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Orangetronic
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orangetronic.bsky.social
well, that was rather good
seven little pocket-sized AM/FM radios are sitting on a window sill. the window is spattered with rain drops. outside the window is a soggy picnic table, a little greenery, and a green-grey choppy sea.
November 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
orangetronic.bsky.social
please!
meme template image macro: Text: Stop Doing AI - data was not supposed to be classified - years of data colonialism yet NO REAL_WORLD USE FOUND for probabalistic models - Wanted to predict something anyways? we had a tool for that: It was called use your brain and think about it - "Yes please give me 350GB VRAM of something. Please give me 140GB of it" - Statements dreamed up by evil wizards LOOK at what Data Scientists have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the data centers & Python we built for them. (This is REAL Machine Learning done by REAL computer scientists): Then three images: An unintelligible equation, a piece of midjourney slop, a weights matrix ranking probabilities against the words "Hello I Love You", each of which appears with an increasing number of red question marks beneath. Followed by the text: "Hello I would likeidefics2-8bapples please" They have played us for absolute fools.
October 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
orangetronic.bsky.social
Disclaimer

Before you read this book you should know that I, the person whose name is on the cover, have not bothered to read this book.
screenshot of some text: Disclaimer This book has been developed with the assistance of advanced technologies and under the meticulous supervision of Aarav Joshi. Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the content, readers are advised to independently verify any information for their specific needs or applications.
October 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
orangetronic.bsky.social
@scott.is cooking
a four quadrant diagram with the two axes labelled “inventing javascript” and “being a fucking homophobe” featuring a photograph of javascript inventor and fucking homophobe Brendan Eich placed in the top right.
October 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
orangetronic.bsky.social
introducing the U.S.S.Melania!
it's "The Homer" from an episode of the simpsons where Homer designs his own car. it is a nonsensical monstrosity, somewhere in the aesthetic territory of "what if hotwheels did the parthanon"
September 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
orangetronic.bsky.social
Castlerigg Stones

on Ilford XP2, 6x9"
a black and white photograph showing a monolith standing in a field, in front of a dramatic landscape beneath roiling clouds a black and white photograph showing a small ring of standing stones, within a larger ring of standing stones. in the background is a mountainside, partially shrouded in thick grey cloud, a streak of sunlight striking it part-way up. a black and white photograph showing the entrance to a stone circle: two monoliths stand about 12 feet apart, framing a vista off into the landscape. in the distance, a valley between two steep hills. the clouds above are dramatic a black and white photograph showing five small monoliths in a field. there are rugged hills in the background which sortof line up with the the monoliths in the foreground. the clouds above are dark and heavy
September 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
orangetronic.bsky.social
this is true, and furthermore also sometimes it’s nice to brag about how you don’t know what something is, even a little bit
a horse, galloping across the Mongolian steppe, resplendent, completely unaware what DHH is
September 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
orangetronic.bsky.social
do you think they sell insurance?
it's a funny little old timey shop on the corner of a victorian building on a curved street. The name "PRICE WALKER" spelled out in gilt lettering above the door.
August 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
orangetronic.bsky.social
lol close enough
screenshot of some wikipedia text: "Stephen I, also known as King Saint Stephen…"
August 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
orangetronic.bsky.social
Drop an old person you're going to turn into
It's Michael Caine's character, Jasper, from "Children of Men". He is seated on a scruffy looking sofa next to a wolfhound, gesticulating, joint in hand, surrounded by interesting-looking clutter, weed plants, archive boxes of photographs and drawings, a chess board, a book on the i-ching. A fire blazes in a wood burner off to one side.
August 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
orangetronic.bsky.social
ragwort on red-scale
it is a redscale image of some ragwort flowers. the focus falls off quickly, the tones are very orange. the image has a dreamy quality.
August 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
orangetronic.bsky.social
“it is the light which illuminates the work”
a wild spray of sunlight falls across a pile of stuffed garbage bags and cardboard boxes and other detritus awaiting refuse collection on a cobbled street. behind them looms an austere photographic portrait of the french artist Pierre Soulages, noted for his interest in the way light reflects and interacts with the colour black.
August 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
orangetronic.bsky.social
meanwhile in sussex
an old-timey bellows camera is mounted to a tripod, pointing at a labubu. various bits of camera apparatus are visible in the table. at the rear of the scene it is terrifyingly apparent that i need to clean my windows. it's a black and white polaroid photograph of an labubu it's another black and white portrait of the labubu.
August 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
orangetronic.bsky.social
Here are a few from earlier in the year
a photograph showing some trees across a river. the sky is a blueish purple colour. the water is very still, showing the reflection of the trees a view across a narrow stretch of river, showing a small boat tied up by the bank, beneath a green willow tree a view along a river. the willow trees are a rich green colour, but the other trees haven't put out their leaves yet. the sky is a rich blue colour with a spray of wispy little clouds.
July 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
orangetronic.bsky.social
user @orangetronic has failed the wish dot com voigt-kampff test
a screenshot from the "facial scanner" used to provide compliance with the recent bullshit UK law requiring age verification on social platforms, saying "We can't be sure that the image was of a real face Please try again and make sure you follow the instructions as they appear on screen"
July 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
orangetronic.bsky.social
I have been made aware of the existence of Bad Orb (by @sarahghp.bsky.social
a google maps screenshot with a yellow circle drawn around the town of "Bad Orb", south of "Bad Soden-Salmünster" and east of "Jossgrund" the wizard is contemplating his bad orb
July 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
orangetronic.bsky.social
proof of life
it is a selfie. i’m sitting in a ray of sunshine with my eyes closed, basking
June 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
orangetronic.bsky.social
Actually yeah!
Everybody check out these turtles I saw.
Two terrapins are basking in the sun, on a log floating in a pond. The water is quite a vibrant green colour in the bright sunlight.
June 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
orangetronic.bsky.social
sunday morning kitchen table bleeps
June 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
orangetronic.bsky.social
constantly impressed by her legendary capacity for lazing, snoozing, and general lollygagging. inspirational.
it is the front half of the tiny dog. she is half-snoozed, with one eye half open and her little paw tucked up by her snoot.
June 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
orangetronic.bsky.social
completely beside the point, but this man's face contains just the most incredible colour palette
A screenshot of colours sampled from RFK's face in the image attached to the article linked in the quoted post above. The colours have names like "My Pink" and "Patina" and "Tall Poppy"
June 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
orangetronic.bsky.social
pretty good up in the hills today!
it is a picture of a sweeping landscape of rolling grassy hills
June 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
orangetronic.bsky.social
I bought a technical field camera from the 1970s off Japanese eBay.

Speed-running my way through increasingly faffy and complicated ways to take this picture of the snoozebeast
it is a picture of the tiny dog resting on her sheepskin rug. the depth of field is extremely shallow
June 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
orangetronic.bsky.social
pictured: maximum possible denim
the rear end of a middle aged dude wearing really only a very small amount of denim
June 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
orangetronic.bsky.social
it's the second half of the "Don't make me tap the sign" meme, with the words "if you don't got good intenschies, stay out of my mentshies" on the sign
May 31, 2025 at 12:27 AM