Dave Shevett
@planet-geek.com
I geek, therefore I am. And don't call me Shirley.
"No one User wrote me! I'm worth millions of their man-years!"
https://daveshevett.com/
https://bsky.app/profile/vintageapparatus.com
"No one User wrote me! I'm worth millions of their man-years!"
https://daveshevett.com/
https://bsky.app/profile/vintageapparatus.com
Status of Liberty has this engraved on it's pedastal
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...
Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in the U.S., urges them to go back to their homeland and fix it
President Trump says he doesn't want Somali immigrants in the U.S., saying residents of the war-ravaged eastern African country are too reliant on U.S. social safety net and add little to the U.S.
www.npr.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Status of Liberty has this engraved on it's pedastal
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...
Welp, I've unsubbed to Forrest Auto Reviews on YT. I respect people's personal beliefs, but ascribing your own personal success to god's influence, then telling everyone to do the same? Cmon.
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Welp, I've unsubbed to Forrest Auto Reviews on YT. I respect people's personal beliefs, but ascribing your own personal success to god's influence, then telling everyone to do the same? Cmon.
Why Apple? Why do you keep coming up with special snowflake UX decisions that are just... what?
Pasting into Notes. The world uses command-v to paste. shift-command-v to paste without formatting.
Apple? Nah bro, just ask a friend for some more fingers.
Pasting into Notes. The world uses command-v to paste. shift-command-v to paste without formatting.
Apple? Nah bro, just ask a friend for some more fingers.
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Why Apple? Why do you keep coming up with special snowflake UX decisions that are just... what?
Pasting into Notes. The world uses command-v to paste. shift-command-v to paste without formatting.
Apple? Nah bro, just ask a friend for some more fingers.
Pasting into Notes. The world uses command-v to paste. shift-command-v to paste without formatting.
Apple? Nah bro, just ask a friend for some more fingers.
This is a fascinating breakdown of the dynamics across social media - it mirrors what I feel in my gut is happening (social media has hard-wrenched right), and is dominated by foaming-at-the-mouth individuals, rather than thoughtful inclusionary discourse. (mores the pity).
#politics #uspol #data
#politics #uspol #data
Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
So I did a video. This is a big step for me, and was a helluva lot of work. If you like 80s movies and old tech, this one is for you.
Vintage Computing Nerd looks at WAR GAMES
youtu.be/p-B1clodRJ4
This video was like 3.5 months in the making and is easily one of my more ambitious. Fighting the rights engine in YT wasn’t helping either. But finally it’s cleared to share. Enjoy!
youtu.be/p-B1clodRJ4
This video was like 3.5 months in the making and is easily one of my more ambitious. Fighting the rights engine in YT wasn’t helping either. But finally it’s cleared to share. Enjoy!
Vintage Computing Nerd looks at WAR GAMES
YouTube video by Vintage Apparatus
youtu.be
October 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
So I did a video. This is a big step for me, and was a helluva lot of work. If you like 80s movies and old tech, this one is for you.
Can take most of the GOP and TFG and strap them into chairs and make them watch this on loop for a few hours? Because they really don't understand what Government is. This is a helluva reminder.
youtube.com/shorts/NzAUb...
youtube.com/shorts/NzAUb...
Why Joe Pesci Is One of the Greatest Actors of All Time (And You Didn’t Even Notice
YouTube video by Dan Matteucci
youtube.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Can take most of the GOP and TFG and strap them into chairs and make them watch this on loop for a few hours? Because they really don't understand what Government is. This is a helluva reminder.
youtube.com/shorts/NzAUb...
youtube.com/shorts/NzAUb...
Reposted by Dave Shevett
Hey ya'll! Just stopped by ComputerLand and picked up this SWEET new game, gonna definitely pick up a 2liter of Jolt Cola and a big bag of Doritos and just go ALL IN on this... seeya'll on Monday!
September 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Hey ya'll! Just stopped by ComputerLand and picked up this SWEET new game, gonna definitely pick up a 2liter of Jolt Cola and a big bag of Doritos and just go ALL IN on this... seeya'll on Monday!
Welp. See ya on the other side, Ray…
September 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Welp. See ya on the other side, Ray…
I think I'm going to come up with a plugin for Chrome that automatically downvotes and hides a channel if a video or short I'm watching has the "NEW MESSAGE DING" sound in it.
Gets me every goddamned time.
Gets me every goddamned time.
September 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I think I'm going to come up with a plugin for Chrome that automatically downvotes and hides a channel if a video or short I'm watching has the "NEW MESSAGE DING" sound in it.
Gets me every goddamned time.
Gets me every goddamned time.
"“Who has not felt the urge to throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence?”" - John Muir
Boy ain't that the truth.
Boy ain't that the truth.
August 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
"“Who has not felt the urge to throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence?”" - John Muir
Boy ain't that the truth.
Boy ain't that the truth.
Reposted by Dave Shevett
Peter Falk and Leslie Neilson were a year apart in age. Which means that, canonically, Columbo and Frank Drebin were at the Los Angeles Police Academy at the same time. They probably both committed massive civil rights violations at the direction of Chief Parker in the late 40s and early 1950s.
July 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Peter Falk and Leslie Neilson were a year apart in age. Which means that, canonically, Columbo and Frank Drebin were at the Los Angeles Police Academy at the same time. They probably both committed massive civil rights violations at the direction of Chief Parker in the late 40s and early 1950s.
Ireland's Response to the Trump Tariffs #shorts
YouTube video by Foil Arms and Hog
youtube.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I mean, really, he's just given another anchor for being President TACO.
"Trump Always Cheats, Okay?"
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
"Trump Always Cheats, Okay?"
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Viral video showing Trump in Scotland leads to golf cheating accusations
President Donald Trump has been accused of cheating at golf after a video went viral. The President has been in Scotland this weekend at Turnberry.
www.usatoday.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I mean, really, he's just given another anchor for being President TACO.
"Trump Always Cheats, Okay?"
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
"Trump Always Cheats, Okay?"
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Phrases I never want to overhear - just a piece of a conversaion in the local coffee shop here in Portsmouth...
"... coerced organ donation ..."
"... coerced organ donation ..."
July 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Phrases I never want to overhear - just a piece of a conversaion in the local coffee shop here in Portsmouth...
"... coerced organ donation ..."
"... coerced organ donation ..."
Dear Apple. You really need to stop doing this . "Download this app to access your mortgage information" "okee, search -> THE ACTUAL APP NAME"
And the first hit is a crypto app. Nothing to do with what I'm asking for.
How is this good for your user base?
#apple #crypto #badCompany #jfc
And the first hit is a crypto app. Nothing to do with what I'm asking for.
How is this good for your user base?
#apple #crypto #badCompany #jfc
July 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Dear Apple. You really need to stop doing this . "Download this app to access your mortgage information" "okee, search -> THE ACTUAL APP NAME"
And the first hit is a crypto app. Nothing to do with what I'm asking for.
How is this good for your user base?
#apple #crypto #badCompany #jfc
And the first hit is a crypto app. Nothing to do with what I'm asking for.
How is this good for your user base?
#apple #crypto #badCompany #jfc
I completely misread this as "PICASSOS VULVA" and, welp, I may have my next band name.
(Also, ya'll should listen to Radio Paradise. One of the few real live independent music streams left in the world)
(Also, ya'll should listen to Radio Paradise. One of the few real live independent music streams left in the world)
July 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I completely misread this as "PICASSOS VULVA" and, welp, I may have my next band name.
(Also, ya'll should listen to Radio Paradise. One of the few real live independent music streams left in the world)
(Also, ya'll should listen to Radio Paradise. One of the few real live independent music streams left in the world)
Absolute surprise on the way across Oregon. Found the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum. "Sure, lets stop in."
Wait. Is that. Can't be. THATS THE SPRUCE GOOSE - not a copy, not a model, the ACTUAL AIRPLANE.
I'm absolutely blown away.
Wait. Is that. Can't be. THATS THE SPRUCE GOOSE - not a copy, not a model, the ACTUAL AIRPLANE.
I'm absolutely blown away.
July 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Absolute surprise on the way across Oregon. Found the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum. "Sure, lets stop in."
Wait. Is that. Can't be. THATS THE SPRUCE GOOSE - not a copy, not a model, the ACTUAL AIRPLANE.
I'm absolutely blown away.
Wait. Is that. Can't be. THATS THE SPRUCE GOOSE - not a copy, not a model, the ACTUAL AIRPLANE.
I'm absolutely blown away.
Reposted by Dave Shevett
#girlgenius Hated to do it, but we started a GoFundMe. These are chaotic times, and no mistake, and all of a sudden we realized they were chaosing all over us. (www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-f...) Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Donate to Help the Foglios Through Unexpected Challenges, organized by Phil Foglio
We are Kaja & Phil Foglio, creators of the Girl Genius webcomic and owners … Phil Foglio needs your support for Help the Foglios Through Unexpected Challenges
www.gofundme.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
#girlgenius Hated to do it, but we started a GoFundMe. These are chaotic times, and no mistake, and all of a sudden we realized they were chaosing all over us. (www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-f...) Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cmon @wegmansofficial.bsky.social We like you too much for you to do this silliness.
Wegmans pricing shenanigans.
YouTube video by DadsterTech
youtube.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Cmon @wegmansofficial.bsky.social We like you too much for you to do this silliness.