Nathan L.
nathanlawrence.bsky.social
Nathan L.
@nathanlawrence.bsky.social
I write code and code accessories in the 🍎 fruit mines.
Home improvement pro tip: Imagine how much spray foam you need. No. You need less than that. No. Still less. Stop. Oh god, it's expanding. This is a disaster.
September 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Hey @nytimes.com, do you have literally *any* First Amendment experts on staff, because this is embarrassing.

Glad you're speaking up about this, but feels like you should... not make basic mistakes like this?

cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Michael Eisner publicly attacking Bob Iger is crazy, what year is it
September 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I genuinely thought this might be lost media until 30 seconds ago.

youtu.be/sv14ETGOHdc?si=iofa5...
Storylords (entire series)
Storylords is a 1984 low-budget live-action instructional television series shown on educational and PBS member stations in the United States, often during instructional television blocks. It was produced at the University of Wisconsin-Stout for the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. Holy Camole! Storylords consists of twelve 15-minute programs which focus on building reading comprehension strategies through the use of fantasy. The storyline consists of a young boy named Norbert who has been apprenticed by Lexor - an old Storylord from the land of Mojuste - to defend Mojuste's citizens against the wicked Storylord, Thorzuul. Thorzuul seeks to turn all of those who can't understand what they read into stone statues for his collection. EPISODES: 01 - Activating Prior Knowledge Before Reading 00:00:00 02 - Connecting What You Know With What's On The Page 00:14:48 03 - Knowing When You Don't Know (In Your Head) 00:29:06 04 - Knowing When You Don't Know (On The Page) 00:42:58 05 - Directed Reading-Thinking Activity 00:57:01 06 - Question-Answer Relationships 01:11:50 07 - Decoding Words in Context 01:25:56 08 - Inferring Word Meaning in Context 01:39:57 09 - Story Mapping 01:53:52 10 - Pronoun Anaphora 02:08:08 11 - Identifying Main Idea and Details 02:22:56 12 - Integrating Comprehension Strategies 02:36:57 MAIN CAST: Colm O'Reilly - Norbert Tanya Tiffany - Mandy Mike Nelms - Jason Karin Worthley - Mrs Framish Alexis Lauren - Lexor Larry Laird - Thorzuul Dennis Fenichel - Milkbreath Thunder and Lightning, Trumpets and Drums. Readers Rejoice! A Storylord Comes!
youtu.be
September 19, 2025 at 7:17 AM
"$25k MRR in 30 days!"

Ok, cool (maybe), but lemme know how many people unsubscribe or charge back on month two of their $20/month app that asks Google to draw fake abs on their selfie.
September 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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The man sitting next to me on the Metro is reading a printout of the "Tariff" Wikipedia page
April 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"Nathan why are you spending so much time thinking about cassoulet?"

Well why aren't you spending any?
December 24, 2024 at 3:30 AM
You can't block Team Snapchat

I tried
December 12, 2024 at 11:51 PM
I know I seem to be totally alone here, but "this movie about how a young woman is bullied by all her friends and then she learns her hero is actually a fascist dictator needed brighter colors" is just a strange concept to me.
December 1, 2024 at 5:51 AM
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In the middle of tonight's Simpsons parody of Fahrenheit 451, set in a dystopian future where people are forced to watch overly complicated prestige TV dramas, this happened. I am still processing it.
November 25, 2024 at 1:41 AM
NPR’s increasingly toothless coverage of US politics that felt increasingly divorced from any relationship with the truth, over paranoia that it would be seen as biased, was the biggest thing that pushed me to question why I worked in news at all.
November 24, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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What's crazy is, considering how expensive everything was, I have no idea if these are even good numbers
November 24, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Xcode 16.2 Beta 3 is out and includes significant enhancements for Predictive Code Completion — check it out: developer.apple.com/documentatio...
Xcode 16.2 Beta 3 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation
Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes.
developer.apple.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:26 AM
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United we stand, divided we fall.
November 18, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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oh yeah I never posted this classic here
November 18, 2024 at 1:31 PM
I would like to think I'm a relatively stable person but in truth all it takes to disarm me completely and leave me reeling and in denial is to witness a normal human being voluntarily entering and eating at a Subway restaurant.
July 27, 2023 at 4:13 AM
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Something very strange is happening to the Web. Finding something from the past on search engines is eroding. Atemporality replaced by an immediate, constantly vanishing, consumerist hyper-present. What we thought was an infinite Borges-ian library turning into Amazon checkout with a ticking clock…
Google is changing up search. What does that mean for news publishers?
A shift to AI-generated search results will decrease the traffic that Google sends to publishers' sites, as more people get what they need straight from the Google search page instead.
www.niemanlab.org
July 9, 2023 at 7:47 PM
In the Queer Rapture, your children will be left behind
nobody is “coming for your children,” honestly your children are a pain in the ass
July 9, 2023 at 3:14 AM
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No offense, but who in their right mind looks at what happened to Twitter over the last 7 months and says "yup, I'm gonna trust those people with my money..."
July 5, 2023 at 9:46 PM
My “Your Network” list is already stuffed with names that fill me with dread, so this app might have legs
July 4, 2023 at 2:30 AM
OpenAI APIs are slowly becoming the world’s largest honeypot for people who think they can “create value” without any meaningful insight or actual effort.
July 4, 2023 at 2:21 AM
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Not many people know this, but there's an exclusive set of lightly moderated and mostly invite-only social media apps wealthy and prominent people use to post on a regular basis. They are called "newspapers."
June 21, 2023 at 12:35 AM