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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 06/08/2026

As seen in Central Valley, California

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 01/08/2026

The squawky Scrub Jay is my house sigil

A card with an illustration of a blue and white bird, with black beak. The text above it reads: I am aware I have committed the naturalist's sin of stereotyping the towhee as jolly and the Scrub Jay as conniving. Science would require me to be objective and to not let personal bias obstruct more accurate observations. Thank God I am not a scientist.

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 23/07/2026

Current 10-day forecast, Palm Springs, California Low ~87º Highs: 110º+ 🥵

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 23/07/2026

I love that the Portland airport CARPET has its own wikipedia page! 💗 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlan...

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 09/07/2026

If you buy me the ticket for this hoop-end court-side seat, I'll send you the (film) photos that I shoot from there #IndianaFever 🏀 #LasVegasAces Sunday July 12 2026 $600 📸 I'll be in Vegas to shoot photos of #RubyConf — the event, vibes, and #RubyFriends www.wnba.com/game/1022600174

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 01/07/2026

Hyundai Scoupe! 🚕 Thanks to @appwerks.com for the correct answer. Not sure exactly what year/variant. But the best clue is the five point star wheels. And gray bottom trim. (It was an automatic, not manual.)

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 30/06/2026

Internet… I need your help identifying this car. It's a mid-late 1990s sedan, bright yellow (not neon tho, more golden ish) —— I can't figure out the make/model. I'm using this detail in story I'm writing. 🚨 Let's play… Name This Car™ 🎉

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 18/06/2026

Social media never misses I’ve been called a lot of things in my life. But this!?

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 07/06/2026

"Welcome to *Is This Truck Too Big?*, a show where I tell you if this truck is too big." "Yes, this truck is too big." — A thumbnail of "Why Do So Many Americans Die In Parking Lots?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nAyD... From www.youtube.com/@SafeByDesign

Screenshot of a YouTube video thumbnail with a small child standing in front of a red pickup truck that is so big that the child’s height is only at the bottom middle of the grill on the front of the truck, making the child completely unseeable to the driver unless the child is very far away from the front of the truck. Because geometry and sight lines.

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 04/06/2026

Today in *you actually have to go out of your way and do things so the wrong way to break the correct behavior* — HTML / form text should be selectable (copyable) Why can't we have nice* things!? * — "nice" meaning, works the way it does by default in browsers since 1990s 😭

Screenshot of a modal of a form with three radio buttons, where the user has tried to select all of the text, but the label text of the radio buttons remains unselected.

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 23/05/2026

The Amazing Spider-Man #5 (2025) variant cover by Joëlle Jones is so good! www.marvel.com/comics/issue/1...

Comic book cover art by Joëlle Jones, of a nighttime NYC with Black Cat falling/jumping down from fire escapes with a dollar sign bag of money and reaching out toward the various dollar bills flying thru the air. Behind and above her, with his left arm outstretched up and back, Spider-Man is holding on to a web that’s attached to something above the frame, ostensibly the building’s rooftop. With his right arm, he’s shot another web toward her, about to wrap around her left leg, ostensibly to catch her before she falls to her death. Peter’s got a bad history of that.

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 12/05/2026

"Your last next editor" is some really great writing ⭐️ Whoever at Zed wrote that A+! Great job. Sincerly.

Screenshot of zed.dev homepage with two download buttons and the big text: “Your last next editor
Zed is a minimal code editor crafted for speed and collaboration with humans and AI.”

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 12/05/2026

When all the thumbnails look the same… :sad disappointed nerd white guy face: Or as Against Me! once put it: 🎶: > All the taste makers drinking from the same glass > Is there anybody thinking what I am? > Is there anybody thinking what I am?

Screenshot of two YouTube videos, each with the host making the same facial expression

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 04/05/2026

3D satellite maps are pretty dang cool

Screenshot of Apple Maps app zoomed in to Mitchell Butte in Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 02/05/2026

Portland, Oregon has a Heat Advisory for May 3, 2026 > HEAT ADVISORY remains in effect > from 8AM to 11PM PDT Sunday... > > WHAT...temperatures up to 90 degrees F expected. > Significant cooling expected overnight. Heat advisory. In May.

Screenshot of Apple weather app for May 3, 2026 with a projected high temperature of 87º F

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 29/04/2026

"It's like podcasts — but for reading" Funny turn of phrase / sign of the times. - - - Whereas in mid-aughts, it was: "It's like blogs — but for listening"

Screenshot of netnewswire.com describing NetNewsWire 7 with a screenshot of a classic three column macOS app: feeds, feed items, feed item

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 12/04/2026

I love that to express "mobile, adventure, off-grid", the canonical best way to do that is a photo of a Vanagon out in nature somewhere 🚐🏔️ (Not an endorsement of Amazon Leo)

Screenshot of Amazon Leo website showing a photo of a VW Vanagon at a campsite next to some water at night time / sunset. With people in lawn chairs watching a movie projected onto a screen hanging on the side of the van.

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 08/04/2026

#Photography friends, name these cameras. (Just for fun. No urgency or pressure). In Fall Out Boy's "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race" at 1:41 youtu.be/GNm5drtAQXs?si=J67H3...

Two photographer assistants holding four cameras.

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 05/04/2026

This post explains the Imperial probe droid back story in good detail kitbashed.com/blog/moebius

Drawing of a Star Wars flying mechanical octopus looking robot

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 05/04/2026

Famously the probe droid in The Empire Strikes Back is a very obviously influenced by the Moebius robot starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Vipe...

Star Wars flying mechanical octopus looking robot

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 05/04/2026

In The World of Krypton #1 (1987), the green flying bots are very reminiscent of the Moebius droid from The Long Tomorrow

Moebius flying mechanical octopus looking robot

DC/Superman green flying mechanical octopus looking robot

DC/Superman silhouettes of flying mechanical octopus looking robot

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 05/04/2026

Why do coaches think that it's ok to come onto the court at all during live play? And why isn't it an immediate technical? Confounding. #MarchMadness

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 24/03/2026

If ever you think you've lost me, just go where flowers grow. I will too. And we'll always find each other again. — Love and joy 🖤

Poster design with a photo of a sunset and prairie of wildflowers. On top of the photo is the text of this thread: We’ll go where flowers grow…

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 24/03/2026

🌸 We'll go where flowers grow Their attempts to silence and separate us—to make us vulnerable to repression and attack, to hold us back and keep us down—will never be more powerful than our love and joyous anarchy. 🏴

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 23/03/2026

Anyone know what this is/was? PCB with "DD-20B" printed. An LED on one end. A click button on the other. Takes two LR44 batteries. All my searches lead to probably cheap OEM flashlight. But I'm curious is crowd wisdom has a more specific answer. Good luck / thanks!

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 18/03/2026

The regime will seem invincible until the day before it collapses. crimethinc.com

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 16/03/2026

#GitHub UI team folks… here's a little responsive breakpoint bug At just the right (or wrong) window size, instead of hiding one row of buttons and showing the other, it shows both. On Issues#show page

Screenshot of GitHub showing two identical rows of buttons: “Edit”, “New Issue”

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 01/03/2026

The attack on Iran is an attack on all of us

Photo of smoke rising into the sky from building in Tehran, Iran that were bombed by the US/Israel

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 25/02/2026

Quote unquote forever quote unquote Forever somehow equals "up to 1 month" What do words even mean anymore

A photo of product with false advertising: large toilet paper roll called “forever roll” but which is clearly finite

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 24/02/2026

*Beta testers wanted* Do you use ADP, Paycom, Workday, UKG, Oracle Taleo? On a client project with integration from user's HRIS system to bulk import employees I've tested lots with sandbox synthetic data, but not a real org's real world integration. Could you beta test it with me?

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 21/02/2026

For non-programmer friends, `NaN` means "not a number"

Screenshot of bill payment due dates that say: “Undefined NaN”

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 16/02/2026

Today in The Rule of Least Power: use HTML forms semantically, don't recreate native browser behavior with Javascript Pictured: two input[checkbox] with Javascript to deselect the other when one is selected Better: two input[radio], which does this for free by default

Screenshot of two HTML checkboxes. Unseen, clicking one deselects the other

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 15/02/2026

Does this hand gesture mean something else? Again? Most of my life 👌🏻 meant: "ok" literally or "good" "acknowledged" generally affirmative During Trump v1 👌🏻 got coopted to mean: 3%, III%, Threeper, Three Percenters White supremacist Lately I've see it a lot again. Does it mean good? Or fash?

Screenshot of two YouTube video thumbnails: both have the host/creator’s face visible and their left hand making a 👌🏻 which traditionally (and still to most people) meant “okay”

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 07/02/2026

What in the world is going on with Heroku’s blog markup that it goes completely blank in reader mode!?

Two screenshots. One of a normal webpage view of a blog post. The other, a blank screen with only the blog post title when viewed in Safari’s reader mode. Cool.

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 07/02/2026

Imagine how much people would lose their shit if a business did this with any other religion's symbol

Photo of a very large Christian cross in the parking lot of a roadside motel in Washington state

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 26/01/2026

Why, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck does Discord want permission to "monitor input from my keyboard even while using other apps"!? Sounds to me like a keystroke logger (I disabled/deleted it, of course. But nothing mentioned it was adding this.)

Screenshot of macOS system settings > security > input monitoring

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 23/01/2026

The fastest home internet I've ever experienced: 1.2Gbps! 2Gb/1Gb fiber from ISP & Wired ethernet in house & RJ45 to USB-C dongle & MacBook Pro (M1 2020)

Screenshot of internet speed test from fast.com, showing 1.2Gbps

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 11/01/2026

@vegh.ca @benricem.bsky.social Croissant question: Is there a way to change the linked text color in dark mode? The blue on black is low contrast for my eyes to read.

screenshot of croissant draft post, in dark mode. unlinked text is white, linked text is blue.

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 09/01/2026

It's Double or Nothing for Everyone Now

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 02/01/2026

It's increasingly annoying how many websites have Cloudflare's "verify you're a human by checking this box" wall before the page will load

Screenshot of what’s described in the post content

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 23/12/2025

In YOOL 2025, the official #Ruby website finally says the latest version right on the homepage Sadly, it also now has a fascist right on the homepage too :(

Screenshot of ruby-lang.org with “3.4.8” prominently displayed

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 23/12/2025

FUuuuuuu… if you load the page with Javascript disabled, the select/dropdown doesn't have the years in it. You're killing me, Smalls!

Screenshot of nightmare fuel, a dropdown menu of what should be the years 1960 (for some reason) to 1998 (for some reason), but instead of a list of years, it’s simply blank :sob:

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 21/12/2025

XKCD 2347 "Dependency" kind of became itself what it's describing in its image: one small thing propping up a lot xkcd.com/2347 "Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we'll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble."

XKCD comic with stacked blocks with the text: ALL MODERN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE

one little thin block at the bottom propping up a huge part of the rest, with the text pointing to that thin block: A PROJECT SOME RANDOM PERSON IN NEBRASKA HAS BEEN THANKLESSLY MAINTAINING SINCE 2003

with the alt text: Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we'll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble.

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 19/12/2025

The stop downloading button in Apple Music on #macOS has an off center square

Downloading / stop button with off center square

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 16/12/2025

What's gonna happen to Cactus Dome when Enewetak Atoll is swallowed under sea level rise? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runit_I...

Aerial view of the Runit Dome. The dome is placed in the crater created by the "Cactus" nuclear weapons test in 1958.

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 04/12/2025

#macOS app UI / HIG question— inline forms, are they a thing? Something like Bootstrap's inline form, but in macOS UI, of course. I can't find any guidance in the HIG. [___name____] (Submit) (Cancel) getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/for...

Screenshot of a Bootstrap inline form with a text field, submit button, and cancel button. On the same horizontal line.

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 24/11/2025

ICYMI— adding alerts to Markdown files on GitHub > [!CAUTION] > [!IMPORTANT] > [!NOTE] > [!TIP] > [!WARNING] docs.github.com/en/get-starte...

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