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Tony Santos

@tony.notjustprettypictures.com
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That designer guy you probably talked to on Twitter 10 years ago. Now focused on teaching design to all and making cool design work. Partner at www.webeasties.com. Learn more than good taste @ www.notjustprettypictures.com

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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 5h
"designers" working on shit like this and I just... like wft?? How absolutely clueless do you have to be to not instantly see how people are going to do bad stuff with this. It's bad enough Apple jumped into the survelience tech game, but you're making it worse www.elevationlab.com/products/air...
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The Silencer
Permanently silence your AirTag in seconds. AirTag's speaker is great for keys and wallets, but not for valuables because AirTag will randomly chirp when moved/bumped if out of bluetooth range of your...
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Minnesota hates ICE @kibbles0515.bsky.social · 6h
Amazon has also helped contribute to poorly-made, disposable, sweatshop products. When you can get a new widget delivered to you in less than 48 hours, why does it matter if it breaks?
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 9h
I love that the agents are so “smart” that they keep sending me emails like “i found your website that says you’re a design studio, would you like to hire me to design some stuff for you?”
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 11h
as time goes on, I'm less focused on problematizing LLMs and more interested in affirming the positive value of humanity, human expression, and human connection technology is a substrate for our values, rather than an intrinsically good or bad thing, but that means not using it for certain stuff
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 20h
Ballard Congratulates Golf Course on Its New Light Rail Station: tinyurl.com/yncw9jep
Map of new Pinehurst light rail station opening Sept. 30 next to I-5 and 160-acre Jackson Park Golf Course.
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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Any idiot can see thats the Starprise Entership. It made the Cannonball Run in 12 parsecs. You cant take the sky from me.
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"It increases the city's Commercial Parking Tax rate from 14.5% to 17%, a move that brings in nearly $10 million per year" Helpful, but we still need to fix two massive loop holes at the state level: 1) Stadium loophole 2) U Village loophole
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 29/09/2026
Back in August asked to give a talk, me: Cool, that will be fun. Two weeks until the talk, me: OMG this talk is terrible, why did I think this would be fun?!?!
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 29/09/2026
I don't know where you get your game news, but where I get mine also points out the obvious fuckery most other media outlets are trying very hard to ignore.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A reminder that you could be using the office copier to make these amazing zines that help people overcome barriers to voting. They’ll never know. howtovote.tips
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How to Vote / Cómo Votar
A free field guide to what stops people from voting, and what to do about it. English and Spanish, ready to print.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
So wild to me that the entire economy is propped up by companies who think living your best life is being a middle manager to a collection of bots.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026
If a "climate tech" company is pivoting to servicing the needs of a generative AI industry that specifically hungers for fossil fuels, how on Earth is that still "climate tech"? That is petrotech - and we should call it that, when it is that. techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/t...
The pivot has helped many climate tech startups land fresh funding from investors. Total venture deal value has risen for four consecutive quarters, cresting the $14 billion-mark in the first quarter of this year, according to the most recent available data from PitchBook. It’s the best fundraising environment for climate tech in the last few years, with most of the deal value driven by sectors boosted by data center construction, including the built environment, grid infrastructure, and dispatchable energy that can be turned on or off when it’s needed.

Ultimately, the undercurrent at New York Climate Week was that the data center party won’t last forever, but it might last long enough to help startups build durable businesses. Once that happens, they can refocus on the carbon-cutting mission they were founded to pursue.
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 28/09/2026
Don’t threaten us with a good time, CM Kettle
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 28/09/2026
That Rivera's made-up complaint is that the city is using money to fund shelter instead of people to terrorize Seattle's homeless population is perhaps the most she's let the mask slip yet...
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The underappreciated point here is that taking the messy, contingent nature of scheduling, communication, and navigating social relationships is something that AI people think these tools can do. When in fact it is quite difficult and takes a lot of social skill.
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 28/09/2026
I'm old enough to remember when they started taking the editor out of web browsers because "Nobody is going to make their own webpages, not everyone is a computer nerd like you" and I would not be surprised to learn that was not the first iteration of this loop
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can’t say strongly enough that these are not realistic scenarios for the people I observed and, based on data about family lives, almost anyone else we might consider normal and/or not rich.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i don't care what the official unemployment rate is, no one has viral discussions about "what totally innocuous thing at a job interview will cause the hirer to irrationally reject your candidacy" in a strong labor market
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David Kroman @kromandavid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Debora Juarez, 2020: "When I hear people say there's just a few bad apples on the police force I adamantly disagree with that. It's just not a healthy tree. We need to plant a new tree, we have to completely re-imagine, re-vision what community policing is." www.kuow.org/podcast/news...
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Bad apples? Seattle Police 'not a healthy tree' says city council member
Chants of "defund S-P-D" have become a common message at protests in Seattle, and for the first time the idea is getting serious attention from the city council.
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 25/09/2026
Maybe they should all stop hanging out at Pike Place if people can't find them in other parts of the city because I saw at least 10 different SPD officers milling around 1st Ave in their body armor last week when I was at the market with out of town visitors
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI
Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 25/09/2026
So much this. Me too.
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 25/09/2026
I see we've all taken the bait from one of the big media companies that did a billionaire influenced heel-turn again to argue over pointless not-even-culture-war bullshit one of their professional take-havers published. Gee whiz I don't know why these companies keep hiring these people to do this...
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Seattle should build more housing and high quality pedestrian space to compete with the suburbs.
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 25/09/2026
It's good to see The Needling get into serious journalism, we need more outlets to explain these baffling decisions the We Can't Have Nice Things aligned decision makers in Seattle keep making
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Keith Edwards @kedwards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's cool and awesome that every century or so we have to relearn the hard lessons about why we invented government because some dumb motherfuckers forget that the cornerstone of Civilization is a thousand boring little bureaucrats doing their job, not Great Men Being Violent.
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 25/09/2026
Now that the whole season is available I resubbed to watch Strange New Worlds season 4 and I gotta say, episode two was baaaaaaaad.
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 25/09/2026
I wish someone would give me a $30k bonus for overseeing a project funding disaster that has potentially pushed completion dates back multiple decades
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 24/09/2026
The idea that everything should be a computer is one of the worst ideas people have ever had arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
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Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
So absurd and embarrassing ..."
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 24/09/2026
I’m just spitballing here, but what if we just stopped taking grown fucking men who don’t know their own address seriously about literally anything?
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 24/09/2026
I see Reddit finally closed off old Reddit. Remember when you could just look at a webpage without having to create an account and sign in?
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's a very peculiar (and highly gendered) phenomenon around money, and infantilization that we can witness in unusual clarity with these people: They expect to be taken care of, and they think that having rich, mutual relations with people is an awfully taxing thing that everyone wants to avoid
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Doug Trumm @metropolitanglide.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sound Transit will host an ST3 town hall in Ballard on the evening of Monday, October 19, agency CEO Dow Constantine said just now. Location is TBD.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I expected fascists to behave like fascists. But watching organizations and people you previously respected bending the knee and toadying to fascism is particularly gutting. And ultimately irredeemable.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026
this is functionally what turned millennials blue - we grew up with the disaster of george w bush and it stuck with us chances are pretty good this is a long lasting realignment for gen z given how bad trump 2 is
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 24/09/2026
Every new piece of info I learn about Sound transit and how unserious they appear to be about actually building light rail to Ballard (a station projected to have the highest daily ridership in the system) makes me more and more angry.
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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 24/09/2026
NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: The $10 Billion Question Sound Transit Has Never Asked By Travis Henderson via @theurbanist.org
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Op-Ed: The $10 Billion Question Sound Transit Has Never Asked
Elevating the next light rail line through Downtown Seattle could save $10 billion, more than enough to close Sound Transit’s systemwide budget hole and get rail to Ballard much sooner. There’s just one problem: The agency has never officially studied the idea. It’s high time.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing tools coaching mass shooters and helping people kill themselves. People need to wake the fuck up.
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 24/09/2026
Strauss is a little piss baby and he needs to be primaried from the left next year.
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the tech industry builds wearable recording devices like this to shift the burden of privacy from a corporate / collective responsibility to an individual one. no meaningful definition of "consent" is possible under this model, and they know it. @hypervisible.blacksky.app
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 24/09/2026
It's a banana Micheal, how much could it cost? $10?
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 24/09/2026
The really interesting thing about shifting your work to do stuff you don’t do regularly (anymore) is that you have no concept of progress. Like, I wrote 5000 words today… and I genuinely have no sense of if that’s like a lot or not. It’s weird to experience that feeling again.
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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
PSA: If you have an older base level Mac DO NOT update to the new Mac OS. It's packed with AI stuff and it might very well just overload your storage. I've been wrestling with it for two days and am going to have to wind back to the previous OS just so I can use my computer.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You know who loves it when you refer to all this as “the age of AI”? Fascists. It’s the age of fascism. AI is their little slop sideshow to keep you distracted.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 23/09/2026
I’m old enough to remember when a handful of senior citizens did this and we had a whole national conversation about if people should be driving or. It after that. I assume we’re gonna have that conversation is about autonomous driving software now…right?(no, we’re obviously not)
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Something I want to be very clear about is that it is literally impossible for Musk to have used Starlink to change the results of elections and Musk's rantings on the subject shouldn't be taken as evidence that it happened, it should be taken as evidence that he's a drugged-out bugfuck pyscho
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