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Bill Nottingham

@notting.bsky.social

Doing product @ Sonar. Formerly Tidelift, Ansible, Red Hat. Not usually posting about that sort of thing, though. Blog (mostly NC Courage at this point): https://splat.cc/ Also @notting@mas.to. He/him

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I HAVE BOUGHT POKEMON CARDS ALONGSIDE THE HUGHES BROTHERS

THAT GOLDEN GOAL WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY POKEMON

22.02.2026 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 299    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6

The fun part of not watching figure skating much outside the Olympics is that all the gala routines are new to you.

Chumbawumba while playing soccer? Lady Gaga? Guns N' Roses? MORTAL KOMBAT????

21.02.2026 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

today was the The Internet Is A Privately Owned Public Space lecture in my big undergrad class. a student came up afterwards and started by asking me if i had heard of cyberpunk and ended by asking me if violent insurrection was the only way forward

19.02.2026 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 160    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2
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ALYSA MF'N LIU GOLD MF'N MEDALIST

19.02.2026 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1848    πŸ” 429    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 71
MILAN, ITALY - FEBRUARY 19: (EDITOR'S NOTE: Image was captured using a remote camera positioned above the field of play.) Megan Keller #5 of Team United States scores the game winning goal in overtime against Claire Thompson #42 and Ann-Renee Desbiens #35 of Team Canada to win the gold medal during the Women's Gold Medal match between the United States and Canada on day 13 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena on February 19, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

MILAN, ITALY - FEBRUARY 19: (EDITOR'S NOTE: Image was captured using a remote camera positioned above the field of play.) Megan Keller #5 of Team United States scores the game winning goal in overtime against Claire Thompson #42 and Ann-Renee Desbiens #35 of Team Canada to win the gold medal during the Women's Gold Medal match between the United States and Canada on day 13 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena on February 19, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

put it in the Louvre

19.02.2026 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4031    πŸ” 1046    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 107
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MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

19.02.2026 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4809    πŸ” 1313    πŸ’¬ 123    πŸ“Œ 512

Woody and Buzz launch the Butlerian jihad.

19.02.2026 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 257    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Suffering Of Lindsey Vonn | Defector I woke to a flurry of notifications on my phone. Overnight in Cortino, Lindsey Vonn violently crashed in her Olympic downhill race and was airlifted from the mountain. My group chat, made up of colleg...

Holy shit this piece is incredible, like the kind of thing that makes me jealous I didn’t write it and feel lucky that I get to read it defector.com/the-sufferin...

19.02.2026 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 136    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

18.02.2026 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 40694    πŸ” 10831    πŸ’¬ 310    πŸ“Œ 338
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a young boy is standing in front of a basketball hoop . Alt: SheBelieves the future is now, old (wo)man.

Riley Jackson USWNT callup again!

Also, lol, 5 midfielders 21 or younger.

17.02.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

we gave a class of people trained to value themselves on the amount of code they produce a tool that produces infinite code.

you'll never guess what happened next.

15.02.2026 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
[Project] uses an issue-driven contribution model. We don't accept pull requests from external contributors β€” fork PRs are automatically closed. This isn't about gatekeeping; it's about supply chain security in the age of AI-generated code. When AI agents can produce large, plausible-looking changes, the only way to maintain quality and security is to tightly control the inputs to the development process.

[Project] uses an issue-driven contribution model. We don't accept pull requests from external contributors β€” fork PRs are automatically closed. This isn't about gatekeeping; it's about supply chain security in the age of AI-generated code. When AI agents can produce large, plausible-looking changes, the only way to maintain quality and security is to tightly control the inputs to the development process.

"This isn't about gatekeeping" and yet it cut-and-pastes the worst tropes of corporate source dumps. It reeks of "we can't trust you plebs with the tools of creation", and I figured we had moved past that as a society.

14.02.2026 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Vince Guaraldi - earliest television recording of "Linus and Lucy"
YouTube video by Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc. Vince Guaraldi - earliest television recording of "Linus and Lucy"

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

12.02.2026 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1580    πŸ” 605    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 94
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Automated public shaming of open source maintainers This is a follow-up to β€œNew era of slop security reports for open source”. Matplotlib, the unfortunate target of this new type of harassment, publishes a clear generative AI use policy. That bou...

Deploying generative AI agents in this way is deeply irresponsible and results in real harms to open source maintainers.

sethmlarson.dev/automated-pu...

#genai #ai #aislop #slop #opensource #oss

12.02.2026 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

With this, Ryan Williams (and, well, Malik) are the only major club members that were even around for the Paul Riley area. A full culture reset.

12.02.2026 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Confirming what we mostly knew, Meredith Speck, the longest-tenured Courage player, moves on. Her time dated all the way to the WNY Flash.

Speck herself shared more on IG: www.instagram.com/p/DUqgu6eDfqL/

12.02.2026 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Riley Jackson β€” Radar Talk (UNCUT) | Expected Own Goals Get more from Expected Own Goals on Patreon

On the @xowngoals.com Patreon, there's a 7+ minute NWSL Media Day video with Riley Jackson, going into:

- Her role by the end of the year
- Risk vs. reward in the passes she plays
- Different passes to different players
- "I want to be more lethal in the attack"

www.patreon.com/posts/riley-...

12.02.2026 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
11.02.2026 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 8943    πŸ” 2181    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 11

My favorite part about the Courage town hall was learning they were trying to announce the Ashley Sanchez signing for 4 weeks but she was afraid her hair would freeze for the photo shoot so they kept pushing it back. β„οΈπŸ˜‚

12.02.2026 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4

All I'm saying here is that there's a strong air from white collar people like we're not supposed to be disrupted. That's for blue collar folks. But we're not special. We never have been. Just lucky. And eventually your luck runs out. Capitalism comes for everybody eventually.

12.02.2026 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 128    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5

You know, actually, I have already spent enough of my life watching Sebastian Aho and Teuvo TerΓ€vΓ€inen get embarrassed outshooting the opponent while still ending up with a brutal loss

11.02.2026 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

"This [US-Canada] rivalry has evolved … that doesn't mean it's any less heated." πŸ‘€

10.02.2026 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now pondering a Jackson/Shinomi/Sanchez/Manaka box with Ijeh and Linnehan in front...

10.02.2026 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Even if this makes me a little more nervous about another, larger looming midfield extension.

10.02.2026 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Despite the reduced playing time due to Shaw/Sanchez/Manaka congestion, and missing time with an injury, Sanchez was still very productive.

She actually posted a higher xG+xA per game in 2025 than in 2024.

Good to see both her and the team commit for another year.

10.02.2026 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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promethee UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (Proof of Concept)

Please tell me that you can build a full node WASM and qemu-wasm stack on this and just do your VMs directly on the BIOS.

codeberg.org/smnx/promethee

10.02.2026 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The 2026 NWSL College Prospect Dashboard β€” American Soccer Analysis It’s that time of year, where the world’s best women’s soccer academy system drops 100+ prospects onto the world’s clubs. Fortunately, there is no longer a draft in NWSL forcing the best players to p...

New in this post is pulling some college metrics from @paulharvey.theoutfield.nyc's ASA dashboard.

Even if I did immediately "yea, idk about that…" the chart for one player.

www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2026/1/...

09.02.2026 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Four questions from the Courage's 2026 preseason roster 29 players for 26 spots

A look at the North Carolina Courage's preseason roster, framed by one question for each position group.

splat.cc/posts/2026-p...

09.02.2026 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like if you're going to ice dance to The Offspring, you should at least respect the source material enough and not down-tempo it.

09.02.2026 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Haven’t been this hype about two Corey’s since the 80s.

09.02.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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