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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>Coffee fiend, X-Twitter refugee, Unix geek, and reluctant suburbanite.</description><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social</link><title>@coffeetwitch.bsky.social - Gregory Pratt</title><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mjn4iv2ryc2s</link><description>Instagram’s “community standards” *are* the scam.</description><pubDate>16 Apr 2026 19:12 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjn4iv2ryc2s</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mjfxbw2hf22h</link><description>The fact that Trump absolutely LOVES using AI to create pictures of himself should be the most compelling reason to stay the hell away from this tech on social media.</description><pubDate>13 Apr 2026 22:50 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfxbw2hf22h</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3miwtjvxxns2y</link><description>“If you’re doing nothing wrong, what is there to fear?”&#xA;&#xA;“I’m fearing your definition of ‘wrong’.”</description><pubDate>07 Apr 2026 22:33 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3miwtjvxxns2y</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3min7bps7rk2x</link><description>Florida legislators have approved a law allowing them to rename Palm Beach Internation Airport to Donald J. Trump Airport.  Does this mean the IATA airport code will change from PBI to PDO?</description><pubDate>04 Apr 2026 02:37 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3min7bps7rk2x</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mi55tzykvk2e</link><description>It&#39;s telling that my “smart” phone tries to predict that “crypto” in text input probably refers to “cryptocurrency”, and doesn’t even offer “cryptography” as an option until I’ve nearly typed out the entire word.</description><pubDate>28 Mar 2026 17:29 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi55tzykvk2e</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mfwdmgnpfc2o</link><description>You break it, you buy it.</description><pubDate>28 Feb 2026 13:33 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfwdmgnpfc2o</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mfjmtllaqk2a</link><description>“Company culture is not words on a wall.  It’s how people feel on a Sunday night.”</description><pubDate>23 Feb 2026 12:13 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjmtllaqk2a</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mf3ziu4stk2a</link><description>“your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping.”&#xA;https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1r6olcv/an_ai_ceo_finally_said_something_honest/</description><pubDate>18 Feb 2026 02:22 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf3ziu4stk2a</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mefj6xzlmc2t</link><description>Irony?  I don&#39;t even know where to start.&#xA;&#xA;[contains quote post or other embedded content]</description><pubDate>09 Feb 2026 03:32 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mefj6xzlmc2t</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mee7cnx5522n</link><description>The people who need a separate halftime show are the same ones who needed separate drinking fountains.</description><pubDate>08 Feb 2026 15:02 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mee7cnx5522n</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mdxqlko6ms2w</link><description>Social media influencers are nothing new.  We just used to call them “posers”.</description><pubDate>03 Feb 2026 16:07 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdxqlko6ms2w</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mdobrli2tc2v</link><description>Getting a crazy number of spam calls from numbers in US area code 609 for the past two weeks.  Reported and blocked them all, but they&#39;re all random and likely forged.  This is what happens when you have no accountability from unmanaged VoIP devices plugged into the telephone network.</description><pubDate>30 Jan 2026 21:48 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdobrli2tc2v</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mde34h2m6222</link><description>When your only tool is AI, every problem looks like a thumb.</description><pubDate>26 Jan 2026 20:22 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mde34h2m6222</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mcwvgekh522f</link><description>Yeah, nobody saw this coming.&#xA;https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/us/politics/cubans-florida-deportations-trump.html</description><pubDate>21 Jan 2026 14:36 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcwvgekh522f</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mcv64tgh7c2y</link><description>“Today is a good day to buy.” — Worf, CFP</description><pubDate>20 Jan 2026 22:06 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcv64tgh7c2y</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mcrvsnzvqc2p</link><description>“The popular conception was that AI would be a danger to civilization because AI would be so smart, but the reality turns out to be the danger is that AI is so stupid.”</description><pubDate>19 Jan 2026 14:59 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcrvsnzvqc2p</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mcnyabfwr22p</link><description>The longer you stay on the wrong train, the more expensive it is to get home.</description><pubDate>18 Jan 2026 01:32 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcnyabfwr22p</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mcgkefvqp223</link><description>People adopt generative AI quickly because it does their work for them, without verifying the results.  They willingly give up the ability, and desire, to think critically.  Perhaps it is a perfect companion to the current political climate.</description><pubDate>15 Jan 2026 02:35 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcgkefvqp223</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mcfcemugn22v</link><description>Using Microsoft Teams, I feel like I’m part of the world’s largest beta test regimen.</description><pubDate>14 Jan 2026 14:39 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcfcemugn22v</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mc4bfe3myk2l</link><description>Instagram is about to enter end-stage #enshittification.  This is not the first time my report of a scammer selling followers, but it ended the same failure most of them have for the past year.</description><pubDate>11 Jan 2026 00:28 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mc4bfe3myk2l</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mbi3btxb6227</link><description>Watching Amna Nawaz interview Ric Grenell tonight on PBS News Hour, the word that kept lighting up in my brain was “mansplaining”.  Thank you for reminding us that you can be a gay man AND a misogynist.</description><pubDate>02 Jan 2026 23:45 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbi3btxb6227</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mbd7g566ic2d</link><description>Goodbye, 2025.  Don’t let that door hit you on the ass on the way out.  Or let the doorknob get stuck in it.</description><pubDate>01 Jan 2026 01:16 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbd7g566ic2d</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3mb2hfvbp4c2z</link><description>The most significant sign that the AI boom is a scam: Donald Trump is fully embracing it.</description><pubDate>28 Dec 2025 13:45 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:vhnk65uchm7zld7a67a2uk45/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb2hfvbp4c2z</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/coffeetwitch.bsky.social/post/3ma4x3qd7yk22</link><description>Don’t trust someone who spends their time trying to convince you how pious they are.  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