Reposted by VeithJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/appsgetartcraft.comCrafting Apps: open-source creative toolsImage editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use. 19342831206
Reposted by Veithbettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 06/10/2026Pleased to see that the New York Bicycling Coalition recommends using both arms to signal your turns. Less ambiguous than the bent up left arm, which many cyclists do so tentatively, arm held close to body and barely raised, that it looks like a Hello wave. From: nybc.net/images/pdfs/... 109512
Reposted by VeithChronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Artist: Roz Chast from The New Yorker 9863170
Reposted by VeithLucie🐈⬛Catnip @luciecatnip.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Calgary!! Former street cat Mr. Potato Head is waiting for his furever home. 😻 Contact Meow Foundation to apply: meowfoundation.com/adoptable-ca... #Alberta #yyc #cats 03012
Reposted by VeithDrewcifer Rising 🎃😈 @drewdietsch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I've said it before and I'll post it again: we should embrace and deify TREMORS as much as we do JAWS.bloody-disgusting.com'Tremors' Kicked Off the 1990s With the Decade's Own 'Jaws' [We Love '90s Horror]The ‘90s often get a bad rap with horror fans. After the numerous successful slashers and creature effects films of the ’80s, the ‘90s offered a different 611575257
Reposted by VeithGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it. 5440431211
Reposted by VeithPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026new wolfenstein looks like shit 297125042465
Reposted by VeithDorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'll never understand how "a lot of mostly/potentially/probably incorrect metadata is better for digital discovery than accurate but sparse metadata" became a popular idea than "we will put things online more slowly, but we will do it with accuracy" 927877
Reposted by Veithworm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent 10260911707
Reposted by VeithDr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago 202100192461
Reposted by VeithHow-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?cbc.caHidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC NewsA new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young... 511669382
Reposted by VeithRyan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight. 5761911682
Reposted by VeithKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026I keep seeing this Semafor graph that seems to show the Trump administration’s effect on international visits is comparable to the pandemic. My first thought was “that can’t be true” and indeed it is not. This is monthly data. We only have to Jun/Aug 2026. The lines are over-fitted to the months. 12460133
Veith @veith.ca · 01/10/2026I never thought much about amalgamation but it sounds like gerrymandering by proxy. 000
Reposted by VeithPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I got to revisit barbarian migrations and what we can learn about them now after another decade-plus of archaeoscientific work and the proper application of migration theory, and I got to talk about a guy with a literal knife for a hand. If you've never listened to Past Lives, give this one a try. 4575
Reposted by VeithPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is one of my favorite episodes of any show I've done, ever. The subject was almost certainly a Longobard warrior who accompanied King Alboin on his descent into Italy in 568 and was involved in the subsequent conquest. I don't think I'd want to hang out with him, but he had to have been wild. 710719
Reposted by VeithRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else 558405845
Reposted by VeithDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/10/2026Nuke all the frats from space. Jesus I hate living in this world sometimes. I want a better one.thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 922621
Reposted by VeithThe Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living. 411326348
Reposted by Veith👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is why I've always disagreed with the idea that "art" is purely subjectively defined. Art is a communication. The listener/viewer completes that communication in recieving it, but it is the intentionality of the creator that makes it art. "AI music" is no more music than traffic noise is. 1230878
Reposted by VeithAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr... 312886640
Reposted by VeithBen Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them 7790253
Reposted by VeithNanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 28/07/2025GenX kids will know the pain of needing just the right kind of pencil to rewind. 1702361271
Reposted by VeithTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such. 9834211
Reposted by VeithTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks. 331888304
Reposted by VeithRexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026As always, the labour is essential but the workers never are. 0188
Reposted by VeithJeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 28/09/2026NEW: Today the Parkland Institute released a 200-page report that provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the fatal Covid outbreak at the Cargill meatpacking plant in High River. www.readtheorchard.org/p/how-corpor...readtheorchard.orgHow Corporate Regulatory Capture Led to Death at CargillThe Parkland Institute’s 200-page study provides the most comprehensive overview of the April 2020 Covid-19 outbreak at the High River meatpacking plant to date. 14320
Reposted by Veiththe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQyoutu.bePressure DropYouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic 211061361
Reposted by Veithbijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i think about this post all the time. you might too 3269471756
Reposted by VeithJamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller. 20747521188
Reposted by Veithweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63107262532
Reposted by VeithPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This kind of smart sustainable urban infrastructure is illegal in most American cities 311531
Reposted by VeithIra Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My latest blog post. Based on some researchers who put googly eyes on a takeout food box to see if that would discourage seagulls from stealing your lunch. There's serious work on how animals track eyes and on trying to stop animals from taking food. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ment...psychologytoday.comSeagulls Versus Googly EyesHave you ever had your lunch stolen by a gull or some other bird? In the battle to save your lunch, scientists may have discovered a secret weapon: googly eyes. 21510
Reposted by VeithMichelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Nunchuk tutorial: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis... 592104298
Reposted by VeithYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind 241677403
Reposted by VeithJohn P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Voici le crâne de la bête / Behold the skull of the beast. #FossilFriday 24216
Reposted by VeithClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women 6138793685
Reposted by VeithFietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The "massive weekly grocery haul" is a symptom of car-dependent sprawl, not a universal rule of life. Healthy cities don't force you to drive to a warehouse store. Good design makes grabbing fresh food a quick, passive part of your daily walk or bike commute. These straw men arguments bore me. 1422623
Reposted by Veiththe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23/10/2023when wikipedia launched, the idea that an encyclopedia could be reliably maintained by the public was a joke. now, it's a marvel, a remarkable resource, virtually the only website that remotely delivers on its potential and practically the last pleasant browsing experience on the internet. 5058451263
Reposted by VeithStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots. 15786382556
Reposted by Veithjeremygignoux.bsky.social @jeremygignoux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Calgaréal is 4 Calgary musicians and 4 Montréal musicians. We're going on tour this November! Nov 7 Saskatoon Nov 8 Calgary Nov 10 Canmore Tickets and info at calgareal.ca #yyc #calgary #canmore #saskatoon #yxe 022
Reposted by VeithJoe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I built a statistical model to forecast ski conditions using seasonal climate models. Summit at Snoqualmie in Washington has the worst ski forecast in the western US this winter. Makes sense given the “El Niño on steroids” model signal. Go south for better skiing ⛷️ Try it out: where2.ski 87829
Reposted by Veithelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible 25150283942
