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Chris Gentle

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Chris Gentle. Relentlessly bad technical & political takes. Design, invention, development: health, security, enterprise, geospatial. Sydney Australia. Eora land. Fix your hearts or die. Old @crgentle: https://bsky.app/profile/oldtweets.xop.co

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Chris Gentle @xop.co · Sep 12

A plug for my @hourstats.bsky.social bot. Every 30 minutes it posts a graph of how Bluesky has been feeling this last week and shows a sample of five popular new posts that you can explore.

A screen capture of a typical @hourstats.bsky.social post with a top five posts in the last 30 minutes, and a reply with a graph showing bluesky's change in sentiment over the past week.

Chris Gentle @xop.co · 11h

Alita Alien Battle Angel

Chris Gentle @xop.co · 23h

Hey! I'm bruling here!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

JP Morgan Chase, the #1 global financier of fossil fuels between 2021 and 2024, has had to cancel its Sydney fun-run due to a heatwave

www.bankingonclimatechaos.org?bank=JPMorga...

a chart showing jp morgan chase top funding

a screenshot of the website with info showing number one financier of fossil fuels

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 2d

tosijs helps you build better apps faster in five ways (and counting)

loewald.com/blog/2025/10...

#javascript #css #frontend

inconsequence | The Owl has Landed

tosijs is a from-the-ground rebuild of b8rjs that matches its ambition but is written in Typescript, meets more rigorous engineering standards, and has a simpler and more powerful API. This summarize...

loewald.com

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 2d

🚩🚩🚩

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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 3d

Winslow updated the interiors, Truman repaired the floor, Kennedy added a desk, Carter added solar panels, Obama a rug and bee hives, Trump...

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 3d

WHAT THE FUCK

One side of the White House has just been ripped out

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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 4d

Lego MRI scanner set (donated to hospitals) a big help for kids who need scans:

"more than 1 million children globally have used the sets to help them prepare...96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children's anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation"

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment

Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.

www.cnbc.com

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Virgil Abt @abtnatural.bsky.social · 3d

(The date block includes a newly discovered number, "Two Hundred and Forty-fiftieth". Assuming that's equal to Two Hundred and Ninety, I guess Santos may have to wait forty years before the clemency is effective?)

Done at the City of Washington in the
District of Columbia this 17th day of
October in the year of our Lord Two
Thousand and Twenty-five and of the
Independence of the United States the
Two Hundred and Forty-fiftieth.

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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 3d

It's a necessary but unpleasant place to visit because of the people who want to live there.

Chris Gentle @xop.co · 4d

"underscores safety concerns that Gov. Gavin Newsom voiced before Saturday’s event at Camp Pendleton."

Incredible that according to the NYT today Newsom voiced concerns, whereas a day or two ago the NYT was saying Newsom "traded jabs" with the White House.

Chris Gentle @xop.co · 5d

You can't arrest me, I'm amerkin.

Chris Gentle @xop.co · 5d

We should encourage Trump to re-enact this live. I'm sure it's safe to put an untrained octogenarian who doesn't know how to wear a mask in a jet full of faeces with a gold crown loose in the cabin.