Posts by jef@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Azfy2GRbrwxDFI8opU by jef@mastodon.social
2025-10-28T16:51:59Z
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@mattblaze The guy who circles the neighborhood at 2am in his loud-as-fuck Camaro
(DIR) Post #AziuJSHxGjScYoRliK by jef@mastodon.social
2025-10-29T20:23:21Z
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tubes
(DIR) Post #AzqbeEbL0eAwKJO4Z6 by jef@mastodon.social
2025-11-02T13:07:14Z
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Gun TownThere's a town near you where most of the residents spend much of their days running around with guns. The guns are real. They are loaded with real bullets. Their fingers are on the triggers. But they don't pull the triggers, they just yell "BANG, BANG, BANG!"
(DIR) Post #AzqbeFkEl2t7sCYh4i by jef@mastodon.social
2025-11-02T13:07:25Z
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Except occasionally something happens. Maybe they hit a bump. Or they are distracted by their cell phone. Or they had a little too much to drink before going out for a gun run. Or they see a non-gun person and want to teach them a lesson.The gun goes off.
(DIR) Post #AzqbeGs4ZOkZMnESvY by jef@mastodon.social
2025-11-02T13:07:38Z
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The gun people nod sadly to each other. "Such a tragic accident," they say. The police arrive, interview people, and make a report: "Accident." The dead are not interviewed. Then everyone runs off yelling "BANG, BANG, BANG!"
(DIR) Post #AzqbeHZJybLRWvT0L2 by jef@mastodon.social
2025-11-02T13:07:56Z
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Of course we don't live in Gun Town. That place is obviously absurd and could never exist in real life.We live in nice safe Car Town.
(DIR) Post #AzqbeJYKbFk1gR1F4a by jef@mastodon.social
2025-11-02T14:27:58Z
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@cstross I've read that in the early days of the industrial revolution, steam boiler explosions killed around 50,000 per year, comparable to the car slaughter we have now. But we don't look back on the boiler massacres with horror. They are just forgotten.
(DIR) Post #Azuw63zSpTUvF23ieu by jef@mastodon.social
2025-11-04T23:35:40Z
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@tomjennings That is pretty close to ACME Green, #99cc99. I like to pair it with ACME tan, #cccc99. Can you do two colors? Main and accent?
(DIR) Post #B05RZksnpf9IZul3Ls by jef@mastodon.social
2025-11-10T01:15:27Z
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@futurebird @floatybirb @liferstate Set of graduated doses of iocaine powder
(DIR) Post #B0Lva6LiHiE4YAhH2u by jef@mastodon.social
2025-11-15T15:49:24Z
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Something just occurred to me about that 'ask a chatbot to draw a clock' thing that is going around this morning. If you search the web for "draw a clock", what you get is a bunch of papers on diagnosing cognitive decline. The clocks the chatbots draw look just like the examples in those papers. This is not because chatbots are demented, it's because those crappy clock drawings in the psych papers are what the chatbots trained on.
(DIR) Post #B0OJkhyW2ACHMAMC1Y by jef@mastodon.social
2025-11-19T03:35:16Z
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@alice I was thinking today that we should start planning a constitutional amendment to close all the loopholes Trump is using. Call it the No Kings Amendment.
(DIR) Post #B0YzQh2JVjx14Xvlui by jef@mastodon.social
2025-11-24T07:21:30Z
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@tomjennings browsuur
(DIR) Post #B0qXAsyc37WlbG9Vya by jef@mastodon.social
2025-12-02T18:29:40Z
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@tomjennings @sundogplanets CFCs?
(DIR) Post #B1cHTWsMRHFbLXvZbM by jef@mastodon.social
2025-12-25T02:29:41Z
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You will be visited by three spirits
(DIR) Post #B1gMCd8pARDEG7EH32 by jef@mastodon.social
2025-12-27T06:59:07Z
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Seems like Mastodon traffic slows down drastically during USA nighttime, making things boring for night owls. Is this just an artifact of my own follow list, or is the fediverse actually this concentrated in USA?
(DIR) Post #B1zQ2uICdTmoNQTQLg by jef@mastodon.social
2026-01-03T16:35:05Z
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Google Docs has been annoying me lately, and I had a vague memory of writing my own web-based file management system back in the Long Long Ago. I found it; it's from 1998; and it took about ten minutes to get it working again.Edit to add screenshot:
(DIR) Post #B1zQ2xArvChbJY46pk by jef@mastodon.social
2026-01-03T17:46:48Z
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@dannyman It's a bunch of CGIs.
(DIR) Post #B1zQ2zFuBRv3lkR9xg by jef@mastodon.social
2026-01-03T19:34:27Z
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@resuna @dannyman It could run under any web server. That's the nice thing about standards.
(DIR) Post #B2jB5Of2FqMJCsS2sa by jef@mastodon.social
2026-01-28T01:03:24Z
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@Nonilex Of course AFGE also represents CBP and ICE so..... awkward.
(DIR) Post #B2puCt4JG9vaQXyjei by jef@mastodon.social
2026-01-31T06:57:16Z
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@tomjennings Combination editor/debugger: