As a Californian, the time zone difference with Australia is wild.

I recall being on MySpace when the news broke about Steve Irwin.

And when I saw the date being the next day, felt like time travel for a second.

So if I ever say Australians live in the future it’s a term of endearment.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Australian film)

As an American 🇺🇸
I’m am grateful for this coming out of Australia!

But as a Californian you guys live in the future. (Times Zone joke)

Larry (pug) getting hugs and pets.

Okay deal more hugs more pets and more praise incoming!

Not a lawyer, but maybe check app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.... and maybe save someone’s life reporting that listing.

Cause that is wild as a Californian.

So in a nutshell, maybe we need to have a serious conversation about digital redlining.

Duckduck go search seems to only highlight followers, following and posts.

Duckduck go search seems to only highlight followers, following and posts.

And I tested this on DuckDuckGo.

But seems they just simply results not filtering ascii or pride flags AFAIK.

Brave search filtered out my ascii text and flag from bio. But in second screenshot where I tested stereogum. There ascii came though fine.

Stereogum instagram search in Brave search. Still prints ascii “the world’s best music blog” in ascii.

My Instagram showing ascii text and pride rainbow flag emoji.

And I battle tested this this week.

Notice how @stereogum.com gets there ascii text just fine on brave search.

So brave is engaging in this stuff too.

Google search for “Frank panduh” instagram changes rainbow flag emoji to white flag emoji that is in bio on instagram.

Instagram bio showing ascii symbols and a rainbow flag for test. Reason for test heads Google was flipping trans flags to white flags. But they are doing it to rainbow flags as well. And they have the money to region block them if that is what they are gonna counter claim.

As a gay man,
I find it particularly gross that search engines are breaking unicode / emojis.

They were made to be universal.

Now Google wanting to be the evil they pledged not to be does stuff like this.

And to be balanced it’s not just Google.

I use a rainbow flag as a test.

Anthropic Mythos skit on TikTok screenshot: “you need to ask if it can hack us”

Alberta Tech Anthropic Mythos skit: “we sell sparkling water”

Alberta Tech @alberta.nyc on TikTok

Alberta Tech gives me so much joy.

www.tiktok.com/@alberta.nyc

(Not an endorsement of AI but ai tech related skits)

If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall

Or the mountain should crumble to the sea

I won't cry, I won't cry

No, I won't shed a tear

(Genesis never forget 9:11)

Kinda want to start posting Bsky error messages as song titles...

1. Rate Limit Exceeded
2. Time Out Error
3. Forbidden

Interesting video on signal.

Thomson Reuters Fired Worker For Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says “When I saw evidence that our products were being used to harm people and undermine the law, I did what anyone should do—I raised the alarm. Thomson Reuters’ response was to fire me.”

New: Thomson Reuters, which runs the CLEAR database ICE uses, fired a longstanding employee for speaking out against ICE, a new lawsuit says. Billie Little led an internal effort raising concerns; was fired. We've shown CLEAR is linked to ICE's Palantir tool

www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. www.wired.com/story/the-in...

If you have a few minutes this is worth your time.

#internetCTA #savethearchive #InternetArchive

@theguardian.com is also here on bluesky.

Let’s remind them “the internet archive” started online in 1996.

And “The Guardian” started online in 1995.

Blocking news citations is bad for history.

Shame on you @archive.org is an institution of citations not an ai company and has been around almost as long as you have on the internet. They started in 1996 and you first appeared online in 1995.

Make this make sense as a long time reader.

Copy and paste ≠ archive.org

Gilbert Gottfried (duck) being held by doppelgänger Gilbert Gottfried.

Gilbert Gottfried wearing a bow tie (duck)

Don’t forget he had a bow tie.

Subvert.fm profile for Frank Panduh. Shows “alpha” version of profile on subvert.fm a new music co-op.

If your on subvert.fm

My music profile is at:

alpha.subvert.fm/frank-panduh

It’s really early.

Added the new EP so far.

Will add the back catalog later today.

Stay rad!

#subvertfm

Man smoking (I’m into apps)

I’m not good at drawing with an iPad.

(Not self portrait)

#ipad #drawing #art

lol 😂

Most of these tickets are under 100. Daft punk under 60 bucks. Weezer 60 bucks.

All under $100.

Not sure where we decided concert tickets should be as much as floor tickets at sporting events.

Italian Consumers Score $500 Netflix Refund Amid ‘Streamflation’ Italian Netflix subscribers could be entitled to a refund of approximately 500 euros if they were subscribed continuously from 2017 through the time of writing. By Will McCurdy April 4, 2026 (source: pc mag)

Congrats to Italy 🇮🇹

A court just ruled Netflix’s price hikes illegal up to €500 in refunds per subscriber.

They have European Directive 93/13/EEC protecting against unfair contract terms.

We have the FTC (currently on life support).

Consumer protection infrastructure matters. 🤑

With the money spent on less than one week of the Iran war we could solve the homeless situation in this country.

Room full of people judging you the viewer.

Californians if your city is ever digging up roads, make the argument to lay fiber conduit while they’re at it.

A hill I’m willing to die on: California treats fiber infrastructure as an afterthought.

We need more fiber, less copper.

#fiberinternet #California #digonce

1990 FM - EP by Frank Panduh on Apple Music Album · 2026 · 6 Songs

My new EP is out on most platforms.

Apple Music has been a little weird to find new listeners on.

If you happen to be lookin for new independent electronic music. Check out my new ep.

Either way stay rad!

music.apple.com/us/album/199...

Like just slightly over 15 min.

#applemusic

ddrescue on a 2.0 TB external drive. 46 days to go!

Artists must suffer for the art. That’s why it’s called a PAIN-ting.

Was hoping to finish an album.

But maybe nervous that I maybe have to pivot.

Not AI, btw trying to recover a 2 TB external drive that decided to start dying at the worst time.

Ddrescue please work! lol 😆

The anthropology of “Floptropica”must be studied.

If you have a few minutes.

You Made Me Gay YouTube video by Gravy Train - Topic

This song is still rad and hilarious.

youtu.be/ApOGwVi29bo