Doug Wade
@dougwade.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy
Soccer, comics, TTRPGs, beer, mead, video games, gardening, fermenting, corgis, the indie web
I aspire to write and keep bees.
I follow #Sounders #ReignFC #BallardFC […]
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I aspire to write and keep bees.
I follow #Sounders #ReignFC #BallardFC […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.xyz/@dougwade, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
RE: https://tacobelllabs.net/@cactus/115934442441705549
You might say, “well, the llm knows how it works, so our bus number is actually infinite” but this is wrong because code is harder to read than it is to write and llms produce code so complicated and poorly written they themselves cannot […]
You might say, “well, the llm knows how it works, so our bus number is actually infinite” but this is wrong because code is harder to read than it is to write and llms produce code so complicated and poorly written they themselves cannot […]
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mastodon.xyz
January 21, 2026 at 7:35 PM
RE: https://tacobelllabs.net/@cactus/115934442441705549
You might say, “well, the llm knows how it works, so our bus number is actually infinite” but this is wrong because code is harder to read than it is to write and llms produce code so complicated and poorly written they themselves cannot […]
You might say, “well, the llm knows how it works, so our bus number is actually infinite” but this is wrong because code is harder to read than it is to write and llms produce code so complicated and poorly written they themselves cannot […]
“On the morning of February 6, 1919, about 60,000 workers, representing most of the unions in the city, walked off the job and brought Seattle to a grinding halt. The strike’s opponents feared violence and hysteria, but everything remained orderly. As strike leaders had arranged, hospitals and […]
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mastodon.xyz
January 21, 2026 at 6:48 PM
“On the morning of February 6, 1919, about 60,000 workers, representing most of the unions in the city, walked off the job and brought Seattle to a grinding halt. The strike’s opponents feared violence and hysteria, but everything remained orderly. As strike leaders had arranged, hospitals and […]
In Pollan’s book, “This is Your Mind on Plants,” Michael has a chapter where he reflects on his piece from the 70s on growing opium poppies and notes that what is most interesting to him about what he wrote is not that the infringements on his personal liberties didn’t come to pass — they did […]
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mastodon.xyz
January 21, 2026 at 6:29 PM
In Pollan’s book, “This is Your Mind on Plants,” Michael has a chapter where he reflects on his piece from the 70s on growing opium poppies and notes that what is most interesting to him about what he wrote is not that the infringements on his personal liberties didn’t come to pass — they did […]
The Torrent - Scepters game is tied 3-3 with 7 minutes left in the 2nd period and it is very fun. Tune in if that’s your thing: https://www.youtube.com/live/Ce8ZdVWNIO4?si=gOnCYBLhXVhT24Bz
#pwhl #seattletorrent
#pwhl #seattletorrent
January 21, 2026 at 4:31 AM
The Torrent - Scepters game is tied 3-3 with 7 minutes left in the 2nd period and it is very fun. Tune in if that’s your thing: https://www.youtube.com/live/Ce8ZdVWNIO4?si=gOnCYBLhXVhT24Bz
#pwhl #seattletorrent
#pwhl #seattletorrent
Reposted by Doug Wade
Hey @wesburdine.bsky.social
Did you know that Black Hart has cool merch plus a Solidarity Fund to help out?
It's kinda cool. I don't see the pint glass there, but maybe you know of some people who want to support a drag/soccer bar?
https://www.blackhartstp.com/new-products
Did you know that Black Hart has cool merch plus a Solidarity Fund to help out?
It's kinda cool. I don't see the pint glass there, but maybe you know of some people who want to support a drag/soccer bar?
https://www.blackhartstp.com/new-products
www.blackhartstp.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Hey @wesburdine.bsky.social
Did you know that Black Hart has cool merch plus a Solidarity Fund to help out?
It's kinda cool. I don't see the pint glass there, but maybe you know of some people who want to support a drag/soccer bar?
https://www.blackhartstp.com/new-products
Did you know that Black Hart has cool merch plus a Solidarity Fund to help out?
It's kinda cool. I don't see the pint glass there, but maybe you know of some people who want to support a drag/soccer bar?
https://www.blackhartstp.com/new-products
Thinking about Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me today:
“…the Dreamers are quoting Martin Luther King and exulting nonviolence for the weak and the biggest guns for the strong. Each time a police officer engages us, death, injury, maiming is possible. … The Dreamers accept this as the […]
“…the Dreamers are quoting Martin Luther King and exulting nonviolence for the weak and the biggest guns for the strong. Each time a police officer engages us, death, injury, maiming is possible. … The Dreamers accept this as the […]
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mastodon.xyz
January 19, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Thinking about Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me today:
“…the Dreamers are quoting Martin Luther King and exulting nonviolence for the weak and the biggest guns for the strong. Each time a police officer engages us, death, injury, maiming is possible. … The Dreamers accept this as the […]
“…the Dreamers are quoting Martin Luther King and exulting nonviolence for the weak and the biggest guns for the strong. Each time a police officer engages us, death, injury, maiming is possible. … The Dreamers accept this as the […]
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@rileytestut/115917812751736532
OK nevermind, THIS is the coolest thing I’ve ever done to my iPhone
OK nevermind, THIS is the coolest thing I’ve ever done to my iPhone
January 18, 2026 at 8:41 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@rileytestut/115917812751736532
OK nevermind, THIS is the coolest thing I’ve ever done to my iPhone
OK nevermind, THIS is the coolest thing I’ve ever done to my iPhone
I tried this with my parents and it doesn’t work at all! Turns out for 18 cents Amazon just doesn’t print out or include the gift note and then your parents report you for a brushing scam!
https://walzr.com/postal-arbitrage
https://walzr.com/postal-arbitrage
邮政套利
Postal Arbitrage (walzr.com)
01:41 ↑ 117 HN Points
walzr.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:06 AM
I tried this with my parents and it doesn’t work at all! Turns out for 18 cents Amazon just doesn’t print out or include the gift note and then your parents report you for a brushing scam!
https://walzr.com/postal-arbitrage
https://walzr.com/postal-arbitrage
If I were an enigmatic billionaire behind promoting the fediverse, I would create The Real World: #fediverse Rules with a bunch of 20 somethings living together in a house by a beach somewhere and required to only use an exclusive set of fedi instances like vernissage and loops. Follow em around […]
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mastodon.xyz
January 16, 2026 at 10:33 PM
If I were an enigmatic billionaire behind promoting the fediverse, I would create The Real World: #fediverse Rules with a bunch of 20 somethings living together in a house by a beach somewhere and required to only use an exclusive set of fedi instances like vernissage and loops. Follow em around […]
RE: https://theforkiverse.com/@SusanOML/115905707753869791
I wanna explain that there are some kinds of requests that make sense to submit to your instance admins, but other kinds of requests you might submit to mastodon, or your client, or to activitypub but I have no idea how to explain any […]
I wanna explain that there are some kinds of requests that make sense to submit to your instance admins, but other kinds of requests you might submit to mastodon, or your client, or to activitypub but I have no idea how to explain any […]
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mastodon.xyz
January 16, 2026 at 7:41 PM
RE: https://theforkiverse.com/@SusanOML/115905707753869791
I wanna explain that there are some kinds of requests that make sense to submit to your instance admins, but other kinds of requests you might submit to mastodon, or your client, or to activitypub but I have no idea how to explain any […]
I wanna explain that there are some kinds of requests that make sense to submit to your instance admins, but other kinds of requests you might submit to mastodon, or your client, or to activitypub but I have no idea how to explain any […]
Reposted by Doug Wade
I want to live in a world where I'm no more in danger from sexual assault from a man than I am a woman. I really don't think that's too much to ask of men.
January 16, 2026 at 2:31 PM
I want to live in a world where I'm no more in danger from sexual assault from a man than I am a woman. I really don't think that's too much to ask of men.
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Taking a look at the distribution of NWSL games this season. An early break for the Men's World Cup but then an uninterrupted break until October
January 16, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Taking a look at the distribution of NWSL games this season. An early break for the Men's World Cup but then an uninterrupted break until October
With the NWSL schedule out and MLS in preseason, I’m thinking about the coming soccer season, and curious what it will be like for my local USL2 and USLW teams. I suspect they’ll play through the World Cup; last USLW season was from 5/4 - 6/29. Maybe those games will be empty because there’s […]
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mastodon.xyz
January 16, 2026 at 5:10 PM
With the NWSL schedule out and MLS in preseason, I’m thinking about the coming soccer season, and curious what it will be like for my local USL2 and USLW teams. I suspect they’ll play through the World Cup; last USLW season was from 5/4 - 6/29. Maybe those games will be empty because there’s […]
Reposted by Doug Wade
ActivityPub standardization is back! The #W3C just announced a new Working Group to evolve #ActivityPub and #ActivityStream and related standards! This is extremely good news. It's not like all the world's federated social media protocol problems were already solved! lists.w3.org/Archive...
January 15, 2026 at 6:13 PM
ActivityPub standardization is back! The #W3C just announced a new Working Group to evolve #ActivityPub and #ActivityStream and related standards! This is extremely good news. It's not like all the world's federated social media protocol problems were already solved! lists.w3.org/Archive...
RE: https://twitter.com/NWSL/status/2011896294521127072
This will be our third consecutive nwsl match against Orlando — decision day, playoffs, opening day. I hope we get revenge for knocking us out of the cup race.
#reignfc #nwsl
This will be our third consecutive nwsl match against Orlando — decision day, playoffs, opening day. I hope we get revenge for knocking us out of the cup race.
#reignfc #nwsl
sportsbots.xyz
January 15, 2026 at 10:54 PM
RE: https://twitter.com/NWSL/status/2011896294521127072
This will be our third consecutive nwsl match against Orlando — decision day, playoffs, opening day. I hope we get revenge for knocking us out of the cup race.
#reignfc #nwsl
This will be our third consecutive nwsl match against Orlando — decision day, playoffs, opening day. I hope we get revenge for knocking us out of the cup race.
#reignfc #nwsl
RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/115893252440320042
It’s okay, the good World Cup isn’t until next year, and it’s in Brazil
It’s okay, the good World Cup isn’t until next year, and it’s in Brazil
mastodon.social
January 14, 2026 at 5:23 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/115893252440320042
It’s okay, the good World Cup isn’t until next year, and it’s in Brazil
It’s okay, the good World Cup isn’t until next year, and it’s in Brazil
The new #forkiverse influx has got me thinking, what IS the “killer feature” of the #fediverse for normies? Because I am convinced that the number one thing that fedi needs more of is normies, and I think most normies join mastodon and say, “well but this is just twitter; I can get this lots of […]
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mastodon.xyz
January 13, 2026 at 10:52 PM
The new #forkiverse influx has got me thinking, what IS the “killer feature” of the #fediverse for normies? Because I am convinced that the number one thing that fedi needs more of is normies, and I think most normies join mastodon and say, “well but this is just twitter; I can get this lots of […]
The Trump administration keeps saying that if you don’t want trouble with ICE, just stay home, and I’m kinda ready to let them have this one. Call in to work tomorrow, tell my boss, “sorry I can’t come today, ICE might shoot me. Yes, it is kind of like a strike, but I’m technically just […]
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mastodon.xyz
January 13, 2026 at 6:16 PM
The Trump administration keeps saying that if you don’t want trouble with ICE, just stay home, and I’m kinda ready to let them have this one. Call in to work tomorrow, tell my boss, “sorry I can’t come today, ICE might shoot me. Yes, it is kind of like a strike, but I’m technically just […]
RE: https://twitter.com/tombogert/status/2010796611132407901
To the quakes? To the earthquakes of San Jose?? To the San Jose Earthquakes???
To the quakes? To the earthquakes of San Jose?? To the San Jose Earthquakes???
sportsbots.xyz
January 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM
RE: https://twitter.com/tombogert/status/2010796611132407901
To the quakes? To the earthquakes of San Jose?? To the San Jose Earthquakes???
To the quakes? To the earthquakes of San Jose?? To the San Jose Earthquakes???
RE: https://me.dm/@anildash/115883238839538062
For me, Anil’s analogy is very strong. We finally built the English -> any programming language compiler we’ve been working on for generations and then handed it to people with no background in programming and gave them very little guidance on how […]
For me, Anil’s analogy is very strong. We finally built the English -> any programming language compiler we’ve been working on for generations and then handed it to people with no background in programming and gave them very little guidance on how […]
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mastodon.xyz
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
RE: https://me.dm/@anildash/115883238839538062
For me, Anil’s analogy is very strong. We finally built the English -> any programming language compiler we’ve been working on for generations and then handed it to people with no background in programming and gave them very little guidance on how […]
For me, Anil’s analogy is very strong. We finally built the English -> any programming language compiler we’ve been working on for generations and then handed it to people with no background in programming and gave them very little guidance on how […]
RE: https://mastodon.social/@inautilo/115879913060937024
I can tell you right now, the first CVE I encounter for a language-agnostic library that has a prompt injection attack that generates and compiles a unique attack on every developer and ci machines across six languages is going to be the […]
I can tell you right now, the first CVE I encounter for a language-agnostic library that has a prompt injection attack that generates and compiles a unique attack on every developer and ci machines across six languages is going to be the […]
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mastodon.xyz
January 12, 2026 at 5:21 AM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@inautilo/115879913060937024
I can tell you right now, the first CVE I encounter for a language-agnostic library that has a prompt injection attack that generates and compiles a unique attack on every developer and ci machines across six languages is going to be the […]
I can tell you right now, the first CVE I encounter for a language-agnostic library that has a prompt injection attack that generates and compiles a unique attack on every developer and ci machines across six languages is going to be the […]
If you are coming to the new #forkiverse instance from bluesky, there is some interoperability between activitypub (the protocol that the fediverse is built on) and atproto (the protocol that bluesky is built on) via @bsky.brid.gy so you can follow users from bluesky bidirectionally.
You can […]
You can […]
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mastodon.xyz
January 12, 2026 at 1:39 AM
If you are coming to the new #forkiverse instance from bluesky, there is some interoperability between activitypub (the protocol that the fediverse is built on) and atproto (the protocol that bluesky is built on) via @bsky.brid.gy so you can follow users from bluesky bidirectionally.
You can […]
You can […]
If you’re interested in hockey in general, or women’s hockey in specific, the Seattle Torrent are playing the Minnesota Frost at 11 am pst, in about 30 minutes, and you can watch free on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/live/9Q8V75C8c00
I won’t even blame you if you root for Minnesota.
#hockey […]
I won’t even blame you if you root for Minnesota.
#hockey […]
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mastodon.xyz
January 11, 2026 at 6:33 PM
If you’re interested in hockey in general, or women’s hockey in specific, the Seattle Torrent are playing the Minnesota Frost at 11 am pst, in about 30 minutes, and you can watch free on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/live/9Q8V75C8c00
I won’t even blame you if you root for Minnesota.
#hockey […]
I won’t even blame you if you root for Minnesota.
#hockey […]
The #forkiverse influx has been fun for me because (I think) it’s the biggest instance I’ve seen join where the majority of users are unaware ahead of time that there are other instances that have been around much longer, so it’s just a stream of new accounts doing the Dr Who “it’s bigger on the […]
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mastodon.xyz
January 11, 2026 at 3:24 PM
The #forkiverse influx has been fun for me because (I think) it’s the biggest instance I’ve seen join where the majority of users are unaware ahead of time that there are other instances that have been around much longer, so it’s just a stream of new accounts doing the Dr Who “it’s bigger on the […]
RE: https://embracing.space/@IngaLovinde/115871308408150713
Reminds of Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, which records how the US dealt with similar situations during the Dust Bowl:
> The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest […]
Reminds of Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, which records how the US dealt with similar situations during the Dust Bowl:
> The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest […]
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mastodon.xyz
January 10, 2026 at 5:58 PM
RE: https://embracing.space/@IngaLovinde/115871308408150713
Reminds of Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, which records how the US dealt with similar situations during the Dust Bowl:
> The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest […]
Reminds of Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, which records how the US dealt with similar situations during the Dust Bowl:
> The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest […]