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the first dvorak typist on bluesky (to go for the laziest possible username) 🌐 https://aoeu.us 💾 github.com/aoeu 🔊 bandcamp.com/10kdb 🔥 instagram.com/flowgetaboutit 🗺️ barely brooklyn / not quite queens

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is a neat idea. We have ingredients and nutritional values on food, declarations whether YouTube product videos are sponsored or not, etc. Why not something like this for what goes into writing code or prose? bsky.app/profile/beau...

Beau Cronin@beaucronin.bsky.social · 5d ago

Here is a little labeling system I’m trying out in order to communicate how AI did (and didn’t) contribute to writing or code. beaucronin.com/tail/ Let me know what you think!

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 5d ago

sometimes it be like that

the steam installation dilaog box for the game quake. it says the game size is 1.77gB. it also says the local drive only has 1.25gB free and "! NOT ENOUGH SPACE". it is implied this is because the OP hoards files

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 7d ago

"Humans suuuuck at code review. I've been doing this for forty years, and all I've seen is decades of thinly-disguised LGTMs" yegge.ai/essays/the-s... "My 35 years in the tech industry includes almost two decades split between Amazon (1998-2005) and Google (2005-2017)." yegge.ai

Screenshot of Steve Yegge's blog post with the text:

It will go better for you anyway. Humans suuuuck at code review. I've been doing this for forty years, and all I've seen is decades of thinly-disguised LGTMs. Just let it go, mate. It's almost time.

Screenshot of Steve Yegge's home page (landing page) with text from his bio saying "My 35 years in the tech industry includes almost two decades split between Amazon (1998-2005) and Google (2005-2017)."

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · last wk.

some free first-date ideas: - go to a protest together - canvassing - attend a DSA meeting

a screenshot of the new york times article with the headline "Gen Z Can't Afford a First date" with the subheading "from $130 dinners to expensive cocktails and exorbitant movie tickets, a crushing economy in NYC is creating a fresh barrier to... "
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/nyregion/gen-z-dating-too-expensive-cost.html

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 2w ago

bsky.app/profile/wara... so, I did two simultaneous degrees (one arts, one science) and sort of tried doing both professionally, simultaneously. this is a good way to speedrun getting to the tumbleweeds

War and Peas 🧿@warandpeas.bsky.social · 2w ago

4-panel comic by War and Peas. Panel 1: A tired office worker at a desk with a computer and charts thinks, "I wish I'd followed my passion and become an artist." Panel 2: An artist painting at an easel thinks, "I wish I had gone into a more financially stable profession." Panel 3: A split panel shows both of them side by side, each wistful and longing for the other's life. Panel 4: A vast, empty landscape of mountains and sky stretches out beneath the words "The end."

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 2w ago

through the cracks in the Wall of Trash trying to placate the algorithm, sometimes a TruTube shines www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvjt...

85178d88a9bd4b0da456d66eb78d0177

YouTube video by Perfect Scarecrow (plastekpet)

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 2w ago

I just found $20 adrift on the sidewalk IT PAYS TO GO OUTSIDE, MY FRIENDS

A 20 and the nyc sidewalk it was found on

Dollar sign tongue sticking out emojis in triplicate

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 3w ago

not the hero we deserve but the one that we need right now www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1If...

Mr. Bat Man [Indian Dancing Batman Bollywood] [ Tollywood ]

YouTube video by Eviel Khon

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 3w ago

why in the fresh hell would you *ever* make (never mind publish) builds that are non-reproducible? in any case I wish the OpenTracks team good luck and a swift victory in the war on understanding and fixing things

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 3w ago

I went to the post office and found a playstation on a stoop

A photo of an original Sony PS1 in a window sill

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 3w ago

why don't you take a moment and click on this (it is probably nicer than whatever other doom you were about to scroll anyway) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy5E...

ハムスターのジャズバンド

YouTube video by やじ馬ストリート

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 3w ago

I read in the encylopedia that super balls are made of Zectron, which has no article of its own. A search later and

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 4w ago

www.businessinsider.com/spacex-stock... "some of the rockets didn't thrust, triggering an automatic launch abort," the charlatan said in a post on his platform which was rolled-up into the debt-laundering shell-company that will try again with a targeted launch timing of "whenever gravity gives up"

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · last mo.

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before

Google's total energy consumption more than new zealand

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · last mo.

thanks for the suggestion youtube, I did often wonder why this imaginary child who goes to magic school is so lackluster at mixed martial arts. instead of utilizing the armbar, the fool reaches for the macguffin rock. my disbelief is no longer suspended, how will he ever truly defeat wizard-hitler?

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

every hometown's got an ominous megastructure... what's yours? bsky.app/profile/chim...

The tower known as Barad-dûr, high above a dark gray landscape of Mordor stretching as far as the flaming eye of Sauron can see.

Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈@chimeracoder.bsky.social · 2mo ago

every hometown's got the ominous megastructure... what's yours?

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

fun fact: it is called "trickle down economics" because they were pissing on everyone's legs and calling it rain. not many people know this

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"goose value 71" is gonna live rent-stabilized in my head for a very long time

a screenshot of a slide from a presentation by Softbank where there is a a goose with the caption of "goose value 71" next to the words "it was the goose that created value" above the equation 74 - 3 = 71 above 3 golden eggs. keep in mind the job of alt text is to explain what is in the image, not explain how it makes sense (if any)

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2mo ago

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A 2024 Senate study showed that 30% of Yale's graduate students and professional students experienced food scarcity. So in 2025 Yale created a video series on how to stretch your food budget, a bold and innovative solution vs. simply paying their grad students more www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q6f...

Low-Cost, High-Nutrition Eating for Graduate & Prof Students: Intro

YouTube video by YaleCourses

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚴 #bikesky if you have any links that help explain the deeper issues of car culture and how this looks from a cyclist perspective, this comic's replies could use it bsky.app/profile/twon...

Twonks@twonks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I haven't been this excited for a match between close rivals (ie two countries with sideways "Y" on their flags) since norway vs sweden (ie two countries with sideways "t" on their flags)

World cup match listings with CZE vs RSA flags for june 18th 12:00pm. both flags are made of shapes that could be viewed as sideways Y's

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A certain idiot becoming a trillionaire Is an indicator of corruption and the currency itself becoming diluted & devalued, not actual skill, worth, or ability of said idiot.

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ngl this mandelbrot still goes hard a dozen years later www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXTp... also, conveying "mandlebrot" and "going hard" in the same sentence unfortunately makes me a mandelBro

Hardest Mandelbrot zoom in 2014, 10^198 - 350 000 000 iterations

YouTube video by Fractal universe

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I couldn't remember "the water of life" (and, no, it did not give me the answer because search is broken)

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

tl;dr Elon & frens are changing the rules so index funds are forced to buy bum stocks like SpaceX (which has non-profitable X and xAI rolled up into it) right after IPO. You have until tomorrow (May 28th) to comment that this is a bad idea (and please do)! www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/gov...

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

this song is actually inspired by space missions to the moon. not many people know this www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN6...

Nine Inch Nails - Came Back Haunted

YouTube video by NineInchNailsVEVO

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travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An open letter to product people: Adding a dialog that proclaims your new feature when I start your app won't work. I don't even process the text on it. I close it rapidly and do thing I opened the app for, then resent you and the app a little more, until I uninstall. Use an in-app notification

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

how it started / how its going

Nice digital drawing by a real human: a illustration of a cute caterpillar on a late 90's beige computer with a CRT, and a windows XP background. it is very stylilzed rounded and cute, and has the hand-lettered caption "On my puter". Probably hand-drawn in photoshop with the brush tool using pixelated (non-feathered) edges.

A terrible image made by Google's NanoBanana: a hellish cyborg mothra plugged into many wires, sitting in a hangar with grim looking troops standing around like scene in Half Life 2. Cyborg-Mothra's eyes are red and full of screens that have non-descript but seemingly bad images of world events on it, as if the data is being wired in.

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#nyc

a facebook marketplace search results screenshot with rainbow-colored ramen noodles ($20), a picture of a pile of fish ($1 whiling fillet), and a weathered car ($2000 with the caption "Grumpy AF Old Cadillac). the original search was for bike handle bars named "nitto noodles"

travisms @aoeu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Williamsburg / Bushwick / Ridgewood bsky.app/profile/jcsa...

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tarrytown / East Austin / South Congress

Tina Fey, Timothee Chalamet, and Kylie Jenner sit courtside at a basketball game