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I'm a software engineer by trade, an electronics hobbyist and amateur guitarist by night, and a house-rabbit enthusiast and ambassador all the time.

I live in […]

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MOOOOOORE BELT!

#juvenile #agriculturesecretary #secretaryofagriculture #belt #fashion #overkill9000
An excerpt from a photo taken in the USA's White House Oval Office. It shows the current Secretary of Agriculture standing behind a desk where you can see the arm of an orange moron towards the right of frame. The Secretary's clothing includes a decorative belt (and accompanying belt buckle) which appears to be six inches / fifteen centimeters wide.
October 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I can safely say that it's been a while since #digikey sold #resistors in pre-packed bags of 5 with included card labels. As their own brand. Made in Taiwan.

Or called themselves "Digi-Key Corporation".

More seriously, I found a bag of #components left over […]

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A scan of a series of vintage product labels from "Digi-Key Corporation" electronic components. They're calling themselves DigiKey now, but these are from 1997. There are 5 labels comprising 3 different styles. Two are red text on white card, for 5-packs of half-watt carbon-film resistors, one of which is labelled 330 ohms, while the other is 2.2 kiloohms. They also contain the specification "1/2 Watt, 5% Carbon Film Resistors", as well as the company name and the colour-band code for each type spelled out as words ("Orange Orange Brown Gold" and "Red Red Red Gold" respectively). Two are black print on white paper labels. They give similar information, but are in a more modern and boring format, with a barcode and stocking number. These are 470 ohms and 10 kiloohms. The remaining one is from a bag of 200 1-kiloohm resistors of the same type. It has little information on it other than the basic specs.
October 27, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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It occurs to me that bots auto-boosting toots based solely on their tags might come back to bite one in the anus.

#boost #toot #Mastodon #Fediverse #anus #bot #automatic #tag #hashtag
An excerpt from a screenshot showing the Mastodon web UI. It indicates a bot has (presumably automatically) boosted a toot with risque content - specifically one noting that one possible anagram of "stable genius" is "anuses be gilt".
October 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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#bind #vulnerability #CVE #security #weveheardofit #isc #bug #brokenbydesign #dns
A "Dr. Manhattan 1985" meme image. In the first panel, he stands on the moon, and the title text says "It is 1992, and BIND has critical remote vulnerabilities". In the final panel, he is sitting on the moon, and the text reads "It is 2025, and BIND has critical remote vulnerabilities".
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Look what I found behind some of George's toys.

#houserabbit #rabbit #bunny #rabbitsofmastodon #bunniesofmasto #survey #pet
A screen capture of a checkbox-style survey form titled "2025 House Rabbit Survey". An introductory paragraph reads "Thank you for agreeing to participate in the 2025 House Rabbit Survey. Your responses will be kept strictly confidential, and only disclosed in aggregate form to help improve the performance of your servants in their duties. Please check one box for each question." There follows a list of questions, numbered from 1 to 13 inclusive. Each contains a question/phrase to be answered, and three columns of checkboxes to indicate the appropriate answers. From left to right, the columns are titled "Disapprove", "Disapprove Strongly", and "Disapprove Very Strongly". The questions are: Timeliness of servants’ meal service. New things in your space. Current frequency of snacc from servants. Being prevented from going to The Forbidden Place. Being admonished for chewing on things. Being admonished for peeing on things. Being admonished for leaving the Magic Balls outside the litter box. Being picked up. Being taken to the V-E-T. Unexpected loud noises. Unexpected visitors in your space. Being asked to share toys. Being called by the servants.
October 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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One microcosm of the problem, in one screenshot.

#mozilla #leadership #management #incompetence #users #ads #advertisements #userslast #annoyance #e14n
A small screenshot showing a toot from the "Jobs for Developers" account. It says "Mozilla is hiring Senior Software Engineer, Ads".
October 14, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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A thoroughly snow-covered landscape seen from a suburban back yard in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada on 12 October 2025. A fence runs across the view, with snow piled on top of the horizontal members. Evergreen trees pop up in front of and behind the fence, their branches laden with visible amounts of snow. Between the evergreens, some deciduous trees can be seen in the deep background, with some of their leaves remaining.
October 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Huh.
Partial screenshot from the "Notifications" part of the Mastodon web UI. It shows a post calling Luke Willson an "annoying dickhead" being boosted by an account named "NFL".
October 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Trying to squeak this one in under the wire [1] for International Rabbit Day.

This is the upgraded nebulization chamber after he decided to play tug-of-war with the air hose. A cheap collander of thick wires he can't break to protect the hose, a hole big […]

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A view through a translucent storage bin to the contraption fitted to its lid, providing a way to get air from the nebulizer into the chamber without George being able to chew on the air hose. George, a large greyish-brown house rabbit with one erect ear and one lop ear, is resting fitfully on a towel inside a translucent plastic storage bin. It is being used as a nebulization chamber. George is Not Impressed.
September 28, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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George, back at home 2 weeks today after his adventure at the University of Saskatchewan Western College of Veterinary Medicine Veterinary Medical Centre Small Animal Clinic - its full name 😉 - or just the VCM or USask Small Animal Clinic for short.

He's kinda […]

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George, a very large greyish-brown house rabbit, sit upright in the middle of a blue-and-cream patterned run. Before him you can see his food bowl - a large ceramic dog bowl, silver on the outside and white on the inside - and a terracotta-coloured ceramic water bowl. He sits facing frame-left, with his head turned towards the camera slightly. His left ear is erect and pointed directly at the photographer, while his right ear is a lop, and hangs over the right side of his face. He is looking at the photographer warily, because he has been getting grabbed and fed horrible-tasting medicine twice a day for the last two weeks. George, a very large greyish-brown house rabbit, is hopping away from the camera. He is caught with his butt in the air, rear feet just pushing off from the carpet. His one erect ear can be seen sticking up over his back, while his head remains hidden behind his chunky body.
September 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Safety third.

#Safety #safetythird #laser #warning #sign
A workplace-safety sign with a large WARNING label at the top. Below that is a stylized image of the business end of a laser, with 3 radial lines of different lengths coming out from the center in different directions. The text surrounding this image reads "Do not look into laser with remaining eye."
September 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I had a crash that took down Firefox, so when I restarted it it was the newest version (an update I'd installed, but hadn't restarted after).

I just went looking through the settings pages, which is a habit I've unfortunately had to get into because #firefox […]

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A small piece of a screenshot of the Firefox browser's "Settings" controls. Newly added are an item "Support Firefox", with two sub-items: "Sponsored shortcuts" and "Sponsored stories". Both are checked by default.
September 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Harsh.

#harsh #sign #roadsign #funnysign #POS #insult #uofs #universityofsaskatchewan #saskatoon #sk #usask #yxe #University #campus
A navigation sign on a University of Saskatchewan campus road. It contains indicator arrows and names. The top one says "V.I.D.O. Court" with an arrow pointing right. The bottom one says "POS Pilot Plant" with a curved arrow pointing ahead, then right. The structure of the sign is poured concrete, with exposed aggregate, atop a narrow concrete pillar. It appears to be poured in one piece.
September 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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From my recent unexpected trip.

If a superfluous label for an unnecessary switch is ignored, does a tree fall in the forest and hit a mime?

#superfluous #unnecessary #design #baddesign #philosophy #mime #deepthoughts #Label #switch #camera #ignore […]

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A closeup of a painted concrete block wall in an examination room at a veterinary clinic. On the wall are shown portions of a paper towel dispenser and some informational signs. In the middle of the photo is a surface-mounted electrical outlet box. It has a horizontal on-off switch in the top position, and an indicator light in the bottom position. The switch is off, and the indicator is dark. A printed label on the wall directly above the switch box reads "Do NOT turn camera off".
September 8, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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I had an "interesting" encounter with a road-raging #asshole yesterday. He didn't straight-up try to #murder me, but it was #disturbing. There was a lot more to it than I will show here, because I want to keep this short, I only included the latter part.

He's […]

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August 29, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Not sure if this is just the business-as-usual uselessness of the Saskatchewan provincial government's website, or the special uselessness because of Scott Moe's trump-lite-ian downplaying of COVID and the value of vaccination.

In any case, they make it […]

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A screenshot of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan's main website page about getting your COVID vaccination. The entire text is one sentence: "Information about the fall dose of the COVID-19 vaccine will be available this fall." There is no date on the page to let you know if this is even for this year.
August 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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#jackrabbit in my front yard today. This isn't the young one I saw yesterday; this is one of the adults that lives in the area.

Unlike true #rabbits, #hares (jackrabbits are hares, not rabbits... complain to someone) don't dig burrows. Instead, they just kind […]

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A wild jackrabbit (a kind of hare, not rabbit) lies in a shallow depression in a suburban lawn. With its ears laid flat against its body and its legs pulled in underneath itself,, the only thing that gives away the fact that it isn't the rock it looks like is it's eyes. One eye can be seen here on the near side of its face, keeping a careful eye on the photographer. Here, the jackrabbit is running off away from the photographer, after being spooked by the shutter noise of the first picture taken. He or she is captured mid-stride and has both ears erect, the front paws halfway through a stride, and the back feet coming down for another hop / push-off. The jackrabbit caught in mid-hop here. All four feet are well off the ground and pointing basically straight down, making it appear as if it is hovering or flying. "I must return to my home planet; my people need me."
August 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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George, in a box-burrow in my office some years ago. This was he got too lazy, and liked to keep an eye on me while I worked.

Oddly, he appears to be at 8:05 rather than his usual 7:05. Back in the day, he must have observed George Daylight Time, but these […]

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George, a very large greyish-brown house rabbit, lies sticking out of a cardboard box under a desk, on the carpet. His back half remains in the box, while his head, front feet, and part of his upper body are out in the light. He has one lop ear to camera-left pointing at 8-o-clock, and one erect ear to camera-right pointing to 1-o-clock, giving a time of 8:05. He is looking directly into the camera, which is at floor level. His front feet are crossed, sticking out in front of him.
August 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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George seems to like relaxing by the "fire". I know it's a coincidence, but it sure seems like a deliberate choice sometimes.

#George #rabbit #rabbitsofmastodon #houserabbit #relax #fire #fireplace
George, a very large greyish-brown house rabbit with one erect ear, one lop ear, a big fuzzy tail that's white underneath, and a large belly, lies flat on a rug in the living room. His belly is flat to the floor (mostly) with his head held erect and off the carpet, but his back legs are fully stretched out to one side and behind him. He lays amongst the furniture, his food bowl, some salad scattered around him, and a white box with large holes cut in opposite ends to serve as a hidey-burrow. He is facing, and appears to be watching, the "summer firepit" channel on the flat screen TV beyond him.
August 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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@Satori

I'm not surprised; Skye has always seemed immaculately coiffed.

Speaking of grooming, this is in my city...
A screenshot of the front page of a website for a hair salon called "Satori Hair Studio". There is a logo and the name at the top of the page, with a navigation / menu bar underneath it, and then the remainder of the image is taken up by a promotional image featuring a woman with long red hair, and a heading that says "Elevate Your Style at Satori Hair Studio".
August 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Big Boi bunny flop from George.

(rare underneath view)

#houserabbit #rabbitsofmastodon #bigboi #flop #floomp #tummy #bunny
A photograph of George, a very large greyish-brown house rabbit with one erect ear and one lop ear, has flopped on his side under the coffee table, with his tummy and all four paws towards the camera. His head is flat on the floor, so you can only see the little "Y" marking where his nose and his lips meet. His tummy is a blend of cream and brown fur, distinctly different from his overall dark colouring. His rather large dewlap obscures the rest of his face, and his sizable belly dominates the center of the image.
August 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Ook Canada is van plan.

Couldn't have said it better myself. And I played bass for Voorwaarden in college.

#iplayedbass #OOK #canada #van #vanplan #dutch
Screenshot of the Mastodon user interface showing a post from a news outlet in Netherlands (in Dutch). The headline reads "Ook Canada is van plan Palestijnse staat te erkennen, wel voorwaarden", and is apparently about Canada's upcoming recognition of a Palestinian state.
July 31, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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@keith

Fantastic. Is she trying out for a job?

#listen #ears
A black and white photograph of a pair of World War II lookouts with ear-trumpet type listening aids, listening for the sound of approaching bombers in pre-radar aircraft detection. They have helmets with two high-mounted large trumpet-type tubes that lead through a narrowing tube to the ear. They are a woman and man, and she stands to his left, with her right arm linked through his left. A black and white photograph of a pre-radar aircraft detection listening station. There are two huge conical tubes mounted to a pole in the ground, with their large open ends pointing up into the sky at about a 30 degree angle. At the narrow end of the cones, slim tubes lead to the listener, who wears headgear with the tubes mounted to his ears.
July 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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So, two years ago I bought a new vehicle to replace a 15-year-old one that had been written off after a collision. It's my first brand-new #vehicle I've ever owned. And being from the 2020s, it has a lot more #Tech in it than any previous vehicle I've owned.

A […]

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July 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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I'm looking for #opinions from #electronics #hobbyists or professionals.

When I'm using a #solderless #breadboard to prototype circuits, resistors can be frustrating. If you just keep re-using the same well-worn ones that look like a pretzel, you have to leave […]

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A group of wires laying on a white piece of paper. Each is made with a different colour of wire, and has a resistor inline at the midpoint of the wire, with reinforcement on each side of the resistor and at each end where it joins a pin. They are for use with solderless breadboards while developing circuit designs. A photograph of a solderless breadboard containing an electronics project, shot from above. There are various ICs and other components on the board, along with wire jumpers. Some of the jumpers are the ones with inline resistors shown in the previous picture.
July 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM