Colin Childs🍁
@phoul.bsky.social
Anonymity & Privacy advocate // Free Software developer // Sysadmin & Network ops // Knitting // Chess // Mahjong
Chronic Illness / ND
aka "Opprimereu"
https://links.insecure-complexity.ca/
Winnipeg, MB 🇨🇦
Chronic Illness / ND
aka "Opprimereu"
https://links.insecure-complexity.ca/
Winnipeg, MB 🇨🇦
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Colin Childs🍁
@phoul.bsky.social
· Oct 16
Flexoki 2.0 introduces 88 new colors that feel like watercolor pigments on paper.
This is my attempt to bring the feeling of analog color to digital emissive screens. This version expands the palette to a full range of values for every color, without desaturating the pigment effect.
This is my attempt to bring the feeling of analog color to digital emissive screens. This version expands the palette to a full range of values for every color, without desaturating the pigment effect.
Recently switched a bunch of my tools to this and am absolutely in love with this colour palette.
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square is giving away the $59 chip reader for free as long as you log in to your account to order it 👁️👄👁️
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
square is giving away the $59 chip reader for free as long as you log in to your account to order it 👁️👄👁️
I'm looking forward to not having panic attacks every couple hours.
Thursday simultaneously needs to hurry up and never arrive. Absolutely dreadful feeling; hope it's a long time before I need surgery again.
Thursday simultaneously needs to hurry up and never arrive. Absolutely dreadful feeling; hope it's a long time before I need surgery again.
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I'm looking forward to not having panic attacks every couple hours.
Thursday simultaneously needs to hurry up and never arrive. Absolutely dreadful feeling; hope it's a long time before I need surgery again.
Thursday simultaneously needs to hurry up and never arrive. Absolutely dreadful feeling; hope it's a long time before I need surgery again.
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so fucking tired of people saying AI "democratizes" creative skills, it's fucking privatizing it you dumb fuck, they're stealing your creativity from you and selling it back to you at a premium
the ability to draw and write and sing and fucking whatever else came free with your fucking humanity
the ability to draw and write and sing and fucking whatever else came free with your fucking humanity
November 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
so fucking tired of people saying AI "democratizes" creative skills, it's fucking privatizing it you dumb fuck, they're stealing your creativity from you and selling it back to you at a premium
the ability to draw and write and sing and fucking whatever else came free with your fucking humanity
the ability to draw and write and sing and fucking whatever else came free with your fucking humanity
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Imagine being so far gone into Trumpism/Republicanism that you would say this to someone who was shot in the head in an act of political violence.
MAGA legal world, man…
Gorsuch and Grassley should be so proud.
Gorsuch and Grassley should be so proud.
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Imagine being so far gone into Trumpism/Republicanism that you would say this to someone who was shot in the head in an act of political violence.
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I think about this tweet a lot
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I think about this tweet a lot
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This should worry everyone.
“US officials contacted by Reuters were surprised by Trump's announcement and unaware of any ongoing military operations to enforce a closure of Venezuelan airspace.”
Trump’s failing faculties could walk the US into war.
“US officials contacted by Reuters were surprised by Trump's announcement and unaware of any ongoing military operations to enforce a closure of Venezuelan airspace.”
Trump’s failing faculties could walk the US into war.
November 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This should worry everyone.
“US officials contacted by Reuters were surprised by Trump's announcement and unaware of any ongoing military operations to enforce a closure of Venezuelan airspace.”
Trump’s failing faculties could walk the US into war.
“US officials contacted by Reuters were surprised by Trump's announcement and unaware of any ongoing military operations to enforce a closure of Venezuelan airspace.”
Trump’s failing faculties could walk the US into war.
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Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
November 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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can bluesky please stop hiding replies just because they have bad words in them? i'm a grownup, i can read the word "fuck"
November 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
can bluesky please stop hiding replies just because they have bad words in them? i'm a grownup, i can read the word "fuck"
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"I'm canceled," he says in the sleek profile they gave to him in the New Yorker while his latest special & his new novel is coming out. A lot of people wish they were that canceled.
Louis CK is not in a limbo of cancellation. He's straight up not cancelled & his "cancellation" became a profitable bit for him.
November 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"I'm canceled," he says in the sleek profile they gave to him in the New Yorker while his latest special & his new novel is coming out. A lot of people wish they were that canceled.
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The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
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This is a really good thread and, tbh, sounds a lot like my dealing with interns the last couple years.
I think LLMs are a super useful and good tool *for experts* but I can't see how at this point it's even remotely a question about giving them to non-experts or normies in the main.
I think LLMs are a super useful and good tool *for experts* but I can't see how at this point it's even remotely a question about giving them to non-experts or normies in the main.
This is not a "students today" post--it's more "this is a new form of dysfunction" that doesn't look exactly like it's been in previous decades. It's more than just "first-year chaos." It's an across-the-board inability to process instructions, engage with longer texts, and *connect* with others.
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This is a really good thread and, tbh, sounds a lot like my dealing with interns the last couple years.
I think LLMs are a super useful and good tool *for experts* but I can't see how at this point it's even remotely a question about giving them to non-experts or normies in the main.
I think LLMs are a super useful and good tool *for experts* but I can't see how at this point it's even remotely a question about giving them to non-experts or normies in the main.
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This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.
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WSL stands for Worcestershire Sauce for Linux,
November 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
WSL stands for Worcestershire Sauce for Linux,
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Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
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Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune
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Stark reality: AI does such a poor job that it takes workers much longer to deliver since it is actually time efficient to start from nothing than start from garbage. On top of the fact that people are often doing 2-4 peoples jobs coupled with nonexistent hiring because we all must AI, we must
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Stark reality: AI does such a poor job that it takes workers much longer to deliver since it is actually time efficient to start from nothing than start from garbage. On top of the fact that people are often doing 2-4 peoples jobs coupled with nonexistent hiring because we all must AI, we must
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I’d love tech CEOs to stick to a lane. Either AI makes workers so much more productive that they need to do layoffs or there’s so few workers in place that everyone needs to work nights and weekends.
Now it just seems layoffs are happening for economic reasons with AI as a convenient cover story.
Now it just seems layoffs are happening for economic reasons with AI as a convenient cover story.
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I’d love tech CEOs to stick to a lane. Either AI makes workers so much more productive that they need to do layoffs or there’s so few workers in place that everyone needs to work nights and weekends.
Now it just seems layoffs are happening for economic reasons with AI as a convenient cover story.
Now it just seems layoffs are happening for economic reasons with AI as a convenient cover story.
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really went dark for the sequel
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
really went dark for the sequel
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Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
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It's device hoarding, folks. The root of our economic woes is device hoarding.
Maybe someone, somewhere needs to turn the "trickle" in trickle down economics into more of a flood. 🤷🏼♀️
Maybe someone, somewhere needs to turn the "trickle" in trickle down economics into more of a flood. 🤷🏼♀️
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
It's device hoarding, folks. The root of our economic woes is device hoarding.
Maybe someone, somewhere needs to turn the "trickle" in trickle down economics into more of a flood. 🤷🏼♀️
Maybe someone, somewhere needs to turn the "trickle" in trickle down economics into more of a flood. 🤷🏼♀️
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I dunno, I think if the AI Revolution Was Inevitable the architects of the AI Revolution wouldn't white knuckle gripp their chairs and squeal like little piggies at every single bit of pushback.
November 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I dunno, I think if the AI Revolution Was Inevitable the architects of the AI Revolution wouldn't white knuckle gripp their chairs and squeal like little piggies at every single bit of pushback.
Hickory dickory dock...
Make me a nuke.
Make me a nuke.
"...the researchers tell WIRED that the verse is too dangerous to share with the public."
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It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Hickory dickory dock...
Make me a nuke.
Make me a nuke.
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Regurgitating obvious bullshit isn’t journalism, Reuters, its propaganda
Trump says he may cut income tax 'completely' because of tariff income reut.rs/4p65j0l
Trump says he may cut income tax 'completely' because of tariff income
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration may slash income tax completely over the next couple of years because of government revenue generated from tariffs.
reut.rs
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Regurgitating obvious bullshit isn’t journalism, Reuters, its propaganda