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Matthew McLeod
@vai.noetic.work
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Recovering misanthrope, practicing anthropomorph, neurodeviant

( •̀ .̫ •́ )✧ tech / oss / personal / bad jokes / repetition
https://github.com/vai
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Trying to work outside
A cat sits rather completely covering a grid notebook, on an outside garden table, her foreshortened posterior most prominent.
November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Vintage IBM magazine ad for OS/2 2.0, showing a colorful multitasking developer environment (IBM WorkFrame/2) with many overlapping windows for working with code. The headline reads: “To a software developer, this is what heaven looks like.” The UI is very colorful in 90s terms, with many shades of cyan, magenta, yellow, and gray.
October 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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hadn't seen this in atuin before. Mondays seem busy (and TIL 137 -> OOM)
A screenshot of a terminal / CLI. It's a TUI, showing a detailed history of a command entry in atuin (rebuilding my nixos), a terminal history manager. It includes histograms, return code distributions, timing info.
August 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Things you don't want to see at your teller machine
A cash teller machine, but the screen is just displaying an Internet Explorer era error message.
June 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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It's (unknowingly) referring to the trope about there being an 'I' in Team's a-hole.
The word "TEAM" written in large, with the negative spaces in the upper-case "I" forming the lower case letter "i", and the caption that says "There is an I in Team, it's just hidden in the A hole"
June 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Always pairs well with
A comic rendering of a traffic stop, with a helmet wearing traffic officer. A sunglasses wearing civilian, with incredulous body language is captioned "he stole the surplus value of my labour and then just fucking took off with it"
February 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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A still from a skit show, wherein David Mitchell is just realizing that he may be allied with the 'baddies'.
February 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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somehow, I had never seen these
xahlee.info/kbd/apple_ad...
An old-school, semi-split ergonomic keyboard made of two connected halves that rotate independently, being used on a more modern MacBook. The keyboard bears the early 90s version of the Apple logo
February 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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I know I needed a symbol for our collective social memory, but I can't remember why
A screenshot of some DDR5 computer memory chips with LED lighting. The text below notes they're only meant for aesthetic use, and contain no actual DRAM memory.
December 6, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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Meanwhile, in Cape Town
The City's service provider has received extortion threats, forcing a halt to cleaning services of approximately 300 container toilets in informal settlements in Kraaifontein and Wallacedene. A photograph of a recieved threat - it reads: We as protection guys, we want your truck to pay protection fee here in Kraaifontein, otherwise your truck will not work again here in Kraaifontein. Thank you. For any questions contact us on the following Numbers
November 19, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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The album cover for Stone Temple Pilot's album "Purple". A surreal painting, it features a child riding on the back of a Qilin, a mythical creature from Chinese folklore, surrounded by a quintet of fairies floating above them. The background is filled with soft, cloudy elements that enhance the dreamlike quality of the artwork. The album title is represented by the Chinese character for "purple" (紫), prominently displayed on the cover, adding an intriguing cultural reference. This character is the only text indicating the album's title on the cover.
November 19, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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Bam
November 19, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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Get you a Stanislaw Lem. Revel in delight.
A scanned book cover, of the Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem. It depicts a surrealist absurdly proportioned robot standing en pointe on a hand.
November 18, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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My name is on Mars at least. Although tiiiiny

science.nasa.gov/resource/sec...
A 'ticket' issued by NASA for my name going to Mars. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, put the names onto this tiny 0.3 square inches (8 millimeter-square) silicon wafer microchip using an electron beam to write extremely tiny letters with lines smaller than one one-thousandth the width of a human hair. The dime-size chip is affixed to the InSight lander deck and will remain on Mars forever.
November 15, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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Pino / Ergo Proxy. A series worth the journey.
A young girl autoreiv in a onesie with large ears, with an annoyed expression. She's reading a book.
November 13, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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Sony Mavica FD5, '97
An early digital camera being loaded with a 3.5 inch diskette.
November 13, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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November 13, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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Now my most popular post is a screenshot of this app's settings.
A screenshot from the X-Files. Scully is subtitled [ Disgusted Sigh ], and is wearing the appropriate exasperated expression.
November 11, 2024 at 3:33 AM
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the first mouse. Thanks, Doug.

and obligatory - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mot...
A cracked wooden box held in a downturned hand. A large metal wheel/disc is visible.
November 11, 2024 at 3:28 AM
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I know why I'd screenshot this, but I can't remember what from.
A subtitled movie frame. "I just wanted to fart to relax a little"
November 11, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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Mayoreo. Saucy sauce.
November 10, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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And the mute options include muting by post text and tags.
The mute options bluesky settings screen, which allows for muting by post text and tags.
November 10, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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I built a greenhouse / shade thingy out of recycled bits and scraps. Mostly for PT/OT reasons.
A greenhouse / shade tunnel structure in a garden, with an attached cat tower.
November 9, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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One more. Trillian, my space cadet.
A calico cat, lying down on a cat tower, with her front paws tucked under her chest.
November 9, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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didn't buy it, don't know
A baseball cap, embroidered with the slogan 'y tho'
November 8, 2024 at 9:01 PM