Kevin Newman
owldown.bsky.social
Kevin Newman
@owldown.bsky.social
I like phonics.
It belongs in a museum.
GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY: Nolen Royalty made a cross-platform client that synchronizes everyone's CAPS LOCK key https://globalcapslock.com/
February 7, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Jason Kottke on his shifting focus to covering the U.S. coup: it's hard to keep posting fun creative projects while your country is being gutted, but I'll keep going until I can't anymore https://kottke.org/25/02/a-pro...
February 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
February 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."

He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts
A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I’ve been very impressed with Severance but wow tonight’s episode was a big deal. Like Twin.Peaks.S03.08.1080p.mkv big deal.
February 7, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Sure it had to drain an entire freshwater lake to get this answer, but you have to admit it’s worth it
January 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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After a shooting in Nashville last week, students are marching on the Tennessee Capitol, but the governor has called the special session to focus on school vouchers and immigration enforcement. via @wpln.bsky.social
Two years after Covenant, students march at the TN capitol in renewed push for gun reform
The shooting at Antioch High School has reignited calls for gun reform at the statehouse, drawing on the urgency previously seen in the wake of the Covenant School shooting. But activists aren’t hopef...
wpln.org
January 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.

Smashed records.

Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Bluesky! Hope this keeps building. I’m not great at social media and thought this app was pronounced “blue-ski” for longer than I’d like to admit. But here’s a little colored pencil demo that I made for a class.
#artinstruction #coloredpencil #art #artteacher #dohashtagsworkhere
January 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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💯
January 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I don’t know if we have the technology yet, but I can imagine an artificial intelligence model that can listen to a song and then spit out an audio file of a parody version of that song. It will be called WeirdAIL.
January 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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This my friends is called engagement farming, and you're going to be seeing a lot of it. The best ways to clock it:

1. Posts about something that's already widely reported
2. Aims to leverage despair, rage and/or anxiety for an emotional response
3. Offers no actual insights or analysis

Look out!
January 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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The “free speech defenders,” ladies and gentlemen.
January 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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if you'd told me in 1995 that a woman singer-songwriter would believe vaccines magnetized your blood and ham cured measles, i 100% would've picked jewel
January 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

Hero.
January 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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oh, youre here from tik tok? (chuckle's lightly ) Is that like reddit for babies
January 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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January 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM