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John Soo 🏳️‍🌈
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Types, parentheses, ideology. He/him/they

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Host of the Orange Combinator meetup

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cis/het

There is no such thing as conservative thought!
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Jamelle bouie reacting to Noah smith tweet
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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False
Graph of CPI increasing
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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This graph haunts me all the time
Gallup poll: Americans' Satisfaction With U.S., by Party ID In general, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States at this time? Shows downward trend starting from 2001 across D and R and highly partisan split thereafter
October 13, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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I tell ya

They made takis carne seca and it's better than takis
Duran carne seca, lumbre Really spicy beef jerky
October 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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hud.gov has a giant popup stating: The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American... (Image cuts off rest of message)
September 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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This graph just about sums it up I think
Graph of American's satisfaction with the US by party ID, 2000 to 2016 It shows a steady decline in both democrat and republican starting in 2001 and stark partisan polarization thereafter
September 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Maybe you'll want to block this one
Account of neo nazi called "raypandmurder.bsky.social"
September 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Some receipts, in case
Post by raster5.bsky.social: I guess that makes Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson dictators as well. As for the spending, you're just used to getting leftist priorities funded and leftist personnel kept in place through Republican as well as Democratic administrations; Trump is the first president to change this. Post by raster5.bsky.social You leftists are too much in your self reinforcing bubble to see that Trump is not a dictator, normies see this as well and you're just weakening your credibility with the general public. He has stretched the limits of executive power to an unhealthy point, but then, so did Biden.
September 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I'm not, per se, a housing fundamentalist, but I think if we can win our project of housing affordability we can start to make these people irrelevant:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
A quote of the Atlantic quoting nick fuentes, neo nazi: One of his recurring points is that the future, especially for young people, is grim. "It's the idea that our kids and this generation is never going to own anything," he said dising a livestream in 2022. "Debt slavery. Never owning a house, never owning a car, never paying off their school. Never making an income to support a family. Not being able to have a family."
September 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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I like these quite a lot. Perfect? Idk
Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest Human = Garbage - Dystopia
September 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Now *this* is a pipe
McIlroy's famous Unix solution to a challenge posed by Knuth: What people remember about his review is that McIlroy wrote a six-command shell pipeline® that was a complete (and bug-free) replacement for Knuth's 10+ pages of Pascal. Here's the script, with each command given its own line: Without line numbers tr -cs A-Za-z '\n' | tr A-Z a-z I sort | uniq -cl | sort -rn | sed ${1}q
August 30, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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What a day for this to come available
Screenshot of the Libby app with Careless People freshly borrowed
August 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Time, huh?
August 18, 2025 edition of time magazine with a full cover of Mike Johnson bathing in golden hour light. It calls him "The Survivor"
August 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Bacalao! Just read cod, good book and now I know what this is
Cover of the book Cod by mark kurlansky
August 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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I think I need to log off, folks. I have a problem
Bluesky feed, a post right above it and below a notice that I've hit the end of my feed with ways of finding more
August 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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2025 sure looks the part:
The 2025 exactitude's collection of fashions indicative of social in group signaling. There are twelve people modeling looks with harsh lines, shoulder pads, and drab overcoats. The overall effect is particularly authoritarian
July 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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There's lots of other critiques and agreements here. I'm also not 100% critical but I just want to point out this:

The languages history here is almost all tedious, so there's a serious bit of bias here as to which programming languages/paradigms might fit best for llm agent tools
"Bona fides: I've been shipping software since the mid-1990s. I started out in boxed, shrink-wrap C code. Survived an ill-advised Alexandrescu C++ phase. Lots of Ruby and Python tooling. Some kernel work. A whole lot of server-side C, Go, and Rust. However you define "serious developer", I qualify. Even if only on one of your lower tiers." A four quadrant model of "the positive case" [for llm agent tools] Upper left: tedious (in red) important (in blue) Upper right: fun (in blue) important (in blue) Lower left: tedious (in red) pointless (in red) Lower right: fun (in blue) pointless (in red)
June 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Because MSM is shrinking, each of their headlines is MORE important, not less. No a full page opinion denouncing trump will not outweigh all the soft-pedaled headlines that glimmer briefly through social media. Those need to be precise.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Poll results showing the media diet of trump and Biden voters taken in early 2024. The dependent values are presidential preference by percent and the independent values are media consumption: Don't follow political news Trump 53% Biden 27% YouTube/Google Trump 55% Biden 39% Cable news Trump 53% Biden 45% Social media Trump 46% Biden 42% Digital websites Trump 39% Biden 49% National network news Trump 35% Biden 55% Newspapers Trump 21% Biden 70% Notes: Data from a head-to-head ballot test between Trump and Biden. Source: The poll was conducted April 12-16 and surveyed 1,000 registered voters nationally. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points
May 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM