Peter Fraenkel
@pnf.bsky.social
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scala hacker, clojure dabbler, polyglot opinionator, former everything. always being wrong is a superpower.
scala hacker, clojure dabbler, polyglot opinionator, former everything. always being wrong is a superpower.
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) is now in the public domain. I guess I'm kind of biased, but I prefer the "international version" of the movie, which is basically a silent film with a recorded soundtrack of music and sound effects
January 2, 2026 at 12:47 AM
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) is now in the public domain. I guess I'm kind of biased, but I prefer the "international version" of the movie, which is basically a silent film with a recorded soundtrack of music and sound effects
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just saw a billionaire pack all his things in a bindle and start leaving new york city on foot. he turned and looked at me with tears in his eyes and said “maybe one day when this city is safe we’ll return” before walking away
January 1, 2026 at 6:59 PM
just saw a billionaire pack all his things in a bindle and start leaving new york city on foot. he turned and looked at me with tears in his eyes and said “maybe one day when this city is safe we’ll return” before walking away
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Time-lapse of an ultrasonic cheese cutter at Rodolphe Le Meunier fromager.
January 1, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Time-lapse of an ultrasonic cheese cutter at Rodolphe Le Meunier fromager.
After forty years insisting that the prime number twins story in Awakenings was made up, sweet vindication!
January 1, 2026 at 6:07 PM
After forty years insisting that the prime number twins story in Awakenings was made up, sweet vindication!
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has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane
December 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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I also declined Diary of a CEO’s invitation to have a “balanced and insightful discussion” about whether feminism “delivered on its promise of liberation for women.”
They ended up titling it, “Has modern feminism betrayed the very women it promised to empower?”
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
They ended up titling it, “Has modern feminism betrayed the very women it promised to empower?”
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
Enough of 'Just Asking Questions'
Platforming extremists is killing democracy—and women
open.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I also declined Diary of a CEO’s invitation to have a “balanced and insightful discussion” about whether feminism “delivered on its promise of liberation for women.”
They ended up titling it, “Has modern feminism betrayed the very women it promised to empower?”
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
They ended up titling it, “Has modern feminism betrayed the very women it promised to empower?”
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
Much too fancy for cubical ice.
December 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Much too fancy for cubical ice.
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The Mayor is here at hand.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The Mayor is here at hand.
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On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
November 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
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He's mad because it was truthful.
October 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
He's mad because it was truthful.
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"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
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Painter, painted by El Greco in 1600. And repainted by Picasso, admirer of the Old Masters, whose birthday we have been celebrating.
October 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Painter, painted by El Greco in 1600. And repainted by Picasso, admirer of the Old Masters, whose birthday we have been celebrating.
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Trump's style will forever be "what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn," as @kenwhite.bsky.social described it, a cluttered mess of generic tacky designs covered in gold leaf, simultaneously piggish and cheap.
we are witnessing a genuine decline in the taste of american elites
October 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Trump's style will forever be "what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn," as @kenwhite.bsky.social described it, a cluttered mess of generic tacky designs covered in gold leaf, simultaneously piggish and cheap.
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Le saut de qualité l'a un peu échappé encore une fois
October 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Le saut de qualité l'a un peu échappé encore une fois
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five days and a few hours to go and at this point I'm just gonna be shameless: if you can help signal-boost this thing, I'd be grateful. I've done very well through my own channels, but haven't had much luck breaking out beyond them.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow
Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.
www.kickstarter.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
five days and a few hours to go and at this point I'm just gonna be shameless: if you can help signal-boost this thing, I'd be grateful. I've done very well through my own channels, but haven't had much luck breaking out beyond them.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
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In case you think this is a joke
October 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
In case you think this is a joke
Pitch: “Flight 93,” but the pilot wears a little crown, has uncontrollable diarrhea, and crashes into the east wing of the whitehouse.
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Pitch: “Flight 93,” but the pilot wears a little crown, has uncontrollable diarrhea, and crashes into the east wing of the whitehouse.
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Je ne vais pas tomber dans le piège de Trump et partager la vidéo publiée sur son compte.
Mais répondre à l’énorme mobilisation de samedi par un clip IA où il bombarde de la merde sur ses propres citoyens, c’est la confirmation de son absence totale de solutions face au malaise d’une partie du pays
Mais répondre à l’énorme mobilisation de samedi par un clip IA où il bombarde de la merde sur ses propres citoyens, c’est la confirmation de son absence totale de solutions face au malaise d’une partie du pays
October 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Je ne vais pas tomber dans le piège de Trump et partager la vidéo publiée sur son compte.
Mais répondre à l’énorme mobilisation de samedi par un clip IA où il bombarde de la merde sur ses propres citoyens, c’est la confirmation de son absence totale de solutions face au malaise d’une partie du pays
Mais répondre à l’énorme mobilisation de samedi par un clip IA où il bombarde de la merde sur ses propres citoyens, c’est la confirmation de son absence totale de solutions face au malaise d’une partie du pays
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In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, eggs and bacon at Bob Evans, and then back to the church to shoot the priest in the face with a pepper ball. But now the woke mob wants to take all that away.
October 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, eggs and bacon at Bob Evans, and then back to the church to shoot the priest in the face with a pepper ball. But now the woke mob wants to take all that away.
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673
October 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673
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Exactly this, on the Klein/Coates debate:
"I think it is an indictment of intentions of those who seek to draw the boundaries of discourse so that they maintain peace with those waging war, instead of working to establish peace for the first time on behalf those against whom war is being waged."
"I think it is an indictment of intentions of those who seek to draw the boundaries of discourse so that they maintain peace with those waging war, instead of working to establish peace for the first time on behalf those against whom war is being waged."
I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
www.the-reframe.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Exactly this, on the Klein/Coates debate:
"I think it is an indictment of intentions of those who seek to draw the boundaries of discourse so that they maintain peace with those waging war, instead of working to establish peace for the first time on behalf those against whom war is being waged."
"I think it is an indictment of intentions of those who seek to draw the boundaries of discourse so that they maintain peace with those waging war, instead of working to establish peace for the first time on behalf those against whom war is being waged."
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ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
September 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards