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Stefan Bohacek
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See also: https://stefanbohacek.com/press
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Heads-up, New Jersey: Tomorrow is the deadline to register to vote in the upcoming NJ gubernatorial election.

You won't want to miss it.

www.nj.gov/state/electi...

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/n...

#NJ #NewJersey #election #GOTV
A screenshot of a paragraph from the linked article. Judicial Appointments For decades, New Jersey governors have upheld a custom of maintaining partisan balance on the state’s seven-member Supreme Court, with neither party holding more than a one-seat advantage. Editors’ Picks That Artsy Mural on a Brooklyn Building? It’s a Whisky Ad. Many Minor Hits Can Damage an Athlete’s Brain The Psychological Value of Repentance Mr. Ciattarelli has said he will end that practice, which he calls a “failed tradition,” and instead appoint only conservative judges when vacancies occur. Ms. Sherrill has said that she will continue alternating Supreme Court appointments by party. But she has also said that anyone she nominates will be a supporter of abortion rights.
October 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
Banning nazis is a pretty good rule, I like that.
A screenshot of a post from Mastodon.social Staff dated October 6, 2025, 11:02 AM: "Today a new account using a handle that is against our rules got past the filter we use to automatically block rule-violating accounts. We apologize to the individuals who were harmed by this failure on our part. We believe in building a safe community here on Mastodon.Social, and stand by our commitment to Ban Nazis. We have banned the individual in question. We have updated our filter, and are conducting an in-depth review to make sure this will not happen again."
October 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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bsky.social/about/blog/1...
A screenshot of the opening paragraph from the linked website. A highlighted portion says: "a $15 million Series A financing led by Blockchain Capital"
September 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
Hey #NewJersey, you might want to show up in November.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/n...

voter.svrs.nj.gov/register

#NJ #election
A screenshot of a paragraph from the linked article. Judicial Appointments For decades, New Jersey governors have upheld a custom of maintaining partisan balance on the state’s seven-member Supreme Court, with neither party holding more than a one-seat advantage. Editors’ Picks That Artsy Mural on a Brooklyn Building? It’s a Whisky Ad. Many Minor Hits Can Damage an Athlete’s Brain The Psychological Value of Repentance Mr. Ciattarelli has said he will end that practice, which he calls a “failed tradition,” and instead appoint only conservative judges when vacancies occur. Ms. Sherrill has said that she will continue alternating Supreme Court appointments by party. But she has also said that anyone she nominates will be a supporter of abortion rights.
September 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
Full song:

- mirlo.space/stefan/relea...
- bandwagon.fm/68ae469f42b6...
- stefanbohacek.bandcamp.com/album/goin-n...
- soundcloud.com/stefanbohace...

#dance #funk #disco #instrumental #music #NewMusic #bandwagon #mirlo #bandcamp
August 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
Congratulations to @ghost.org on launching their 6.0 version!

#ghost #fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenWeb #blogs #blogging
Screenshot from the linked article: "The social web turns your Ghost publication into a networked social profile that people can find, follow, like, reply, repost and interact with from anywhere —bringing network effects directly to decentralized publishing. Popular posts can be shared, re-posted, and discussed by millions of social web users."
August 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
"There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see, but there is some. There's more than one would think."

Happy 101st birthday to #JamesBaldwin!

#OnThisDay #BlackHistory #humanity
August 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
Quick sketch.

More at portfolio.pixelfed.social/stefanbohacek.

#sketch #artwork #art #drawing #portfolio
A stylized digital sketch of a man with dark, thick, medium-length hair, looking slightly to the side. He has a very stoic expression on his face.
May 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
"On 30 April 1993 CERN issued a public statement stating that the three components of Web software [...] were put in the Public Domain [...]"

home.cern/science/comp...

cds.cern.ch/record/11643...

Full text: genius.com/Cern-stateme...

#OTD #history #internet #TheWeb #tech #computers #PublicDomain
Two scanned pages of a "statement concerning CERN W3 software releasing into public domain", see link in the post for full text.
April 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
Happy National Library Week!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

#libraries #NationalLibraryWeek #books #reading #bookstodon
A two-panel Charlie Brown comic. In the first panel, three young children (Charlie Brown, Lucy, and Linus) stand outside. One of the children, Linus, approaches the other two children, holding a library card, and says: "Look! Library card! I've taken out a library card!" He stands proud, holding his library card to his chest, and continues: "I have been given my citizenship in the land of knowledge!"
April 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
Quick sketch.

#sketch #artwork #art #drawing
A stylized digital drawing of a white woman with long light brown hair, wearing a white shirt, looking to the side, eyebrows slightly raised, but overall neutral facial expression. The drawing has sketchy qualities while it attempts to portray skin tones somewhat realistically, with a light-blue color peeking through a top layer of yellowish skin, with some redness in the ears and cheeks.
April 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
Via the @tech4campaigns.bsky.social newsletter.

For folks who would like to put their tech and marketing skills to a good use, do check out some of the open projects:

www.techforcampaigns.org/projects

#news #wisconsin #WisconsinSupremeCourt #TechForCampaigns #TechForGood
Screenshot from a newsletter: "Today we're celebrating Susan Crawford and her victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election! Wisconsin is a testing ground for the Trump, Musk, and Project 2025 agenda and yesterday’s win sends a message: voters will show up to protect democracy, we will not back down, and we will win."
April 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
Oh wow, the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) annual challenge for writers that started as a Yahoo! mailing list in 1999 is shutting down.

techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/n...

#news #technology #TechNews #NaNoWriMo #NationalNovelWritingMonth #writing #AI
Screenshot from the linked article: "Around the same time, the nonprofit was also lambasted for inconsistent moderation on its all-ages forums, which created an unsafe environment for teenage writers, community members claimed. According to NaNoWriMo, these controversies over content moderation and AI did not directly lead to the organization’s demise. But they certainly didn’t help."
April 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
65% of Wikimedia's most expensive traffic comes from bots.

diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/h...

#wikimedia #wikipedia #AI #GenAI
Screenshot from the linked article: "Since January 2024, we have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%. This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models. Our infrastructure is built to sustain sudden traffic spikes from humans during high-interest events, but the amount of traffic generated by scraper bots is unprecedented and presents growing risks and costs."
April 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
Quick sketch.

#sketch #artwork #art #drawing
A stylized digital drawing of a face of a white senior man with short, thick white hair, looking to the side. The drawing has sketchy qualities while it attempts to portray skin tones somewhat realistically, with a light-blue color peeking through a top layer of yellowish skin, with some redness in the ears.
March 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
Happy Piano Day!

www.pianoday.org

#PianoDay #PianoDay2025 #music #piano
March 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
A short piano tune.

More at soundcloud.com/stefanbohace....

#piano #music #soundcloud
March 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
Quick sketch.

#sketch #artwork #art #drawing
A stylized digital drawing of a face of what appears to be a 40+ white man with short hair, head turned slightly to the left, while looking slightly to the right, and a somewhat concerned expression. The drawing has mostly warm gray-scale tones, with a bit of colorful hatching at the edges for added contrast.
March 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
Oh nice, the fediverse, and Bluesky, got a shoutout on #LastWeekTonight! Did you know, if you make an account on Pixelfed, you can follow anyone on Mastodon, or any of the other fediverse platforms, and vice versa. How neat!

jointhefediverse.net

#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia
A frame from the linked video showing the host, John Oliver, dressed in a dark suit with a light shirt and a tie, speaking to the camera and gesturing with his hands. On the left we see a list of social media platforms with their matching logos, consisting of Bluesky, Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Signal.
February 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
"The tide will turn."

Full song:

- stefanbohacek.bandcamp.com/album/the-ti...
- bandwagon.fm/67a9fd7ccc33...
- mirlo.space/stefan/relea...
- soundcloud.com/stefanbohace...

#music #MusicMonday #NewMusic #NewRelease #bandcamp #bandwagon #mirlo #soundcloud #electronic #synth #instrumental
February 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

#SocialMedia #organizing #fascism #FightFascism
Thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Hannah Arendt warned us that the point of this deluge is not to persuade, but to overwhelm and paralyze our capacity to act. More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media in response to these ridiculous claims actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action. The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them.
February 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
Today is the first day of #BlackHistoryMonth here in the US, as we're watching our government begin the erasure of minorities out of existence.

These attempts won't work as long as we commit to standing up for each other and lifting up marginalized voices.

✊

#BHM #BLM #solidarity
A photo of a mural graffiti featuring three colorful raised fists, the symbol of solidarity. One of the fists has a depiction of the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute incident during which two African-American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, each raised a black-gloved fist during the playing of the US national anthem. The background of the mural features various geometrical shapes in black on a white background.
February 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
If you've been thinking about setting up your own website, you should check out @neocities.org and @glitch.com, which will let you make one for free.

Not interested in diving into HTML and CSS quite yet?

Here's a little tool I made that can help!

simplepagebuilder.app

#PersonalWebsite #indieweb
A screenshot of the page building interface, with a sidebar on the right listing various CSS style properties, and a preview of a page that's being built in a larger column on the left, with some of the sections highlighted with a blue border.
January 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
stefanbohacek.bsky.social
See, I have over 3,000 followers over on Mastodon, and less than 17% of them are on the largest Mastodon server. If it goes down, I can still talk to and interact with more than 80% of them. The fediverse is decentralized, and can never "go down".

#bluesky #decentralized #SocialMedia #fediverse
A chart showing the distribution of my followers and people I follow across different fediverse servers. mastodon.social: 615 connections (16.6%) mstdn.social: 116 connections (3.1%) hachyderm.io: 105 connections (2.8%) mas.to: 88 connections (2.4%) fosstodon.org: 85 connections (2.3%) mastodon.online: 83 connections (2.2%) botsin.space: 72 connections (1.9%) infosec.exchange: 62 connections (1.7%) stefanbohacek.online: 60 connections (1.6%) indieweb.social: 46 connections (1.2%)
December 27, 2024 at 4:44 PM