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Sid Rini

@monkchips.com

analyst, developer-friendly black cats, small plates, natural wine london, east he, him

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This is fucking great. Long COVID is a beast. Cycling is fantastic.

10.03.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There is only one The Wicker Man. It's The Wicker Man, not A Wicker Man.

10.03.2026 19:30 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

does rather make me wonder why we apparently stopped scouting in south america.

10.03.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
NBC News poll

Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

10.03.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 12465 πŸ” 2656 πŸ’¬ 252 πŸ“Œ 199

fomo

10.03.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tangentially I love when a composer is obviously in "oh fuck, that's a fucking banger" mode about a melody they wroteβ€”you can tell b/c they repeat the tune as many times as they can right up to the boundary of formal plausibility

10.03.2026 04:33 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
mist Collaborative markdown editor

check out this cool tool @genmon.fyi just built - a collaborative markdown editor. multiplayer markdown, baby. given the whole fricking world is apparently being described in markdown now, this seems timely.

mist.inanimate.tech

10.03.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this picture makes absolutely no sense.

it is a photo of what looks like a teleprompter or camera of some kind with text that reads

THAT IS
TOO MUCH
VERMOUTH

10.03.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

i can't recommend this neat tool by @aendra.com highly enough. it strips out and labels posts that contain screenshots from the bad place and other networks - @xblock.aendra.dev

no more screenshot dunks in your feed.

10.03.2026 15:27 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i take my responsibilities quite seriously.

10.03.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love this writeup about how Puzzmo β€” an incredible collection of "newspaper puzzle games for the online age" β€” basically built Game Center on atproto

10.03.2026 15:06 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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meow

10.03.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 597 πŸ” 122 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5

πŸ—£οΈ PEOPLE, NOT PLATFORMS

10.03.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

imagine saying rude things about my coffee photos though. the cheek of it!

10.03.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Bloody hell two different sets of film crews filming in shops on my local high street

10.03.2026 13:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And yet here we are.

10.03.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

tech companies doing stuff on bluesky. one day soon this will be normal.

10.03.2026 12:26 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oof. too much not to much.

10.03.2026 12:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes sure it is. But the current undercurrent of really interesting projects has me excited.

10.03.2026 11:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Rocketeer - Vintage Trailer
The Rocketeer - Vintage Trailer YouTube video by ManticoreEscapee

πŸ‘gorgeous retro trailer here

10.03.2026 11:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

and maintaining support for third party federated apps and services. bluesky, but not at the expense of the atproto ecosystem. the future of digital publishing can be built here.

10.03.2026 11:32 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

we all went to a new french bistro the other day (absolutely on trend for London). it was very good. but playing edith piaf on rotation may have been adding to much fromage to the homage.

10.03.2026 11:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are β€˜just circling back’ to see if we can β€˜move the needle’ on β€˜key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

10.03.2026 11:07 πŸ‘ 2946 πŸ” 744 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 35

dunno but that is a cute car

10.03.2026 11:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Open Source Endowment β€” World's First Endowment Fund for OSS The Open Source Endowment provides truly sustainable funding for critical open source software through a community-driven endowment model.

We heard the Bluesky community cares about Open Source, so we showed up πŸ‘‹

Our endowment dedicated to supporting Open Source maintainers is already at $729k, and we're developing a model for distributing our first funding round.

Have ideas on how to identify critical OSS projects? We're listening.

08.03.2026 18:51 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Tom's on rare form today

10.03.2026 10:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Wildflowers, a couple of springs ago, in the churchyard in Buckfastleigh, Devon. This is actually a very spooky spot in winter as it's the resting place of the allegedly Satanic Squire Richard Cabell - inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's Baskerville legend - whose corpse is boxed in by a somewhat incongruous structure, a little pagoda-ish, but also not unlike the kind of public toilet you might find in a small British town, which sits on the south side of the church. Do NOT walk around it backwards as the Devil will bite your fingers and Cabell will release his hell hounds. Also, the church has been burned down by Satanists not once but TWICE in the last couple of centuries. (I wrote about all this in more detail in my book 21st-Century Yokel, and a couple of the scarier gravestones inspired bits in my novel Villager.

Wildflowers, a couple of springs ago, in the churchyard in Buckfastleigh, Devon. This is actually a very spooky spot in winter as it's the resting place of the allegedly Satanic Squire Richard Cabell - inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's Baskerville legend - whose corpse is boxed in by a somewhat incongruous structure, a little pagoda-ish, but also not unlike the kind of public toilet you might find in a small British town, which sits on the south side of the church. Do NOT walk around it backwards as the Devil will bite your fingers and Cabell will release his hell hounds. Also, the church has been burned down by Satanists not once but TWICE in the last couple of centuries. (I wrote about all this in more detail in my book 21st-Century Yokel, and a couple of the scarier gravestones inspired bits in my novel Villager.

Wildflowers love dead people.

07.03.2026 10:36 πŸ‘ 597 πŸ” 79 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 3

I see you Lars

10.03.2026 09:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kathleen Lonsdale (1903 – 1971) was an Irish crystallographer, pacifist, and prison reform activist. During her career she attained several firsts for female scientists, including being one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945. #CelebratingWomen

10.03.2026 09:38 πŸ‘ 189 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Who do you think from the ranks of "us" would want to do the job, and might be considered by the board? I mean @masnick.com is actually on the board, is undoubtedly one of us, and seems pretty happy about the appointment. So yeah for me it's wait and see.

10.03.2026 09:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0