Petr Zvoníček
@zvo.bsky.social
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Na sebevědomý rozklad ministerstev a jejich bezostyšnou oligarchizaci by si Motoristé stěží troufli nebýt MAGA inspirace. Málo ji bereme do hry. Teď nás čeká podobná cesta autoritářství, civilizacionistického rasismu a debilizace. Nemusela by, ale ona to chce i část bývalé vlády.
December 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Na sebevědomý rozklad ministerstev a jejich bezostyšnou oligarchizaci by si Motoristé stěží troufli nebýt MAGA inspirace. Málo ji bereme do hry. Teď nás čeká podobná cesta autoritářství, civilizacionistického rasismu a debilizace. Nemusela by, ale ona to chce i část bývalé vlády.
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I’m very unhappy about the aggressive AI upscaling in the Beatles Anthology on Disney Plus. It’s added a whole extra Beatle! Who the fuck is “George”?
November 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I’m very unhappy about the aggressive AI upscaling in the Beatles Anthology on Disney Plus. It’s added a whole extra Beatle! Who the fuck is “George”?
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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The Necks just out there dropping three discs of pure zoning: thenecksau.bandcamp.com/album/disquiet
Disquiet, by The Necks
4 track album
thenecksau.bandcamp.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The Necks just out there dropping three discs of pure zoning: thenecksau.bandcamp.com/album/disquiet
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imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
September 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
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Back in the 1990s Microsoft was known to be a place where "if you were awake, you were working." And people did this because they *wanted* to / were so into the work itself! Management's job was to not mess this up.
Source: my discussion w Steve McConnell, author of Code Complete(he worked at MSFT)
Source: my discussion w Steve McConnell, author of Code Complete(he worked at MSFT)
August 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Back in the 1990s Microsoft was known to be a place where "if you were awake, you were working." And people did this because they *wanted* to / were so into the work itself! Management's job was to not mess this up.
Source: my discussion w Steve McConnell, author of Code Complete(he worked at MSFT)
Source: my discussion w Steve McConnell, author of Code Complete(he worked at MSFT)
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Today in 'somehow the Czechs are involved in everything':
Cola di Rienzo, 14th-century Italian popular leader, de facto ruler of Rome, early advocate of Italian unification, ally/enemy of the pope...
... who fled to Prague and was imprisoned in Roudnice nad Labem.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola_di...
Cola di Rienzo, 14th-century Italian popular leader, de facto ruler of Rome, early advocate of Italian unification, ally/enemy of the pope...
... who fled to Prague and was imprisoned in Roudnice nad Labem.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola_di...
Cola di Rienzo - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Today in 'somehow the Czechs are involved in everything':
Cola di Rienzo, 14th-century Italian popular leader, de facto ruler of Rome, early advocate of Italian unification, ally/enemy of the pope...
... who fled to Prague and was imprisoned in Roudnice nad Labem.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola_di...
Cola di Rienzo, 14th-century Italian popular leader, de facto ruler of Rome, early advocate of Italian unification, ally/enemy of the pope...
... who fled to Prague and was imprisoned in Roudnice nad Labem.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola_di...
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There were may years when job hopping every few years was glamorised (“if you stay at the same company for more than 2 years you get underpaid” -there was truth to this in a hot market.)
But feels like we also forgot to appreciate the learning tenure can offer. Like this (now Turbopuffer cofounder)
But feels like we also forgot to appreciate the learning tenure can offer. Like this (now Turbopuffer cofounder)
June 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
There were may years when job hopping every few years was glamorised (“if you stay at the same company for more than 2 years you get underpaid” -there was truth to this in a hot market.)
But feels like we also forgot to appreciate the learning tenure can offer. Like this (now Turbopuffer cofounder)
But feels like we also forgot to appreciate the learning tenure can offer. Like this (now Turbopuffer cofounder)
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Perhaps the last genuinely great album you can still find on vinyl for a fiver or less, Mike Oldfield’s Hergest Ridge is assessed and repossessed brilliantly by @andrewmale.bsky.social in the new issue of @mojomagazine.bsky.social.
June 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Perhaps the last genuinely great album you can still find on vinyl for a fiver or less, Mike Oldfield’s Hergest Ridge is assessed and repossessed brilliantly by @andrewmale.bsky.social in the new issue of @mojomagazine.bsky.social.
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I think about this comic at least once a week
May 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I think about this comic at least once a week
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This is what a judge looks like when a company willfully and knowingly ignores a court order, then lies under oath to cover it up.
Apple did this.
The judge is done playing nice.
"For this Court, there is no second bite at the apple."
Apple will surely regret playing ugly.
Apple did this.
The judge is done playing nice.
"For this Court, there is no second bite at the apple."
Apple will surely regret playing ugly.
May 1, 2025 at 4:28 AM
This is what a judge looks like when a company willfully and knowingly ignores a court order, then lies under oath to cover it up.
Apple did this.
The judge is done playing nice.
"For this Court, there is no second bite at the apple."
Apple will surely regret playing ugly.
Apple did this.
The judge is done playing nice.
"For this Court, there is no second bite at the apple."
Apple will surely regret playing ugly.
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Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good.
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
February 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good.
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
so many games I would play if I could skip the grinding and just play the story
i play a lot of games hacked or with cheats and it's really striking how little actual Game there is in most games once you take out the constant slog of busywork they force you to do
February 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
so many games I would play if I could skip the grinding and just play the story
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An open source alternative to iStat Menu Bar. github.com/exelban/stats
GitHub - exelban/stats: macOS system monitor in your menu bar
macOS system monitor in your menu bar. Contribute to exelban/stats development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
An open source alternative to iStat Menu Bar. github.com/exelban/stats
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Pocit ohrožení maskulinity u mnoha mužů je kořenem velké části současných problémů. (Dalo by se to taky popsat jako malé auto/velký penis problém, ale pojďme za zjednodušení). Hlavně ale nevím co s tím. Měnit jak vychováváme muže? Psychoterapie pro všechny? Tablety extáze namísto piva?
Giant cars really do appeal to guys who are insecure about their masculinity:
"Men whose masculinity was threatened reported viewing the SUV as more desirable, and reported being willing to spend more money to purchase it than did unthreatened men."
www.jstor.org/stable/10.10...
"Men whose masculinity was threatened reported viewing the SUV as more desirable, and reported being willing to spend more money to purchase it than did unthreatened men."
www.jstor.org/stable/10.10...
January 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Pocit ohrožení maskulinity u mnoha mužů je kořenem velké části současných problémů. (Dalo by se to taky popsat jako malé auto/velký penis problém, ale pojďme za zjednodušení). Hlavně ale nevím co s tím. Měnit jak vychováváme muže? Psychoterapie pro všechny? Tablety extáze namísto piva?
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Ode dneška se v New Yorku platí mýtné za vjezd aut do centrální zóny Manhattanu. Po mnoha letech úsilí tak NYC prosadilo zásadní systém pro zrychlení dopravy a zlepšení kvality vzduchu a života v nejlidnatější čtvrti Ameriky.
Jak to funguje a co to má způsobit? 🧵👇
Jak to funguje a co to má způsobit? 🧵👇
REMINDER: Starting this Sunday, January 5, 2025, vehicles entering the Congestion Relief Zone in Manhattan — local streets and avenues at or below 60 Street — will be charged a toll.
Here's a thread with information about toll rates, discounts/exemptions, FAQs, and more ⬇️
Here's a thread with information about toll rates, discounts/exemptions, FAQs, and more ⬇️
Congestion Pricing Program in New York - MTA
congestionreliefzone.mta.info
January 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Ode dneška se v New Yorku platí mýtné za vjezd aut do centrální zóny Manhattanu. Po mnoha letech úsilí tak NYC prosadilo zásadní systém pro zrychlení dopravy a zlepšení kvality vzduchu a života v nejlidnatější čtvrti Ameriky.
Jak to funguje a co to má způsobit? 🧵👇
Jak to funguje a co to má způsobit? 🧵👇
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Artist makes website that lets you take selfies through NYC's network of traffic cameras. NYC Department of Transportation sends cease and desist. Artist nails cease and desist to a very very very long pole & holds it up to one of the cameras to take a photo of it
www.404media.co/traffic-cam-...
www.404media.co/traffic-cam-...
December 12, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Artist makes website that lets you take selfies through NYC's network of traffic cameras. NYC Department of Transportation sends cease and desist. Artist nails cease and desist to a very very very long pole & holds it up to one of the cameras to take a photo of it
www.404media.co/traffic-cam-...
www.404media.co/traffic-cam-...
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Now that I have a book out, I check its reviews and ratings on Amazon and Goodreads periodically. It's mainly thrilling that people are reading it at all, but it's also cool to get some stars and some feedback.
I also occasionally go check a few other particular books to compare. [a thread]
I also occasionally go check a few other particular books to compare. [a thread]
November 14, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Now that I have a book out, I check its reviews and ratings on Amazon and Goodreads periodically. It's mainly thrilling that people are reading it at all, but it's also cool to get some stars and some feedback.
I also occasionally go check a few other particular books to compare. [a thread]
I also occasionally go check a few other particular books to compare. [a thread]
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January 13, 2024 at 10:13 AM