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Brian Fitzpatrick

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Chasing Wonder, Engineer, Author, ORD Camp Instigator, Feminist. Previously: Founder & CTO of Tock, Xoogler, Ex-Apple. He/Him.

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This is *so* dark.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden's avatar Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.bsky.social
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“Fascism sucks up power left unattended” deserves to be carved over the entrances to grand public buildings

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🎶 Strawberry Felines Forever🎶

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Omg

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FWIW last year I bought 4 Aranets for an event and they differed in a range of up to 60ppm before I calibrated them all... Then they were generally 15ppm or less apart.

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I am currently recharging, please leave a message after the bone.

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Hello this is dog.

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Hang on a second there bud -- remember the prime directive: if it asks for help you can't kill it.

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i cosign every word of this, as a person whose entire home is centered around everything on this list 😅

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Part of a good thread that illustrates why I don’t hang out on Twitter/X anymore

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Many years ago my therapist asked me "do you want to define yourself by what you ARE or by what you AREN'T?" I think about that a lot when I see people giving so much attention/anger/hatred to things that a) they are not and b) didn't affect them in any way.

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That license plate aged well.

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spittake.gif

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Error page o' the day QUACKQUACK

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Precisely. Assuming, of course, that that strategy was "what can we do to hand the web over to Facebook so they can lock it up". Aaaaand now I'm going to go for a nice long walk

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Ha! I was also sad because they didn't notify me they were shutting down AND their blog post linked to a FULL Google Takeout which resulted in us completely running out of quota on EVERY product instead of JUST Reader. Oh wait I wasn't sad about that, I was PISSED about that.

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Let us all take a moment today to remember that 11 years ago Google Reader was unceremoniously shut down. I still miss it. Here's a photo of me from that day.

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Doh!

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Led Zeppoli

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I like how it really accents the lines in the piece.

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!!!!! That looks amazing!!!! What's the glaze?

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DO WANT

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Make bad art. Make art. Make.

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I grew up in New Orleans and when I moved to Chicago someone pointed out the Chicago River to me and I was like "oh haha right no seriously where's the REAL river?"

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Holy shit.

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So much this. So much.

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*makes Negroni* *Raises glass* Cheers!!!

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Tim Carvell's avatar Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social
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2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!"

2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons."

latenighter.com/news/paramou...

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Punch the monkey and WIN FREE IPOD!

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I *smoked* in a transatlantic flight!

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I loved HotBot

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I loved Lynx and thought Mosaic was for noobs :)

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My friend @maryrobinette.bsky.social, who if you don't know is a Hugo, Nebula and Locus award-winning writer of some of the best science fiction of the last decade, has a new Kickstarter for a story collection set in her Lady Astronaut universe. Check it out!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

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Coach Finstock's avatar Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
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If you needed a handy infographic on just how much journalistic malpractice is going on at everyone's favorite publications

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I want to boop that snoot.

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This is SO FREAKING COOL

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What the HELL???

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This.

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How old are you? I'm so old that I remember when Google's ads had a purple background.

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Just @ me FFS. Oh, and watchmaking

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*screaming intensifies*

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Daaaaaamn

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Connecting Sonos components to a new network is like shaving with a cheese grater: slightly amusing but mostly painful.

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I also fucking LOVE assembling IKEA furniture: from the packing to the design to the instructions they are works of art

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You're very welcome! I'm so glad to know you.

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Happiest of birthdays to you! I'm celebrating by donating to TGIJP! (Also secretly sending much kindness your way too 😃)

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