the passive pasadena thrill | bsky devrel book a meeting: https://calendar.app.google/rNeqWSx2uMfzhQYV6https://bsky.app/profile/alex.bsky.teamhttps://bsky.app/profile/alex.bsky.team/post/3mznwfx6t6s2nbtw the name of this blog post is a reference to A Pocket for Corduroy. for no reason. happy weekend everybody! [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Nov 2026 17:39 +0000at://did:plc:vmt7o7y6titkqzzxav247zrn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mznwfx6t6s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/alex.bsky.team/post/3mzlye6f6ac2gI’m literally going around the house this week belting out TRAMPLING OUT THE VINTAGE WHERE THE GRAPES OF WRATH ARE STORED after every other headline I read, like I have Evelyn Normielib tourettes [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Nov 2026 23:08 +0000at://did:plc:vmt7o7y6titkqzzxav247zrn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlye6f6ac2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/alex.bsky.team/post/3mzlsxu24rs2dthis is the day that Bluesky became president05 Nov 2026 21:32 +0000at://did:plc:vmt7o7y6titkqzzxav247zrn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlsxu24rs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/alex.bsky.team/post/3mzlsm47bfs2d“Electron will finally be killed by everyone rewriting their apps in Rust with an LLM” is a very weird monkey’s paw, especially because “typical Electron app behavior” and “an LLM authoring Rust” probably have about the same amount of entropy05 Nov 2026 21:25 +0000at://did:plc:vmt7o7y6titkqzzxav247zrn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlsm47bfs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/alex.bsky.team/post/3mzllci7lds2mvery curious if any LA rep cinema is courageous enough to program a Tinto Brass retrospective05 Nov 2026 19:15 +0000at://did:plc:vmt7o7y6titkqzzxav247zrn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzllci7lds2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/alex.bsky.team/post/3mzlerc4cm22mDark Bob and Light Bob. together they hold the Bob universe in balance [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Nov 2026 17:18 +0000at://did:plc:vmt7o7y6titkqzzxav247zrn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlerc4cm22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/alex.bsky.team/post/3mzl3r37xas2cmy ego is too healthy & I generally need an excuse not to be wildly delusionally confident so imagine how I feel knowing that someone with the same name as me born a couple hours away a couple years later is gonna get the first progressive Supreme Court in 60 years and pass universal healthcare05 Nov 2026 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:vmt7o7y6titkqzzxav247zrn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzl3r37xas2chttps://bsky.app/profile/alex.bsky.team/post/3mzj6dw5a422wyes, lots of people frustrated by ballot props in other states this year and California’s historical experience is that reactionary junk is always easy to smuggle in this way, people will often vote for bad policies when they are stated plainly thru direct democracy! muni level not typically as bad [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Nov 2026 20:18 +0000at://did:plc:vmt7o7y6titkqzzxav247zrn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzj6dw5a422whttps://bsky.app/profile/alex.bsky.team/post/3mziz3df2mc2ybeen consistently skeptical of Nithya all year — mostly since I kept assuming she could not do it, because running such a generational warfare-y, professional-transplant-worker-focused campaign when LA homeowners are so specifically powerful seemed unlikely — and thrilled to have been wrong again04 Nov 2026 18:43 +0000at://did:plc:vmt7o7y6titkqzzxav247zrn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mziz3df2mc2y