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Wiki enthusiast, space nerd, policy geek, new project starter.
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@ElanHR @elanhr.bsky.social · Jan 23
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
Spacebridge payload containing a Meshtastic node, environmental sensor, and a GPS module. Spacebridge team attaching payload before inflating the balloon. Spacebridge team posing with the balloon in front of an overlook of Pacifica immediately before launch. Aiming the groundstation's directional antenna to maintain a strong signal while another teammate chases with a FPV drone.
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vrandecic.bsky.social
"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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caltrain.com
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
elanhr.bsky.social
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sflawlibrary.bsky.social San Francisco Law Library @sflawlibrary.bsky.social · 24d
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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bart.gov
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.
Google Maps image showing a longer drive time (one hour and 14 minutes) from Walnut Creek to downtown SF compared to taking BART (39 minutes).
October 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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jahorne.bsky.social
Gotta set some boundaries... 😅
October 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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bart.gov
📺 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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theletterf.bsky.social
This was a fun and interesting read that got to the Hacker News frontpage yesterday.

anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog
“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with ...
anniemueller.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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archive.org
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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ditzkoff.bsky.social
Nancy Mace tweet: Time to bring back the death penalty superimposed on an image of Mr. Burns tenting his fingers as he talks to a crowd Smithers whispers in Mr. Burns's ear Mr. Burns pushes Smithers away Nancy Mace tweet: We truly belive if Tyler Robinson had ever sat down across from Charlie, the great debater, the man of faith and grace he was Tyler wouldn't have pulled the trigger superimposed on an image of a chastened Mr. Burns speaking to the crowd about a different subject
September 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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archive.org
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...
Stylized color circuit board with the text EFF AWARDS.
September 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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jahorne.bsky.social
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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noisebridge.net
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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audiodude.bsky.social
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
A text adventure game reminiscent of an old green text terminal. The title reads "DADA QUEST System Version 1.0.0". There is a large main area with a prompt and a text box underneath for the player to enter a response. The player is currently on Turn 0 and has 5 points. There are also various icons visible. The prompt reads: "You stand in a cluttered attic above an old shop. Dusty trunks and shelves overflow with strange trinkets-maps, masks, and jars whose contents you can’t quite make out. A trapdoor creaks slightly in the floorboards. What would you like to do?"
September 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
elanhr.bsky.social
Beam me up!!
🖖🌉🚀🌌
September 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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pjvphotography.bsky.social
"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.
A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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lovexombie.bsky.social
this x-files edit goes HARD idc
August 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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wikimediafoundation.org
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
A group of people outdoors holding a large banner that reads “Wikimedia Hackathon,” smiling at the camera.
August 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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flowerchildob1.bsky.social
From the Clever Librarians Files.
August 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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xkcd.com
Snake-in-the-Box Problem

xkcd.com/3125/
Comic. A snake slithers around a hypercube. No two non-consecutive parts of its coils can be on adjacent corners. [Three small 4-dimensional hypercubes showing disallowed options with one large cube with snake wrapped around it. Dimensions = 4. Max Length - 7.] Snake(N) = Longest snake that can fit in an n-dimensional hypercube. Snake(N=1, 2, 3…8) = 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 26, 50, 98. Snake(N>8) = UNSOLVED. [caption] It turns out every scientific field has a key thought experiment that involves putting a cute animal in a weird box for no reason. So far, quantum mechanics and graph theory have found theirs, but most other fields are still working on it.
August 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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newyorker.com
“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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archive.org
Indeed. 👉 archive.org/details/toml...
mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Jul 27
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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eastendjoe.bsky.social
I can’t stop laughing. 😂
July 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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eff.org
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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iwashyna.bsky.social
“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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anthonypjshaw.bsky.social
The Zen of Python says "Errors should never pass silently.". Here is a solution for that problem.
A Python script which plays sounds whenever exceptions occur
July 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM