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Yada yadda, bla bla bla.
If I told you about myself, would you honestly care?
Computers, amateur radio, electronics, vintage electronics, and 3D printing are my hobbies.
I follow back 💯%
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In praise of idleness and ephemerality: The writings of the 14th-century Buddhist monk Kenko
‘The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty’
A man of leisure from 700 years ago extols the virtues of asymmetry, imperfection and ephemerality.
buff.ly
February 15, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Fixed it.

#Time
December 12, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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Ashton Pittman writes about the downfall of Twitter, now known as X, and his decision to leave the increasingly chaotic platform in favor of BlueSky.

https://buff.ly/3OqTRLU
November 27, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: A top Labour donor who has given the party millions under Keir Starmer’s leadership runs a hedge fund with shares in a private healthcare giant – which critics claim is profiting from the NHS crisis.
Read the full story: bit.ly/3B041Qv
Labour donor’s hedge fund invests in private healthcare
A top Labour donor runs a hedge fund with shares in a private US healthcare giant which is making money from the UK's NHS crisis.
bit.ly
November 27, 2024 at 7:28 AM
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Good morning Tokyo!
November 26, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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Tonight’s 🎥 diversion is Brief Encounter (1945, dir. David Lean). I am dumbfounded to learn that some people in post-war England dispensed coffee from a round-bottomed flask clamped to a small retort
#chemsky
November 27, 2024 at 1:35 AM
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Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont...

It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.
November 26, 2024 at 4:25 AM
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I heard Trump will be taxing air from overseas. Guess it's pay-per-breeze now!
November 27, 2024 at 5:28 AM
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.

They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.

The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
www.businessinsider.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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🧪Constrained optimization tiling of the Cal bears logo, using simulated differential phase-contrast imaging of strontium titanate atoms.

🔬 Captured for @molecularfoundry.bsky.social #Nano Art Contest.

📷 Georgios Varnavides, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

More: foundry.lbl.gov/2024/10/21/a...
November 26, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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Raspberry Pi releases the Pico 2 W, a $7 wireless-enabled microcontroller board
Raspberry Pi releases the Pico 2 W, a $7 wireless-enabled microcontroller board
Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, a tiny board designed around a microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects at scale. Raspberry Pi is once again using the RP2350, its own, well-documented microcontroller. But what is a microcontroller again? As…
tcrn.ch
November 25, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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Holy fuck a swan just tried to eat my camera.
November 23, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky - https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/23/24303502/bluesky-next-twitter-threads-x
Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky
The blue bird is dead. Long live the blue sky.
www.theverge.com
November 23, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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An early Halloween cartoon for New Scientist.
October 27, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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Drawing Leticia and Alastair from @ykskkn.bsky.social webtoon, The Place Where Flower Blooms! The art is super gorgeous and the story is very interesting, can't wait to read the continuation one day🥰
October 26, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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Cursed cats
October 27, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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Indeed.
October 26, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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I got peer2peer file sharing working in C# today! Very happy about that. :D Will put the program on github soon.
October 25, 2024 at 4:22 AM
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this guy on twitter is explaining to everyone fully willingly that he used a bidet so bad he got a penis infection
October 20, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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Nancy’s By Ernie Bushmiller October 20 1950
October 20, 2024 at 7:19 PM