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Doug Simpkinson
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Software guy. Former Googler. Pilot. Cocktail and sunset enthusiast.
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Sodastream website with "Sodaheim" instead of "Sodastream" in the text
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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This story has a bigger twist in it than the Appalachian Trail does.
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
Conversation with Claude about tracery parsers, and it advises me to look at kate comptons parser, to which i reply “but Doctor i am kate compton”
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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PCMCai
September 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Can we talk about headline font choices @alyankovic.bsky.social
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Sep 28
LAST WEEK: “Don’t take Tylenol. Don’t take it.”

THIS WEEK: … 🤡

@thedailybeast.bsky.social
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September 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The nasty people of Winamp are doing terrible things to the llama
August 19, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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breaking my don’t @ electeds online to remind @schumer.senate.gov

TRANS KIDS ARE AMERICANS

WHO JUST LOST HEALTHCARE ACCESS

& 275,000 TRANS PEOPLE’S HEALTHCARE ACCESS IS ON THE LINE IN THE BUDGET

WE ARE NOT A DISTRACTION FROM OTHER ISSUES, WE ARE AMERICAN PEOPLE BEING HARMED RIGHT NOW

YOU DICK
June 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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async await async await async await async await

in the function, the mighty function, the child thread sleeps tonight 🎵
May 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Star Wars Episode XVI - The Penultimate Jedi
petersagal.bsky.social Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · May 5
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie.

20 Things I Hate About You

The Matrices

The Godparents
dansaltzstein.bsky.social Dan Saltzstein @dansaltzstein.bsky.social · May 5
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie.

4002: A Space Odyssey
May 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Battle Point (YTT 10) heading over to Dabob Bay at moonset/sunrise.
Torpedo trials craft Battle Point on the waters of Hood Canal at dawn, with a forested peninsula and Mt Washington in the Olympic range in the background. The sky is a mix of gray, rose, and purple, with a setting nearly full moon filtered through thin clouds. Waters of the Hood Canal at dawn with a setting nearly full moon filtered through thin clouds. A forested peninsula and Mt Washington and The Brothers (mountain) in the Olympic range in the background. The sky is a mix of gray, rose, and purple. Torpedo trials craft Battle Point on the waters of Hood Canal at dawn, with a forested peninsula and Mt Constance in the Olympic range in the background. The sky is a mix of gray, rose, and purple.
April 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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I would love to get this shirt, but objectively, I spent as much time as I possibly could have on the computer when they were fun to use.
dasharez0ne.bsky.social da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · Apr 1
I SHOULD HAVE SPENT MORE TIME ON THE COMPUTER WHEN THEY WERE FUN TO USE

SHIRT AVALIABLE AT dashare.zone

- dashare.zone ADMIN
BLACK TSHRIT THAT SAYS I SHOULD HAVE SPENT MORE TIME ON THE COMPUTER WHEN THEY WERE FUN TO USE
April 13, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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trump joins biden on the exclusive list of "presidents in office when the dow smashed through 40k"
April 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Only 25 minutes until the impact of America’s renewed strength takes hold! I’m so excited to see what happens!
April 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Reply All == instant workplace organizing
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Apr 2
A new round of deferred resignation offers went out to civil servants. The problem is that employees on administrative could not access their work emails. Offers were sent to their personal emails. And then rescinded a few hours later. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
By midday Tuesday, the rollout had run into snags. One probationary employee at the Agriculture Department said he knew the second round of resignation offers went out Tuesday, but he could not check his work email to see if he qualified because he had been placed on leave. Then, to his surprise, a message arrived to his personal email account from the human resources arm of his department, offering all probationary employees the second-round deferred resignation offer, according to the email reviewed by The Post. It began with “Hello!!!” — which he found a strange tone to strike. He noticed he could see the list of all email recipients: 397 personal addresses copied on the message. Scrolling through, the employee recognized the names of a few colleagues. “It honestly felt violating,” the employee said. “I don't want everyone to have access to my personal email.”
April 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Is this bad? This looks bad.
www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...
March 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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what
Listing for Rolex Daytona watch for sale that includes "unworn full set Pikachu"
March 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Enjoying some amazing patio weather in advance of this storm that's supposed to hit soon.
An approaching storm in the distance with some blue skies and high clouds in the late afternoon. The water of Hood Canal reflects the sun, and a bare tree is in the foreground.
March 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Epic thread.
March 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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It’s @rudyfraser.com with the second most important concept slide this morning.

… and his deck just keeps going. The entire presentation is a beautiful follow up on these concepts, and approachability, and moderation, and autonomy, and and and …

❤️

#ATmosphereConf #BlackSky
Horseless Carriage Syndrome * New technologies initially imitate the old technologies they are replacing * It makes the new tech more understandable by keeping familiar features * If we never move past the "horseless carriage" stage, we fail to reap the full benefits of innovation
March 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Had such a great time at #ATmosphereConf I forgot to take any useful pictures, so my commute photos will have to do.

So many great talks, looking forward to tomorrow!
Sunrise on the Olympic mountains with whispy clouds and water of the Hood canal in the foreground. A steel sculpture that looks a bit like a like-like from Breath of the Wild
March 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Finally "pair of pants" makes sense.
alexdecampi.bsky.social Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Mar 18
I have seen the most cursèd jeans imaginable and now you have seen them too.

Please guess to yourself what their price is and then click the link in replies to see how close you were.
A slim woman wearing a black skintight catsuit, sunglasses, and what can best be described as thigh-high denim garters with little mini-belts, which would absolutely not fall down as soon as you took three steps in them
March 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Caught one departing 3.5 years ago from my airplane. I didn't want to get too close to assets likely to be covered by air defense.
Hood canal bridge open with a submarine exiting and other boats escorting. Hood canal bridge open with a submarine exiting and other boats escorting. Hood canal bridge open with a submarine exiting and other boats escorting.
March 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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My opponents on the other side of the aisle with the Face Eating Leopards Party WANT us to shut down the government so that leopards can eat OTHER body parts we will miss EVEN MORE than our faces!

As terrible as this deal is, we must vote yes on the Leopards Continuing to Eat Faces bill.
March 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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♫
It was a slap in the face
How quickly you changed your place
And are you thinking of me
When you cloture
♫
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Mar 14
AOC calls it a “slap in the face”, says Senate Dems who vote for the CR are “codifying the chaos” and “empowering” Musk and the GOP and the “robbing of our federal government to finance tax cuts for billionaires”
March 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM