Nick Heer
@nickheer.com
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Compostable*. Writes pxlnv.com, available here at pxlnv.bsky.social. * where facilities exist
A little pet peeve I have is when someone (like the reply person in the second image) assumes an entire context can be found in a social media post, and says so with smug confidence.
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Todd in the Shadows
8 days ago
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The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2025
YouTube video by Todd in the Shadows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41A5knAYlaE&feature=youtu.be
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@kashhill.bsky.social
Thank you for all the reporting you do. Quick question: did you ever hear from the fathers whose accounts were closed by Google, and whether they were able to recover their accounts?
11 days ago
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I think it’s fair for people to question rezoning, though I disagree. I think it’s really misleading to illustrate that with a photo of a completely different type of development double the size of what is permitted by the zoning type in the op-ed.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/it-f...
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'It felt like bringing a knife to a gunfight': One citizen's tangled tale with blanket rezoning
One citizen's tangled tale with blanket rezoning
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/it-felt-like-bringing-a-knife-to-a-gunfight-one-citizens-tangled-tale-with-blanket-rezoning
13 days ago
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It’s amazing to see people doing conspiracy thinking for something easily explained by someone signing up for this campaign using his email address after his death and saying the first name on the account is “Pedophiles”.
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16 days ago
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I didn’t think I was going to see a photo today of Noam Chomsky and Steve Bannon yukking it up from the files of Jeffrey Epstein, but here we are.
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16 days ago
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There are people out there who still believe Disney is a family entertainment company just trying its best to make great movies.
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20 days ago
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Remember when they launched that public form for reports of tech company bias, and then I FOIA’d all the agencies that would have received a copy of responses and was told none exist? Let’s do that again.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/12/a-call-to-action-submit-media-bias-tips/
25 days ago
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Elon Musk’s fake charity has moved over $600 million in the past three years to a school that had a projected capacity of 54 elementary students, and an actual capacity of 48.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/…
projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/org…
www.adastraschool.org/admissions
25 days ago
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I love Axios’ dedication to its gimmick.
www.axios.com/local/richmond…
26 days ago
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This is the best possible “for Dummies” book title.
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Ben McCarthy
about 1 month ago
Announcement time: Sara, Goose, Zero and I are moving to London in January! The whole process is proving very expensive (what isn’t these days) so I’ve decided to bump the price of Obscura from $20 to $25 per year. But since it’s black friday, you can get your first year for just $10 yay!
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Thinking about the Glenn Kessler bonus episode of
@ifbookspod.bsky.social
in reading this, especially given that it somehow lands on “false” despite everyone, in fact, learning Arabic numerals and nobody, aside from NW, suggesting he is “introducing” them.
www.newsweek.com/fact-check-mam…
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Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools?
Arabic numerals are simply the digits 0 through 9—the standard number symbols used in every classroom in the United States.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-mamdani-arabic-numerals-new-york-schools-11079540
about 1 month ago
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Bon Appetit has a paywall so they can afford to spread recipes out with an appropriate number of steps.
about 1 month ago
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Eric Schmeltzer
about 1 month ago
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me
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Too bad Silicon Valley roulette landed on Cloudflare today instead of, say, Microsoft Office.
about 1 month ago
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Some people might be upset at data loss, but this error message began with “oops”.
about 1 month ago
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Peter
about 1 month ago
i now believe that jeffrey epstein killed himself because if i wrote like that i would kill myself
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We are so lucky to have Viagra Boys doing what they do better with each record.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl6CZD…
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Viagra Boys - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
http://KEXP.ORG presents Viagra Boys performing live in the KEXP gathering space. Recorded September 13, 2025. Songs: Man Made Of Meat 01:09 Slow Learner 05:08 Waterboy 09:03 Troglodyte 12:23 Pyramid Of Health 16:15 The Bog Body 20:33 Uno II 24:12 Sports 26:58 Sebastian Murphy - Vocals Tor Sjödén…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl6CZDmBDl4
about 2 months ago
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Canada’s NDP is fundraising on the backs of a U.S. mayoral win.
about 2 months ago
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I wonder if Alberta’s Minister of Red Tape Reduction has heard about the new “Statement of Eligibility form”, introduced by Alberta’s government, required to be completed in triplicate for each voter, or the requirement to hand-count all ballots. Feels red-tapey to me.
2 months ago
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I just finished “Lucky Loser” and the guy loves his ballrooms. Also, it’s a pretty trite comparison, but imagine the Fox News reaction if Barack Obama so much as chipped the paint.
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2 months ago
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You can make a good case for lots of Miles Davis recordings to be his best. “In a Silent Way” will always be my favourite, though. What a perfect set of pieces.
2 months ago
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Robson Fletcher
2 months ago
Smith in 2014: The plan to change the motto on Alberta's licence plate is a politically motivated distraction. Smith in 2025: Here's a plan to change the motto on Alberta's licence plate.
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Moved by both of the essays the Verge has run so far in this series about being trans on the internet.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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How trans visibility became a trap
People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/798490/trans-visibility-trap
2 months ago
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I love paying for Defector.
defector.com/the-future-o...
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The Future Of The Sneaker Business First Requires A Future | Defector
PORTLAND, ORE. — Global capitalism begins with apparel. Slaves were brought to the American South from West Africa to do farm labor, and by the 19th century that largely meant cotton, a ubiquitous puf...
https://defector.com/the-future-of-the-sneaker-business-first-requires-a-future?giftLink=10789154f8e811d0ac60dcd1403408f0
3 months ago
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Some thoughts on Liquid Glass:
pxlnv.com/blog/on-liqu...
I will probably need to bring the videos over to Vimeo. Also, I probably missed your favourite complaint or nitpick about it.
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On Liquid Glass
A brief, throat-clearing caveat: while I had written most of this pre-launch, I was unable to complete it by the time Apple shipped its annual round of operating system updates. Real life, and all tha...
https://pxlnv.com/blog/on-liquid-glass/
3 months ago
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Elizabeth Lopatto
3 months ago
weird how "the demands of the market" means "report twice a year" and not "report monthly, more data for shareholders' informed decisions"
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HowDoYou Guide
3 months ago
Hi
@npr.org
! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
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Find some of the dumbest people with an internet connection by searching X for “to:grok is this true”.
3 months ago
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Look, I love
@techmeme.com
as much as anyone, but are we learning anything when they aggregate and link to a fringe conspiracy blog like Zero Hedge?
www.techmeme.com/250917/p45#a...
3 months ago
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Pixel Envy
4 months ago
When All You Have Is a Robots.txt Hammer
https://pxlnv.com/blog/when-all-you-have-is-a-robots-hammer/
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When All You Have Is a Robots.txt Hammer
Last year, Robb Knight figured out how Perplexity, an artificial intelligence search engine, was evading instructions not to crawl particular sites. Knight learned that Perplexity’s engine would use an unlisted user agent to scrape summaries of pages on websites where Perplexity was blocked. In my testing, I found the summaries were outdated by hours-to-days, indicating […]
https://pxlnv.com/blog/when-all-you-have-is-a-robots-hammer/
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No, thanks.
4 months ago
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Minolta XD-7, Minolta 50mm f1.7 and Tokina 100–300mm f5.6 Cinestill 800T Develop, scan, and processing by Neat Film Lab
4 months ago
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How about the murders though?
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4 months ago
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Ryan Mac 🙃
4 months ago
The reason why the FP sold for so much — relative to its small output — is because it has a world view that is embraced by a readership of very wealthy people. Weiss isn't anti-establishment. She comforts the comfortable.
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4 months ago
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”
4 months ago
There’s one policy that Democrats could run on that guarantees they’d sweep back into power: making .webp images illegal
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We’ve been here before. Automatically reinforcing echo chambers were demonstrably a problem so YouTube changed its recommendations system. And then OpenAI went and built an even more personalized echo chamber.
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4 months ago
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Quick question regarding the party of free speech.
www.newsnationnow.com/politics/tru...
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https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-burning-american-flag-executive-order/
4 months ago
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I reviewed “Apple in China”, kind of. I rarely think this, but this might be one of my favourite things I have written in a while.
pxlnv.com/blog/mcgee-a...
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‘Apple in China’
When I watched Tim Cook, in the White House, carefully assemble a glass-and-gold trophy fit for a king, it felt to me like a natural outcome of the events and actions exhaustively documented by Patric...
https://pxlnv.com/blog/mcgee-apple-in-china/
4 months ago
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Paris Marx
4 months ago
the canadian government should seize on the hostility with the US to finally ditch the US paper sizes and switch the country to a-series sizes
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Climate Town
5 months ago
A graph Joe Rogan has brought up on SIX separate episodes of his podcast to disprove climate change explicitly says the opposite of what he claims.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1bM...
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Joe Rogan Doesn't Understand Graphs
YouTube video by Climate Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1bMJekCiBw
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@davehamilton.com
Hoping you can clarify this: is MacSurfer relaunching under BackBeat?
5 months ago
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It is very weird to me that blackletter continues to have Nazi connotations when it was banned by them, not chosen as the “official font”. (I just really like blackletter, okay?)
5 months ago
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It should be illegal for weather apps to say there is a 0% chance of precipitation when it is currently raining.
5 months ago
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I wonder if there is a shorter word for “state capitalism” under the direction of a single person.
5 months ago
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A minor but good reason to reduce inequality is because billionaires are, at their core, truly bizarre.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
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What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/mark-zuckerberg-palo-alto.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dE8.4mwC.KIg56amNv7R2&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
5 months ago
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I have thoughts after reading “Mood Machine”.
pxlnv.com/blog/mood-ma...
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‘Mood Machine’
The goals of art and commerce are basically opposite. Art fills our soul; it gives us emotional life. I have rarely heard anyone describe commerce similarly. At its most ideal, the business of art ena...
https://pxlnv.com/blog/mood-machine/
5 months ago
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New Burial! And it is great!
5 months ago
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