Tod Robbins

@todrobbins

Devotee of , , , , and dark chocolate almond milk; UW (Seattle) alum and digital asset manager

Saratoga Springs, UT
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Joined March 2007
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    Jun 17

    Little bird made her first appearance (in sleeping form) at church today. And she's still busy being perfect for us ❤️

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  2. 20 minutes ago

    DON'T TELL ME WH... 😔 so true.

    before you share that viral thing, read the replies / comments for a bit. there is almost always a nuance, crucial additional context, or an outright retraction that follows.
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    3 hours ago

    Today, our space instrument arrived at our orbiting laboratory 250 miles above our home planet. It will help us better understand volcanoes 🌋, fires 🔥, urban heat 🌇 and coastal and inland waters 🌊 located here on Earth. Here’s how:

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    3 hours ago

    observation: the ex-Mapzen crew, now spread across multiple companies and separate open source projects, still works together better than almost any actual team I've been on

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    8 hours ago

    What a actually looks like!

    Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's over 1PB of digital storage weighing in at more than 800KG, being installed in one of the data centres today! This will be one half of a geo-replicated object store, providing safe storage of national digitised treasures.
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  6. Retweeted
    Jun 29

    humans: lets invent computers so they can do work for us and we can be free to see our families or write poems or whatever also humans: actually if you dont have a job society will murder you it turns out

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    14 hours ago

    Finally finished the syllabus for my "Sorting Things Out" classes -- on the politics of classification -- for the 's summer "Code Societies" session [img via , whose collection will be a key resource!]

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    Jun 12

    When I came home yesterday I had my camera on hand with telephoto lens on, & Birtle the scrub jay flew over perching nearby to say hi & hope for some nuts, & I got this trippy shot of him blinking with nictitating membranes to clean eyes, making eyes appear blue for split moment.

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  9. Retweeted
    Jun 22

    Honey collect pollen into little balls of all different colors. In the 1940s, Dorothy Hodges watched bees collecting pollen from flowers and painted a pollen color guide. It provides beautiful insight into bee foraging.

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  10. Retweeted
    Jun 29

    Fascinating essay from : "...perhaps the urge to archive, to store and repeat the past, comes with an edge of morbidity — because to endlessly repeat the past is not to live and be present at all." ~

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  11. Retweeted
    Jun 30

    You can read our Shared Authority zine on our blog: By our own definition, not really a zine because it was made for a class, but still kind of adorbs, if we do say so ourselves.

    Zines arrived in my physical inbox this morning!! courtesy of and they’re freaking awesome I am Inspired to finish my own cataloguing zine 🤖📓
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  12. Jun 29

    Two months old!

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  13. Retweeted
    Jun 29

    Slides for my and Sandra van Ginhoven’s work on visualizing missing data and uncertainty available here:

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    Jun 29

    I created"AI, Ain't I A Woman " - a spoken word poem to highlights ways in which AI can misinterpret the images of iconic black women including , , , and Sojourner Truth. Learn More at

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    Jun 29

    Sen. Lee consistently misrepresents the passage in Utah’s Enabling Act, claiming it mandates disposal. He quotes this part: “… shall be sold by the United States subsequent to the admission of said State into the Union …” But that’s not what it says:

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  16. Retweeted
    Jun 29

    New Red Hot Chili Peppers Single Just California’s Wikipedia Page Set to Music

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    Jun 29

    Devine's talk "Digital Nomads" at Play by Play 2018.

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    Jun 29

    A treasure trove of coin finds

    They drained a canal in Amsterdam and put everything they found online
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    Jun 28

    this is some sweet

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  20. Retweeted
    Jun 28

    I made a music sequencer! In JavaScript! It even uses Machine Learning to try to match drums to a synth melody you create! ✨🎧

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  21. Jun 29

    “‘History is not the past. History is the past in so far as it is historicised in the present’” – , The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book 1: Freud’s Papers on Technique 1953-1954 via

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