bkmacd
@bkmacd.bsky.social
Antieukalyptustische Aktion
I want to ride a horse to the middle of the desert and take peyote and scream at god.
Most of my posts are about grocery shopping.
I want to ride a horse to the middle of the desert and take peyote and scream at god.
Most of my posts are about grocery shopping.
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bkmacd
@bkmacd.bsky.social
· Apr 28
Any sufficiently generalized subtweet is indistinguishable from cultural critique.
idk if it is me, sonnet 4.5 vs opus 4.5, but there is still a thing where I need to be defining the problem in simple clear terms, defining the variables clearly, then going through each step and output to verify against my own calculations before i'm super confident in Claude output.
sigh.
we've reached the point in modeling the problem in excel that i've actually started thinking about doing the monte carlo analysis in python* to get really pretty charts.
* vibe claude-coding obviously...
we've reached the point in modeling the problem in excel that i've actually started thinking about doing the monte carlo analysis in python* to get really pretty charts.
* vibe claude-coding obviously...
January 2, 2026 at 8:17 PM
idk if it is me, sonnet 4.5 vs opus 4.5, but there is still a thing where I need to be defining the problem in simple clear terms, defining the variables clearly, then going through each step and output to verify against my own calculations before i'm super confident in Claude output.
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me: is a "code red" when I spill mountain dew on my keyboard?
general: no it means the missiles have launched
me: then we have two problems
general: no it means the missiles have launched
me: then we have two problems
August 3, 2023 at 3:47 PM
me: is a "code red" when I spill mountain dew on my keyboard?
general: no it means the missiles have launched
me: then we have two problems
general: no it means the missiles have launched
me: then we have two problems
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who is that you hear screaming? it is me, I'm the one who is screaming. many thanks to ashley judd for sharing with me her memories of working on michael mann's HEAT; at @vulture.com:
www.vulture.com/article/ashl...
www.vulture.com/article/ashl...
January 1, 2026 at 7:07 PM
who is that you hear screaming? it is me, I'm the one who is screaming. many thanks to ashley judd for sharing with me her memories of working on michael mann's HEAT; at @vulture.com:
www.vulture.com/article/ashl...
www.vulture.com/article/ashl...
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Jan 1: this is the year of new Me
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
January 1, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Jan 1: this is the year of new Me
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
The coffee shop I went to in high school is playing Big Thief. The kids are all right.
I'm getting a decaf cappuccino but I'm still hip, right?
I'm getting a decaf cappuccino but I'm still hip, right?
December 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The coffee shop I went to in high school is playing Big Thief. The kids are all right.
I'm getting a decaf cappuccino but I'm still hip, right?
I'm getting a decaf cappuccino but I'm still hip, right?
every year seems to bring with it many changes, and with every change i still somehow remain mostly the same. i hope the year for you was filled with changes [laudadory] but if you need an extra push to make it to the end, this is, i believe, the traditional:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii6k...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii6k...
The Mountain Goats - This Year (Video)
YouTube video by TheRealMufflon
www.youtube.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
every year seems to bring with it many changes, and with every change i still somehow remain mostly the same. i hope the year for you was filled with changes [laudadory] but if you need an extra push to make it to the end, this is, i believe, the traditional:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii6k...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii6k...
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I've waited 3 years to make this post
December 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I've waited 3 years to make this post
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I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
December 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
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31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
December 31, 2024 at 12:21 PM
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
This time is different because the dooming is politically the same vector as my undiagnosed depression.
🧵 What @peark.es said. As I said:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We've been hearing this stuff from "fiscal hawks" for 50+ years. It's now how global finance & sovereign debt for rich countries with floating exchange rates work. It's macroeconomic illiteracy + idiosyncratic political preferences.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We've been hearing this stuff from "fiscal hawks" for 50+ years. It's now how global finance & sovereign debt for rich countries with floating exchange rates work. It's macroeconomic illiteracy + idiosyncratic political preferences.
The assessments of 1 and 2 on this list are about as well-trodden as any macroeconomic discourse get and absolutely impervious to the empirical reality of how bond and currency markets treat Treasuries and the USD.
December 31, 2025 at 3:06 AM
This time is different because the dooming is politically the same vector as my undiagnosed depression.
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This is one of my favorite paintings, from any painter, ever.
Not only is she crushing Mein Kampf, but the arc of her rivet gun's cable also evokes a serpent being crushed under her heel - even while the rivet gun herself is laid on her apron like Christ on the lap of the Virgin Mary.
Not only is she crushing Mein Kampf, but the arc of her rivet gun's cable also evokes a serpent being crushed under her heel - even while the rivet gun herself is laid on her apron like Christ on the lap of the Virgin Mary.
I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.
August 17, 2025 at 5:31 AM
This is one of my favorite paintings, from any painter, ever.
Not only is she crushing Mein Kampf, but the arc of her rivet gun's cable also evokes a serpent being crushed under her heel - even while the rivet gun herself is laid on her apron like Christ on the lap of the Virgin Mary.
Not only is she crushing Mein Kampf, but the arc of her rivet gun's cable also evokes a serpent being crushed under her heel - even while the rivet gun herself is laid on her apron like Christ on the lap of the Virgin Mary.
sigh.
we've reached the point in modeling the problem in excel that i've actually started thinking about doing the monte carlo analysis in python* to get really pretty charts.
* vibe claude-coding obviously...
we've reached the point in modeling the problem in excel that i've actually started thinking about doing the monte carlo analysis in python* to get really pretty charts.
* vibe claude-coding obviously...
December 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
sigh.
we've reached the point in modeling the problem in excel that i've actually started thinking about doing the monte carlo analysis in python* to get really pretty charts.
* vibe claude-coding obviously...
we've reached the point in modeling the problem in excel that i've actually started thinking about doing the monte carlo analysis in python* to get really pretty charts.
* vibe claude-coding obviously...
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The sensible thing to do next week would be to return to work with a can-do attitude, value teamwork and leverage synergies to contribute to the value stream, but fucking hell there must be a better way to spend this limited time on earth
December 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The sensible thing to do next week would be to return to work with a can-do attitude, value teamwork and leverage synergies to contribute to the value stream, but fucking hell there must be a better way to spend this limited time on earth
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Please enjoy this extremely vintage, extremely niche Onion article Justin just found saved in his college files
U.S. Techno-Industrial Base Eroding Due To Foreign Competition
WASHINGTON, DC—With first-quarter Club Rotation Index figures the lowest in seven years, and imports outselling domestic 12-inches more than two-to-one, economic observers throughout the U.S. are soun...
theonion.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Please enjoy this extremely vintage, extremely niche Onion article Justin just found saved in his college files
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2025 recapped
December 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
2025 recapped
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I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.
asking the sommelier which wine pairs best with swedish fish
December 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.
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Mods are asleep, post blobby Qing dynasty cats
December 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Mods are asleep, post blobby Qing dynasty cats
Not to start shit on a quiet holiday week but has anyone properly explained why Conor Friedersdorf is able to have a longstanding column in one of america's most storied bourgeois magazines and afford to live in Venice, CA while producing no significant reporting or thought?
December 29, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Not to start shit on a quiet holiday week but has anyone properly explained why Conor Friedersdorf is able to have a longstanding column in one of america's most storied bourgeois magazines and afford to live in Venice, CA while producing no significant reporting or thought?
California Mass Effect wheel with:
"Yeah no yeah" and "no, yeah, no" on each pole and "hella" in the middle.
"Yeah no yeah" and "no, yeah, no" on each pole and "hella" in the middle.
Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"
December 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
California Mass Effect wheel with:
"Yeah no yeah" and "no, yeah, no" on each pole and "hella" in the middle.
"Yeah no yeah" and "no, yeah, no" on each pole and "hella" in the middle.
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Every boygenius song:
Julien: it would be cool if you were mean to me.
Phoebe: it would be cool if you killed me.
Lucy: it would be cool if we sat two feet apart and accidentally touched hands when you passed me the collected works of Virginia Woolf.
Julien: it would be cool if you were mean to me.
Phoebe: it would be cool if you killed me.
Lucy: it would be cool if we sat two feet apart and accidentally touched hands when you passed me the collected works of Virginia Woolf.
December 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Every boygenius song:
Julien: it would be cool if you were mean to me.
Phoebe: it would be cool if you killed me.
Lucy: it would be cool if we sat two feet apart and accidentally touched hands when you passed me the collected works of Virginia Woolf.
Julien: it would be cool if you were mean to me.
Phoebe: it would be cool if you killed me.
Lucy: it would be cool if we sat two feet apart and accidentally touched hands when you passed me the collected works of Virginia Woolf.
SPONGEBOB!
SQUAREPANTS!
SQUAREPANTS!
He’s seen the forbidden things at the bottom of the sea. Things that no man was meant to see
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
SPONGEBOB!
SQUAREPANTS!
SQUAREPANTS!
Things that are trivially true:
a) some things that are illegal are low odds high impact behaviors
b) urban areas will enforce those rules more because there are just more rolls of the dice (or the impacts are larger)
a) some things that are illegal are low odds high impact behaviors
b) urban areas will enforce those rules more because there are just more rolls of the dice (or the impacts are larger)
December 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Things that are trivially true:
a) some things that are illegal are low odds high impact behaviors
b) urban areas will enforce those rules more because there are just more rolls of the dice (or the impacts are larger)
a) some things that are illegal are low odds high impact behaviors
b) urban areas will enforce those rules more because there are just more rolls of the dice (or the impacts are larger)