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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

MY KIDS ARE GAY WHY DO YOU WANT THEM HARMED, LINDA? AS A PARENT I AM VERY MUCH NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THAT

Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 27/09/2026

I really gained a better understanding of this visiting Central High School in Little Rock. It is the most amazing high school building I've ever seen. It looks like an ivy League college and it's huge! It was obviously the white community's pride and joy and they walked away rather than integrate.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 26/09/2026

One thing I've been thinking about - city jobs that pay cash at the end of the shift and that you can just show up for. This would be mostly beautification work. Preventing homelessness would be so much cheaper than helping people get out it.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 25/09/2026

This movie sounds great. One thing that my son and I were talking about is that we have not seen a single ad for it past a "coming soon" movie poster at the local theater. Advertising feels really broken right now. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/forg...

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Forgotten Island review: The "Puss in Boots" team delivers another animated winner

A raucous folktale filled with unique characters and situations, from the team behind "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish."

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 23/09/2026

This is sad. Netflix needs more sitcoms. Peacock with Stumble, Reggie Dinkins, and the Paper is clearly leading, but so pricey. Also they like to cancel their sitcoms too.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 21/09/2026

I waffle on this constantly, but I keep coming out more on the side of AI destroying capitalism. At least as far as art is concerned, although maybe everything. If there's no money to be made because AI can do it all, then all you're left with is the human connection and act of creation itself.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 16/09/2026

How do the "we're doing tree trimming in your neighborhood" spam texts keep getting through? They're fundamentally the same text every time, I don't understand why basic spam filters aren't catching them. Also is this the world of AI agents?

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 14/09/2026

Isn't this the entire Republican brand now? Take any positive relationship, government service, or media and inject racism, sexism and/or scams?

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026

I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.

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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.

Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 12/09/2026

I feel like the AI hacks don't emphasize how many tools already exist to allow your internal services to pull down packages, images, etc from a local server on the LAN without going to the Internet at large. If you need an airgapped sandbox off the shelf products have solved pretty much everything.

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Gus Bova @gusbova.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Kind of a lovely story with this one. Judith Moyers (you might know as creative partner/spouse of Bill Moyers, who passed last year) is now a first-time published poet at 91: www.texasobserver.org/poem-beware-...

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Poem: Beware the Perfect Day

Now is a perfect day, good and fresh, clear and bright...

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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 09/09/2026

i genuinely don't know if this helps them in an election, hurts them, or does absolutely nothing in either direction. neither do any of the people doing these things! but i care about the dignity of trans people and disabled people and i don't think those things should be for trade in any case

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 09/09/2026

They built a bunch of "luxury" housing in Austin and the complex down the street from me is now offering 1263 sq/ft - 3 beds for $1,190*. And there are still more new units being built. Making it easier to build means more units. More units mean cheaper rent. YIMBY works. * It might be cheaper now

1 bed/1 bath $915, up to 3 bed/2 bath 1263 square feet for $1,190.

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Josh J Architect @jjarchitect.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Work smart not harder

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 06/09/2026

An urbanist mantra from "The girl who fell beneath fairyland" I'm a monster."... The Minotaur glanced up at her. "So are we all, dear," said the Minotaur kindly. "The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them."

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 06/09/2026

YES. Raskin's "The Tattooed Potato" is amazing. My dad read several times to me and I read to my kids.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 31/08/2026

PBS keeps reposting this and the headline drives me batty. It mirrors anti-refugee language. In the article: "climate change is really making this part of the Mediterranean, especially the eastern part of the Mediterranean, really unsuitable for native species," So is the problem the new fish?

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"For the next two minutes, Cloud detailed three issues impacting women that she believes deserve more attention than Freedom: domestic violence, sexual assault and food insecurity." www.nytimes.com/athletic/754...

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Natasha Cloud calls Enes Kanter Freedom ‘irrelevant,’ urges WNBA to ban him league-wide (Gift Article)

“I will talk about real issues that face women, and it’s not our trans human beings,” Cloud said.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 30/08/2026

I set a lot of phone timers in my life. Mostly for cooking. After moving to Gemini I got timers correctly set about 2 out of 5 times. The other 3 it was trying to collaborate on a project with me. Right after a fail Google asked me to rate it. I gave 2 out of 5 stars and explained why. 1/2

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 29/08/2026

The funny thing about "Defund the Police* is that while currently viewed as a failure and overreach it has a lot more moderates looking at their local police and things like Flock cameras and questioning "what exactly are the police doing with the huge gobs of money we give them".

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Joseph Laycock @josephlaycock.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Dallas Morning News reported that Texas has suspended 6% of registered voters without telling them Texans can use this link to check their voting status: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/... People who have been purged can still register before October 5. Tell everyone you know.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 28/08/2026

I live in Texas and this is still one of the top reasons I keep reaching for the induction burner. No one needs extra heat in their kitchen at 5pm in August in Texas. Just basic tasks like boiling water for pasta add so much heat with gas.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 26/08/2026

I love this thread. I'm also fascinated with this topic because some of my coworkers have reported conversations where chatbots are hiding information or being combative. This isn't something I've experienced and I wonder if even with chatbots social niceties will get you more productive outcomes.

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 25/08/2026

New from Kalyn Gensic: "I imagine that most people heard this tirade and saw a blustering politician gearing up for election season. What librarians saw was more alarming. We saw a hostage situation taking shape."

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Come and Take Them, Dan Patrick

An Abilene public school librarian has a message for the lieutenant governor and his book-banning crusade.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 25/08/2026

I would love to see Texans eat way less beef and buy and re-prairie half the state as state parks. We need more parks, it would be a massive carbon sink, and could hopefully reduce wildfire risk. (Prairie tends to have density that holds a lot more moisture than introduced feed grass)

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 25/08/2026

I'm also curious. I've never figured out Perdenales at Caesar Chavez southbound (northbound seems to always work for me).

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 25/08/2026

You can think this is a metaphor or a side-effect, but many Southern Baptists businessmen I've known see business and church creation as "ministry".

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 24/08/2026

Austin's not on this list! This is a list of places that are good for real estate speculation. Home equity should be accrued by paying off your loan, not by increases in home value caused by scarcity. I'm so excited Austin is becoming an affordable and accessible city again.

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 20/08/2026

Mid Century Modern tableware and where I think it would stand on trans issues, a thread

A Mid Century Modern ad for tableware, quirky hanging laps, weird wood paneled kitchen bar, oh yeah it's MCM as hell up in here (kinda love it)

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There are a lot of unsolved Waco-area cases I still think about as a former crime reporter there, but the explosion in West, which killed 15 people, is always number one. Years ago, ATF announced it was arson. Then nothing. www.atf.gov/news/reward-...

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 19/08/2026

Since we're having discourse about Texas teaching the Bible in schools, I'm reposting my blog post on why that's bad for Christians. www.loadedguntheory.com/timthomas/fa...

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How do you keep faith in TEKS?

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 19/08/2026

My yard will testify I dig native plants. I really think we have to stop using words like "invasive" and "indigenous". I think we promote right-wing concepts with these terms. When are the plants and animals refugees? The climate is changing and our flora and faina are going to move to survive.

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Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My daughter’s conspiracy theory is that the spread of Waymo’s is being halted by men who don’t want women to have more free time.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 08/08/2026

I built a Facebook replacement. I think it's a fun site. But once you start taking out all of Facebook's addictive patterns you end up with a bunch of private blogs and blog rings. I'm still trying to figure out if there's a way to give it value that doesn't conflict with the idea of the open web.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 09/07/2026

It's the "housing theory of everything" urbanists have been talking about written out in an article. We knew the rough sketches, but I don't think anyone I know had put it together like this.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 09/07/2026

Great article as is the one I've linked to below. I am fascinated by the survivors guilt of being able to stop drinking.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 09/07/2026

I think a YIMBY goal should be that we get median home prices back to around $120k in all markets by the time the kids with Trump accounts turn 18 and can afford the 3.5% FHA down payment. My wife and I bought out first house with a down payment that size.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 08/07/2026

I have added a system for everyone in my house to vote on what to watch on the TV. You get random movies or shows from our watchlist and swipe left and right. I'm very excited about this feature. Almost done with adding it to the Google TV app. github.com/tthomas48/wa...

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GitHub - tthomas48/watchlist: Find movies and shows from your Trakt.tv watchlist available on Netflix and Prime Video

Find movies and shows from your Trakt.tv watchlist available on Netflix and Prime Video - tthomas48/watchlist

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 05/07/2026

Paris on the Colorado. Let's do it.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Grumpy though I may seem about unavoidable news stories, I do fucking love people being in love. Everyone with a good heart deserves to find someone to share it with. So for that, I will raise a glass of the good stuff to love. And marriage. A good marriage fucking rules.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

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To the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years Ago

A letter to Becky Pepper Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterday

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 01/07/2026

Every college admissions officer - "focus on writing a good essay". Every upper middle class parent - "we will focus on rowing"

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 26/06/2026

The one thing I hope people take away from Prairieland is that this is how sentencing always works and yes it's bad. I could not participate as a juror in a drug case when I found the judge could choose between 2 and 20 years. Judges can get advisory info, but sentence with vibes.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 17/06/2026

Guessing there are some bad bets that need to be off-loaded?

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 12/06/2026

I'm feeling very sad about that unhealthy looking elephant and hope someone rescues it. I realize this is also a metaphor.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 07/06/2026

In honor of the month and the Confluence opening in Austin you should really watch this video celebrating Austin and filmed along Walker Creek in the 80s. Dance it down in Austin Town. youtu.be/DB8HVmFjleU?...

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The Pool "Dance it Down" 1983

YouTube video by Austin History Center

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 31/05/2026

we don't have a masculinity crisis. we have a patriarchy crisis. patriarchy creates and sustains male unhappiness with its dogmatic, toxic, rigid definition of masculinity which says the worst and most undesirable thing a human can be is female which is how we get insults like "Low-T Talarico"

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 30/05/2026

Everyone I talk to IRL is talking about getting more square footage for less money or getting multiple months of free rent.

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Tim Thomas (he/him) @xeric.me · 29/05/2026

I keep getting the Anthropic ad on YouTube where they tell you to set --dangerously-skip-permissions without discussing what could happen and do they not have liability lawyers?

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