Jakob Homan
@jakobhoman.bsky.social
Software engineer. Data infra guy. Apache Committer/PMC on various projects. WebAssembly enthusiast. Also cinema, street photography and sarcasm...
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Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
October 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
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Police just detained two protesters.
One dressed as the Statue of the Liberty.
One dressed as the Statue of the Liberty.
October 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Police just detained two protesters.
One dressed as the Statue of the Liberty.
One dressed as the Statue of the Liberty.
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Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.
ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.
He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
October 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.
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Several schools see a majority of students walking and rolling.
It's clear what those schools have in common:
-Nearby relatively dense housing (9+ DU/acre)
-Adjacent protected bike infrastructure
-Very little parking/auto circulation
It's clear what those schools have in common:
-Nearby relatively dense housing (9+ DU/acre)
-Adjacent protected bike infrastructure
-Very little parking/auto circulation
October 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Several schools see a majority of students walking and rolling.
It's clear what those schools have in common:
-Nearby relatively dense housing (9+ DU/acre)
-Adjacent protected bike infrastructure
-Very little parking/auto circulation
It's clear what those schools have in common:
-Nearby relatively dense housing (9+ DU/acre)
-Adjacent protected bike infrastructure
-Very little parking/auto circulation
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Thanks in large part to Safe Routes to School (a program created in Marin before it was rolled out nationwide), Marin County sees 3x the rate of kids walking or rolling to school.
Over the past 15 years we've gone from 1 in 4 kids to 1 in 3 kids. This compares to 1 in 9(!) nationally.
Over the past 15 years we've gone from 1 in 4 kids to 1 in 3 kids. This compares to 1 in 9(!) nationally.
October 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Thanks in large part to Safe Routes to School (a program created in Marin before it was rolled out nationwide), Marin County sees 3x the rate of kids walking or rolling to school.
Over the past 15 years we've gone from 1 in 4 kids to 1 in 3 kids. This compares to 1 in 9(!) nationally.
Over the past 15 years we've gone from 1 in 4 kids to 1 in 3 kids. This compares to 1 in 9(!) nationally.
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Honestly, who wouldn't want this? Link includes pic of great child-sized park benches installed in the 20th. Kids also want to sit and visit
Paris has achieved the goal of more than 300 “school streets”.
Lots of before & after pictures in this latest October 2025 update.
#paris #schoolstreets #15minutecity #urbanism #school #safety #safestreets #children
www.paris.fr/pages/57-nou...
Lots of before & after pictures in this latest October 2025 update.
#paris #schoolstreets #15minutecity #urbanism #school #safety #safestreets #children
www.paris.fr/pages/57-nou...
Plus de 300 « rues aux écoles » dans Paris
Expérimentées dans le cadre du déconfinement pour lutter contre la pollution, améliorer la qualité de l'air et végétaliser la ville, les « rues aux écoles » se multiplient à Paris. Ces piétonnisations...
www.paris.fr
October 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Honestly, who wouldn't want this? Link includes pic of great child-sized park benches installed in the 20th. Kids also want to sit and visit
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As a person who cares about reading and human thinking, I’d like to share the simmering rage I feel knowing that opening a 4+ page essay in Adobe Acrobat automatically prompts this message: “This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using AI Assistant."
October 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
As a person who cares about reading and human thinking, I’d like to share the simmering rage I feel knowing that opening a 4+ page essay in Adobe Acrobat automatically prompts this message: “This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using AI Assistant."
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wizard frog is insane
October 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
wizard frog is insane
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so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
www.404media.co
October 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
@jackbern.bsky.social regarding your attempt to get rid of your mice in the most efficient way possible…
TaskMouster.
That is all.
TaskMouster.
That is all.
September 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
@jackbern.bsky.social regarding your attempt to get rid of your mice in the most efficient way possible…
TaskMouster.
That is all.
TaskMouster.
That is all.
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“Pain only hurts”
September 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
“Pain only hurts”
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This is the kind of activity Meta spy glasses were made for. The potential negatives FAR outweigh any positives, as I’m sure they’re well aware. There were probably many discussions about it. However, it could make them a lot of money. Also, they don’t give a fuck. So there’s that, too.
From yesterday and today: it certainly appears ICE in Chicago are wearing the Meta AI Ray-Ban glasses.
September 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is the kind of activity Meta spy glasses were made for. The potential negatives FAR outweigh any positives, as I’m sure they’re well aware. There were probably many discussions about it. However, it could make them a lot of money. Also, they don’t give a fuck. So there’s that, too.
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Fascism is fine, but jokes are cancelled.
Ask the FCC, which now stands for Fucking Christian Christofascists, BTW.
Ask the FCC, which now stands for Fucking Christian Christofascists, BTW.
September 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Fascism is fine, but jokes are cancelled.
Ask the FCC, which now stands for Fucking Christian Christofascists, BTW.
Ask the FCC, which now stands for Fucking Christian Christofascists, BTW.
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Yes, everything’s terrible, but still be kind
September 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Yes, everything’s terrible, but still be kind
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CABLE NEWS ROTS YOUR BRAIN. Seriously. It does. Stop watching as a form of self-care.
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
CABLE NEWS ROTS YOUR BRAIN. Seriously. It does. Stop watching as a form of self-care.
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She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
After six months in ICE custody, Charlotte woman chooses voluntary removal to Honduras
A 20-year-old Honduran woman who has lived in the Charlotte area for more than a decade will soon be removed from the U.S.
www.wunc.org
August 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
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The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
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Get fucked, Google AI. Tone police my entire ass.
August 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Get fucked, Google AI. Tone police my entire ass.
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I know it’s the most cliched thing in the world to point at something and say it’s dystopian but for fucks sake we are all living in a Paul Verhoeven film
And yesterday the fucking Arizona Supreme Court used an AI “reporter” to announce that a man’s death sentence was being upheld:
August 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I know it’s the most cliched thing in the world to point at something and say it’s dystopian but for fucks sake we are all living in a Paul Verhoeven film
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Tour dates for the Shout/GKids Hong Kong Cinema Classics series of Golden Princess restorations.
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August 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Tour dates for the Shout/GKids Hong Kong Cinema Classics series of Golden Princess restorations.
gkids.com/golden-princ...
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“What’s your design goal?”
“To utilize an OLAP datastore with the maximum capacity for being typo’ed, coupled with the largest potential hilarious or obscene consequences.”
“Ahhh. DuckDB it is then!”
“To utilize an OLAP datastore with the maximum capacity for being typo’ed, coupled with the largest potential hilarious or obscene consequences.”
“Ahhh. DuckDB it is then!”
August 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
“What’s your design goal?”
“To utilize an OLAP datastore with the maximum capacity for being typo’ed, coupled with the largest potential hilarious or obscene consequences.”
“Ahhh. DuckDB it is then!”
“To utilize an OLAP datastore with the maximum capacity for being typo’ed, coupled with the largest potential hilarious or obscene consequences.”
“Ahhh. DuckDB it is then!”
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a thing I learned to today:
Mexico had personnel on site to assist in the Texas flood aftermath before FEMA did
Mexico had personnel on site to assist in the Texas flood aftermath before FEMA did
July 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
a thing I learned to today:
Mexico had personnel on site to assist in the Texas flood aftermath before FEMA did
Mexico had personnel on site to assist in the Texas flood aftermath before FEMA did
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One Weird Trick cut in-town new-house prices in these three growing cities by $200,000. What was it? Zoning, of course. Read more in @ggwash.org:
Making it easier to build more, smaller houses would bring down home prices and help bring back the starter home. Part 2 in a series shows how three cities in North Carolina and Oregon have done just that.
Where re-legalizing starter homes cut new house prices
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ggwash.org
June 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
One Weird Trick cut in-town new-house prices in these three growing cities by $200,000. What was it? Zoning, of course. Read more in @ggwash.org:
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
June 28, 2025 at 4:38 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.