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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 1d

i love the idea that the biggest manufacturing powerhouse on this globe is exporting oil demand destruction powering-the-planet.ghost.io/gluttons-for...

Gluttons For Punishment: Oil Industry Doubles Down Against Reality

The world is facing a multi-year oil glut where the oil producers will be pumping more oil out of the ground than the world is using. This will keep oil prices at low levels – likely well below the le...

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 3d

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 3d

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

www.statnews.com

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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 3d

my conclusion is that if you want to win elections, you need a really good ampersand

zohran mamdani standing in front of a banner with a great ampersand

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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 5d

i find it odd to agree with the economist so vigorously, but here we are!

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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 5d

amazing :)

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 5d

🛠️ If your team has issues to work through:

We do an exercise at offsites called Elephants, Tigers & Paper Tigers.
- Elephants are things that the group isn’t talking about but needs to
- Tigers are things threatening the team, risks
- Paper tigers are things that seem like risks, but aren’t

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Le pianocktailiste @pianocktailiste.bsky.social · 6d

J'ai envie de vous parler de l'effet Poynting-Robertson.
Le principe, c'est pourquoi le Soleil fait aspirateur à poussière.
Alors voilà, imaginez que vous êtes un paisible grain de poussière dans le système solaire.
(Thread, 1/moult)

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Tim Briody @timbriody.bsky.social · Jun 25

Finally a big city mayor raised on “YOU CAN’T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!”

Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · Jun 25

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor

Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

A magazine list showing #37, Zohran Mamdani, age 11, asked for Books, FIFA 2003 and SimCity 3000 video games.

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Arrigo Triulzi @cynicalsecurity.bsky.social · 6d

I guess the Guggenheim camera system probably is safe as nobody can spell it.

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 7d

setting a 72-hour timer. this is the NYC LIB OUT ZONE. everyone gets a free pass for expressing enthusiasm for electoral politics in this carefully delineated window. post about the power of voting!!! cry over a schmaltzy campaign video!!!! allow a brief flutter of hope in ur rotted soul!!!!

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Lilith Verstrynge @lilithverstrynge.bsky.social · 13d

So honored to join @equatormag.bsky.social , born as a response to the horror in Palestine and inspired by a need to bring back meaning and hope amid today’s nihilism. 💪 I open with a personal piece about my last year in politics. Hope you’ll find it worth reading.

www.equator.org/articles/far...

Farewell to Podemos • Articles • EQUATOR

My decision to quit politics at 31

www.equator.org

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Jorge Tamames @jorgetamames.bsky.social · 7d

Esto de @lilithverstrynge.bsky.social es muy valiente y además es un análisis magnífico, que pone a cada cual en su sitio sin ensañarse.

elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 10d

OPINIÓN | 'Adiós a Podemos', por Lilith Verstrynge

✍️ 'Habíamos empezado a hablar con fantasmas'

La exsecretaria de Organización del partido reflexiona sobre su encuentro con el 15M y su experiencia en la formación

Adiós a Podemos

"Habíamos empezado a hablar con fantasmas. La constante y amenazante presencia del fascismo y la búsqueda de enemigos internos convirtieron la política en un ejercicio de lealtad ciega". Artículo publ...

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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 8d

gosh me too!!

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 10d

Sometimes i get sad at those “I wanted to look up what kind of horse pulled medieval wagons It’s three hours later and playtex bra sewers made spacesuits i have a problem” no. No, you don’t. Hydrate and get back in there

Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (Not very scary) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 10d

I strongly recommend everyone do research sometimes 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯.

Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee

It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism

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lynn @chordbug.bsky.social · 9d

just learned about the agouti (animal which is like if hieronymus bosch painted a capybara)

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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 16d

Pictured: a starveling wastrel, who has never known the taste of food

A black cat, mid-stride and looking at the camera, on a grey faux-wood floor

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Andy Wingo @wingolog.org · 12d

that is terrible. terribly cute i mean

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Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

it has been a while, but whoo, new bloggery: "wastrel, a profligate implementation of webassembly" https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/10/30/wastrel-a-profligate-implementation-of-webassembly

wastrel, a profligate implementation of webassembly — wingolog

wingolog: article: wastrel, a profligate implementation of webassembly

wingolog.org

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Roy Cobby @roycobby.bsky.social · 12d

Spain will achieve 3% growth this year. Since 2020, its minimum wage has increased 60%, pensions by 37%, unemployment down to historical lows, indefinite employment now the norm, gender pay gap down to 17%, 1.2 million people covered by new minimum income scheme and 1.9 million by child support.

The Spanish Success Story | NEB Digest

This week we look into Spain’s economic recovery and how progressive policies helped bring it about.

www.neweconomybrief.net

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titzerbl.bsky.social @titzerbl.bsky.social · 13d

Today I presented to the Wasm CG a proposal for fine-grained dynamic code generation as a core WebAssembly feature. The proposal is now at phase 1!

github.com/WebAssembly/...

Also immortalized in song: suno.com/song/19e0679...