I got nerdsniped by your shitpost into trying to write a Forth interpreter in RNA. It didn’t actually take that long to get it working, at least in a simulator. Then I started looking at how to get my code into a prokaryotic ribosome. Imagine my surprise when I found **very** similar structure […]

They’re undoubtedly useful and all, these smart glasses. I mean they’re really smart—no camera, who needs a punch in the face—but they have IR LIDAR to recognize faces and give me a little text overlay, like “Robert Howarth, you met them last year at the RAF Air Show, E works for Supermarine” […]

Nap forecast has been upgraded from Nap Watch to Nap Warning. Seek shelter in a blanket fort or other quiet zone immediately.

Oh. My. Elder. God. https://youtube.com/shorts/YhO8d2xdP-k?si=shut-up-and-take-my-no-money

“I got nerdsniped by a shitpost from jesus @ girlclock.club” is the breakthrough alt-rock single banned in 42 states.

I got nerdsniped by your shitpost into trying to write a Forth interpreter in RNA. It didn’t actually take that long to get it working, at least in a simulator. Then I started looking at how to get my code into a prokaryotic ribosome. Imagine my surprise when I found **very** similar structure […]

RE: https://aus.social/@stacey_campbell/115388217122291757 Re-upping this for Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Backflushed my car's heater core today. Haven't had heat on the driver's side since I got it. Checked everything else, mixer door, servo, heater core valve, nope it was the heater core like I'd worried it would be (they're cheap but to replace them you gotta take the WHOLE dash off). Got one […]

‘I’m gonna need a note from your doctor saying you’re dead otherwise you’re gonna have to feed me’ #Caturday

They’re undoubtedly useful and all, these smart glasses. I mean they’re really smart—no camera, who needs a punch in the face—but they have IR LIDAR to recognize faces and give me a little text overlay, like “Robert Howarth, you met them last year at the RAF Air Show, E works for Supermarine” […]

When I was a kid we would play in the ruins of the megadata towers. I became persona non grata among my friends when they found it was /my/ dad who welded up all the doors and other openings that let us get in. We couldn’t understand why he would ruin our fun. As a parent now, I get it Sharp […]

For avoidance of doubt, my overuse of em-dashes and semicolons has nothing to do with AI—except that I now deliberately look for excuses to overuse them even more; fuck AI in the TCP port.

[uspol, picture of cheeto benito] You missed a gold plated opportunity to work “Taco” into that headline somewhere, ABC.

When I was a kid we would play in the ruins of the megadata towers. I became persona non grata among my friends when they found it was /my/ dad who welded up all the doors and other openings that let us get in. We couldn’t understand why he would ruin our fun. As a parent now, I get it Sharp […]

An MBE for Tom Baker? Insufficient! I happen to *know* there is at least one duchy that is vacant.

Healthcare In America: Doctor - I see that your gscsttigom isn't working as well as I'd like. I'd like to start you on pjehhdntpf instead. Patient - Okay, do you know how much that's going to cost? Doctor - Sorry I've got no idea. Patient - What do you mean? Like give me a ballpark. Is this […]

The problem with ink made from fairy blood—legendary in the art world for the shimmering colours that exist nowhere else in nature or supernature—is that the ink fades rapidly. “Fade” isn’t really the right term; the ink (blood, remember) sublimates when observed. There is a product called […]

Cycled home in the gap (mostly) between storm fronts. Pity about (a) the bikeway being basically the storm water drain channel for the centenary motorway, and (b) only a waist high Jersey Barrier between me and the trucks delivering full body shaken martinis with NO GIN.

And there’s “cat vomit between the toes” added to “slightly rancid butter” to complete my fuck-you-friday bing o card.

My decadent bourgeois family prefer to buy “cafe style” 25.4mm thick sliced bread. I do not. I’m toasting the crusts to get some working class breakfast.

The problem with ink made from fairy blood—legendary in the art world for the shimmering colours that exist nowhere else in nature or supernature—is that the ink fades rapidly. “Fade” isn’t really the right term; the ink (blood, remember) sublimates when observed. There is a product called […]

Fun fact: eighty-nine percent of people who have the new version of Minicode™ Workplace®—the one that has the unblockable “summarize this document in ①┠┈╂┈┈┈┈┨㊿ words” slider—leave that slider permanently set at ①. If you were wondering why this world is so messed up, I can tell you in (no point […]

The thing about immortality is the perspective; over the course of eighty billion years we watched the universe expand and thin, dimming as more and more galaxies accelerated beyond the visible horizon. Those of us who didn’t give in to ennui or retreat into simulations eventually saw the words […]

Still Life With Mad Science (2025)

Mx 21’s cat doing her best “shipwrecked pirate washed up on a beach” mood

The thing about immortality is the perspective; over the course of eighty billion years we watched the universe expand and thin, dimming as more and more galaxies accelerated beyond the visible horizon. Those of us who didn’t give in to ennui or retreat into simulations eventually saw the words […]

RE: https://mas.to/@obsidian/115538597255820515 That’s adorable; is “search function is comprehensible” and “creating a new note in a new tab” on your roadmap?

If you young people have never come across Dudley Moore playing Colonel Bogey in the style of a Beethoven piano sonata then I’m here to put that right. https://youtu.be/SIFzbLE6bHU?si=vKKMZgf2yy3Ka0eg

Now that all the Americans are blinded by last night’s “unprecedented aurora”, perhaps they will appreciate and use alt text.

I bet you have a favourite recipe that tastes even better as next-day-leftovers than when first cooked. Don’t you wish you knew the secret to getting that scrumptious flavour in the first serve? Too bad, it’s impossible; there is no substitute for proper aging. That’s why I spent so much on this […]

The duplication of Brisbane’s Centenary Bridge has so far involved constructing a dual rail crane gantry that is literally two other bridges either side of the new bridge. This has now been dismantled and another pair of gantries are being erected alongside the original bridge. Not only is this […]

I bet you have a favourite recipe that tastes even better as next-day-leftovers than when first cooked. Don’t you wish you knew the secret to getting that scrumptious flavour in the first serve? Too bad, it’s impossible; there is no substitute for proper aging. That’s why I spent so much on this […]

I hate it when I read a headline about an interesting-sounding product but he headline was truncated, omitting the vital fact that this is a crowdfunding campaign (i.e. this product does not exist and probably will never ship). I’m going to build a device to filter out these articles (crowdfunding).

"More tea?" "Thank you." After a sip, the detective nodded at his frail hostess. "Do you have any idea where your husband might be?" "Certainly!" She fluttered her fingers. "Under the rose bush. Quite unforgivable." "Er, what?" "His abuse of my finest #porcelain. After that, he had to go." […]

I’ve been having a recurring dream about forgetting to pay the rent on my rarely used CBD office, and—turning up one day to find the entire place gone, replaced by several new businesses—having to investigate what happened to all my furniture and computers. I’ve never had a CBD office. The […]

#tooloftheday: Campbell’s chicken soup. The ideal quenching medium for Rings of Power.

I’ve been having a recurring dream about forgetting to pay the rent on my rarely used CBD office, and—turning up one day to find the entire place gone, replaced by several new businesses—having to investigate what happened to all my furniture and computers. I’ve never had a CBD office. The […]

The unit of evolution is not the individual, nor the species. It is the gene. Take for example the NEHRUJACKET gene on chromosome 24. This gene—located on the synthetic chromosome that creates Supers—is associated with villainy. Those who express a double-recessive become supervillains, which […]

#tooloftheday Adjustable reamers. You don’t need wm very often but when you do they save an asstonne of work. (If you don’t have any, you can make a one off reamer to do the job, but that takes longer).

Today is not the day when i remember that a human finger is not an ideal instrument to determine whether an item which was heated to 1020 Kelvin is cool enough to touch, yet. (It wasn’t).

The unit of evolution is not the individual, nor the species. It is the gene. Take for example the NEHRUJACKET gene on chromosome 24. This gene—located on the synthetic chromosome that creates Supers—is associated with villainy. Those who express a double-recessive become supervillains, which […]

Oh hey, John Laws died. Anyway.

“Did you get the gun?” “Of course!” “What, they just let you take it?” “I told them the Moon’s haunted” “Suckers. All right, I’ll throw the coin, and if you miss it, you have to try the space toilet first” #tootfic #microfiction #poweronstorytoot

“Did you get the gun?” “Of course!” “What, they just let you take it?” “I told them the Moon’s haunted” “Suckers. All right, I’ll throw the coin, and if you miss it, you have to try the space toilet first” #tootfic #microfiction #poweronstorytoot

Loctite 999 is an advanced multi part adhesive suitable for bicycle headset alignment, hyperdrive injector port retention, and workplace pranks. Part A consists of 92% degenerate strange quark matter in a preservative of antigluon superfluid. Part B (activator) is a proprietary blend of tau […]

Forgot what it was called and described the moving ramp thing at the mall as The Skedaddleator

Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was a hashtag #poweronstorytoot. And unto this, a Unix Bigot posted #microfiction. Lacking a kingdom, he sought instead to earn reward via https://ko-fi.com/unixbigot, whereupon your commissions and […]

Loctite 999 is an advanced multi part adhesive suitable for bicycle headset alignment, hyperdrive injector port retention, and workplace pranks. Part A consists of 92% degenerate strange quark matter in a preservative of antigluon superfluid. Part B (activator) is a proprietary blend of tau […]

When prayers started working the smart folk knew something was up. Joke social media accounts like The Toot Of God started getting cease-and-desist meteors, surprising only those who weren’t paying attention. It’s just a shame that out of all the sects it was the Elder Slime God assholes who […]