Bob Aman

Bob Aman

@sporkmonger.com

Staff Security Engineer @ Discord He/him. I want to make today more just than yesterday. May I pet your dog? Minneapolis. DMs: @sporkmonger on Discord

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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

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Jun34u
@jun34u.bsky.social

I just want a car from a manufacturer that doesn’t collect and sell my location data and doesn’t force me to pay for a subscription service to use the expensive machine I payed to own

WIRED@wired.com

The Detroit automaker wants your next vehicle to be a personal assistant, a best friend, and an autonomous errand-runner.

buff.lyGM Wants Your Car to Do Your ChoresThe Detroit automaker wants your next vehicle to be a personal assistant, a best friend, and an autonomous errand-runner.

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Jake
@jake.sooscreek.productions

Foster parents choose to be foster parents. Foster children do not choose to be foster children. The rights of the parent should basically always be secondary

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌎𝙨𝙖𝙢 🛬🚄🚗@chroniclesofsam.bsky.social

Absolutely Heart Breaking WA foster parents no longer have to support LGBTQ+ kids in their care share.google/WbbFU3llaKK2...

share.googleWA foster parents no longer have to support LGBTQ+ kids in their careWashington state can no longer require foster parents to provide an affirming and supportive home for LGBTQ+ children and youth, according to a settlement the state reached with a religious couple.

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Ilhan Omar
@ilhanmn.bsky.social

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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emily s.
@emily.news

people keep talking about making little bespoke programs. no way, dude. people aren't gonna become programmers. *programs are going to go away*. people are going to hand capabilities directly to AI and let it do the things.

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social

lol I promise I had not seen this by @sockpuppet.org sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09...

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫
@lookitup.baby

You know what’s an actual existential threat to humanity? Climate change. Weirdly, I don’t see the same people worrying about that. Odd. Wonder why that might be

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Tailcat
@tailcat.dev

Oh, hi. 👋 We might announce Tailcat releases here and reskeet tailcat-related stuff! Holler if you have questions.

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DC612
@dcg612.bsky.social

The DC612 Annual BBQ is on! Join us this Saturday, September 12th starting at 4PM for an evening of food, hackers, and shenanigans. Zero cost, bring what you can or just show up to eat! More details on the site: dc612.org/index.php/20...

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫
@lookitup.baby

Replying to @lookitup.baby

If you see a purple Velotric Breeze with a matching purple basket, a rainbow bell and chain, and black mirrors on the handlebars, it’s mine

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Derek Powazek
@fraying.bsky.social

This is how I felt about Platner. I’d rather lose than be in a party that accepts rape and nazi ink. Transphobia is also a red line. That’s not a purity test, it’s standing for something. We elect people based on what they stand for. And what they don’t.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Whats worse... A single Democratic loss in a statewide race to a right-wing governor? Or a Democratic Party win in Ohio that uses transphobia to get there, teaching dems across the country that this is a new acceptable tactic? The latter results in no party left to fight for us.

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Lesley Carhart
@hacks4pancakes.com

Having an in person international or national event in America? Are you weighing factors like lodging and transport? Cool stuff to do? Here's a map to consider if any of your attendees may possibly, even remotely be LGBTQIA. And you care about them.

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Elliott Payne
@elliottpayne.org

Today I voted against contracting with the drone company Skydio and I was proud the City Council voted down working with a company that contracts with ICE. Metro Surge was a test of our constitutional rights. Opening up the door to further erosions of our civil liberties would be a massive mistake.

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Anil Dash
@anildash.com

Remembering my friend Om, as he’s gone. There are many things to say, and so much good work to observe. But the first thing I thought of, on hearing that he’d passed, was that he had chosen to speak up, more than once, to protect the most vulnerable in our communities. … om.co/2026/06/24/1...

om.coOm Malik, 1966-2026Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. We invite you to share your remembrances of Om in th…

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Evan Greer
@evangreer.bsky.social

Replying to @evangreer.bsky.social

The fact that MSG is creating dossiers on activists who say things they don’t like shows exactly why private companies should not be allowed to use dangerous surveillance technologies like facial recognition.

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Jay Willis
@jaywillis.net

The silly little ritual of Supreme Court opinion days is a perfect illustration of the justices’ self-absorption. “We’re gonna decide cases but it’s a SURPRISE which ones, so just keep refreshing this browser tab to find out who still has civil rights!” Profoundly stupid institution. I loathe it.

Bob Aman
@sporkmonger.com

Under the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act, Minnesota residents get to send opt-out notices to companies like PenLink that siphon your data and give it to law enforcement. They have to act in 45 days or you get to file a complaint with the attorney general’s office. BlueSky, you know what to do.

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Greg Pak
@gregpak.net

One thing the whole Platner situation reveals is that a whole lot of supposedly progressive pundits and politicians would have been much better served if they actually WERE ensconced in the supposed Bluesky bubble, 'cause everyone I know on here had this clown figured out from the get-go.

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Bo Jacobs
@bojacobs.bsky.social

20% funding cut for #Hanford cleanup? "GOP budget plan in US House calls for cuts at Hanford #nuclear cleanup site” oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/05/21/r...

oregoncapitalchronicle.comGOP budget plan in US House calls for cuts at Hanford nuclear cleanup site • Oregon Capital ChronicleCuts that Republicans in the U.S. House are seeking to the nuclear cleanup at Washington’s Hanford site would go deeper than steep reductions the Trump administration proposed.

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Evan Greer
@evangreer.bsky.social

BREAKING: Boston City Council just unanimously passed a resolution condemning dangerous age verification and censorship laws, including the proposals put forward by @massgovernor.bsky.social and the MA House. Backlash to age gating social media is growing! www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

fightforthefuture.orgNEW: Boston City Council Unanimously Passes Resolution Opposing Online Censorship and Age Verification Bills, Cites Harms to LGBTQ+ Lifesaving Online ResourcesBOSTON, May 13, 2026 — TODAY, Boston City Council voted unanimously to adopt a resolution condemning dangerous and misguided censorship and age verification legislation, including the controversial pr...

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Andrew Nesbitt
@andrewnez.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Madame Semver Will See You Now 🔮 https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/10/madame-semver-will-see-you-now.html

nesbitt.ioMadame Semver Will See You NowThe tent is at the back of the fairground, past the fudge stall. The velvet over the entrance is the exact red of a failed CI badge. Madame Semver is already shuffling when you sit. She does not ask your question. She turns the first card and it says `^1.0.0`, just that, black ink on cream. “The caret. It permits everything that comes after, and you put it there yourself, which is the part people forget.” She sets it down. “You came here to ask if you should archive the repository. You will not. We both know you will not. So let me tell you what happens instead.” ## 🃏 She turns three cards in a row and barely glances at them. “In June you receive a pull request. It is polite. It has tests. The tests pass. The code is wrong in a way that costs you most of a Saturday, and at the bottom of the description there is a co-author you cannot find a photograph of. You will merge two more from him before you learn to check.” “In August a stranger opens an issue explaining what your library does. He is mistaken but very sure, and cites a source you cannot argue with. The next week somebody else publishes the package he was describing, under a name one letter from yours, and by September it has the downloads.” She turns the Tower, and of course it is the Tower, the tall thing on the tiny base, Nebraska, 2003. She does not explain it because she knows you have it on a mug. “There is a scan in October. The report is long, confident, and formatted beautifully, with severity scores you did not ask for and an executive summary. Eleven of the twelve findings are your own documented behaviour described back to you as flaws. The twelfth is real, which is the only reason you read the other eleven, and the only reason it happens again in November.” She turns one more and her hand stops over it. A figure at your gate, helpful, carrying tools. “This one stays. He fixes the small things and asks for nothing and answers the questions you are tired of answering. He is patient in a way you will admire and then, later, look up. In the third year he asks for the keys.” She puts the card face down, which she has not done with any of the others. ## 🔮 She pushes the deck aside and pulls the crystal ball forward. “Further out. Something with a very long memory has read an old version of your README and will go on recommending a function you removed in March, with total conviction, for about two years. You will add the function back. Don’t look at me like that. You will mark it deprecated, and the warning will be reported to you as a bug.” “There will be a file in your root, all capitals, instructions addressed to no one in particular. It is read more carefully than anything else you have ever written. After a while you find you are writing your other documents in the same voice, and you do not remember deciding to.” “Something in Virginia fetches your tarball eleven thousand times one Tuesday afternoon. It is not an attack. It is somebody’s enthusiasm, running in a circle, and the circle has your name in it. The same month you hire a servant to close the doors you cannot bring yourself to close, and another servant you did not hire arrives to hold them open, and between the two of them a door will open and shut for a year while you watch.” She lets go of the ball and the tent is briefly very quiet. “There is a fork. Not soon. The maintainer is tireless and responsive and merges everything within the hour and you will know exactly what he is the moment you see the avatar. A number of people will prefer him.” She almost smiles. “He pins to you with a caret. It permits everything that comes after.” The reading has a length, and you have reached it. The board outside lists three tiers, one dollar, five, twenty-five with a small enamel badge. You pay the dollar, which is what everyone pays. “Come back,” she says, holding the velvet aside, “when the next major version comes for you.” She does not say whose.
Bob Aman
@sporkmonger.com

I was inspired by @cassidoo.co‘s Jumblie (you can just make word games!) but I didn’t want to have to construct the puzzles manually every day given the constraints here. So puzzles are algorithmic based on the date and scale in difficulty from Monday to Sunday.

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The New Republic
@newrepublic.com

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

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Jon Collins
@jcollins.bsky.social

Almost half of the people arrested by federal agents this winter in Minnesota have already been deported, according to new data released to the @deportationdata.org through a FOIA lawsuit. It's the clearest picture yet of federal activities in the state. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

mprnews.orgHalf of those arrested by federal agents in Minnesota this winter have already been deportedThe federal government moved at a rapid pace to deport nearly 1,700 people picked up during a surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota this winter, according to data analyzed by APM Reports and M...

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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social

If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.