It's weird. A hundred years ago, only rich people owned cars while everyone else owned horses. Now only rich people own horses while everyone else owns cars. How the stables have turned.

Oh! And I forgot one of my favorites: "We shape our tools and, in turn, our tools shape us" - supposedly Churchill but unclear.

TIL: Antimetabole - "is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed order" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimet...) "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" - JFK "Dreams cost money but money costs dreams" - The Hold Steady (paraphrased)

Pulling for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!

I find myself in rainy and cold Vancouver, BC for the day. Not sure what I’ll get up to!

… any women working on ML training infrastructure out there

Posting just so you know I’m not a bot running in us-east-1.

Apparently the framers didn’t mean that whole no emoluments things.

A while ago I visited Argentina. Took a tour with a local and went to Plaza de Mayo. Learned about the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. It is a sobering stories about people being disappeared and loved ones demanding justice over time during a dictatorship. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers...

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Wow. This is how you do it. Hopefully other leaders follow Mamdani’s lead.

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

Let’s go M’s!!

We don't, there will be a new (and hopefully better) normal after this, that said, for the rest of our lives we'll have to be aware a non-trivial number of neighbors and fellows voted for actual fascism, and that's always going to be a bummer

Hanging out at a bar with my favorite people (Willie, the dog, and @rbeda.bsky.social, the spouse) watching the M’s. First run in the post season since 2001!

I'm so excited to see what happens with Northsky. I just made a donation because I want stuff like this to exist in the world.

We aren't leaving as we feel a responsibility to our community on multiple levels. And also, we are insulated from the worst impacts for a variety of reasons and we should use those advantages to help others. Beyond that, I don't want to. This is my home and I want to fight for it.

I'm so excited to see what happens with Northsky. I just made a donation because I want stuff like this to exist in the world.

So Trump can just send out checks to people but Biden couldn't cancel student debt? I would think that sending checks would require congress to be on board. Or is this just more lawlessness?

TIL that the raspberry pi has an issue that if you use HDMI at certain resolutions it interferes with the WiFi radio and makes it flakey. The solution, apparently, is to force it to 5GHz. Computers suck.

If BlueSky creates an AI assistant (and they shouldn’t and, as far as I know, have no plans to) they should name it Alf.

“Even when the status quo sucks, even when the status quo isn't good for most people, it is much easier to just say, ‘Well, we're just not going to do anything,’ because we'll get less political pushback […]. And that's not my style, so I want to do things.” - @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social 🙌🙌🙌

Just pulled up this 2022 article from @theguardian.com on oligarchs planning their bunkers. www.theguardian.com/news/2022/se...

On a call with some friends and just coined a new term: Load Bearing Bullshit As in "Bitcoin has evolved to the point where it is load bearing bullshit and isn't going away anytime soon."

I just watched this last night. It was impressive! I really should pick up some of the EDU kits at Erica Synths to play around with. Too many projects, not enough time!

Flags would be lowered for Timothy McVeigh today...

Remember when a bunch of right wing extremists took over and occupied a federal building in Oregon for 6 weeks in 2016? And the feds just waited them out and they ended up getting off. Seems quaint now.

I made myself some deviled eggs because I fancy. I set them down and the dog grabbed 4 of 6 before I could stop him. Good for him but now I have to make some more! (Pre-peeled hard boiled eggs from Costco is my cheat code.)

So my youngest is at the age where she is getting tons of email from prospective colleges. Just got one from Columbia. Hahahaha. That is a pretty hard no.

Hell, there are a lot of people in Bellevue that are afraid of Seattle.

So exhausting..

The most baffling thing about this strategy is that the Democrats don't even have a signature policy on healthcare! "Don't look at the fascist militarization of US cities, look at ..." what exactly?

We need to primary all those that don’t get it. The party needs a grassroots reinvention.

The “thin blue line” refers to the blue sharpie cops carry around to write left wing slogans on shell casings found near mass shootings.

Please enjoy today, 25/9/2025, the last square date until 2116 (5^2/3^2/45^2).

So the grass roots revolution of the GOP was the Tea Party. What will we call the grass roots revolution of the Dems?

Don’t let the internet fool you. I was at a protest for trans kids yesterday an HOUR south of Seattle, and it was HUGE. And there was a cacophony of drivers beeping in support. I could not believe it. Because I spend too much online and figured it’s a lost cause.

It’s funny that nobody in the Trump sphere has the secret sauce like him. I hate the guy and he’s by no means wise but he understands people or at least he understands our lowest common denominator and it gives him an insight into society while the rest of them might as well be aliens in skin suits

Yup. Nothing odd going on here at all. Gah.

We will not compromise the privacy of Washington voters by turning over confidential information that both state and federal law prohibit us from disclosing. washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/09/23/w...

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

Please stop using OpenTorment!!! It's only open-core! TormentLibre is the fully FOSS alternative!

Yeah, I’m not resubscribing.

Little late to the game as I just finished Andor and re-watched Rouge One. Canceled my Hulu/Disney+ bundle.

Charlie Kirk’s death is a tragedy, and I condemn all political violence from wherever it comes. House Republicans designed today’s resolution as a political “gotcha” — one that attempts to put words in my mouth to endorse Kirk’s views. I cannot do that, so I voted “no.”

People keep "debunking" the claim that Charlie Kirk wanted to stone gay people to death but I'm pretty sure he meant it.

It seems that keyboard shortcuts for the gmail app have broken in iPadOS 26. They were never great to begin with but now they are just broken.

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

Check out this cool video from Frederico from cuttle.xyz on creating cool geometric patterns with their tool. It allows super easy creation of designs to be laser cut. I loved what they are doing so much I invested a while ago. (cc @forresto.bsky.social) youtu.be/aGZKTK6hVkc?...

Seattle mayoral front-runner Katie Wilson on taxes, tech sector and working with Amazon https://www.geekwire.com/2025/seattle-mayoral-front-runner-katie-wilson-on-taxes-tech-sector-and-working-with-amazon/