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@shayelk.in

Old man. Yells at cloud (service providers). Lives with @adigi.bsky.social in an old house in Berkeley, California. All my typos are the fault of the autocorrect, not myself.

created June 4, 2023

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תלוי במוצא

4/9/2025, 5:48:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bsky preference screen, showing a rule blocking Malcolm gladwell
3/9/2025, 9:00:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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זה האתר הרשמי של חברת הרכבות ההולנדית (בצד הגרמני של הגבול bahn.de הוא הרשמי, אבל נראה שהם יותר יקרים לאותן הנסיעות בדיוק).

3/9/2025, 8:56:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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אם אתה רוצה לקחת את האקספרס (ice), כשבדקתי היה יותר זול לקנות בצד ההולנדי www.nsinternational.com/en/trains/ic...

3/9/2025, 8:42:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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כשהיה ZIRP היו חברות שהעסיקו בריסטות במשרה מלאה. שקלתי לעבוד באחת בזכות בית הקליה שקנו ממנו את הפולים (בסוף הצטרפתי למעביד עם קפה גרוע, אבל משרה מוצלחת יותר. מקווה שזו היתה הבחירה הנכונה)

3/9/2025, 6:10:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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3/9/2025, 3:02:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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dogs have adhd tho

2/9/2025, 1:43:34 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ve recently learned that all golf rankings are self reported (and thus made up)

1/9/2025, 5:12:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mondo Mascots (@mondomascots.bsky.social) reposted

In Kochi City Station there’s a statue of Berobero No Kamisama, a nude, pink, spiral-eyed figure who is the local god for drunkards.

A nude pink character with spiral eyes balances a sake cup on each hand and a sake bottle on his head.
31/8/2025, 3:06:09 PM | 1697 410 | View on Bluesky | view

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I could make another list where all the four are Björk videos: Pagan Poetry, Army of Me, I Miss You, Triumph of a Heart, Bachlorette

31/8/2025, 6:11:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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True Faith, Thriller, Pagan Poetry, Coil’s version of Tainted Love

31/8/2025, 6:08:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All you need is one song

30/8/2025, 5:05:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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nothing statistically significant. other than betting on us presidental elections and tax privileged sports betting, there’s not enough money countering those for any meaningful purposes input.

30/8/2025, 4:14:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture It's The Weekend 😌 (@craigweekend.bsky.social) reposted

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

29/8/2025, 11:00:13 PM | 531 205 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture shay (@shayelk.in) reply parent

you do, but tons of customer support cases are people who don't. it's a quick way to cut on those.

29/8/2025, 7:46:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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offloading authentication without implementing a(n actually secure) authentication system that would be unfamiliar to most of their users.

29/8/2025, 7:44:50 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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הלוואי והיה לי מספיק פנאי להראות כמו אחד

29/8/2025, 7:41:29 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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אני מטייל עם הכלב בגבעות מעל ברקלי, כשאנחנו פוגשים רץ מדובלל, מזוקן, ומבולבל ששואל על הדרך לציקלוטרון רואד. אני: ״סליחה על הסטריאוטיפ, אבל אתה חוקר במכון למתמטיקה?״ הרץ המבולבל, שעכשיו הוא גם קצת נבוך: ״כן״

29/8/2025, 3:50:02 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When it does IP, it does IPv6 only, but all the data transfer is done in XML-encoded format. Gotta love standards.

29/8/2025, 5:16:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It does IP (ISO 15118-2), but just for the advanced features, if exists. To establish connection and turn on the power it uses pulse-wide modulation to signal capacity on both sides of the plug.

29/8/2025, 5:15:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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פפפ

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29/8/2025, 12:22:35 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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עדיף סמבטיון מהסטיקס. just saying.

28/8/2025, 9:16:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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יבין זה ספקטרום: זו בוודאות תהיה קריאה שונה (מצד שני, זה נכון לכל שני אנשים שקוראים את אותו הטקסט)

28/8/2025, 8:50:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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הדקדוק שונה. ויש כאלו שירחיקו ויגידו שעברית מודרנית היא שפה סלאבית, לא שמית

28/8/2025, 8:48:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ate there a couple weeks ago, i'm now certain their won-ton soup is the best dish on the menu.

28/8/2025, 8:45:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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American-Chinese cuisine deserves just as much place as the other eight. Just as you can’t expect a Hunan kitchen to make as good salted duck

27/8/2025, 11:52:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I suspect some doctors would consider all their patients at risk for some reason or another, and sign off for anyone who asks, and some won't. Not the system we want, but the system we deserve etc etc

27/8/2025, 8:32:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Like I’m angry that we need the list, but I guess I’ve done the corporate bs long enough that I can go “oh well. no other way to get things done around here”

27/8/2025, 7:35:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I suspect you can go for the “disability” rubric. I’m not too angry about this list tbh, because I think anyone can get in with a bit of creativity and will.

27/8/2025, 7:33:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel like a bad person laughing at that.

27/8/2025, 2:24:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not everyone. The people who seem to want to ignore reality are mostly in some specific cohorts.

27/8/2025, 2:40:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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גאומטריה: בכביש עם דרופ של 73 מ״מ וקראנק 172.5, הפדל בערך 105 מ״מ מהכביש בהרים 29״ עם דרופ של 35 מ״מ וקראנק 175, הפדל בערך 140 מ״מ מהכביש. זה לא מספיק כדי לעמוד עם כל הרגל על רצפה לעומת קצות האצבעות.

25/8/2025, 10:53:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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אתה חושב אולי על דרופ, אבל ההבדל לא כזה משמעותי: כדי להפחית משמעותית את המרחק בקו ישר של האוכף מהרצפה צריכים להקטין מאוד את זווית האוכף (65 מעלות ופחות) כדי לדחוף אותו אחורה. אבל אם צינור האוכף ב-65 מעלות מאבדים המון מכוח השריר, אז לא עושים את זה.

25/8/2025, 8:30:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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כמעט תמיד: עם כף רגל קצרה, אתה יושב יותר קדימה ולהפך. נקודת הייחוס של הבהונות לפדל קבועה.

25/8/2025, 8:21:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*כמעט*. הברך לא צריכה להיות נעולה, וכף הרגל צריכה להיות טיפה בזווית (קל יותר כשהנעל קשורה לפדל) כדי לנצל את הטיביה

25/8/2025, 8:17:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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רק אם אתה או האופניים מאוד לא סטנדרטיים

25/8/2025, 8:10:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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או ליתר דיוק, השרירים

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25/8/2025, 8:03:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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כן. כשהפדל בנקודה הכי נמוכה, הברך צריכה להיות כמעט ישרה, אבל לא נעולה. המטרה היא לנצל את כל הטווח של השריר.

25/8/2025, 8:01:26 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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25/8/2025, 7:11:36 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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האחיין שלי סיפר לחבר על הביקור אצלנו בקליפורניה: ״הדוד שלי משוגע, הוא חושב שכל הבית שייך לכלב, ושהם דיירים שלו״

25/8/2025, 6:52:11 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Other hikers passing by often laugh at him for napping in the middle of the trail

25/8/2025, 3:04:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kuro, a big black dog, sleeping in the middle of a trail.
25/8/2025, 2:25:28 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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אבל הם לא צמחו מחוץ לערוגה

24/8/2025, 9:17:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Karpf (@davekarpf.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

If your posting does much better on X than it does here, then I can understand the pragmatic decision to stay. But (a) that says something profoundly unsettling about your posting, and (b) don’t kid yourself about what the site has become.

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Profile picture June Martin (@theworldsgreatestwriter.com) reposted

When I am governor of California, one of the most honored positions in our culture will be the guards around the well in which the evil Gavin Newsom has been sealed away for 1000 years

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חתול מצמיד
23/8/2025, 5:53:23 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This campaign just keeps setting the bar impossibly high

23/8/2025, 4:00:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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אין פה תאוריית קשר. רק good old fashioned אאוגניקה.

23/8/2025, 3:25:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If only they could afford an editor

23/8/2025, 3:56:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've made the mistake of looking at the orange website™️, only to find they are, again, discussing encrypting emails

22/8/2025, 7:53:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sprained ankle. Not the first time (they’re paying for their love of crocs)

21/8/2025, 10:37:31 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’d like to believe the first nurse was just not paying attention, but based on the second nurse’s behavior, I’m not so sure. Especially as that second nurse later told us her son is trans (she was wondering about the kid’s name)

21/8/2025, 10:20:49 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At the urgent care, a nurse kept misgendering the kid. I escalated from a gentle “ahem, they” to “can you note in the chart they use they/them pronouns?” Another nurse overheard, said to the first one she’ll replace her, and reminded every tech that checked the kid to use the right pronouns.

21/8/2025, 10:20:49 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fun fact: there’s a single Oracle cluster (with one hot backup) holding all the stated department’s records about US visas, of all kinds: immigration, work, education and tourism. It went down once for a week, during which no US visas could be produced or renewed worldwide.

21/8/2025, 10:14:04 PM | 32 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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They want to get home early but are afraid to say so, and that’s their way to get the organizers to kick them out.

21/8/2025, 10:09:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lines was later rewritten in Iron Ruby, thus rechristened “FeLines” (which made us all add as many images of cats to it as we could)

21/8/2025, 4:19:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ll never get tired of sharing this story

21/8/2025, 4:18:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Some people are living their best lives.

21/8/2025, 4:16:57 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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21/8/2025, 2:22:03 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ‘fogus (@fogus.me) reposted

Emblogginated "The long season of langdev" --> blog.fogus.me/langdev/long...

19/8/2025, 8:29:34 PM | 14 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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They’re already trying to do it in the face of much less immigration.

21/8/2025, 1:09:43 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Saying the quiet part loud: even if each country had its own ideals, the EC, EU and Schengen all don’t have an equal allocation of power, so Italy (or Greece, or …) need to adhere to policies enacted by those that has more power allocated to them.

21/8/2025, 12:46:15 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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And because you need this is a sticker

A cleaned up version of the og drawing. Black and white line wry of a whale in space, with a ship’s wheel in the background, and the text “the sea hates a coward”
20/8/2025, 11:46:12 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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And because you need this is a sticker

A cleaned up version of the og drawing. Black and white line wry of a whale in space, with a ship’s wheel in the background, and the text “the sea hates a coward”
20/8/2025, 11:46:12 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do I know someone at @pulumi.com? (I used to, but I don't think that is still true)

20/8/2025, 9:41:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My theory is that when colonialism went out of fashion, Europe closed it borders, imagined their ex-colonized no longer exist. US, on the other hand, had it colonies at home, couldn't pretend. Hence US racism is more visible. Half full glass: recognizing a problem is mandatory step to solution.

20/8/2025, 9:26:37 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Timothy (@herooftim.bsky.social) reposted

Europeans are mantis shrimp racists

20/8/2025, 8:50:35 PM | 70 16 | View on Bluesky | view

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לא יודע אם כבר התחילו, אבל זה חלק מהשינוי ל-assigned sitting.

20/8/2025, 8:30:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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זה החלק הפחות מעצבן, מה שיותר חבל זה שהם הקפיצו מחירים והיום הם עולים כמו אקונומי מלא (לא בייסיק) בכל חברה סדירה אחרת.

20/8/2025, 8:24:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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when life gives you Lemons

a control panel for an amp. it has two knobs, labeled
20/8/2025, 7:04:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nothing here came as a surprise to me, but having it all in a single doc is useful.

20/8/2025, 6:46:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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also a fitting logo for k8s sre

20/8/2025, 6:38:50 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I know that everything is legal in NJ, but

20/8/2025, 4:22:19 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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can't think of a more fitting task for an llm then

19/8/2025, 10:47:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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it can write programs though, and excel is at the top of every widely use programming environments. idk how good the implementation is, but the idea of having ai help write excel ̶p̶r̶o̶g̶r̶a̶m̶s̶ formulas seems useful to me.

19/8/2025, 9:35:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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OH: Some people went to business school. I just watched every episode of "Yes prime minister".

19/8/2025, 5:37:53 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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אותו סיפור כמו shedate (לזילאניילז: זה היה אתר הכרויות לסבי שנוהל על ידי גברים)

19/8/2025, 2:48:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture shay (@shayelk.in) reply parent

In other words, this is cutting health access to less privileged people, exactly in line with RFK’s eugenist ideology.

19/8/2025, 2:39:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Though if they keep the list current risk factors, it looks like many would find themselves covered under that list. Kinda like medical marijuana I guess.

19/8/2025, 1:57:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Walgreens also blocked booking new appointments.

19/8/2025, 1:53:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture blueskyjism (@hoovybaby.bsky.social) reposted

truly god’s own special idiot

Nate Silver: Academic journals might be a lost cause but they'd probably be better if you had some non-academic practitioners serving as reviewers. Journalists have their problems too but they have much better bullshit detectors, for instance.
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Profile picture Japanese American National Museum (@jamuseum.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

The parallels are stark: entire communities were forcibly removed from the West Coast in 1942 and today our immigrant brothers and sisters face the terror of ICE and CBP raids across the country. It was a miscarriage of justice then, and it is a miscarriage of justice now.

Black and white photograph showing an Aerial perspective of crowd boarding buses in front of Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, Los Angeles, California, 1942.
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Profile picture Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm (@wolvendamien.bsky.social) reposted

In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.

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Profile picture shay (@shayelk.in)

I use a browser extension that shows some random art on the new tab page. Often it's just a few splashes of color to what would've been a boring white page, except that I now got hit in the stomach with Gonzalez-Torres's Perfect Lovers.

18/8/2025, 8:03:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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that explains some @rikergoogling.bsky.social

18/8/2025, 6:51:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s more complex: modern artists needn’t manufacture the work themselves. Just like a film director doesn’t operate the camera or writes the script.

18/8/2025, 1:59:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just like (some) real sw engs!

18/8/2025, 1:43:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’d rather if great support engs would work with me, but oxide has some folks I really appreciate on staff.

17/8/2025, 11:02:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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some measure themselves not by how they do, but how many are ranked below them. comp is a very visible rank, so they get infuriated when their idea of self worth breaks.

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i also used to be (more) like that, and it took me a lot to learn how not to. it is still an effort sometimes, but i consider it where i grew most in my career. a lot of my other eng achivements are downstream from that.

17/8/2025, 6:37:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ℳatt (@matttomic.bsky.social) reposted

This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen

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Profile picture JohnXuandou (@johnxuandou.bsky.social) reposted

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

13/8/2025, 6:06:20 AM | 18851 7336 | View on Bluesky | view

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יש גם צ׳ילי בלי בשר. יש מאות גרסאות לצ׳ילי, וכל אחד נשבע בזו שלו שהיא היחידה המקורית האורגינל

13/8/2025, 5:20:43 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture shay (@shayelk.in) reply parent

The military is just another big corp, ran by clueless MBAs.

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Profile picture shay (@shayelk.in)

panem et circenses, except tariffs, so no panem

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it's a downward slope, but at least we get to enjoy some views on the way down

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Profile picture shay (@shayelk.in) reply parent

the ones that break things are not too often the ones to glue them back together again. and the rewards for either are, at best, lagging.

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Profile picture shay (@shayelk.in) reply parent

להבהיר: אאמץ את השם לא את הילדה

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