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Wake me up when the DEFCON levels have changed. They/them.

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I figured I’d make an #introduction post since this is really my first time actively using Bluesky. Do y’all do that over here? 🧵 1/
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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For @thenation.com and @typeinvestigations.org, I looked into American Landmark, a major landlord filing evictions far more than the national average.

I found they are owned by an Israeli company with ties to the IDF, including during the Gaza genocide. (1/10)

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Eviction Kings
One of Israel’s biggest companies is taking over huge swaths of US real estate—and tenants are paying the price.
www.thenation.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Yesterday at TPAC I publicized my draft proposal for adding a declarative templating API to the DOM.

github.com/justinfagnan...

The repo has:

📖 Explainers for the templating API and DOM scheduler API
🏗️ Full prototype implementations
⚗️ a JSX transform
⚛️ a mini React-like framework
github.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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threw together a lil web component to add this to any input. super easy progressive UX enhancement for your atproto app!

tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
What if you could just… await in your component?
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I’ll believe it when I see it
A draft of the first-of-its-kind Texas Department of Transportation plan released in October outlines the need for boosted public transportation in rural and smaller urban areas as well as a greater array of travel options, including rail, between the state’s major urban centers.
TxDOT: Car-dominant Texas needs more public transit
As the state’s population grows, more travel options are needed in rural and smaller urban areas and between major cities, according to a draft of the first-of-its-kind plan.
www.texastribune.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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of all the things about this deal that are pissing me off this might have pissed me off the most
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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BREAKING: Starbucks baristas at Downtown Disney couldn’t stand another day of their managers’ unfair labor practices & kicked off our nationwide strike this weekend. These workers have shut down one of largest Starbucks stores in the country — and we’re just getting started! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
For the same SPA (my favorite contacts CRUD example) —

@solidjs.com/router + @remix.run/fetch-router: 5.6 kB of JS
@svelte.dev 5 + SvelteKit: 43.9 kB of JS
@reactrouter.com SPA-mode: 101.5 kB of JS
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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It's in Safari 18.2 (current beta)
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Where are you Safari
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Apple consistently hits it out of the park with sci-fi
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
There is no song that wouldn't benefit from the addition of mandolin
November 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Did you know? Cleopatra was the first person to walk on the moon
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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I'm playing around with a custom, minimal #ATProto PDS server concept. The network won't talk to me, aside from some describeServer requests. I have no visibility into why and all can I do is guess...
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
All of the native compilers/transformers only support legacy decorators, not TC-39 Decorators 😩
November 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Exciting!
1️⃣ Swift comes to FreeBSD

Swift is now available in preview for FreeBSD 14.3 and later. We want your feedback, bug reports, and contributions to make Swift great on FreeBSD! 🧑‍💻Read the announcement here: forums.swift.org/t/swift-on-f... #FreeBSD
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Bluesky mention on last night’s Abbott Elementary
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Whenever I hear about protein maxxing, I eat this kind of dinner
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Cleaned it up a bit for you
November 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I'm gonna end up writing a Babel plugin to add an `on` prop to Solid.js elements. I can feel it.
November 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Blackberries are, in fact, the best tasting berry
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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📢Introducing ArkRegex📢

a drop in replacement for new RegExp() with types ⬇️
October 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM