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Todd Grotenhuis

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* anabaptist anarchist and cybersecurity executive * trying to leave things a little better than I found them * finding joy in reading, music, play, and the outdoors * […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://social.lol/@todd, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 9h

Paul Kingsnorth is a much better lecturer and question-answerer than he is newsletter writer or podcast conversationalist. Here’s hoping the book (Against the Machine) will be more like the quality of the lectures.

Overall it was a great event, and a great topic, but there is a piece of the […]

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Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 14h

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“Car Key”
“Khaki”

These are indistinguishable words from this book’s narrator.

Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 22h

🔎 Otters at Heron Haven!

Previously, I've caught two on trailcam playing on the land bridge between ponds. Here, between the deck and pond, at least 6 ran by. Looks like parent(s) and pups.

Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 1d

🕊️♻️🏴 say “hi” if you will be at the _Against the Machine_/Paul Kingsnorth/Wendell Berry Center event that’s taking place tomorrow.

Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 1d

Every blogging system has a gap.
Galaxy Brain - I'll just create another...

https://xkcd.com/927/

Context - trying to get markdown-based blogging working.
Obsidian Publish - slug/name problems, image size problems, and feed problems
Blot - has same image problems if using your obsidian vault […]

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Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Gollum was so incredibly good in Andor.

Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 3d

Tim Bray's GenAI Predictions:

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/26/GenAI-Predictions

I expect these are >75% right.

And I hope he’s right about the financial collapse, because this bubble is massive, and we’re not getting to AGI via this route (especially not before funding runs […]

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Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 3d

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Edgey (15) Esa (7) Nine Inch Nails (6) Enduser (5) Katatonia (5). #myweekcounted 166 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue

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Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 4d

AirPods and Dad Noises:

Apple’s “conversational awareness” feature apparently interprets some Dad Noises (https://youtu.be/K06bq68loUc?si=66jNUywX-cMnfqI1) as talking and others as background noise.

The more you know 🌈✨

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Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 5d

Still spooked but home safe

Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 5d

🐾 Holly got spooked and is hiding under the shed. 😭

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Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 5d

@AndreasDavour https://notes.multif.actor/play/thelilachack

The Lilac Hack

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Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 5d

@AndreasDavour I’ve been trying to work reach into the Lilac Hack too

Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 5d

Popular 🚲 day at Big Lug

A row of parked bicycles is lined up along a sidewalk, with green shrubs on one side. In the background, there are people seated at outdoor tables under umbrellas.

Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 5d

Beautiful #cfc goal and manager gets sent off. ⚽️ I’ll take it.

Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks to John Oliver I now understand this joke.

From: @madayar
https://equestria.social/@madayar/115316153297053378

Madayar (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Crap. #FCSP

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Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 5d

This is my kind of ⚽️ stat

A statistics table titled "Keeper Efficiency - Season 2025/26" displays the performance metrics of five goalkeepers. It includes columns for expected saves (xS), actual saves, and the difference (DIFF). The top five keepers listed are Dahmen, Schwäbe, Vasilj, Hein, Atubolu

Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 5d

One warning I forgot to mention about Bethesda, Maryland: spotted lanternfly!

These are invasive and you do not want to take them home with you. (They are bad for vineyards and hops, if that helps it matter to you.)

updated my post, which will have a new URL soon […]

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Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 5d

Bundesliga Clash:

It’s game day six and it’s the first matchup between two of the teams we are following:

FC St. Pauli and Werder Bremen

I’m wearing green today, but thats because my wardrobe is mostly green or blue. We haven’t “eliminated” either of these teams, yet.

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Tim Bray @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 6d

The canceling of ICEBlock is more evidence, were any needed, that the Web is the platform of the future, the only platform without a controlling vendor. Anything controversial should be available through a pure browser interface.

#uspolitics

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Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 6d

Borderlands 4 First Impressions:

👍 Boss battles feel less like a “win or lose in an instant” situtation, and are more like a tactical duel across an interesting battleground
👎 The visualizations for my starting character special actions were very confusing and made it hard to tell what was […]

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Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 7d

🕊️ Most of the professing non-Christians I know are more Christlike than this administration

From: @rebeccawatson
https://mstdn.social/@rebeccawatson/115299291368826127

Rebecca Watson (@[email protected])

As a “New Atheist” of the early 2000s, I knew it was crucial to stop the Religious Right from destroying the wall separating Church & State. But even I didn’t think that by 2025 the President would green light sending ppl to Guantanamo for being “anti-Christian.” https://skepchick.org/2025/10/trump-declares-atheists-are-terrorists/

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Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 7d

D66 Standing Stones:

https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/d66xd66xd66-standing-stones/

May be handy when encountering a Monument in Mythic Bastionland.

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d66xd66xd66 Standing Stones

The government has shutdown & I've been instructed not to 'perform work-related tasks' so I'm catching up on backlogged blog posts & projects. Here's a littl...

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Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 8d

@robb or honestly, for any other reason. (Maybe I just want to give a teaser and then send to the link)

Todd Grotenhuis @toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social · 8d

@robb is there a way (with variables, etc.) to truncate an echofeed early in the case where one's mastodon instance (like this one) allows very long posts that aren't the norm on the fediverse?