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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 28/09/2026

Every even marginally fun-to-browse retailer is closed now, it seems Radio Shack Papyrus Toys R Us Sam Goody B Dalton Joann Fry's Sharper Image Waldenbooks Discovery Store Circuit City Tuesday Morning Borders Pier1 Brookstone Shopping centers are so dull these days.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 27/09/2026

Bought an "erasure poem" last night at the Punk Rock Flea Market Artist is Janessa Wight www.instagram.com/jenessaliz1

An "erasure poem" - a page from a book with most words blacked out except these specifically: "I DARE YOU" "genius -" "flash" "and scintillate" "let" "the" "symphony" "play"

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 23/09/2026

You can spot AI autodialers because they sound so chirpy. Every human making a phone call in 2026 sounds exhausted.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 21/09/2026

Made a little site to help with musical instrument transposition: changekey.to Give it a look if you play a transposing instrument like a clarinet, sax, or trumpet. :)

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 21/09/2026

I have quoted this film at least monthly for a quarter of a century now.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 08/09/2026

Sentience does not reliably protect humans from being exploited or killed, and it does not prevent animals from being eaten or killed for sport. Just a reminder as we debate AI sentience.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

While you were partying I studied the blade When you were having premarital sex I visited the blade archives in the Vatican to do primary research on 14th century blades While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity I completed my dissertation on Oakeshott type XIIIa German longswords

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 05/09/2026

Watched Train Dreams. Stunningly beautiful. That one is going to stick with me.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 21/08/2026

The End of Oak Street 👍🏼

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 15/08/2026

We were remembering an interesting space documentary we watched a while back and decided to look it up to watch with kiddo and it turns out Disney+ purged it and you just can't watch it anymore, the end.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 02/08/2026

I went to see the new Spider Man on opening night, and I like Spider Man a lot, but there is no way that this one is "the best one yet" or the present 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. I like the performers in their roles and all, but both of the Spiderverse films are a lot stronger.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 25/07/2026

I did a lot of interviewing when I was at Microsoft, sometimes 5-10 ppl a week. I didn't find out until much later that some candidates were ghosted by the process. It shakes me to the core to know I was part of this and I apologize unreservedly to anyone who experienced it. Those are not my values.

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 25/07/2026

Oh fuck yes. This is a really shitty practice. Anyone who gets as far as a screening interview deserves a response for sure. I’d extend that to anyone who applies but that’s more debatable.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 01/07/2026

The algorithm just served me up a teaser video to let me know that a trailer is coming out tomorrow for a show entitled "Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi" and I need everyone involved in that GTM to, like, watch a sunset or something.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 01/07/2026

One of my favorite work from home things is when I go to close my office door and the dog is right outside, I ask him if he wants to join the upcoming meeting or not. It amuses me to no end. "Hey buddy, do you want to join the geospatial sync?"

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 30/06/2026

I used to eat a spoonful of peanut butter around 3 pm for a snack, but I knew that was pretty childish. So now I eat a spoonful of Nutella.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 30/06/2026

I can't pick a favorite line from this youtu.be/5KyfW79Ld4g?... But I do like "When MySQL has a good day, I wait for Ops to fix the monitoring"

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Interview with a DBA (Database Administrator)

YouTube video by Kai Lentit

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 12/06/2026

This was Microsoft life every day, it is such a bizarre dynamic

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/06/2026

Imagine being the most decorated gymnast in history, almost dying, and media referring to you as “NFL Wife” as your greatest achievement.😑 Misogyny is a helluva drug. Smh. Truly hope Simone is safe and makes a full recovery. What a horrible experience.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 03/06/2026

I unironically love how much faith Claude has in me

Something like (3-5) ∩ (2,4,6) ∩ (<10) → {3,4,5} ∩ {2,4,6} → {3,4} ∪ {5} wait, actually {4} plus... you'd work it out. The point is you get a canonical form.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 23/04/2026

Life pro tip: toast your oats in browned butter before making oatmeal. It makes a bigger difference than you might expect.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 02/04/2026

Listening to the Project Hail Mary soundtrack and it strikes me that Time Go Fishing absolutely sounds like something from Cirque du Soleil youtu.be/OsSRIjgJDnI?...

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Daniel Pemberton - Time Go Fishing | Project Hail Mary (Original Motion Picture Score)

YouTube video by SonySoundtracksVEVO

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 02/04/2026

NASA’s mission to orbit the Moon is being interrupted by Outlook (New) and Outlook (classic) both refusing to open 😂

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 30/03/2026

You sure about that, Amazon?

An email listing from Amazon.com with the subject line "New book from Jane Austen"

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 27/02/2026

Listen, and this is a real question: why do we indicate gender on driver's licenses anyway?

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Joy is an act of resistance. And this is that:

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 20/02/2026

Watch as Gemini adds more and more commas as it progresses through this answer

Google search content reading "Apple's Liquid Glass is a 2025 Ul design language for iOS 26 and other platforms, featuring a, translucent, and, dynamic, interface, that, mimics, physical, glass. Introduced at WWDC25, it utilizes real-time rendering to blur backgrounds, reflect ambient colors, and create interactive,, gel- like,,,elements that, morph, and, move, upon, touch"

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 11/02/2026

A career update! This week I joined @yugabytedb.bsky.social as Sr Dir of PM for the Core Database. Happy to be working on OSS and data again :)

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Jeff Wilcox @jeffwilcox.com · 09/02/2026

Seahawks 🏈

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 09/02/2026

How many dogs do you have to find to offset selling out your neighbors to ICE?

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 09/02/2026

Did Microsoft just run a Superbowl ad implying using Copilot to make hiring decisions?

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 05/02/2026

Trying to help kiddo set up VR link with Meta Quest and it's buggy as shit. Companies are laying off workers and just letting products rot in full view.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 04/02/2026

Pinterest says "there's a clear line between constructive debate and behavior that's obstructionist." .... obstructing what, exactly?

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 29/01/2026

Online search logic is all "I see you are looking for a bass clarinet to rent, so maybe you would like a French horn to purchase?"

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 27/01/2026

"[...] having known someone only as a child and then hearing they were gunned down [...] The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child. I'm sure his mother feels that way, too, or she sees him at every age all at once, including those he did not live to see."

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 27/01/2026

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 26/01/2026

No matter how many times I tell LinkedIn to stop, it keeps showing me recruitment ads for CBP.

A LinkedIn ad reading:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Promoted

If you thrive in high-energy environments, U.S. Border Patrol needs you. Physical fitness, teamwork, and... (more)

The image below shows people in a gym and reads:

BE AN AGENT OF STRENGTH

STAY FIT, STAY SHARP, SERVE PROUDLY AS A CBP BORDER PATROL AGENT

JOIN THE MISSION

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