m_r_Blake (he/him) Ⓥ
@mrblake.bsky.social
Xwitter Bio: Husband & father by grace, EE by education, Software Eng by occupation, Cougar driver by affiliation, beer drinker by recreation, coffee roaster by caffeination.
Reared on the edge of Appalachia, OU grad, Ohio native, central Ohio resident.
Reared on the edge of Appalachia, OU grad, Ohio native, central Ohio resident.
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if we were capable of long term thinking like republicans we would have dug in until trump forced them to eliminate the filibuster, and then used the inevitable midterm/executive cost-of-living backlash to utterly destroy the operating principles of MAGA
We need the filibuster gone because we will not be able to eliminate this Supreme Court if it remains.
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
if we were capable of long term thinking like republicans we would have dug in until trump forced them to eliminate the filibuster, and then used the inevitable midterm/executive cost-of-living backlash to utterly destroy the operating principles of MAGA
Lucky me, my wife already said yes! Page open, CC number memorized, ready!
(Waiting to see what the yes will cost, though ;-) )
(Waiting to see what the yes will cost, though ;-) )
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Lucky me, my wife already said yes! Page open, CC number memorized, ready!
(Waiting to see what the yes will cost, though ;-) )
(Waiting to see what the yes will cost, though ;-) )
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HOW IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE TO FUCK UP THIS BADLY
“People are blaming republicans for food prices and flight cancellations and health insurance costs and are furious about gilded ballrooms and Gatsby parties and the president is falling asleep on tv and is the most deeply unpopular president in history, time to cave” is a hell of an argument
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
HOW IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE TO FUCK UP THIS BADLY
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Bonnie Raitt - Thing Called Love
YouTube video by BonnieRaittVEVO
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November 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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What Makes Code Hard To Read: Visual Patterns of Complexity
What Makes Code Hard To Read: Visual Patterns of Complexity
Not long ago, I was auditing a codebase for work (looking for bugs) when I realized that despite the quality of the code, I was becoming mentally fatigued extremely quickly and had a hard time working on it for long stretches of time…
seeinglogic.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
What Makes Code Hard To Read: Visual Patterns of Complexity
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
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too big to fail speedrun
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
too big to fail speedrun
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Big government is good when used for good. One major aspect of the last 50 year political project has been underfunding services and ending helpful programs so they can argue "see? Government doesnt help you"
DirectFile, free covid tests via USPS, child tax credit: federal programs that worked and benefited ordinary people and therefore had to be ended in case everyone got used to it
It sucks because Direct File was one of the first times a lot of people ever had a positive experience using a government website or service.
November 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Big government is good when used for good. One major aspect of the last 50 year political project has been underfunding services and ending helpful programs so they can argue "see? Government doesnt help you"
Seconded, the series by Elizabeth Bear and Malka Older are both excellent. I'll have to add Lafferty to my TBR list.
SF: the White Space novels by Elizabeth Bear, especially Machine; the Midsolar Murders series by Mur Lafferty; the Infomocracy series and the Mossa and Pleiti series by Malka Older (very different vibes from each other, both excellent series)
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Seconded, the series by Elizabeth Bear and Malka Older are both excellent. I'll have to add Lafferty to my TBR list.
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by any conceivable measure SNAP is one of the best programs we have, keeps countless people from food insecurity, and every dollar spent goes back into the community 1.5 times over
if you’re policing what people spend it on because they don’t “deserve” joy you’re a shitty excuse for a human being
if you’re policing what people spend it on because they don’t “deserve” joy you’re a shitty excuse for a human being
“Oh poor people can buy popsicles with food stamps” shut the fuck up the government gives perverts a trillion dollars in government money each year for pervert factories for billionaires the fucking popsicles are none of your fuckin business
November 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
by any conceivable measure SNAP is one of the best programs we have, keeps countless people from food insecurity, and every dollar spent goes back into the community 1.5 times over
if you’re policing what people spend it on because they don’t “deserve” joy you’re a shitty excuse for a human being
if you’re policing what people spend it on because they don’t “deserve” joy you’re a shitty excuse for a human being
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you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning
November 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning
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My secret?
Hulk Always GIF
Alt: Hulk Always GIF
media.tenor.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
My secret?
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This applies to childbirth, too. And vaccines. And I’m sure a whole bunch of stuff that I’m not even aware of.
"How did people survive before______"
friend ... people used to starve to death... i hope that helps
friend ... people used to starve to death... i hope that helps
October 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This applies to childbirth, too. And vaccines. And I’m sure a whole bunch of stuff that I’m not even aware of.
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Surprisingly strong. We Midwesterners have been operating a "Foundation"-style operation to preserve casserole technology until the restoration of proper mid-century values.
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How’s your casserole game
October 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Surprisingly strong. We Midwesterners have been operating a "Foundation"-style operation to preserve casserole technology until the restoration of proper mid-century values.
bsky.app/profile/chin...
bsky.app/profile/chin...
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“There’s an incoming ICBM! Who launched it?!”
“Your mom”
“Your mom”
Watching nuclear war drama A House of Dynamite, and by far the most jarring aspect is that the US executive staff are portrayed as competent, sober adults.
October 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“There’s an incoming ICBM! Who launched it?!”
“Your mom”
“Your mom”
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"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it
October 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it
Doesn't bode well for the end of the decade.
Within a week we've had a major jewel heist at the Louvre, a mafia-involved poker ring and sports gambling corruption. We're living in the 1920s.
October 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Doesn't bode well for the end of the decade.
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my toxic engineer trait is that I'm basically allergic to code
all code is bad. the less code the better. why are you writing new code stahp *sprays devs with squirt bottle*
all code is bad. the less code the better. why are you writing new code stahp *sprays devs with squirt bottle*
October 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
my toxic engineer trait is that I'm basically allergic to code
all code is bad. the less code the better. why are you writing new code stahp *sprays devs with squirt bottle*
all code is bad. the less code the better. why are you writing new code stahp *sprays devs with squirt bottle*
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happy birthday to my always favorite u2 album
October 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
happy birthday to my always favorite u2 album
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Heists in RPG’s: “We need an S-Tier hacker, two disguise masters, three dummy getaway cars, fifty million in flash money, and a talking dog.”
Heists in reality: “We’re gonna steal that cherry picker and borrow my dad’s angle grinder. Someone go hotwire that Peugeot.”
Heists in reality: “We’re gonna steal that cherry picker and borrow my dad’s angle grinder. Someone go hotwire that Peugeot.”
October 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Heists in RPG’s: “We need an S-Tier hacker, two disguise masters, three dummy getaway cars, fifty million in flash money, and a talking dog.”
Heists in reality: “We’re gonna steal that cherry picker and borrow my dad’s angle grinder. Someone go hotwire that Peugeot.”
Heists in reality: “We’re gonna steal that cherry picker and borrow my dad’s angle grinder. Someone go hotwire that Peugeot.”
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Wikipedia is the best single thing the Internet has ever given us and it's not even close
Two Wikipedia contributors averted a potential tragedy at a conference for the site’s editors on Friday in Manhattan when they jumped in to take down a man with a gun.
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World’s Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.
nyti.ms
October 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Wikipedia is the best single thing the Internet has ever given us and it's not even close
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Eternal September, part N
judging from what I’m seeing right now, a large-scale Twitter Exodus Event is 100% what’s happening
good!
good!
October 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Eternal September, part N
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Kameron Hurley
Malka Older
Ann Leckie
NK Jemisin
Margaret Atwood
Ursula K Leguin
Lois McMaster Bujold
Martha Wells
Arkady Martine
Magrét Helgadóttir
Malka Older
Ann Leckie
NK Jemisin
Margaret Atwood
Ursula K Leguin
Lois McMaster Bujold
Martha Wells
Arkady Martine
Magrét Helgadóttir
Por el #DíadelasEscritoras se me ocurre...
¿Eres capaz de nombrar a diez escritoras?
De memoria, sin buscar.
[Te regalo una]
¿Eres capaz de nombrar a diez escritoras?
De memoria, sin buscar.
[Te regalo una]
October 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Kameron Hurley
Malka Older
Ann Leckie
NK Jemisin
Margaret Atwood
Ursula K Leguin
Lois McMaster Bujold
Martha Wells
Arkady Martine
Magrét Helgadóttir
Malka Older
Ann Leckie
NK Jemisin
Margaret Atwood
Ursula K Leguin
Lois McMaster Bujold
Martha Wells
Arkady Martine
Magrét Helgadóttir
War Pigs -- Cake
Without saying Hurt, fav Cover Song?
October 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
War Pigs -- Cake
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Reading for pleasure has fallen by 40 percent since 2000. This is not progress. You should read because it's good for your brain, your soul. You should read because our freedoms will not long endure in a post-literate world. Most of all, you should read because it's fun.
October 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Reading for pleasure has fallen by 40 percent since 2000. This is not progress. You should read because it's good for your brain, your soul. You should read because our freedoms will not long endure in a post-literate world. Most of all, you should read because it's fun.