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"A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin."
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Catherine @whitequark.org · Dec 23
this question is coming up a lot so i'll pin it
- replacement for github: codeberg.org
- replacement for github pages: grebedoc.dev
- easy ci runners for codeberg: codeberg.org/whitequark/n...
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weirdmedieval.bsky.social
they’re doing this to me tomorrow
a medieval illustration of two hares killing and skinning a man
February 10, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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github is dedicated to promoting codeberg by no longer being the higher-uptime option. i respect that
February 10, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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age verification? i still feel like linux 2.6 is kinda new bsky.app/profile/jcog...
jcoglan.com u+fffd @jcoglan.com · 1d
age verification? I've lived through ten british prime ministers
aesthr.com Æ. @aesthr.com · 1d
Age verification?

I’m on my third legal tender currency without ever moving house internationally.
February 10, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy
@wolf.observer put "REPLICA" or "DUMMY" something otherwise obvious on that shit or perish
February 10, 2026 at 7:13 AM
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wolf.observer
i don't think you should make "drop and run" metal cylinders even for laughs because i work in e-waste recycling and if i find something in the waste stream that says "drop and run" i don't want to have to carefully consider whether it means it or not
February 10, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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wolf.observer
one of the biggest mistakes you can make is thinking that because someone is a "healer" because they practice life magic. good way to end up unable to have kids or riddled with malignancies, if you survive the encounter in the same shape you started it
February 10, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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wolf.observer
lesbians are doing this to each other
An adult female receiving a vaccination that was administered by a public health clinician, by way of a jet injector during the nationwide swine flu vaccination campaign, which began October 1, 1976. This rare influenza strain, “A/New Jersey/76 (Hsw1N1) influenza virus”, was reported among soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, where one patient died. A very similar strain killed 500,000 people in the United States, and more than 20 million worldwide, during the pandemic of 1918–1919. In response to the 1976 outbreak, in order to prevent another epidemic, 50 million Americans were vaccinated during a 10 week period, setting an immunization world record.
February 10, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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shinyquagsire.bowser.gay
Severance was so real when they said some of the numbers on the screen feel happy or scary
moonbase.lgbt luna @moonbase.lgbt · Aug 1
as i stare at the hex editor, trying to derive meaning from screens full of numbers, i realize that reverse engineering is basically just numerology for hackers
January 17, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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iggy666.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide
February 9, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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honeybakedsam.bsky.social
Times article has an incredible illustration
Diagram of a skier jumping with the extra crotch material highlighted, and then a diagram below showing that an extra 2cm in suit circumference can help the skier get an extra car length on their jump
February 5, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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poppyhaze.bsky.social
i’m in a giant CC chain about some server maintenance and I’ve just gotten a message failed to deliver because there’s so many internal and external vendors with giant signatures and disclosure disclaimers that we hit 554-5.3.4 “Maximum number of body parts exceeded”
February 4, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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codepo8.bsky.social
I'm buying a kitchen and they sent a sample of the marble counter top with a metal ball showing what the sink will be like. Now my desk looks like a 90s 3D rendering tool demo image.
A square marble tile with a shiny metal ball on it next to some papers and a coffee mug.
February 4, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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merchantshallyork.org
We saw this book illustration and were taken with the ladies in medieval style costumes and then…

Is that a cat? In armour?
We are looking at a book illustration showing three ladies in medieval style costumes - one in blue, one in green and another in orange. One is holding a pair of large shears. In front of them is a cat (we assume) in a full suit of armour. We are looking at a close up from a book illustration showing a cat in a full suit of armour.
February 4, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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silby.bsky.social
dusty flutterer,
delicately alighting
gleans precious saline
February 4, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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jamesmunns.com
> Texas Instruments in advanced talks to buy Silicon Laboratories

We march ever closer to the "silicon vendor singularity"

www.reuters.com/technology/t...
Texas Instruments in advanced talks to buy Silicon Laboratories for about $7 billion, source says
Texas Instruments is in advanced talks to buy chip designer Silicon Laboratories for about $7 billion, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
www.reuters.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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new episode of Crackhead Engineering crackhead.technology/contact-sale...
(although this entry is more "Crackhead Sales"... doesn't have the same ring to it, does it now?)
"Contact sales for complete package dimensions"
When the alternative to signing an NDA is
crackhead.technology
February 4, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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jana-aych-ess.bsky.social
for real, though. I'm looking for an affordable (definition flexible) place to live with these guys, starting march 1st. I can be normal. but I figure I might as well give the sales pitch of being weird and esoteric too. really any place that I can be reasonably comfortable with the cats works, tbh
jana-aych-ess.bsky.social Jana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 7d
any cat-friendly temples in the seattle area looking for an oracle
hermes, a gray cat, demonstrating his Circle Of Softness technique dizzy, a tuxedo cat, getting mad at me for interrupting his couchnap
February 3, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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smoothcoke.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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pcwalton.bsky.social
TIL about Autoconf quadrigraphs and I'm screaming
8.1.6 Quadrigraphs When writing an Autoconf macro you may occasionally need to generate special characters that are difficult to express with the standard Autoconf quoting rules. For example, you may need to output the regular expression ‘[^[]’, which matches any character other than ‘[’. This expression contains unbalanced brackets so it cannot be put easily into an M4 macro. Additionally, there are a few m4sugar macros (such as m4_split and m4_expand) which internally use special markers in addition to the regular quoting characters. If the arguments to these macros contain the literal strings ‘-=<{(’ or ‘)}>=-’, the macros might behave incorrectly. You can work around these problems by using one of the following quadrigraphs: ‘@<:@’ ‘[’ ‘@:>@’ ‘]’ ‘@S|@’ ‘$’ ‘@%:@’ ‘#’ ‘@{:@’ ‘(’ ‘@:}@’ ‘)’ ‘@&t@’ Expands to nothing. Quadrigraphs are replaced at a late stage of the translation process, after m4 is run, so they do not get in the way of M4 quoting. For example, the string ‘^@<:@’, independently of its quotation, appears as ‘^[’ in the output.
February 3, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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notfcknsoryu.bsky.social
they should pipe hard boiled eggs into every home like water
February 3, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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jubjub623d.bsky.social
zun’s words on being a chuunibyou are more mission critical than ever in big 2026
January 31, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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happy mailing list membership reminder day!
February 1, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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going to submit a CrowdSupply application soon, stay tuned :3
January 30, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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i tried Dune 3D dune3d.org earlier today.

as an ex-maintainer of SolveSpace solvespace.com, my conclusion is that Dune 3D is the spiritual successor to SolveSpace: same solver, similar (but more powerful) workflow, significantly more powerful geometric kernel
January 30, 2026 at 5:22 PM