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spleenly
@spleenly.bsky.social
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Woke worker, adrift academic, data digger, conflagrant coder, lightly dark, deeply shallow. Every tech job, all at once. he/him #ATX

My shitposts: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sdkxyw2r7xlx5kjhsolgagv6/feed/aaabdifjqy6jm
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Taken 3 seconds apart, didn't require the sink, just saying.
A large white rubber-edged KitchenAid mixer blade with stuck-on chocolate over a yellow cutting board Same mixer blade has now been licked completely clean
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
spleenly.bsky.social
Lorem ipsum but make it homeopathic
Active Ingredients: Equal parts of Passiflora 6, Valeria sinin 15x, Anacardium 15x, Arg. nit. 15x, Arsenic St Belladonna 15x, Bryonia 15x, Calc. carb. 15x, Comphow S Camomilla 15x, Cimicifuga 15x, Cinchona 15x, Coffea de 15 pripedium 15x, Gelsemium 15x, Humulus 15x, Hyoscyaenes of 15x, Kali brom. 15x, Nux vom. 15x, Passion 15 biectile 15x, Scutellaria 15x, Sepia 15x Thuia occ 75x Inactive Ingredients: USP Purified water: USP Gluten-f -GNO, organic cane alcohol 20%.
November 22, 2025 at 5:14 AM
spleenly.bsky.social
New enshittification just dropped
they start managing AI not as tools, but as colleagues with digital identities. Like it or not, the entitification of enterprise AI is trending hard.
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Bluesky really is my people.
Number 1 trending item on Bluesky is "Github Issues" with 529 posts (three profile circles) label in red with fire icon "Hot"
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
spleenly.bsky.social
Discovering the erotica podcast genre like
A metal plate on the front of an ATM that says "Audio Jack" with some braille below
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
spleenly.bsky.social
Sauropod
The OP's image rotated so it looks like the silhouette of a short-necked quadruped dinosaur with a fat tail.
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I understand the sentiment, but this is misguided and harmful.
Canned and bagged food on a park bench. Beans and peanut butter have been knocked over, a bag of beans has been torn open by an animal and partially spilled on the ground. Canned, bagged, and boxed food and baking soda on a park bench. Some is on the ground, the rice has been torn open by an animal.
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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I will never use the emu insurance company simply because the aesthetics of the ad campaigns have always been so consistently upsetting.
A horrible image of an emu and a smug, cop-mustachioed white man with hood arms crossed in yellow shirts, ties, and sunglasses.
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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So we agree that what they've really created here is the unhinged poster detector, right?
stechlab-labels.bsky.social @stechlab-labels.bsky.social A research project from Cornell Tech, investigating using automated signals to help users have more context about the accounts they are interacting with. Contact: stech.bluesky.labeler@gmail .com
November 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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To illustrate how hard this thread speaks to me, I phoned a friend:
Chat interface... A screenshot of the OP's post "was just speaking w someone in a position of substantial power over me who didn't know the word fraught and was talking to me like I was stupid" I asked: "For science, how long could someone know me and not hear the word 'fraught?' [laugh emoji]" They replied: "Five minutes" I replied: "[laugh emoji] thank you"
November 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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RIP Wisconsin, you were once energized and moist
A statement from Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft: We’ll increase our AI capacity by 80% this year, and nearly double our DC footprint over the next two. That includes Fairwater in Wisconsin, the world’s most powerful AI datacenter, which will scale to two gigawatts alone.
November 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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I must have this adorable right-hand drive Honda Acty microvan deathbox immediately.
A silver Honda Acty kei-style microvan from the rear in a parking lot with trees in the background.
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Algorithm here we come
With the “dislikes” beta rolling out soon, Bluesky will take into account the new signal to improve user personalization. As users “dislike” posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.
November 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Later, suckers!
A white envelope with a return address that begins Facebook consumer privacy user profile litigation c/o Settlement Administrator at an address in Philadelphia with Important Legal Information implying I have received a large legal settlement (I have not) and am departing to live on an island (I am not)
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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When we complain that autumn lasts 3 days here this is what we're talking about.
Weekly High/Low: 90.9°F/40.8°F
October 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Why does the local hot bubble sound so horny
the long-held suspicion that much of this glow stems from a region of million-degree interstellar plasma known as the local hot bubble, or LHB.
October 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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PostOnly. A feed that will always be empty, allowing you to post without reading about the ongoing horribleness. Make it your home feed!
October 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
spleenly.bsky.social
I've decided what I want for Christmas.
A brass plaque on wood above a glass window reading Soundproof Cabinet
October 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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I don't think I'm supposed to be in this part of the museum.
A naked headless mannequin faced away from the viewer inside a glass case. There's a reflection of an empty gallery space in the glass adding to the overall liminal feeling.
October 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Someone at the party whipped out this motion-tracking, 3-axis stabilized, 4K pocket camcorder with a Japanese UI and I thought I was in Blade Runner.
Black DJI Osmo Pocket 3 Portable Camera on a white background. It's a black cylinder with an HD screen rotated out from the body. The lens is on a stalk and gimbal at the top and is rotated back toward the camera person.
October 26, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Finally a champion to bring real legitimacy to AI
Ad for AI Advantage Summit hosted by Tony Robbins for some reason. A pyramid of 9 mostly light-skinned and smiling people who want to sell you something. "Get clear on AI in 3 days" (is scientology somehow also involved?)
October 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Okay, but hear me out
A tag inside the toiletries section of a suitcase that says "wet pocket" with an image of a T-shirt clipped to a clothesline.
October 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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What the actual fuck
At a moment when free expression and the press are under fierce attack, Harper’s Magazine is proud to inaugurate the James C. Goodale First Amendment Award. Named for legendary First Amendment attorney James C. Goodale, who led the New York Times to victory in the landmark 1971 Pentagon Papers case, [begin highlight] this new award honors those who exemplify courage, integrity, and a steadfast commitment to the free exchange of ideas. Goodale will personally present the inaugural award to A. G. Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times [end highlight], in recognition of his leadership in defending the freedom of the press and championing the truth in an era of misinformation and polarization.
October 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
spleenly.bsky.social
Who needs drive-in movie when there's bike-up softball.
Mountain bike handlebars pointed across a dirt field toward a night softball game lit with overhead lights.
October 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Forgot I took this earlier
A very pinkish, reddish, purplish, blueish dawn with the sun invisible behind and under a cloud bank on the horizon. The foreground is deeply in shadow, but green trees, shrubs, and a brown grass field are visible.
October 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM