Mike Wasson
@mikewasson.net
Pittsburgher in London. Tired. Software developer looking for work. he/him
Mexican-American RGV CBP officers who are particularly psychotic and inhumane make more sense if you consider them as modern Border Reivers
February 5, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Mexican-American RGV CBP officers who are particularly psychotic and inhumane make more sense if you consider them as modern Border Reivers
I’m not really an opsec guy but leaving your Strava public is about the same level of caution as leaving your Venmo public
In one of videos, Sveum mentioned enjoying our running trails, which led us to find his Strava account. His account was public (no longer), so we can see he was talking about the Des Plains River Trail and he stayed at the Lincolnshire Marriott.
We only found this after he left Chicago. But...
We only found this after he left Chicago. But...
February 5, 2026 at 8:38 PM
I’m not really an opsec guy but leaving your Strava public is about the same level of caution as leaving your Venmo public
Guy wants to take a large European state and turns it into a continent-spanning empire, with the other countries subservient at best? And invades Russia, disastrously? Yeah that’s napoleon
this is meant to be a joke but it’s a genuinely interesting question to me: who WAS the sort of stock, go-to Bad Guy of History before Hitler, at least in the Anglosphere — Napoleon? Genghis Khan? Ramses II?
February 5, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Guy wants to take a large European state and turns it into a continent-spanning empire, with the other countries subservient at best? And invades Russia, disastrously? Yeah that’s napoleon
How will I find out what state Belgium is closest in area to (Maryland)
February 4, 2026 at 9:35 PM
How will I find out what state Belgium is closest in area to (Maryland)
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Heroes come in many forms and this is one of them
February 1, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Heroes come in many forms and this is one of them
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He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason
February 1, 2026 at 3:33 PM
He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason
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We gotta give blanket amnesty 350k people lose status is just not a thing that should be possible
“about 350,000 Haitians will lose their status on Tuesday — ending their right to live and work in the United States legally and putting them at risk of immediate detention and deportation”
"‘Reminds me of Anne Frank’: Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump’s TPS end looms"
February 1, 2026 at 3:32 PM
We gotta give blanket amnesty 350k people lose status is just not a thing that should be possible
I just saw a grouse from the train! Think that’s a first for me. It’s good to get out of the city now and then.
February 1, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I just saw a grouse from the train! Think that’s a first for me. It’s good to get out of the city now and then.
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AI coding agents can be used to improve mastery as well. It requires extra work to ask follow up questions and dig deeper into topics.
Story is always the same: learning is about the work you put in.
Story is always the same: learning is about the work you put in.
January 31, 2026 at 4:31 AM
AI coding agents can be used to improve mastery as well. It requires extra work to ask follow up questions and dig deeper into topics.
Story is always the same: learning is about the work you put in.
Story is always the same: learning is about the work you put in.
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A quick reminder of what #BigFebruary is about…
Thanks to the magic of the cosmos, we start gaining daylight much faster in Feb than in Jan. Over 20 mins a week - setting us up for Spring.
This chart is by @neilrkaye.bsky.social and is one of my all time favourites.
Thanks to the magic of the cosmos, we start gaining daylight much faster in Feb than in Jan. Over 20 mins a week - setting us up for Spring.
This chart is by @neilrkaye.bsky.social and is one of my all time favourites.
February 1, 2026 at 8:33 AM
A quick reminder of what #BigFebruary is about…
Thanks to the magic of the cosmos, we start gaining daylight much faster in Feb than in Jan. Over 20 mins a week - setting us up for Spring.
This chart is by @neilrkaye.bsky.social and is one of my all time favourites.
Thanks to the magic of the cosmos, we start gaining daylight much faster in Feb than in Jan. Over 20 mins a week - setting us up for Spring.
This chart is by @neilrkaye.bsky.social and is one of my all time favourites.
This afternoon saw a kid with a hat like Liam Ramos’s and almost did a hard reset, barely avoided weeping
Very happy to hear he’s been ordered to be released but he and his father never should’ve been taken.
Very happy to hear he’s been ordered to be released but he and his father never should’ve been taken.
January 31, 2026 at 8:42 PM
This afternoon saw a kid with a hat like Liam Ramos’s and almost did a hard reset, barely avoided weeping
Very happy to hear he’s been ordered to be released but he and his father never should’ve been taken.
Very happy to hear he’s been ordered to be released but he and his father never should’ve been taken.
father of the year
here’s Elon wanting to party hard. the opposite of peaceful for this guy.
![To:
From:
Elon Musk
Sent:
Tue 12/25/2012 6:07:16 AM
Subject: Re:
jeevacation@gmail.comfjeevacation@gmail.com]; Jeffrey Epsteinfjeevacation@gmail.com]
Do you have any parties planned? I've been working to the edge of sanity this year and so, once my kids head home after Christmas, I really want to hit the party scene in St Barts or elsewhere and let loose. The invitation is much appreciated, but a peaceful island experience is the opposite of what I'm looking for.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tpgnsvgqsu5b752uud3wmtja/bafkreigxm4bbwyu4qaaojnfhmd3df4bvuyusj57o6mlcmnvaezehrhp6qq@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 1:00 PM
father of the year
Leetcode is insidious because it feels like doing it will help me get a job, but it's absolutely not what I should be doing right now
January 31, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Leetcode is insidious because it feels like doing it will help me get a job, but it's absolutely not what I should be doing right now
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If I may have the temerity to paraphrase Frederick Douglass, I will unite with anybody to fuck ICE and with nobody to do MAGA shit.
Again Will is a left wing civil rights lawyer whose worst sin is stubbornness and whose greatest virtue is also stubbornness. That he has been transformed into a demon in the minds of losers is evidence of how pathetically inadequate their vision of actual wickedness is.
the image of will stancil these people have built in their heads (grand wizard of the mega klan) is at odds with any time I've seen him post (dweeby, harmless)
January 31, 2026 at 1:47 AM
If I may have the temerity to paraphrase Frederick Douglass, I will unite with anybody to fuck ICE and with nobody to do MAGA shit.
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Pennsylvania Epic Fantasy
January 31, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Pennsylvania Epic Fantasy
Reading some of the responses to Stancil and learning that people don’t know the difference between slavery and forced labor—which is still legal in the US, extremely bad, and should be outlawed—but isn’t slavery.
January 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Reading some of the responses to Stancil and learning that people don’t know the difference between slavery and forced labor—which is still legal in the US, extremely bad, and should be outlawed—but isn’t slavery.
Stupid Facebook engagement bait revealing to me that the correct pronunciation of "Tamaqua" is apparently a non-obvious local shibboleth
January 30, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Stupid Facebook engagement bait revealing to me that the correct pronunciation of "Tamaqua" is apparently a non-obvious local shibboleth
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9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable
January 29, 2026 at 8:39 AM
9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable
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If Bilbo had Chat GPT
January 27, 2026 at 4:24 PM
If Bilbo had Chat GPT
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I love a news story which is so obviously not the full story but you can basically fill in the gaps for your own amusement.
A pub landlord seems to be paying 10% commission on credit cards - which is vastly higher than any credit card processor charges, which is very odd.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Herefordshire pub landlord offers discount for cash payments as card charges soar
Alan Davies says he loses about £5 in transaction charges for every £50 made.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 1:20 PM
I love a news story which is so obviously not the full story but you can basically fill in the gaps for your own amusement.
This will never not be completely insane. Most Americans live in the border zone.
I'll also note that Chicago is only in this zone if you consider Lake Michigan to be the border, but it's an entirely American pond.
I'll also note that Chicago is only in this zone if you consider Lake Michigan to be the border, but it's an entirely American pond.
CBP at the border is a good idea only if we redefine the border to not be 100 miles. www.southernborder.org/100_mile_bor...
January 27, 2026 at 7:02 PM
This will never not be completely insane. Most Americans live in the border zone.
I'll also note that Chicago is only in this zone if you consider Lake Michigan to be the border, but it's an entirely American pond.
I'll also note that Chicago is only in this zone if you consider Lake Michigan to be the border, but it's an entirely American pond.
Deleting Signal now that I know it’s compromised. Find me on Asheron's Call (Darktide server, somewhere in the mountains south of the A'mun Desert)
Deleting Signal now that I know it’s compromised. Find me on Honda Civic listserv
Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me on ePinions
January 27, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Deleting Signal now that I know it’s compromised. Find me on Asheron's Call (Darktide server, somewhere in the mountains south of the A'mun Desert)
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Gen Z has never known the passive pleasure of a sick day at home watching reruns of shows cancelled before you were born
January 26, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Gen Z has never known the passive pleasure of a sick day at home watching reruns of shows cancelled before you were born
In a different country, in a different time, Minneapolis/St. Paul would receive a designation like “Hero City”
January 26, 2026 at 7:00 PM
In a different country, in a different time, Minneapolis/St. Paul would receive a designation like “Hero City”