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Willem Wyndham

@sirwillem.bsky.social

Co-founder of Aha Labs. A believer in the decentralized web.

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I thought perhaps it was trying to transcribe Spanish but I think it’s made up its own language.

18.05.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is a view looking down on a portion of Saturn's rings.

Find the white structures along the edge of the ring, near the top.

Now look at their shadows, cast on the rings themselves just below them.

Those white structures are giant towers of icy ring particles, some rising more than 2 km.

18.05.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 629    πŸ” 173    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 6
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Good morning !

18.05.2025 05:32 β€” πŸ‘ 34000    πŸ” 6210    πŸ’¬ 300    πŸ“Œ 203

Proof this guy is full of SITH.

04.05.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 45665    πŸ” 8284    πŸ’¬ 2785    πŸ“Œ 594
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This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

29.04.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 18992    πŸ” 4073    πŸ’¬ 622    πŸ“Œ 477
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

25.04.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 60371    πŸ” 20687    πŸ’¬ 599    πŸ“Œ 832
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On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

24.04.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 29727    πŸ” 5263    πŸ’¬ 1446    πŸ“Œ 597

Trump and his administration have lost seven cases so far today.

24.04.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 12105    πŸ” 2143    πŸ’¬ 401    πŸ“Œ 165
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Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

19.04.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 32386    πŸ” 12593    πŸ’¬ 734    πŸ“Œ 778
From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.

From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.

Maybe we should honor the women who were real astronauts.

From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.

19.04.2025 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 27650    πŸ” 6756    πŸ’¬ 520    πŸ“Œ 287

So that companies can more efficiently not have to do recalls! And get to fire their own safety inspectors! Yay stockholders here comes more "value"!

18.04.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

18.04.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 124004    πŸ” 25890    πŸ’¬ 8185    πŸ“Œ 6026
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Your aperiodic reminder that Mercury has a weirdly HUGE core for reasons we do not yet understand.

It's less a planet and more a molten ball bearing wrapped in a thin blanket of rock.

17.04.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 9425    πŸ” 946    πŸ’¬ 520    πŸ“Œ 153

I also advocate for due process for Abrego Garcia.

17.04.2025 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

After 58 days on strike, Alamo Drafthouse workers in NYC have won big.

The strike began when management suddenly fired 70 workers, and now every single laid off worker will get their job back thanks to the union power of @nycalamounited.bsky.social.

Strikes work.

15.04.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1870    πŸ” 384    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 26
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"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong

(April 8, 2025)

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A stick held up in a sunny spring forest with a family of splitgill mushrooms exploded out of it like fireworks. All photos by me

A stick held up in a sunny spring forest with a family of splitgill mushrooms exploded out of it like fireworks. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

27.03.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 11755    πŸ” 612    πŸ’¬ 215    πŸ“Œ 28
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NONE of this is normal

22.03.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 26101    πŸ” 7724    πŸ’¬ 1744    πŸ“Œ 900
Digital billboard in Boston's subway station that reads: "Finally, social media that's billionaire-proof."

Digital billboard in Boston's subway station that reads: "Finally, social media that's billionaire-proof."

Finally, social media that's billionaire-proof. ⚑

Bluesky's first IRL ads spotted in @boston.gov @mbta.com.

07.03.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 53909    πŸ” 4916    πŸ’¬ 754    πŸ“Œ 376

No question the withdrawal from the WHO was the wrong decision and will hurt and kill innocent people around the world and in the United States.

06.03.2025 05:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Efficiency is clearly not the goal.

02.03.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This reminds me of the distinction between judging and learner questions. β€œWhy do you believe that?” Vs β€œwhat reasoning/life experiences lead you to believe that?”. And asking yourself learner questions opens you to changing your mind.

28.02.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Its biggest issue is suffering from garbage in, garbage out. The more specific and useful the context it has the better the results. In terms of code generation tools closing the edit-compile-test loop combined with the context of a whole repo and direct dependencies will be huge.

24.02.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œIf you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

22.02.2025 04:50 β€” πŸ‘ 55194    πŸ” 16134    πŸ’¬ 563    πŸ“Œ 418

The talk around changing the accreditation system scares me. Also it’s them that want to do the censoring.

20.02.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How many marbles does he have in his mouth?

18.02.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How many marbles does he have in his mouth?

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