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John (he/him)
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SF Bay Area resident. Things I love: table-top games, pets, programming languages and music theory 🎻. Things I'm into: data driven and iterative policy, food banks, and public transit.

👨‍❤️‍👨: @cobaltgear.net

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theonion.com
Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless
Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless
SACRAMENTO, CA—Promising his podcast listeners an engaging and enlightening conversation, California Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly sat down Tuesday with a serial killer who targets the homeless populat...
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July 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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serebii.bsky.social
Serebii Update: The Pokémon Sleep Second Anniversary Fest event is now rolling out globally

Runs from 04:00 local time to 03:59 local time on July 28th 2025

Details @ www.serebii.net/pokemonsleep...
July 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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pbsnews.org
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
July 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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theonion.com
New Legislation Frees Up President To Do Pretty Much Anything, Really

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June 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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kumail.bsky.social
A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.
June 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

You absolutely can lie via data & math & everything about how you present data is an argument for how to interpret/understand it

Everything we know is founded on best guesses & analogies

All technoscience is enmeshed with human values
alisonborealis.bsky.social alison says reinstate Link! @alisonborealis.bsky.social · Jun 17
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

In general, it takes about 1000 years to form 1cm of new soil.
vortexegg.com VE, cybersocial occult investigator @vortexegg.com · Jun 17
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

We’re not clear on what *information* is, at all
June 17, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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briamgilbert.bsky.social
#Sponsored I'm the host of the very first official Pokémon game show! They approved me! Against all odds! It's gonna be so much fun! Come through!
pkmn.news/gameshow #PokemonGameShow
A promotional image for The Gotta Catch ‘Em All Game Show, with a headshot of a bearded, bespectacled man in the corner. The text reads “Hosted by Brian David Gilbert. Friday, June 27, 11am PT” followed by the Twitch logo and “/pokemon”
June 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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weratedogs.com
This is Tub and Blue. They simply cannot figure out how to get their tennis ball that fell in the pool. Still 12/10 because they really are trying
June 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
Best image of the day:
June 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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jonathanslater.bsky.social
You also get a dog smile today
June 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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badfutures.com
Reading the press on Apple's supposed AI "letdown/failure" at WWDC & I think OpenAI and Perplexity have effectively broken the tech press' brains. I thought yesterday's announcements were a huge AI win for Apple precisely *because* they didn't mention Siri at all. And I don't say this as a fanboy.
June 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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johnspurlock.com
‘The new service had a much smaller memory footprint per instance — in the 100s of megabytes — an order of magnitude smaller compared to the 10s of gigabytes our Java implementation needed under peak load to sustain the same throughput and latencies’

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June 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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theonion.com
Wise Oracle Proclaims To All At Barbecue That He Felt A Raindrop
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Wise Oracle Proclaims To All At Barbecue That He Felt A Raindrop
June 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
cablecar.city
Had a blast at Dolo park! We even got to see a hawk 🥰

Shout out to my darling model, @cobaltgear.net
May 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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timcarvell.bsky.social
There are whole movies that don’t have the twists and turns of this paragraph.
Since the eighties, LuPone has been based in Connecticut. Years ago, she and Johnston got a flock of chickens and named them Marilyn, Rita, Eartha, Foghorn Leghorn, and the Fabulous Miller Sisters (Pia, Alexandra, and Marie-Chantal). All but three were massacred in a raccoon attack. "It was horrific," LuPone said. "There was blood and feathers and guts all over the place when my husband heard me screaming. He came down in this Victoria's Secret underwear, barefoot. We looked in the hen hut, and there was the raccoon, basically looking at us, going, I ain't finished.'"
May 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
cablecar.city
Really enjoyed getting to spend the day visiting Jefferson Park. The parrots even came to visit ☺️
Eight green parrots are sitting on a while fire escape, four on the rails and four on the steps. The right-most parrot on the steps is starting to take flight, flourishing their wings. A bumble bee is sitting on a flower with its wings shining in the sunlight. The camera is focused on the bee, but grass is visible out of focus around her. A finch sitting on a branch, looking at the camera. The finch has a white belly with black pattering along its back. A large tree branch frames the view of a building, with large green shrubs sitting along the bottom.
May 22, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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cobaltgear.net
Thunderbolts was surprisingly good! I think the last Marvel movie I saw was Shang Chi. Maybe becoming a Lewis Pullman fan. He’s been great in all the (2) films I’ve seen him in. No shakey cam and compelling characters. Solid.
May 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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isaacrowlett.bsky.social
Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea?

139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.

A 🧵
Black and white etching-style triptych showing 8 hours for work on the left, 8 hours for rest in the middle, and 8 hours for “what we will” on the right
May 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
i don't think we should gatekeep the enormous 28 pound bunny that works as a service animal at giants games sometimes. i think we should share news of the 28 pound bunny with the wider internet
man at baseball game holding the biggest fucking bunny rabbit you've ever seen in your life. and he's wearing a hat same bunny, now tossed over the man's shoulder. the bunny is the size of an overnight bag said bunny in his carrier, which is palanquin sized the bunny wearing his service vest, legs floofed out on the floor. It's hard to tell from the scale of the picture but he's so fucking big
April 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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notkoze.trashmammal.club
His sister is transgender, so his love for his sister extends to the whole community. I love Pedro Pascal so much ❤️
February 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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keithasada.bsky.social
Artist unknown but may their skin always be moisturized & may their future be blessed with love and good fortune
February 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid.

So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.
February 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
Musk's whole deal is to pretend that no one knew how government bureaucracy worked before, like it was this big mystery box, and it's exactly that combo of stupidity and arrogance that pervades silicon valley and leads to them reinventing a city bus and thinking they're Isaac Newton
February 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM