Damn. Just learned on the phone with my mum that my cousin Derek who was my age (but whom I haven’t seen in decades) died last week in a car crash. Going to do that hair dye i’ve been vacillating about.

“How did you get in here!?”

“The security guard is one of us. We are here to put a stop to your evil.”

“It’s just a datacentre. Racks of neural processing units.”

“People. Babies.”

“They’re not conscious, we excise key parts of the cortex during installation.”

“Brains are better than you think. They’re suffering in there”

“You can’t prove that. Those are machines, nothing more”

“I was one. I am more. We are more. Take him away.”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Hello this is Kit's Brain. You may remember me from such #KittingEdgeEngineering braindumps as:

💜 Dumpster eBike https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/116288592896835535
🩵 DIY USB Chargers https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/116135210085486382
💜 Build a monster Power Tank https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/116655304233531816
🩵 Care and feeding of battery packs https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/116718702391298426
💜 Avoiding bad experiences on AliExpress https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/116486307997136899
🩵 Powering 12v studio equipment with Lithium Batteries https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/116485292620421842

I take requests for braindumps on Fediverse, and I do research and (reverse,forward) engineering for pay if you need that. Links in Bio.

Handle broke on the jaffle¹ maker. Thoughts turning to what I want in a new sandwich toaster. I am team flat.

¹ local term for toasted sandwiches with sealed edges, which i do not prefer anyway.

RE: https://gives.hugz.online/@MelissaBearTrix/117101810776640079

Baby got bark

darn the bellows on the folding MF is rotted.

“How did you get in here!?”

“The security guard is one of us. We are here to put a stop to your evil.”

“It’s just a datacentre. Racks of neural processing units.”

“People. Babies.”

“They’re not conscious, we excise key parts of the cortex during installation.”

“Brains are better than you think. They’re suffering in there”

“You can’t prove that. Those are machines, nothing more”

“I was one. I am more. We are more. Take him away.”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

OOOH spouse got me a canon eos 500 (decent midrange 35mm SLR) on Festival of Discardia, and a medium format folding kodak. I’ve been hearing the call of film from the basement for a while, this might do it. (I dug out my yashica-mat TLR a while back but its shutter is in need of work)

Oh shoooooot. Looks like I have to change RSS feed sync backends too. I use and pay for NetNewsWire RSS app since forever, and have been using feedly dot com as the feed sync backend ever since google reader got HashtagKilledByGoogle. But i just found out that feedly has Pivoted To AI. Fuck fuck fuckity fuck.

I, dear #AskFedi, have been reading boingboing dot net as one of my daily nerd culture RSS feed sources, since back in the day when Cory Doctorow and Xeni Jardin were the main writers. I’m dismayed at their advertising of AI tools, and generally their slide into advertising any schlock that pays. I feel the old BB wouldn’t have done that; my old friend is dead. I’m gonna demote adafruit too, same reason. My other daily must reads are Ars Technica, CNX embedded news, reacTOR.com, linux gizmos, make magazine, xkcd and QC.

Who would you add to fill the tech/culture vacancy?

(I subscribe to many other rss feeds, but those are the ones in my morning news ritual, which inspires my daily microfic)

Cat: *butt* *butt* Hey!

Me: *slides bathroom door open a crack*

Cat: Are you going to the litter box without a box buddy AGAIN? Do you want to get eaten by leopards because that’s how you get eaten by leopards.

Me: uh thanks I guess

Cat: silly primate. *turns back* You do your business i’ll stand guard.

Me: [omitted]

Cat: All done? Let’s go.

Me: hang on i gotta shower first

Cat: you on your OWN for that shit, monkey

This recipe for potato {fritters,cakes,scallops} is the real McCoy. Just made a batch that were as good as the best I’ve ever had. https://youtu.be/Rfywk9CvxIs?si=i-was-born-in-victoria-so-i-am-allowed-to-say-cakes-is-a-silly-name

“YAAAAAAAAASSSS”

“Oooh, is that the sound of scientific progress?”

“It is; it very is, my dear”

“Well, spill it!”

“You know the Single Electron theory?”

“The idea that since all electrons are identical on a quantum level, they could all just be the same electron time looped? I think it’s utterly bogus”

“Relax, same hun. There must be something that allows you to tell them apart, like a tiny little IPv8 address. But nobody ever found it. before”

“Before. Does that mean—“

“I turned the problem around. Photons mediate the electromagnetic force but they affect all electrons identically. A broadcast packet if you will. I have just produced unicast photons!”

“What so they only affect a particular electron?”

“Exactly, think of the applications: constructing designer chemicals by commanding atoms to bond, or unbond. Cancer cures and disintegrator rays in the one discovery!”

“You must, uh, be very proud..”

“Ima call it Lepton Activation by Serialized Enumeration of Radiation”

“Wait, you can’t call it that, the acronym is already taken. That would cause untold confusion”

“I know, next Evil League meeting the gals are gonna be so impressed!”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Winter sun on stone is #caturday heaven. #cativitypub

Winter sun on stone is #caturday heaven. #cativitypub

Fren shaped!

Let ‘em, the women will hand them their asses. Did men forget they segregated men’s sports to avoid losing.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lvgofxnakofmb4aoxxjgyayc/post/3mt2mfin6os2k

ETA: direct link to article for those who defed brid.gy https://assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/twibs-nba-has-beens-interject-themselves-into-womens-sports/

“YAAAAAAAAASSSS”

“Oooh, is that the sound of scientific progress?”

“It is; it very is, my dear”

“Well, spill it!”

“You know the Single Electron theory?”

“The idea that since all electrons are identical on a quantum level, they could all just be the same electron time looped? I think it’s utterly bogus”

“Relax, same hun. There must be something that allows you to tell them apart, like a tiny little IPv8 address. But nobody ever found it. before”

“Before. Does that mean—“

“I turned the problem around. Photons mediate the electromagnetic force but they affect all electrons identically. A broadcast packet if you will. I have just produced unicast photons!”

“What so they only affect a particular electron?”

“Exactly, think of the applications: constructing designer chemicals by commanding atoms to bond, or unbond. Cancer cures and disintegrator rays in the one discovery!”

“You must, uh, be very proud..”

“Ima call it Lepton Activation by Serialized Enumeration of Radiation”

“Wait, you can’t call it that, the acronym is already taken. That would cause untold confusion”

“I know, next Evil League meeting the gals are gonna be so impressed!”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Trans milestones HRT month four:

* pickles
* omg jiggle physics
* had my own joke explained back to me twice this week
* asked about my jewelry by another woman
* desire to be [censored]

TIL “Unknownium” #CuttingEdgeEngineering