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tom jennings
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I make things.

Bite the hand that feeds you shit.

Not real keen on chauvinists, tech or otherwise.

West Coast, Norte Americano.

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Duh ribber
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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I've been spamming on this CP/M MP/M computer for 10, 11 months, partly obsessive escapism from daily reality blah blah, you know, in the usual way.

Well software and hardware is never "done" done, but it's at a major good point and today, I got the books […]

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The fZ80 operators manual!
November 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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[Egg with blood in it]

Awww man, I just last night watched THE TOXIC AVENGER (2025) and there was a bloody egg in a pan and now it appeared here. Damn chickens.
Two eggs frying in a pan, one has a big bloody chunk.
November 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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I made three purple ones too, and I have a nice orange.
Purple chassis top on the table near a red one. And some completed machines without covers.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Got chassis from send cut send, sanded them (sharp edges, and 500 grit paper for the clear coat front panel). Hand soldering the teensy sockets and a few connectors, and the LEDs that get set to a particular height.

Manuals arrive from the printer tomorrow […]

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Assembled unit in burn in testing. Rear view, board LEDs lighting the insides. Nice rubber feet. Five units waiting for assembly.
November 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Same outfit, now napping on fuzzy animal print pillows on a red sofa.
November 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Devo, smug and smart in his pink tshirt, Mexican poncho jacket. He went into the closet to get the jacket this morning. I doubt there's any correlation with the wet chilly weather, but who knows.
November 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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"I always wanted to do a sequel where Dorothy comes back and umm she keeps talking about Oz and they put her in mental institution and give her shock treatment"
November 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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I've had this lovely cup for 20 years, maybe more. Given to me by a friend, a thrift store find. Someone bonked it bad, the steel was caved in and I used it for pencils etc.

Now I'm thinking I might try to rejuvenate it.

I carefully reshaped it (old ball […]

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Astro Boy enamelled mug, side view. It's old. Inside damage from being slammed or dropped. Stamp on bottom. Serious bonk on the bottom of the cup
November 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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@liaizon

A corporate informant won't let me watch it.
"this content can't be played on your mobile browser. Get the YouTube app to start watching.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Google maps, when public transportation is on, makes the trans lines nice bright colors with a "one pixel" white border. They really stand out! Everything else is dull.

Google fucks up one critical thing: station icons disappear entirely zoomed out.

See […]

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Gmap NOT showing stations cuz zoomed out faintly more. Gmap showing stations.
August 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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2/2

Back in 1996 when I had just sold TLG I had a lot of time, and money to indulge foolish things. So I built a multi channel analyzer, got a bunch of surplus pulse shaping gear (in NIM format), a big sodium iodide/thallium detector, and some pricey peak- […]

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Cover of book RADIATION DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT by Glenn Knoll.
August 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Ooh on the wall behind, though water damaged a bit, a prized possession: a wall chart showing the chemical changes in a cross section of a uranium metal reactor fuel rod, over time and use. From Los Alamos, via Ed Grothus' Black Hole surplus.
Bad photo of a framed poster, a General Electric handout from the 50s or 60s.
August 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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These fools oblivious.
A "stock tank" on a patio filled with water, plants and goldfish.
August 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Why?!!
A three -sided ruler marked in various fractions such as twelfths ninths and elevenths. Arbitrary units, not any particular unit of measure. Used in Los Angeles schools some time in the past. A three -sided ruler marked in various fractions such as twelfths ninths and elevenths. Arbitrary units, not any particular unit of measure. Used in Los Angeles schools some time in the past.
August 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Oh for fucks sake is this true?
| just got off the phone with my rep at DHL - they had an emergency conference call because USPS just told them that, starting next week, shipping to the US through DHL and other carriers will be fully suspended. The reason is an executive order issued by the US president ending the de minimis rule, which exempts shipments under $800 value from customs/duties, meaning all such shipments (roughly 1.36 billion packages last year apparently) will have to be processed by US customs. The infrastructure for processing that amount of packages does not exist yet (this change had originally been planned for 2027) - so they're fully suspending inbound shipments. Currently, | have no information on: - when shipping to the US will be possible again - how, provided it restarts, customs/duties will be handled - how shipping costs will be affected.
August 17, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Me on the left at some Radical Faerie event, probably 1990 or so.

At the Wolf Creek Oregon land, the old barn behind us. We shat in latrines, dropped lime (calcium compound) on the turds, washed our hands in bleach dip. You could easily tell who did not […]

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Me on the left at some Radical Faerie event, probably 1990 or so. I forget who my compatriot is, even though we're some doing serious shit here.
August 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Me and Dave Dictor of MDC, some 80s San Francisco lez gay etc parade.
Me (left) in mohawk and Gilman Street Project tshirt, and Dave Dictor, on some fancy drag, a corporate sponsor (hated, hated) thing to the left. Bright hot sunny summer day in late 1980s.
August 17, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Sad but very clever appeal for fundraising for a dog with cancer.
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August 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Bought some replacement brain cells. Do not want to run out.
Bienfang 10x10 gridded paper pads, Mars erasers and refills, tubes of 2H leads for the . 5mm Alvin DRAF/TEC pencils.
August 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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An official-looking white and red Los Angeles municipal aluminum sign saying NO TALKING NO TOUCHING and some crazy graphics. On a pole on Hyperion in Los Angeles.
August 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Its like they are models for Dog Hallmark.
Devo and disco napping after kissy face.
July 8, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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... At least up to the point where the energy does down a bit and lots of folks started leaving.

Apparently all the highway cop car scooter stuff happened later than the main body event.

As we were leaving, the folks clad in this sort of drag we're […]

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Man covered head to toe, every inch, in black spandex, with rubber gloves. In the crowd at the protest v
June 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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[re: stupid corporation behavior (boring)]

I think Mint is having a bad day.

Any attempt to login (clicking the login pulldown) gets an OOPS not spozedta page.

BUt I got a text saying they had renewed my service for 6 months. Umm, no. A 3rd phone call got […]

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May 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM