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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 7d

Using a domain (or other tool) for your username should be considered standard for any serious user or anyone representing any entity. The fact that this represents a few percent of users shouldn’t really matter. A fire extinguisher is never used 99.999% yet it’s useful it’s always there.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 10d

Taylor didn’t discover a hack to avoid social media. We all used to have hobbies and then Zuck & Co figured how to have us give all that up on them and replace with dumbscrolling.

Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · 22d

Because the UK started this whole Autism and vaccines thing, so it’s your mess to clean too

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Sep 15

Found some comics I drew in 2021, during lockdown. Always liked the text but didn't like how the art came out. They were satirical jokes on tropes from fantasy, sci-fi and super hero movies.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Sep 15

Funny how that illustration is pretty much the opposite of how you described how a city on mars would work on the book

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Sep 11

I'm surprised Polymarket doesn't present these different markets in a single unified and custom made interface. Maps showing expectations for the wars, a single bar chart with market expectations about the FED or Bitcoin, etc

A series of Polymarket markets about russia capturing cities

A series of Polymarket markets about Fed decisions

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Sep 8

Although I think they could've explored more in deeply the outcomes (the fork is mentioned in a credit title card, and Laura's effort to unmask toby hoenisch is not even mentioned – in understand they didn't want to make the movie only about the DAO and wanted to cover more ground.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Sep 8

I was lucky to see an advance screening of Code is Law, featuring interviews with Griff, Christoph, Fabien and others. It's a really good snapshot of The DAO hack, the Indexed Finance and Kyberswap.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhYy...

Code Is Law (2025) - Trailer - Feature Length Documentary

YouTube video by Au Fait Films

www.youtube.com

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Sep 8

Hi Reuben. Can I ask you what is this for? I can look for it but I'm pretty sure it was based on a java app you might still find online, which then allows you to make your own map

Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Aug 3

So you’re saying we should make the Big Mac index as official currency

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Aug 3

So you’re saying we should make the Big Mac index as official currency

Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Jul 31

Of the 10 years Ulisses spent coming home from the Odissey, only 2 were in actual tribulations. The other 8 years were spent having sex with an Enchantress and then a Nymph.

A prisoner, he claimed. Yeah sure dude, we believe you.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Jul 31

In Maus, Vladek the main protagonist was constantly exchanging jewels, trinkets, rings and other small treasures for food or favors. It’s not clear how he was able to smuggle these even in the camps.

Of course, in these camps, the guards were one arms length away and had food to give.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Jul 30

Três a quatro quilos? Não sou um expert em biologia mas algo me diz que é mais pesado que isso 😉

Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Jul 28

Started reading a great book about Zeno’s paradox, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to finish it.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · Jul 26

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Jul 26

My kids discovered the perfect RPS 5-variant: it’s rock, papers, scissors, dinosaur and astronaut.

Dinosaur eats astronaut.
Astronaut lands on rock.
Rock killed the dinosaurs.
Astronaut uses scissors.
Scissors stabs dinosaur.
Dinosaur eats paper.
Astronaut program cancelled by paperwork.

Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Jul 25

It looks extremely disappointed at not being pollinated at the end of her night.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Jul 11

I wish more men understood that just like evolution tricked us in having sex by adding tons of sensory receptors in weird parts, so it has done with child-raising.

Seeing your offspring growing up healthy releases all sorts of life satisfaction chemicals in our brain.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Jul 11

This is what happens when engineers main worry is to not the product, but to make the boss happy.

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · Jul 10

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · Jul 10

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Jul 11

Yet another proof American companies don’t understand being multilingual is not about switching the one language, but speaking many languages at the same time in different contexts.

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Jul 1

I’ll talk to some people

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Jul 1

Well it’s not “an ens avatar” but rather it’s your avatar, which should be synced with ens. We should definitely sync Bluesky and ENS records whenever possible, both loading and writing back to it. Most user don’t even know how it works!

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Jul 1

I think this should merit some sort of grant on ENS side. Not sure what should be the milestones or format but it’s healthy for ENS DAO to support initiatives that embed it within more ecosystem, especially breaking the ethereum ecosystem bubble.

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