Elf M. Sternberg
@elfsternberg.bsky.social
Husband to a gorgeous wife, father to two great kids, greying leatherfairy, infamous furry, and world-class software engineer. If you can read this, you're running code I wrote.
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By spending time on Jeffrey Epstein's island, Howard Lutnick interacted with an immensely rich man and his harem of young girls. This perfectly prepared him to do deals with the royals of Saudi Arabia and the UAE. A masterstroke by President Donald J. Trump!
by Marc Thiessen
by Marc Thiessen
February 11, 2026 at 6:57 PM
By spending time on Jeffrey Epstein's island, Howard Lutnick interacted with an immensely rich man and his harem of young girls. This perfectly prepared him to do deals with the royals of Saudi Arabia and the UAE. A masterstroke by President Donald J. Trump!
by Marc Thiessen
by Marc Thiessen
Now's the time for me to find that transwoman awkward-harem curling story I shelved years ago. It's the next big thing, I'm tellin' ya.
the ratio of how many pages of gay hockey romance I have read in the past two months to how many hard facts about the sport of hockey I actually possess reflects very poorly on me
February 15, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Now's the time for me to find that transwoman awkward-harem curling story I shelved years ago. It's the next big thing, I'm tellin' ya.
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Reposting this for Valentine's Day.
Might draw something new for the occasion later today if I have the time.
Might draw something new for the occasion later today if I have the time.
February 14, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Reposting this for Valentine's Day.
Might draw something new for the occasion later today if I have the time.
Might draw something new for the occasion later today if I have the time.
Holy shiznit, my gay genes just lit up like a disco ball being hit with neon and lasers. This is awesome.
And if you haven’t seen this searing performance from the 1971 Oscars, you ain’t dug nothing yet.
youtu.be/lPE3C0GpDoA?...
youtu.be/lPE3C0GpDoA?...
Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft live (1971)
YouTube video by CharlieKappa
youtu.be
February 15, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Holy shiznit, my gay genes just lit up like a disco ball being hit with neon and lasers. This is awesome.
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The second you see this cover, a wah pedal starts playing. It’s science.
February 14, 2026 at 9:34 PM
The second you see this cover, a wah pedal starts playing. It’s science.
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Fishbone is red hot! 5 days into their kickstarter and they are 95% funded! But everyone should hop on this chance to help them make a new album. www.kickstarter.com/projects/fis...
Fishbone - Powered by the People
We are recording a new album. This Kickstarter funds the upfront costs of recording New Album + Touring Gear + Vinyl Manufacturing.
www.kickstarter.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Fishbone is red hot! 5 days into their kickstarter and they are 95% funded! But everyone should hop on this chance to help them make a new album. www.kickstarter.com/projects/fis...
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Another example, US passports didn't even have a gender marker until 1977, when it was added because of "unisex fashion and hair styles" ie to better police gender expression
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
February 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Another example, US passports didn't even have a gender marker until 1977, when it was added because of "unisex fashion and hair styles" ie to better police gender expression
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Just think: this is happening in thousands of companies nationwide. Microsoft shoving Cursor into Excel, Clawd giving LLMs access to your email, the whole stupidity of giving a verified bullshit generator control of any core aspect of your business is insane.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Just think: this is happening in thousands of companies nationwide. Microsoft shoving Cursor into Excel, Clawd giving LLMs access to your email, the whole stupidity of giving a verified bullshit generator control of any core aspect of your business is insane.
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After more than 1.2 Americans lost their lives to Covid, NIH director Jay Bhattacharya orders the agency to deprioritize pandemic preparedness & biodefense.
Make it make sense.
Scoop from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Make it make sense.
Scoop from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.
www.nature.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:16 PM
After more than 1.2 Americans lost their lives to Covid, NIH director Jay Bhattacharya orders the agency to deprioritize pandemic preparedness & biodefense.
Make it make sense.
Scoop from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Make it make sense.
Scoop from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Yes! What if we treated extremely normal human variation as something other than a "disorder"???
www.positive.news/society/yout...
www.positive.news/society/yout...
Rethinking ADHD as ‘hypercuriosity’
What if ADHD isn’t a deficit of attention, but an intensified curiosity? A new study explores how reframing ADHD could transform education
www.positive.news
February 14, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Yes! What if we treated extremely normal human variation as something other than a "disorder"???
www.positive.news/society/yout...
www.positive.news/society/yout...
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I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
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Happy Valentine’s Day to the goober who is @prismpaws.bsky.social
I’m so excited for us to be closing the distance this year!!
💜💛
I’m so excited for us to be closing the distance this year!!
💜💛
February 14, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Happy Valentine’s Day to the goober who is @prismpaws.bsky.social
I’m so excited for us to be closing the distance this year!!
💜💛
I’m so excited for us to be closing the distance this year!!
💜💛
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Seattle Couple Plans Destination Wedding for West Seattle: tinyurl.com/rk253xne
February 15, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Seattle Couple Plans Destination Wedding for West Seattle: tinyurl.com/rk253xne
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The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
February 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
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Unironically yes, LOWER DECKS is about how the response to the disappointments of the post-Cold War era and the complexity of the modern world should not be despair or cynicism but instead a recommitment to the original ideals of liberalism, thank you for coming to my TED talk.
February 13, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Unironically yes, LOWER DECKS is about how the response to the disappointments of the post-Cold War era and the complexity of the modern world should not be despair or cynicism but instead a recommitment to the original ideals of liberalism, thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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You can’t reform this
May 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
You can’t reform this
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Trans teen school friends die by suicide just 10 months apart ➡️ https://bit.ly/3OCJLuB
📷 The Trevor Project, GoFundMe
📷 The Trevor Project, GoFundMe
February 14, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Trans teen school friends die by suicide just 10 months apart ➡️ https://bit.ly/3OCJLuB
📷 The Trevor Project, GoFundMe
📷 The Trevor Project, GoFundMe
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The GOP's Big Beautiful Bill gave Trump tens of billions of dollars to create a domestic militia and prison system that he was all but certain to employ to assault our democracy, as I said last July.
Now that Republicans are poised to suffer a catastrophic electoral loss, that assault beginning.....
Now that Republicans are poised to suffer a catastrophic electoral loss, that assault beginning.....
February 14, 2026 at 10:25 PM
The GOP's Big Beautiful Bill gave Trump tens of billions of dollars to create a domestic militia and prison system that he was all but certain to employ to assault our democracy, as I said last July.
Now that Republicans are poised to suffer a catastrophic electoral loss, that assault beginning.....
Now that Republicans are poised to suffer a catastrophic electoral loss, that assault beginning.....
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I always like to tell this story but during WWII, a 23 year old PHD mathematician from Harvard was able to solve the 8th Air Force’s gunnery problem in like 2 months without spending a day in the military (turns out you have to lead your target)
Hegseth to US military: if you get into MIT, we won't let you attend because of the risk that you will be exposed to ideas hostile to MAGA when you study there.
February 14, 2026 at 10:06 PM
I always like to tell this story but during WWII, a 23 year old PHD mathematician from Harvard was able to solve the 8th Air Force’s gunnery problem in like 2 months without spending a day in the military (turns out you have to lead your target)
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That was, and remains, the model used. Donald Trump used to openly talk about the feeble-minded, easily fooled followers of the very individuals mentioned below. Also, America is largely a hostage to conservative, Bible-based hypocrisy. Recruit a conman, suffer a conman's agenda.
"Trump has become a parody of a 1980s televangelist, openly grifting his followers for massive amounts of cash. (His ballroom is practically his own Heritage USA.) But Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart put on a more convincing show." — @playtyperguy.com
Trump is clowning his evangelical base
He's not even bothering to pretend anymore.
www.publicnotice.co
February 14, 2026 at 6:20 PM
That was, and remains, the model used. Donald Trump used to openly talk about the feeble-minded, easily fooled followers of the very individuals mentioned below. Also, America is largely a hostage to conservative, Bible-based hypocrisy. Recruit a conman, suffer a conman's agenda.
I'm unreasonably in love with this pic from King County Public Health.
February 14, 2026 at 6:59 PM
I'm unreasonably in love with this pic from King County Public Health.
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If you're younger than 50, you probably don't remember what large cities like LA looked like BEFORE we started changing the effects of the ozone hole and greenhouse gases.
This is what we're headed back to. This orange look isn't fire smoke. It's SMOG!
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This is what we're headed back to. This orange look isn't fire smoke. It's SMOG!
s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/im...
February 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM
If you're younger than 50, you probably don't remember what large cities like LA looked like BEFORE we started changing the effects of the ozone hole and greenhouse gases.
This is what we're headed back to. This orange look isn't fire smoke. It's SMOG!
s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/im...
This is what we're headed back to. This orange look isn't fire smoke. It's SMOG!
s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/im...
One thing so many languages now get right that C++ gets hideously wrong is prefixing every class field with a `this` (or `self`). I'm starting to hate reading C++ code because it's mysterious if a variable is a class reference, a lexical scope member, or a global. You just have to know.
February 14, 2026 at 6:47 PM
One thing so many languages now get right that C++ gets hideously wrong is prefixing every class field with a `this` (or `self`). I'm starting to hate reading C++ code because it's mysterious if a variable is a class reference, a lexical scope member, or a global. You just have to know.
So, this is weird: medium.com/@FAANG/rusts...
I noticed that the little demo program never uses the value being protected by the memory fence, so I removed them... and it ran 50% slower! That's really weird.
I noticed that the little demo program never uses the value being protected by the memory fence, so I removed them... and it ran 50% slower! That's really weird.
Rust’s Memory Fences Explained: Build a Thread-Safe Counter in 10 Minutes
Are you struggling with concurrent programming in Rust? Memory fences might be the secret weapon you haven’t discovered yet. In this…
medium.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:39 PM
So, this is weird: medium.com/@FAANG/rusts...
I noticed that the little demo program never uses the value being protected by the memory fence, so I removed them... and it ran 50% slower! That's really weird.
I noticed that the little demo program never uses the value being protected by the memory fence, so I removed them... and it ran 50% slower! That's really weird.