A.R.
@arowla.bsky.social
creator of tech, preferably for good. eastcoast to midwest transplant. interested in many things including music, urban planning and languages.
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There's so much other stuff going on that's absolutely horrifying that I worry this won't make much noise. It's absolutely horrifying.
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Trump repeals EPA’s ability to regulate climate pollution | CNN
The Trump Environmental Protection Agency delivered a significant blow to longstanding US climate policy on Thursday, finalizing rules to revoke a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate cha...
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February 12, 2026 at 8:26 PM
There's so much other stuff going on that's absolutely horrifying that I worry this won't make much noise. It's absolutely horrifying.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/c...
www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/c...
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this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:28 PM
this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
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Run everywhere.
Taylor Rehmet, a Democrat (& @runforsomething.net candidate!) flipped a state senate district in Texas that Trump had won by 17 points.
Expand your imagination. When great candidates rooted in community step up to lead, anything is possible.
Expand your imagination. When great candidates rooted in community step up to lead, anything is possible.
February 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Run everywhere.
Starting to really feel the capitalism squeeze at my job. It started two to three years ago, but the turn of the screw continues and it’s getting tight.
Selling stuff on the internet is not worth sending my blood pressure sky high. It’s really not. I have a feeling I’m not alone, though.
Selling stuff on the internet is not worth sending my blood pressure sky high. It’s really not. I have a feeling I’m not alone, though.
January 30, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Starting to really feel the capitalism squeeze at my job. It started two to three years ago, but the turn of the screw continues and it’s getting tight.
Selling stuff on the internet is not worth sending my blood pressure sky high. It’s really not. I have a feeling I’m not alone, though.
Selling stuff on the internet is not worth sending my blood pressure sky high. It’s really not. I have a feeling I’m not alone, though.
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It's been like this for years now but its getting more and more eerie watching senators post as if nothing is happening.
They are just incapable of adapting to the times. It's like watching robots looping their programming.
They are just incapable of adapting to the times. It's like watching robots looping their programming.
January 22, 2026 at 1:59 AM
It's been like this for years now but its getting more and more eerie watching senators post as if nothing is happening.
They are just incapable of adapting to the times. It's like watching robots looping their programming.
They are just incapable of adapting to the times. It's like watching robots looping their programming.
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I am pretty well into a script titled "you are being misled about renewable energy"
Not gonna pull out studies. Don't need to go over climate change.
Just a simple, plain conversation where we look at the realities of renewables vs. fossil fuels and I say "stop letting Republicans lie to you"
Not gonna pull out studies. Don't need to go over climate change.
Just a simple, plain conversation where we look at the realities of renewables vs. fossil fuels and I say "stop letting Republicans lie to you"
January 7, 2026 at 2:33 AM
I am pretty well into a script titled "you are being misled about renewable energy"
Not gonna pull out studies. Don't need to go over climate change.
Just a simple, plain conversation where we look at the realities of renewables vs. fossil fuels and I say "stop letting Republicans lie to you"
Not gonna pull out studies. Don't need to go over climate change.
Just a simple, plain conversation where we look at the realities of renewables vs. fossil fuels and I say "stop letting Republicans lie to you"
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It's inevitable, you simply must adapt to it and use it, you have no choice, but also please use it more or it's going to die
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
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January 20, 2026 at 4:22 PM
It's inevitable, you simply must adapt to it and use it, you have no choice, but also please use it more or it's going to die
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Hot take here: Democrats running for Congress are not our best messengers in this election cycle! Give the megaphone to the folks who can actually do stuff to make life cheaper.
January 12, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Hot take here: Democrats running for Congress are not our best messengers in this election cycle! Give the megaphone to the folks who can actually do stuff to make life cheaper.
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Yo journalists you don’t need to lead your stories with propaganda quotes under the delusion you’re being objective rather than played. If you don’t understand the psychological concept of primacy do some homework so you can be objective rather than a collaborator.
January 9, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Yo journalists you don’t need to lead your stories with propaganda quotes under the delusion you’re being objective rather than played. If you don’t understand the psychological concept of primacy do some homework so you can be objective rather than a collaborator.
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If 2025 didn't stop you nothing will
January 1, 2026 at 10:55 AM
If 2025 didn't stop you nothing will
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Yup. Seems like a glaring indictment of investment capitalism that by design it does not allow anything to be perfected. Things can be good enough!
Love how our tools are never allowed to be good enough the way they are. We still use hammers that haven’t changed in 200 years bc they already work, but if they were proprietary tech of HammerSoft they’d work like shit bc investors demanded growth so now HamR v200 uses AI to guess which nail to hit
I don't want new shit. I want Windows to announce they're rolling back like the last five years of crap and also I get to throw tomatoes at their executives.
December 28, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Yup. Seems like a glaring indictment of investment capitalism that by design it does not allow anything to be perfected. Things can be good enough!
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THREAD.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
THREAD.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
Unpopular opinion: Pluribus is not that original, and the slow pacing makes it feel like they are making up for a lack of plot. Like if they reveal too much at once, there’s nothing left.
December 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Unpopular opinion: Pluribus is not that original, and the slow pacing makes it feel like they are making up for a lack of plot. Like if they reveal too much at once, there’s nothing left.
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🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be
If we want to actually be a representative democracy, then the platform needs to be institutional reform. All the Popularism and all the policies follow from that, not the other way around.
- DC/PR/USVI statehood
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting the "national emergency" laws: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
December 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be
The Neverending Christmas Story
The Elephant Man of Steel
Insert a movie into another movie:
The Lives of The Others
The Lives of The Others
December 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The Neverending Christmas Story
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On Nov. 28, 1895, 6 vehicles set off from Jackson Park in the U.S.'s first automobile race. The course was 54.36 miles.
The winning time: 10 hours and 23 minutes.
Only two cars finished.
130 years later, I'm celebrating the anniversary by biking the route.
It's time to race some cars!
The winning time: 10 hours and 23 minutes.
Only two cars finished.
130 years later, I'm celebrating the anniversary by biking the route.
It's time to race some cars!
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On Nov. 28, 1895, 6 vehicles set off from Jackson Park in the U.S.'s first automobile race. The course was 54.36 miles.
The winning time: 10 hours and 23 minutes.
Only two cars finished.
130 years later, I'm celebrating the anniversary by biking the route.
It's time to race some cars!
The winning time: 10 hours and 23 minutes.
Only two cars finished.
130 years later, I'm celebrating the anniversary by biking the route.
It's time to race some cars!
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There is no congruent way to look at generative AI and think “this is the future.” The most well known fact about it is that it messes up all the time, the next being that it loses lots of money.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
There is no congruent way to look at generative AI and think “this is the future.” The most well known fact about it is that it messes up all the time, the next being that it loses lots of money.
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‘End of SNAP Benefits Could Be Good for Business,’ Says Owner of Torch & Pitchfork Emporium: tinyurl.com/48mw8sr6
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
‘End of SNAP Benefits Could Be Good for Business,’ Says Owner of Torch & Pitchfork Emporium: tinyurl.com/48mw8sr6
Careful with this if you’re still on your morning coffee.
I was on my third watch through so I thought I was safe but now I have to go change my shirt.
#fourseasonstotallandscaping
I was on my third watch through so I thought I was safe but now I have to go change my shirt.
#fourseasonstotallandscaping
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Careful with this if you’re still on your morning coffee.
I was on my third watch through so I thought I was safe but now I have to go change my shirt.
#fourseasonstotallandscaping
I was on my third watch through so I thought I was safe but now I have to go change my shirt.
#fourseasonstotallandscaping
Ahhh, simpler times.
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Ahhh, simpler times.
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Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
The boyfriend of a friend of my son's has spent several weeks in a psych ward due to Chat GPT induced psychosis. He isn't suicidal but AI encouraged him down a toxic and paranoid wormhole until he became completely delusional. Evil stuff.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
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The boyfriend of a friend of my son's has spent several weeks in a psych ward due to Chat GPT induced psychosis. He isn't suicidal but AI encouraged him down a toxic and paranoid wormhole until he became completely delusional. Evil stuff.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 AM
The boyfriend of a friend of my son's has spent several weeks in a psych ward due to Chat GPT induced psychosis. He isn't suicidal but AI encouraged him down a toxic and paranoid wormhole until he became completely delusional. Evil stuff.
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“It’s hard for me to imagine a more heartwarming family moment than bringing home a new puppy while simultaneously leveraging M&A announcements via omnichannel synergies to pump your biotech investment. I think we can all relate.” defector.com/tom-brady-cl...
Tom Brady Cloned His Dead Dog As A Brand Activation | Defector
Tom Brady’s post-playing career transition to “Weird Rich Guy” appears nearly complete. He announced on Tuesday that he had his old dead dog cloned. Lua, a pit bull mix, died in 2023. Brady’s new dog ...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
“It’s hard for me to imagine a more heartwarming family moment than bringing home a new puppy while simultaneously leveraging M&A announcements via omnichannel synergies to pump your biotech investment. I think we can all relate.” defector.com/tom-brady-cl...
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Looking for an amazing tech writer to join my org and write for Cash App. 100% remote. Spread the word!
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Careers - Senior/Staff Technical Writer
Made up of Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto, Block, Inc. builds technology to increase access to the global economy.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Looking for an amazing tech writer to join my org and write for Cash App. 100% remote. Spread the word!
block.xyz/careers/jobs...
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