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Father. Friend. Enthusiast. Reader. Cyclist. Coder. Skier. Mets fan. Retired public interest lawyer, baseball scorer, cycle racer, and law professor […]

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Why on Earth Have I Seen the Same Broadway Show 13 Times? An Investigation.
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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I guess I'm not too surprised that the guy who voted for 8 of trump's cabinet nominees and keeps vowing to "fight as hard as he can" without every quite getting past the talking about fighting stage is criticizing his opponent for, you know, actually doing something […]
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mstdn.social
January 11, 2026 at 2:15 PM
World Cross Country Champs rocked by visa rejections – US denies visas for 14 Ethiopian athletes

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2026/01/world-cross-country-champs-rocked-by-visa-rejections-us-denies-visas-for-14-ethiopian-athletes/

#running
January 11, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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As a software developer who spends his days building a link-saving app and his nights telling everyone that in the very near future people will be able to easily build their own software to solve their personal problems — this is my existential crisis coming to life.
January 10, 2026 at 4:03 PM
In case you #bikepacking #biketouring #cycling people who follow #biketooter haven't run across one of the best touring sites on the web. Here's the home page:

https://www.crazyguyonabike.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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Exxon' CEO meeting with Trump comes out and says Venezuela is "uninvestable" and will stay that way without significant changes. Probably not what Trump wanted to hear and probably not how Trump is going to frame the meeting.
January 9, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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🧵6 months before Jonathan Ross murdered Good in cold blood--

He violently smashed a car window, reached inside to grab the driver, and got dragged 50 ft when the man panicked and drove off.

That driver probably saved his own life by doing that.

So....
January 9, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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The murderer with a gun is allowed to be afraid but not the woman who's trying to get away from the man who murdered her with that gun. Got it.
January 9, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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If you’re in #sfba and you're upset, come to the 24th Mission BART stop at 1pm to join the protest!
January 9, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/115867561473387264

IDK. This sounds very soylent greed adjacent.

I do not want to "serve man" I do not want the "man cereal"
mastodon.social
January 9, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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Gather round children. Let grandma tell you of a time long long ago when the internet was young. And how in those days every company knew it was the "next thing" but didn't know what to do about it. This is what gave us the "internet button" ... this was a button added to some keyboards that […]
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sauropods.win
January 9, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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Renee Good’s murder was not just a homicide, it’s a hate crime against women, called femicide.

Good told ICE, "That's fine, I'm not mad at you" and was shot 3 times in the head point blank, Ross yelled the misogynist slur, "fucking bitch" after killing her. #3E #endimpunity
January 9, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Having high hopes for increases in productivity and creativity due to AI.

See: Sloptimism.

#ai
January 8, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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Our stance simplified: we want to make private communications available to anyone on the planet.

Problem: governments everywhere tend to want to control and contain private communications. While Iran and Russia might be contemporary poster examples trying to control private communication […]
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chaos.social
January 9, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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@MarvinFreeman What the actual fuck is the whip doing voting to confirm?
January 9, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Seven Democrats just voted today to confirm a Trump judicial nominee who refused to say what happened on January 6 or answer who won the 2020 election: Durbin (minority whip), Hassan, Kaine, King, Klobuchar (possible candidate for pres), Shaheen, and Welch.

Is it a surprise that many are […]
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mastodon.online
January 9, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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A political “call to action” in this app that has pretensions of being a “bank”— a “respectable investment brokerage”— this is exactly why I don’t agree with anything these clowns might want. My trust is less than zero.

They always want more ways to exploit people with less oversight every […]
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sauropods.win
January 9, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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The Gestapo didn’t wear masks. These abusive shitbirds do. Because ultimately they‘re cowardly trash.
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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What does “gravitationally bound” mean in the expanding Universe?

#AskEthan

Does the fabric of space expand, within the expanding Universe, in the location where you are?

It depends on if you're inside a bound structure or not. Here's what that means.

bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro
Ask Ethan: What does "gravitationally bound" mean in the expanding Universe?
When objects are gravitationally bound, they cannot escape from one another's influence. How does that work within the expanding Universe?
bigthink.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:22 PM
I did a ride using #biketerra today.

The biketerra version of "magic roads" is so much better than the misleading, horrid #RGT version.

I uploaded a route outside #boulder. The terrain matched well enough to tell where I would be in real life. Much better than RGT's sterile rendering […]
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mastodon.online
January 9, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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@futurebird I think it's a perspective thing - more that the call is coming from inside the house. It seems from the outside that achieving a certain "look" is a sort of purity test for MAGA women. In the same way that other cults require certain looks from their women - often it's more along […]
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mstdn.social
January 9, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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fresh baby just landed (okay five and a half hours ago but still pretty fresh)

we’re doing okay 🎉
January 9, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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A few days ago, a client’s data center "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G.

I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an […]
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mastodon.bsd.cafe
January 8, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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January 8, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Just got to hear J.D. Vance slandering the woman killed by ICE yesterday. And to hear him lie about what transpired.

Thank you #npr for constantly repeating the Trump Administration's lies.

#uspolitics
January 8, 2026 at 8:25 PM