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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 9h

turning in my reply guy card as we speak

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 9h

imfurster syndrome

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Trent Martin 🇨🇦 @stellarvo.bsky.social · 2d

Do not let that Duol*ngo anime announcement cause you to forget that they laid off almost all their contractors and replaced them with AI :)

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 1d

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 1d

I think I figured out the animal for my fursona 🫢

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a suit and tie holds a basketball and says catch you on the flippity flip ..

Alt: Michael from the office fails to shoot a hoop while saying "catch you on the flippity flip .."

media.tenor.com

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, it's one chromium compilation, Michael. How long could it take? 10 minutes?

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 2d

It's me, woman

The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Woman Tends To Do Best Creative Thinking When Backed Into Corner With Livelihood At Stake https://theonion.com/woman-tends-to-do-best-creative-thinking-when-backed-in-1851338274/

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 2d

they really are weaponizing out muscle memory...

arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 2d

Traveling on a train and I... think? my ADHD meds are working better than usual. Must be related 🚂

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Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 2d

work work

Tumblr post:

video games are all about meeting a little elf
outside the city gates that says 'ah... the pernicious
weed!' when you give him a healing herb and then
finding yourself fifteen years later saying "ah... the
pernicious weed!" to yourself in the shower

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 3d

This is fucking ridiculous, I keep pressing "AI Mode" when I mean "All". They put it there specifically so it gets clicked by mistake, and they can claim billions of daily clicks 🤬

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 3d

Cowards

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 3d

Excuse me?!

google's home page, except now there's a "AI Mode" button instead of the "Search" one

search results for "what the fuck", the bar that usually has types of results now has "AI Mode" as the first item.

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enjens.dk @enjens.dk · Jul 19

So, I have a lot of free time at the moment due to long term sickleave.

Any book recommendations?

I'm mostly into sci-fi/fantasy, loving books like LOTR, Discworld, Good Omens, American Gods, the hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy, The Expanse and a bunch of others I've probably forgotten.

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 3d

Somehow I doubt the right lessons will be learned from this 😅

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 3d

Is this good?

A tweet from @vx-underground from 2 hours ago

"Chat, we are cooked

Discord is being extorted by the people who compromised their Zendesk instance

They've got 1.5TB of age verification related photos. 2,185,151 photos

tl;dr 2.1m Discord users drivers license and/or passport might be leaked. Unknown number of e-mails"

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 3d

It's fine, we all blocked off that whole weekend anyway 😁

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 3d

A small correction on the Open Hardware Summit 2026.

OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 4d

IMPORTANT AND DEEPLY EMBARRASSING CORRECTION: MAY 23rd and 24th!!!!!!!!!!

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 4d

Yep, quite amusing:

www.adafruit.com/product/187

DIY shield for Arduino

Think you can do better? Design your own shield on the cheap with this DIY parts kit. You get a 3.2" x 2.5" (~ 8.1cm x 6.3cm) single-sided phenolic board with copper solder pads ...

www.adafruit.com

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 4d

Happy 20th anniversary to the wrong header spacing in the Uno form-factor, btw.

A forum post by Massimo Banzi from 2008:
"I made that mistake, when I made the first arduino board.

David Cuartielles took my first rectangular design , fixed a mistake (his first contribution) by applying the flying resistor you see.

(photo of a board that has the components of an Arduino but a different layout and shape, silkscreen says "Wiring Lite)

and turned it into this

(photo of an Uno-shaped bare board with the text "Arduino" on it)

when I put some finishing touches I managed to get the spacing wrong...

We had 5 minutes before the deadline to go into production, the PCB guy was on the phone saying "send it now or it goes to next week" and we didn't have a name yet... they I said let's call it Arduino like a bar we used to go...there wasn't much time to think.

Then I'm fond of the mistake... it makes it not perfect therefore more human... Yes...it could have been all perfectly optimised... but if engineers ran the world it would be an unbearable place where to live (smile emoticon)

Massimo"

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 4d

Do I take these twice a week or once every two weeks?

A photo of an open pill bottle with capsule pills colored like the bisexual flag, blue-purple-pink.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4d

I get that everyone thinks it's a funny little joke when Trump says nonsense about "trangender for everybody" (because really, wtf does that even mean?), but I gotta say that as a trans person, I find it absolutely fucking insane that he's constantly obsessing over trans people existing. It sucks.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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