Chris Conway
@clconway.bsky.social
Too old, too tired and too talented for any of that shit. Software Engineer. Union member. Dad. Interested but unenthusiastic. He/him. San Francisco.
I didn't have a PC with a 3.5" drive and a hard disk until I was 14. We had a Commodore with a 5.25" drive before that. And my friends with PCs ruthlessly teased me for calling 3.5" disks "hard disks". (They looked hard to me!)
that's a different thing. a different thing that already existed in the time of floppies. if you were going around on the 90s calling 3.5" disks "hard disks" you were just being confusing.
anyways it's making me think about the persistence of misinformation 🤠
anyways it's making me think about the persistence of misinformation 🤠
January 11, 2026 at 5:25 PM
I didn't have a PC with a 3.5" drive and a hard disk until I was 14. We had a Commodore with a 5.25" drive before that. And my friends with PCs ruthlessly teased me for calling 3.5" disks "hard disks". (They looked hard to me!)
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
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i may be late to the party, but i cannot recommend strongly enough jad abumrad's phenomenal podcast about fela kuti. rich & complex portrait, fabulous interviews, amazing music. best podcast i listened to in 2025 by far.
new yorker wrote it up here 👇
new yorker wrote it up here 👇
The World-Shifting Grooves of Fela Kuti
Jad Abumrad’s new podcast, “Fela Kuti: Fear No Man,” shows how one musician created both a genre and a way of challenging those in power.
www.newyorker.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:21 AM
i may be late to the party, but i cannot recommend strongly enough jad abumrad's phenomenal podcast about fela kuti. rich & complex portrait, fabulous interviews, amazing music. best podcast i listened to in 2025 by far.
new yorker wrote it up here 👇
new yorker wrote it up here 👇
The road to broken code is paved with "I know this isn't super elegant but it works"
deleted my snark about the screenshotted post, because his explanation of it sounds less like 'it's ok if your code breaks' and more like 'it's ok if your code isn't super elegant'
rywalker.com/why-good-eno...
rywalker.com/why-good-eno...
December 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The road to broken code is paved with "I know this isn't super elegant but it works"
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Miles Davis loves his fellow man: Down Beat blindfold test, 1964
December 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Miles Davis loves his fellow man: Down Beat blindfold test, 1964
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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)
December 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)
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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (June)
December 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
2025 Headline of the Year nominee (June)
If anybody's looking for a new stupid thing to argue about, how about: Die Hard 2 is not even a little bit a Christmas movie and that's partly why it's inferior to the first film.
December 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
If anybody's looking for a new stupid thing to argue about, how about: Die Hard 2 is not even a little bit a Christmas movie and that's partly why it's inferior to the first film.
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He may not be the worst president ever but he is without question the worst person to ever serve as president.
December 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
He may not be the worst president ever but he is without question the worst person to ever serve as president.
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Rob Reiner's first seven films: 1. Spinal Tap. 2. The Sure Thing. 3. Stand By Me. 4. THE PRINCESS BRIDE. 5. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. 6. Misery 7. A Few Good Men. Good lord. Even Spielberg included 1941 in his first seven.
And that was after playing Michael Stivic. I hope this news isn't true. But...
And that was after playing Michael Stivic. I hope this news isn't true. But...
December 15, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Rob Reiner's first seven films: 1. Spinal Tap. 2. The Sure Thing. 3. Stand By Me. 4. THE PRINCESS BRIDE. 5. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. 6. Misery 7. A Few Good Men. Good lord. Even Spielberg included 1941 in his first seven.
And that was after playing Michael Stivic. I hope this news isn't true. But...
And that was after playing Michael Stivic. I hope this news isn't true. But...
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*screams* www.instagram.com/reel/DRd2ldW...
December 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
*screams* www.instagram.com/reel/DRd2ldW...
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Prison rape is wrong.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Prison rape is wrong.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
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This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”
“I walk around Portland, and I go, ‘Fuck you, assholes. Portland is fine.’” - John Darnielle, @themountaingoats.bsky.social. We're proud to claim you as a Portlander, sir.
The Mountain Goats Ascend to Revolution Hall
Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle discusses musicals, his new album, and why he keeps coming home to Portland.
www.wweek.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”
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You’ve heard of elf on a shelf. You’ve probably heard of some other stuff too. I get it. You’re a man of the world.
November 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
You’ve heard of elf on a shelf. You’ve probably heard of some other stuff too. I get it. You’re a man of the world.
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We do know who killed JFK. The Warren Commission was an incredibly thorough and good-faith effort to prove and document what had happened, which they did. The conspiracy theories arose in spite of best efforts to avoid them, but there really isn't anything they could have reasonably done better.
My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We do know who killed JFK. The Warren Commission was an incredibly thorough and good-faith effort to prove and document what had happened, which they did. The conspiracy theories arose in spite of best efforts to avoid them, but there really isn't anything they could have reasonably done better.
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial
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Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”
I’m going to regret asking this, but… what mechanism are people proposing whereby AI will “end scarcity”?
This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people
This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”
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The officer Sandwich Guy is charged with assaulting testifies that he could feel the impact of the sandwich through his ballistic vest, and it “exploded all over my uniform.” He says he could “smell the onions and the mustard.”
November 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The officer Sandwich Guy is charged with assaulting testifies that he could feel the impact of the sandwich through his ballistic vest, and it “exploded all over my uniform.” He says he could “smell the onions and the mustard.”
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We gotta normalize responding to bullshit with "dude who fucking cares"
October 29, 2025 at 5:35 AM
We gotta normalize responding to bullshit with "dude who fucking cares"
I call my cousin's kid my niece so I guess I helped do 9/11.
Your dad's cousin is your aunt. I am from a family of plain boring white people and my kids call my wife's cousins who live around here and they see all the time "aunt/uncle." This is not even some "see, in other cultures," thing this is just a total normal thing they are presenting as scandalous
lmao
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I call my cousin's kid my niece so I guess I helped do 9/11.
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Happy 121st birthday to the NYC Subway, opened on this day in 1904. Like the city itself, you can’t truly love it until there are days where you hate it. But I will always be grateful for it every one of those days.
October 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Happy 121st birthday to the NYC Subway, opened on this day in 1904. Like the city itself, you can’t truly love it until there are days where you hate it. But I will always be grateful for it every one of those days.
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Fantastic essay. Maybe my favorite part, and a great rallying cry:
October 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Fantastic essay. Maybe my favorite part, and a great rallying cry:
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You know that thing where politically active people need to remind themselves that normal people simply don't know lots of things that seem obvious? I think people are massively underestimating how little Trump knows about pretty much everything.
October 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
You know that thing where politically active people need to remind themselves that normal people simply don't know lots of things that seem obvious? I think people are massively underestimating how little Trump knows about pretty much everything.