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jfhbrook.bsky.social
Alaskan software engineer https://www.thisistheremix.dev/links/
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Someone should do a retrospective of Get Your War On, feels like the right time for it

Well that was quite the sight to behold. (At VCF SW in Dallas) The amazing Sony KX-45ED1 in the flesh.

VGAPride is my program for displaying pride flags in MS-DOS. Here's photos of my Pentium-60mhz showing the rainbow flag, trans pride flag, non-binary pride flag, and asexual pride flag. github.com/foone/VGAPride

Plasma Power Saver

Palantir used to have affinity groups and DEI as late as 2022, and I had the logos saved on my phone because they pissed me off so much and of course they buried those pages. But I never forgot.

Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.

FANTASY/BATTLE.GIF

uranium city 2: electric boogaloo

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

it is a sign of just how little pull vance has in the white house that he made an account on a niche social network to troll

im gonna glue your dickhole shut, fat boy. get over here

Ranked choice voting is so great. Really changes the tenor of how campaigns even work

1971, Senator Ted Stevens (white sweater) in Ketchikan. Note the kid in the foreground with a billiken sweater. Billikens were a massively popular good luck charm in Alaska for a few decades before mostly disappearing. Learn more in my article posting later today. #alaskahistory

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

i'm surprised by how low energy and farcical that whole military parade situation was. I was expecting Moscow 1945 and we got Spirit Halloween instead.

Cupertino Classic - Chris Shepard https://macthemes.garden/themes/71bf57ec8b4f-Cupertino-Classic

Palmer, Alaska. No kings #msup 07/24/2025

I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

The #nokings protest in Anchorage is packed! (Also some really good protest dogs today, too)

I say this as a British person born in England: lol

type of guy at Colony Days in Palmer: body armor vest over a Dropkick Murphys shirt

The cool thing about codegen AI agents is that you can watch them pick a rabbit hole, dive into it, and spend tremendous amounts of wall clock time iteratively causing and then attempting to solve problems increasingly unrelated to the initial prompt, much like real developers.

My Unix signals tier list. I will not be taking further questions

Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me. His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard. This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.

Wait hold up! Everyone reported this like the entire $40bn had closed! It's almost as if SoftBank doesn't have the money to fund OpenAI and they're having to paper over that by begging every investor under the sun. They also have already said they'll need another $17bn in 2027? On top of the $30bn?

Inspired by Master Chef.

i am once again smacking this sign as hard as i can

“there are a few bad actors in LA” oh girl there’s more than a few

This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

Lol

yuck www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

[nodding] [scanning the room to look for help] [slamming my head into a window until it breaks and throwing myself through it]

Lynda Sayce plays a piece of lute music that was recently discovered in an archival document at the Museum Plantin-Moretus. Since the handwritten lute tablature was folded and reused as scrap paper, it's problaby the first time in 400 years that this music is heard.

The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.