Tom
@tombomb.bsky.social
Husband, dad, aging hipster. I sell software and play a mean guitar.
📍Maine, USA
📍Maine, USA
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I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
NYC, Mumbai, Buenos Aires, Montreal, LA
If you could get a crib in any five cities (five cribs) of your choice in the world, which would you choose?
Me: NYC, London, Florence, Hong Kong, Auckland
Me: NYC, London, Florence, Hong Kong, Auckland
If you could get a crib in any five cities (five cribs) of your choice in the world, which would you choose?
Me: Philly, NYC, LA, Chicago, Atlanta
Me: Philly, NYC, LA, Chicago, Atlanta
August 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
NYC, Mumbai, Buenos Aires, Montreal, LA
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Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵
August 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵
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The US economic model it's offering to the world is fartcoin, sports betting, and natural oils, the Chinese economic model is high speed rail and solar panels. Americans have rejected Geist and their country won't survive it
BREAKING: China has officially banned cryptocurrency trading, mining, and related services
August 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The US economic model it's offering to the world is fartcoin, sports betting, and natural oils, the Chinese economic model is high speed rail and solar panels. Americans have rejected Geist and their country won't survive it
Project 2025 is a jumble of policies, too, but the right has a trifecta and the policies are mostly destructive rather than constructive, so they are easier to implement.
August 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Project 2025 is a jumble of policies, too, but the right has a trifecta and the policies are mostly destructive rather than constructive, so they are easier to implement.
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Better late than never. -- In honor of this, which is genuinely wonderful news if it holds, a story.
Once upon a time, there was a boy who was born in a tiny village in eastern Turkey. I have been to this village. To get there from the nearest town, you catch a minibus going somewhere else ...
Once upon a time, there was a boy who was born in a tiny village in eastern Turkey. I have been to this village. To get there from the nearest town, you catch a minibus going somewhere else ...
Several days after the PKK's arms burning ceremony, Ozge Genc has probably written the most comprehensive article on the subject. No question left unasked, I highly recommend it.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...
Analysis: PKK recalibrates from armed struggle to politics in Turkiye
Support from the PKK and Turkiye’s politicians signals a change after decades of conflict, but pitfalls remain.
www.aljazeera.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Better late than never. -- In honor of this, which is genuinely wonderful news if it holds, a story.
Once upon a time, there was a boy who was born in a tiny village in eastern Turkey. I have been to this village. To get there from the nearest town, you catch a minibus going somewhere else ...
Once upon a time, there was a boy who was born in a tiny village in eastern Turkey. I have been to this village. To get there from the nearest town, you catch a minibus going somewhere else ...
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they're calling it the greatest thread of all time
"chief people officer"
you mean HR?
you down to the Coldplay concert with HR?
you mean HR?
you down to the Coldplay concert with HR?
a software ceo got caught in 4k on the jumbotron with the company’s chief people officer at a coldplay concert
July 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
they're calling it the greatest thread of all time
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ICE is going to end up being basically a Civilian Conservation Corps-style makework program for downwardly mobile young men, but instead of making nice parks and stuff, it will make human misery.
July 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
ICE is going to end up being basically a Civilian Conservation Corps-style makework program for downwardly mobile young men, but instead of making nice parks and stuff, it will make human misery.
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you have been visited by "Le Boulanger Quebecois"
repost to receive his blessing
repost to receive his blessing
July 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
you have been visited by "Le Boulanger Quebecois"
repost to receive his blessing
repost to receive his blessing
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The Court had no problem with nationwide injunctions from District judges when, say, the Biden administration used its explicit statutory authority to "waive or modify" student loan payments, but when Trump wants to nullify the explicit text of the Fourteenth Amendment the practice must end
there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.
June 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The Court had no problem with nationwide injunctions from District judges when, say, the Biden administration used its explicit statutory authority to "waive or modify" student loan payments, but when Trump wants to nullify the explicit text of the Fourteenth Amendment the practice must end
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holy shit
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
holy shit
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The most grotesque image imaginable is the President flying around on a gilded plane while his Republican allies take away our families Medicare.
May 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The most grotesque image imaginable is the President flying around on a gilded plane while his Republican allies take away our families Medicare.
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NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]
Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]
Notice of Changes
Notices of changes are formal public announcements of planned services changes to applications and other products.
www.nesdis.noaa.gov
April 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]
Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]
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The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.
www.ft.com/content/8459...
www.ft.com/content/8459...
April 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.
www.ft.com/content/8459...
www.ft.com/content/8459...
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If an administration can get away with falsifying social security records to target individuals, then there is no bottom. There's also no such thing as a "citizen" because that can be changed with a couple button presses too. Mark your SSN and passport as dead then ship you to El Salvador.
what must be understood is that once *some* people can be declared legally dead because they are undocumented, *any* people can be declared legally dead because … well for anything
Exclusive: Two days after the Social Security Administration purposely and falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, Maryland, headquarters.
April 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
If an administration can get away with falsifying social security records to target individuals, then there is no bottom. There's also no such thing as a "citizen" because that can be changed with a couple button presses too. Mark your SSN and passport as dead then ship you to El Salvador.
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These are the worst pigs in the universe torturing all children in a not very wealthy state because the chief pig feels personally slighted, and also is demanding other children be tortured and humiliated as he demands. Of course we can't frame it this way in polite discourse for some reason.
Trump admin announces they will terminate all "federal K-12 education funding, including formula and discretionary grants" for Maine's department of education because the state refuses to discriminate against transgender people.
U.S. Department of Education Announces Consequences for Maine’s Title IX Noncompliance
A press release was just issued Friday, April 11, 2025, at 3:15 p.m., from the U.S.
yourdailydispatch.substack.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
These are the worst pigs in the universe torturing all children in a not very wealthy state because the chief pig feels personally slighted, and also is demanding other children be tortured and humiliated as he demands. Of course we can't frame it this way in polite discourse for some reason.
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All I’m saying is that President Harris wouldn’t have us looking at the futures market on a Sunday night.
April 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
All I’m saying is that President Harris wouldn’t have us looking at the futures market on a Sunday night.
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They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
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There’s a lot of great stuff coming out about “abundance” and meanwhile the titans of the tech industry have embraced bizarro world degrowtherism, blocking housing in their backyards, destroying basic science research, and fearmongering about vaccines. Sad!
March 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
There’s a lot of great stuff coming out about “abundance” and meanwhile the titans of the tech industry have embraced bizarro world degrowtherism, blocking housing in their backyards, destroying basic science research, and fearmongering about vaccines. Sad!
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Oh man, the economy is where I keep all my stuff
March 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Oh man, the economy is where I keep all my stuff
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It should be obvious, but let's be clear: if a new president can arbitrarily nullify existing federal contracts, they aren't real "contracts" at all and they aren't worth the paper they're printed on. 🧵
January 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It should be obvious, but let's be clear: if a new president can arbitrarily nullify existing federal contracts, they aren't real "contracts" at all and they aren't worth the paper they're printed on. 🧵
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The White House ordering DOJ to drop pending prosecutions is a breach of the department’s traditional independence that would be an earthshaking scandal under ordinary circumstances.
To clarify this, Trump commuted the sentences of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers convicted in seditious conspiracy cases. He has pardoned everyone else who was convicted, including those who assaulted the police. And he has ordered DOJ to drop any pending cases.
January 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The White House ordering DOJ to drop pending prosecutions is a breach of the department’s traditional independence that would be an earthshaking scandal under ordinary circumstances.