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Martin Barry
@supine.bsky.social
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he/him

people + computers

https://supine.com/about/

Was @martinbarry on the birb site
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cormacmccafe.bsky.social
RIP David Stratton. A personal hero of mine, and the sort of person I aspire to be.
August 14, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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punkrockhistory.bsky.social
Remembering Adam Yauch aka MCA

August 5, 1964 - May 4, 2012

Beastie Boys HD : Sabotage ( David Letterman ) - 1994

#hardcorepunk #hiphop #mca #adamyauch #beastieboys #history #punkrockhistory #otd
May 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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gregjenner.bsky.social
Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine
• Al Overview The idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" means you can't trick or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once. It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they are unlikely to fall for the same trick again. Here's a more detailed explanation: • Licking: "Licking" in this context means to trick or deceive someone. • Badger: The badger is a wild animal, and the phrase likely originates from the historical sport of badger baiting where dogs were used to harass
April 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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stupidhoroscope.bsky.social
⚠️ You have changed you language to: Australian English.
Do you want to keep these changes?

[Nah, Yeah] [Yeah, Nah]
January 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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emilyoram.bsky.social
This is a beautiful tribute.
kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.
January 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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radlein.bsky.social
BREAKING: Critical Safety Margin Mistaken for Redundant Excess Yet Again
November 28, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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opinionhaver.bsky.social
I think the story of media, particularly online media, in the last couple decades is basically “market becomes more efficient, society realizes inefficiency was load bearing ”
November 27, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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aweiss.bsky.social
After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers.

Science works, y'all.

www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
Closure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why.
Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.
www.startribune.com
December 27, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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charity.wtf
I (finally) wrote up my thoughts on "Founder Mode" and the Brian Chesky morality tale about how he turned around Airbnb company culture.

This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. There are some good nuggets within; let's dig them out.

charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...
“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking
I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot …
charity.wtf
December 17, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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kelseyhightower.com
I'm about to rebrand all my cron jobs to AI agents and raise a $100,000,000 seed round.
December 18, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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timmathews.bsky.social
Here are my book recommendations for the new year:

Read the books you already bought.
December 10, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
July 6, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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endingwithali.com
ethernet? you mean the wifi cable
December 9, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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rosiemund.bsky.social
Any "avid cyclist" who claims that the solution to road safety for cyclists is simply to be more skilled and assertive should be required to demonstrate that they are more skilled and assertive than Olympic Champion Remco Evenepoel who was, this week, doored.
December 8, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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elleisanisland.bsky.social
I recently started trying to keep plants alive and I didn't realize that eventually I'd have to punish the plants by hacking off the parts that were growing too well. What kind of sick hobby is this
December 4, 2024 at 2:12 AM
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0xdaeda1a.bsky.social
The problem with Bluesky verification as domains is that they have confused the Registration Authority with the Certificate Authority.

This is an extremely common issue and not entirely their fault. But verification needs the RA.
December 3, 2024 at 5:39 AM
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daryo.me
La fameuse fenêtre d’Overton
December 1, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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esk.lol
When I'm not doing $WORK, I help the Hachyderm infrastructure team run hachyderm.io, a large Mastodon instance (55k users/11k MAU). Today, we published an analysis of our tech stack to prepare for access and resilience risks from the incoming US government.

community.hachyderm.io/blog/2024/11...
Ensuring Hachyderm's Future: Improving Safety & Resilience through Strategic Placement of Infrastructure
Updates about Hachyderm infrastructure and security plans, risk assessments, etc. for the new year.
community.hachyderm.io
November 30, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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angiejones.tech
My latest blog post covers how a simple observation at airport security highlights the concept of Betterment and how it applies to engineering teams. Which group are you in?

angiejones.tech/the-betterme...
The Betterment Metric - Angie Jones
A simple observation at airport security highlights the concept of Betterment and how it applies to engineering teams. Which group are you in?
angiejones.tech
November 22, 2024 at 4:54 PM
supine.bsky.social
And back we go...
SYD ✈️ SIN ✈️ DEL ✈️ ZRH ✈️ AMS ✈️ FRA
#9V-SWB
Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER registration 9V-SWB parked at Sydney Airport international gate 58 on a warm but overcast morning before a flight to Singapore.
November 27, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
We have a live example of why they're called "pig-butchering" scammers! They're called that because they use the whole pig, ie, they don't just take a little money from their victims, they slaughter them and use them all. I'm gonna be slow on this thread because I'm doing exhaustive alt text, but:
November 22, 2024 at 9:10 PM
supine.bsky.social
Any day you get to introduce someone to the "Ironies of automation" paper is a good day.
November 22, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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ksenzee.bsky.social
Unfortunately, as you probably already know, people
November 20, 2024 at 5:51 AM
supine.bsky.social
And so it begins...

FRA ✈️ AMS ✈️ ZRH ✈️ NRT 🚌 HND ✈️ SYD

#EI-HIB
Cityjet CRJ-1000EL registration EI-HIB parked at Amsterdam Schiphol airport after operating a flight from Frankfurt on behalf of Lufthansa.
November 17, 2024 at 7:53 PM