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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 22h

Police uncovered evidence of a massacre that will go down as one of the most gruesome in human history.

Police Break Up Lego Theft Ring, Recovering Hundreds of Beheaded Figurines

www.nytimes.com

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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 1d

2️⃣ "Today’s real chain: React → Electron → Chromium → Docker → Kubernetes → VM → managed DB → API gateways.

Each layer adds 'only 20–30%.' Compound a handful and you’re at 2–6× overhead for the same behavior.

That's how a Calculator ends up leaking 32GB."

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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 1d

1️⃣ I've worked in the world of software development for 30 years now and THIS line resonated with me:

"Modern software is built on towers of abstractions, each one making development 'easier' while adding overhead:"

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

techtrenches.substack.com

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💙🇺🇦 @kaysid.bsky.social · 2d

TIME TO RELEASE THE

TRUMP CHILD RAPE FILES!

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 2d

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 2d

Life can be rough.

Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 3d

If I had to do it all over again, I probably would've studied to be a "brain fart scientist".

A Brain Fart Scientist Explains Why NFL Players Drop the Ball at the Goal Line

A silly blunder has occurred two weeks in a row. Experts weigh in on multitasking deficits, bottom-up actions and why this keeps happening.

www.si.com

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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 3d

This is ridiculous! #bookbans

Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 3d

Just a few years ago, opportunities were bountiful. Workers were swinging from job to job and employers had to compete aggressively to retain them.

Now? We're all holding on to our existing jobs for dear life. For you middle-aged folks around my age - do you feel the same?

#Jobs #Economy

Job hugging: the growing trend of clinging to your job

People are staying in their jobs longer than ever

theweek.com

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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 7d

Came across this poem I wrote my sophomore year of high school (1986-7?).

It's not bad, but it feels derivative. Did I plagiarize this from somewhere?

#Poem #Poetry #plagiarism

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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 7d

All of this 100% completely preventable.

#SouthCarolina #Vaccines #Measles

150 Spartanburg County students quarantined as measles continues to spread in SC • SC Daily Gazette

The state has reported 11 cases of measles, all in people who are unvaccinated and had no prior immunity, according to the health department

scdailygazette.com

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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 7d

“By stabilizing alpha-synuclein in its healthy form, this could open the door to a new class of treatments that could slow progression in diseases like Parkinson’s and dementia with Lewy bodies. We look forward to seeing this research taken to the next stage..."

#Parkinsons #dementia #science

Scientists Halt Toxic Brain Protein Behind Parkinson’s in Landmark Study

Researchers have designed a peptide that stabilizes a key brain protein linked to Parkinson’s. Scientists from the University of Bath, working with colleagues at the Universities of Oxford and Bristol...

scitechdaily.com

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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 7d

This will be me.

#Afterlife #internetarguments

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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 7d

Passed out drunk and it's not even 9 am. I'm disgusted.

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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 10d

I can almost sympathize with Donald Trump who was just as deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize as I was of the Physics Prize. We were robbed.

Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 10d

Once again, I was denied a Nobel Prize for MY work in quantum physics in 1995. I published a paper titled, "Macro-deformed coherent states and the q-analogue quantized field" yet these bozos below won for their rather trivial work.

Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics

Trio led experiments that paved the way for the next generation of quantum technologies

www.theguardian.com

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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 10d

BIG NEWS! I've decided to leave my career in technology and start up a tree & limb removal business. My partners & I are good for only one tree a year and I try real hard not to remove my own limbs.

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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 14d

What Heather said is 100% true. This isn't a political issue. It's a moral one.

www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 15d

"Three 'professional efficiency drivers,' Sam Clarke, Kevin Booker, and Richard Parker, drove 581.3 miles (935.4 km), taking 22 hours and 57 minutes to complete the task."

We're getting there!

Polestar sets production car record for longest drive on a single charge

581 miles on a single charge is impressive, but haven’t other drives gone farther?

arstechnica.com

Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 16d

2️⃣ "that is politically and ideologically motivated opposition to any science that threatens powerful special interests and their political agendas. Unless we find a way to overcome antiscience, humankind will face its gravest threat yet—the collapse of civilization as we know it."

Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 16d

1️⃣ "It is currently impossible for global leaders to take the urgent actions necessary to respond to the climate crisis and pandemic threats because they are thwarted by a common enemy—antiscience—"

#Science #Antiscience

The current war on science, and who’s behind it

A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar write a book.

arstechnica.com

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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 16d

It was only a matter of time...

New Public Toilets Make You Watch Ads to Get Toilet Paper

Social media video shows a toilet in China demanding a user watch an ad in order to receive a handful of bathroom tissue.

futurism.com

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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 19d

This is NOT the type of thing I want to read about as the CDC has been gutted by the Trump administration and nutjob RFK Jr is in charge of the nation's healthcare research.

‘Nightmare bacteria’ found in SC as it spreads across US, CDC says. What to know

The risk of getting the infection is low in the general public and more common in healthcare facilities.

www.thestate.com

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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 19d

"...Brazilian imports face 50% tariffs, among the highest that the US levies on any country’s goods, because of Trump’s anger over the trial and recent conviction of former President Jair Bolsonaro, a Trump ally."

#Tariffs #Coffee

Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 19d

There is no anger like a "I need my coffee!" anger. They've done gone pissed off the wrong group of people.

"One of the most heavily-tariffed countries is Brazil, which is the United States’ top source for coffee, according to US Department of Agriculture data..."

edition.cnn.com/2025/09/12/f...

Coffee prices haven’t surged this much in decades | CNN Business

Coffee drinkers are in for a jolt long before their first sip.

edition.cnn.com

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