Dominik Picheta
@dom96.picheta.me
Software Engineer at Cloudflare
Building projects off and on ATProto, including @scrapboard.org 🆕, @onlyhumanhub.com and @listifications.app
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Building projects off and on ATProto, including @scrapboard.org 🆕, @onlyhumanhub.com and @listifications.app
👱♂️ Verified human: https://onlyhumanhub.com/profile/dom96.picheta.me
🔗 https://picheta.me
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tornyol.com — finally, something actually cool out of YC
Tornyol Systems - No More Mosquitoes
Autonomous drone protection for your home. Silent, safe, chemical-free.
tornyol.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
tornyol.com — finally, something actually cool out of YC
Who decided that The Grinch is the theme for this year’s Christmas?
November 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Who decided that The Grinch is the theme for this year’s Christmas?
Can confirm. It's a great watch.
Pluribus review – the audacity of the Breaking Bad creator’s new TV show is incredible
Pluribus review – the audacity of the Breaking Bad creator’s new TV show is incredible
It takes some chutzpah to make television like this. Better Call Saul star Rhea Seehorn is the only US citizen immune from an alien virus that makes everyone in the world supremely happy – and it’s a bleak, blackly comic watch
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Can confirm. It's a great watch.
Honestly impressed that the Democrats haven’t backed down yet.
✈️❌ We’re now seeing the first batch of cancellations for tomorrow in the US related to the cuts mandated by the DOT. The initial cancellations are coming from Delta Air Lines and Delta’s regional carriers.
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Honestly impressed that the Democrats haven’t backed down yet.
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New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind archive.is / archive.today, which have been running anonymously for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind archive.is / archive.today, which have been running anonymously for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
Congrats to Mamdani on a wonderful campaign. Nice to finally see some hope in our politics!
November 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Congrats to Mamdani on a wonderful campaign. Nice to finally see some hope in our politics!
Just watched this documentary. Absolutely beautiful and harrowing.
It’s on Netflix. Watch it if you’re at all interested in politics or the environment.
It’s on Netflix. Watch it if you’re at all interested in politics or the environment.
‘How did we get here?’: documentary explores how Republicans changed course on the climate: In The White House Effect, now available on Netflix, archival footage is used to show how the US right moved from believing to disputing the climate crisis In 1988, the United States entered into i...
‘How did we get here?’: documentary explores how Republicans changed course on the climate
‘How did we get here?’: documentary explores how Republicans changed course on the climate: In The White House Effect, now available on Netflix, archival footage is used to show how the US right moved from believing to disputing the climate crisis In 1988, the United States entered into i...
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Just watched this documentary. Absolutely beautiful and harrowing.
It’s on Netflix. Watch it if you’re at all interested in politics or the environment.
It’s on Netflix. Watch it if you’re at all interested in politics or the environment.
Had a lot of fun building this small feature. Generating SVG is great for social images. Sadly they aren't directly supported so I needed to render them to PNG too, but thankfully there is a mature Rust library for that which supports WASM.
Psst... we've just implemented image previews for boards!
Share links to your favourite boards below 👇
Share links to your favourite boards below 👇
Art - Board by scrapboard.org - Scrapboard
scrapboard.org
November 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Had a lot of fun building this small feature. Generating SVG is great for social images. Sadly they aren't directly supported so I needed to render them to PNG too, but thankfully there is a mature Rust library for that which supports WASM.
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Psst... we've just implemented image previews for boards!
Share links to your favourite boards below 👇
Share links to your favourite boards below 👇
Art - Board by scrapboard.org - Scrapboard
scrapboard.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Psst... we've just implemented image previews for boards!
Share links to your favourite boards below 👇
Share links to your favourite boards below 👇
Testing some new meta tags...
Edwardian - Board by dom96.picheta.me - Scrapboard
scrapboard.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Testing some new meta tags...
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ICYMI: SNL mocked the Trump/Master Chief portrait this weekend. Microsoft is still silent on the administration using its IP to spread racist propaganda.
November 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
ICYMI: SNL mocked the Trump/Master Chief portrait this weekend. Microsoft is still silent on the administration using its IP to spread racist propaganda.
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Sir John Curtice - Indepedent pollster - confirms what we all already know.
The Labour Government need to stop doing everything Farage wants them to do.
The much bigger challenge to Keir Starmer is the Green Party.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
The Labour Government need to stop doing everything Farage wants them to do.
The much bigger challenge to Keir Starmer is the Green Party.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Charismatic leader emerges on the left to roil Britain’s political scene
Zack Polanski of the Greens has drawn comparisons to New York’s Zohran Mamdani as he connects with younger voters on social media over the political issues of the day.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Sir John Curtice - Indepedent pollster - confirms what we all already know.
The Labour Government need to stop doing everything Farage wants them to do.
The much bigger challenge to Keir Starmer is the Green Party.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
The Labour Government need to stop doing everything Farage wants them to do.
The much bigger challenge to Keir Starmer is the Green Party.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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The next time someone tells you AI has resulted in massive job losses, share this article with them.
"If the question is whether we are seeing widespread AI-driven displacement of roles across a range of sectors and countries, then the answer is no."
"If the question is whether we are seeing widespread AI-driven displacement of roles across a range of sectors and countries, then the answer is no."
The AI Shift: where are all the job losses?
A macroeconomic change isn’t clear yet but payroll data shows some types of work are already being displaced
www.ft.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The next time someone tells you AI has resulted in massive job losses, share this article with them.
"If the question is whether we are seeing widespread AI-driven displacement of roles across a range of sectors and countries, then the answer is no."
"If the question is whether we are seeing widespread AI-driven displacement of roles across a range of sectors and countries, then the answer is no."
Is there some trick to getting the Spotify desktop app to reset its caches so that it doesn't show stale playlists? You'd think restarting it would help...
I feel like I run into this bug way too often.
I feel like I run into this bug way too often.
October 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Is there some trick to getting the Spotify desktop app to reset its caches so that it doesn't show stale playlists? You'd think restarting it would help...
I feel like I run into this bug way too often.
I feel like I run into this bug way too often.
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NEW from me:
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
NEW from me:
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
Genuinely feeling like all I need anymore is Apple TV. I don’t know how they do it, but they are creating so many amazing shows.
If you like Slow Horses then do check out Down Cemetery Road
If you like Slow Horses then do check out Down Cemetery Road
October 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Genuinely feeling like all I need anymore is Apple TV. I don’t know how they do it, but they are creating so many amazing shows.
If you like Slow Horses then do check out Down Cemetery Road
If you like Slow Horses then do check out Down Cemetery Road
Oooh. These are great.
check out @stechlab-labels.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Oooh. These are great.
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So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform....
Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.
It's time for Proportional Representation.
www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.
It's time for Proportional Representation.
www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
'Just getting started': Zack Polanski reacts as Greens SECOND in new poll
ZACK Polanski has welcomed a new poll putting his party in second place at Westminster.
www.thenational.scot
October 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform....
Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.
It's time for Proportional Representation.
www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.
It's time for Proportional Representation.
www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
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this, btw, is the actual reason I have listifications on. I don't care about the block notices. It does give me some warning for an impending discord bridgade b/c these list adds are a key tell.
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
this, btw, is the actual reason I have listifications on. I don't care about the block notices. It does give me some warning for an impending discord bridgade b/c these list adds are a key tell.
I know nothing about Dutch politics, but this logo progression for D66 is pretty funny
October 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I know nothing about Dutch politics, but this logo progression for D66 is pretty funny
After watching the latest Slow Horses season I disagree with The Guardian giving it such a bad review vehemently
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Slow Horses season five review – not even Gary Oldman can salvage this TV mess
It’s the worst outing yet for the Slough House gang, with main characters having unnerving personality transplants and ‘action’ sequences taking place in penguin enclosures. Yikes!
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
After watching the latest Slow Horses season I disagree with The Guardian giving it such a bad review vehemently
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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This appropriation of gaming imagery and culture to push authoritarianism is, as @alyssamerc.bsky.social points out here, the natural extension of what Gamergate began
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
Why Trump’s White House is using video game memes to recruit for ICE
A recent spate of posts has garnered attention, but Trump and his allies have long been using gaming imagery to mobilise a toxic subculture of ‘rootless white males’
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
This appropriation of gaming imagery and culture to push authoritarianism is, as @alyssamerc.bsky.social points out here, the natural extension of what Gamergate began
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
Genuinely having this experience at least once a week at this point.
a man in a suit talking on a cell phone with the words yep there 's a bubble below him
Alt: a man in a suit talking on a cell phone with the words yep there 's a bubble below him
media.tenor.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Genuinely having this experience at least once a week at this point.
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I reached out to The White House and asked about its use of AI-generated Halo imagery. White House Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai just responded to me, and it's insane.
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[Exclusive] The White House Responds To Its Use of Halo Imagery: 'Yet Another War Ended Under President Trump's Watch' | Alyssa Mercante - Video Games, Internet Culture & More
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October 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I reached out to The White House and asked about its use of AI-generated Halo imagery. White House Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai just responded to me, and it's insane.
I've removed the paywall. Please share and subscribe if you can.
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I've removed the paywall. Please share and subscribe if you can.
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Eight years after the right coined "alternative facts," Elon Musk has given them an alternative encyclopedia, one that claims to purge bias while doing the opposite on topics like "climate change."
Oh, and it's straight-up copying more vanilla Wikipedia entries.
www.theverge.com/news/807686/...
Oh, and it's straight-up copying more vanilla Wikipedia entries.
www.theverge.com/news/807686/...
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages
Ironic.
www.theverge.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Eight years after the right coined "alternative facts," Elon Musk has given them an alternative encyclopedia, one that claims to purge bias while doing the opposite on topics like "climate change."
Oh, and it's straight-up copying more vanilla Wikipedia entries.
www.theverge.com/news/807686/...
Oh, and it's straight-up copying more vanilla Wikipedia entries.
www.theverge.com/news/807686/...