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cpratt.bsky.social
Bear, flâneur, hiker, repairman. He/him/Dad.
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The year of Linux on the desktop == Infrastructure Week for geeks

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

My greatest disgust for my fellow Americans comes from the way they keep treating life and death, good and evil as a fucking joke

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

oh that's just swell

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Scott at Fatty’s Barber Shop in Yucca Valley does great work, doesn’t he?

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

It's truly wild that the vast majority of everyday (read: straight) people do not know a drug exists that prevents HIV transmission with astonishing efficacy and minimal side effects, and that it's cheap to produce, but it isn't just dispensed from candy machines on every street corner globally

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

For Throwback Thursday, here's me at the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day parade on June 27, 1993 with my then-boyfriend Joe, whom I met when he bought a Mac IIvx at CompUSA in late 1992.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

You know, my career could've been an email

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

hm, is carsten nicolai trying to say a bad swear?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This is a very good and informative piece of writing, and thinking by @brianbeutler.bsky.social. Wait until he gets to the The Point, because I don't think you'll see it coming.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Motherfucker.

submitted 16 days ago • 369 comments

The official Prince estate account on FB posted this an hour back. This sadly clearly means that Ezra Edelman's nine-hour documentary, which would have provided a truly all around portrait of him rather than a gloss, will never surface. And that's a damn shame.

submitted 16 days ago • 26 comments

What will people call this coup when they look back at it from the future? The slow coup? The techno coup? The invisible coup? The broligarch coup?

submitted 18 days ago • 54 comments

If you haven’t seen ASURA yet, well, you’re missing out - it’s the best TV I’ve seen in years. Compelling and gorgeously filmed and wildly moving.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

So glad the party of low taxes and personal responsibility just increased taxes and blamed other countries for Americans’ own decisions to buy drugs

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Just booked the one night I'd been missing during Golden Week in Japan this year, so the logistically trickiest bit of my upcoming sabbatical is now sorted. Onwards!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I've always tried to live by Alasdair Gray's words here: WORK AS IF YOU LIVE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF A BETTER NATION I'm feeling it more than ever these days - it's tough living under a corrupt, incompetent government that seems hell bent on causing as much damage as possible for no discernible reason

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I just submitted my resignation letter - I first interviewed there on August 6, 2007 and have worked there ever since. Seventeen and a half years! Practically unheard of in my field, but I was lucky to join an amazing team (3 of the 4 of us are still there). I never expected that'd happen.

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

Just home from PRESENCE. Very much my kind of movie: formally audacious, wonderful use of silence as opposed to nonstop score, two super woofy bear type men, and spoilers prevent me from commenting further at this time

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Out for a walk

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

From bears to dadbears: San Francisco 1998 vs. Manchester 2024 It's been quite the adventure! So glad to know you, @dadbear1.bsky.social

submitted 31 days ago • 10 comments

one of the great pleasures in life is reading bad reviews - there's another reason, for example, why I'm such a huge fan of Adam Mars-Jones, the first winner of the Hatchet Job Award.... but I digress. this one's a beaut: slate.com/culture/2025...

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments