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BK & πŸ’» & πŸ›Ή Design engineer, writing at franknoirot.co.

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β€œVery likely” to boot. Podcast intellectuals have to assert things with such confidence that it makes every miss a whiff

08.03.2026 12:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just learning today that the guy who founded an online crypto casino is named Craven and I think I’m done with the lazy writing, God.

07.03.2026 04:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hard to say if I like this more for the live cross-app interaction as a practice or for showing the beauty of color spaces, either way I πŸ’™

06.03.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As in games, so in apps

05.03.2026 14:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

1980s: the robots will eventually kill us all
Now: man I wish the robots would stop telling me to kill myself

05.03.2026 02:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Glad Cinci caught a stray it’s sly

03.03.2026 22:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Offensive war is bad send tweet

01.03.2026 14:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

JS errors: shame, failure, avoidance, throwing things
Rust errors: oh hey more control flow

27.02.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Favorite album to cook to rn

27.02.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Brian Deer is requesting your location

27.02.2026 17:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So much of health grifting is just Pascal’s Wager for your body.

26.02.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also I learned that this storm 138 years ago was responsible for igniting public debate around burying public services underground for storm resiliency, which led to both the creation of the subway stop in my picture and to my neighborhood having underground utilities!

23.02.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Great Blizzard of 1888 - Wikipedia

When I took the photo I was a little surprised how much smaller the snowdrifts from today were, but then I looked it up and learned that the Great White Hurricane dumped anywhere from 10 to *58* inches of snow in places. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_B...

23.02.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
[Horse-drawn carriage on Clinton Avenue at Fulton Street, after the blizzard] - Adrian Vanderveer Martense collection | Center for Brooklyn History

I stumbled upon this wonderful @bklynlibrary.bsky.social collection of images earlier this winter while I was researching Brooklyn streetcar history brooklynhistory.pastperfectonline.com/photo/70778E...

23.02.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Slide image by Adrian Vanderveer Martense from Center For Brooklyn History, showing a horse-drawn carriage on the corner of Clinton and Fulton, with huge snow drifts on either side.

Slide image by Adrian Vanderveer Martense from Center For Brooklyn History, showing a horse-drawn carriage on the corner of Clinton and Fulton, with huge snow drifts on either side.

My photo from today from what I believe is the same vantage, looking southbound down Clinton from the NE corner of Clinton x Fulton. Large, though notably smaller, snowdrifts adorn the corners of the frozen street.

My photo from today from what I believe is the same vantage, looking southbound down Clinton from the NE corner of Clinton x Fulton. Large, though notably smaller, snowdrifts adorn the corners of the frozen street.

Great Blizzard of 1888 vs Blizzard of 2026. Clinton & Fulton, Brooklyn.

23.02.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve had Mindstorms on my mind the last couple weeks, meaning to re-read it soon

23.02.2026 04:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is an achievable goal and I won’t stop until it happens

22.02.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 136 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

Oh yay you're coming in again! I think @ecalifornica.bsky.social and I are gonna look into building atproto labelers together, so this is all very kismet.

21.02.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We've been building this application so messily, but in our defense we didn't know what we were building at the start. I am so excited for the work of these next couple months to finally bear fruit. I think we'll have a proper constraint-based sketch system, an extension system, and more.

21.02.2026 01:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

1. This is very cool, I think I'm starting to catch on
2. I don't think I've ever seen val.town in your posts before, which is also sick. I go to their office every Saturday morning, good people ❀️

21.02.2026 00:46 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot snipper from my Spotify feed for a single called "You" by someone named "Spencer Murphs". It's listed as "Getting buzz" with "Sponsored recommendation" in small text underneath. It has absolutely atrocious, suspiciously tasteless album art...

Screenshot snipper from my Spotify feed for a single called "You" by someone named "Spencer Murphs". It's listed as "Getting buzz" with "Sponsored recommendation" in small text underneath. It has absolutely atrocious, suspiciously tasteless album art...

Looking at "Spencer Murphs" discography I see 3 singles: "You", "Rev Up The Engine", and "Pacific Highway". All with similar but otherwise thoughtless and tasteless album art...

Looking at "Spencer Murphs" discography I see 3 singles: "You", "Rev Up The Engine", and "Pacific Highway". All with similar but otherwise thoughtless and tasteless album art...

Googling around for "Spencer Murphs" surfaced someone named "Spencer Murphy" that was a bassist, but no one who went by this name, other than @spencer.murphs on Instagram whose profile is dedicated to these 3 singles so far. This screenshot shows a Reel from their profile of a AI generated video of a bear in a beanie and a flannel surfing, in the style of Studio Ghibli, with "Spencer Murphs" song "Rev Up The Engine" playing. The bear is joined by a femme-coded bear, also surfing, later in the Reel. The Reel has 5 comments, all deleted.

Googling around for "Spencer Murphs" surfaced someone named "Spencer Murphy" that was a bassist, but no one who went by this name, other than @spencer.murphs on Instagram whose profile is dedicated to these 3 singles so far. This screenshot shows a Reel from their profile of a AI generated video of a bear in a beanie and a flannel surfing, in the style of Studio Ghibli, with "Spencer Murphs" song "Rev Up The Engine" playing. The bear is joined by a femme-coded bear, also surfing, later in the Reel. The Reel has 5 comments, all deleted.

The profile has some nondescript, vaguely musician-related images as well. This screenshot shows an image of a guitar pedal, posted without any caption or context. A clear bot account named @raphopday comments on the image with "THIS IS fire πŸ”₯ send".

Just a couple bots cruising the interwebs together. I hate it here.

The profile has some nondescript, vaguely musician-related images as well. This screenshot shows an image of a guitar pedal, posted without any caption or context. A clear bot account named @raphopday comments on the image with "THIS IS fire πŸ”₯ send". Just a couple bots cruising the interwebs together. I hate it here.

Having a real "dead internet" day

21.02.2026 00:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Big bad implications of thinking about culture as something that can only be preserved, not created.

19.02.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Yellow - Coldplay (Transgender Duet With My Past Self)
Yellow - Coldplay (Transgender Duet With My Past Self) YouTube video by Dylan And The Moon

I think this is a cool way to honor your past self: youtu.be/ojSmc7s1rgU?...

19.02.2026 03:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Make it dead simple for businesses to register and submit their business and products, by like texting a service. Someone told me today their clients "don't even like touching Shopify, it scares them."

18.02.2026 03:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#atproto idea I'm toying around with: lexicons for shops, goods, and services. A moderation labeler to verify they meet certain criteria, like "made in NYC". Feed records into an e-commerce experience. Give keys to moderation to the Zohran admin or an NGO, they give grant $$ for local delivery, etc

18.02.2026 03:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is important.

17.02.2026 02:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Now I’ll quote repost to add my framing or cheer something on with a pulled quote all day, that is a gesture with some meaning you know?

17.02.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
North America's Elevator Problem
North America's Elevator Problem YouTube video by About Here

Good video, but probably telling you about your lived experience www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or1_.... It had never clicked with me that elevators are like this huge private sector of urban transit, run completely ad hoc.

16.02.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I'd like to request that Vancouver, WA change its name please, v confusing

16.02.2026 17:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m not mad. Don’t put it in your niche auto-generated user pack that I got mad.

16.02.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0