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Cyd Harrell
@cydharrell.bsky.social
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cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account) ex-18F; on the board @ Technologists for the Public Good; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 9h
thread, h/t @yvonnezlam.bsky.social (think about this in concert with how much we value "focus" these days)
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · Apr 25
And… I backed off this notion for a while because it seemed a bit secondary. But increasingly I think I was right the first time. Life works when people and systems accept their fuzzy unarticulated ancillary roles and know that they are part of something uncontracted but networked.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11h
This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18h
With roughly 60 percent reporting, Fairbanks' Republican Mayor David Pruhs is trailing his Democratic challenger Mindy O'Neall 54% to 46%.
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gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 18h
This little butterfly has a Bluetooth transmitter and as she travels, it pings people who have the Project Monarch app installed.
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 23h
Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿
Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 18h
😮 🦋
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 21h
no, I hadn't - thank you for sharing!!
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 23h
namesake of my teenage renaming, though I've never had legs like that (who has!)
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 23h
I just don’t think I can ever get over the level of gay awakening tiny me experienced watching Cyd Charisse in Singing in the Rain when I was like 8.

She’s The Girl. The Leg. The Green. The Everything.
a man in a yellow vest and a woman in a green dress are dancing on a stage
ALT: a man in a yellow vest and a woman in a green dress are dancing on a stage
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d
Put the National Guard on the blockchain.

by Andrew Yang
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 1d
there are some things that are still cute or funny when you're 30, that absolutely do. not. fly. for 40-year-olds. it's a great decade to confirm your principles, know who you mean to be, & get accountable if you haven't

but don't stop having fun - stay open to new experiences & interests & people
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essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you!
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you!!
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you!!
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 2d
SF friends: is Routesy down for you too? Am I hopelessly out of date using Routesy? What’s the Muni nav app folks like these days?
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 2d
been referring to The Circumstances for a few months now
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 2d
JFC, Chris, that's a lot 💙
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 2d
🫠😵‍💫
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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2d
thank god it’s almost friday
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d
COMING UP: Judge Immergut has set a hearing for 10 pm ET tonight (!) on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment by calling up the federalized California national guard.
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 3d
About the incident where ten cars supposedly blocked ICE and they had to shoot someone because she had a semiautomatic weapon:

“The criminal complaint makes no mention of any firearm in the possession of either motorist, in contrast to an earlier statement from the Department of Homeland Security.”
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 3d
the quality of software really really matters
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 3d
So far at least, Americans are lukewarm about AI summaries in search results. Relatively few who have seen them think they're extremely or very useful (20%) or have a lot of trust in the information they get from them (6%). New data from @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Bar chart showing that 20% of Americans who have seen AI summaries in search results believe these summaries are extremely or very useful. Far more (52%) see them as somewhat useful, while 28% see them as not too or not at all useful. The chart is based on an August 2025 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults. Bar chart showing that 6% of Americans who have seen AI summaries in search results have a lot of trust in the information they get from these summaries. Another 48% have some trust in this information, while 34% have not too much trust and 12% have no trust at all. The chart is based on an August 2025 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 3d
FINALLY some good fuckin science
www.cell.com/action/showP...
cell.com Correspondence Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 3d
soup with coconut milk & spices?
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 4d
cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual sfist.com/2025/10/03/h...
Here Come the Creeps: Meta Ray-Ban Glasses Dudebro Stalking Women at USF, Posting Videos to Social Media
The new Meta Ray-Ban video-recording glasses are being used exactly as you would expect, as some lonely perv is harassing and recording women on the USF campus, and posting his videos of this to socia...
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 4d
it's really extremely good, & applies pretty well to ethics as well as politics
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Andrew Perfors @andyperfors.bsky.social · 4d
I'm a bit late to the game on this, but I finally read it and if you haven't done so, do check it out. It is a very thoughtfully kind (yet incisive) examination of where a lot of people on the left are right now, with Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates serving as rhetorical poles of sorts.
You don't have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 4d
yikes
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