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Engineer is credit to team. An engineer who cycles, enjoys cycling, building robots, and doing fun things. Environmentalist, enjoyer of plants, tinkering, 3D printing, welding, machining, and building cool stuff.

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · Oct 21

Hi everyone,

I’m back on here after a hiatus. I’m an engineer who likes to cycle, tinker, work on robotics, machining, make things, and solve problems. I also like to talk about cutting edge science.

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 10h

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 11h

“What do you mean we have to test and audit it? I don’t know what half the functions do”

Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 11h

Safety “rewired” by operator

Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 21h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

The diagram doesn’t commute.

Michael Barany @mbarany.com · 23h

exercise to the reader

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 17h

This is an important point, one I make in Everyone Else is Lying to You.

Makary, Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, Prasad and the rest lied with such speed and comfort it was impossible to even begin to correct them all.

Just an avalanche.

Refuting such disinformation was the goal of We Want Them Infected, which revealed the truth of Brandolini's law, an adage that states the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. WWTI doctors created false and misleading claims much faster than anyone could correct them. Dr. Makary's article was a written version of a Gish Gallop, a debating technique that uses "a rapid series of specious arguments, half-truths, misrepresentations and outright lies, making it impossible for the opponent to refute all of them within the format of the debate."
As political propagandist Steve Bannon famously said, the goal was
"to flood the zone with shit," which is exactly what WWTI doctors did.

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 12h

“Ai programmed” safety system
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Someone who didn’t know what they were doing tried vibe coding something that could likely end up getting someone seriously hurt.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22h

Meanwhile, ed tech companies are salivating--eager to sell "solutions" to families whose schools will now struggle (even more than they already have) to meet their kids' learning needs.

(Here are a few of the ed tech ads I've been tracking over the past few months)

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 12h

We need to get the frog chemical filter for the blower unit and upgrade the unit to account for the higher pressure drop of the filters.

Newfie912 @newfie912.bsky.social · 1d

Portland Frog is my hero! He got pepper sprayed by ICE but kept on going.

Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 12h

A lot of this could be avoided if corporations weren’t allowed to do stock buybacks and the ratio of CEO to worker pay was capped at 1:60.

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ceej @ceej.online · 18h

someone with a billion dollars no longer experiences the world as 99% of humanity would recognize it, and so any “analysis” or critique of society they offer is fatally, irrevocably flawed. dracula complaining about the price of groceries

ceej @ceej.online · 21h

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 23h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: “Toderian says it’s easy to be distracted by futuristic innovations like electric cars, drone delivery networks & hyperloops. ‘The real solutions are a lot less sexy and a lot more common sense… Tech won’t save us if we get the fundamentals wrong.”

I was 1 of 3 urban experts asked to weigh in.

A world without traffic? Three urban experts rethink how cities move

Gridlock is costing us billions, but bold solutions like bus-only lanes, congestion charges and flexible work hours could get cities moving again

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 1d

Try looking at retired lawyers oncologists, or just plain regular tech CEOs who spend most of their time doing burning man like dumb shit and are completely out of touch with society.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 1d

The man has exhibited visible disgust for anyone with a disability for years. They’re eugenicists.

Even if this gets overturned by the courts what are parents supposed to do in the meantime if they live in a red state?

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.

Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.

Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 1d

How the fuck are they being allowed to try this shit AGAIN. The just pulled this shit a few years ago and there’s still la war going on.

Kraut @derparrot.bsky.social · 1d

There is video footage.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 1d

It’s goob-maxing but you shout “it’s goobin time” and then goob all over those guys.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Another devastating blow for the disability community as this administration cuts almost every employee responsible for administering funding & oversight for IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act).

Education should be a basic human right..and disabled kids are just as deserving.

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the guy who sent carcasses to his cast-mates try and act was painful. He genuinely sucks at acting and directors should stop casting him in things. He can’t stop destroying everything he’s in. Joker, Morbius, now generic dude in red suit.

Seriously, he should go back to being a fart cloud.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 1d

Shoulda known @scottmendelson.bsky.social would put it better than I ever could. "Moldy IP leftovers" made me LOL:

scottmendelson.substack.com/p/scott-mend...

Why Predictable Box Office Bombs Like 'Tron: Ares' Hurt Everyone

Theaters are forced to subsist with inferior IP leftovers, while studios get to blame “Nobody goes to the movies!” and/or “Go woke, go broke” for predictable flops.

scottmendelson.substack.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Psst: Stop burning stuff on Earth for energy. Let the burning fireball in the sky be your energy source.

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 4d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1d

Thankfully, some of yesterday's CDC firings have been rescinded.

But this should be a major scandal, not business as usual in this shitshow of an administration. It's either spectacular incompetence or an effort to make even politically untouchable positions feel precarious to those in them.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 1d

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

www.statnews.com

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 1d

A bigoted stupid man who looks like the goblin king from the hobbit got scammed and bought a watch that shows off his support for a fascist who’s taking away healthcare and lifesaving medicine from people like him, and the watch says butt on it.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe don’t give the authoritarian party the ability to create an even more omniscient surveillance state with your shit bill that would force people to give predatory companies their ids on most websites that would inevitably get leaked and lead to identity theft.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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