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Software developer, woodworker, pedestrian & cyclist, former whitewater guide, urbanism activist. Blogger since 1998, software I've written has touched your life.

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Heeeeeeeeyyyy, guess who wants to regulate This Fucking Guy™️ into oblivion, maybe tell your friends in California’s 72nd district to get involved in my race

www.kluweoc.com

13.03.2026 02:46 👍 1063 🔁 278 💬 16 📌 2

- which is exactly why Santa Rosa has a full-time InResponse team staffed with mental health experts who are supposed to be dealing with people experiencing crisis, not some fucking beat cop.

He didn't need killing. He was my neighbor, and now he's shot.

13.03.2026 01:35 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Not even cross-eyed geese like looking at their bills.

13.03.2026 00:05 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Similar to my complaint about Keynote, why the fuck would Zoom think that when I share my second screen what I really want is for the main interface to fragment and move all my controls around?

12.03.2026 15:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And while I'm bitching about Keynote and Zoom, dear Google Drive, yes, I just uploaded this video and you have not yet built a degraded version to show people, but have you considered that I might want to share it?

Who the fuck designs this software?

12.03.2026 15:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait:

1. Build up speed
2. Hit Trampoline
3. Cool backflip
4. Nail the landing

The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.

A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait: 1. Build up speed 2. Hit Trampoline 3. Cool backflip 4. Nail the landing The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

12.03.2026 12:04 👍 7272 🔁 2046 💬 4 📌 145

There's two types of people on a group chat: Those who, when the request is to keep this group for event announcements only, shut the fuck up; and those who start new discussion threads talking about what they did or like.

12.03.2026 14:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, Keynote, the thing I want you to do in "Play" mode is *definitely* take over *both* screens and block me from alt-tab. There's no reason at all I'd want to access, say, other applications or notes on my laptop screen while playing the presentation on the projector.

Fuckers.

12.03.2026 14:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Everytime I see those billboards for fentanyl awareness, I think this. I suppose the theory is they'll scare kids off, but mostly they make it sound really cool.

12.03.2026 04:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seriously, come to this conference. It's awesome!

12.03.2026 04:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fishing With Flashing Lights: New Report Shows Pretextual Stops Still Racially Biased LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police can legally stop drivers for small violations and question them for unrelated crimes. Recent data shows Black and Latino drivers continue to be disproportionately a…

Now up on the Ten Four:

Recent data shows Black and Latino drivers continue to be disproportionately affected by the practice. Los Angeles City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson revealed that he had even missed a meeting that week because of it.

latenfour.com/2026/03/11/f...

11.03.2026 21:33 👍 22 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

Please be very loud right now directly in the government's ear

11.03.2026 16:30 👍 357 🔁 66 💬 2 📌 0
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OCC Releases Preliminary Findings from Its Review of Large Banks’ Debanking Activities The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released preliminary findings from its supervisory review of debanking activities at the nine largest national banks it supervises: JPMorgan C...

Before someone says this is probably geared towards religious businesses only, remember last year that the OCC named adult entertainment as one of the industries experiencing unfair debankment
www.occ.gov/news-issuanc...

11.03.2026 16:28 👍 828 🔁 424 💬 2 📌 7
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Federal Reserve Board - Proposal Details The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art)

Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money

www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

11.03.2026 16:23 👍 6189 🔁 6126 💬 121 📌 331

It shouldn't fall to trans people to explain to cis people why creating laws that effectively amount to "If you have or ever had a penis, you must behave this way; If you have, or ever had a vagina, you must behave this other way" is horrifically dangerous for everyone's rights.

11.03.2026 18:40 👍 2630 🔁 931 💬 14 📌 8

hello friends

have you considered coming to our conference? It'll be good I promise. pretix.northbaypython.org/nbpy/nbpy-20...

p.s. how do you make people pay attention on bsky? usually it's just enough to be mildly weird on mastodon but this place is just incomprehensible

11.03.2026 19:40 👍 1 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

they do say that brand social media profiles should have "a voice" but does mild alarm and disorientedness count as one of those?

who can say

11.03.2026 19:43 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This remake of The Cuckoo’s Egg kinda sucks.

11.03.2026 20:04 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Another way to make this point:

Every time an American decides to ride Amtrak instead of drive a car, the US transportation network gets a little safer.

NHTSA never says this, but they should.

11.03.2026 12:39 👍 153 🔁 32 💬 1 📌 4

Hit ⌘-space to bring up Spotlight, mistyped "squicktime", and... I'm not sure whether to be bummed or relieved that it gave me no results.

11.03.2026 20:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The death rate from using cocaine, the trafficking of which via boat will get you murdered by this administration, is likely far lower than the death rate from consuming raw milk,

11.03.2026 14:52 👍 173 🔁 29 💬 5 📌 3

Literal clown shoes.

11.03.2026 16:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In the 40s, doctors began performing lobotomies with off the shelf ice picks. But those would sometimes break off in the patient's head so the orbitoclast was developed, a surgical grade ice pick.

In the 2020s the oribitoclast has been replaced by a newer, more effective tool called generative AI.

10.03.2026 03:18 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

@annepmitchell.bsky.social please read this thread. An AI-reliant lawyer stupided himself all over the court

10.03.2026 22:58 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Steinway Model O Living Room Grand Piano must meet the following critical performance
requirements:
-New (not used or refurbished)
-Ebony (black) polish finish
-Not to exceed 6ft in length and 5ft in width
-Delivery to Quarter 7, Generals Row, Ft. Myer Virginia 22211
-Preparation of piano to include:
tuning, voicing, regulation, and set-up on site
-Adjustable Artist Bench
-5-year Manufacturer’s warranty parts & labor
-Removal and disposal of existing piano

The Steinway Model O Living Room Grand Piano must meet the following critical performance requirements: -New (not used or refurbished) -Ebony (black) polish finish -Not to exceed 6ft in length and 5ft in width -Delivery to Quarter 7, Generals Row, Ft. Myer Virginia 22211 -Preparation of piano to include: tuning, voicing, regulation, and set-up on site -Adjustable Artist Bench -5-year Manufacturer’s warranty parts & labor -Removal and disposal of existing piano

those of you who are pianists now have permission to refer to anything you need done to your piano as "critical performance requirements"

11.03.2026 00:51 👍 88 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

11.03.2026 01:03 👍 17675 🔁 7105 💬 515 📌 947

Thinking, base on bsky.app/profile/ceci... , The Philadelphia Story.

10.03.2026 20:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Fuck me, The BEAM Chronicles has me on pins and needles waiting for the next episode... promised Monday.

10.03.2026 18:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, I realized I was asking the victim to do the work, which ain't fair, but any effort we can give helps.

10.03.2026 00:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hearing comparisons of using LLMs for coding to the same sort of revolution that word processors brought to skilled typists.

And wow does that say a lot about what those people think software is.

09.03.2026 23:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0