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@roooooland.bsky.social
· Mar 2
clicked on an underwear ad and keep reading this tab title like it's a blog post about some new language runtime feature that Shopify is cooking up
Yeah this is probably the post that best sums up my whole deal
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explaining inline styles to an american: imagine a spanberger
The latest attack ad from Winsome Earle-Sears has this quote from Abigail Spanberger
Wouldn’t be surprised if majority of Virginians support that statement
There is a risk Earle-Sears enters Ken Cuccinelli territory if goes overboard on social issues
Wouldn’t be surprised if majority of Virginians support that statement
There is a risk Earle-Sears enters Ken Cuccinelli territory if goes overboard on social issues
September 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
explaining inline styles to an american: imagine a spanberger
Mom saw this and said “huh Eric Adams has a new job” in case you’re wondering why I’m like this
January 17, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Mom saw this and said “huh Eric Adams has a new job” in case you’re wondering why I’m like this
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anyone can be nostalgic for 2016. but do you have the courage to be nostalgic for 1996
January 17, 2026 at 3:16 PM
anyone can be nostalgic for 2016. but do you have the courage to be nostalgic for 1996
please...my unc...he's very chopped
January 17, 2026 at 7:46 AM
please...my unc...he's very chopped
early favorite for the 2026 outstanding achievement in blueskyism award
January 17, 2026 at 6:17 AM
early favorite for the 2026 outstanding achievement in blueskyism award
is there a Sparkfun/Adafruit explainer that isn't written in Mastodon Standard English
January 17, 2026 at 5:55 AM
is there a Sparkfun/Adafruit explainer that isn't written in Mastodon Standard English
it's an odd feeling to read something that's both important original investigative reporting and a jumbled mess that you can barely follow
January 17, 2026 at 4:28 AM
it's an odd feeling to read something that's both important original investigative reporting and a jumbled mess that you can barely follow
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ICE: "followed by will stancil"
January 17, 2026 at 1:47 AM
ICE: "followed by will stancil"
The Bechtel test is whether a movie has named female characters who talk to each other about something other than engineering and construction firms
Forget the Bechtel test, why about the “this woman is a stand-in for the writers’ distaste for Hillary Clinton” test because I gotta say that trope keeps playing
January 17, 2026 at 12:29 AM
The Bechtel test is whether a movie has named female characters who talk to each other about something other than engineering and construction firms
You could maybe make an argument that the ongoing lack of “turn off reposts for user” is actually a platform feature intended to make it harder to ignore unsavory things about your internet pals
January 16, 2026 at 6:47 PM
You could maybe make an argument that the ongoing lack of “turn off reposts for user” is actually a platform feature intended to make it harder to ignore unsavory things about your internet pals
it’s called a docusign bc it’s a doc that u sign
January 16, 2026 at 3:56 AM
it’s called a docusign bc it’s a doc that u sign
once I looked up what this meant it turned out to be an incredibly useful concept
Someone on here described most online American 'Marxists' or 'Communists' as being 'confused Proudhonists' and I think that's fairly close to describing their general outlook
January 15, 2026 at 10:16 PM
once I looked up what this meant it turned out to be an incredibly useful concept
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we need crush peter thiel with the power of the state for the crimes he inflicted on its citizens.
This one I find particularly disturbing. (Mostafa Bassim / Anadolu / Getty)
January 15, 2026 at 8:15 PM
we need crush peter thiel with the power of the state for the crimes he inflicted on its citizens.
It’s very funny to me that several people I follow were so excited about the triumphant grand opening of a new streetcar line in some backwater part of Toronto that they traveled internationally to experience it, and that it’s since turned out to be just the worst transit service imaginable
January 15, 2026 at 5:50 AM
It’s very funny to me that several people I follow were so excited about the triumphant grand opening of a new streetcar line in some backwater part of Toronto that they traveled internationally to experience it, and that it’s since turned out to be just the worst transit service imaginable
Anthropic should put in a bid for genuine.ly
January 15, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Anthropic should put in a bid for genuine.ly
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I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
January 14, 2026 at 11:59 PM
I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
Never change, Bluesky
January 14, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Never change, Bluesky
SF is wild, they’ve really got bus stop ads promoting AI erotic roleplay as a replacement for romance novels
January 14, 2026 at 8:23 PM
SF is wild, they’ve really got bus stop ads promoting AI erotic roleplay as a replacement for romance novels
You know you grew up in an [insert any background here] family if you had that kitchen cabinet with a container stuffed full of containers
The year is 2026. Everything is container. Web server. Container. Database. Container.
Container? It too is container.
Container? It too is container.
January 14, 2026 at 6:21 PM
You know you grew up in an [insert any background here] family if you had that kitchen cabinet with a container stuffed full of containers
I bet at this point the main thing Bluesky users associate “atproto” with is spam from myatproto.social
January 14, 2026 at 9:09 AM
I bet at this point the main thing Bluesky users associate “atproto” with is spam from myatproto.social
Am I losing my mind here? Like, that really is not the implication of that quote whatsoever, and that’s true regardless of whether the person pointing that out is some dunce from Third Way or not
January 14, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Am I losing my mind here? Like, that really is not the implication of that quote whatsoever, and that’s true regardless of whether the person pointing that out is some dunce from Third Way or not
oh, brother, if this is the zeitgeist over at jetbrains, that explains a lot
Have you ever looked at the impressive results that LLMs get on benchmarks and wondered if these results are everything they seem?
If you'd like to learn about how data leakage calls the results we see on LLM performance into question, check out my latest blog post.
t-redactyl.io/posts/2025-1...
If you'd like to learn about how data leakage calls the results we see on LLM performance into question, check out my latest blog post.
t-redactyl.io/posts/2025-1...
Data leakage is a major issue when measuring LLM performance
Why data leakage and benchmark contamination distort LLM performance claims, from coding puzzles to the LM Arena and training data exhaustion.
t-redactyl.io
January 14, 2026 at 6:44 AM
oh, brother, if this is the zeitgeist over at jetbrains, that explains a lot
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Guy who went to mime school: that’s a video. That’s a picture. That’s an octet stream.
January 13, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Guy who went to mime school: that’s a video. That’s a picture. That’s an octet stream.
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I feel like a guy on airplane wi-fi reading a tweet that there's no such thing as airplane wi-fi
January 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
I feel like a guy on airplane wi-fi reading a tweet that there's no such thing as airplane wi-fi
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it's cool to say "updating" to mean "changing your mind" bc you get to feel like you're a lil iphone while you do it
June 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
it's cool to say "updating" to mean "changing your mind" bc you get to feel like you're a lil iphone while you do it