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David Brower
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Husband, dad, database bit head, occasional blogger, ex-sound engineer, lapsing cyclist.
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Code is liability. AI allows us to create tremendous amounts of liability very quickly
January 23, 2026 at 11:44 PM
That was entertaining sportsball
January 20, 2026 at 4:19 AM
My god @alicefraser.bsky.social has another career modeling
Are your wounds throbbing? Do you have an unquenchable thirst for death? Then join "woah, I have hands" @tpneenan.bsky.social & saver of cats @alicefraser.bsky.social as they talk angry murder chimps, murdering your mentor, Rebel wees, and IRL hand tropes.
shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...
Lost, The Mist and other controversial endings | Realms Unknown
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January 16, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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Listen, I'm broke as hell (more on this later). I understand most people can't pay money for every single news service and Substack out there

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January 14, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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Firmed solar power with battery backup in India is now at $0.035/kWh. There are no thermal sources that can touch that price. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 #FossilFuelsAreStrandedAssets www.pv-magazine.com/2026/01/12/i...
India’s SECI awards 1.2 GW of solar, 600 MW/3,600 MWh of storage at $0.035/kWh
Solar Energy Corp. of India (SECI) has concluded a tender for 1.2 GW of interstate transmission system-connected solar projects paired with 600 MW/3,600 MWh of energy storage, with tariffs as low as I...
www.pv-magazine.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Nightmare fuel here, a/k/a an idea for David Cronenberg.
Bio-hybrid robots can be built using discarded crustacean exoskeletons enabling better sustainability for high-performance applications from manipulators to swimming! 🧪

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
January 13, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Aren’t wine moms one of their key demos?
“organized gangs of wine moms”
January 12, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Sweet.
January 12, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Delighted if the 49ers D can hold them off, but no confidence. All game so far this weekend…
January 12, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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January 11, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Very 70s analog filter sweep. Tres cool.
January 5, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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"The phrase “sex sells” is a deceptively simple way of alluding to the historically entrenched ways that femininity can stoke desire for commodities, turning the female form into an indispensable tool of capitalism. . .when people say sex sells, they don’t mean sex acts. They mean sexiness."
January 5, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Mexico City is a lot further flight time from anywhere the US can launch from.
Claudia Sheinbaum is next to be grabbed.
January 5, 2026 at 5:15 AM
January 4, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Expect limited international travel for a while.
If we can capture another country's president, can another country come and capture ours? Asking for a friend.
January 4, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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If you don't think the capture of Nicolas Maduro has made the world safer, just remember how the death of Saddam Hussein brought stability to the region and a lasting peace to the world.
January 3, 2026 at 7:07 PM
We did, through 30,000 years of breeding.
January 4, 2026 at 3:03 AM
They’re flipping coins whether to go into Cuba or Greenland next, Canada if those go well.
but this is why stuff like him rattling sabers about greenland is not a joke
January 4, 2026 at 3:02 AM
It’s the sound of all the goodwill Musk and Tesla earned crashing into the landslide of rocks his own politics brought down. he could have kept a green halo, but couldn’t hide his support for electric and renewable haters.
Do you hear what I hear? 🎶
January 2, 2026 at 2:48 PM
January 1, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Damn. Nailed!
January 1, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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day one in mamdani’s new york
January 1, 2026 at 5:10 PM
I'm having a hard time "liking" posts the last few days, seeming to be very sensitive about hitting the right spot with no mouse motion, and some briefly lighting up and incrementing, then decrementing. Blocked or muted? it's on accounts I seem really unlikely to have pissed off.
December 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is a great overlooked record
1977 instrumental "Rough Mix" by Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane. Title track to the pair's album. m.youtube.com/watch?v=H9mM...
Rough Mix
YouTube video by Pete Townshend - Topic
m.youtube.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM