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Thomas Woolford
@twoolie.bsky.social
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I'm a generalist who enjoys a challenge, and I'm way too fascinated by build systems. In my free time I play VR games and ride bikes with my son.

Professional Software Engineer.
Unprofessional Mechx Engineer.

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twoolie.bsky.social
Legitimately such a good language for experimentation. I can easily see this being a language I transition my personal projects to.

Congrats on the milestone Unison Team!
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
Turns out that ai is really bad at making maps based on data... and at history... who would have thought!
Asked Gemini & chatgpt to make a map showing the mortality rate of cities during the 14th century Black Death pandemic... can you spot the errors?
October 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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unison-lang.org
You can now spin up Unison Cloud clusters on your own infrastructure!

✅ Build elastic distributed systems and services in vastly less code
✅ Fast, typed RPC
✅ Deployments in seconds
✅ Free to get started

youtu.be/0sZqI1XoGLY
Unison Cloud on your infrastructure
YouTube video by Unison Language
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October 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
twoolie.bsky.social
Unreal, and so beautiful.
vickyveritas.bsky.social Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · Sep 25
Tiger Iron is a metamorphosed banded iron formation (BIF) from Australia. It consists of shimmering golden tiger’s eye, red jasper, and jet black hematite. More at comment below.

#MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐 #hematite
Huge polished slabs of Tiger Iron (tiger’s eye, red jasper and black hematite) from Australia.
September 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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coil.bsky.social
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: - data centers pollute our environment - energy use drives up costs - content theft robs creators of income - the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages - using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence - the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people
August 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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averysafecat.bsky.social
There’s a lot that’s wrong with Cville (a lot wrong with the world) but this is the only town where people, and of all walks of life, tell me that they like my shirt.
August 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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kagi.com
In one of the latest episodes of the Behavioral Science for Brands Podcast, Rory Sutherland discusses how Kagi stands out by prioritizing user interests over advertisers - highlighting what happens when search engines put advertisers first.

Full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngQe...
July 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
twoolie.bsky.social
Solidarity from Aus. Would be great to have no kings here also.
indivisible.org Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Jun 14
There are nearly 100,000 people at the rally in Philadelphia. #NoKings
June 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
twoolie.bsky.social
You may not like it, but this is what peak desktop design looks like.
May 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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mikerose.bsky.social
Hi Bluesky, could really use your help 🙏🙏

We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been *not fantastic* for our launch

If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️

Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/...
April 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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australia.theguardian.com
BREAKING: Scientists have warned record high ocean temperatures have spread like an underwater wildfire over corals across the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans, with 84% of the planet's reefs hit by the worst global bleaching event on record.
More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record
An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:23 AM
twoolie.bsky.social
Vimjoyer got me good: youtu.be/wWgxmchHSEw

Can we get flakes stabilised already? #nix #flakes
Nix Flakes Finally Stable? The Best NixOS Update In History
YouTube video by Vimjoyer
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April 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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aisipos.bsky.social
"Rethinking the Container layer with #Nix" at #Scale22x, rethinking the linear layered approach of Dockerfiles vs the graph of dependencies of most build systems
March 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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tom.eastman.nz
It's cliche now to refer back to people who called this motherfucker a "free speech absolutist" unironically.

But seriously. Find those people, and injure them. They knew, and enjoyed laughing about it.
February 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
twoolie.bsky.social
Do any of my #nixos peeps use Azure Entra? I've a pull-request open on himmelblau-idm to add a NixOS module and I'd appreciate some testers with time to give it a go.

github.com/himmelblau-i...
Add Nix build definitions and a rudimentary NixOS module by twoolie · Pull Request #366 · himmelblau-idm/himmelblau
This PR adds support for building himmelblau with Nix, and a fairly minimal NixOS module for inclusion into a NixOS system configuration. It is structured as a flake, which is very well supported d...
github.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
twoolie.bsky.social
House House's new game looks lovely, looking forward to playing it with my eldest on a rainy winter afternoon.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyQP...
Big Walk - Reveal Trailer
YouTube video by House House
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February 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
twoolie.bsky.social
Surveillance Capitalism does not have your interests at heart, rarely even has them in mind. Vote with your feet and leave Facebook behind.
sifill.bsky.social Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jan 7
Sharing here a long thread I just shared on Threads about Zuckerberg. Yes, I encouraged folks to come to Bluesky. Anyway, pull up a chair.
a red chair sits in front of a wall that has a sign that says new amsterdam on it
ALT: a red chair sits in front of a wall that has a sign that says new amsterdam on it
media.tenor.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project. "I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."
January 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM