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Sam
@samdiyfreeman.bsky.social
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Builds and writes about fun things. Resists the urge to post pictures of his dog. Online Editor at Make: magazine.
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adafruit.com
Giving Tuesday is here. Four orgs worth supporting if you live online: EFF, Signal, 404 media, and The Trevor Project. Pick one, pick all, just click something good ...
adafruit.com/giving

#GivingTuesday

@eff.org
@404media.co
@signal.org
@trevorproject.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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adafruit.com
MakerFaire Orlando 2025! do-it-yourself science, art, rockets, robots, crafts, music and more!
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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My Maker Faire prep is 50% snacks. My bag now looks like a kid running away from home.
September 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
samdiyfreeman.bsky.social
Maker Faire preparation energy status is currently: Jason Webley - Ways To Love
September 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
samdiyfreeman.bsky.social
My first welding attempts, stick vs laser. @xtool-official.bsky.social MetalFab really is a game-changer.
August 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
does anyone know if there are any repositories with 'continuously' collected twitter/X data including of retweets of large/most followed twitter accounts? ideal if it goes back a few years

thank you kindly 🙏🏾
July 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
samdiyfreeman.bsky.social
I've gotta get people together to play competitive mode. makezine.com/projects/pla...
Play With Your Own Junk - Make:
Learn how to assemble and play professional-quality party games with the stuff you already have around the house.
makezine.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
samdiyfreeman.bsky.social
If you need me I'll be checking out the future
May 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
samdiyfreeman.bsky.social
Who among us hasn't waited until their arm went numb to call an ambulance? Raise your non-affected hand.
sosadillatron.bsky.social Stephen Kleckner @sosadillatron.bsky.social · May 12
Gun shot victim: Oh gawd. No! I'm American! I can't afford the medical debt of an ambulance ride! Someone, please, before I bleed out ... call a taxi to take me to the hospital instead.

Disembodied voice: YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!
nomadnetic.bsky.social Nomad @nomadnetic.bsky.social · May 12
"The ambulance has arrived."
"Oh thank god, take them to-"

"HEY HEY, IT'S TIME TO MAKE SOME CRAZY MONEY

ARE YOU READY? HERE WE GO-"
May 13, 2025 at 2:53 AM
samdiyfreeman.bsky.social
Happy First Contact Day everybody!
April 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
samdiyfreeman.bsky.social
Well done
Introducing DeForm 1 - Unbuild Your Ideas
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April 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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It's not like I'm oblivious, but I played ToTK when it came out, and I just found a stable.
April 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
samdiyfreeman.bsky.social
This is adorable.
jemichi.bsky.social JeMiChi @jemichi.bsky.social · Mar 19
I made a tiny Anna's Nudibranch plushie as a gift for my buddy. ^^

#sciart #seaslug 🦑
A small handmade fleece plushie that resembles a blue and yellow sea slug, seen from the side. A small handmade fleece plushie that resembles a blue and yellow sea slug, seen from the other side with a different angle. A small handmade fleece plushie that resembles a blue and yellow sea slug, seen from the top.
March 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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rusmclaughlin.bsky.social
Guess who’s back?

#GDC
March 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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PLEASE READ AND SHARE:

🏞️ DOGE plans to close the Bureau of Land Management Field Office in Ukiah. This will impact public lands in eight counties, including Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, Lake, Yolo, Marin and Solano. Including mineral rich lands and recreational space.

mendovoice.com/2025/03/doge...
DOGE to close Bureau of Land Management Field Office in Ukiah • The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA
The closure will likely impact the management of the California Coastal Monument in Point Arena, Cow Mountain in Ukiah and other public lands.
mendovoice.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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catandgirl.bsky.social
The Great Deskilling 3
Girl: Amazon is a conspiracy / Girl: to make everything available - QUICKLY - in multiple indistinguishable varieties Cat: The illusion of consumer choice had a meeting / Girl: all poor and cheaply made - Cat: It decided not to try too hard / Girl: so we FORGET - that an object doesn't have to be one in a succession of similar objects, each cheap, and soon broken, and replaced by the next cheap and soon to be broken one - / Girl: so that any individual object is less important than the system set up to sell and deliver them - like listening to "Spotify" - instead of individual artists or songs / Girl: so we FORGET - that the well-made object is an OPTION / Girl: we FORGET - that a well-made object can be repaired - repurposed - why would you FIX something when you can replace it so quickly? How CAN you fix something when it's so cheaply made? / Girl: we FORGET - that there is value in MAKING the well-made object - but if you care about the quality of your work - you slow down the system - / Girl: why would they want us to FORGET - that a well-made object feels GOOD to USE - that it works WITH us rather than AGAINST us - unlike our phones and social media and AI and Google and / (She pauses) / Girl: Oh. Cat: I make a pretty good soup!
January 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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catandgirl.bsky.social
The Great Deskilling 2
Girl: AI is a conspiracy to make writing look like unskilled labor Cat: AI is a conspiracy to make drawing look like unskilled labor / Girl: AI is a conspiracy to devalue the humanities Cat: The moon landing was a conspiracy to justify spending money on math and science education / Girl: AI is a conspiracy to make understanding the world through the observation of it look like unskilled labor Cat: Our ideology will MAKE the world in its IMAGE / Girl: AI is a conspiracy to replace complexity and nuance with binaries Cat: I know a whole industry based on binaries! / Girl: AI is a conspiracy to make ALL labor look like unskilled labor except for the labor done in Silicon Valley - Silicon Valley is a conspiracy to make all labor look like unskilled labor except for investing done by venture capital / Girl: An AI prompt is an idea - but an idea is not a thought - THINKING is what brings the idea into the world Cat: But an idea is what you sell to a venture capital firm / Cat: So YOU tell ME what's valuable Girl: The labor of creation - the richness of ambiguity - / Cat: Good luck monetizing that one Girl: Thirty years ago ambiguity got you a starter home
January 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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catandgirl.bsky.social
The Great Deskilling 1
Girl: The assembly line is a conspiracy to make manufacturing look like unskilled labor Cat: You say conspiracy Girl: The U.S. is a conspiracy to make governing look like unskilled labor - Cat: I say MAGIC! Girl: HMH Into Reading is a conspiracy to make teaching look like unskilled labor. Girl: Celebrity chefs are a conspiracy to make labor previously considered unskilled into skilled labor now that rich guys with sleeve tattoos are into it! Girl: Netflix is a conspiracy to make entertainment look like unskilled labor Girl: Our whole economy is a conspiracy to make as much labor as possible appear unskilled - so we can pay people less and replace them at will - all the while profiting off their knowledge (Cat is unable to find anything in his top hat) Girl: No human is replaceable - and all workers can be replaced - ergo - workers are not human Cat: It’s not working Girl: What are you trying to do? Cat: I have to do it? Cat: I BOUGHT THE HAT! Cat: I thought the trick came with it.
January 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM