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@nickgimbal.com

Webdev and ex-architect trying to stay grounded. Amateur wood worker and furniture designer. Building buildplus.app

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Something clicked for me today: a bunch of right-wingers genuinely think it’s a violation of their free speech or some great injustice that people…don’t like them as a result of things they say and do.

25.01.2026 00:33 👍 922 🔁 114 💬 51 📌 9
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John Coltrane performs Naima 🎼

24.01.2026 21:53 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
An agent pointing a weapon to camera. A person is visible between his legs, face down on the ground, being handcuffed. The air is hazy and other agents are in tactical gear nearby. Photo by David Guttenfelder/The New York Times.

An agent pointing a weapon to camera. A person is visible between his legs, face down on the ground, being handcuffed. The air is hazy and other agents are in tactical gear nearby. Photo by David Guttenfelder/The New York Times.

Federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident on Saturday, the city’s police chief said. The shooting prompted clashes between law enforcement and protesters, as Minnesota officials renewed demands that the Trump administration end its immigration crackdown. trib.al/u8ESi4Q

24.01.2026 21:31 👍 544 🔁 194 💬 200 📌 58
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A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

23.01.2026 23:19 👍 26038 🔁 6659 💬 412 📌 427
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

23.01.2026 23:45 👍 10106 🔁 3966 💬 149 📌 251

Sure, model the roof as a floor 🙄 #revit

23.01.2026 15:17 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

A kind of survivorship bias >.<

23.01.2026 00:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Watch The Agency if you like spy stuff!

23.01.2026 00:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

22.01.2026 23:19 👍 14687 🔁 7005 💬 393 📌 530

Ding dong

20.01.2026 02:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

now with some stuff on it

17.01.2026 02:24 👍 122 🔁 9 💬 7 📌 0

I'm not sure about the timing of the zeitgeist, but Gaius Baltar is a PERFECT dupe for that man everyone used to call a genius, minus the appeal of any kind of course. Fraudulent from top to bottom and likely colluding with any number of terrible actors.

16.01.2026 02:13 👍 29 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Fucking love this project so much

13.01.2026 23:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hey for the record, “Trump is going to do whatever he wants and ignore congress anyway” is an argument against incrementalism, not for it.

Why are you scaling back the size of the ask in that scenario, other than to show off the pitiful limits of your own imagination

13.01.2026 22:57 👍 609 🔁 121 💬 3 📌 2

Pushing the structural engineer to a mental breakdown by referring to post-tensioning tendons as “tendies” and the grout as “sticky sauce.”

13.01.2026 20:46 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Great protest in Clayton, Missouri today

12.01.2026 01:53 👍 106 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0

I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.

11.01.2026 15:54 👍 8300 🔁 2654 💬 232 📌 63

@tinybase.bsky.social I’m looking at using TinyBase to add local caching and server persistence to an existing react-router SSR app. Airtable like interface for budgeting.

Do you have any tips before I dive in? My biggest question is whether Postgres persistence can work with my existing schema.

11.01.2026 15:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This story inappropriately implies Slotkin had this man murdered. Fake news / disinformation aka bullshit.

10.01.2026 02:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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28.12.2025 16:43 👍 58 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

🧵 Our mutual aid hub has been a HUGE draw for our immense volunteer base, many of whom have never wanted to be involved politics before now.

This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!

27.12.2025 01:31 👍 5215 🔁 757 💬 103 📌 87
Screenshot of tldraw with a sidebar that lists all the records in your PDS, with drag and drop onto the canvas. On the canvas is a component displaying my profile and one of my tangled strings regarding the seams.so shortcut.

Screenshot of tldraw with a sidebar that lists all the records in your PDS, with drag and drop onto the canvas. On the canvas is a component displaying my profile and one of my tangled strings regarding the seams.so shortcut.

Experimenting with canvas for displaying records, using @tldraw.com and @nekomimi.pet's atproto-ui

what do you think? Would you use this? Maybe for mood-boarding? Maybe a @kinopio.club-like, but AT proto native? Even just having tldraw -> save to PDS seems like, vaguely cool?

25.12.2025 22:45 👍 48 🔁 5 💬 6 📌 2
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Hey @hkylefoster.com do you do freelance? I really like your work and am looking for someone to help with UX / design. It's for buildplus.app

16.07.2025 20:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New hand-built ceramic negative-curvature surface

02.06.2025 16:04 👍 35 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

😭😭😭lol

27.05.2025 20:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ok never mind I reread the initial comment, and you’re right. I was being contrarian.

27.05.2025 20:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Maybe, but the initial remark put the problem in a partisan framing. I agree that the problem is mostly owned by the right but I don’t think anyone has the solution right now. I don’t think anyone will make progress on this issue by shaming.

27.05.2025 20:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I mean that’s fair, I just mean that the promotion of the self and self interest above all else isn’t only a problem on the right. I agree it’s a problem tho.

27.05.2025 20:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0