LabCat 📡🐈⬛
@labcat73.bsky.social
Maker, Nerd, Ham Radio / Amateur Radio operator and cat daddy
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@labcat73
Mastodon: @labcat@mstdn.social
Check out TEHRS - The European Ham Radio Show: https://hamshow.eu
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@labcat73
Mastodon: @labcat@mstdn.social
Check out TEHRS - The European Ham Radio Show: https://hamshow.eu
"Bundeswehr verlässt Grönland!" - Haben Sie gemerkt das der dünne Bundeswehrparka aus dem Jahre 74 nicht für die klimatischen Verhältnisse geeignet ist?! Und die Ausschreibung für den Parka 2000 hat sich leider 30 Jahre verzögert und der Auftrag wird vorraussichtlich im Jahre 2030 erteilt... 🙄
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January 18, 2026 at 3:50 PM
"Bundeswehr verlässt Grönland!" - Haben Sie gemerkt das der dünne Bundeswehrparka aus dem Jahre 74 nicht für die klimatischen Verhältnisse geeignet ist?! Und die Ausschreibung für den Parka 2000 hat sich leider 30 Jahre verzögert und der Auftrag wird vorraussichtlich im Jahre 2030 erteilt... 🙄
30min rambling why I failed so dismally with my YT channel in 2025 and what is next in 2026. Don't watch it... Seriously! DON'T! #hamradio #amateurfunk
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Channel Update - January 2026
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January 18, 2026 at 3:35 PM
30min rambling why I failed so dismally with my YT channel in 2025 and what is next in 2026. Don't watch it... Seriously! DON'T! #hamradio #amateurfunk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlmG...
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...switch off Office 365 and I have a peaceful few weeks where I can focus on getting actual work done ✅ while IT figures out how to run a company without those US service providers. Get the Fax 📠 machines out again my fellow Germans! 🤪🔥
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January 18, 2026 at 8:44 AM
...switch off Office 365 and I have a peaceful few weeks where I can focus on getting actual work done ✅ while IT figures out how to run a company without those US service providers. Get the Fax 📠 machines out again my fellow Germans! 🤪🔥
Looks like it's time for 25% revenue tax for all US digital tec companies offering services in the EU. So Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta etc... Guess it's the only language the orange monkey understands: Hitting his rich corrupt idiot sponsors where it hurts. If we are lucky they...
January 18, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Looks like it's time for 25% revenue tax for all US digital tec companies offering services in the EU. So Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta etc... Guess it's the only language the orange monkey understands: Hitting his rich corrupt idiot sponsors where it hurts. If we are lucky they...
I think the 🐈⬛ is smelling a 🐀.
Now that my Japan 🇯🇵 trip is at least theoretically becoming reality, I get extra cuddles... 🤔
Now that my Japan 🇯🇵 trip is at least theoretically becoming reality, I get extra cuddles... 🤔
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January 17, 2026 at 2:05 PM
I think the 🐈⬛ is smelling a 🐀.
Now that my Japan 🇯🇵 trip is at least theoretically becoming reality, I get extra cuddles... 🤔
Now that my Japan 🇯🇵 trip is at least theoretically becoming reality, I get extra cuddles... 🤔
Wir leben alle in der Matrix! Realistisch gesehen dürfte es so Typen wie Trump, Merz oder Söder gar nicht geben. Ich mein, wenn's ein Film wäre würde man sich über die flachen klischeehaften unrealistischen Charaktere auslassen: Ebeneezer Merz und der arbeitsscheue Deutsche in der soz. Hängematte 😵💫
January 16, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Wir leben alle in der Matrix! Realistisch gesehen dürfte es so Typen wie Trump, Merz oder Söder gar nicht geben. Ich mein, wenn's ein Film wäre würde man sich über die flachen klischeehaften unrealistischen Charaktere auslassen: Ebeneezer Merz und der arbeitsscheue Deutsche in der soz. Hängematte 😵💫
😆 Fritze #Merz unser Kanzler der kalten Herzen... Arbeiten bis 167, Arbeitszeitgesetz "Flexibilisieren", dafür aber mit doppelseitiger Lungenentzündung ins Büro. - So wird das nix gegen den demographischen Wandel anzuschnackseln. Bin jetzt schon zu müde... 💤😴😑
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January 16, 2026 at 10:24 PM
😆 Fritze #Merz unser Kanzler der kalten Herzen... Arbeiten bis 167, Arbeitszeitgesetz "Flexibilisieren", dafür aber mit doppelseitiger Lungenentzündung ins Büro. - So wird das nix gegen den demographischen Wandel anzuschnackseln. Bin jetzt schon zu müde... 💤😴😑
Oh well... Buy cheap buy twice... The power cord is also a thing of beauty. 😆
January 14, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Oh well... Buy cheap buy twice... The power cord is also a thing of beauty. 😆
Aaaand it died during first use 😂. Well I guess you buy a 24V 10A power supply to replace an original 24V 5A one.
January 14, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Aaaand it died during first use 😂. Well I guess you buy a 24V 10A power supply to replace an original 24V 5A one.
Hm Chinesium 24V 6A power supply... Maybe slightly overspecced....
January 14, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Hm Chinesium 24V 6A power supply... Maybe slightly overspecced....
Reposted by LabCat 📡🐈⬛
Mein Baby benötigt dringend eine Zahn OP aufgrund eines starken FORL Verdachts. Unser Jahr war durchweg schlimm. Ich war Dauergast beim Tierarzt und ich weiß leider nicht mehr, woher ich das Geld nun noch nehmen soll. Ich bitte ungern andere um Hilfe, aber ich weiß nicht weiter
#weihnachtswunder
#weihnachtswunder
Donate to Zahn OP für Gismo, organized by Denaryah M
Das ist mein FlauscheSchatz Gismo.
Er benötigt dringend eine Zahn-OP inklusive Dentalröntgen aufgrund ei… Denaryah M needs your support for Zahn OP für Gismo
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December 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Mein Baby benötigt dringend eine Zahn OP aufgrund eines starken FORL Verdachts. Unser Jahr war durchweg schlimm. Ich war Dauergast beim Tierarzt und ich weiß leider nicht mehr, woher ich das Geld nun noch nehmen soll. Ich bitte ungern andere um Hilfe, aber ich weiß nicht weiter
#weihnachtswunder
#weihnachtswunder
Achievement of the day (and it is only 00:41). Fixed the new pressure cooker by completely dis- and re-assembling the lid. Thankfully the Sicomatic T-Plus is very similar to the 40yo predecessor. Somebody did not put the metal spring that presses on top of the valve into the plastic slit of the grip
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January 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Achievement of the day (and it is only 00:41). Fixed the new pressure cooker by completely dis- and re-assembling the lid. Thankfully the Sicomatic T-Plus is very similar to the 40yo predecessor. Somebody did not put the metal spring that presses on top of the valve into the plastic slit of the grip
The new motto for invading Greenland? 🤢 - Alas I can't distinguish reality from satire anymore. JD Vance always looks like a seriously badly generated AI agent.
January 12, 2026 at 4:34 PM
The new motto for invading Greenland? 🤢 - Alas I can't distinguish reality from satire anymore. JD Vance always looks like a seriously badly generated AI agent.
Ok I did it. I booked a ridiculously expensive trip to Japan. If I manage to not get a stroke from anxiety or catch Covid or Influenza, this might be my first real vacation abroad ever in my life. I will be 50 this year... Fingers crossed I make it through Q1 2026... 🇯🇵🌄🙏
January 10, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Ok I did it. I booked a ridiculously expensive trip to Japan. If I manage to not get a stroke from anxiety or catch Covid or Influenza, this might be my first real vacation abroad ever in my life. I will be 50 this year... Fingers crossed I make it through Q1 2026... 🇯🇵🌄🙏
Hm woke up at 9... Still in bed at 11:40... Maybe I'll just stay here. 3 days back in the day job was more than enough to bring the endorphin levels down.
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January 10, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Hm woke up at 9... Still in bed at 11:40... Maybe I'll just stay here. 3 days back in the day job was more than enough to bring the endorphin levels down.
Ich höre unseren Kanzler der kalten Herzen schon: "Ja es ist eine schwierige Lage und wir stehen im Geiste den Grönländern bei... Aber... Die Ausschreibung für den Parka -7C ist noch im Gange... Aktuell kann unsere Bundeswehr nur in Gebieten mit milden 15 Grad Jahresdurchschnittstemperatur operieren
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January 10, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Ich höre unseren Kanzler der kalten Herzen schon: "Ja es ist eine schwierige Lage und wir stehen im Geiste den Grönländern bei... Aber... Die Ausschreibung für den Parka -7C ist noch im Gange... Aktuell kann unsere Bundeswehr nur in Gebieten mit milden 15 Grad Jahresdurchschnittstemperatur operieren
...with their 1000 year take-over-the-world plan. Those guys are stubborn and persistent as hell. Looks like just giving up and learning Chinese and singing the party songs is the sanest strategy at the moment. And then we have the ever multiplying religious extremist nutters being bred as well...
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January 10, 2026 at 8:35 AM
...with their 1000 year take-over-the-world plan. Those guys are stubborn and persistent as hell. Looks like just giving up and learning Chinese and singing the party songs is the sanest strategy at the moment. And then we have the ever multiplying religious extremist nutters being bred as well...
Time for AAA anti asshole alliance instead of NATO... Can the world cope with two dementia-ridden axes of evil? United against Russia and America at the same time? And avoid WW3? I mean while Bully A takes Greenland, Bully B might send a tactical Nuke or troops from the rear. And then comes China...
January 10, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Time for AAA anti asshole alliance instead of NATO... Can the world cope with two dementia-ridden axes of evil? United against Russia and America at the same time? And avoid WW3? I mean while Bully A takes Greenland, Bully B might send a tactical Nuke or troops from the rear. And then comes China...
One has to wonder what's in the remaining truckloads of Epstein files. Venezuela, Greenland, Mexico... If you need to start several *cough* military special operations at once to distract from them...
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January 10, 2026 at 8:21 AM
One has to wonder what's in the remaining truckloads of Epstein files. Venezuela, Greenland, Mexico... If you need to start several *cough* military special operations at once to distract from them...
Just January the 8th and the absolute insanity, destruction and fall of the US is still on track. And all it takes is one homegrown egotistical psychopath with dementia and all the ruthless goons following him. 😭
Waiting for the memoirs of the russian nanny who worked years on Project Krasnov. 🤪🍊🦧
Waiting for the memoirs of the russian nanny who worked years on Project Krasnov. 🤪🍊🦧
January 8, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Just January the 8th and the absolute insanity, destruction and fall of the US is still on track. And all it takes is one homegrown egotistical psychopath with dementia and all the ruthless goons following him. 😭
Waiting for the memoirs of the russian nanny who worked years on Project Krasnov. 🤪🍊🦧
Waiting for the memoirs of the russian nanny who worked years on Project Krasnov. 🤪🍊🦧
Trying to get 8h of shut eyes before going back to work... Wish me luck that my anxiety does not push me to catastrophize half the night... 😴
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January 6, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Trying to get 8h of shut eyes before going back to work... Wish me luck that my anxiety does not push me to catastrophize half the night... 😴
Gah - Back to work tomorrow. Back to the daily grind and being unappreciated for keeping an essential grown SW package running. Back to fight with HR about a work contract change they want to force on me. Feeling dread and sick... *sigh* Time to get up, coffee and clear the Christmas tree...
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January 6, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Gah - Back to work tomorrow. Back to the daily grind and being unappreciated for keeping an essential grown SW package running. Back to fight with HR about a work contract change they want to force on me. Feeling dread and sick... *sigh* Time to get up, coffee and clear the Christmas tree...
Rückflussregler fürs Schlafzimmer mal auf 40°C hochgedreht... Da saugts die Wärme nur so raus durch Fußboden, Decke, Balkonanschluss... 🥶
January 6, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Rückflussregler fürs Schlafzimmer mal auf 40°C hochgedreht... Da saugts die Wärme nur so raus durch Fußboden, Decke, Balkonanschluss... 🥶
So Nachtabsenkung bei -10°C mal abgeschaltet... Wir sind bei 20,5°C und 47°C Vorlauftemperatur... Noch nicht so richtig Wärmepumpenfit die Hütte... Aber hey anstatt Heizkurve bei 1,2 bin ich jetzt bei 0,7. Also irgendwas hat die Monsterrenovierung schon gebracht. 🤷♂️
January 5, 2026 at 9:15 AM
So Nachtabsenkung bei -10°C mal abgeschaltet... Wir sind bei 20,5°C und 47°C Vorlauftemperatur... Noch nicht so richtig Wärmepumpenfit die Hütte... Aber hey anstatt Heizkurve bei 1,2 bin ich jetzt bei 0,7. Also irgendwas hat die Monsterrenovierung schon gebracht. 🤷♂️
3 more hours spent shoehorning Wago clamps behind the socket where it splits off into two more directions. Risk of arcing and catastrophic failure reduced from 60% to 10% imho. Having to touch any socket or switch in a house from the 70ies is soooo scary. I want a RCD together with the new fusebox.😭
January 4, 2026 at 1:55 PM
3 more hours spent shoehorning Wago clamps behind the socket where it splits off into two more directions. Risk of arcing and catastrophic failure reduced from 60% to 10% imho. Having to touch any socket or switch in a house from the 70ies is soooo scary. I want a RCD together with the new fusebox.😭