Joel Berger
@jberger.bsky.social
Polyglot programmer. Mojolicious core member. Dad/husband. Sometime sailor.
@techconnectify.bsky.social I don't suppose you read these but I saw your underwood portable in the frame just now (has that always been there?). I wonder if you'd want to do a progression of typewriter tech? I have a collection with that focus and I live in the NW suburbs.
October 4, 2025 at 3:45 AM
@techconnectify.bsky.social I don't suppose you read these but I saw your underwood portable in the frame just now (has that always been there?). I wonder if you'd want to do a progression of typewriter tech? I have a collection with that focus and I live in the NW suburbs.
Seriously our Reichstag Fire is a dork getting carjacked? That was the best they could muster? And we can't figure out how to not? What is going on?!
August 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Seriously our Reichstag Fire is a dork getting carjacked? That was the best they could muster? And we can't figure out how to not? What is going on?!
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Wouldn't it be nice to have a Congress with any modern history whatsoever at effectively asserting its authority to limit war powers. But that's not a living memory.
June 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Wouldn't it be nice to have a Congress with any modern history whatsoever at effectively asserting its authority to limit war powers. But that's not a living memory.
New video featuring a really cool Japanese typewriter! youtu.be/B5ZZyh_DWII
A Japanese Typewriter! Can I Fix an Incredible but Frozen 1950s Toshiba Index Typewriter?
YouTube video by Dynamically Typed
youtu.be
April 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
New video featuring a really cool Japanese typewriter! youtu.be/B5ZZyh_DWII
I logged in to Twitte ... err ... X for the first time in a long time and, wow. It is unusably slow and searching a local town name the first thing that came up was porn. Doing great Elmo, doing great.
April 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I logged in to Twitte ... err ... X for the first time in a long time and, wow. It is unusably slow and searching a local town name the first thing that came up was porn. Doing great Elmo, doing great.
New typewriter repair video! The very cute Remington Portable 3-Bank youtu.be/pooAhI-NU_I
Treasure in an Orange Crate! Repairing a Tiny 99 Year Old Underwood Portable 3-Bank Typewriter
YouTube video by Dynamically Typed
youtu.be
April 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
New typewriter repair video! The very cute Remington Portable 3-Bank youtu.be/pooAhI-NU_I
How is it possible that just one man is being allowed to bring down the entire world economy and perhaps the Pax Americana? Someone stop this!
April 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
How is it possible that just one man is being allowed to bring down the entire world economy and perhaps the Pax Americana? Someone stop this!
I've taken up a hobby of repairing very old typewriters. It's a fun way to use my hands and think mechanically. It wasn't until yesterday that I actually sat down and wrote a letter using one. It was a revelation. 1/x
March 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I've taken up a hobby of repairing very old typewriters. It's a fun way to use my hands and think mechanically. It wasn't until yesterday that I actually sat down and wrote a letter using one. It was a revelation. 1/x
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Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.
On a 2023 earnings call, Elon Musk boasted that Tesla had bagged “over 1 million” Cybertruck reservations and that “demand is off the charts.”
So why has the company still sold less than 50,000 trucks since customer deliveries began 14 months ago?
So why has the company still sold less than 50,000 trucks since customer deliveries began 14 months ago?
‘Over 1 Million’ People Wanted a Cybertruck. Where Are They?
“Demand is off the charts!” Elon Musk crowed at the end of 2023, citing more than a million reservations for Tesla's polarizing polygonic pickup—so why has it still sold less than 50,000?
wrd.cm
March 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.
Honestly, if house Democrats don't at least introduce articles of impeachment then what are we doing here?
March 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Honestly, if house Democrats don't at least introduce articles of impeachment then what are we doing here?
It seems obvious until you ask yourself, what if they accused you of being an illegal immigrant? How would defend yourself if you weren't given due process to do so? This is why obvious criminals are given trials, it's the only way to ensure that everyone gets a trial.
One problem with the idea of reserving due process for law-abiding people is that due process is how we figure out which people are law-abiding.
March 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
It seems obvious until you ask yourself, what if they accused you of being an illegal immigrant? How would defend yourself if you weren't given due process to do so? This is why obvious criminals are given trials, it's the only way to ensure that everyone gets a trial.
If the GOP was really the party that acted to "support our troops" we expect that VA budgets would actually increase under their administrations. Of course that doesn't actually happen as Republicans love military cosplay but actually hate our troops. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u...
Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency
Clinical trials have been delayed, contracts canceled and support staff fired. With deeper cuts coming, some are warning of potential harms to veterans.
www.nytimes.com
March 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
If the GOP was really the party that acted to "support our troops" we expect that VA budgets would actually increase under their administrations. Of course that doesn't actually happen as Republicans love military cosplay but actually hate our troops. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u...
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I'm convinced this is right. RFK fans aren't that numerous but they are precisely the kind of gullible low-info dipshits that ordinary campaigns struggle mightily to reach bsky.app/profile/unav...
also this confirms my priors that RFK did, in fact, swing the election
February 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I'm convinced this is right. RFK fans aren't that numerous but they are precisely the kind of gullible low-info dipshits that ordinary campaigns struggle mightily to reach bsky.app/profile/unav...
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Sounds great but I refuse to use it. I am not going to build my own coffin, someone else will have to do that.
February 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Sounds great but I refuse to use it. I am not going to build my own coffin, someone else will have to do that.
Dear gods he finally did something useful! @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social halp?!
Breaking News: President Trump ordered the Treasury to stop minting pennies, saying the coins cost more to produce than their face value.
Trump Orders Treasury to Halt Minting New Pennies to Cut Waste
President Trump said that the coins cost more to produce than their face value.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Dear gods he finally did something useful! @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social halp?!
Welcome (back) to Chicago @scalzi.com !
February 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Welcome (back) to Chicago @scalzi.com !
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Please remember something: if you had said a year ago that Trump would do even a fraction of these things, you would have been mocked, belittled, accused of “Trump derangement syndrome,” and dismissed by certain people.
Identify those people and block and shun them.
Identify those people and block and shun them.
February 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Please remember something: if you had said a year ago that Trump would do even a fraction of these things, you would have been mocked, belittled, accused of “Trump derangement syndrome,” and dismissed by certain people.
Identify those people and block and shun them.
Identify those people and block and shun them.
Palette cleansing thread
Spent a few hours at the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social today, and it was a lovely - and much needed - reminder of the beauty humanity can create. I didn't take many photos as I tried to stay in the moment, but a few things caught my eye.
February 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Palette cleansing thread
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Think about this and how Fox and the GOP would politicize an Army helicopter crashing into a commercial airplane days after a Black woman president tried to gut air safety & installed the least qualified man ever as Defense Secretary.
THAT is the degree to which Dems should politicize this crash.
THAT is the degree to which Dems should politicize this crash.
The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough.
The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023.
No acting FAA head has been appointed.
The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023.
No acting FAA head has been appointed.
January 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Think about this and how Fox and the GOP would politicize an Army helicopter crashing into a commercial airplane days after a Black woman president tried to gut air safety & installed the least qualified man ever as Defense Secretary.
THAT is the degree to which Dems should politicize this crash.
THAT is the degree to which Dems should politicize this crash.
Bennett: The World's Smallest Typewriter From 1911! Will It Type Again? youtu.be/SbGvI2nBwyM
Bennett: The World's Smallest Typewriter From 1911! Will It Type Again?
YouTube video by Dynamically Typed
youtu.be
January 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Bennett: The World's Smallest Typewriter From 1911! Will It Type Again? youtu.be/SbGvI2nBwyM
So this winter I've taken up a new hobby (obsession?) of buying and fixing up antique typewriters. Well I've made a YouTube channel for it. It finally got my first video live so if you or some other mechanical geek you now is interested take a peek: youtu.be/WqJkPUd_9lE
Saving a 100+ Year Old L.C. Smith No. 3 Typewriter
YouTube video by Dynamically Typed
youtu.be
January 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
So this winter I've taken up a new hobby (obsession?) of buying and fixing up antique typewriters. Well I've made a YouTube channel for it. It finally got my first video live so if you or some other mechanical geek you now is interested take a peek: youtu.be/WqJkPUd_9lE
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after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
January 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"