Foursquare just open sourced their 100 million place point of interest dataset! Some notes on poking around with it using DuckDB (it's Parquet files on S3) simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/...

Spotted at my local servo

Met a baby mynah who was learning to fly. Hadn’t quite worked it out.

I often hear that Australians don’t “do” trick-or treat at Halloween, or that it’s “an American thing” but in my childhood back in Scotland on the 31st Oct we always went “guising” - dressing up and knocking on doors, maybe reciting a poyum, for sweets. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-o...

Migrating my Twitter follows into bsky. Loads more since I did this a year or so ago!!

I’d love to see an offical release of Justice at Coachella 2024 à la Alive 2007 - it’s such a great set!

My Australian myGov account was closed due to too many failed logins. I created a new one, and I’ve found that after enabling passkeys you can disable password login. Good to see govt taking security seriously.

Looks like there are more null checking fails out there in the wild.

Ok! Did you know that the character of Spock & the Vulcan “live long and prosper” 🖖🏽 is actually drawn from the Torah & informed by Nimoy’s Jewish heritage? As a child, Nimoy was in synagogue & snuck a look at the Konahim blessing 🖖🏽. ST centered pluralistic society & he made it part of his character

apparently muting the hellthread doesnt work? technically that's a bug but it's hilarious so

I watched The Thing with my kid last night. It’s fun seeing his reaction to movies filmed 40 years ago - he’s so used to crisp 4K and realistic CGI. He described the movies monsters as cursed - he’s not wrong! They have retained their ick. A classic movie in my book.

‼️Block lists are here! Note that they are public.‼️

it just occurred to me that if posts here are skeets, blocks should be yeets

I wonder what the equivalent of the Fail Whale will be? The site is holding up well so far but user and post numbers are up and to the right…

Hello World!

Just realised that hashtags are not (yet) a thing here.

Hi folks. I’m Rob, this is Fade my #rabbit. Just checking out Bluesky.