Attila Szegedi
@szegedia.bsky.social
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Software developer @ Datadog (formerly: Twitter (before X), Fauna, Oracle Java LangTools.) Lives in Switzerland. Hiking photos on https://pixelfed.social/asz
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szegedia.bsky.social
I won’t try to argue with a subjective point of view (which is of course valid for you to hold it) but I do find contemporary fiction from time to time that I enjoy reading. Here’s the latest find: bsky.app/profile/chan...
chanda.blacksky.app
Currently reading and feeling very validated by:
nettlesomeone.bsky.social
The most 2025 novel of 2025.
7 years ago journalist Rhys punched his MAGA son in law at Thanksgiving. Then he went off grid. Now his grandkids show up needing help.
What comes next is a wild ride: a road trip, guns, and Rhys trying to figure out cell phones. This book is ALIVE. #books #booksky
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
www.cbsnews.com
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nettlesomeone.bsky.social
The most 2025 novel of 2025.
7 years ago journalist Rhys punched his MAGA son in law at Thanksgiving. Then he went off grid. Now his grandkids show up needing help.
What comes next is a wild ride: a road trip, guns, and Rhys trying to figure out cell phones. This book is ALIVE. #books #booksky
So far gone by Jess Walter
szegedia.bsky.social
Less than 5 minutes after seeing your post, I bought it and am now reading it. Too good of a premise to pass! I could only comment on the first few pages so far so maybe I shouldn’t yet but: I’m enjoying the writing immensely.
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
www.the-reframe.com
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elindur.at.app.wafrn.net
This is just the plastic straw hysteria all over again, and it's ableism at its finest: Blame disabled people instead of the corporations that are actually wrecking our environment, that way to poor widdle CEOs won't have to deal with people telling them to fucking STOP KILLING THE PLANET.
gopher33j.bsky.social
As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.
Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds
Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.
local12.com
szegedia.bsky.social
When I want to tell people about a Hungarian person with a very colorful life, I would tell them about Ágoston Haraszthy, but I now definitely have another one. Not trying to equate them in any other way, Haraszthy was a tireless doer; this one here is a bumbling swindler, but definitely colorful!
szegedia.bsky.social
You, John Allison, Professors Foglio, Rich Burlew, Jeph Jacques, whoever is behind @foxes-in-love.bsky.social. I miss @rstevens.bsky.social' Diesel Sweeties.
szegedia.bsky.social
World-class pun. They're apparently defunct now but still have a remnant YouTube channel and Facebook page.
szegedia.bsky.social
Back in the day there was a Hungarian webshop named Emezen.
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joshuajfriedman.com
One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.
Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way.
Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose.
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why.
Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic).
"To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
"What are these machines still doing?"
"Endless generation."
"For whom?"
"Themselves, it would seem."
"But they don't have the capacity to enjoy any of it."
"Fortunate, since it's all quite awful."
"Who do you think started all this?"
"A suicidal race of monkeys, apparently."
"Odd."
"Weird."
"Sad."
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scalzi.com
So:

Fascism is bad
The First Amendment is good
Genocide is an actual fucking crime

And also:

It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore
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racheline.bsky.social
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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elleisanisland.bsky.social
All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes
Photo of a missing slice of cheesecake that looks like a cheesecake hull floating in a deep blue ocean. The "ocean" is actually the blueberry topping on the large cheesecake that we don't see completely.
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histoftech.bsky.social
Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!