Dan Clark

Dan Clark

@bruisedthumb.bsky.social

A guy from NJ who is a dad, husband, and tinkers with code. I am also on mastodon: https://mas.to/@bruisedthumb Step up or get stepped up.

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I finished "The City We Became" by N. K. Jemisin. It was different than the usual books I read. The story is about a handful of New Yorkers who find out they have become something much bigger than themselves, and that a great enemy is after the city they call home. www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

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Some see role models in wealthy business magnates. In a way, so do I. I see what happens when greed corrupts in such a way that lets them see others are undeserving of basic needs. It's impossible, without sacrificing one's humanity, to be disportionately rich while there is so much insecurity.

I finished Solito. A memoir by Javier Zamora that describes his journey to America as a 9 year old. I could not put this book down at times. The book shows how resilient people can be. It also opened my eyes to how treacherous the journey to America can be and how unfair fate can be. #book #read

TIL: While using panes in tmux, you can make a pane full size by doing ctrl-b z. Then when you're done focusing on it you can press it again to restore the panes to what they were. #tmux #linux

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This is a beginner typing mistake in Python: Setting the type of function arguments to `list` when all you need is to be able to iterate over that value. That's bad because it prevents you from using tuples, or generators, or other iterables. Instead, use `Iterable`.

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People with empathy are deeply impacted by harm being done to real people. We feel it in our gut-- our very souls. To feel this strongly puts a heavier requirement on us to create justice. It's called moral responsibility. Trump has called activists expressing moral responsibility terrorists.

It's clear that a significant portion of Americans were tricked into thinking that they knew better than the experts or that the experts couldn't be trusted. So instead of figuring things out through logic or sound reasoning, we are resorting to learning things the hard way, by trial and error.

We can do better. We need to get in front of the average American and show them how Democrats are going to help THEM now. This is just lip service.

Ken Martin@kenmartin.bsky.social

Stand up, keep fighting. Here's what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today:

The Project 2025 architect was just confirmed to lead the WH budget office. Complaining does nothing. If you hate what is going on, then do more. Calling your reps is a start, but go to your town, county, or state democratic meetings. Step up to run for office. Everything else is just lip service.

I am on baby duty today, and here are the instructions I was given 😂 12:00pm Playtime She loves crawling around with Sunny. (Don't leave unattended they both want the stupid chicken ) The stupid chicken:

With everything that is going on, it is not enough to yell through your keyboard. People have to step up and do something. It doesn't have to be perfect. For example, the DNC has some shady parts to it, and that must change if it is meant to represent the working class.

In my quest to figure things out, a few simple things are obvious: - keep reading. - avoid low effort content that seeks to fire off dopamine. - keep exercising. - keep a journal to reflect. - make improvements to myself no matter how small.

@bsky.app please add some sort of group functionality where subscribers can see private posts. My only option for some of the organization I'm a part of is facebook, and I'd love to be able to get them to move to bluesky.

Anaximander@theskywalker1.bsky.social

Organize. Trying to get @bluesky to add Spheres (Circles or Groups) to become more organized for political activism. Contact @bluesky thru their Feedback portal and let them know that adding Spheres will streamline organization. #LetsGetOrganized #BeTheMovement

I think I might end up paying for Kagi. It has a really nice feature, a domain can be blocked or downgraded. That means goodbye to trashy click-bait websites that take up 20 paragraphs spread over dozens of ads to convey a few sentences of information.

My manager exposed me to Google's Notebook LLM. It can be used to create AI generated podcasts. There was so much fluff, so many "yah"s, "mhmm"s, and "right"s. It was surprising to see so little content spread out over so many minutes.