Martin Z
@pxtl.ca
🌇 #HamOnt 🍁
✍️ https://Pxtl.ca
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🐙🐱 https://github.com/Pxtl
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♂️ ♀️ he/him
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✍️ https://Pxtl.ca
🦣 https://mastodon.social/@Pxtl
🐙🐱 https://github.com/Pxtl
🐭🍁 https://lemmy.ca/u/Pxtl
♂️ ♀️ he/him
#️⃣ #YIMBY #BikeSky #ProtectTransKids #ElbowsUp
#️⃣ #Powershell #DevOps #Boardgames #Cocktails
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Introduce yourself with
One book 📚 — Harrow the Ninth
One movie 🎥 — Matrix
One album 💿 — I Saw The TV Glow official soundtrack
One TV Show 📺 — Sense8
One Videogame 🎮 — Pathologic Classic HD
One book 📚 — Harrow the Ninth
One movie 🎥 — Matrix
One album 💿 — I Saw The TV Glow official soundtrack
One TV Show 📺 — Sense8
One Videogame 🎮 — Pathologic Classic HD
Introduce yourself with
One book 📚 — Carrie by Stephen King
One movie 🎥 — Scream
One album 💿 — Worlds by Porter Robinson
One TV Show 📺 — Fleabag
One book 📚 — Carrie by Stephen King
One movie 🎥 — Scream
One album 💿 — Worlds by Porter Robinson
One TV Show 📺 — Fleabag
Introduce yourself with
One Book 📚 - Protector, by Larry Niven
One Movie 🎥 - The Fountain
One Album 💿 - The Downward Spiral
One TV Show 📺 - The Expanse
One Videogame 🎮 - Armored Core
One Book 📚 - Protector, by Larry Niven
One Movie 🎥 - The Fountain
One Album 💿 - The Downward Spiral
One TV Show 📺 - The Expanse
One Videogame 🎮 - Armored Core
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
So I was playing Timeline with my fam. Lots of major historical events in there, but some things pop up that I just wonder about "how did this event become culturally relevant enough that it's stuck in the American cultural zeitgeist as an important bit of history?"
Like "Mutiny on the Bounty".
Like "Mutiny on the Bounty".
December 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
So I was playing Timeline with my fam. Lots of major historical events in there, but some things pop up that I just wonder about "how did this event become culturally relevant enough that it's stuck in the American cultural zeitgeist as an important bit of history?"
Like "Mutiny on the Bounty".
Like "Mutiny on the Bounty".
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Mamdani has selected the Ninja Turtles' lair from TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze as the location for his swearing-in ceremony
turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/Second_...
turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/Second_...
December 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Mamdani has selected the Ninja Turtles' lair from TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze as the location for his swearing-in ceremony
turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/Second_...
turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/Second_...
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Justice Department says Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect believed election conspiracy theories
Justice Department says Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect believed election conspiracy theories
The DOJ said in a new filing that the suspect was not “openly political” but believed the 2020 election had been tampered with.
dlvr.it
December 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Justice Department says Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect believed election conspiracy theories
Annihilation (2018)
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Annihilation (2018)
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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them"
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou
December 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them"
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou
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In Vancouver we have a generation of planners who did good work stopping freeways, densifying downtown, and rebuilding industrial sites
…but they’ve been wholly silent about their role perpetuating exclusionary single family zoning amidst an extraordinary land value bubble.
This is “Vancouverism”
…but they’ve been wholly silent about their role perpetuating exclusionary single family zoning amidst an extraordinary land value bubble.
This is “Vancouverism”
If the worst single-family house in your n’hood costs over $1 million, then your n’hood should be zoned for apartment buildings.
(It’s pretty much that simple)
(It’s pretty much that simple)
December 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
In Vancouver we have a generation of planners who did good work stopping freeways, densifying downtown, and rebuilding industrial sites
…but they’ve been wholly silent about their role perpetuating exclusionary single family zoning amidst an extraordinary land value bubble.
This is “Vancouverism”
…but they’ve been wholly silent about their role perpetuating exclusionary single family zoning amidst an extraordinary land value bubble.
This is “Vancouverism”
Development charges for housing, subsidies for LLM data centres.
Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
December 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Development charges for housing, subsidies for LLM data centres.
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We see what you did there, Pluribus.
December 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We see what you did there, Pluribus.
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"Annoying 8 year olds keep wanting to walk and bike to school despite city's best efforts to make it too dangerous."
creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord
creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord
December 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"Annoying 8 year olds keep wanting to walk and bike to school despite city's best efforts to make it too dangerous."
creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord
creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord
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Super low hanging safety fruit. US regulators have had a decade plus to get manufacturers to make safe door handles and still they haven’t.
www.autoblog.com/news/china-i...
www.autoblog.com/news/china-i...
China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns
From 2027, cars sold in China must have manual door releases after electronic handles failing during crashes. Tesla and other brands will need design changes.
www.autoblog.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Super low hanging safety fruit. US regulators have had a decade plus to get manufacturers to make safe door handles and still they haven’t.
www.autoblog.com/news/china-i...
www.autoblog.com/news/china-i...
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oh we’re so sorry to hear about your 4chan dating service that fell apart it gets 5 big booms
December 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
oh we’re so sorry to hear about your 4chan dating service that fell apart it gets 5 big booms
I shoveled up the hailstorm last night... but alas, the plow went right to the sidewalk so it pushed a new sheet of hail onto it that hardened into thick slabs. At least I had salted so it wasn't stuck down but holy crap that hail is *heavy* to move. Good luck out there, #HamOnt, take breaks.
December 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I shoveled up the hailstorm last night... but alas, the plow went right to the sidewalk so it pushed a new sheet of hail onto it that hardened into thick slabs. At least I had salted so it wasn't stuck down but holy crap that hail is *heavy* to move. Good luck out there, #HamOnt, take breaks.
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I dunno, I get tired of the idea that the only good places are the ones where I’d be beaten to death for my hair color before they even figured out they should actually he beating me to death for being trans.
December 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I dunno, I get tired of the idea that the only good places are the ones where I’d be beaten to death for my hair color before they even figured out they should actually he beating me to death for being trans.
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Yes. Make this. Make “Sweet Home Alabama” but she’s reminded that her hometown sucks, her high school boyfriend is an asshole, everyone there is a bigot, and there’s nothing to do there but drink. So she goes back to the new city life she’s built, with renewed gratitude.
December 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Yes. Make this. Make “Sweet Home Alabama” but she’s reminded that her hometown sucks, her high school boyfriend is an asshole, everyone there is a bigot, and there’s nothing to do there but drink. So she goes back to the new city life she’s built, with renewed gratitude.
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I drew a new flag for New York City. Whatcha think?
December 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I drew a new flag for New York City. Whatcha think?
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This image will be attached to almost unimaginable evil
Here is the high res version of today's third panel minus text that I posted last week.
photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-pR2...
photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-pR2...
December 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This image will be attached to almost unimaginable evil
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I disagree with most of Pike's design decisions in his platforms but he's spitting fire here.
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
5:43 AM (4 hours ago)
to me
Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I disagree with most of Pike's design decisions in his platforms but he's spitting fire here.
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
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December 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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This is outrageous, Doug Ford rips out Ontario’s speed cameras and then uses taxpayers money to run ads about nonexistent police, useless signs and speed bumps. He takes from us and then rubs it in our face.
December 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is outrageous, Doug Ford rips out Ontario’s speed cameras and then uses taxpayers money to run ads about nonexistent police, useless signs and speed bumps. He takes from us and then rubs it in our face.