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woke oak
@oakley.bsky.social
21, she/her ⚧️, connecticutensian
writer @dailyknowledge.bsky.social
blog: https://oakley.leaflet.pub/
disc: oakley95

shining for the sake of shining
Pinned
happy anniversary to my music thread
thank you bluesky 🦋

youtu.be/TWyePx5bS3I
autistic girlies when you show them the CM7000-PAL DVR, a dish network DVR that replaced the satellite receiver with ATSC tuners to record over-the-air broadcasts and was released by Channel Master, a separate company that manufactures tv antennas
November 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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i feel like the key to making a decentralized video platform competitive with youtube lies in giving creators a choice in ad network
November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
will posts with their date set in the future even show up on the timeline or nah
November 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
is it just me or is literally every time starbucks hits the news because they're pissing off the union, it's like the only thing this company is capable of
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
girls im gonna make more waffles today
half-life 3 probably isn't today but damn could you imagine
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Emo nerd Skateboard epic fail
#emo #scene #art
November 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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sorgy guys cloudflare is down because i thought it was celery
🥦 🐇
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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The 1/2 last toast from the legend herself:

Valhalla really really reeked of beer, but Jennell seems happy

The other angels are tired of me saying “fight for the other users” while throwing my halo around

- Becky
lindken.com
lindken.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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The last toast by the legend herself:

I leave it up to you to go to lindken.com and look up Jennell Jacques, now look at her job description, goddess of technology… and fuck cancer, fuck it in the ass

- Becky
lindken.com
lindken.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements.
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman
I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer
www.gofundme.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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There is not a more wonderful phrase in the English language than "I love you"
November 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
shoutout to the android firefox update that installed itself last night, browser is actually well above tolerable to use now
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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It not only does not fucking work, it not only drives away and endangers marginalized people, it not only ensures the only participants on a site are the safest, most mainstream, least vulnerable voices, it not only completely destroys the use of the internet for resisting authoritarian governments,
November 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Anyway, that whole story (and the fact the surviving members of the inside-Russia resistance moved to Dreamwidth as soon as we started it) is why I've spent the last 18 years or so carefully selecting my international flights to make sure they don't go over Russian airspace.
November 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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The guy from the "Hit it, Joe!" photoplayer meme is starting his own nonprofit to preserve silent cinema technology:

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
This instrument from the early cinema is disappearing. But not on Joe's watch
Joe Rinaudo is doing everything to ensure his passion for photoplayers, the self-playing pianos that scored silent movies, outlives him even as interest in the instrument has waned for a long time, wi...
www.latimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
y'all ain't seen nothin yet
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
so this is the *end* end, right? this is 21st century fox shit. it's fucking over. rest in peace warner bros
Paramount, Netflix, and Comcast are putting in bids for Warner Bros. Discovery.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was, in the long run, a very bad idea with disastrous consequences.

www.wsj.com/business/med...
Exclusive | Paramount, Comcast, Netflix Prepare Bids for Warner as Deadline Approaches
Warner Bros. Discovery is holding an auction process in the hopes of having it completed by the end of the year.
www.wsj.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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oc
November 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
bluesky should bring back twitter's "We found this tweet to be in violation of our terms of service but believe it is within the public interest that it remain accessible" label they used on trump during his first term. no idea how successful it was but it'd be funny
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
if I ever make a findom alt who wants the link
November 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"Ice cream is fun but not useful" False. small pleasures making the pain of existence tolerable is a well documented phenomenon
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
if i had a nickel for every time an existing social app was recreated on an open protocol and somehow jack dorsey got all the credit for it
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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new robot girl
November 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM