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Gave my tiny backpack of a car a smol, relatively cheap, but noticeable audio upgrade. These speakers give a much fuller and more clear sound than the default paper cones.
Two boxes of Pioneer speaker sets, one has 10cm speakers (TS-G1030F), the other 17cm (TS-G1730F).
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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The text Accessible Games for Every Player, in the style of the Zohran for New York City sign, featuring dark yellow / orange letters on a deep blue background.
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Oh shit, its Mega Mega Meganium
Altered image of Mega Meganium, A green dinosaur like Pokémon with flower petals around its neck. The mega variant has layers of white, light pink, darker pink, and red flowers looking like an overly abundant collar or ruff. In this image the neck is lengthened with the layers absurdly scaled and repeated several times.
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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One of the most casually insulting things LinkedIn does is implying CEOs are somehow inherently intelligent.

Compare me with the weird nerd in the mailroom whose work benefits a company more.
Partial screenshot of the result of the Zip puzzle game on LinkedIn, showing a brain wearing glasses and carrying a suitcase. Text below it reads: Smarter than 99% of CEOs
November 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Scribbled measurements of the ROG Xbox Ally X, showing a cross section, partial front view, handle, and some additional angles and measurements written out.
October 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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QRT with a game released in the year you were born.

Pew pew!
Box art of the Nintendo game Duck Hunt for the NES. It features a pixelated flying duck with an explosion close to it. A light gun icon is shown below.
October 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Really appreciate the Lego bags being paper instead of plastic. Also with a perforated line to easily tear open — no more exploding bags spraying parts everywhere.
Bags, booklet, stickers, and some other parts of a Lego set of the pink Honda S2000 from The Fast and the Furious. The bags are paper, and have a perforated tear off strip.
September 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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A quick drawing of the little eye-squid from Alien Earth. I haven't finished the season yet but the design of this critter is interesting.
A pencil drawing of a creature that resembles a slender squid, standing on its tentacles. Its head is one large eyeball, with several irises and pupils, three of which are lined up and looking at you.
September 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Managed to capture today's blood moon despite unhelpful atmospheric conditions (lots of humidity and warm air).
The moon above dark trees in a dark blue sky just after sunset. The sun is partially in the Earth's shadow, causing it to be lit in red tints. The color goes from an almost normal white in the lower left to ever darkening reds up to the upper right.
September 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Still a big fan of the MFT ecosystem. Packs a punch in a small and light body, ideal if you have trouble carrying cameras.

A wide strap is ideal too; I can spread the weight comfortably over my good shoulder, sparing the bad one and my neck.

The blurry line between comfort and accessibility.
An Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark 3, which is a relatively compact digital camera with interchangeable lens. It has a protruding grip on the right side. A small lens is attached, as well as a wide dark green carrying strap with grippy texture on one side.
August 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Lego's fire chief had a glow up between 1988 and 1997 🔥
Two Lego Fire Chief sets side-by-side. On the left the set from 1988. He has a simple fireman's outfit and the standard smiley face and stands in front of a very simple car. On the right the set from 1997. He has a more distinct and detailed uniform, and has grown some eyebrows and a neatly groomed mustache. His car, while still simple, is more impressive with a hose on the back.
August 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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The focus is a bit soft on this one, but I liked the little droplets all over the petals.
A close-up of the lower half of a dahlia staring to bloom. Several layers of orange petals unfurl with many clear droplets on them.
August 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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A few more shots from my sister's garden a few weeks ago. I like the surprise cameos in two of these, and the reflection of the flower in the bumblebee's eye.
A small white mushroom in a field of grass. The photo is taken close to the ground, with the mushroom and a small part of the grass in focus. The morning sun shines from behind, highlighting the mushroom and water droplets on the grass. A cluster of small pink flowers enter the frame from the left side, only some of them in bloom, against a green blurry background. A bee sits on the right, looking towards the camera, his tongue probing one of the flowers. From this angle we see the underside of his body, and the one visible wing is seen directly from the side. A bee climbs from one yellow flower to the next, its front legs reaching out and grabbing the petal. One of his rear legs still holds on to a petal of another flower, next to it a small white crab spider is visible. The spider is very small and likely glad to see the bee move on. A very fuzzy bumblebee sits on top of a small cluster of pink flowers. Only the head of the bumblebee is in focus, and looking close a reflection of a flower is visible in its eye. Another cluster of flowers is very out of focus in the background, with another bumblebee just flying close to it.
August 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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@aderyn.bsky.social I spotted an unexpectedly familiar face today, my niece bought it at the Dutch version of a John Lewis.
A blue dragon plushie from Jellycat, with dark red wings and ears. It's in a paper shopping bag, looking up.
August 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Hey look, it's me when I take out my upper teeth first...

(I decided to sort my 80's and 90's Lego and may slowly be losing my mind)
Me holding up a plastic Lego shark. It's missing the articulating upper jaw, giving it a glorious under bite. In the background are numerous ziplock bags containing Lego, and my sanity.
August 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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BlueA11y updated to version 0.8 today, fixing several placement issues. This browser extension labels images missing alt text, and can hide their repost buttons. Existing alt text is shown below images.

The extension can also warn you about inaccessible text, emoji, and hashtags.

Links in reply!
A post in the timeline with 3 photos of a snoozing cat. Each of the images' descriptions are shown below the images. A photo in the timeline of a very cute cat looking up with big eyes. The image has no description and is labeled with a red "No alt" label in the upper left corner. Composing a post with only periods typed in, which causes 2 warnings to show: You have not entered any text, consider adding some for context. You have used a lot of (repeating) punctuation in this post, less punctuation is often more effective and more screen reader friendly. Composing a post with only emoji typed in, which causes a warning to show: You have only used emoji, this is fine as long as only a few are used.
August 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Felt a little Krabby today...
A pencil drawing of the small crab Pokémon called Krabby, with its claws up and blowing bubbles.
July 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Behold; the pinnacle of Dutch cuisine.
Two bitterballen, breaded balls with soft meat-based filling, and a frikandel, a long minced meat sausage. The balls and sausage are arranged exactly how you would expect on a plastic orange plate.
July 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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engagement bait no cheating post your lock screen
Lock screen with the background colors of a Pokéball, the middle rim is down two-thirds of the screen and slanted, with the fingerprint sensor placed exactly on top of the Pokéball's button. A clock on top has a slim font and a slight off-white color, the daily forecast below it has smaller, bold, white text. A single collapsed notification is visible, from Pokémon Go, 10 hours ago.
July 26, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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I recently got the Aqara FP2 presence sensor, which can detect presence and locations.

So now I can run automations in Home Assistant depending on me being in the room, and where I am in the room.

Using this I can prevent things from unnecessarily turning on, or turn off things to save power.
Above a ventilation vent a round white device is attached, angled slightly down.
July 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Who remembers this gem? Still works, and has the original music, wallpapers, and screensavers on it. In 4:3 and 16:9 ratios of course, for standard and widescreen displays.
A translucent green USB drive. It fits a green translucent plumbob, like those floating above Sims' heads. The drive has a green karabiner clip with TheSims3.com written on it.
July 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Time for hot bug summer! Spotted these 22-spot ladybirds (Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata) having a friendly discussion about the future.

#inverts #bugsky
Two yellow ladybirds face the camera, on on top of the other holding on to its partner. The green leaf they're on is lit from behind, highlighting the structure of the leaf.
July 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Mechanical pencils are not the worst for my tired hands it seems.
A pencil drawing of a crow's head, seen from the left side.
July 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Obligatory cat tax as I'm taking care of the single braincell this week.
My hand reaching into the fur of a curled up orange cat. She's holding her front paws together, with her face buried behind them, and one of her back legs rests on my arm.
July 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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We had a second nest of Great Tits in the garden. Sadly one of the tiny ones didn't make it, probably due to the heat.

I placed it under some shrubbery at the foot of a tree, so nature can do what it must.

In lieu of an image of a dead bird, please enjoy this waiting parent from a few years ago.
A small bird sits on the thatched roof of a lavish birdhouse. It has a yellow body and blueish wings and tail. Its head is black with white cheeks, the black continues in a line down its chest.
July 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM