Nicholas Hunt-Walker
@nhuntwalker.bsky.social
Software engineer, teacher, Pythonista, Astronomer, Black guy, Father. Always looking to build and maintain dope shit.
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I've said this before and I intend to say it many more times: you are what you regularly do. Wanna be a better version of yourself? Incorporate growth in that direction every day (or as often as possible while still being healthy). Identity is in the daily practice, friends.
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Had a few people ask re: signed copies of the new kids' book (ahem: us.macmillan.com/books/978037...)
Short answer: they will exist but I don't know where to link you yet. Usually I do a couple local signings (Virginia), and sometimes I'm sent places to sign stuff, but the book isn't out till June.
Short answer: they will exist but I don't know where to link you yet. Usually I do a couple local signings (Virginia), and sometimes I'm sent places to sign stuff, but the book isn't out till June.
Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home
From New York Times-bestselling and Eisner-nominated author Zach Weinersmith comes a cartoon-illustrated middle grade novel starring an unadventurous kid wh...
us.macmillan.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Had a few people ask re: signed copies of the new kids' book (ahem: us.macmillan.com/books/978037...)
Short answer: they will exist but I don't know where to link you yet. Usually I do a couple local signings (Virginia), and sometimes I'm sent places to sign stuff, but the book isn't out till June.
Short answer: they will exist but I don't know where to link you yet. Usually I do a couple local signings (Virginia), and sometimes I'm sent places to sign stuff, but the book isn't out till June.
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Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
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Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
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When you do an oopsie and accidentally declared war on your own intra-military Nazis
Hegseth: "We don't need to be a military of beardos anymore. Do you know how many troops claim to be Nordic Pagan? No, suddenly it's become this real fake religious affiliation inside the Pentagon where troops came to be Nordic Pagan so they can grow a beard and nobody challenges them on it."
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
When you do an oopsie and accidentally declared war on your own intra-military Nazis
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
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So, we broke into your house and stole all your stuff, please give us money.
“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:
trib.al/CUazMCQ
trib.al/CUazMCQ
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
trib.al
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
So, we broke into your house and stole all your stuff, please give us money.
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incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
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I don't think enough people realize that for many folks on disability they cannot risk having over a VERY low cap of money/property or they will lose their benefits nearly immediately
It often prevents folks from marrying as well it's ludicrous
It often prevents folks from marrying as well it's ludicrous
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I don't think enough people realize that for many folks on disability they cannot risk having over a VERY low cap of money/property or they will lose their benefits nearly immediately
It often prevents folks from marrying as well it's ludicrous
It often prevents folks from marrying as well it's ludicrous
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“I know you can’t afford things but we also cannot afford things” will be, I predict, a losing message. The world’s first trillionaire is on the horizon. “We can’t afford transportation, healthcare, food and shelter” will no longer cut it for the “progressive” party.
Hochul a 'no' on Mamdani's free bus plan; 'yes' on statewide universal childcare
The price tag to expand a universal childcare program statewide is $15B.
ny1.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
“I know you can’t afford things but we also cannot afford things” will be, I predict, a losing message. The world’s first trillionaire is on the horizon. “We can’t afford transportation, healthcare, food and shelter” will no longer cut it for the “progressive” party.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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If a court actually debates whether or not people should get money for food to eat, and then even entertains listening to the side that wants to withhold that funding... this is how you know something is very very wrong with the system of checks and balances.
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
If a court actually debates whether or not people should get money for food to eat, and then even entertains listening to the side that wants to withhold that funding... this is how you know something is very very wrong with the system of checks and balances.
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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it says a lot about the average politician that this guy seems to expect that zohran mamdani only said what he said to get elected and doesn’t actually believe in anything
Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
it says a lot about the average politician that this guy seems to expect that zohran mamdani only said what he said to get elected and doesn’t actually believe in anything
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i have thought for several years now that a key aim of the democratic party should be to polarize the public against the supreme court
THE SUPREME COURT AGREES YOUR CHILDREN SHOULD STARVE on billboards nationwide
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments during the government shutdown.
November 8, 2025 at 4:47 AM
i have thought for several years now that a key aim of the democratic party should be to polarize the public against the supreme court
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every piece of mass-market software these days feels like living with an unruly pet where you have to constantly stop what you're doing to check if it's secretly eating plastic under the dresser again
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
every piece of mass-market software these days feels like living with an unruly pet where you have to constantly stop what you're doing to check if it's secretly eating plastic under the dresser again
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DEMOCRATS: we have to win by playing by the rules!
SUPREME COURT: [shuffling papers] uhhh the rules say here you're not allowed to play at all
SUPREME COURT: [shuffling papers] uhhh the rules say here you're not allowed to play at all
March 19, 2024 at 6:47 PM
DEMOCRATS: we have to win by playing by the rules!
SUPREME COURT: [shuffling papers] uhhh the rules say here you're not allowed to play at all
SUPREME COURT: [shuffling papers] uhhh the rules say here you're not allowed to play at all
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If you let it outside, it isn't insider information anymore.
One of the Greatest Wall Street Investors of All Time Announces Retirement
Nancy Pelosi’s trades over the years have been so good that a startup was created to allow investors to directly mirror her portfolio.
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
If you let it outside, it isn't insider information anymore.
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I don’t know what it is with so many boomers treating their knowledge like a precious family recipe that you’re not related enough to learn. Literally pass on your wisdom you weirdos you’re gonna die
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I don’t know what it is with so many boomers treating their knowledge like a precious family recipe that you’re not related enough to learn. Literally pass on your wisdom you weirdos you’re gonna die
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Ultimately Nancy Pelosi’s legacy is that she just kinda forgot to mentor a single person and that’s why we have Hakeem Jeffries now
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Ultimately Nancy Pelosi’s legacy is that she just kinda forgot to mentor a single person and that’s why we have Hakeem Jeffries now
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The only thing I find more annoying than fancy quantitative political scientists inventing a new epicycle every single election to explain why the macroeconomy predicted the outcome is how incredibly condescending they get when you point this looks a whole lot like making things up as you go along
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The only thing I find more annoying than fancy quantitative political scientists inventing a new epicycle every single election to explain why the macroeconomy predicted the outcome is how incredibly condescending they get when you point this looks a whole lot like making things up as you go along
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Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
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I spent a year in government in a civil law enforcement capacity and there is nothing on this Earth that has come close to the experience of being the guy who gets to say "I'm from the government and we think what happened to you is really fucked up, would you like to testify against the bastards?"
& also underestimate how many government workers are already itching to be given a mandate to do big things and make a positive difference in people’s lives rather than just keep the lights on and tinker around the edges sometimes
November 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I spent a year in government in a civil law enforcement capacity and there is nothing on this Earth that has come close to the experience of being the guy who gets to say "I'm from the government and we think what happened to you is really fucked up, would you like to testify against the bastards?"
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think most left-leaning folks underestimate the importance and impact of having your cadres in the bureaucracy as well as in elected positions
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
think most left-leaning folks underestimate the importance and impact of having your cadres in the bureaucracy as well as in elected positions
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& also underestimate how many government workers are already itching to be given a mandate to do big things and make a positive difference in people’s lives rather than just keep the lights on and tinker around the edges sometimes
November 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
& also underestimate how many government workers are already itching to be given a mandate to do big things and make a positive difference in people’s lives rather than just keep the lights on and tinker around the edges sometimes