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rob pike

@robpike.io

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)

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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM

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Joel S.

@joelhs.bsky.social

From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...)

Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.

"Moderator: What do you think of Adolf Hitler?

Ashley: I think he was a great leader, to be honest. I think what he was going for was terrible, but I think he showed very strong leadership values.

Andrew: I’m in favor of a strong executive. I think we should have a stronger executive branch. I don’t think we should be killing people or doing mass genocide, obviously, but I do think we should have a strong executive. I feel like one of the biggest problems Trump is running into right now is all these little courts, they want to throw up little blockages against everything he’s trying to do, whether it be his tariffs or deporting people. So I’m very pro-strong executive, strong leader, strong man. I support national sovereignty, and Hitler was a nationalist. He was like, we have to take Germany back for Germans. And I feel like we should do that in America. We should take America back for our native population. So, I’m not an expert on Hitler by any means, but as far as nationalism is concerned, I’m all that.

Brice: I myself am actually Jewish, ancestrally. I’m Christian by faith, but Jewish by blood. I’ve actually read Mein Kampf. The end conclusions that he came to: absolutely abominable. But I strangely understood where he was coming from as far as wanting to improve the national state of Germany."

December 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM

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onion person

@junlper.beer

they left one unredacted trump signature paycheck to epstein in a photo with a victim????

December 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM

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Frost! 🐏 ✈️ MAGFest

@frostsheepy.bsky.social

Good morning

December 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM

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onion person

@junlper.beer

bari weiss going to see the epstein files and ask bill clinton to do a town hall about what love means to him

December 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM

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onion person

@junlper.beer

i’m just going to assume the 90% of pages that they blacked out is ONLY donald trump

December 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM

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chiblee

@chiblee.bsky.social

chiblee

December 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM

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nessie is home…

@nessiemooo.bsky.social

September 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM

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onion person

@junlper.beer

donald trump is going through full brandonization at an alarming rate

September 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM

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フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian)

@northerniion.bsky.social

yaoi ^^

September 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM

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Wren Wrabbit 🐇

@wrenwrabbit.bunnyboy.live

in my experience autism is caused by having a fat ass and being incredibly hot and charming

September 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM

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GayFesh🖖

@gayfesh.com

every one of these motherfuckers are afraid to show their faces, and for that reason, we MUST see their faces.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · May 22

Here's a picture that a @kuow.org photographer took in Seattle yesterday, showing the ICE officers masked up in the hallways as they waited to arrest people coming out of their hearings.

May 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM

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onion person

@junlper.beer

i feel like you could put a percent ticker labeled “wokeness in government” and have it going down to zero and trick these people into think that’s a real measured metric