@ElanHR
elanhr.bsky.social
@ElanHR
@elanhr.bsky.social
Wiki enthusiast, space nerd, policy geek, new project starter.
Pinned
Thanks to everyone who came out to make this launch a success! Special shout-outs to our @bayme.sh friends for tracking the balloon to Pinnacles after we lost LOS and the @noisebridge.bsky.social folks listening at home!

Next up: scenic park hike to recover the payload?

#spacebridge #meshtastic
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"Doom scrolling" heißt auf Deutsch Dummscrollen, and I think that's beautiful.

#linguistics #translation #engdeu
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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October marked the fifth consecutive month with over 1 million total riders! Thank you for riding with us! 💖
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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The law library will be closed Wednesday, October 22 from 9am to 11am for staff training.
October 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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When will Caltrans start adding time via transit to their freeway signs? ⏳
bart.gov BART @bart.gov · Oct 14
Take transit.

It’s safer, better for the environment and it will support our ability to fund service and make improvements.
October 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Gotta set some boundaries... 😅
October 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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📺 Happy Monday! We have another Cab Cam video for you! You’re watching sped-up footage of the Blue Line from Dublin to Daly City.
September 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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33 years ago this month, the movie Sneakers hit theaters. 🕵️‍♂️💻

The studio even shipped a floppy disk press kit that reporters had to "hack" into for bios & production materials. www.mentalfloss.com/article/5029...

💾 Explore this rare relic on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/Snea...
Play the <em>Sneakers</em> Computer Press Kit from 1992
Reporters had to
www.mentalfloss.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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September 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation in honoring heroes of digital freedom at the 2025 #EFF Awards! 🎉 Celebrate innovators, activists, & technologists shaping a better future.

📅 Wed, Sept 10
🕕 6:00 PM reception (awards 7:30)
📍 101 Henry Adams St, SF
ℹ️ www.eff.org/event/eff-aw...
September 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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These two things help save the planet! My bike meets Professor Trashwheel in the Canton neighborhood of Baltimore. Baltimore has four solar powered Trashwheels that help collect and prevent debris from entering the Harbor. Learn more here: www.mrtrashwheel.com/trash-wheel-...
September 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Came for the hacking - stayed for the community. 📺🎶🔥

Come join us for Resident Electronic Music - a recurring electronic music open mic every fourth Thursday of the month. 272 Capp Str 8-10pm.

www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Residen...
September 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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My wife started DADA QUEST in a “dimly lit room”… 20 minutes later she was a spy on an assassination mission. Or maybe you'd like to explore the secrets of the Crenshaw Library? That’s the promise, chaos, and sometimes surreal whimsy of this retro text adventure with an AI game master.

dada.quest
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Beam me up!!
🖖🌉🚀🌌
September 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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this x-files edit goes HARD idc
August 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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The Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 brought 200+ coders, builders, and dreamers from 30+ countries to Istanbul. From tools flagging gendered language to Wikidata-scale projects, 45 showcases proved one thing: when Wikimedia’s tech community meets, innovation sparks.

Read more ➡️ w.wiki/EtXA
August 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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From the Clever Librarians Files.
August 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Snake-in-the-Box Problem

xkcd.com/3125/
August 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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“I’m not the same person I was as a child,” Navied Mahdavian writes. “But some things remain.” Read his comic on re-learning how to skateboard.
Skateboarding Into Middle Age
As I approach forty, I have fewer and fewer memories of being a child. It is enough that the body remembers.
www.newyorker.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Everyone is celebrating him for his (obviously wonderful) songs but I am also celebrating him for releasing all his works into the public domain and insisting he retained no copyrights over any of it.
July 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I can’t stop laughing. 😂
July 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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President Trump’s AI action plan “seeks to require that 'the government only contracts with' developers who meet the administration's ideological criteria," EFF’s Kit Walsh told Nextgov/FCW.
White House unveils AI action plan targeting regulation and ‘ideological bias’
The Trump administration’s goal is to make the U.S. a pro-AI innovation economy, relying on less bureaucratic barriers and open-source models to help win the global tech race.
www.nextgov.com
July 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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“Johns Hopkins has not merely preserved its discriminatory DEI framework — it has entrenched, expanded and openly celebrated it as a cornerstone of its institutional identity,”

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
Conservative group files complaint against Hopkins medical school
America First Legal is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to launch a formal investigation into diversity policies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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The Zen of Python says "Errors should never pass silently.". Here is a solution for that problem.
July 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM