Mike
@miken.bsky.social
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I just spent the last two hours debugging the Bluetooth stack *in anger* because for the last few weeks I've had to re-pair my mouse with my laptop. Every time. Remove mouse, re-pair.
Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them.
It was me.
Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them.
It was me.
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I just spent the last two hours debugging the Bluetooth stack *in anger* because for the last few weeks I've had to re-pair my mouse with my laptop. Every time. Remove mouse, re-pair.
Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them.
It was me.
Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them.
It was me.
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Exactly this. This is both an act of deliberate cruelty towards a marginalised, vulnerable community and a trial balloon to see how far they can push, and how fast.
(Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)
(Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Exactly this. This is both an act of deliberate cruelty towards a marginalised, vulnerable community and a trial balloon to see how far they can push, and how fast.
(Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)
(Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)
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Anyone buying a Tesla in 2025 gets an additional free feature: a full stereoscopic view of my middle finger anytime they drive by.
Read the comment this replies too. Tesla sent a model they've been making for 10 years to a car magazine to test, and the lug nuts came loose. The tech to perfectly tighten those critical nuts has been known since Ford's MODEL A in the 1920s. OVER 100 YEARS. Tesla is 100 years behind on mechanics.
Auto factory worker here...
LOOSE LUG NUTS AT 500 MILES ON THE ODOMETER?
EVERY major company uses very expensive "torque control" tools with fancy electric motors controlled by computers to tighten lugnuts so they DON'T come loose. OMFG.
LOOSE LUG NUTS AT 500 MILES ON THE ODOMETER?
EVERY major company uses very expensive "torque control" tools with fancy electric motors controlled by computers to tighten lugnuts so they DON'T come loose. OMFG.
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Anyone buying a Tesla in 2025 gets an additional free feature: a full stereoscopic view of my middle finger anytime they drive by.
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It's called Blink because you have 182 copies of it
Is it just me, or is every IDE basically VS Code and every browser basically Chrome?
October 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It's called Blink because you have 182 copies of it
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I won't consider Starlink for the same reason I won't buy a Tesla and why I'm no longer on the former Twitter: I won't willingly give money to (or be an advertising base for) a Nazi salute-throwing fascist who actively tried to destroy our democracy
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I won't consider Starlink for the same reason I won't buy a Tesla and why I'm no longer on the former Twitter: I won't willingly give money to (or be an advertising base for) a Nazi salute-throwing fascist who actively tried to destroy our democracy
politicians are shutting off personal health care because of petty culture wars, not medicine or science. this will not stop with trans kids
NZ First are actually evil. They don't care how many lives they may ruin to get the anti-trans vote.
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM
politicians are shutting off personal health care because of petty culture wars, not medicine or science. this will not stop with trans kids
the future sucks!!! I hate it!!!
So Barfoot and Thompson’s “AI Assistant” (ie a fake man) called my cell to talk about the property market today. Essentially a spam call. Is that even legal in NZ?
November 19, 2025 at 8:38 AM
the future sucks!!! I hate it!!!
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Today is World Kindness Day! 🌎 At Merrymac it is our mission to treat even the most vulnerable and abused beings with kindness. Many of them, like Bonnie here, have been deemed “worthless” by the world because they have no monetary value.
November 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Today is World Kindness Day! 🌎 At Merrymac it is our mission to treat even the most vulnerable and abused beings with kindness. Many of them, like Bonnie here, have been deemed “worthless” by the world because they have no monetary value.
I have learned from Sarah Kendzior that I should not say what I would like to happen to the author of this article
It bears remembering that this woman, according to the IPCA report, sent at least 36 emails to media outlets, presumaby including NZME, as well as the PM, Police Minister, and police command in Dec 2023 & Jan 2024, and they did fuck-all about it too
www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heath...
www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heath...
Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: The woman in the Jevon McSkimming saga wasn't innocent here
So it turns out the woman with whom Jevon McSkimming had an affair, whose warnings police ignored and who police charged instead of investigating McSkimmin
www.newstalkzb.co.nz
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I have learned from Sarah Kendzior that I should not say what I would like to happen to the author of this article
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of all the people I expected to make excuses for pedophiles, Jesse Singal is certainly one of them
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
of all the people I expected to make excuses for pedophiles, Jesse Singal is certainly one of them
Why did @stevesi.xyz email Jeffrey Epstein an article about Bitcoin's involvement with and similarities to CSAM while boasting of his gains?
![From: Steven Sinofsk
Sent: 11/22/2013 3:48:56 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Bitcoin and DC
Importance: High
http://www.washi ngtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/21/heres-how-bitcoin-cha rmed-washington/
I'm up 50% on my BTC investment!
Here's how Bitcoin charmed Washington
BY TIMOTHY B. LEE](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ouq6b36hsncvqwn23e3a3lgy/bafkreihglzkqaxk4hvbb2vztxjpf6ehruf3ypl24tns7a2xo5ix4kp6a5a@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Why did @stevesi.xyz email Jeffrey Epstein an article about Bitcoin's involvement with and similarities to CSAM while boasting of his gains?
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Imagine spending years being gaslit so brutally that your only recourse is to accuse them again and again and again, being arrested for accusing them of What They Actually Did, eventually being vindicated, but still charged?
And they wonder why victims don't come to them for help...
And they wonder why victims don't come to them for help...
It's interesting that NZ Police can be so proactive and decisive about pursuing charges for digital harm and harassment of a senior male police officer, yet find pressing charges when the victim is a woman almost impossible...
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Imagine spending years being gaslit so brutally that your only recourse is to accuse them again and again and again, being arrested for accusing them of What They Actually Did, eventually being vindicated, but still charged?
And they wonder why victims don't come to them for help...
And they wonder why victims don't come to them for help...
Ten years ago we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, and Johnny Cash. Now we have no jobs, no hope, and no cash.
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Ten years ago we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, and Johnny Cash. Now we have no jobs, no hope, and no cash.
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Everything about this is broken. The people who make and like it, the technology that powers it, the website that promotes it, everything.
The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook
An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Everything about this is broken. The people who make and like it, the technology that powers it, the website that promotes it, everything.
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Leper's colony on Something Awful was so far ahead of its time as far as mod accountability. Also showing other posters what NOT to do
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Leper's colony on Something Awful was so far ahead of its time as far as mod accountability. Also showing other posters what NOT to do
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> Visual Studio 2026 is AI-native, making it the world’s first Intelligent Developer Environment (IDE).
lol
lol
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
> Visual Studio 2026 is AI-native, making it the world’s first Intelligent Developer Environment (IDE).
lol
lol
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This IPCA report on McSkimming and enabler/s needs a major systemic review of police command staff and systems to result.How deep does the rot go?Is just making up breathalysers results by lower level police a downstream reflection of the culture? New Zealand needs answers, not soundbites.
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This IPCA report on McSkimming and enabler/s needs a major systemic review of police command staff and systems to result.How deep does the rot go?Is just making up breathalysers results by lower level police a downstream reflection of the culture? New Zealand needs answers, not soundbites.
Would any of this have ever come to light if not for Coster stepping down and McSkimming happening to be in the running to replace him?
This is utterly sickening, particularly the charges under HDCA. Many, many things from the 2021-2023 period of my life in terms of police (in)action related to threats made to me now must be viewed thru this unholy prism.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs...
Police bosses ignored sex complaints against top cop, charged woman for 'revenge' emails instead
Suppressions fall away to reveal the full story of the downfall of a deputy police boss.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Would any of this have ever come to light if not for Coster stepping down and McSkimming happening to be in the running to replace him?
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Share this to scare Brian Tamaki
November 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Share this to scare Brian Tamaki
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Not saying a word about Pluribus beyond WOW! but have to share this credit... I expect to see a lot more of this.
November 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Not saying a word about Pluribus beyond WOW! but have to share this credit... I expect to see a lot more of this.
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Does anyone else's goat sound like a maracas
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Does anyone else's goat sound like a maracas
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Taking a walk yesterday I saw an extremely round albino squirrel eating someone's carved pumpkin.
November 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Taking a walk yesterday I saw an extremely round albino squirrel eating someone's carved pumpkin.
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I really can't emphasize enough that OpenAI is, as Dr. Gilliard has described in the past, a social arsonist enabling racism, and I urge colleagues in education using OpenAI's products - including ed-tech platforms that incorporate its products like Khanmigo and MagicSchool - to stop.
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I really can't emphasize enough that OpenAI is, as Dr. Gilliard has described in the past, a social arsonist enabling racism, and I urge colleagues in education using OpenAI's products - including ed-tech platforms that incorporate its products like Khanmigo and MagicSchool - to stop.
using LLM "toxicity detection" to automatically and irreversibly hide replies is the worst decision the Bluesky team have made yet, I am donating to @blackskyweb.xyz because this network will die without usable alternative appviews
Threads on Bluesky should feel more like conversations you’d have IRL.
We’re testing new systems to improve reply quality. See what’s coming: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
We’re testing new systems to improve reply quality. See what’s coming: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
Progress Update: Building Healthier Social Media - Bluesky
Over the next few months, we’ll be iterating on the systems that make Bluesky a better place for healthy conversations. Some experiments will stick, others will evolve, and we’ll share what we learn a...
bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 4:23 AM
using LLM "toxicity detection" to automatically and irreversibly hide replies is the worst decision the Bluesky team have made yet, I am donating to @blackskyweb.xyz because this network will die without usable alternative appviews