todd k
@toddak.bsky.social
Former scientist, currently in gaming. No one of consequence, mainly just lurking here.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Los Campesinos!
Neko Case
Orbital
Nine Inch Nails
Tom Petty
Los Campesinos!
Neko Case
Orbital
Nine Inch Nails
Tom Petty
Lila Downs
Pink Floyd
Flogging Molly
Social Distortion
Nortec Collective
Pink Floyd
Flogging Molly
Social Distortion
Nortec Collective
introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Rush
ZZ Top
The Donnas
Aerosmith
Billy Joel
Rush
ZZ Top
The Donnas
Aerosmith
Billy Joel
November 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Los Campesinos!
Neko Case
Orbital
Nine Inch Nails
Tom Petty
Los Campesinos!
Neko Case
Orbital
Nine Inch Nails
Tom Petty
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An area that allows you to play just a little bit to remember the controls for when you put a game down and pick it up again months later. Also a short summary of what you’ve done so far.
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
An area that allows you to play just a little bit to remember the controls for when you put a game down and pick it up again months later. Also a short summary of what you’ve done so far.
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My name is Pagliacci, Clown of Clowns. Look on my works, ye doctors; I despair.
My name is Ozymandias, King Of Kings. You looked on my works. Prepare to die.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and no worries if not.
October 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
My name is Pagliacci, Clown of Clowns. Look on my works, ye doctors; I despair.
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y’all I’m going to be real, the workers at the biggest music venues in DC are trying to unionize
we need IMP the parent company to recognize voluntarily
that won’t happen without noise
please, bluesky, do what u do best
@930club.bsky.social
@theatlantisdc.bsky.social
@theanthemdc.bsky.social
we need IMP the parent company to recognize voluntarily
that won’t happen without noise
please, bluesky, do what u do best
@930club.bsky.social
@theatlantisdc.bsky.social
@theanthemdc.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
y’all I’m going to be real, the workers at the biggest music venues in DC are trying to unionize
we need IMP the parent company to recognize voluntarily
that won’t happen without noise
please, bluesky, do what u do best
@930club.bsky.social
@theatlantisdc.bsky.social
@theanthemdc.bsky.social
we need IMP the parent company to recognize voluntarily
that won’t happen without noise
please, bluesky, do what u do best
@930club.bsky.social
@theatlantisdc.bsky.social
@theanthemdc.bsky.social
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Okay so I'm gonna stop yapping about sales and comics and cards and crow stuffies for a moment and point out officially on social medias that we support @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social as mayor of Seattle and if you're like "wow I really support ur small business" you should vote for Katie Wilson. 🧵
October 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Okay so I'm gonna stop yapping about sales and comics and cards and crow stuffies for a moment and point out officially on social medias that we support @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social as mayor of Seattle and if you're like "wow I really support ur small business" you should vote for Katie Wilson. 🧵
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hi, cis folks!
trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too.
we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi
info & script in the🧵⬇️
trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too.
we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi
info & script in the🧵⬇️
September 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
hi, cis folks!
trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too.
we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi
info & script in the🧵⬇️
trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too.
we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi
info & script in the🧵⬇️
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Hey, um, we need help. Moving is costing us at least $10k more than we planned for and we may need to close down the shop for a short while so... we're running our first ever fundraiser. outsidercomics.com/moving-updat... You can also help by shopping our moving sale this weekend.
September 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Hey, um, we need help. Moving is costing us at least $10k more than we planned for and we may need to close down the shop for a short while so... we're running our first ever fundraiser. outsidercomics.com/moving-updat... You can also help by shopping our moving sale this weekend.
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The map's form: baked
It shows: allies
Its purpose: sacred
It shows: allies
Its purpose: sacred
September 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The map's form: baked
It shows: allies
Its purpose: sacred
It shows: allies
Its purpose: sacred
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Iconic photo of pioneer punk women taken by Michael Putland 45 years ago. #music
From left to right, top to bottom:
- Debbie Harry (Blondie)
- Viv Albertine (The Slits)
- Siouxsie Soux (SATB)
- Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)
- Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex)
- Pauline Black (The Selecter)
From left to right, top to bottom:
- Debbie Harry (Blondie)
- Viv Albertine (The Slits)
- Siouxsie Soux (SATB)
- Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)
- Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex)
- Pauline Black (The Selecter)
August 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Iconic photo of pioneer punk women taken by Michael Putland 45 years ago. #music
From left to right, top to bottom:
- Debbie Harry (Blondie)
- Viv Albertine (The Slits)
- Siouxsie Soux (SATB)
- Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)
- Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex)
- Pauline Black (The Selecter)
From left to right, top to bottom:
- Debbie Harry (Blondie)
- Viv Albertine (The Slits)
- Siouxsie Soux (SATB)
- Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)
- Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex)
- Pauline Black (The Selecter)
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The Breeders
I wonder if anyone ever formed a band around _not_ liking the Pixies
August 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The Breeders
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A dramatic week in the AI wars made it clear that the future is far from lost, and that we can't afford to fight for it on the tech community's terms.
In Review: It’s Not Too Late for the Movies to Reject AI
A dramatic week in the AI wars made it clear that the future is far from lost, and that we can't afford to fight for it on the tech community's terms.
bit.ly
August 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A dramatic week in the AI wars made it clear that the future is far from lost, and that we can't afford to fight for it on the tech community's terms.
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NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
By Anas Baba
By Anas Baba
Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
n.pr
July 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
By Anas Baba
By Anas Baba
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To anyone being hit by layoffs today,
It's not you. It's them. It isn't your fault. It's theirs. You didn't do anything wrong. They did.
They fucked up. Not you.
It's not you. It's them. It isn't your fault. It's theirs. You didn't do anything wrong. They did.
They fucked up. Not you.
July 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
To anyone being hit by layoffs today,
It's not you. It's them. It isn't your fault. It's theirs. You didn't do anything wrong. They did.
They fucked up. Not you.
It's not you. It's them. It isn't your fault. It's theirs. You didn't do anything wrong. They did.
They fucked up. Not you.
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Procedural rules and mechanisms have substantive effects. There's an old legal saying that equity suffers no wrong without a remedy. The court ended that maxim today.
So yes, for many people in the United States, birthright citizenship was repealed today.
That doesn't mean we stop fighting.
So yes, for many people in the United States, birthright citizenship was repealed today.
That doesn't mean we stop fighting.
June 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Procedural rules and mechanisms have substantive effects. There's an old legal saying that equity suffers no wrong without a remedy. The court ended that maxim today.
So yes, for many people in the United States, birthright citizenship was repealed today.
That doesn't mean we stop fighting.
So yes, for many people in the United States, birthright citizenship was repealed today.
That doesn't mean we stop fighting.
Well, if we're reliving 2003, I guess blasting Hearts of Oak just makes sense.
"If there's another shitty war to fight for Babylon" indeed. :/
"If there's another shitty war to fight for Babylon" indeed. :/
June 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Well, if we're reliving 2003, I guess blasting Hearts of Oak just makes sense.
"If there's another shitty war to fight for Babylon" indeed. :/
"If there's another shitty war to fight for Babylon" indeed. :/
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I have a few thoughts about this! I have a monthly column, I am regularly invited to give public science talks, and I've written a pop sci book that continues to sell remarkably well, four years in -- and is also taught in classrooms around the US.
AND I reached audiences that other pop sci didn't.
AND I reached audiences that other pop sci didn't.
Interesting thread. I wonder whether it says that the most important barrier to scientific literacy is (self-directed) interest, not availability of popular science. They’re related but getting people curious about (and interested in) science may be upstream of getting them to engage with pop sci.
What do you think is the point of pop science?
I've been reading in it a bit and it seems like at least with US data, despite US arguably being in a golden age of popular science, with infinite info available in many forms:
1) science literacy has been basically stable for decades, not improvnig
I've been reading in it a bit and it seems like at least with US data, despite US arguably being in a golden age of popular science, with infinite info available in many forms:
1) science literacy has been basically stable for decades, not improvnig
June 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I have a few thoughts about this! I have a monthly column, I am regularly invited to give public science talks, and I've written a pop sci book that continues to sell remarkably well, four years in -- and is also taught in classrooms around the US.
AND I reached audiences that other pop sci didn't.
AND I reached audiences that other pop sci didn't.
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Wearing traditional cosmetic face masks from their homeland of Madagascar, they agreed to be photographed to take a stand.
Photos: Why it took courage for these women to pose for the camera
Wearing traditional cosmetic face masks from their homeland of Madagascar, they agreed to be photographed to take a stand.
n.pr
June 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Wearing traditional cosmetic face masks from their homeland of Madagascar, they agreed to be photographed to take a stand.
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Bluesky is “screen reader accessible” the way a staircase with curb cuts on each step is a “wheelchair ramp.”
No keyboard nav. No useful landmarks. No focus memory. I lose my place every time I interact with a post.
Compliance ≠ usability.
Day 23 asking @support.bsky.team to fix this #A11yFail
No keyboard nav. No useful landmarks. No focus memory. I lose my place every time I interact with a post.
Compliance ≠ usability.
Day 23 asking @support.bsky.team to fix this #A11yFail
June 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Bluesky is “screen reader accessible” the way a staircase with curb cuts on each step is a “wheelchair ramp.”
No keyboard nav. No useful landmarks. No focus memory. I lose my place every time I interact with a post.
Compliance ≠ usability.
Day 23 asking @support.bsky.team to fix this #A11yFail
No keyboard nav. No useful landmarks. No focus memory. I lose my place every time I interact with a post.
Compliance ≠ usability.
Day 23 asking @support.bsky.team to fix this #A11yFail
Well damn, that sucks. RIP to a great one.
JUST IN: The musical visionary led a multi-racial funk band that produced five Top 10 hits in the late 1960s and early '70s
Sly Stone, visionary funk frontman of the Family Stone, has died at age 82
The musical visionary led a multi-racial funk band that produced five Top 10 hits in the late 1960s and early '70s
n.pr
June 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Well damn, that sucks. RIP to a great one.
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Oh look, it's a fascinating answer that just needed that little extra bit of knowledge and context to lay out an underappreciated aspect of history WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS MIGHT BE POSSIBLE
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June 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Oh look, it's a fascinating answer that just needed that little extra bit of knowledge and context to lay out an underappreciated aspect of history WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS MIGHT BE POSSIBLE
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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@faitherinhicks.bsky.social “The Mummy” may have the quote of the day. “Then you didn’t love her enough”
DAAAAAAAAMN!
DAAAAAAAAMN!
May 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM
@faitherinhicks.bsky.social “The Mummy” may have the quote of the day. “Then you didn’t love her enough”
DAAAAAAAAMN!
DAAAAAAAAMN!
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Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
May 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”