Ivan Gayton
@ivangayton.bsky.social
Sakura and Kaede's dad, free migration advocate, Free Software, humanitarian, mapper, sci-fi/computer nerd, musician, citizen of Earth. He/him
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Ivan Gayton
@ivangayton.bsky.social
· Feb 15
Hi new people, especially those doing me the honor of following my musings!
I try to follow back anyone who follows me, unless
- Posting/replying history is empty (consider writing a post before following)
- Hateful/MAGA shit
- Crypto
- I fall behind (getting harder to keep up as Bluesky grows)
I try to follow back anyone who follows me, unless
- Posting/replying history is empty (consider writing a post before following)
- Hateful/MAGA shit
- Crypto
- I fall behind (getting harder to keep up as Bluesky grows)
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In Australia their Liberal Party is conservative. Today, Canadians are discovering theirs is also conservative.
November 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
In Australia their Liberal Party is conservative. Today, Canadians are discovering theirs is also conservative.
It seems ridiculous to speculate how the Roberts Court is going to rule based on law, precedent, or logic.
The far-right majority on the court will do whatever Trump's GOP wants, with occasional deviations on matters of less importance just to make it look good.
www.axios.com/2025/11/26/t...
The far-right majority on the court will do whatever Trump's GOP wants, with occasional deviations on matters of less importance just to make it look good.
www.axios.com/2025/11/26/t...
Supreme Court poised to reshape next 3 election cycles
A ruling would mark the court's first word on the 2026 redistricting wars, but it wouldn't be the last.
www.axios.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It seems ridiculous to speculate how the Roberts Court is going to rule based on law, precedent, or logic.
The far-right majority on the court will do whatever Trump's GOP wants, with occasional deviations on matters of less importance just to make it look good.
www.axios.com/2025/11/26/t...
The far-right majority on the court will do whatever Trump's GOP wants, with occasional deviations on matters of less importance just to make it look good.
www.axios.com/2025/11/26/t...
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Maybe the next generation will set its sights on solving systemic problems instead of “My burrito is at a restaurant, but I’m all cozy here so, can a guy with a medical degree from another country bring it to me.” We’ve got that covered, and then some.
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Maybe the next generation will set its sights on solving systemic problems instead of “My burrito is at a restaurant, but I’m all cozy here so, can a guy with a medical degree from another country bring it to me.” We’ve got that covered, and then some.
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I assume Rush Hour 4 will fix this.
Average electricity cost increase since Jan:
Missouri ⬆️ 37%
Iowa ⬆️ 30%
North Dakota ⬆️ 30%
Oklahoma ⬆️ 30%
New Jersey ⬆️ 27%
Nebraska ⬆️ 25%
Montana ⬆️ 25%
Wyoming ⬆️ 23%
NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11%
Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.
Missouri ⬆️ 37%
Iowa ⬆️ 30%
North Dakota ⬆️ 30%
Oklahoma ⬆️ 30%
New Jersey ⬆️ 27%
Nebraska ⬆️ 25%
Montana ⬆️ 25%
Wyoming ⬆️ 23%
NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11%
Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I assume Rush Hour 4 will fix this.
I'm in favor of book piracy—sort of.
I buy books I read (a lot) or use libraries. Everyone who can, should.
However, there exists a world beyond N America/Europe, where bookshops, credit cards, and libraries are scarce.
Blocking file-sharing denies a huge swath of of humanity access to knowledge.
I buy books I read (a lot) or use libraries. Everyone who can, should.
However, there exists a world beyond N America/Europe, where bookshops, credit cards, and libraries are scarce.
Blocking file-sharing denies a huge swath of of humanity access to knowledge.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I'm in favor of book piracy—sort of.
I buy books I read (a lot) or use libraries. Everyone who can, should.
However, there exists a world beyond N America/Europe, where bookshops, credit cards, and libraries are scarce.
Blocking file-sharing denies a huge swath of of humanity access to knowledge.
I buy books I read (a lot) or use libraries. Everyone who can, should.
However, there exists a world beyond N America/Europe, where bookshops, credit cards, and libraries are scarce.
Blocking file-sharing denies a huge swath of of humanity access to knowledge.
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"US senator disappointed in Canada no longer treating them like a friendly neighbor"
My dude your country is the neighbor which keeps getting back with their abusive ex who just threatened to beat us up
Get your shit together and we can talk
My dude your country is the neighbor which keeps getting back with their abusive ex who just threatened to beat us up
Get your shit together and we can talk
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
"US senator disappointed in Canada no longer treating them like a friendly neighbor"
My dude your country is the neighbor which keeps getting back with their abusive ex who just threatened to beat us up
Get your shit together and we can talk
My dude your country is the neighbor which keeps getting back with their abusive ex who just threatened to beat us up
Get your shit together and we can talk
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You do not need an architecture or infrastructure that supports 100,000 users until you have 100,000 users. You do need an incremental-friendly architecture--one that can evolve as it scales. Eminently doable, but it’s a learned skill.
9/12
9/12
November 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
You do not need an architecture or infrastructure that supports 100,000 users until you have 100,000 users. You do need an incremental-friendly architecture--one that can evolve as it scales. Eminently doable, but it’s a learned skill.
9/12
9/12
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If you have 100 customers, for example, you probably don’t need a database—a flat file with JSON in it will do. You almost certainly don’t need that slick UI (you need a good UX, but you can often get that with a very simple UI).
8/12
8/12
November 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you have 100 customers, for example, you probably don’t need a database—a flat file with JSON in it will do. You almost certainly don’t need that slick UI (you need a good UX, but you can often get that with a very simple UI).
8/12
8/12
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Let’s talk about “Move fast and break things.” First of all, Facebook itself changed its motto to “Move fast with stable infrastructure” in 2014. So much for breaking things, at least if you’re a soulless corporate behemoth.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Let’s talk about “Move fast and break things.” First of all, Facebook itself changed its motto to “Move fast with stable infrastructure” in 2014. So much for breaking things, at least if you’re a soulless corporate behemoth.
1/12
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Why disband Doge now? Evidence shows Musk and Trump's pet project has resulted in the deaths of at least 600,000 innocent people, but as mass murderers Elon and Donnie are still trailing Mao, Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot. Why give up now? Do they have a new plan?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘That doesn’t exist’: Doge reportedly quietly disbanded ahead of schedule
Statement by Trump administration confirms longstanding suspicions that Musk-led agency is on its way out
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Why disband Doge now? Evidence shows Musk and Trump's pet project has resulted in the deaths of at least 600,000 innocent people, but as mass murderers Elon and Donnie are still trailing Mao, Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot. Why give up now? Do they have a new plan?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
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This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.
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One big red flag about “AI” that makes me doubt it will ever be useful is… I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything. When the iPhone came out, when Twitter came out, heck when the PS2 came out, I could tell that people were able to do things I couldn’t.
November 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
One big red flag about “AI” that makes me doubt it will ever be useful is… I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything. When the iPhone came out, when Twitter came out, heck when the PS2 came out, I could tell that people were able to do things I couldn’t.
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The worst thing about health insurance is the part where it exists for the sole purpose of enriching itself and doesn't serve an actual function at allllll🌠
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The worst thing about health insurance is the part where it exists for the sole purpose of enriching itself and doesn't serve an actual function at allllll🌠
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"No man is an island, entire of itself."
John Donne
For me, choosing to wear a respirator mask in all public spaces signifies an awareness of my connection to the human community, whose collective well-being is grievously threatened by the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19.
#COVID19 #respirator
John Donne
For me, choosing to wear a respirator mask in all public spaces signifies an awareness of my connection to the human community, whose collective well-being is grievously threatened by the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19.
#COVID19 #respirator
November 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"No man is an island, entire of itself."
John Donne
For me, choosing to wear a respirator mask in all public spaces signifies an awareness of my connection to the human community, whose collective well-being is grievously threatened by the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19.
#COVID19 #respirator
John Donne
For me, choosing to wear a respirator mask in all public spaces signifies an awareness of my connection to the human community, whose collective well-being is grievously threatened by the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19.
#COVID19 #respirator
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A party that couldn't endorse Mamdani. . . has room for Marjorie Taylor Greene
The party can burn in hell
The party can burn in hell
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
A party that couldn't endorse Mamdani. . . has room for Marjorie Taylor Greene
The party can burn in hell
The party can burn in hell
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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Told you she was (and is) the most important SF/F writer of our generation
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Told you she was (and is) the most important SF/F writer of our generation
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Finally read Redshirts.
Been intentionally avoiding it because meta and fourth wall shenanigans and reality-questioning stuff is generally not my jam.
Scalzi walks the fine line on those just about perfectly for me, as it turns out.
It's a super fun read and I ask nothing more of my fiction XD
Been intentionally avoiding it because meta and fourth wall shenanigans and reality-questioning stuff is generally not my jam.
Scalzi walks the fine line on those just about perfectly for me, as it turns out.
It's a super fun read and I ask nothing more of my fiction XD
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Finally read Redshirts.
Been intentionally avoiding it because meta and fourth wall shenanigans and reality-questioning stuff is generally not my jam.
Scalzi walks the fine line on those just about perfectly for me, as it turns out.
It's a super fun read and I ask nothing more of my fiction XD
Been intentionally avoiding it because meta and fourth wall shenanigans and reality-questioning stuff is generally not my jam.
Scalzi walks the fine line on those just about perfectly for me, as it turns out.
It's a super fun read and I ask nothing more of my fiction XD
Isn't there an obvious enormous wrongful death class action suit here? Prohibition ideologues at Health Canada are fairly provably causing mass mortality by ignoring the advice of medical experts and suppressing safe drug supplies.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
They’re at risk of dying from opioid overdose. The government cut funding that could help them | CBC News
As deadly drug overdoses climbed across Canada, decision-makers faced political backlash for funding programs that gave drug users prescribed opioids and, against their own experts’ advice, scaled bac...
www.cbc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Isn't there an obvious enormous wrongful death class action suit here? Prohibition ideologues at Health Canada are fairly provably causing mass mortality by ignoring the advice of medical experts and suppressing safe drug supplies.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Anyone
A N Y O N E
ANYONE leaving MAGA at this point, is only upset about one thing...and they were okay with ALL THE REST.
Or, they're using one thing to bail on someone who's 'not harming the right people!!!!' meaning leopards ate their face.
They still want the evils they voted for.
A N Y O N E
ANYONE leaving MAGA at this point, is only upset about one thing...and they were okay with ALL THE REST.
Or, they're using one thing to bail on someone who's 'not harming the right people!!!!' meaning leopards ate their face.
They still want the evils they voted for.
they can come into the tent when they admit they were wrong and change their views
we all joke about Woke Bill Kristol but he is for the most part the perfect example - he has, legitimately, become much more progressive
you can’t bring in people who are mad he’s not delivering on horrible shit
we all joke about Woke Bill Kristol but he is for the most part the perfect example - he has, legitimately, become much more progressive
you can’t bring in people who are mad he’s not delivering on horrible shit
November 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Anyone
A N Y O N E
ANYONE leaving MAGA at this point, is only upset about one thing...and they were okay with ALL THE REST.
Or, they're using one thing to bail on someone who's 'not harming the right people!!!!' meaning leopards ate their face.
They still want the evils they voted for.
A N Y O N E
ANYONE leaving MAGA at this point, is only upset about one thing...and they were okay with ALL THE REST.
Or, they're using one thing to bail on someone who's 'not harming the right people!!!!' meaning leopards ate their face.
They still want the evils they voted for.