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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · Nov 9

for new #rss people coming in:

you can follow any #bluesky profile in your feed reader, just tack on "/rss" to the end of the profile url

e.g. bsky.app/profile/john...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 5h

just another day in podcast RSS paradise

John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 9h

New record $GOOGL eod price today: 259.92

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New record $GOOGL eod price today: 256.55

John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 14h

fantastic cartoonish explainer of the sordid history here

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgZ1...

Who Owns The Statue of Liberty?

YouTube video by CGP Grey

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 1d

‘It was tough, but a reminder of how volatile the industry has become’

variety.com/2025/biz/new...

Headgum Lays Off 30% of Staff in Latest Sign of Podcast Struggles

Headgum, a comedy podcast network, laid off about 30% of its staff in the latest bloodletting the podcast industry.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 1d

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 1d

I guess New Jersey claims the landfill parts. Decided as recently as 1998 in the Supreme Court

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_I...

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 1d

interesting state boundaries here

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 2d

when us-east-1 is flaky, so are amazon.com deliveries

John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 2d

The number of IP hashes I've been marking as bots/automated for the purposes of excluding from op3.dev stats has increased recently.

I've started noting the ASN + User-Agent(s) for each case as I add them to the ban list.

OP3 is open source so anyone can follow along:
github.com/skymethod/op...

John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 2d

Just updated my graphs of @libsyn.com's latest self-reported stats (through the month of September 2025)

- they are also seeing the recent spike in downloads from browser user agents, which are likely automated as the ones I've seen come from aws/gcp/hetzner, etc

livewire.io/libsyn-stats...