Lewis Walsh
@lewiswalsh.bsky.social
Dusty machines and space-age dreams. Software engineer and computing teacher in adult education.
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Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity
Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.
It aids fascism.
Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity
Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.
It aids fascism.
October 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity
Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.
It aids fascism.
Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity
Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.
It aids fascism.
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I started using a Linux-based OS in 1996. I've installed Slackware from floppies. I was VP of my LUG in college. I compiled my own kernel for years. I've run Linux on Sparc, x86, amd64, PowerPC, and multiple flavors of ARM.
Telling me to "Run Linux" solves zero of my computing problems. Thanks.
Telling me to "Run Linux" solves zero of my computing problems. Thanks.
October 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I started using a Linux-based OS in 1996. I've installed Slackware from floppies. I was VP of my LUG in college. I compiled my own kernel for years. I've run Linux on Sparc, x86, amd64, PowerPC, and multiple flavors of ARM.
Telling me to "Run Linux" solves zero of my computing problems. Thanks.
Telling me to "Run Linux" solves zero of my computing problems. Thanks.
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This is Dumbo, Mela, Peaches, and Chiquis. They are a championship napping team. Their built-in sleep masks give them that competitive edge. 13/10 for all (TT: brokeboilopez)
October 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This is Dumbo, Mela, Peaches, and Chiquis. They are a championship napping team. Their built-in sleep masks give them that competitive edge. 13/10 for all (TT: brokeboilopez)
I'm not convinced 18 year-olds are old enough to vote, let alone anyone younger. But then, I'm not convinced democracy works...
July 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I'm not convinced 18 year-olds are old enough to vote, let alone anyone younger. But then, I'm not convinced democracy works...
BBC: We now go live to kneecap at Glastonbury.
June 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
BBC: We now go live to kneecap at Glastonbury.
I'm not ADHD, but I do this. However, I do sort and process them a few times a year.
June 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I'm not ADHD, but I do this. However, I do sort and process them a few times a year.
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Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
June 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
Paul Dano as Bond.
James Cameron directing.
Four Tet to do the theme.
James Cameron directing.
Four Tet to do the theme.
Grace Jones as the next Bond.
John Waters directing.
Portishead do the theme.
Would see. What’s yours?
John Waters directing.
Portishead do the theme.
Would see. What’s yours?
June 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Paul Dano as Bond.
James Cameron directing.
Four Tet to do the theme.
James Cameron directing.
Four Tet to do the theme.
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I wish people would stop describing things that are indisputably provable as a matter of fact as "controversial." People not liking a fact doesn't mean the fact is controversial. Reality is not malleable around our beliefs and it shouldn't be. We need to stop acting like it is.
June 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I wish people would stop describing things that are indisputably provable as a matter of fact as "controversial." People not liking a fact doesn't mean the fact is controversial. Reality is not malleable around our beliefs and it shouldn't be. We need to stop acting like it is.
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This nostalgia is particularly misplaced. People remember hundreds of workers on lines operating everything from spot welders to sewing machines from fifty years ago.
THAT NO LONGER HAPPENS.
Manufacturing has completely changed, and is now almost all automatic.
THAT NO LONGER HAPPENS.
Manufacturing has completely changed, and is now almost all automatic.
If the UK political battle is over who can bring back the factories then you might as well vote for anyone because it isn't going to happen.
Might equally well debate who's going to generate more fairies. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Might equally well debate who's going to generate more fairies. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘They feel betrayed’: how Reform UK is targeting votes in Britain’s manufacturing heartlands
In the first in a series, the Guardian maps out the rise in support for Farage and how parties are targeting the UK’s deindustrialised areas
www.theguardian.com
June 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This nostalgia is particularly misplaced. People remember hundreds of workers on lines operating everything from spot welders to sewing machines from fifty years ago.
THAT NO LONGER HAPPENS.
Manufacturing has completely changed, and is now almost all automatic.
THAT NO LONGER HAPPENS.
Manufacturing has completely changed, and is now almost all automatic.
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Mentally, I'm here.
June 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Mentally, I'm here.
Why isn't Allah or Yahweh helping out in the Middle East?
June 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Why isn't Allah or Yahweh helping out in the Middle East?
Every time I hear the Spice Girls on the radio I'm reminded of just how awful their music and lyrics were. Truly a lowering of the bar.
June 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Every time I hear the Spice Girls on the radio I'm reminded of just how awful their music and lyrics were. Truly a lowering of the bar.
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Timeline cleaner
June 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Timeline cleaner
22! Though if I could've ticked some of these more than once it would've been much higher.
I got 26 😭 www.nicchan.me/blog/youre-n...
June 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
22! Though if I could've ticked some of these more than once it would've been much higher.
Seriously considering abandoning all social media and only posting on Tumblr.
June 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Seriously considering abandoning all social media and only posting on Tumblr.
Never thought I'd hear A Guy Called Gerald and 808 State on University Challenge!
March 31, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Never thought I'd hear A Guy Called Gerald and 808 State on University Challenge!
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Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog
March 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog
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Hi,
I’ve been a software developer for 30 years, including in very large IT projects.
Everything about “DOGE” and a bunch of Hitlerjugend walking into a data center and optimizing a code base and data grown over 70 years in a few days is complete bullshit on its nose.
Sincerely,
Thomas
I’ve been a software developer for 30 years, including in very large IT projects.
Everything about “DOGE” and a bunch of Hitlerjugend walking into a data center and optimizing a code base and data grown over 70 years in a few days is complete bullshit on its nose.
Sincerely,
Thomas
February 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Hi,
I’ve been a software developer for 30 years, including in very large IT projects.
Everything about “DOGE” and a bunch of Hitlerjugend walking into a data center and optimizing a code base and data grown over 70 years in a few days is complete bullshit on its nose.
Sincerely,
Thomas
I’ve been a software developer for 30 years, including in very large IT projects.
Everything about “DOGE” and a bunch of Hitlerjugend walking into a data center and optimizing a code base and data grown over 70 years in a few days is complete bullshit on its nose.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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the banning of tiktok is another painful reminder to buy physical copies of your media. i have dozens of dvds of an ai voice reading reddit comments over unrelated minecraft footage.
January 19, 2025 at 4:20 AM
the banning of tiktok is another painful reminder to buy physical copies of your media. i have dozens of dvds of an ai voice reading reddit comments over unrelated minecraft footage.
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God! He could write.
(Better than Hemingway IMO.)
(Better than Hemingway IMO.)
Here’s the prescient Raymond Chandler on the winds that are driving LA’s fires:
(Joan Didion made fantastic use of this quote in one of her early essays.)
(Joan Didion made fantastic use of this quote in one of her early essays.)
January 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
God! He could write.
(Better than Hemingway IMO.)
(Better than Hemingway IMO.)
Yes! Yes I have.
January 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Yes! Yes I have.