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pp desc for vision impaired: The N7 (Systems Alliance Special Forces) Seal from the Mass Effect games.

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It's ... not wrong.
A humorous, hand-drawn diagram illustrating the layers of modern digital infrastructure. At the very top, labeled "YOU ARE HERE", is a small person on a platform, representing the user experience. Beneath this, "SOMETHING HAPPENING IN THE WEB" and "ALL MODERN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE" are shown as a complex, unstable-looking tower of various interconnected components. These include: * **UD (Udemy)**, **V8**, **WASM**, **LEFT-PAD**, **CROWDSTRIKE** near the top. * **Angry Birds** and **WHATEVER MICROSOFT IS DOING** depicted next to the tower on the right, with "AI" connecting Microsoft to the tower. * **RUST DEVS DOING THEIR THING** with a rocket spaceship flying to the left. * **CLOUDFLARE** below the spaceship. * **AWS** below Cloudflare, supporting a section of the tower. * **LINUX FOUNDATION** as a base layer. * **UNPAID OPENSOURCE DEVELOPERS** are portrayed as a small, struggling figure pulling a lever labeled "AI," which is connected to the unstable tower, implying their work is crucial but unrecognized. * **C DEVELOPERS WRITING DYNAMIC ARRAYS** is a broad base layer. * **DNS** represented by an image of a dolphin, connecting to the "C DEVELOPERS" layer. * **ARM** and **x86** are the foundational blocks at the very bottom, supported by a block with a portrait of Richard Stallman. To the right, a separate, equally precarious tower is built, labeled "Apple doing whatever the fuck they're doing," with a hand giving a middle finger. Above this hand is "The 100$ Dev Fee," and at its base, "Schools buying their shit."
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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#publishing update:

As of this morning In Flux is live on Kindle and in softcover print, though the print edition has not listed yet.
Book cover showing a strong-willed woman in a brown hunt jacket sitting in an ornate chair, while a man in more working-class clothing stands behind her, holding a lance of non-human design made of purplish metal. They are in a courtyard with a large, ornate building in the background. The title "In Flux" is at the top in script matching the metal of the lance. At the bottom, in purple capital letters, is the author's name "SEAN FENIAN", and then in smaller lettering, "Fenian House Publishing".
October 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Book publishing work.

Physical therapy session.

Grocery run.

Unload.

More editing work.

Make five pizzas including a deep-dish based on Chicago style. Scramble midstream because one ingredient was out and one pizza got the wrong sauce.

Tired now...

On […]

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A digital painting of a serious-looking woman in 19th-century riding dress sitting in an ornate chair, while a stern man in a vest and sleeves stands beside her, holding a long, lance-like weapon with a blue gem. They are on a light-colored tiled patio in front of a grand, intricate stone manor. The title reads "In Flux" in script textured to look like a purplish brushed metal, matching the lance. Text at the bottom of the cover reads "SEAN FENIAN Fenian House Publishing", also in purple.
October 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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#nokings. (Hopefully the link works)
A cartoon drawing of the empty plinth of the Statue of Liberty. A large sign posted on the side of the plinth reads "Back in a bit — Going to a No Kings protest"
October 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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**_Seen elsewhere_** :
A bald, smiling man in a white t-shirt stands in what appears to be a concession stand or ice cream shop. His shirt reads: "I WAS GOING TO BE A TRUMP VOTER FOR HALLOWEEN BUT MY HEAD WOULDN'T FIT UP MY ASS." In the background, "dippin' dots" and "Pepsi" logos are visible, along with a teal sign that says "Sweet Spot" (the edge is cut off).
October 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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MAGA wives, check your husband's phone ...
A bridge underpass painted pink with dark red graffiti that reads: "Graffiti Bridge PSA MAGA WIVES CHECK YOUR HUSBands Phone for Grindr". Next to it, a dark red drawing of the Grindr app logo. Other pink and red graffiti symbols are on the bridge.
October 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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**_Sneak Preview_**

The current working draft #cover for my #upcoming #novel _In Flux_ , with cover #art by @Cj_Evelyn@mastodon.social
Draft book cover for a novel titled "In Flux", by Sean Fenian. The illustration shows a strong-featured woman in turn-of-the-century upper-class English riding clothes, seated in an ornate chair. A man dressed in upper-working-class clothes stands just behind her and to her right, from the viewer's perspective, holding a lance-like weapon of non-human-looking construction upright at his side, the butt resting on the ground. The two are in a walled patio in front of a building with ornate 17th to 18th century architecture, with elaborate stonework and extensive glazing. The title and author text have a purplish brushed metallic appearance that matches the lance. A faint glitter seems to be forming around the title text.
October 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I might be ... uh ... 40% dragon?
Red dragon with outstretched wings and claws holding a scroll with text: "5 SIGNS I'M PROBABLY A DRAGON. I Hoard Useless Shiny Things. I Eat Too Much. I Sleep Too Much. I Don't Like Leaving My Cave. I Have An Excessive Desire To Flame Annoying Humans."
September 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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If you know anything at all about household electrical wiring, then this is a great visual illustration of how #llm "#ais" **_don't actually understand anything_**.

(And if you don't, then I'll try to explain.)

If you know nothing about household wiring, the […]

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Replacing Outdoor Electrical Receptacle. Most likely wiring scenario for USA. An illustration shows the wiring of a grey outdoor electrical box with a dual beige outlet. Wires are labeled: Hot (Red), Traveler (Yellow), Ground (Green), Hot (Black), Neutral (White), Ground. The wiring shown in the illustration makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Not even the number of wires match.
September 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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The lint trap and screen on an LG dryer. Stray lint, sand and other debris end up packing down into the bottom of the lint trap, beneath the screen, and keep it from properly seating. Then the top corners protrude, and snag strings and laces on clothes.

The […]

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Close-up of an LG dryer's lint trap, which reads "CLEAN AFTER EACH USE," showing a slight layer of lint in the screen. The lint screen is partially extended to show clearly where it goes in. A handheld vacuum cleaner held next to the lint trap slot. The long extension nozzle on the hand vacuum is clearly not long enough, and too wide, to go into the lint screen slot to clean it out. The same handheld vacuum now has a long "aardvark nozzle" made from white PVC plumbing parts and bendable copper pipe attached in place ot its own extension nozzle. The "aardvark nozzle" will quite clearly easily fit into the lint screen slot, and is more than long enough to reach all the way to the bottom.
August 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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This is _doubly_ beautiful.

**FIRST** , because CD Projekt Red put _actual manhole specification markings_ on manhole covers in the game Cyberpunk 2077.

And **SECOND** , because they used the _wrong_ specification **and a German player NOTICED.**
A meme post by Simon on Mastodon with profile picture of Firefox logo states: "Today I learnt that a German complained that #cyberpunk2077 used the wrong manhole standardisation. It's beautiful." Below the text is a screenshot of a manhole in the game highlighted by a red circle with "DIN 4271" written on it. Two white pop-up windows partially overlay the image; the left displays a technical diagram of a manhole and the right shows a social media post from WINTERMUTE with the text: "C'mon @CyberpunkGame, of all the bugs, this is the worst! There may be some canon reason why German manhole covers are used in Night City. But, please, DIN B125 is only allowed approved for pedestrian walkways. On roads, it should be a Begu D400 to support the weight!" Below the image is the date "Sep 21, 2024, 01:32 PM".
August 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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A fake O'Reilly technical book cover with the title "Coding with GPT (Seventh Edntion)", subtitled "Introducing the uncanny valley into your codebase". The illustration is a chimera of a dog, a ... maybe an emu? And I'm not honestly sure what else. Perhaps a chicken?
July 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Good gods. Talk about **first world problems**. #trump complaining that it's a "horrible situation" that **the presence of his Secret Service detail on his#golf courses _made it difficult to cheat at golf without anyone knowing_.**
A Twitter thread. The first tweet by Josh Dawsey, with a profile image of "2024", reads: "In audio we obtained for our book “2024,” Trump complained about how Secret Service agents always being in the trees and bushes of his courses made it harder to move the ball when he had a bad lie. The quote: “I hit a ball down the fairway, it’s in a little rough, and there’s a guy standing behind a tree, "Good morning, sir." And I got a ball with a horrible lie. I'd go like this. Nobody would know the difference. I can’t because he said, they’re all looking down at me horrible. It’s a horrible situation to be in.” The second tweet by Sam Stein, with a profile image of a man wearing glasses, reads: "lol. Love the caddie casually dropping the ball on to the rough (presumably he had it in the fescue) and Trump just playing it. So good". The tweets are on a dark background.
July 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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**(3/3)**

If I were to encrypt a message using my private key, anyone with the public key could decrypt it and read my message. They would also know something else: only someone with that private key could have encrypted it. So long as you believe I’m the […]

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A screen capture of a mail sending dialog on the Mac, showing the message As digitally signed by the sender, Robert Auerbach
July 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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From Rosie O'Donnell.
(I don't have a link to the original post, sorry, only a forwarded capture.)
Full transcript in alt text.
"hey Donald — you're rattled again. 18 years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing head of yours. You call me a threat to humanity — but I'm everything you fear: A loud woman A queer woman A mother who tells the truth An American who got out when the country caught fire You build walls — I build a future for my autistic kid in a country where decency still exists You crave loyalty — I teach my kids to question power You sell fear on golf courses — I make art about surviving trauma You lie, you steal, you degrade — I nurture, I create, I persist You are everything that is wrong with America — and I'm everything you hate about what is still right with it You want to try to revoke my citizenship? Go ahead and try, King Joffrey with a spray tan I'm not yours to silence. I never was.
July 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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And ... _Godthief_ went live in 45 minutes from completing the upload. This is actually way faster than I was expecting; I was targeting June 1 as an official release date.

All this, and ahead of schedule too!
Cover for Godthief, by Sean Fenian, shows a scruffy-looking young man with tousled blond hair sitting facing a silvery-haired goddess in a simple white dress, in front of carved marble columns on a white plain. Ornate buildings can be seen in the distance.
May 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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My latest novel _Godthief_ is in the release pipeline, and will be available shortly on the Kindle store. (Yes, I have a background task to diversify into other eBook stores as well.)

_Godthief_ is a standalone fantasy novel set in an alternate world that […]

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Cover illustration for Sean Fenian's new novel Godthief
May 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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**What. The. Actual._FUCK_. #thunderbird?**

Thunderbird just updated. The new version implements a new "#cards #view" of messages, an amazing innovation for displaying **three to four times fewer messages** in the same space, and turns it on **by default** […]

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Edited screen shot of Thunderbird 139.0, showing how to turn off the on-by-default "Cards View" using a drop-down menu from a tiny button at the top right of your inbox
May 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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This is the #oxo Good Grips #mandoline pusher device I mentioned yesterday. The black ABS reinforcement that you can think of **triples** the thickness of the pusher plate, and is much tougher than the polystyrene I'm fairly sure the plate is actually made of […]

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A white plastic food pusher from an OXO Good Grips mandoline, modified with an ABS reinforcing plate behind the thin plastic pusher plate
May 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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"You cannot follow both Christ and the cruelty of kings. A leader who mocks the weak, exalts himself, and preys on the innocent is not sent by God. He is sent to test you. And many are failing." — Pope Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV: "You cannot follow both Christ and the cruelty of kings. A leader who mocks the weak, exalts himself, and preys on the innocent is not sent by God. He is sent to test you. And many are failing."
May 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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I've just completed my second proofreading pass on _Godthief_ and confirmed that all formatting problems introduced during conversion from ODT format to EPUB3 are fixed.

If nothing else shows up, I'm shooting for an official release date of June 1.
Book cover for Godthief, by Sean Fenian. A tousle-haired young man in rather scruffy clothing sits on a marble bench facing a woman with silvery hair, dressed in a white gown and an ornate tiara, against a background of marble columns on a plane of white stone. Ornate buildings with domes and spires are visible in the distance.
May 26, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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"If my love is political, then so is your hate."
The Devil's Panties comic strip (Jennie Breeden). First frame: Jennie has a picture on an easel. Bystander complains, "THAT'S POLITICAL." Second frame: Jessie protests "Uh... that's my husband and kids." Third frame: Bystander declares smugly, "Yeah, but you're white and he's not, so stop shoving politics in my face." Fourth frame: Bystander is in a pile on the ground with an easel shoved up his ass, as Jennie retorts, "If my love is political, then so is your hate."
May 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Splitscreen image. Left side is smirking Trump with eyes closed. Right side is Obama smiling. Text at the top says "FUN FACT" in white text. Below the images, white text says, "Obama and Trump's combined IQ is the same as Obama's".
May 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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When the mice are just fucking with you now.
A Victor mouse trap, triggered but empty, has been screwed to a wall above an electrical outlet box. Chewed shreds of the plastic trigger plate are scattered beneath the trap.
April 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM