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Gavin Barron

Gavin Barron

@gavinb.net

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Geek, Skier, Dad, Software Developer. Opinions are my own.

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Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 13d

a little girl is hugging a blue monster from monsters inc

Alt: a little girl is hugging a blue monster from monsters inc

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Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 13d

Mx 11: Dad, the QQ there means quick question.

Me: Do not cite the deep magic to me child, I was there when it was written.

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 13d

Congrats 🎉🎉

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 14d

Yikes!

404 Media @404media.co · 14d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 14d

Yeah, my wife and I met as a consequence of spending time on a hyper specific phpBB site well before FB was a thing.

Plus, a great many friends from Twitter, before the enshitification.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 15d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 16d

Bahahaha! This is hilarious and shameful that someone would pass off unvetted workslop to a government in this way. I wish I was more surprised, but sadly it's expected.

www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 16d

That's rad.
I was fortunate enough to be living in Christchurch in the late 90s and aughts so got to see them a lot. And Shapeshifter, plus we just had an amazing musical scene across all dance genress

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 16d

I remember seeing them at orientation in my first year at uni and thinking, wow, these guys have such an awesome sound.

Their evolution over the years was impressive, Inside the dubplates was such a leap in sound, production and style.

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 16d

As a kiwi I got frustrated with that trash house outfit called "The Shapeshifters" for being too close to Shapeshifter, the amazing DnB live act from Aotearoa, but hey, different niche, other side of the world.

But this is just wow.

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 16d

Apparently, they are "The Groove Armada Band".

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 16d

There's a special "Treehouse of Horrors" section in the Halloween category on Disney+.

Time to start miseducating my kids I guess.

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 21d

I mean mechanically that's a red card, no doubt, but flavor wise it's weird to not have it be blue. There is a decent case for UR with the artifact aspect to it.

Cool card, weird flavor, kinda chewy.

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 21d

New TypeScript typings for Microsoft Graph published (finally)

www.npmjs.com/package/@mic...
www.npmjs.com/package/@mic...

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Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 23d

LMAO, why would you think that firearms are an appropriate gift for a foreign government official?

www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/w...

FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws | CNN

On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Z...

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 26d

I'm so grateful for the sponsorship I've received for my Base to Space run up the Space Needle. You have pushed me well over my initial goal, let's see if we can push it over the 1K mark for Fred Hutch Cancer Center, because fuck cancer.

runsignup.com/gavinbarron

A long haired bearded man in glasses smiles while wearing a black T-shirt with the text "F*CK CANCER"

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 28d

I'm participating in Base To Space, a fundraiser for Fred Hutch Cancer Center. On Sunday I'll be running up the 832 stairs of the Space Needle, and would love it if you could sponsor me.

runsignup.com/gavinbarron

Gavin Barron - Base 2 Space

Cancer is a disease that has touched us all. I'm participating to help raise money for the Fred Hutch Cancer Center in their continued and dedicated research in this field. Please donate today to ...

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · Sep 17

the Colorado school shooter from the same day that Charlie Kirk was killed posted himself holding his gun on Twitter / X where he followed multiple far right accounts

weird how you wouldn't call on Elon Musk too to testify at an online radicalization hearing

Rep. James Comer
@RepJamesComer
X.com
BREAKING
I'm calling on the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch,
& Reddit to testify at an Oversight Committee
hearing on October 8.
The hearing will examine the radicalization of
online forum users, including instances of open
incitement to commit politically motivated acts.
10:50 AM • 9/17/25 • 301K Views

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · Sep 11

The Right has long ridiculed the supposed bleeding heart Liberals across the aisle, with many Conservative preachers going so far as to declare empathy a sin even as Jesus’ entire life overflowed with it.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-right-...

The Right Mocks Empathy, Until They Need It

Charlie Kirk’s murder was a brutal, reprehensible, vile act.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com

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threddy @threddy.org · Sep 9

return to office

[PANEL 1 - Threddy and Freddy chatting in a conference room]

Freddy: I'm requiring all employees to return to the office.

Threddy: Do you have space for everyone?

Freddy: No. But the data clearly shows that employees will be happier.

Threddy: Can we see the data?

Freddy: Also no.

Threddy: I feel really good about this.

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · Aug 20

"we rarely acknowledge the invisible labor of thinking, integrating, and recalibrating, because it doesn’t fit neatly into a status update."

Wow, that line resonated with me.

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · Aug 19

I’ve been a little quiet lately... on purpose. Here’s why the quiet season matters ashley.dev/posts/the-qu...

I didn’t mean for this to be a quiet season. It wasn’t planned, it wasn’t marked on my calendar, and it certainly wasn’t framed in my mind as a stretch of inten...

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · Aug 14

yikes!

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · Jul 29

Baked beans is great freedom food, nutritious, delicious, BBQ side.

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · Jul 25

I fucking adore it when a developer has fixed a bug. 😍

And left zero tests to validated it or ensure that someone else doesn't break it again in the future 🤬

Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · Jul 9

wow, just wow....

performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · Jul 8

xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:

Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself 'MechaHitler'

Elon Musk's Grok chatbot has unleashed a slew of antisemitic commentary and praised Hitler after apparent change allowed to be 'politically incorrect'

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Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · Jul 8

Hopefully it turns up soon, this was the first time the mailroom has delivered mine without it bouncing around for a few weeks.