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C librarian, purveyor of the language's eldritch horrors. Poppin' shells 🦪

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#catmas
Beige & white chonker hugging a thin heart shaped wrapped present. Beige & white chonker hugging a thin heart shaped wrapped present.
December 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Got a new clip-on lens set that came with a better macro lens than I had before, and took this pic of a printed worm wheel gear that's been in operation for the past ~6 months. #3dprinting
A macro-lens photo of a directionally lit purple-colored plastic gear sitting on and parallel to a turquoise-colored surface. Centered on top of the gear is a metal thrust bearing with a metal shaft through the center, and another metal part is partly visible below the gear. The teeth of the gear are slightly concave.
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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I'll be putting more like this on Loops once it's ready, but for now I'll just put a clip or two here on Mastodon showing the M45 in operation.

#3dprinting
October 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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The newer "Prime" version of the ST uses a telescoping shaft instead of a lifting one.
A drive shaft with U-joints at both ends and a coupling with bearings between outer and inner telescoping parts. Shaft on a scale reading 48.6 grams.
October 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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I mentioned recently a project I've had in the works for some time that I'd like to share. The published files aren't quite as polished or easy to pick up as I'd like them to end up, but this is a process and I'm happy to have others in on it for everything that […]

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A photo of a delta kinematics 3D printer built of black 2040 aluminum extrusions and printed parts in a deep purple, with a turquoise colored bed surface brightly lit. The head is held by three pairs of narrow black arms and has hoses and a large black shaft running up from it vertically to a motor on a platform held above the main frame on dark rods.
October 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Just saw this on a car and I need it.
Image in the format of the Gadsden flag, but with a silhouette of the cat from the last frame of the Chonk Chart treading upon and crushing a snake under its immense chonkiness, with the caption "OH LAWD HE TREADING".
August 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Wow, LI batteries lose a lot of mass when they die. 🤔
Photo of laptop battery with label text in multiple scripts/languages on scale reading 223.3 grams. Photo of laptop battery with primarily Chinese label text on scale reading 148.5 grams.
June 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Late for #caturday #ratemyloaf
A white and beige cat loafed on a floral pattern rug in muted colors and dim light, brighter light on cat. Head tilted looking up at camera at human level height.
May 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Graffiti below a bridge: "Free Luigi"
May 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Batteries packed. 🤞
Four blue 32700 batteries held between plastic frames in line, with terminals all wrapped in electrical tape. Two 18 gauge black and yellow wires sticking up between leftmost & rightmost pairs respectively on the near side. Three 22 gauge yellow wires sticking up between each pair on far side.
March 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Seriously, Walmart? 🤦

Feels like this is a manifestation of something wrong in this country...
Walmart parking lot photo with a parking space reserved for disabled folks repurposed as a cart return.
February 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Ok, THIS is how you do UX for an e2ee messaging app when you want to make it clear who you are and aren't doing it for. 🔥

Props to @VeilidNetwork team.
Screenshot of "create a new account" form with "Pronouns" as the second field right after "Name".
February 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Fuck you Google. 🖕
Google search screenshot searching for "musl ai policy" where Google asks: "Did you mean: musk ai policy"
February 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Someone do a remake of this as "When you ride a Tesla you ride with Hitler".
WW2 era poster "When you ride ALONE you ride with Hitler"
February 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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@GossiTheDog
Electron microscopy image of a tardigrade playing an appropriately sized violin.
January 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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More of the majestic one. #caturday
Golden cat sleeping in alcove with paws outstretched straight in front, extending off edge, with head resting on them. Halfway in sun, halfway in shade, high contrast. Camera view from front of cat, slightly to side. Side view, same scene as first picture.
January 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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More of our majestic golden chonker friend. #caturday
Photo looking up at a golden cat on the edge of a rooftop, butt slightly off the edge, looking over shoulder back down at the camera. Deep blue sky with some white clouds in background. Metal bar fencing coming out perpendicular to wall in foreground.
January 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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🎉
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January 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Wow. Facebook is not just announcing that they're walking back moderation of hate speech, but gleefully giving explicit examples of particular forms of hate speech they now allow. 😲 🤬
Screenshot of Facebook policy announcement text: We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non- serious usage of words like “weird.” We do allow content arguing for gender- based limitations of military, law enforcement, and teaching jobs. We also allow the same content based on sexual orientation, when the content is based on religious beliefs.
January 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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#caturday
A golden loaf basking in the sun, on concrete, in shadow of patterned metal railings.
January 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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FAFO.
Screenshot: MoveOn Please tell us why you are leaving. (optional) Your spokesperson Robert Reich wrote a MAGA wankpiece attacking immigrants. This is not the MoveOn | supported. You can't fall into those asshats' attempts to divide us. I'll be supporting orgs smart enough to get this instead. UNSUBSCRIBE
December 31, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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And he followed up with trying to use neurodivergence as an excuse for being am awful person who supports abusers. Receipts here:
& Rich Felker > in reply to Alexandre Oliva @Ixo Read the fucking room. In conversation 25 minutes ago [permalink] B Alexandre Oliva » in reply to there are no actual complaints, they're all fabrications repeated a thousand times over decades. that you believe and repeat the lies doesn't make them true, or him an asshole, pest, harasser or worse. but what does it make you, as you aggravate injustice while thinking you're doing justice? In conversation 19 minutes ago [permalink] ¥ Yuchen Pei likes this. B Alexandre Oliva > in reply to FTR, that's very discriminatory to neurodivergents like me | can't graps certain unstated cues, that's beyond my superpowers that you misread my intent, as you misread his, assigning ill intent to us, while complaining that | (and he) fail to read "the room", shows who's intolerant and who's fighting for inclusion and justice In conversation 13 minutes ago [permalink]
December 26, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for...
Doh, alt text ruins these things doesn't it? Ok, this is an edited screenshot of phantom train scene from ff6 with a purple robed character sprite from a different ff on the roof of the rear car...
December 24, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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Fuck you Google
Screenshot of Google replacing a search for glibc git with glibc github.
December 21, 2024 at 3:20 AM
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Slightly late #caturday
A majestic golden chonker lying in the sun on a ledge by a roof.
December 8, 2024 at 6:05 AM