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coffee drinker, freelance software engineer, feminist, anti-capitalist graeber, rawls, popper, le guin, rippetoe he/him | @gnmerritt most other places

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Melted Fennel Pasta A fennel pasta for people who think they don’t like fennel.

very much! we make this one which is a cousin for sure. I like that yours has bean in it tho www.bonappetit.com/recipe/melte...

12.11.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

panic bought 10lbs of de cecco yesterday so I am _ready_

12.11.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

it's giving "mid 2013 leaving Bull McCabe's without saying goodbye because I have crop dusted the entire bar"

22.10.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

if only!

22.10.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

to any of the aforementioned lefty substackers who might read this - get in touch! I will donate technical support help to get you migrated

22.10.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

unfortunately him not being from Maine is disqualifying. they've tried before and it doesn't work, Mainers do not vote for people from away

I'm from Damariscotta, check out the oysters if you're ever there

22.10.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chloe Maxmin - Wikipedia

there was one but she's farming now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe_M...

21.10.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think he pretty famously did hate being alive

17.10.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Justin Verlander is frowning over the dugout wall

Justin Verlander is frowning over the dugout wall

reminds me of this classic shot of Verlander from the 2018 ALCS

17.10.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The absence of civil rights we endow children in the face of the unquestioned sovereignty over them we cede to their parents is a crime against humanity.

17.10.2025 03:37 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Our team placed 2nd in the Urbanarium "Decoding Timber Towers" architectural ideas competition (1st place to @moriyamateshima.bsky.social) with our 20-storey mass timber tower featuring a compact elevator and exit stair core, exposed ceilings, prefab balconies and a balanced mix of 1 to 4 bed homes!

02.10.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?"

GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

30.09.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4613    πŸ” 722    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 11

Boulder is chock full of rich people and terrible (median house >1M) for example a couple years ago they voted to continue limiting how many unrelated people could live together to 3 even if the house had more bedrooms than that. Bunch of tyrants who leech high rents from the college kids

29.09.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was on a DSA salt training call earlier this week where they said they weren't targeting the tech industry because tech workers benefit from the status quo and buddy I do not think that's a smart strategy

26.09.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
a text from an unknown number that just says "scam"

a text from an unknown number that just says "scam"

what does it say that I'm considering replying to this?

24.09.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

could be your obturator internus. try lying down with your knees up, have someone hold your knee on the affected side and push out (external rotation) into their palm

23.09.2025 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

anyway, if you want to know why I have so little time for the "Abundance" folks who want to convince you that environmental regulations are smothering growth and prosperity, once again the answer is "literally just paying attention to Tesla"

20.09.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 89    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump's new H-1B fee won't apply to existing visa holders, official says The $100,000 fee for the highly prized visa is intended to boost jobs for U.S. workers.

they're saying it won't apply to existing H1B visa holders per Axios here: www.axios.com/2025/09/20/t...

20.09.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

same! easy migration from Goodreads too

15.09.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you think John is being hyperbolic here I highly recommend that you read "The Topeka School"

13.09.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”­πŸ–€πŸš€ Social media’s next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

If you wanna learn more about how Blacksky works, I recently wrote a blogpost for @newpublic.org explaining everything in depth and tried to use accessible language
newpublic.substack.com/p/how-blacks...

11.09.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

can someone explain to me how RSL is going to do anything at all to curb AI companies from ingesting whatever training data they find?

11.09.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah the part of the problem was the ducts we have aren't large enough for a heat pump (cooler air so more air volume needed) which they absolutely could have caught with a site visit rather than their busted software. If I had realized they were a startup we would have gone with another bid...

11.09.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/gnme...

Happy to talk about how terrible Helio Home was for my home - on the record with receipts if you'd like

10.09.2025 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The company they bought out of bankruptcy - Helio Home - installed an egregiously undersized ducted heat pump in our home a couple years back. I'm talking bedrooms at 45 degrees during cold weeks.

I've had to add a ton of insulation and a wood stove to backstop it when it gets below 5f or so

10.09.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Scotty Doesn't Know
YouTube video by RoseRanger Scotty Doesn't Know

youtu.be/0Vyj1C8ogtE?...

09.09.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In the richest country on Earth, hospitals are closing en masse. In rural Maine you’re driving an hour to the nearest birthing center. The hospital in Blue Hill where I was born is closed. It’s a disaster brought on by decades of pure greed, and nothing short of Medicare for All can turn the tide.

27.08.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1254    πŸ” 382    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 15

You may not like that it takes 100 years to pass some watered down social welfare program because of the constitution but that's also what protects us from dictatorship [some dumb slob does dictatorship in 6 months]

25.08.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4038    πŸ” 799    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 7

there are plenty of post-arcade era difficult games - the 20th season of the premier Starcraft: Broodwar (released '98) tournament just started a couple days ago in Korea and more recently you have Dead Cells (and it's easier cousin Hades) where you lose the run when you die

20.08.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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