rights come before AI rights in my book. Animals are conscious!
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Tim Weigel @timweigel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is my day.
A 2-panel Rick and Morty meme. In the upper panel, Rick is gesturing at t portal on the wall and saying to Morty, "Let's go, in and out. 20 minute [obviously overwritten text] code fix"

In the lower panel, Rick and Morty are sitting in Rick's car weeping.
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Trapper Sean, M.D. @trapperseanmd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Drawing 789 / 2026 Artwork 87: Chief Engineer Wile E. Coyote is done with the Captain’s shit. #WileECoyote #CoyoteVsAcme #LooneyTunes #StarTrek #StarTrekArt
Chief Engineer Wile E. Coyote looks angrily at his off screen Captain with a sign that says, “I cannae change the laws of physics.”
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