Peter Klecha
@peet.bsky.social
software engineer at Bloomberg LP, TC39 delegate, linguist, ex-academic. i also post about sports and politics. opinions etc are my own. he/they.
my kid (4;11) has fully generalized this and will call any non-electric thing “acoustic”
Whence my favourite retronym: acoustic bicycle.
Acoustic guitars used to just be called ‘guitars.’
Then, we invented electric guitars. Oh no.
Which meant saying ‘guitar’ wasn’t clear enough.
So 'guitars' became 'acoustic guitars.'
‘Acoustic guitar’ is an example of a ‘retronym.’
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Then, we invented electric guitars. Oh no.
Which meant saying ‘guitar’ wasn’t clear enough.
So 'guitars' became 'acoustic guitars.'
‘Acoustic guitar’ is an example of a ‘retronym.’
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January 14, 2026 at 1:34 AM
my kid (4;11) has fully generalized this and will call any non-electric thing “acoustic”
such absolute bullshit, very proud of my wife and her city council colleagues protesting this today
NYC Council employee detained by immigration officials in Nassau County, speaker says
Speaker Julie Menin called the detention an “apparent overreach."
gothamist.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:54 PM
such absolute bullshit, very proud of my wife and her city council colleagues protesting this today
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Just once I'd ilke to hear a coach say "we're dying to get into a track meet with them. Our guys are better than theirs at that kind of hockey, so if we can trade chances with them that gives us the best chance to win".
January 1, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Just once I'd ilke to hear a coach say "we're dying to get into a track meet with them. Our guys are better than theirs at that kind of hockey, so if we can trade chances with them that gives us the best chance to win".
trump take time
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
trump take time
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![[me, trapped in Lalande 21185 observational simulation hell #43233, circa common era one million]
[glowing six-eyed lizard creature, i call him "pat"] so it's like every species has this petroleum gap they have to get over
[me] oh i know exactly what you mean
[pat] like you shoot up to industrial civilization status because of fossil fuels, and then there's like this timer running, can you use the free energy of the fossil fuels to transition to a better energy source before you either run out or wreck your climate
[me] we did the climate thing
[pat] yeah we were totally blindsided. we had a series of glacier formations trapping giant methane bubbles so we were off to feedback loop city before we even noticed the carbon ppm was rising
[me] we actually saw it coming. we had like 100 years between us figuring out that carbon was affecting our climate and the system first going nonlinear
[pat] oh damn how did you allocate your resources during that time
[me] *slowly takes a deep breath*
[me] *deep breath*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2aebn3xk5t63net43eeepire/bafkreihn7ifncu2wwlwwr54il6ocopyvn5xduxs3kedpuhu3bvelxs7jxq@jpeg)
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computers do exactly what they're told, and if they do something you did not intend it is because you approached them with imperfect courage
Pretty incredible to say "devs just need to be careful" in a universe where the C language exists.
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
computers do exactly what they're told, and if they do something you did not intend it is because you approached them with imperfect courage
😍😍😍
We’re here in Central Park with Mayor-Elect @ZohranKMamdani.bsky.social to announce that our Executive Director @AnnemarieGray.bsky.social will be joining his transition committee on housing!
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
😍😍😍
jesus fucking christ!
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
jesus fucking christ!
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Whoever set up a functional gmail style inbox of Epstein's inbox deserves a journalism prize.
jmail.world
jmail.world
Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com
You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Whoever set up a functional gmail style inbox of Epstein's inbox deserves a journalism prize.
jmail.world
jmail.world
those mamdani trump pictures have serious clinton-meets-kim-jong-il vibes
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
those mamdani trump pictures have serious clinton-meets-kim-jong-il vibes
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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wait until JCO finds out about how he doesn't even actually play video games
November 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
wait until JCO finds out about how he doesn't even actually play video games
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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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Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
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also i see a lot of QTs saying “this better not take ppls jobs”. i hope it does? these are the tedious jobs AI/robotics *should* be taking instead of “artist” and “actor” and whatnot? ideally combined with a 2023-era joe biden economy?
November 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
also i see a lot of QTs saying “this better not take ppls jobs”. i hope it does? these are the tedious jobs AI/robotics *should* be taking instead of “artist” and “actor” and whatnot? ideally combined with a 2023-era joe biden economy?
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France should have kept its language at home then.
The Ivory Coast is changing the way French is spoken and France is mad about it.
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
France should have kept its language at home then.
wouldn’t a couple of long arms on a track attached to the ceiling be infinitely better?
The loading-the-dishwasher struggle is real. Even—or especially—for the $20,000 1X Neo humanoid home robot.
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
November 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
wouldn’t a couple of long arms on a track attached to the ceiling be infinitely better?
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If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)
November 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)
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i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
October 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
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shout out to the “Hot Girls 4 Zohran” page for a great ballot question explainer and endorsement of voting YES on ballot measures 2-4
October 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
shout out to the “Hot Girls 4 Zohran” page for a great ballot question explainer and endorsement of voting YES on ballot measures 2-4
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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
October 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
need federal legislation to cap all major sports leagues at 32 teams
October 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
need federal legislation to cap all major sports leagues at 32 teams
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what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee