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sean kelly @deamplified.com · 16m

📷 the urge to toss my phone into the water and live next to this tree

a shady forest, tree branches overhanging a stream, orange leaves on the ground, green canopy above

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1h

Cooking up an app-view 🧑🏾‍🍳

ASCII art at the Blacksky App View homepage

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sean kelly @deamplified.com · 3h

there's a world where this would be the opposite (discounted price for social media usage), but that's a world where privacy is considered default, not an upgrade.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3h

TIL that photographers charge you more if you request that your photos aren’t used on their social media. Maybe I knew that? Or maybe it’s generally been included? Either way the price of 1980s privacy has definitely gone up

sean kelly @deamplified.com · 3h

sharing > influencing

sean kelly @deamplified.com · 3h

2005: never read the comments section

2025: the comments are all there is now

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sean kelly @deamplified.com · 6h

please make the sparkles stop

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 6h

sparkle fatigue, n.

Being sick and tired of “magic wand and sparkle buttons” that software developers add to everything for no reason.

Heather Buchel @heather-buchel.com · 6h

Crashing out over sparkle fatigue over here.

sean kelly @deamplified.com · 8h

Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 18h

38 years ago today
Husker Du (Greg Norton, Grant Hart and Bob Mould) at the Vic Theater in Chicago Illinois, October 10, 1987.

Photo by Paul Natkin

#punk #punks #punkrock #huskerdu #hüskerdü #history #punkrockhistory #otd

sean kelly @deamplified.com · 23h

bonus time when the train stops midway for 10 minutes

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sean kelly @deamplified.com · 1d

god's-eye-view of me on the train home, praying the the 5G signal holds long enough to download an album before the train goes back underground 🙏

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

The reflection of the train shimmering in the water. Effervescent.

Photo of the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges over the East River. A subway train is passing over the bridge and glowing bright white with the reflection from the sun. The light is reflected into the water, lighting it up brightly.

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Zed @zed.dev · 1d

GPUI (v0.2.0), the GPU-accelerated Rust UI framework that powers Zed, is on crates dot io. 👀

crates.io/crates/gpui

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sean kelly @deamplified.com · 1d

more linoleum pieces in the asphalt. I haven't seen anyone new making these for a long time.

Stikman on the right, unknown on the left

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sean kelly @deamplified.com · 1d

Toynbee-esque

HOUSE OF HADES
ONE MAN VERSUS
ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES
IN SOCIETY 2019
PUBLIC NOTICE

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 1d

This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever made. Except that’s an evergreen statement at this point.

A pile of zines called DONT BUILD THE TORMENT NEXUS!

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 2d

Astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung was born #OTD in 1873. 🧪 🔭

H-R diagram:

🔵 🟦 🟥
🔵 🟧
⚪️ 🟨
⚪️
🟡🟡
⚬ ⚬ 🟠🟠
⚬ ⚬ ⚬ 🔴
⚬ 🔴
⚫️

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sean kelly @deamplified.com · 2d

"trans rights aren't a winning issue"

Neither were yours. Every freedom you enjoy was fought for by other people at some point.

Human rights aren't a political strategy. It's not even table stakes. It's the floor we're all standing on.

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sean kelly @deamplified.com · 2d

SHOCK GENERATOR TYPE ZLB
DYSON INSTRUMENT COMPANY
WALTHAM, MASS
OUTPUT 15 VOLTS — 450 VOLTS

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24d

it’s cool that they invented gambling for writing code

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Neil Pederson @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social · 3d

I am teaching a course on ancient trees and tree rings at the NY Botanical Garden on Sunday, October 26th and Sunday, November 2nd.

We will learn about past environments, the amazing lives of trees, and what old trees tend to look like.

Sign up at this link: www.enrole.com/nybg/jsp/ses...

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sean kelly @deamplified.com · 3d

There's a whole range of places (distance-wise) in between car and air travel I feel like trains would unlock in a country as large as the US.

sean kelly @deamplified.com · 3d

Lots of technical and financial reasons for the state of our rail systems, but it's all primarily a reflection of our car-centricity as a country keeping us stuck in loop of lack of investment -> poor rider experience -> lack of demand -> lack of investment…

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sean kelly @deamplified.com · 3d

great write-up on the NEC inching it's way toward the 21st century

Rob Pegoraro @robpegoraro.com · 3d

This is by far the longest piece I've written for @fastcompany.com, but it takes a few words to unpack why the NextGen Acela isn't that much faster than the old one, the past mistakes that got us here, and the incomplete steps Amtrak is now taking to speed up every train on the Northeast Corridor.

Amtrak’s new Acela trains can’t keep up with high-speed rail

The fastest train in America rides on one of the country’s oldest railroad tracks.

www.fastcompany.com

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Aug 24

So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al

The making of critical data center studies - Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, Mél Hogan, 2025

In this article, the authors demonstrate how the data center has become a key site, object, and metaphor for interdisciplinary scholarship of the internet. Whil...

journals.sagepub.com

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Adam Argyle @nerdy.dev · 5d

I made a Bluesky #CSS Feed 🤘🏻

(takes a lot of work to filter out the garbage… damn)
but I believe I've setup a good system!

nerdy.dev/css-bluesky-...

CSS Bluesky Feed · October 4, 2025

On Bluesky? Here's a CSS Feed I made

nerdy.dev

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sean kelly @deamplified.com · 4d

some favorites in vintage tech branding and physical interfaces ↴

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sean kelly @deamplified.com · 4d

📱

There is no god but this mirror that thou seest, for this is the Mirror of Wisdom. And it reflecteth all things that are in heaven and on earth, save only the face of him who looketh into it. This it reflecteth not, so that he who looketh into it may be wise.

—Oscar Wilde, "The Fisherman and His Soul"