Accelerationista
@accelerationista.bsky.social
I like to go fast. Moved to Boston in 1976 to attend MIT. Decided this was home. The Cradle of Liberty. Retired software engineer. Some of my software flew on the Space Shuttle. Motorcyclist, photographer, hacker, reader of all kinds of things.
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Folks, I've created my own personally curated block list.
These people and organizations are offensive, reactionary, or rude. That's why they are on this list.
One person confessed to committing a serious crime. Report them, if you please.
#block #nuclearblock
bsky.app/profile/acce...
These people and organizations are offensive, reactionary, or rude. That's why they are on this list.
One person confessed to committing a serious crime. Report them, if you please.
#block #nuclearblock
bsky.app/profile/acce...
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Okay, I need you guys to argue over this: @sbdcmusic.com @justjoel.bsky.social @justbrady.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Okay, I need you guys to argue over this: @sbdcmusic.com @justjoel.bsky.social @justbrady.bsky.social
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The first family corruption continues.
December 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The first family corruption continues.
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Pavel Popov (Russian, b. 1966). Water lily. Northern lotus (2014, oil on canvas).
December 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Pavel Popov (Russian, b. 1966). Water lily. Northern lotus (2014, oil on canvas).
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December 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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BSA started in 1861 making small arms and added motorcycles in 1910, but went bust in 1973. Once the largest producer of motorcycles in the world, they are now owned by Mahindra and though designed in the UK, they are made in India. #motosky #motorcycle #bikesky #bikersky #motorbike #bsa
December 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
BSA started in 1861 making small arms and added motorcycles in 1910, but went bust in 1973. Once the largest producer of motorcycles in the world, they are now owned by Mahindra and though designed in the UK, they are made in India. #motosky #motorcycle #bikesky #bikersky #motorbike #bsa
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So half the fucking country?
December 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
So half the fucking country?
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If you have enough money and status it will earn you a pardon by this president.
December 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
If you have enough money and status it will earn you a pardon by this president.
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And even if you're right, the punishment for drug smuggling isn't death.
Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."
December 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
And even if you're right, the punishment for drug smuggling isn't death.
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They’re due 12/19.
December 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
They’re due 12/19.
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And what about the Epstein files?
December 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
And what about the Epstein files?
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This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
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Frankenstein was Byron. I've joked that Isaac did a bang up job portraying Byron.
The movie was a love letter to Shelley, and the quote is a way to gesture toward Shelley's inspiration.
Byron's legacy is pretty much "was so insufferable he inspired petulant man-child, Axe Body Spray bro in 1818."
The movie was a love letter to Shelley, and the quote is a way to gesture toward Shelley's inspiration.
Byron's legacy is pretty much "was so insufferable he inspired petulant man-child, Axe Body Spray bro in 1818."
December 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Frankenstein was Byron. I've joked that Isaac did a bang up job portraying Byron.
The movie was a love letter to Shelley, and the quote is a way to gesture toward Shelley's inspiration.
Byron's legacy is pretty much "was so insufferable he inspired petulant man-child, Axe Body Spray bro in 1818."
The movie was a love letter to Shelley, and the quote is a way to gesture toward Shelley's inspiration.
Byron's legacy is pretty much "was so insufferable he inspired petulant man-child, Axe Body Spray bro in 1818."
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Headline: Trumpiggy faces the prospect of electoral wipeout in 2026 midterms if he fails to quickly regain footing on the economy.
Well he can't spell economist or even pronounce it, so..
Well he can't spell economist or even pronounce it, so..
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Headline: Trumpiggy faces the prospect of electoral wipeout in 2026 midterms if he fails to quickly regain footing on the economy.
Well he can't spell economist or even pronounce it, so..
Well he can't spell economist or even pronounce it, so..
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Dog rules state that this is now my motorbike.
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Dog rules state that this is now my motorbike.
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Dalton Trumbo - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
December 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Dalton Trumbo - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
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December 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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"You study how that liquid comes out of the hose normally. But then sometimes you have to manipulate the opening on the hose to make the liquid look like it’s actually coming out of someone’s mouth."
Read our interview with the special effects foreman who unexpectedly went viral:
Read our interview with the special effects foreman who unexpectedly went viral:
We talked to the guy running the Mad Men puke hose
“I had to watch a lot of videos of people vomiting.”
www.theverge.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"You study how that liquid comes out of the hose normally. But then sometimes you have to manipulate the opening on the hose to make the liquid look like it’s actually coming out of someone’s mouth."
Read our interview with the special effects foreman who unexpectedly went viral:
Read our interview with the special effects foreman who unexpectedly went viral:
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Dusty Orion
3 weeks ago I got the chance to travel to dark skies for the first time in over 2 years! This is an image of the famous Orion nebula plus the Running Man Nebula, all against a backdrop of dust and gas.
61 x 3 mins (+ 60 x 10 sec exposures for the bright core).
#astrophotography 🔭
3 weeks ago I got the chance to travel to dark skies for the first time in over 2 years! This is an image of the famous Orion nebula plus the Running Man Nebula, all against a backdrop of dust and gas.
61 x 3 mins (+ 60 x 10 sec exposures for the bright core).
#astrophotography 🔭
December 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Dusty Orion
3 weeks ago I got the chance to travel to dark skies for the first time in over 2 years! This is an image of the famous Orion nebula plus the Running Man Nebula, all against a backdrop of dust and gas.
61 x 3 mins (+ 60 x 10 sec exposures for the bright core).
#astrophotography 🔭
3 weeks ago I got the chance to travel to dark skies for the first time in over 2 years! This is an image of the famous Orion nebula plus the Running Man Nebula, all against a backdrop of dust and gas.
61 x 3 mins (+ 60 x 10 sec exposures for the bright core).
#astrophotography 🔭
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It's been almost three weeks now and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."
December 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's been almost three weeks now and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."
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Gemini North image of Arp 336, also known as NGC 2685 or the Helix Galaxy.
Its perpendicular ring of gas, stars, and dust was likely captured from an interaction with another galaxy.
Credit: International Gemini Observatory, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, L. Bassino
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Its perpendicular ring of gas, stars, and dust was likely captured from an interaction with another galaxy.
Credit: International Gemini Observatory, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, L. Bassino
Source
December 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Gemini North image of Arp 336, also known as NGC 2685 or the Helix Galaxy.
Its perpendicular ring of gas, stars, and dust was likely captured from an interaction with another galaxy.
Credit: International Gemini Observatory, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, L. Bassino
Source
Its perpendicular ring of gas, stars, and dust was likely captured from an interaction with another galaxy.
Credit: International Gemini Observatory, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, L. Bassino
Source
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Sunset on the coast in Olympic National Park
#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #sunset #seascape
#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #sunset #seascape
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Sunset on the coast in Olympic National Park
#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #sunset #seascape
#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #sunset #seascape
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December 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Made this far westward today:
December 9, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Made this far westward today:
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THE VIEW FROM THE FLIGHT DECK: The storm hasn't even started, but auroras are already dancing around the Arctic Circle. Pilot Matt Melnyk saw them Dec. 7th while flying 37,000 feet over Greenland spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...
December 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
THE VIEW FROM THE FLIGHT DECK: The storm hasn't even started, but auroras are already dancing around the Arctic Circle. Pilot Matt Melnyk saw them Dec. 7th while flying 37,000 feet over Greenland spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...
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I just now realized that I have my shirt on backwards.
December 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I just now realized that I have my shirt on backwards.