Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 20hthis is a delightful series of books, my 8yo has devoured them all! 130
Reposted by Andy WingoGavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it's cheesy but I think about the Sun Ra line "there are other worlds they haven't told you about" all the time... one of the best reasons to write is to tell people about the other worlds they don't know about yet 0288
Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 30/09/2026latest @matt-levine.bsky.social column mentions opacity in the pokémon card market at his kid’s school. someone should make some kind of exchange web site to rationalize this market, i’m sure nothing bad will happen later 041
Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 29/09/2026trick question! as an html professional you should know that they are all correct pages 131
Reposted by Andy WingoRachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oooh a different take by the FT on what I like to call the Sports Car Theory of LLM Adoption (mine is about mid-life crises; there's is about upselling) buttondown.com/justenoughin...buttondown.comThe Sports Car Theory of LLM AdoptionIf LLMs make decision makers feel stupid, maybe they'll stop using them? 1133
Reposted by Andy Wingojourneyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It’s fucking me up that the word elevate predates the invention of the elevator but the invention of the escalator predates the word escalate. It’s complete madness 111078158
Reposted by Andy WingoXan López @xanlopez.net · 27/09/2026El uso continuado de X como canal de comunicación “público” por parte de cargos electos es un problema de seguridad nacional. Es complicado hablar de ello y que alguien se lo tome en serio porque los mayores responsables son, casi sin excepción, unos adictos a esa misma red social. 4298217
Reposted by Andy WingoJesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of 105100042093
Reposted by Andy WingoDiego Casado @esmadriz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Manifestación contra los desahucios absolutamente masiva en Madrid. La cabecera supera a las 19.50 el Ayuntamiento y hay todavía gente saliendo de Sol. www.eldiario.es/madrid/somos... 13579264
Reposted by Andy WingoBerto @berto.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026Alguén escoitou moitas veces o de que os bávaros son os cataláns de Alemaña e tivo esta idea. Visto no Aldi. 042
Reposted by Andy WingoTim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard" 2893752662
Reposted by Andy Wingoryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/09/2026yep www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...hamiltonnolan.comPrivate Schools Are Bad for SocietyThe starting point for any honest discussion. 15780130
Reposted by Andy WingoSteve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on 4397281236
Reposted by Andy Wingopins @pinssss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026that particular strip was made in 2019, i'm glad things have improved since 210623
Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 21/09/2026"Let’s recreate that using, you know, an actual Y-axis:" 💀💀💀 010
Reposted by Andy WingoVajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 21/09/2026apart from the known standard model of novels, novellas, and novellettes, we are yet to find evidence of the hypothesized novelino, noveletto, noveluccio, noveluzzo, or noveluolo. a great deal of work remains to be done 1139197
Reposted by Andy WingoSteven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise. 160191043858
Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 20/09/2026and this is one of the cheapest cargo bikes on the market! (i have been putting my three kids on mine for the last few years and it's great) www.decathlon.fr/p/velo-cargo...decathlon.frVelo cargo électrique longtail, E-three 500 Bleu abysse | DecathlonLe vélo cargo longtail E-THREE 500 sera votre allié pour le quotidien : déposer vos enfants sur la route de travail, faire vos courses ou encore… 0111
Reposted by Andy WingoPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Male loneliness crisis is a fake problem. Just go up to a guy who has a Brompton and ask, is that a Brompton 1728938
Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 18/09/2026i think it is good and right for there to be harry potter fanfic sex cult weirdos. but not these ones 032
Reposted by Andy WingoChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism" 193198738
Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 18/09/2026you seem to think that as a comedian you can just skeet out any old nonsense, and you are right 000
Reposted by Andy Wingohaunted girlfriend @sliceofwife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I'll die on any old hill it doesn't really make a difference to me 115532
Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 18/09/2026“special operations command analysts” use llms to do the analysis and write the reports for the command chain. holy hell 000
Reposted by Andy WingoDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war. 30828258
Reposted by Andy WingoAmelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans” 5159101626
Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 17/09/2026yes but jeez, “compilers are deterministic” is a reasonable proposition 111
Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 17/09/2026a good article but also what a deep cut in the title, i have not thought of sarah mclachlan in decades 132
Reposted by Andy WingoMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 16/09/2026Concern and anxiety about AI is very different in different parts of the world. A lot of it comes down to "How badly would the government let billionaires mistreat the poorest among us?" My optimism comes from the core belief that democracy and governments should be more powerful than individuals. 1143
Reposted by Andy WingoMegan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The way Annie Dillard reframed the idea of the role of “discipline” in writing really shaped my understanding of the job — work, she wrote, “does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline.” I cannot recommend The Writing Life highly enough. RIP to the best. bookshop.org/a/109816/978... 011728
Reposted by Andy WingoJens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Couldnt be more timely! In @jeppjournal.bsky.social (open access), a detailed post mortem of the 2022 inflation shock, and suggestions how to do better this time. 03713
Reposted by Andy WingoLuis Villa @lu.is · 13/09/2026Good thread on the carbon problems with beef. I’m not quite beef-free myself but pretty close (basically I have a steak a handful of times a year), and you should be too. 1151
Reposted by Andy WingoGro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Un billet de blog pour parler de la destruction en cours des mathématiques par les boîtes d'IA et leurs petites mains: www.madore.org/~david/weblo...madore.orgSur la destruction des maths par les boîtes d'IA 93217
Reposted by Andy Wingotef @tef.bsky.social · 07/09/2026move over inverse square root, there's a new cowboy in town www.benjoffe.com/fast-time-of... 36116
Reposted by Andy WingoJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026NEW WRITERS' ROOM COURSE Starts Oct 18th You don't have to be a professional writer, or even want to be one. Just curious about how writing, story, jokes and character all work, in whatever medium. It's about human beings making each other laugh. It'll be grand! x 1136
Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 08/09/2026matt bots still edits the comics pages of “in these times”; they are running a subscription drive for only 10 bucks for a year! w1.buysub.com/pubs/IF/ITT/...w1.buysub.comIn These Times Customer Service 111
Reposted by Andy WingoAndy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026the communigrater. THE COMMUNIGRATER 🚨 🚨 🚨 www.lecreuset.fr/fr_FR/p/communi%E2… 001
Reposted by Andy WingoJohn Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Underappreciated, I think, that limestone is just another fossil from ancient sea life that we exploit. 2104
Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 08/09/2026when i was a kid you had to go down by the reservoir if you wanted to do some token 130
Reposted by Andy WingoZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026For anyone not following the drama, there's been apparently a big development in ai math, along with some accusations of very bad behavior by OpenAI. But we don't have details yet. If I understand it, Buckmaster and Levent Alpoge made a big discovery on Navier-Stokes. Events go something like this: 17416157
Reposted by Andy WingoJason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026There's a lot of nuance to owning but EZ Band's norteño cover of Killing in the Name in a quinceañera hall definitely also owns www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2pT...youtube.comKilling In the Name - EZ Band (Rage Against The Machine Cover)YouTube video by EZ BAND 16423
Reposted by Andy WingoAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The king's adviser is actually a nice guy: 6957221592
Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 04/09/2026excellent article. je voulais le partager avec des collègues anglophones; j'espère qu'il sera dispo dans une version en anglais bientôt ! 100
Reposted by Andy WingoBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Feminist theory remains undefeated in explaining the weirdest parts of the Trump administration. I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it. 582846813
