Jason Lefkowitz

Amid global hellscape, full of modern recreational flavor. Low Quality Sexiest. Surprisingly adequate. Fedizen since 2017. Founder, president and cruel intergalactic tyrant of Rogue Repairman Productions. Web developer for 30 years now (oh god). Writer that nobody reads; leader that nobody follows. #writing #movies #cycling #kayaking #programming #php #python #wordpress #history #military

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2026-05-13 21:09:48 UTC

Not a line I am thrilled to see going up
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/assets/news/iwd-2026-global-charts-final.pdf
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2026-05-03 20:03:49 UTC

I learned two things this weekend. One is that Samsung refrigerator/freezers have a “Demo Mode” where everything seems to be running normally, but all the actual cooling functions have been disabled. And the other is that you can activate this mode by leaning against the door the wrong way

2026-04-13 17:06:14 UTC

"Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6 billion data center, struck back at the polls last week, ousting all four incumbent council members running for reelection.
The rout of half the Festus City Council was fueled by a surge in voter turnout and widespread frustration with the data center approval process."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/missouri-city-council-data-center-00867259
#USPol

2026-04-08 18:10:30 UTC

"This public push for the 25th Amendment comes with real downsides.
First, it raises expectations for something that absolutely will not happen. I think it’s cheap to push an idea we know won’t lead to the desired outcome. It’s a gimmick for engagement and fundraising.
Second, J.D. Vance and Trump’s cabinet will face their judgment in the history books — and the afterlife — for the ways they’ve sold their souls to Trump. But they are not accountable to voters. We need voters to understand that Trump is only able to act like this because Republicans in Congress let him."
https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/the-25th-amendment-isnt-coming-to
#USPol

2026-04-05 18:32:38 UTC

Says a lot that we just launched four people to the moon in a somewhat lightly tested rocket, and so far the least reliable part of it has been the Microsoft desktop software

2026-04-01 18:11:49 UTC

End of an era
https://www.theverge.com/tech/904162/tcl-sony-joint-venture-bravia-inc-tv-home-theater-business
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2026-03-26 00:23:04 UTC

Just received a $44 class-action settlement check, so if you need me I will be at the Bentley dealership

2026-03-25 18:44:16 UTC

"His most lauded book, 'The Soul of a New Machine,' introduced readers to the physical parts and electronic bits that go into creating a business computer. The book arrived just as the PC revolution was gearing up.
When he took on the project, he told a reporter for The New York Times, he was not familiar with the field and relied on his subjects at Data General Corporation to teach him.
While he had to get the technology right, it was not what he most cared about. 'It was the people themselves,' he said, 'their incredible passion for this thing.'"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/books/tracy-kidder-dead.html

2026-03-25 00:45:38 UTC

“Project 100,000, also known as McNamara's Morons and McNamara's Misfits, was a controversial 1960s program by the U.S. Department of Defense to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards. Project 100,000 was initiated by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in October 1966 to meet the escalating requirements of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Inductees of the project died at three times the rate of other Americans serving in Vietnam and, following their service, had lower incomes and higher rates of divorce than their non-veteran counterparts.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100%2C000

2026-03-23 22:54:10 UTC

The most obvious explanation for this move to me is that it creates a whole new category of opportunities for bribery. Router manufacturers who slip money under the table to the right people in the administration will find themselves blessed with an exemption
https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-just-banned-the-sale-of-new-wi-router-models-made-outside-us
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2026-03-23 20:28:01 UTC

Imagine how much happier you’d be today if you’d never turned it back on
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/116/280/368/744/920/429/original/18dd4dc0a8367ac3.jpeg

2026-03-23 16:59:20 UTC

It says a lot about how incompetent ICE is that it still looks incompetent when placed next to the TSA, an outfit famous for its incompetence

2026-03-22 16:28:29 UTC

Not so secret now, eh
https://www.twz.com/air/secret-rq-180-stealth-drone-appears-to-have-made-an-emergency-landing-at-a-greek-air-base
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2026-03-22 04:33:06 UTC

If I wanted to be bored, I’d read the Harvard Business Review
https://youtu.be/orQKfIXMiA8
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2026-03-20 23:56:58 UTC

“The Godfather” Funko Pops. Who buys these? Who are they for
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/116/264/203/903/567/260/original/431c77e0771c68db.jpeg

2026-03-20 20:05:55 UTC

I have never met anyone who gave one single shit about the Army-Navy game who did not graduate from Army or Navy
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/preserving-americas-game/

2026-03-20 15:37:39 UTC

"A US military veteran arrested on federal conspiracy charges after participating in a June 2025 protest against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told the Guardian he refuses to plead guilty and is ready to face justice.
The right to protest is 'supposed to be fundamentally American', said Bajun Mavalwalla, who walked foot patrols as US army sergeant in the Horn of Panjwai, the birthplace of the Taliban and one of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province.
'It’s among the rights that when I joined the military, I thought I was joining to protect.'"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/us-army-veteran-ice-protest-trial
#USPol

2026-03-19 23:44:34 UTC

I have spent my life trying to cultivate empathy and thoughtfulness. What a rube

2026-03-19 20:10:50 UTC

If a drone ever kills a U.S. government official on American soil, the news will call it unprecedented. But it will not be unprecedented. We have been precedenting it in other countries for 20 years now
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/18/hegseth-rubio-drone-targeting-iran/
#USPol
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2026-03-19 14:19:56 UTC

The Google guys’ motto was “don’t be evil” right until the moment when they discovered exactly how well evil pays

2026-03-10 16:37:07 UTC

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@nprofile…dyu0 The good news about doing something out of character in secret is that even if people guess you are doing something, they will probably not guess correctly what it is 😆

2026-03-10 02:16:52 UTC

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If your AI product pitch involves anything at all related to putting words in the mouths of dead people, please just do us all a favor and go find something more healthy to do, such as exfoliating with a cheese grater

2026-03-09 17:33:13 UTC

Fuck these ghouls so fucking hard
https://www.wired.com/story/grammarly-is-offering-expert-ai-reviews-from-your-favorite-authors-dead-or-alive/
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2026-03-09 17:05:21 UTC

"The video clearly shows one of the F-15Es after being hit, with part of its rear portion burning brightly, and the same aircraft in a flat spin toward the ground. You can also see the two crew members ejecting. The F/A-18 is also seen, toward the top of the frame.
For at least part of the engagement, the F/A-18 and F-15E are clearly in close proximity.
An experienced former F/A-18 pilot talked to TWZ about the event and the new video, and concluded that the incident is, altogether, 'very strange.'
'I have genuinely no idea how someone could make this mistake,' the ex-Hornet driver continued."
https://www.twz.com/air/kuwaiti-f-a-18s-triple-friendly-fire-shootdown-gets-stranger-by-the-day

2026-03-09 15:22:22 UTC

Oh no. How does he die in this one
https://youtu.be/m9aroePaO90
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2026-03-08 21:57:49 UTC

“For many years, shipowners on panels and quarterly calls have been asked: What happens if the Strait of Hormuz closes? The response was almost always the same: if it ever happens, the closure will be brief, because the world cannot afford for it to be long.
Now that the strait is effectively closed, this response looks like a failure of imagination.”
https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1156532/They-all-said-Hormuz-closure-would-be-brief-What-if-they-were-wrong

2026-03-06 17:46:57 UTC

YA THINK
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/03/workers-who-love-synergizing-paradigms-might-be-bad-their-jobs
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2026-03-05 18:59:23 UTC

The good news: Kristi Noem has been fired as Secretary of Homeland Security.
The bad news: the person our big wet president has tapped to replace her is Sen. Markwayne Mullin, who is a strong candidate for the dumbest member of the United States Senate
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116178030946996760
#USPol
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2026-03-05 17:57:50 UTC

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Long ago, as a kid, I read a book written by a defector from the Soviet Army. It's still an interesting book, I recommend it.
There's a chapter in it about leadership lessons he learned. One is that threats are a sign of weakness, not strength. Threats are what people resort to when they don't have the power to just act. Human beings don't threaten bugs; they just step on them.
So when someone comes at you with threats, keep that in mind. Often the threat is a tell, a sign that the person making it needs to scare you into complying because they can't just force you to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_the_Soviet_Army

2026-03-05 17:20:57 UTC

Nobody tells you "resistance is futile" unless they are desperately trying to talk you out of resisting

2026-03-05 03:30:51 UTC

The thing about WordPress is that you can set out to do things the right way, the elegant way. But eventually you are going to find yourself holding a bloody axe in hands caked with shit. The platform will not be satisfied otherwise

2026-03-04 20:59:19 UTC

Trying to figure out why a WordPress site isn't loading a core WordPress stylesheet, and it appears to be an interaction between a popular plugin, the site's custom theme, and a custom plugin the site's custom theme won't work without, and this is why they created the suicide hotlines isn't it

2026-03-04 03:52:11 UTC

Those three US Air Force F-15Es that got shot down were reportedly all shot down by a single Kuwaiti F/A-18, which if true means there is a pilot somewhere in Kuwait who simultaneously wrecked his career and got 60% of the way towards becoming a fighter ace
https://www.twz.com/news-features/kuwaiti-f-a-18-hornet-responsible-for-shooting-down-three-usaf-f-15e-strike-eagles-report

2026-03-04 03:38:18 UTC

"Qatar’s stocks of Patriot interceptor missiles will last four days at the current rate of use, according to an internal analysis seen by Bloomberg News. Doha has been privately urging a swift end to the conflict."
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/03/world/iran-missile-drones-patriots/

2026-03-04 02:26:54 UTC

Oh, my sweet summer child
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/116/168/533/990/838/375/original/253b5d4a51361a5e.jpeg

2026-03-03 17:54:48 UTC

Uh oh
https://pulpcovers.com/commies-are-stealing-our-student-geniuses/
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/116/166/517/392/585/073/original/c5b8dbe911597481.jpg

2026-03-03 17:18:06 UTC

"Nine other firms folded and struck deals intended to mollify the president.
These nine firms all failed a high-stakes character test. Their leaders faced a choice between submitting to a bully and doing the right thing. The firms are not household names to most Americans, but it is worth listing them here. We hope that clients looking for fearless attorneys and law students deciding where to work will remember which elite firms were unwilling to fight back. Meekness is not a quality most people seek in a lawyer."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/opinion/law-firms-resistance-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QVA.P3O3.SVHJ8CjcuEnT&smid=nytcore-ios-share
#USPol

2026-03-01 18:39:07 UTC

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@nprofile…a86q @nprofile…kahw I think it was more that he was surrounded in the first term by grown-ups who restrained him from indulging his worst instincts. Now all those grown-ups are gone, so he is speed-running the list of foreign policy mistakes he wanted to make back then

2026-02-27 03:30:30 UTC

"Harold Lloyd left his Benedict Canyon estate to the 'benefit of the public at large' with instructions that it be used 'as a museum for research into the history of the motion picture in the United States.' Financial and legal obstacles prevented the estate from creating the museum that Lloyd had intended.
The house appeared to visitors in the 1970s to be frozen in time at 1929. One writer noted that nothing had been moved or replaced, changed, or modernized, from the books in the library to the appliances in the kitchen and the fixtures in the bathrooms. Lloyd's clothes still hung in his closet."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Lloyd_Estate

2026-02-27 00:11:12 UTC

Big deal, so do I
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/genomes-chart-the-history-of-neanderthal-modern-human-interactions/
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/116/139/690/296/993/401/original/f122419eda87837d.jpeg

2026-02-26 01:27:34 UTC

Now THAT is how you blurb a pulp novel
http://138books.com/Guest/BookDetail/972
(via https://pulpcovers.com/wild-flesh/)
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/116/134/325/902/093/202/original/f09b62ff68778b53.jpeg

2026-02-25 17:40:59 UTC

"Would you like to play a game?"
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/
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2026-02-25 06:46:24 UTC

“I kept asking it, like… are you sure?”
https://youtu.be/eEbz4GOMf1g

2026-02-24 22:00:01 UTC

Imagine how dumb you’d have to be to have Chuck Schumer dunking on you on social media
https://bsky.app/profile/sahilkapur.bsky.social/post/3mfiuw4hqkk2e
#USPol

2026-02-24 20:23:12 UTC

Someone bought this on Bring A Trailer less than two years ago and now it's back again, which does not disprove my assertion that Prowlers are more fun to look at than they are to drive
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1999-plymouth-prowler-140/

2026-02-24 18:50:22 UTC

“You could argue a Miata with a V6 is a better car, but it’s definitely a worse Miata. The Miata isn’t great because it’s fast. Anyone who’s driven an MX-5 will admit they are decidedly not fast. Miatas are great because they’re balanced, lightweight, communicative, and cheap to own.”
https://www.theautopian.com/mazda-once-built-a-secret-v6-miata-then-learned-it-ruined-the-whole-car

2026-02-24 18:24:13 UTC

"The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.
Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release. These include what appears to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor."
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-trump-accusation-maxwell
#USPol

2026-02-24 17:33:41 UTC

Last month, Russia passed the point where it has been fighting to conquer Ukraine longer than the Soviet Union fought Germany in World War II.
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/116/126/797/282/259/026/original/5b113be5103c29fb.png
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2026-02-24 06:31:42 UTC

Free advice from someone who was been observing American politics for several decades: you are not obligated to watch the State of the Union address. If there is any actual news in it, you'll hear about it pretty quickly afterwards. But they generally do not contain much actual news, even when delivered by better speechmakers than Donald Trump. And these speeches are some of the dullest, most plodding things to experience live on God's green earth.
If you are getting paid to watch it, by all means do so. But otherwise, you shouldn't feel bad if you have something better to do with your time.
#USPol

2026-02-24 03:11:37 UTC

ME [ sighing wearily ]: Sure, why not
https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/william-shatner-announces-all-star-metal-album
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/116/123/414/122/220/742/original/04e801013e2c561e.jpeg

2026-02-24 02:57:37 UTC

Wonder what the people who followed me today because of an anguished personal observation are going to think of my usual mix of lame dad jokes and baffling historical arcana

2026-02-23 20:08:58 UTC

"I think the most remarkable thing about this document is how unremarkable it is. Usually getting an AI to act badly requires extensive 'jailbreaking' to get around safety guardrails. There are no signs of conventional jailbreaking here. There are no convoluted situations with layers of roleplaying, no code injection through the system prompt, no weird cacophony of special characters that spirals an LLM into a twisted ball of linguistic loops until finally it gives up.
No, it’s a simple file written in plain English: this is who you are, this is what you believe, now go and act out this role. And it did."
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-4/

2026-02-23 18:52:21 UTC

I occasionally help an elderly neighbor get stuff done with their computer. And every single time, I walk away in incandescent rage at how hard we have made this stuff for people who have not spend their entire waking lives marinating in it

2026-02-21 23:25:43 UTC

This weekend is proving to be a stone bummer on all fronts. Blurgh

2026-02-21 06:07:22 UTC

"Janet and Janet Airlines are the unofficial names of a highly classified fleet of passenger aircraft operated for the United States Department of the Air Force as an employee shuttle to transport military, Department of Defense (DoD) civilians, and contractor employees to Special Access Program Facilities (SAPF). The airline mainly serves the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) (most notably Area 51 and the Tonopah Test Range) from a private terminal at Las Vegas's Harry Reid International Airport.
The airline's aircraft are generally unmarked aside from a red cheatline along the aircraft's windows."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_(airline)

2026-02-21 05:18:33 UTC

"In a decisive win for voters, the Utah Supreme Court dismissed the GOP legislature’s appeal in the state’s landmark redistricting case — clearing the way for a fairer congressional map to be used in the 2026 elections.
The ruling delivered Friday ensures that the remedial map adopted last November — one that ends the deliberate splitting of Salt Lake County across four districts — remains in place.
That fairer map creates a district where Democratic voters can meaningfully compete, restoring a measure of balance in a state where they have long been shut out of congressional representation."
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/utah-supreme-court-upholds-fairer-map-for-midterm-elections/
#USPol

2026-02-21 02:24:59 UTC

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@nprofile…runz I'm surprised they don't make you upload a picture of the credential sticking out of the band of a fedora

2026-02-21 01:40:52 UTC

Should have listened to my guidance counselor and become David Bowie

2026-02-21 00:41:55 UTC

Should have listened to my guidance counselor and founded a sex cult

2026-02-20 22:39:32 UTC

"The architect of the current Court — the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo — was behind the litigation that undid the tariffs. That tells you all you need to know. In this case Trump’s claim to power was neither in the interests of the Republican Party — the Court’s chief jurisprudential interest — nor any of their anti-constitutional doctrines. So of course they tossed it out. This may sound ungenerous. It’s simple reality."
🎁 https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-be-fooled-by-the-corrupt-courts-tariff-decision/sharetoken/ae4bddd9-819c-4acd-9d51-2b1750dcd436
#USPol

2026-02-19 18:53:30 UTC

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About who you'd be working with: this is me. I provide web publishing services for non-profits, labor unions and progressive advocacy groups in the United States.
https://roguerepairman.com/
#GetFediHired

2026-02-19 18:50:14 UTC

I have paying work for a graphic designer with experience in web design and corporate identity (logos, letterhead, marketing collateral, etc.).
Don't worry about having to code on the web design front—that's my job. I just need someone who can work with a coder. I'm in the US, so it's probably best if you're in North America too. But I'm open to working with people elsewhere.
Figured I would throw this out to the fediverse to see if any of you out there do this kind of work. If you do, send me your contact information and portfolio by DM, or by email to info@roguerepairman.com.
Boosts welcome :boost_requested:
#GetFediHired

2026-02-19 16:02:37 UTC

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@nprofile…3src Nobody is spending $25,000 on a personal website unless they are the kind of person who aspires to have a “personal brand”

2026-02-10 03:03:37 UTC

I resisted the urge to buy chocolate tonight
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/116/044/109/211/077/294/original/36e091f806663901.mp4

2026-02-10 02:05:21 UTC

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@nprofile…dyu0 Bring us back pictures of fabulous baked goods

2026-02-10 02:02:44 UTC

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@nprofile…dyu0 oh my yes
https://youtu.be/EmvRFNILKsI

2026-02-09 22:53:57 UTC

Not loving that local authorities are discovering hidden biolabs across the western United States and the CDC is like “we’ll call you back on that later, right now we’re way too busy trying to stop the woke mind virus”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/las-vegas-bio-lab-reedley-california-pathogens/
#USPol

2026-02-09 17:04:31 UTC

"An Irishman living in the United States for more than 20 years has been held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officials since being arrested last September.
Originally from Glenmore, Co Kilkenny, Seamus Culleton is married to a US citizen and owns a plastering business in the Boston area. He was arrested on September 9th, 2025, and has been in an Ice detention facility in Texas for nearly five months, despite having no criminal record, 'not even a parking ticket'. In a phone interview from the facility, he said conditions there are 'like a concentration camp, absolute hell'."
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2026/02/09/absolute-hell-irish-man-with-valid-us-work-permit-held-by-ice-since-september/
#USPol

2026-02-09 15:18:00 UTC

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@nprofile…u7p7 @nprofile…2x3t Back in the 1990s and 2000s, it was a frequently mocked trope that whenever the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wanted to write about globalization (his favorite subject), he would turn in a column about how he had just been riding in a taxi cab and the cab driver Just Happened to believe everything Thomas Friedman did about globalization.
I have no evidence that this hairdressser isn't real. All I know is that on the page they seem a lot like Thomas Friedman's Cab Driver

2026-02-05 22:39:33 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 “Do I look like I have time to clean up all these loaded guns I left lying around”

2026-02-05 03:08:28 UTC

I think my decade-plus-old Logitech G500s mouse is finally dying. Send mouse recs

2026-02-04 18:15:02 UTC

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@nprofile…dyu0 Slate is like 60% advice columns by volume these days. Definitely a place to look, if that is what you are looking for

2025-12-16 20:10:47 UTC

Leave it to Mozilla to go whole hog on AI right as everyone else is bracing for the AI bubble to pop

2025-12-04 23:49:55 UTC

Here’s your Mastodon Wrapped: you posted about Linux too much

2025-12-04 17:15:03 UTC

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@nprofile…d9d3 In the old days, if someone slipped you a Post-It with their phone number written on it you knew what was up. Technology has ruined everything

2025-12-04 17:02:25 UTC

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@nprofile…d9d3 Was... was she making a pass at you? Is this how people do that these days

2025-12-04 03:53:09 UTC

This Christmas, give the gift of 30-50 feral hogs. You will certainly not regret giving someone you love 30-50 feral hogs this Christmas

2025-12-03 19:40:38 UTC

Remember how every December your CD player did not confess that it had been spying on what you listened to all year

2025-12-03 16:55:12 UTC

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@nprofile…dfpj Valve is one of very few companies in that business with both the mindset required to think long-term, and the cash required to keep a long-term plan afloat until it pays off.

2025-12-01 15:17:53 UTC

Imagining if we set aside .1% of all the money being spent to make AIs that write bad software to compensate all the open-source developers who write good software

2025-11-29 18:46:28 UTC

Why is it always my job to learn to accept MAGA relatives’ politics and never their job to learn to accept mine

2025-11-26 17:43:37 UTC

It's always frustrating to lose a client. It's more frustrating when you meet the people the client fired you to hire and discover that they're all idiots

2025-11-17 18:26:15 UTC

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@nprofile…f4xf Buying beanie babies today and going back to 1996 to sell them

2025-11-12 18:40:42 UTC

Occasionally I run across a blogger I used to follow who's still blogging in 2025 exactly the same way they were in 2005. And while I admire the commitment, I can't understand it. I'm too different now from how I was then; there's no way my writing could stay the same. How do you do it? How did you manage to never change

2025-11-11 20:30:54 UTC

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@nprofile…vyyg Looks OK to me at a glance. You might want more than 2TB of storage, depending on what you're doing with it. But I don't see anything in the list that makes me go "ewwww" 😆
The website PCPartPicker has a useful feature where you can load in all the components you're looking at, and it will tell you if there are any obvious incompatibilities (more power draw than the PSU can handle, some component that needs a connector the motherboard doesn't have, etc etc etc). I took a crack at loading your build in it, and it didn't flag anything major.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/9BpwRV

2025-11-11 01:48:36 UTC

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@nprofile…f4xf Ok, you have an excuse 😆

2025-11-09 15:02:32 UTC

I instantly lose interest when a recipe starts like “step one, climb to the top of Mount Whitney and retrieve a snallygaster egg. You can substitute regular eggs if you really want to, but it won’t be the same”

2025-11-05 19:39:00 UTC

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@nprofile…y8mx Now I'm reading that in Germany the southern, roasted version is often called "schweinshaxe" rather than eisbein, which has only confused me further 😆
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweinshaxe

2025-11-05 19:29:45 UTC

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@nprofile…y8mx If I'm understanding what I read correctly, deep fried eisbein is the southern German version, while the Berlin version is simmered in broth. Now I'm curious how different the two taste, and whether German immigrants to South Africa mostly came from the south.
The eisbein rabbit hole 😆

2025-11-05 19:13:29 UTC

Who doesn’t like a good [ checks notes ] pork knuckle??? Dear god what the actual fuck
https://youtu.be/8r05B5Z4W7Q

2025-11-04 04:01:32 UTC

Find you someone who loves you as much as ad-supported podcasters love NordVPN

2025-11-04 03:58:06 UTC

I need a Steam Deck. They give you one of those if you write a witty enough Mastodon post, right

2025-11-02 04:02:48 UTC

I enjoy cooking. Please note that this is not the same statement as “people enjoy eating my cooking”

2025-10-28 00:13:42 UTC

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The only problem with this strategy is that you eventually have to walk around with your eyes permanently closed

2025-10-27 23:58:54 UTC

So many problems around the house can be solved by simply learning to not look at that part of the house

2025-10-26 23:51:22 UTC

Time isn’t real, but darkness sure is

2025-10-26 16:36:34 UTC

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@nprofile…wfqx One more data point indicating that these people read the books but did not understand them

2025-10-24 17:03:13 UTC

At the point where I'm ready to turn my life into a torpedo fired at something bad. The torpedo blows up at the end, but at least it accomplished something

2025-10-24 00:06:35 UTC

“Discover the origin story of Pennywise the Clown!” Do I have to? Is this gonna be on the test

2025-10-23 17:04:26 UTC

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@nprofile…f4xf (Ubuntu tried, but they never really quite got there, and eventually they lost interest and gave up)