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rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 9h

I make 1 hour screen recordings with QuickTime Player

rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 10h

It’s been so long that I can’t remember… why is it named after the Velvet Underground song?

rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 1d

Lime has figured a way around Lyft’s regulated monopoly on Bike Share in the Bay Area! They simply took the pedals off their e-bike and called it a “Glider”.

A green “Lift Glider” e-bike / scooter. It looks like an e-bike without pedals.

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rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve always liked the simplicity of Anthropic’s “Agents are models using tools in a loop”

simonwillison.net/2025/May/22/...

Agents are models using tools in a loop

I was going slightly spare at the fact that every talk at this Anthropic developer conference has used the word "agents" dozens of times, but nobody ever stopped to provide …

simonwillison.net

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rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 2d

Should we all give Flickr another shot?

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rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 2d

There is a SFBA Bench Collective bench at the bus stop near my house. It is constantly being used during the day, but sometimes gets tagged.

Rustoleum “Warm Carmel” spray paint is a good way to keep these clean and keep them from being reported to the city. It dries completely in 20 min.

Bench with painters’ tape masking off an area with wet paint

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rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 3d

🍕Making pizzas for kids for the first time in a while..

Pizza with fresh mozzarella and basil, in a cardboard box

Pizza cooking in a steel backyard pizza oven

Pizza with fresh mozzarella and basil being pulled out of a small steel pizza oven on a pizza peel

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rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 4d

New speed cameras led to a 92% drop in speeding at some intersections:

www.ktvu.com/news/san-fra...

Speed cameras shift driver behavior in San Francisco

Two months after San Francisco began issuing fines from its new speed camera program, city officials say drivers are slowing down.

www.ktvu.com

Reposted by rajbot

Giorgio Maone @ma1.bsky.social · 6d

Today's #general_strike for #Palestine in Italy.
Just in Palermo we were more than 30,000, marching in the streets and chanting #StopGenocide #FreeFreePalestine. 🇵🇸✊

Collage of pictures of the general strike from 8 major Italian cities

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rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 8d

What are these non-standard colors on this large flag? Why is the “War Department” not using DDD-F-416E? Why do they not know what our flag is supposed to look like?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9d

And after 40 minutes of cringe-Thunderous applause from the generals!

Just kidding. Total silence. 👀 🦗 🦗

rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 8d

I was trying to get my dad to try Cost Plus for his many prescriptions 💸

He has what you might call a contrarian mindset

But when I finally managed to show him the website, he’s like “Mark Cuban, I know of him!” and then he was fine with checking it out 🙄

Perhaps this marketing works for boomers!

rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 9d

EA Tetris is a lot like regular Tetris, but it involves a journalist, a bone saw, and a suitcase.

rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 11d

The #NoTechForICE movement started in 2018, during the first Trump administration’s illegal separation of refugee children from their parents.

Unfortunately, few tech workers paid attention to the evil their tools were enabling. The AI-powered next generation of these tools is now being sold to ICE

2018 flyer for the “No Tech for ICE” protest that shows workers entering a pipleline leading to tech employers

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rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 14d

Interesting that it came in as an iMessage. All my weird spam texts come is as sms instead..

rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 19d

With Star Wars and Marvel and Pixar and all the kid franchises, it feels impossible to stop spending money on Disney, but it’s not.

As I wrote in 2020 on the other site: Disney is an immoral company, and always has been.

Twitter screenshot that says:

I know it feels impossible to cut Disney out of your life, but it is now time.

Access to a universe of amazing TV, music, movies, toys, and video games means you no longer need to keep feeding Disney.

Your kids will survive without Disney movies. Mine have. You can do this!

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rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 22d

The YouTube iOS app is so, so bad that it must be intentional. But why?

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rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 22d

Ocean Calling

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rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 22d

“There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself.”

- @greatdismal.bsky.social, Neuromamcer, ‘84

rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 24d

Of all the people that live on Slow Streets, the residents who live in Sanchez seem to really love theirs the most

Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 24d

Slow Sanchez adorableness

rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 24d

The Moon-viewing garden at SF Flower Piano

A white grand piano being played on a wooden deck above a green pond

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rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 28d

Claude Code fixed a bug (its own bug) and made this tool Enterprise Grade™️

“Performance optimized - 75x faster for large images

Your image tiler now has enterprise-grade performance! 🎉”

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rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · 29d

I vibe-coded a tool for placing images side-by-side or in a grid: www.bitstream.io/image-tiler/

It is useful for comparing graphs side-by-side, and also for sunset pics.

A composite image of three sunset pictures side-by-side

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rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · Sep 8

Biking @sunsetdunes.org today

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rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · Sep 7

Full moon from the Berkeley Marina

A yellow-red full moon rising above boats parked at the marina with a seagull flying overhead

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rajbot @rajbot.bsky.social · Sep 2

Will this “Listen to Page” button in iOS safari work for you?