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Mark Schmidt @markschmidt.io · Sep 15

Following up on this now that iOS 26 is out -- BetterBlue is out on TestFlight! Apple won't let me release on the App Store because they claim it uses Hyundai's IP, even though it's a public API.

testflight.apple.com/join/n7NRXTWb

Join the BetterBlue beta

Available on iOS

testflight.apple.com

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Supergiant Games @supergiantgames.bsky.social · Sep 12

HADES II v1.0 is coming September 25!🌒

Battle beyond the Underworld in our launch trailer.🏔️

Play in blazing-fast 120fps in TV Mode on Nintendo Switch 2, or 60fps on Nintendo Switch (w/ free upgrade to Switch 2). Transfer PC progress from Steam/Epic w/ Cross Saves.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8lJ...

Hades II – v1.0 Launch Trailer (Coming Sep. 25!)

YouTube video by Supergiant Games

www.youtube.com

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haelian "the hades guy" @haelian1.bsky.social · Sep 12

IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING! During the Nintendo Direct today, we got the Hades 2 release date and a BEAUTIFUL new trailer!!!

September 25th. Death to Chronos.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8lJ...

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Mark Schmidt @markschmidt.io · Sep 12

Sounds like they need the leading hyperscale database solution!

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Mark Schmidt @markschmidt.io · Sep 4

Will do!

Mark Schmidt @markschmidt.io · Sep 4

The Hyundai/Kia apps are terrible. I'm working on a free and open source replacement app that I'm hoping to launch alongside iOS 26!

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Mark Schmidt @markschmidt.io · Jun 25

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social Listening to the In Covid’s wake episode, I’m still mad that Google/Apple built privacy first Covid contact tracing into every smartphone, but no states put any effort into getting people to use it.

There’s a (cringy) webcomic explaining it: ncase.me/contact-trac...

Protecting Lives & Liberty: How Contact Tracing Can Foil COVID-19 & Big Brother

ncase.me

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Mark Schmidt @markschmidt.io · Apr 7

He should come to Quincy, too! Mary Miller won't hold a town hall because she's too busy whining about trans people on Twitter

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Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · Mar 24

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mark Schmidt @markschmidt.io · Mar 18

Switching to using Strength instead of Death Defiances makes a huge difference on the surface. It means you essentially have twice as much health, healing is twice as effective, and you deal more damage.

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Mark Schmidt @markschmidt.io · Feb 25

Michael Lewis isn’t the best author (see him getting suckered by SBF in Going Infinite) but I thought The Fifth Risk was really great at exposing the complexity, fragility, and importance of government systems that we all depend on.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · Feb 18

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Feb 18

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · Feb 17

Sacrificing a horse in front of UIUC's Department of Women and Gender studies in an effort to get wokeness to return to the land

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Mark Schmidt @markschmidt.io · Feb 13

Big congrats to Measles and Brain Worms, I know you guys have been waiting a long time for today

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Mark Schmidt @markschmidt.io · Jan 21

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Richard @rgw3d.com · Jan 13

It works! Here it is up against the Transit app (which hits the same API)

There is a little wonkyness around the Streetcar depot, but I can probably fix that

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Mark Schmidt @markschmidt.io · Jan 6

‼️‼️ CALLING ALL 🇺🇸PATRIOT 🇺🇸 SLUTS 💃‼️‼️ It’s Ins-ERECTION 🍆💦 day so get your ASS 🍑to the capitol 🏛️ ‼️ 4️⃣ years ago on this “Day of ❤️ Love 😘” 3️⃣ Capitol Police 👮🚔 officers were 💀murdered ☠️by 🤮Trump🤢 supporters as they 🥵penetrated🥴 the 🫦Rotund-ussy😫 and interrupted🤨 the certification of votes 🗳️ from the 😜e-LICK-toral 👅college 🧑‍🏫 . The failure 😰 of media 📺📰 and law enforcement ⚖️🧑‍⚖️👮 to hold the instigators🧡🕴️ a-CUNT-able 🥵😫 in any meaningful way will be remembered as one of the most shameful acts of 😏cowar-DICKs 🍆💦 in modern history📜. Send this to 6️⃣ proud boys and girls or you’ll be hung😩 on the Capitol 🏛️ Lawn next to 🤢Mike Pe-NIS🍆🤮

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · Jan 2

Some thoughts on Justice Roberts' year end report. It is - par for the course for him - totally tone deaf. But we are all, to varying degrees complicit in spreading the fiction that the judicial branch isn't just as political as any other part of government. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...

Chief Justice Roberts Condemns Threats to Supreme Court and Judiciary

In his year-end report on the federal judiciary, the chief justice decried violence, intimidation and disinformation and warned against defiance of court rulings.

www.nytimes.com

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Richard @rgw3d.com · Jan 1

Got my wife the ember mug for Christmas and she loves it! But of course they had to go and use some bullshit barrel plug. You're telling me you couldn't make use of a common 20V USBC PD voltage, and instead need 19V ??

The EU was right.

The ember mug charging puck with barrel plug connected.

The AC adapter + barrel plug for the ember mug. Outputs 19V @ 2.1A, a power level and voltage that USBC can easily deliver.

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Mark Schmidt @markschmidt.io · Dec 31

They don’t know my tummy hurts but I’m being so brave about it

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · Dec 29

every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says “im gonna fuck a hamburger”

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Mark Schmidt @markschmidt.io · Dec 30

It is my burden and my curse

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Mark Schmidt @markschmidt.io · Dec 30

put your 🇺🇸FLAG🇺🇸 at ½HALF MAST⛵️ because 🕴️Presi-DICK🍆 Jimmy Cunt-er😏 just p-ASS-ed🍑💀 away at 💯 years old 🪦😢😢! This lowly 🥜pea-NUT💦🥵 farmer 🧑‍🌾from 🍑Ge-ORGY-ia🍑 ascended to the 🌿HIGHest🌿 office in 🇺🇸America! He put his whole 🥴🫦POTUSSY😜👅 into his presidency, but only got 4️⃣ years before 🤬Republi-CUNTS 🤬urged 🇮🇷Iran🇮🇷 to extend 😩 the 🤐🔫hostage crisis😫 in order to hurt 🤕 his 🗳️reelection🗳️ campaign🏛️ and elect 🤮Ronald Reagan🤢. I’m so 🙏🙏thankful 🙏🙏that today’s 🐘Republicans🐘 would never 😈conspire😈 with a 🌍foreign power🌏 in pursuit of 👴🏻political gains👴🏻. That ⬅️would be soooo messed up⬆️ ‼️ Anyways, 🪦 RIP 💀 to a 💯legend💯, send this to 3️⃣9️⃣ guinea worm 🪱 girlies 💃or you’ll be forced to put your 🥜 peanut 🥜 farm in a trust to avoid 😤conflicts😤 of interest!

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Mark Schmidt @markschmidt.io · Dec 29

oh my god he is popping off

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