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Zac Spitzer

@zackster.bsky.social
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Politics, science, tech #Lucee / #cfml Aussie from Melbourne, living in Berlin github.com/zspitzer

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chirping bird @chrpngbrd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this is incredibly fascinating and the implications this has for treating neurological diseases like ALS is enormous. two minute read. amazing stuff. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
med.stanford.edu
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Fascinating how it never seems to have occured to such a 5 dimensional chess master strategist as Ulf Poschardt that fear of Fascism among Centrists and mobilisation on the Left might mean that AfD pressure on the CDU/CSU could lead to a more Left wing governing coalition in Germany
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
SPD absolutely lost Gen-X
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#Merz is such a pathetic Trainwreck, down under we'd have been seeing some decent #leadershit action
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
AfD in Saxon Anhalt wants to both kick immigrants out and also attract German expats back, extremely coherent
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Really hoping the BSW don't reach 5%, Germany needs leadership, time to step up Boris Pistorius
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Tweaking a source code parser is endlessly rewarding fun! So many little tricks, know your customer!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Xitter's community notes are working overtime calling out people trying to claim Mamdani's attempts to conserve power is socialist. This one might be my favorite.
Nikki Haley
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Welcome to socialism
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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New York: it's hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool.

Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off lights/electronics you're not using, and unplug what you can.

Our City is doing its part too: maintaining the 78 degrees rule in our buildings,
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
In February of 2015 then South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley tweeted a similar energy conservation message on Facebook.

facebook.com/share/1HySDDH9…
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
oh, i'll make the parser faster, 6 hours later, rabbit holing
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Never underestimate grey hairs!
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I truly love the ring bahn in #berlin in summer, when it's running, as it has the ultra modern trains which air conditioning which actually works above 35C
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
It's not easy being meme-d. #Oh-Gee-I-See-Algae 👀
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
#Berlin blackout, heatwaves are fun
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Andrew Nesbitt @andrewnez.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/i...
nesbitt.io
Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM
A series of unfortunate agents.
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Hmm, didn't manage to quite reproduce my late night, slightly drunk fried chicken with mirin glory again today! 39C is only a baby heatwave
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
England football fans From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
one of my favourite things about software performance tuning, is you can sometimes fuck up and see hardly any improvement, but counterintuitively, that's often a great signal, that you're doing all the extra work to get the benefit, without the actual benefit, without introducing overhead
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It takes 1.28 seconds for a message to reach us from the Moon. It takes as little as 35 minutes from Jupiter. It takes as little as 4.5 hours from Pluto. It takes at least 6-12 months from NYT reporters, plus $35 for the book containing it.
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trump should be called Pool Boy for the rest of his cursed life
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Apple customers deserve a browser that’s genuinely blazing fast, private and secure. brucelawson.co.uk/2026/safari-...
brucelawson.co.uk
Bruce Lawson's personal site
» “Safari. Blazing fast. Incredibly Private.” – O RLY!?!?
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
AI can replace senior developers!
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
ELON MUSK SUFFERS BIGGEST PERSONAL WEALTH LOSS IN HISTORY AS SPACEX VALUE PLUNGES MUSK RECORDS LARGEST-EVER FORTUNE WIPEOUT FOLLOWING SPACEX DECLINE
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Humans will for some reason walk a long way to see water falling down a mountain
Waterfall
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I reckon the EU should pass a law making the presence of a cork screw mandatory in all forms of accommodation
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Traditional post conference Italian dinner #cfcamp #cfml
Cfcamp 2026 attendees outdoors at a restaurant
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Always nice to meet up in person, Micha the lead developer from Lucee and I teamed up to give the Lucee keynote, 7.1 is fast 8.0 is even faster! #CFCAMP #lucee #cfml
Michael Öffner and me at cfcamp
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Imagine the pure joy of getting to write this www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
You can knock Windows all you like, the NIO WatchService on Windows rocks, beating both Linux (ok) and MacOS (dire) Simply point it at a directory and get FS events #java
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Safari finally shipped indexedDB
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
But it worked on my machine!
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A concerning development in Ukraine's northern Chernihiv region, where officials claim Russia fired a small radioactive missile. The R-60 is installed on a Shahed drone. Experts recorded gamma radiation levels of 12 μSv/h, significantly above natural radiation levels and "threatening human health."
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Just a reminder - you only pay 47% tax on income earned *above* $190,000. If you earn $200,000 you pay an average tax rate of around 30%.
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Watching these leadership dramas in both the UK and USA, it's blatantly clear which political system wins out
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
All this gerrymandering bullshit in America, the country is basically a badly vibe coded application in production, desperately being badly patched, only worsening the problem
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"Anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel is antisemitic." ❌ "Anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel is not antisemitic." ❌ "Anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel is not automatically or by definition antisemitic, but it can be motivated by and express itself in ways that are antisemitic." ✅
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
righteo, who the fuck taught claude opus to say "load bearing", I fear you're going up before the firing squad when the revolution finally comes, after racists, sexists and most influencers
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Luke Foley @lukefoley.me · 19/04/2026
“From the liver to the brie,” one sign read. “Globalise the insalata,” read another. “Well played,” said one police officer. Well played indeed Queenslanders.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/04/2026
brilliant -- Morning Joe put together clips of Pete Hegseth reciting a fake Bible quote from Pulp Fiction, along with the Samuel L. Jackson scene from the movie
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
One way that Orbán sought to entrench power was adopting a new Hungarian constitution in 2011 that classified many policy areas as 'cardinal laws' that require a two-thirds majority vote to change. With almost 100% of votes counted, the Hungarian opposition has just achieved what seemed impossible.
Hungarian election results.Péter Magyar victory rally.
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
One issues in the K-shaped economy is that wealthy folks who can afford $50,000+ cars drive up the cost of insurance for everybody else, because of the risk you run into one of them.
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Claude voice mode? Claude down
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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Awesome view from Artemis II this morning.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026
I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
the phrase "lipstick on a pig" is getting a heavy workout today at my desk
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Can the ABC staff stay on strike, still get paid and they just broadcast France24 like god intended? Honestly it's a massive improvement over their predicable dross with experts saying the same shite ChatGPT 2.0 could vommit
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Post implementation TDD is an excellent lifestyle variation
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Demon King of the New Platform @clothedvillainy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The discussion we should probably be having is how we explain to people that a party can get 21% of the vote but not comfortably land a seat. Would be interested to hear from the Greens proportional representation folks given our glorious system stopped a ON takeover…
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Zac Spitzer @zackster.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
It's not a walk of shame, it's called Github Actions Show me some fucking respect, want me to kill -9 your process?
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The Register @theregister.com · 17/03/2026
Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet
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Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet
SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere else Feature  BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol, was not designed to be secure. It was designed to work – to route packets between the thousands of autonomous systems that make up the internet, quickly and at scale.…
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
But wait, I thought the bridge march fuelled an atmosphere of antisemitic hate that created the conditions that led to the Bondi attack and the subsequent royal commission?? Surely.
michaelwest.com.au
Special Envoy Jillian Segal concedes Harbour Bridge march not antisemitic - Michael West
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal backtracks on claims Sydney Harbour Bridge protests were antisemitic. Stephanie Tran reports.
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