This old girl, sogenannt "Campari", is a lady of substance and gravity, clocking in at a bit over 1/3 of an imperial ton (estimate about 900 lbs). She's a fully functional early IBM AS/400 in the process of being restored. Finding smaller yet workable shelves is proving to be challenging.

Discord posts my wife has to put up with: I'm sorry But I have eaten all the sauerkraut in the fridge it was delicious and gassy but I will play you songs tonight on the butt trumpet

Check out this cool thing I found for ten bucks at the thrift shop

Yaaaaaay… everything is just tariffic

Frittata ta ta tata ta ta ta, microwave it so good I say bla bla bla

Exiting an elevator, do you ever have the urge to act like you are having some crazy conversation, so ppl wonder WTAF they just overheard part of? "So there I was, soaking wet, pants around my ankles, HUGE orange shirt, and a bucket full of lobsters - and let me tell you man, they are NOT happy..."

You’re not a real data engineer until you’ve broken production

I stewed some beef in Guinness beer 🍺 and then made a pie out of it

Welcome Spring 🌼🐰🌼 #art #illustration #bunnies #spring

Just... whatever, cloud website

Just went outside, and the #moon is gone because monsters ate it. Time to kill the soothsayers #lunar #eclipse

I’ve never seen it put so succinctly before! Even as a disabled person myself, I struggle a lot with internalized ableism. These 12 all two common narratives about disability can be difficult to unlearn, but that work is important. (Created by Jamie Shields, founder of Disabled By Society.)

o flamingo burning bright in the jungle of the night, what immortal hand or eye could dare frame thy pinkish plumery

This ambrosia bush outside my house is full of bumblebees, and if you go near they’ll try to act all tough and orbit your head and stuff. Our bush. Ours. But c’mon man, do’t even try - you’re a *bumblebee* - you’ll let me *pet* you #bloomscrolling #bloomscroll

Quiet little sleeper, until you put your foot down, and then it’s a fire breathing rocket. My poor wife didn’t realize she was marrying a closet #petrolsexual. Cold air intake, performance cat and downpipe, stage 1 engine tune, all from Integrated Engineering.

I just think we're like windup toys. We're wound up when we're young and let go.. some spin around in furious little circles, some proceed in straight lines as if we know what we are doing (until we hit a wall), and some end up under the fridge with the dust bunnies, never to be heard from again

Ok, the guy standing at the urinal next to me in the bathroom just now, with one hand on his junk and the other holding a laptop, while in a Teams meeting (on speakerphone) is why I *thoroughly* wash and disinfect any old computer equipment I acquire #nasty #retrocomputing

Can’t get the pendulum adjusted for the new grandfather clock mechanism. Stupid clock stick! 🤬

Wife is taking a trip next weekend. Time to go feral & start chipping the fine china into Clovis points

I hope you don’t mind I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is when dressed as a squirrel

#severance the thing about Macrodata Refinement et al is "oh yeah, I worked with that dude/dudette". I have done IT consulting for a large part of my career, and seen a lot of places and people. Each of those characters, you meet them in the workplace, many times. They're very iconic/archetypical

Severance fanart: Tabletop Team-Building Day at Macrodata Refinement! #severance

#severence also, I'm not actually convinced Seth Milchick is a bad person. From the last episode, it seems obvious he is trying to be the best he can. It will be interesting to see where this character goes

#severance Also, I think outie Helly actually likes outie Mark/maybe wants a thing with him. She's a strange person from a strange cult-y family, but, manipulations aside, I think she actually likes him

#severance So one thing I keep churning on, is how much did Mark know while talking with Helly in the restaurant? I'm confused, and I'm probably supposed to be, since he is halfway re-integrated, but..

On a normally sleepy suburban street, four cop cars just showed up and arrested somebody right in front of my house. Started playing F tha Police by NWA on the stereo but Wife made me stop #FTP #ACAB

Daaaaaaaayyyyum

It's the weekend! (attribution: Gunnerkrigg Court, www.gunnerkrigg.com?p=3063)

Whut... duo has music lessons

It's that time of day when a lot of BSKY posts that I see start being in French and German, and I know that Europe is waking up and having some coffee/tea

A Roman walked into the bar and held up 2 fingers and said, “five beers, please.”

I am wondering if the innies *literally are not* actually people -- but that little chip in their head is the real thing running the show, using their bodies as a meat puppet #severance

Happy Mitch McConnell Fell Down the Stairs Day to all who celebrate 🫶

Til that if you add any curse word to a google or bing search, the AI ‘helper’ doesn’t show up

tf did I just watch :-D

This is me right now. I gotta do something else before I start to consider throwing all my excess butter knives at things.

At first I thought "oh no, if I need to buy an Arduino, they will all be more expensive due to the tariffs". But then I thought, no they won't, because they won't come from China. They'll suddenly all come from Singapore. Or Korea. Or whatever. And my avocados will suddenly be coming from Equador.

Hey all, I know it's a thing to unfollow and block if you aren't followed back -- I'll get to it. Give me like a week, I go through and click all the buttons every once in a while but not like every day

I don't actually like MacOS. I really want to, and I've really tried, but, I don't. Mainly the dock, FWIW. It sucks. FFS give me a start menu (like practically everything else has), and fix the maximize/minimize functionality. Yes, I know, plugins. I have them. I shouldn't have to.

So, I got LUbuntu installed on the damn thing, which was NOT straightforward (actually installed on another machine and swapped drives), and now doing updates. Soooooo slow. OMG so slow. Hours and hours. Reminds me of compiling the kernel on a 486

Superman was an immigrant, and neither of his parents were born in the United States.

Check out this book I found in a used book store yesterday. Looks pretty good- multidisciplinary, not just (or even primarily) computer science related.

Wife and I are drinking some wine, and trying to determine if alcohol is a solution. Indeed wine is, it turns out, but now coffee -- solution, suspension, colloidal? This all has degraded into us singing "Sweet Emulsion" by Aerosmith

So anyway, I'm on this free food/leftover catering list at work...

Helga Sinclair Coming Out of Her Airship to Shame mankind

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)