Slick Riptide
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Slick Riptide
@slickriptide.bsky.social
Coder. Business owner. Curmudgeon. General cynic. Absolutely not the sort of cynicism that hides a bleeding heart.
December 21, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Achievement Unlocked! #pokemonpocket
December 18, 2024 at 2:51 PM
This is a road called Tongtian Avenue in China. It randomly popped up as my desktop wallpaper today. I get real Death Stranding feels out of this, heh.
December 13, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Using just an image, where are you from?
December 13, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Time for a book recommendation:

If I was actively participating in one of these "20 books" challenges, this would be in the top ten. I'm not sure I can do this book justice, honestly. Kurt Vonnegut wrote a forward to later editions. Trust him if you don't trust me, or just Google for "Dorkey Day".
December 12, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Looking back to when I tore a muscle in my shoulder/arm and spent a frikken year getting over, I can say, "I feel you, Sister."

I wish that was likely to help you, LOL.
December 12, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Do you like webcomics? Steampunk? Alternate Victorian age histories? Mad scientists? Sexy scientists? Sexy mad scientists?

Check out the adventures of Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius.

Rated PG-13ish.

www.girlgeniusonline.com/newreaders.php

@girlgenius.bsky.social @thephilfoglio.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Achievement Unlocked!
December 10, 2024 at 6:24 AM
Afternoon delight.
December 9, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Never mind Rand when this is what he's posting to his Facebook...
December 9, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Achievement Unlocked!
December 8, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Talking about books - Project Hail Mary is a sci-fi novel by Andy Weir, author of The Martian. A man wakes up from a coma with amnesia and learns he is on mission to save Earth. Then an ET arrives. What now?

I've read it at least eight times. A film is in the works. Give it a shot.
December 8, 2024 at 12:09 AM
I'm betting you have a Kindle app.

Buy this.
Pour your nearest alcoholic beverage.
Read.
Drink.
Figure out what actor would best embody The Captain.
The End.
December 7, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Hey Girl...
December 7, 2024 at 9:14 PM
FYI - Epic Games Store has Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga listed as one of its free games, available for zero dollars until December 12, 2024. Run, don't walk! Or ride a speeder. Or a tonton, or whatever.

store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/lego...
December 7, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Speaking of pasties -- if you haven't seen Flesh Gordon, you really should. There are cuts available with most of the porn edited out, which turns it into a surprisingly amusing R/PG-13 parody movie along the lines of Hardware Wars. 67% Rotten Tomatos may not sound like much but, you know, porn film
December 6, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Rolled a critical success today. Yay, for random chance!
December 5, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Feeling under the weather today. Fortunately, there is coffee. Yeah, the Bambino Plus ran me $300. Worth it, especially today. I do still have my Keurig 2.0. Even pushbutton espresso is still coffee you work for. Sometimes I just want Coffee Now. Pro tip - steamed milk won't cool your oatmeal.
December 5, 2024 at 10:02 PM
No, THIS is science gone too far.
December 5, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Yeah, that's not the original version of that picture. Someone photoshopped it. Orig: thebiblerevival.com/clipart/pete...

Run through Google Lens, I get 54, and only two have the cross. Someone had to cherry pick this to try and make it into a meme.
December 3, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Achiement unlocked! Sorry, I don't have anybody else on my feed who might conceivably appreciate it, heh. I promise I'm not going to start treating you like a Pocket Buddy LoL
December 3, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Generally speaking, Archive.org is about looking for specific URI's rather than topics. For instance, typing "epa.gov/snap" into the Wayback Machine, gets this:
November 29, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Today's Book Recommendation - Tales From the Radiation Age, written by Jason Sheehan

On one hand, it's absurdist adventure. OTOH, it's commentary on the fallout of everyone free to be as wonderful or terrible as they desire. Imagine TV show 'Fringe' after they failed to save the world.
November 26, 2024 at 6:48 PM
November 23, 2024 at 8:37 PM