Matt Simmons
@standalonesa.bsky.social
SRE @ Varda Space Industries - formerly SpaceX/Starlink
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Matt Simmons
@standalonesa.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Okay, across my 20-ish years in social media, I've been involved in a lot of different stuff. Here's stuff I'm currently into:
1 - SRE/DevOps/SysAd, or whatever you call it these days
2 - Space/Aerospace
3 - Electronics / robotics
4 - actual positive use of AI models
What about you?
1 - SRE/DevOps/SysAd, or whatever you call it these days
2 - Space/Aerospace
3 - Electronics / robotics
4 - actual positive use of AI models
What about you?
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Many people and institutions that fight back are winning.
This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.
This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.
Kimmel won. Winning matters, wins are how we’re going to prevent this autocratic slide.
September 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Many people and institutions that fight back are winning.
This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.
This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.
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Hi everyone
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
June 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Hi everyone
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
Getting old is like, "sorry, you've accidentally lived long enough to be useless to genetic progression so evolution no longer cares whether your various parts work or not. Congratulations on not getting stomped by a mammoth"
April 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Getting old is like, "sorry, you've accidentally lived long enough to be useless to genetic progression so evolution no longer cares whether your various parts work or not. Congratulations on not getting stomped by a mammoth"
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Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.
March 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.
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The distance between a legal resident who's not a citizen being deported without due process and a citizen being deported without due process is a hell of a lot shorter than many folks seem to believe, and when it does happen to a citizen, just remember it started here and who was quiet in response.
March 17, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The distance between a legal resident who's not a citizen being deported without due process and a citizen being deported without due process is a hell of a lot shorter than many folks seem to believe, and when it does happen to a citizen, just remember it started here and who was quiet in response.
I own a company as a side hustle. My company is growing. It's a registered Delaware C-Corp, I have a corp bank account, a CPA, insurance, pay thousands a year for IT infra, my product services cities with millions of people.
#Indeed refuses to believe I'm a real company. I am done with them.
#Indeed refuses to believe I'm a real company. I am done with them.
March 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I own a company as a side hustle. My company is growing. It's a registered Delaware C-Corp, I have a corp bank account, a CPA, insurance, pay thousands a year for IT infra, my product services cities with millions of people.
#Indeed refuses to believe I'm a real company. I am done with them.
#Indeed refuses to believe I'm a real company. I am done with them.
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More of this, please. (And especially from white men, not just people of color!)
Had not heard Denver's Mayor speak.
How do people feel about him?
How do people feel about him?
Johnston delivers opening statement during 'sanctuary city' hearing
YouTube video by 9NEWS
www.youtube.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
More of this, please. (And especially from white men, not just people of color!)
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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Blue Ghost is on the moon.
The lunar horizon, with Earth in view, seen from our lander's top deck:
The lunar horizon, with Earth in view, seen from our lander's top deck:
March 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Blue Ghost is on the moon.
The lunar horizon, with Earth in view, seen from our lander's top deck:
The lunar horizon, with Earth in view, seen from our lander's top deck:
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Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military:
February 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military:
Hey fellow people who shave,
I am looking for safety razor blade suggestions. I finally ran out of a bulk box that I bought 10+ years ago and now I need more. What do you buy, if you use safety razors?
I am looking for safety razor blade suggestions. I finally ran out of a bulk box that I bought 10+ years ago and now I need more. What do you buy, if you use safety razors?
February 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Hey fellow people who shave,
I am looking for safety razor blade suggestions. I finally ran out of a bulk box that I bought 10+ years ago and now I need more. What do you buy, if you use safety razors?
I am looking for safety razor blade suggestions. I finally ran out of a bulk box that I bought 10+ years ago and now I need more. What do you buy, if you use safety razors?
That feeling when you wonder if you blew a speaker, but then you realize that you're listening to Lofi
February 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
That feeling when you wonder if you blew a speaker, but then you realize that you're listening to Lofi
Most people are probably well past this, but I just published a pretty simple AI playground kind of thing, based around Open-WebUI, backed by LiteLLM, Ollama, and SearXNG:
github.com/standaloneSA...
Maybe it will be useful for some people?
github.com/standaloneSA...
Maybe it will be useful for some people?
GitHub - standaloneSA/onprem-ai: On-prem config for docker-compose setup for AI studio
On-prem config for docker-compose setup for AI studio - standaloneSA/onprem-ai
github.com
February 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Most people are probably well past this, but I just published a pretty simple AI playground kind of thing, based around Open-WebUI, backed by LiteLLM, Ollama, and SearXNG:
github.com/standaloneSA...
Maybe it will be useful for some people?
github.com/standaloneSA...
Maybe it will be useful for some people?
I'm way less enamored by DuckDuckGo than I used to be
February 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I'm way less enamored by DuckDuckGo than I used to be
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Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste.
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
February 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste.
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
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Me: BATMAN BEGINS is great, but I was amused by the writers’-fiat plot device that a place can be SO corrupt that some reasonably-organized foreign actor can just puppeteer it on a whim.
Me, 20 years later: fuck
Me, 20 years later: fuck
February 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Me: BATMAN BEGINS is great, but I was amused by the writers’-fiat plot device that a place can be SO corrupt that some reasonably-organized foreign actor can just puppeteer it on a whim.
Me, 20 years later: fuck
Me, 20 years later: fuck
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
In case there's any doubt, let CULT OF THE DEAD COW clear this up for you: This is hacktivism.
In case there's any doubt, let CULT OF THE DEAD COW clear this up for you: This is hacktivism.
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
www.404media.co
February 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
In case there's any doubt, let CULT OF THE DEAD COW clear this up for you: This is hacktivism.
In case there's any doubt, let CULT OF THE DEAD COW clear this up for you: This is hacktivism.
Every time I see the cover art for The Fat of the Land, I think, "Wait, did The Prodigy do Crab Rave?"
February 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Every time I see the cover art for The Fat of the Land, I think, "Wait, did The Prodigy do Crab Rave?"
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The craziest part is how they have to keep going out there and repainting the numbers on the deck as the ship rotates….
USS John F. Kennedy captured by a KH-9 HEXAGON spy satellite while it was in Norfolk on November 18, 1976.
You can see the '67' on it's deck.
You can see the '67' on it's deck.
February 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The craziest part is how they have to keep going out there and repainting the numbers on the deck as the ship rotates….
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I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
January 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going