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Scott
@swbrewer.bsky.social
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Fan of sci-fi, fantasy, hiking, DnD, board games, and good beer. Pretending to know things about data and marketing during the day.
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swbrewer.bsky.social
Nice night of beer and pizza, listened to Genesis Trespass and GOAT on vinyl, feeling more prog, searched out King Crimson to go with last of a Maplewood fest whiskey
November 23, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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spacep1ckle.bsky.social
@cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social

Juggling Tools lol
October 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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thenexusofprivacy.net
As a complement to Erin's post, I've been working on some threat modeling (including mitigations) for responding to this situation here in the ATmosphere as well as on fedi. This is at a very early stage ... feedback welcome!

thenexusofprivacy.leaflet.pub/3m3tn33jfyk2n
October 23, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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jayrosen.bsky.social
I listened to the whole exchange between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, and to the original "Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way" column, and among the takes this piece is the best I have read. Long-ish, so set aside a bit of time. (Disclosure: I have been on Ezra's show...)
kottke.org kottke.org @kottke.org · Sep 30
I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]
You don’t have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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macnult.com
bro you look like you drop common items
September 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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slothropsmap.bsky.social
Now this is Content
September 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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danabra.mov
i wrote about atproto and why it matters
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
overreacted.io
September 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
swbrewer.bsky.social
First big vacation in awhile, drunk in Edinburgh reflecting on life - I'm a digital wizard in a Teams tower #goals
September 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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dinosaurgerms.bsky.social
random thought ive had for weeks: a version of “Virtua Cop” where Buffalo Springfield gently warns you when bad guys appear
April 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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johnxuandou.bsky.social
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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gwyllm.bsky.social
Watch Out!
August 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
When I was a Boy Scout they used to tell us the number one thing was to leave the campsite better than it was when you found it. So that it looked like no one had ever even been there.
I had been being so good I had been being so good. Everyone talked about that. How good I had been being. They got me by the balls soon enough though. I got myself by my own balls. You can picture what I’m saying. Turns out my organs are bad. Liver being the headliner. Not working right anymore the guy said. In terms of functioning. Filtering out certain chemicals and toxins and the rest. Whatever else they told me it does. Put it down to all of that business with the whisky. My ex-doctor told me this was coming up the pipe sooner or later years ago. My ex-wife too. I told them both to kiss my ass. Not literally but in so many words you know? Wives and doctors know you better than you know yourself. Have certain data that you do not have access to. Can’t be bothered to read rather. I never really believed that later was an actual place I’d ever have to live in. Later was the goddamn moon. Something to contemplate in the dark and then avert your eyes. Frankly I had been counting on them having sorted this whole pickle out by the time it mattered for real people i.e. me. Then the thing with the scientific funding and the takeover of the universities. When I was a child I thought we were well on our way to flying cars someday so this was just another in a series of bad predictions on my part. Did George Jetson or any of those guys drink scotch now that I think of it? Maybe press a button and it comes out of a little chute on the wall. Some 116 robot bartender being a wiseass. I do not remember correctly. I know they had that one bar in Star Wars. I don’t remember so many things anymore. For already stated reasons. I don’t even remember why I needed poisoning this badly to begin with. I never wanted to die I promise you. I always wished to live an average life I just needed some other surrogate guy to do the bulk of it on my behalf. Then pass the baton of my soul back off to me when it was my turn to sprint the final lap. When I was a Boy Scout they used to tell us the …
August 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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sesmith.lol
This is a fascinating read on spider divination in Cameroon.
In Cameroon, truth-telling spiders untangle the future | Aeon Essays
Life is complicated. In Cameroon, initiated diviners read the messages of spiders to untangle possible futures
aeon.co
August 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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daisyhalberd.bsky.social
I made a new wallpaper for my phone.
@cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social
A realistic representation of Cow Tools from Far Side.
July 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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durtmchurtt.bsky.social
The person who invented the video game joystick has disappeared, they down right up and left.
July 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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brutumfulmen.bsky.social
I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣

Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡
A review for a Little Caesar’s somewhere by Kevin S: Stopped into this Little Caesars just trying to get a $6 pizza and ended up in a full on action movie. Just as I grabbed my order, this furious dude barges in yelling about how I cut him off in traffic earlier. Before I can even respond, he throws a punch but then out of nowhere the guy behind the counter jumps over it like he's been waiting for this moment his whole life and just beats the living hell out of the guy. The guy ran off and the cashier just dusted himself off. I said "are you ok man" and he looked me dead in the eye and said "B*tch, this is Little Caesars. We always hot and ready." Five stars. Will absolutely return.
July 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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jpbrammer.bsky.social
I wrote about Trump, Epstein, TV, and why this scandal feels different johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/may-the-be...
May the Beast You Rode in on Eat You Alive
On Trump, Epstein, and TV
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
July 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
swbrewer.bsky.social
@blockclubchi.bsky.social just read the gridlock story - maybe knowing it was coming, westbound Addison at Sacramento had a No Through Traffic sign across right side lane. Heard confused bus drivers yelling as they passed about it tho - prob good to give CTA a heads-up before dropping one!
July 16, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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prokopetz.bsky.social
Girls in your area

Girls in proximity to your location

Girls approaching your coordinates

Girls have breached the perimeter

Girls inside the containment zone, repeat, girls inside the
July 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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benjaminjriley.bsky.social
This is an incredible story.
July 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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anildash.com
Here's my talk about this at Harvard 13 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KKM...
Anil Dash on The Web We Lost
YouTube video by The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
www.youtube.com
July 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
a very happy july 4 from me and @lopatto.bsky.social 🇺🇸

www.theverge.com/policy/69730...
Some patriotic reflections on Independence Day
Look at me. I’m the originalist, now.
www.theverge.com
July 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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brainmage.bsky.social
- Doctor, doctor! I've forgotten the sound a cash register makes!

- I see. It's catching, I'm afraid
July 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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kwcollins.bsky.social
The same day the Hard Fork posts a very friendly interview with a former DOGE employee, @propublica.org actually investigates his specific work ... and finds that it was poorly done (none of which came up in the Hard Fork pod) www.propublica.org/article/insi...
Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health
Experts who reviewed the code for ProPublica found numerous and troubling flaws in the system, providing a disturbing glimpse into how the Trump administration is allowing artificial intelligence to g...
www.propublica.org
June 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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rachellense.bsky.social
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖
A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
June 14, 2024 at 2:19 AM