Todd Johnson
@todd534.bsky.social
computers, numbers, mountains
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isaac chotiner came to my house and tricked me into admitting we weren’t out of ice cream in front of my five year old daughter
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
isaac chotiner came to my house and tricked me into admitting we weren’t out of ice cream in front of my five year old daughter
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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man, if there were more than one popular, charismatic democrat we'd be all set
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
man, if there were more than one popular, charismatic democrat we'd be all set
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Crisis (a Democrat is president): grocery prices rise 2% annually
Not a crisis (a Republican is president): the president ignores the Constitution to destroy half the federal government, deploys troops to US cities, surrenders Ukraine to Russia, and then calls for the mass execution of Democrats
Not a crisis (a Republican is president): the president ignores the Constitution to destroy half the federal government, deploys troops to US cities, surrenders Ukraine to Russia, and then calls for the mass execution of Democrats
The media is saving the "it's a crisis" takes for when a Dem president takes over and starts arresting the people responsible.
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Crisis (a Democrat is president): grocery prices rise 2% annually
Not a crisis (a Republican is president): the president ignores the Constitution to destroy half the federal government, deploys troops to US cities, surrenders Ukraine to Russia, and then calls for the mass execution of Democrats
Not a crisis (a Republican is president): the president ignores the Constitution to destroy half the federal government, deploys troops to US cities, surrenders Ukraine to Russia, and then calls for the mass execution of Democrats
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Would hate to have to work with Wa-Luigi Coates on a group project
Imagine looking around America in 2025 and thinking, "What we need less of is morality."
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Would hate to have to work with Wa-Luigi Coates on a group project
my phone once spent like ten minutes at the bottom of a three-inch-deep puddle (I dropped it while freaking out during a sudden downpour) and it didn't blink. never going back to a phone full of holes. (also they make a usb-c to aux adapter, you can get a pack of three for like $5.)
I know it's hardly the top priority, but could is there any way we could add "mandatory headphone jack on every smartphone" to the Woke 2 agenda?
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
my phone once spent like ten minutes at the bottom of a three-inch-deep puddle (I dropped it while freaking out during a sudden downpour) and it didn't blink. never going back to a phone full of holes. (also they make a usb-c to aux adapter, you can get a pack of three for like $5.)
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women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
This is, as everyone has said, Real Good. It is a smarter-reading version my position on every "male ___ crisis" story, which is: that's either a genderless social crisis or a skill issue. archive.is/202511101921...
archive.is
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This is, as everyone has said, Real Good. It is a smarter-reading version my position on every "male ___ crisis" story, which is: that's either a genderless social crisis or a skill issue. archive.is/202511101921...
throwaway paragraph from a knock off Mark Danielewski book ass book
The book ends with a poem called "The Ruin", about a ruin, but the poem itself is ruined, full of holes, followed by about 30 pages of riddles that are increasingly impossible to solve because more and more words are missing. I don't know why I'm telling you this except it's one of my favorite facts
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
throwaway paragraph from a knock off Mark Danielewski book ass book
not me tho. whether or not i have read a book is between me and Dua Lipa.
I, too, would like people to know I have read a book
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
not me tho. whether or not i have read a book is between me and Dua Lipa.
we were going to go, but i burned the eggplant for the baba ganoush and we couldn't show up without a vegan, gluten-free option for the potluck
who up burning they american eagle jeans at socially distanced bonfires
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
we were going to go, but i burned the eggplant for the baba ganoush and we couldn't show up without a vegan, gluten-free option for the potluck
a minority position I hold, as a cyclist, is that I love every weird doodad -- ebikes, but also scooters, this weird lil guy, you name it -- that replaces a car on the road, even if it does so by moving into the bike lane.
DoorDash Plans to Send Autonomous Robots into Bike Lanes.
momentummag.com/doordash-pla...
momentummag.com/doordash-pla...
DoorDash Plans to Send Autonomous Robots into Bike Lanes | Momentum Mag | Momentum Mag
DoorDash has begun rolling out Dot, its new autonomous delivery robot — a sleek, all-electric bot that can hit speeds of up to 20mph.
momentummag.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
a minority position I hold, as a cyclist, is that I love every weird doodad -- ebikes, but also scooters, this weird lil guy, you name it -- that replaces a car on the road, even if it does so by moving into the bike lane.
Chuck Schumer hates winning.
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Chuck Schumer hates winning.
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oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
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ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
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We must end the godforsaken failed experiment in animal self-governance known as "Indiana"
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
We must end the godforsaken failed experiment in animal self-governance known as "Indiana"
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Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice
July 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice
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Amazing. The man isn't even mayor yet but he's already solving our trash problems.
now that's what I call a Mamdani endorsement. Don't threaten New Yorkers with a good time, Dave. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Dave Portnoy Threatens To Move Barstool Sports Out of New York City If Zohran Mamdani Becomes Mayor: ‘I Hate This Guy So Much’
Portnoy, 48, admitted that he has already asked his "finance guy" to begin looking at potential office spaces outside of the city.
www.yahoo.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Amazing. The man isn't even mayor yet but he's already solving our trash problems.
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Notes on "Prothean AI"
aphyr.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
this is just way too many computers
"OpenAI has announced that it intends to build at least 30 gigawatts’ worth of data centers—more power than all of New England requires on even the hottest day—and CEO Sam Altman has said he’d eventually like to build a gigawatt of AI infrastructure every week."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
this is just way too many computers
What a gut punch this story is. I think the headline makes Kelekele sound a lot less sympathetic than the story, but it's a real object lesson in good intentions not being enough, and knowing when you will be out of your depth. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
A top Portland political aide took in a homeless woman. He abandoned her at a state park days later
"If I could do it over, I would do it differently.”
www.oregonlive.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
What a gut punch this story is. I think the headline makes Kelekele sound a lot less sympathetic than the story, but it's a real object lesson in good intentions not being enough, and knowing when you will be out of your depth. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
can't wait for dudes who simultaneously believe we haven't been to the moon yet, and that one million people will "live in space" in our lifetime
Moon landing denial feels roughly identical to the antivaxxers in the early 2000s and I’d bet good money it’ll be part of the GOP platform within ten years
I couldn't leave this one alone. Like it seems silly and harmless, but this is such a slippery slope in to damaging conspiracy theories like anti-vax and climate change denial, so I'm going to keep explaining it in the hopes people start actually thinking about things.
October 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
can't wait for dudes who simultaneously believe we haven't been to the moon yet, and that one million people will "live in space" in our lifetime
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How this has always worked:
Boss: you should exclude non white people from your unions
Union: ok. Now can we get better pay and benefits?
Boss: no i’m gonna hire the workers you excluded for have the price while you starve lol
Boss: you should exclude non white people from your unions
Union: ok. Now can we get better pay and benefits?
Boss: no i’m gonna hire the workers you excluded for have the price while you starve lol
October 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
How this has always worked:
Boss: you should exclude non white people from your unions
Union: ok. Now can we get better pay and benefits?
Boss: no i’m gonna hire the workers you excluded for have the price while you starve lol
Boss: you should exclude non white people from your unions
Union: ok. Now can we get better pay and benefits?
Boss: no i’m gonna hire the workers you excluded for have the price while you starve lol
be the Jerry, no you want to see in the world
this is your sign to hit "Reply" after writing the absolute dumbest, involuntary groan inducing reply possible. don't discard that draft. let it fly
October 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
be the Jerry, no you want to see in the world
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AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.
October 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.