📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

I agree, the term is terrible. (though, Artificial String Construction doesn't exactly roll off the tongue)

Huh, link got suspended? @spacelawshitpost.me

It's the jumps, but also the part where it sometimes goes backwards. #ADHD

It says a lot about the world that "it makes life better for everyone" isn't a very good answer for many people, and requires further explanation to be applicable to them. For those people, I usually go into the "Why do you think money exists?" discussion.

I ate so much cheese today that my legs hurt while I was sitting down. This is despite multiple super strength lactase. I think, perhaps, I may have finally crossed the line of too much cheese.

For those interested in paying for a platform that will actively protects its users, here's where you can pay us (Northsky)

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

The biggest barrier to the widespread adoption of renewables, is the fact that the richest, least intelligent, most self-important, fashiest 50 dudes in the US, wasted the low interest rates of the 2010s investing in monkey jpegs instead of solar cells and battery production.🤡 Now they fear China.

Savage. I love it.

Please stop calling Cyber Security Awareness Month CSAM. Do not send e-mails with ideas for "Participating in CSAM".

Rest in Peace, Dr Goodall. I hope we, as a species, can someday live up to the work you did.

I love these presentations of theory. For years I literally said fashion was pointless, until I worked in sales and needed to be in presenter mode. Now threads like this put words to things I had learned and understood, but didn't really know, you know?

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

If you think this is US-only, it's not. If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't. If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is. If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can. If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

How do we educate the next generation of open source contributors? This is what Ruth Ikegah, Leslie Hawthorne, Stephen Walli, and I discussed at the recent #OSSummit EU in Amsterdam. Here's my blog post with a few more details along with the video of the session. fastwonderblog.com/2025/09/27/e...

every story out of the US these days is either "hitler sends stormtroopers to execute political enemies" or "clown says something so stupid it's hilarious" and they're about the same guy, the hitlerclown

As someone who was in college for 10 years, with 4 majors, I feel personally attacked.

I want to make a movie about the manifestation of someone's conscience, but instead of an angel and a devil, it's just Werner Herzog pointing out how awful things have become.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

we're hiring a Product Engineer at @bsky.app! social is changing quickly — our team is defining what comes next. if you're a 10X React Native dev who wants to ship features millions use daily and help bring the joy back to social, get in touch: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

Chicken in my Head! open.spotify.com/track/3KN86a...

My understanding is that the UN was headquartered in the US post WW2 because a) we were the dominant world power, along with the USSR, but b) unlike them, we could be trusted to allow free discussion, debate, and collective action.

Look, I get it. When you're itchy, you figure it out.

celebrities out walking the characters they’ve played instead of their dogs: thread

This morning, I'm thinking on the nature of #ADHD and contemplating... maybe I should use plural pronouns?

This is me, and if it's also you, we should watch the movie about it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindwalk

Holy SHIT: Phase I/II study for a gene therapy for Huntington's (a truly evil disease) just got to first readout with a 60% slowing of disease progression as measured in total functional capacity at 36 months: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

This just gave me intense flashbacks to all the years I spent using a physical vt220 and learning how an actual terminal server worked.

Life in 2025.

I hadn't considered most of this angle (who else did they fuck things up for), but it does back up my "these guys aren't smart" statement.

It's not surprising that the Secret Service can't tell the difference between "terrifying disruptive infrastructure" and "basically a telemarketing phone bank". Even members of other Law Enforcement point to the Secret Service these days as "If anyone's going to jump in front of a bullet..."

My partner hates my morning alarm, but it sure as hell gets me out of bed. open.spotify.com/track/7L1pVD...

The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.

Oh, hey, apparently we're on the front page of this year's landing site for GitHub Universe. I guess they liked our talk.

Inside you there are two wolves. Hey, meal planning is difficult.

Unrelated: Looking forward to seeing people at #Edgecase tomorrow!

Why yes, I'm sure these are legit people who all have the same profile pic and totally not bots...

As @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu highlighted, @beckermax.bsky.social, @johannaflach.bsky.social and I wanted to dig deeper into how far-right parties are already shaping EU politics. Here is our analysis for @swp-berlin.org:

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

Koen!!!

Scrabble and similar word games really need an option for "I know it's not a dictionary word, but it would be hilarious, so just let me play it for no points."

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Today I walked in to... An orchestra of bus drivers playing a concert in Utrecht Centraal station? This country is magical.

Ik leer een beetje Nederlands. Schrijf jij in #Nederlands? Ik wil je volgen: bsky.app/profile/did:... (^^ That was probably grammatically terrible)

Some days you just open your windows and hang partly out them at 2:30 in the morning, enjoying the cool, quiet, and clear night. I missed this for too long.