ElectricCogs ⚡⚙️
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FPGA engineer | Developer of decentralized systems | Reject the Cloud, become fog | he/him
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happy stylish but illegal monkey day to all who celebrate!!!!! by the way his name is darwin and he lives a farm now
December 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
happy stylish but illegal monkey day to all who celebrate!!!!! by the way his name is darwin and he lives a farm now
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Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
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Almost forgot about these which would have been a huge oversight. Baby Tower is an all-timer.
September 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Almost forgot about these which would have been a huge oversight. Baby Tower is an all-timer.
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Even if it's just speculation, we can give each other this collectively decided fantasy party whenever we need it.
And to smudge a quote from history, "We only have to be lucky once, he has to be lucky every heartbeat."
And to smudge a quote from history, "We only have to be lucky once, he has to be lucky every heartbeat."
just the thrill of remembering, viscerally, that it can and will happen, and when it does I will be somewhere, and someone will tell me, or I'll read it, or I'll hear shouting outside. the day draws closer
August 30, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Even if it's just speculation, we can give each other this collectively decided fantasy party whenever we need it.
And to smudge a quote from history, "We only have to be lucky once, he has to be lucky every heartbeat."
And to smudge a quote from history, "We only have to be lucky once, he has to be lucky every heartbeat."
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It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4
August 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4
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The beauty of indie trans lit is its diversity.
There are always books people talk about a lot, for good reason, but there are so many hidden gems.
Just for the heck of it, on the last day of Pride, I want to shout out some of these lesser-known books.
You might even find your next read! 🧵
There are always books people talk about a lot, for good reason, but there are so many hidden gems.
Just for the heck of it, on the last day of Pride, I want to shout out some of these lesser-known books.
You might even find your next read! 🧵
July 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The beauty of indie trans lit is its diversity.
There are always books people talk about a lot, for good reason, but there are so many hidden gems.
Just for the heck of it, on the last day of Pride, I want to shout out some of these lesser-known books.
You might even find your next read! 🧵
There are always books people talk about a lot, for good reason, but there are so many hidden gems.
Just for the heck of it, on the last day of Pride, I want to shout out some of these lesser-known books.
You might even find your next read! 🧵
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That time I rigged the sphinx to see what it'd look like standing up
July 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
That time I rigged the sphinx to see what it'd look like standing up
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did you know that 100 years ago there were *electromechanical* radio transmitters?
these things are so crazy, you just have to read this
these things are so crazy, you just have to read this
July 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
did you know that 100 years ago there were *electromechanical* radio transmitters?
these things are so crazy, you just have to read this
these things are so crazy, you just have to read this
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There's that famous tweet about how a billionaire's life is just a series of their own preferences, and how the cognitive impairment of that must be like getting repeatedly kicked in the head by a horse. ChatGPT is kind of a way of experiencing a little trickle of that, with predictable effects.
June 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
There's that famous tweet about how a billionaire's life is just a series of their own preferences, and how the cognitive impairment of that must be like getting repeatedly kicked in the head by a horse. ChatGPT is kind of a way of experiencing a little trickle of that, with predictable effects.
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Tesselation Kit by @ndisseldorp.bsky.social - sciencevsmagic.net/tes/ - "a tool that lets you draw tessellations by pushing the edges of shapes into each other"
#art #tesselation
#art #tesselation
June 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Tesselation Kit by @ndisseldorp.bsky.social - sciencevsmagic.net/tes/ - "a tool that lets you draw tessellations by pushing the edges of shapes into each other"
#art #tesselation
#art #tesselation
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I hear the Miniature Counterfeiters' Guild is accepting new applicants, if you're looking to make a little coin
February 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I hear the Miniature Counterfeiters' Guild is accepting new applicants, if you're looking to make a little coin
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Omg my childhood. Would kill to go see Nicole Nikolich's crochet in Delaware right now
More pics here:
https://www.laceinthemoon.com/inside.html
More pics here:
https://www.laceinthemoon.com/inside.html
February 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Omg my childhood. Would kill to go see Nicole Nikolich's crochet in Delaware right now
More pics here:
https://www.laceinthemoon.com/inside.html
More pics here:
https://www.laceinthemoon.com/inside.html
I assembled one of those cute book dioramas this week! I really love assembling these laser cut wood kits; it felt great to snap the final assemblies together.
January 30, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I assembled one of those cute book dioramas this week! I really love assembling these laser cut wood kits; it felt great to snap the final assemblies together.
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Fantasy setting where armor is powered by magic and magic is powered by confidence (you can do magic only if you believe you can do magic), so combat clothing is precisely calibrated fashion. Designed to be whatever makes the wearer feel best about themselves
January 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Fantasy setting where armor is powered by magic and magic is powered by confidence (you can do magic only if you believe you can do magic), so combat clothing is precisely calibrated fashion. Designed to be whatever makes the wearer feel best about themselves
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ok but what about five baby foxes playing in the snow, though, did you even consider that
January 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
ok but what about five baby foxes playing in the snow, though, did you even consider that
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If I kept this in drafts until next week, I would just keep adding things until it grew to the size of the earth, so here it is: "Social constructs" and cis feminism's enduring failure to adequately reckon with transmasculinity: jude-doyle.ghost.io/terfs-trans-...
TERFs, Trans Mascs, and Two Steve Feminism
In which A Man has an Opinion about Feminism, with Mixed Results.
jude-doyle.ghost.io
January 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
If I kept this in drafts until next week, I would just keep adding things until it grew to the size of the earth, so here it is: "Social constructs" and cis feminism's enduring failure to adequately reckon with transmasculinity: jude-doyle.ghost.io/terfs-trans-...
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Happy New Ears to those who celebrate. I will be keeping my regular ones, they aren’t worn out yet
January 1, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Happy New Ears to those who celebrate. I will be keeping my regular ones, they aren’t worn out yet
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People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.
F.D.A. Approves Weight-Loss Drug to Treat Sleep Apnea
Zepbound is the first prescription drug approved specifically to treat the common condition.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:41 AM
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
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japanese author: I'm going to make a character who is a duck. he's going to end all his sentences with -kamo :)
english translator: jesus fuck I need to come up with 300 duck puns
english translator: jesus fuck I need to come up with 300 duck puns
December 20, 2024 at 11:02 PM
japanese author: I'm going to make a character who is a duck. he's going to end all his sentences with -kamo :)
english translator: jesus fuck I need to come up with 300 duck puns
english translator: jesus fuck I need to come up with 300 duck puns
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it's still so nuts to me that if you plot stars in an x-y diagram based on brightness and color it makes a pattern of curves identifying different types of stars that follow along the curves as they age
December 20, 2024 at 11:34 PM
it's still so nuts to me that if you plot stars in an x-y diagram based on brightness and color it makes a pattern of curves identifying different types of stars that follow along the curves as they age
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Ea-nāṣir is the recipient of the world’s oldest complaint letter. He’s reportedly the worst businessman of the 18th century, a mediocre conman whose actions should have him put out of business. Is this fair?
Here’s a thread on the most up-to-date research on this captivating figure.
Here’s a thread on the most up-to-date research on this captivating figure.
November 22, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Ea-nāṣir is the recipient of the world’s oldest complaint letter. He’s reportedly the worst businessman of the 18th century, a mediocre conman whose actions should have him put out of business. Is this fair?
Here’s a thread on the most up-to-date research on this captivating figure.
Here’s a thread on the most up-to-date research on this captivating figure.
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Search bluesky for the words deport, food, build and see how the same talking points are being repeated. Yes, even here.
Then ask, who does that help?
Then ask, who does that help?
November 20, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Search bluesky for the words deport, food, build and see how the same talking points are being repeated. Yes, even here.
Then ask, who does that help?
Then ask, who does that help?
I took a look at the atproto spec and the recently published whitepaper today, and had some thoughts about it and how parts of it compare to my own fog-pack data format publish.obsidian.md/rusted-gears...
February 7, 2024 at 8:20 PM
I took a look at the atproto spec and the recently published whitepaper today, and had some thoughts about it and how parts of it compare to my own fog-pack data format publish.obsidian.md/rusted-gears...