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Harris Lapiroff
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Data, design, security, software engineering, press freedom, and epistemic trespassing. Engineering Manager for the Web and Dangerzone projects at Freedom of the Press […]

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Zohran @ Donnie T
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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👁️ ORBS ARE NOW ON MOBILE 👁️

(Discord making a full screen modal just to speak absolute gibberish to me)
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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I’ll be calling contra dances along the east coast this month! Catch me in one of these cities.

Full details at https://chromamine.com/dance/
Tour poster for Harris Lapiroff’s Northeast Contra Calling Tour featuring seven dates in November 2025. Tour schedule: Thursday Nov 6 in Concord MA with NEFFA Open Band; Saturday Nov 8 in New York NY with Here on the Hill; Wednesday Nov 12 in Baltimore MD with Here on the Hill; Thursday Nov 13 in Philadelphia PA with Here on the Hill; Friday Nov 14 in Harrisburg PA with Here on the Hill; Saturday Nov 15 in Chatham NJ with Here on the Hill; Sunday Nov 16 in Brooklyn NY with Here on the Hill. Poster decorated with watercolor autumn foliage, orange berries, and cream-colored pumpkins on the right side.
November 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Possibly a little too horny for main, but I am tickled by this product, which is labeled either as massage oil or lube, depending on where you purchase it from.
Two side by side squeeze tubes, both labeled “Coconu.” In smaller text above the product name one says “oil based lubricant” and the other says “massage oil.” The same two tubes from the other side with identical ingredient lists. The only difference is a tagline at the top in script characters. One says “Have better sex naturally” and the other says “Better for(e)play naturally.”
October 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Apple cider caramel season
A cutting board with a scattered grid of dark brown caramels cut into rectangles atop it A hand holding a soft looking dark brown rectangular caramel A bowl of brown candies individually wrapped in wax paper
October 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Has this been done?
Two guys on a bus meme. One is observing and photographing a beautiful sunset with a huge grin. The other on the other side of the bus is looking out the window at a gray rock wall, frowning and looking downtrodden. Sunny guy is labeled "Taking photos." Rock wall guy is labelled "Editing photos."
October 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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dennis prager, bottoming for a hot twink day after day for a year, bellowing, “oh fuck yeah get me pregnant, impregnate me fuck yeah”
October 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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I haven't seen this meme format used in a while, but this remains possibly my all time favorite meme.
Buff dudes typing to nerdy kid meme that gets meta. Kid asks why this meme is funny, buff dudes answer with increasing layers of wholesomeness and empathy.
September 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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@fastmail I've noticed a slough of phishing attacks mimicking Fastmail support recently. The most recent one was especially convincing as they were able to use an @fastmail.com email address. I've reported them all as phishing, but just wanted to register that […]

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September 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
September 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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It’s more unsettling in actual motion.
September 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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An even more egregious example of the inconsistent highlights is this suggested apps widget where the highlights are static. (Compare to the news widget above it)
September 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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One thing that’s *really* bugging me though is how inconsistent it is whether or not highlights are accelerometer sensitive. Here’s Apple’s own screen time widget! The highlights don’t match because they’re accelerometer sensitive on the widget, but not inside of it! The effect is unsettling.
September 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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I guess, overall, I’m ambivalent about Liquid Glass on iOS. It’s not irking me terribly and I’m not encountering many bugs. It also isn’t filling me with the same sense of awe that aqua did when it was first released though. Except the occasional moment of seeing […]

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September 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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What a weird fucking timeline this is.
September 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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🎉
A black 3d printed t nut holding a threaded hex nut internally
September 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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JUST BEAT HADES (the first one) ON THIRTY FUCKING TWO HEAL BOOOOOOOY
September 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Photo of me, a thirtysomething Asian man with a goatee. I’m wearing a black baseball cap that says “Helvetica” in a blackletter typeface. I’m sitting next to a screen wall with evenly spaced circle perforations, projecting a grid of circles in early evening golden hour light onto the right side of my face and t shirt.
August 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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🤢
August 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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I hesitate to ask what the liquid glass version of this icon looks like.
August 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Someone has suggested to me "Stickies" which, against all reason, still exists and still looks more or less the way it did in System 7. Including an old pixel Mac icon!

Very uncharacteristic since Apple generally hates nostalgia as an aesthetic. I can only […]

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August 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Just took my first Waymo and, not gonna lie, it was super smooth and pleasant.
August 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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@kenwhite.bsky.social Bret Stephens: Slaughtering tens of thousands of people in Gaza while starving and displacing the rest—absolutely not genocide, doesn’t even resemble it in the least.
Also Bret Stephens: Calling me personally a bedbug on Twitter? Seems like Nazism to me!
July 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Finally processing photos from my trip to Morocco almost a year ago, and this one is my favorite.
A steep cobblestone path on a sunny day. In the background someone is walking up the path. On a wall off to the left side, in the focused foreground, two cats are snuggling.
July 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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@simon Obviously this is a very different piece of software than the general purpose LLMs, but have you taken Adobe Firefly's text-to-vector for a spin?
Interface that accepts a prompt and outputs images. The input shown on screen is "Pelican riding a bicycle" and pictured are four solidly good output images of a pelican riding a bicycle.
July 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM