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Nathan Hruby
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Professional Overthinker, Noted Grump, nad Terrible Typist #motorcycles #leadership #devops #sre #quakes74
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richterscale.bsky.social
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
sardonicus.eu Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 19h
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
a shot of a god botherer in a car, next to him on the passenger seat is a skull in an ornate box
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
nathanhruby.bsky.social
Again I say: GO DAWGS!
taniel.bsky.social Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d
This Georgia flip is in a district that the GOP drew to drown Democratic voters in Athens into a neighboring red county, Oconee.

But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
December 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
nathanhruby.bsky.social
Go dawgs! 🐶 👊
taniel.bsky.social Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d
Don't look now, but based on early returns Democrats have a shot at flipping a legislative seat in Georgia tonight... The results from Athens are gigantic for their candidate. More momentarily.
December 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
nathanhruby.bsky.social
Damn I need to move to France
brilliantmaps.bsky.social Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 2d
Nobody Lives Here: Parts of France Where Nobody Lives Within 1km

brilliantmaps.com/personne-...
December 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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brilliantmaps.bsky.social
What Do The Symbols On Weather Maps Mean?

Full list: brilliantmaps.com/weather-m...
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
Word processors used to be an appliance. (Source.)
A magazine ad showing the Hyper7. It's a dedicated word processor all-in-one, with a PS/2 keyboard, a monochrome backlit LCD monitor device left, twin vertically mounted 3.5" floppies device right, and a thermal printer device rear. The screen on the device shows a multi-application operating system, including word processor, spreadsheet, rolodex, drawing program, graphing program, disk utility, telecommunications terminal, and tutorial. The only thing it's lacking is a way to program on the thing.
December 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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elucidating.extradimensional.space
What Cat's describing here is very real, and anyone who runs a software org feels it. We're beholden to velocity metrics almost exclusively, but software orgs that run flat out will ALWAYS lose velocity over time, because software is multi-disciplinary and you need to ingest new information & skills
grimalkina.bsky.social Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 4d
Learning culture moderates how software organizations adopt tools and the implicit rules we're giving developers want what they can do, experiment with, push back on, and share.

And software has spent years dismissing it in favor of sloppy ad hoc velocity benchmarks
December 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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nasboat.org
you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
bubs, i’ve only got two, maybe three Motown puns left in me. Four tops.
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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jesslynnrose.bsky.social
This seems really specific, but if you're:

✅ A security engineer
✅ UK based
✅ Looking for work
✅ Someone who loves cats

There's a remote role open now at Cats Protection that you might want to check out:
IT Security Engineer at Cats Protection
Apply now for IT Security Engineer, Remote at Cats Protection
careers.cats.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
I hope Santa brings me a Miwaukee Stan Perpler!
a.i. image of an inexplicable hand tool that looks vaguely like a cross between a cordless drill and an old home movie camera, with ad copy that appears to be for some entirely different product. close up of the device's logo that seems to read Miwaukee Stan Perpler
December 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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bjst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I still have a Rockbox-shaped hole in my heart. We improved mp3 players massively, and had a blast doing it.
I wonder what would be a similar thing today: A common device with frustratingly poor software that could benefit from some open source love.
Any suggestions?
December 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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aynrandy.boontavista.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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jamiemccarthy.bsky.social
The “journalist” who first spread that misquote was Declan McCullagh, an obscure libertarian who, thanks to that one small act of perfidy, bears some responsibility for the world we now inhabit
thehyyyype.bsky.social the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 11d
Remember in 2000 when Al Gore was repeatedly misquoted as having said he invented the internet and that was seen the eyes of many as disqualifying him from office? Simpler times. Today, Trump makes up lies equivalent to "I invented the internet" 30 times a week and no one bats an eye. Good job media
November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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foxes.hourly.media
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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maryharris.bsky.social
Shout out to everyone getting the rolling chair at dinner tonight you’re the real ones
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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viktorwinetrout.bsky.social
He is risen
The Pillsbury Dough Boy float at the Macy's Parade
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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threadotweets.bsky.social
lauren @NotABigJerk For everyone visiting their parents this week: LG tvs call it TrueMotion Roku/TCL calls it Action Smoothing Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus Sony calls it MotionFlow Panasonic calls it Intelligent Frame Creation Amazon Fire TVs call it Motion Processing 12/25/22
March 1, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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miamidsa.org
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
nathanhruby.bsky.social
Me where there’s treats
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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breeminneapolis.bsky.social
PEARL JAMBONI
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
nathanhruby.bsky.social
I’m waiting
danhon.com Dan Hon @danhon.com · 15d
malicious denial of service attack on an adhd person by scheduling something to happen at some point in the afternoon
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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danhon.com
malicious denial of service attack on an adhd person by scheduling something to happen at some point in the afternoon
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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mlsscores.bsky.social
Fulltime:
SanDiego 1
Minnesota 0
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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ruthmalan.bsky.social
The next #PapersInSystems discussion is Monday Dec 1, 1-2pm Eastern, Josh Reynolds will lead, and the paper is "The Architecture of Complexity" by Herbert Simon.

More info/sign up (free of course): ti.to/bredemeyer/a...
Some quotes to tease the appetite for reading this 1962 paper: "Metaphor and analogy can be helpful, or they can be misleading. All depends on whether the similarities the metaphor captures are significant or superficial." "In such systems, the whole is more than the sum of the parts, not in an ultimate, metaphysical sense, but in the important pragmatic sense that, given the properties of the parts and the laws of their interaction, it is not a trivial matter to infer the properties of the whole. In the face of complexity, an in-principle reductionist may be at the same time a pragmatic holist." "Most physical and biological hierarchies are described in spatial terms. We detect the organelles in a cell in the way we detect the raisins in a cake — they are “visibly” differentiated substructures localized spatially in the larger structure. On the other hand, we propose to identify social hierarchies not by observing who lives close to whom but by observing who interacts with whom. These two points of view can be reconciled by defining hierarchy in terms of intensity of interaction, but observing that in most biological and physical systems relatively intense interaction implies relative spatial propinquity.”
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM