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mburns.bsky.social
@mburns.bsky.social
Pacific Northwest, DevOps nerd
Formerly: IPFS Infra, Rackspace, Mozilla
He/Him
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this site needs community notes yesterday
June 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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GNU Terry Pratchett. #Speakhisname
March 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Another year playing in the 11 Day Power Play to raise money to fight cancer! I know times are uncertain right now, but if you’re in a position to donate to me and the team I would appreciate it. As always I have donated the initial $250 to kick things off. #SignalBoost
Michael's Fundraising Page at The 11 Day Power Play
I need your support! I am playing in the #11DPP Community Shift this summer. It will be a grueling three hour shift but nothing compared to what cancer patients endure. Please support me to #PutCancer...
communityshift.11daypowerplay.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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For people who have a lot of dev boards: would you want a form factor that let you put them in a eurorack/modular case?

I honestly don't know how many other people have multiple dev boards floating around projects concurrently, or how many other people end up with "desk spaghetti" like me.
February 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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I'm giving away EVERY Masters set EVER! It's Masters Masters!

I'm giving TEN PEOPLE each one box of Masters from the entire history of Masters sets as a thank you!

Just donate in multiples of $4.00 to
@translifeline.bsky.social until Feb 15 at 11am PST!

Donate---> give.translifeline.org/tolarian
February 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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If someone has the corresponding image from the other side of the viewmaster reel, i would be happy to make this viewable in 3D, as nature intended.
November 15, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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If you live in one of these 10 states (AZ, TX AR, MS, FL, GA, TN, KY, IN, OH), today is THE LAST DAY you can register to vote. Even if you think you're registered already, double check to see if your registration is still active. Please do this, it only takes a few minutes. Pass it on.
October 7, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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October 3, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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Gov. Abbott and AG Paxton are bragging about having “scrubbed” the voter rolls—and the deadline to (re)register is Oct. 7. CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION TODAY. teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/mvp.do
My Voter Portal
teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov
September 26, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #23,602!

This is what distributed systems should look like on the modern Web. Congrats bsky team!
September 16, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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DMs on Bluesky will not be "end-to-end encrypted" until we are able to do some more protocol work.

We have very careful access controls within our systems.

If you're extremely privacy conscious, I'd recommend using Bluesky DMs to share your Signal accounts!
May 22, 2024 at 8:29 PM
My hot take is that I wish Bluesky didn’t add native DMs, even as an upgrade path to future e2ee.

Granted, Bluesky devs+leadership have been absolutely crushing it and I don’t know what I’m talking about regarding social media feature roadmaps, so more power to them.
May 22, 2024 at 8:39 PM
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I've been making this point for three straight years for whatever good it did

www.techdirt.com/2023/03/21/f...
January 25, 2024 at 9:39 PM
!jazbot whereami
November 10, 2023 at 3:53 AM
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NY has held hundreds of people in prison past their release dates, sometimes adding years onto their prison sentences, under a law called the Sexual Assault Reform Act that legislators are too cowardly to alter or repeal. @chrisgelardi.bsky.social explains in @thenation.com/ @nysfocus.bsky.social:
They Were Supposed to Be Free. Why Are They Locked Up?
No one wants a person convicted of a sex offense in their neighborhood. So New York keeps them in prison long past their release dates.
www.thenation.com
October 20, 2023 at 8:24 PM
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I’d just like to point out that the $25 savings bond Dr. F gave to TV’s Frank in the “Santa Claus” MST3K episode matures this year. Enjoy your $25, Frank!
October 22, 2023 at 9:48 PM
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Oregon cartoonists, DO THIS! Why wouldn't you? (I won in 2022 and it's a pretty spectacular feeling)
Thursday spam: Cartoonists! Submit your graphic novels that were published in the last two years (see link below for exact timeframe and details) for the Graphic Literature Oregon Book Award!!! Deadline is TOMORROW!
Oregon authors, especially comics & graphic novel folks: This Friday, Sept. 8th is the deadline to submit your work for the Oregon Book Awards! The Graphic Literature award is up this year, so comics folks make sure to get your submissions in!

Please help spread the word!

tinyurl.com/2brte3cq
September 7, 2023 at 5:28 PM
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Happy Zero Cool day to those who celebrate it.
August 10, 2023 at 5:50 PM
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Long shot, but my camp has 2 physical tickets, 1 physical vehicle pass, and 2 will-call vehicle passes for that thing in the desert that we need to move.

@cara.city @translunar.io
August 10, 2023 at 6:19 PM
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August 5, 2023 at 12:57 AM
Thanks @wyden.senate.gov , the NDAA is far (far!) from perfect, but not discriminating against past Marijuana usage is a common sense step in the right direction.
Senate Votes To Let People Who’ve Used Marijuana Work At Intelligence Agencies Like CIA And NSA As...
The U.S. Senate has approved a large-scale defense bill that includes provisions to bar intelligence agencies like the CIA and NSA from denying security clearances to applicants solely due to their pa...
www.marijuanamoment.net
August 1, 2023 at 6:26 PM
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Standing next to my "0 Invite Codes Available" waiting to start up my Trans Ferry to bring more to Bluesky, while I see them all waving from across the moat.
July 29, 2023 at 2:43 AM
> “The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour …”

I’m starting to think this Alito fellow is a bit of a turd.
Congress should pass a law making Justice Alito ride circuit, just to show it can
July 28, 2023 at 7:32 PM
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This can't just be one of those things that people shrug off. Advertisers need to be asked, directly and repeatedly, why they're *funding* the distribution of CSAM. Because that's what they're doing.
July 28, 2023 at 12:48 AM