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@nickstenning.bsky.social

Infrastructure, humans, production operations, security. Oh, and dogs.

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pitching a movie in which J. R. R. Tolkien arises from the dead to take academically-coded revenge on the techbros and MAGAs who continue to grotesquely misunderstand his work

30.10.2025 13:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 425    ๐Ÿ” 74    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrowโ€™s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me ๐Ÿ‘ŒWeโ€™re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. Itโ€™s been a roaring success. For every โ‚ฌ1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got โ‚ฌ1.46 back. Canโ€™t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrowโ€™s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me ๐Ÿ‘ŒWeโ€™re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. Itโ€™s been a roaring success. For every โ‚ฌ1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got โ‚ฌ1.46 back. Canโ€™t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. ยฃ325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

06.10.2025 22:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15594    ๐Ÿ” 5297    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 130    ๐Ÿ“Œ 805

i mean you asked for that one

02.10.2025 02:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48.

Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

22.09.2025 00:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7230    ๐Ÿ” 2187    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 150    ๐Ÿ“Œ 91
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Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

20.09.2025 06:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5499    ๐Ÿ” 1575    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 84    ๐Ÿ“Œ 219
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this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

14.09.2025 01:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32156    ๐Ÿ” 8390    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 372    ๐Ÿ“Œ 586

Worse for who? OpenAI? Users? Society at large?

13.09.2025 11:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

(You will always be @mihi_tr even though Iโ€™m quite confident youโ€™d have deleted your Twitter account ages ago.)

13.09.2025 11:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We think of you fondly every year, Michael/@mihi_tr. You might be gone, but youโ€™re still a role model. โค๏ธ

13.09.2025 11:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
REPORTER: Mr. President, my condolences to you, Sir. My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. [unintelligible]
How are you holding up over the last day and a half, Sir?
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks? They've just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they ve been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years. And it's gonna be a beauty. Absolutely magnificent construction. We just started, so it'll get done very nicely.
And it will be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually.

REPORTER: Mr. President, my condolences to you, Sir. My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. [unintelligible] How are you holding up over the last day and a half, Sir? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks? They've just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they ve been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years. And it's gonna be a beauty. Absolutely magnificent construction. We just started, so it'll get done very nicely. And it will be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually.

oh well, onward and upward

12.09.2025 15:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6482    ๐Ÿ” 1160    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 278    ๐Ÿ“Œ 456

I can officially confirm that the loops are looping.

08.09.2025 18:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There are now about 5 full CPU cores out there being occupied by this while loop. I am not proud.

08.09.2025 18:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If there was any doubt that I was a Serious Engineer doing Serious Engineering, I would like you all to know that I've just completed the multi-week rollout, affecting thousands of nodes, of... a shell while loop that spends most of its time sleeping.

08.09.2025 18:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

even if there are apologies due I donโ€™t think they need to come from you! hello from CO ๐Ÿ‘‹

08.09.2025 17:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Snowy egret friend!

08.09.2025 14:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A wide, shallow, and heavily canalised urban โ€œcreekโ€ in Denver. The walls of the are engineered with large rocks and the channel itself is featureless and flat. The whole thing is contained by large concrete flood walls.

A wide, shallow, and heavily canalised urban โ€œcreekโ€ in Denver. The walls of the are engineered with large rocks and the channel itself is featureless and flat. The whole thing is contained by large concrete flood walls.

Dear urban planners, I am begging you to understand that this is not what a creek looks like.

08.09.2025 14:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

say what you like about america but damn if the sausage patty isnโ€™t one of the greatest breakfast food items anywhere

08.09.2025 13:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Weโ€™ve been waiting an awfully long time for anyone in the NYT Opinion section to not be an utter coward. Finally.

08.09.2025 01:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m sorry, โ€œthe vice presidentโ€™s mother was a drug addict so weโ€™re allowed to just extrajudicially murder anyone we vaguely handwave as being part of a cartelโ€ is a real argument people are making? in public? under their own names?

07.09.2025 18:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7065    ๐Ÿ” 1168    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 297    ๐Ÿ“Œ 78

just an ongoing embarrassment that this barely sentient meathead is secretary of defense

05.09.2025 21:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7423    ๐Ÿ” 1063    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 375    ๐Ÿ“Œ 56

Fascism is an aesthetic movement for people with no sense of aesthetics.

05.09.2025 21:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 819    ๐Ÿ” 131    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

llook weโ€™re alll trying to work out how this spellling error was alllowed happen

31.08.2025 18:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How Canada's buck-toothed national emblem could help fight wildfires | CBC News New research out of the western U.S. suggests dams and ponds built by beavers can slow floods, store water and even create green firebreaks in wildfire-prone landscapes.

'The findings add weight to a growing body of evidence that beavers may be acting as ecosystem engineers, reshaping waterways in ways that benefit not just their own survival, but that of entire landscapes.'

31.08.2025 12:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3935    ๐Ÿ” 921    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 120    ๐Ÿ“Œ 58

if we do ever create intelligent machines this bunch of silicon vallley chucklefucks will have utterly burned the term โ€œAIโ€ so weโ€™ll have to come up with a new one

31.08.2025 05:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldnโ€™t write it

26.08.2025 23:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45787    ๐Ÿ” 11521    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1265    ๐Ÿ“Œ 392

You do that and I will promise to always let you know when I find some new Kunst on the street.

25.08.2025 21:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think the answer is right there in your question.

25.08.2025 21:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

itโ€™s cool that we built a search engine thatโ€™s better at finding stuff when you donโ€™t know what the stuff is called but sometimes lies and now weโ€™re afraid itโ€™s going to destroy the world?

23.08.2025 07:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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this is so wonderfully weird, give her all the golds ๐Ÿฅ‡

18.08.2025 00:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10509    ๐Ÿ” 2111    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 379    ๐Ÿ“Œ 482

yeaaahhhhhh my 10m run of cable ought to show โ€˜em! ๐Ÿซ 

17.08.2025 04:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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