Channing Walton
@channingwalton.bsky.social
Scala dev, unison-lang wannabe dev, amateur pianist, dad, husband, and keeper of six small furry beasts.
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The American people need to speak against these madmen. For years there was a lot of macho talk from them about holding tyrannical governments to power. Suddenly, they’re all quiet.
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
January 6, 2026 at 10:57 AM
The American people need to speak against these madmen. For years there was a lot of macho talk from them about holding tyrannical governments to power. Suddenly, they’re all quiet.
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Trump said today:
"MAGA is me. MAGA loves everything I do, and I love everything I do, too."
If your toddler spoke to you like this, you'd be concerned.
Most powerful man in the world, ladies and gents. Still hard to believe, I know.
"MAGA is me. MAGA loves everything I do, and I love everything I do, too."
If your toddler spoke to you like this, you'd be concerned.
Most powerful man in the world, ladies and gents. Still hard to believe, I know.
January 6, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Trump said today:
"MAGA is me. MAGA loves everything I do, and I love everything I do, too."
If your toddler spoke to you like this, you'd be concerned.
Most powerful man in the world, ladies and gents. Still hard to believe, I know.
"MAGA is me. MAGA loves everything I do, and I love everything I do, too."
If your toddler spoke to you like this, you'd be concerned.
Most powerful man in the world, ladies and gents. Still hard to believe, I know.
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This explains so much.
People with psychopathic traits and low cognitive ability are over-represented in online political activity.
If someone is being cruel, obnoxious and ridiculous, don't try to reason with them. Chances are you won't get anywhere. Just block.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
People with psychopathic traits and low cognitive ability are over-represented in online political activity.
If someone is being cruel, obnoxious and ridiculous, don't try to reason with them. Chances are you won't get anywhere. Just block.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation
www.nature.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:05 AM
This explains so much.
People with psychopathic traits and low cognitive ability are over-represented in online political activity.
If someone is being cruel, obnoxious and ridiculous, don't try to reason with them. Chances are you won't get anywhere. Just block.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
People with psychopathic traits and low cognitive ability are over-represented in online political activity.
If someone is being cruel, obnoxious and ridiculous, don't try to reason with them. Chances are you won't get anywhere. Just block.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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80% of Mumsnet users do not intend to vote Reform.
But @lbc.co.uk is dedicating an entire hour on how "mumsnet users are turning to Reform"
But @lbc.co.uk is dedicating an entire hour on how "mumsnet users are turning to Reform"
January 4, 2026 at 7:32 PM
80% of Mumsnet users do not intend to vote Reform.
But @lbc.co.uk is dedicating an entire hour on how "mumsnet users are turning to Reform"
But @lbc.co.uk is dedicating an entire hour on how "mumsnet users are turning to Reform"
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Support for the Scala debugger in Zed is almost ready! Give this guy some love, he deserves it! ❤️ #scala github.com/scalameta/me...
feat: add basic support for DAP (debug adapter protocol) by susuro · Pull Request #71 · scalameta/metals-zed · GitHub
This is a preliminary version of DAP implementation, requested in #53.
As Zed extensions don't support sending requests to an LSP, a proxy server was required to allow such communication.
The s...
github.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Support for the Scala debugger in Zed is almost ready! Give this guy some love, he deserves it! ❤️ #scala github.com/scalameta/me...
Stop Donald, I can’t take all the peace!
January 3, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Stop Donald, I can’t take all the peace!
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My breaking news update for @lbc.co.uk on Trump's compeltely unhinged press conference claiming the US is now governing Venezela. With Ranvir Singh anchoring.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/882583...
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/882583...
January 3, 2025 - AS IT BROKE: Trump says US "to run Venezuela" after Maduro ouster
Simon's live update for LBC with Ranvir Singh presenting.
audioboom.com
January 3, 2026 at 5:57 PM
My breaking news update for @lbc.co.uk on Trump's compeltely unhinged press conference claiming the US is now governing Venezela. With Ranvir Singh anchoring.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/882583...
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/882583...
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The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law.
After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.
After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.
Trump just kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 11:27 AM
The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law.
After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.
After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.
Reposted by Channing Walton
Reposted by Channing Walton
After 33 years in software development, it's sad to report that the people I've found to be least interested in aligning software development with business objectives, and the most "Ooh, shiny!" of all, are the people in charge.
January 2, 2026 at 2:49 PM
After 33 years in software development, it's sad to report that the people I've found to be least interested in aligning software development with business objectives, and the most "Ooh, shiny!" of all, are the people in charge.
Is Reuters actually quoting Grok here, as if it were a sentient being?
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
reut.rs
January 2, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Is Reuters actually quoting Grok here, as if it were a sentient being?
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Lots to be shocked about here. One, there are people in this world that think nothing of boiling animals alive. Two, they are up in arms at this change in the law. Three, they claim it’s an attack on their heritage. It’s the end of a barbaric practice is what it is.
buff.ly/EtUWj4k
buff.ly/EtUWj4k
December 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Lots to be shocked about here. One, there are people in this world that think nothing of boiling animals alive. Two, they are up in arms at this change in the law. Three, they claim it’s an attack on their heritage. It’s the end of a barbaric practice is what it is.
buff.ly/EtUWj4k
buff.ly/EtUWj4k
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Farewell to the mathematical year of 2025:
-2025, itself is a square: 45 x 45 = 2025
-It's a product of two squares: 9² x 5² = 2025
-It’s the sum of three squares: 40²+ 20²+5²= 2025
-It's the sum of of all the single digits to the power of 3: 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+
6³+7³+8³+9³= 2025
-2025, itself is a square: 45 x 45 = 2025
-It's a product of two squares: 9² x 5² = 2025
-It’s the sum of three squares: 40²+ 20²+5²= 2025
-It's the sum of of all the single digits to the power of 3: 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+
6³+7³+8³+9³= 2025
December 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Farewell to the mathematical year of 2025:
-2025, itself is a square: 45 x 45 = 2025
-It's a product of two squares: 9² x 5² = 2025
-It’s the sum of three squares: 40²+ 20²+5²= 2025
-It's the sum of of all the single digits to the power of 3: 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+
6³+7³+8³+9³= 2025
-2025, itself is a square: 45 x 45 = 2025
-It's a product of two squares: 9² x 5² = 2025
-It’s the sum of three squares: 40²+ 20²+5²= 2025
-It's the sum of of all the single digits to the power of 3: 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+
6³+7³+8³+9³= 2025
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Files on Andrew’s activities as trade envoy withheld by the government. Once again even disgraced royals are protected by the state. What’s there to hide? It’s more important than ever that transparency reigns with the Royal Family. And it never does.
www.thetimes.com/article/c695...
www.thetimes.com/article/c695...
Redacting Andrew papers ‘like removing Trump from Epstein files’
A biographer of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor said officials were panicking and worrying about what releasing the papers to the National Archives would reveal
www.thetimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Files on Andrew’s activities as trade envoy withheld by the government. Once again even disgraced royals are protected by the state. What’s there to hide? It’s more important than ever that transparency reigns with the Royal Family. And it never does.
www.thetimes.com/article/c695...
www.thetimes.com/article/c695...
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I'm asking John - and indeed all journalists - as a new year resolution to stop comparisons with a national economy and a household budget.
How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?
t.co/jIObxTAoeL
How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?
t.co/jIObxTAoeL
December 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I'm asking John - and indeed all journalists - as a new year resolution to stop comparisons with a national economy and a household budget.
How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?
t.co/jIObxTAoeL
How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?
t.co/jIObxTAoeL
I wonder if FIFA is reconsidering its peace prize.
This is an act of war and illegal under both US and international law, let’s just be clear about that:
C.I.A. Conducted Drone Strike on Port in Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I wonder if FIFA is reconsidering its peace prize.
Important science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKz0...
Involves chickens and a 3D structure with a fixed point that cannot move.
Involves chickens and a 3D structure with a fixed point that cannot move.
Chickens Are Weirder Than You Thought
YouTube video by The Action Lab
www.youtube.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Important science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKz0...
Involves chickens and a 3D structure with a fixed point that cannot move.
Involves chickens and a 3D structure with a fixed point that cannot move.
Coming from dependency management in the JVM world, python is an absolute mess.
December 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Coming from dependency management in the JVM world, python is an absolute mess.
And yet the average American is poorer. It’s almost as if the system is working against 99.99% of the population.
Crazy thought I know.
Crazy thought I know.
Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”
December 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
And yet the average American is poorer. It’s almost as if the system is working against 99.99% of the population.
Crazy thought I know.
Crazy thought I know.
Rocky alert to … everything.
December 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Rocky alert to … everything.
"Have you ever failed at something, and learned from it?"
That's software development: fail, learn, fix, repeat.
That's software development: fail, learn, fix, repeat.
Tonight @lbc.co.uk:
7 - The US launches air strikes on Nigeria, but only seems concerned about Christian lives lost there.
8 - Extended interview with Del Amitri's Justin Currie, author of The Tremolo Diaries
9 - Have you ever failed at something, and learned from it?
Call us, text us, Alexa us!
7 - The US launches air strikes on Nigeria, but only seems concerned about Christian lives lost there.
8 - Extended interview with Del Amitri's Justin Currie, author of The Tremolo Diaries
9 - Have you ever failed at something, and learned from it?
Call us, text us, Alexa us!
December 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"Have you ever failed at something, and learned from it?"
That's software development: fail, learn, fix, repeat.
That's software development: fail, learn, fix, repeat.
My Typora themes I was messing around with have been added to the Typora theme gallery.
Here are the themes in my repo:
github.com/channingwalt...
typora.io
Here are the themes in my repo:
github.com/channingwalt...
typora.io
GitHub - channingwalton/typora-themes: My typora themes
My typora themes. Contribute to channingwalton/typora-themes development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
My Typora themes I was messing around with have been added to the Typora theme gallery.
Here are the themes in my repo:
github.com/channingwalt...
typora.io
Here are the themes in my repo:
github.com/channingwalt...
typora.io
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My distressingly earnest take on a lot of stuff is that the real divide in politics is by people who are ultimately driven by love and joy and those who are primarily driven by hate and anger. Each finds different objects, policies and directions, but the chasm is between rather than among each side
December 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
My distressingly earnest take on a lot of stuff is that the real divide in politics is by people who are ultimately driven by love and joy and those who are primarily driven by hate and anger. Each finds different objects, policies and directions, but the chasm is between rather than among each side
This Bacterial Motor Shifts Gears in Milliseconds
YouTube video by iJEP Studio
youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Pedro says Merry Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Pedro says Merry Christmas.