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Ovaltine Tranzac

@elvedin.officialawesome.com

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Apprentice sage, digital magician, analog musician. My adjectives are pedantic/romantic. He/him. Toronto.

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Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · Jan 11

ThriftSky:
bsky.app/profile/elve...

Toronto:
bsky.app/profile/elve...

Frame from The Simpsons showing Homer Simpson in a bathrobe standing in front of the couch talking on the phone and looking at an LP. The caption is "This feeds I made."

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Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 1d

My only centrist opinion is that cranberry sauce cans should be the same size as tuna cans.

Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 4d

The second time in as many weeks where it's been hugely illuminating and reassuring to see someone at a higher power level than me acknowledging difficulty or an unknown.

Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 4d

All I can say is that if TRON: ARES were on a streamer, it would take me a week to finish it.

Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 5d

Now with its own subdomain: ar3000.officialawesome.com

Album Randomizer 3000

Discover random albums from curated music lists. Get instant streaming links to Spotify, Apple Music, and more.

ar3000.officialawesome.com

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Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 5d

bsky.app/profile/elve...

The clerk at Suicide Notes (formerly Good Vibrations) record store points with his thumb without looking up from Mondo Frowno magazine and says "Oldies." while Homer smiles politely.

Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 5d

Current lists are:
- 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
- Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time"
- every album to get 5 Mics from The Source

Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 5d

bsky.app/profile/elve...

Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 5d

I took lists of good albums, scraped a database of links to streaming sites for (most) of those albums, and then made a random button.

Mitigating choice paralysis, but for great records.

album-randomizer-3000.netlify.app

Album Randomizer 3000

Discover random albums from curated music lists. Get instant streaming links to Spotify, Apple Music, and more.

album-randomizer-3000.netlify.app

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 8d

💥 did a small drawing explaining the JS execution model including the event loop. I hope it’s helpful to folks. Debugging is always easier when the underlying implementations are understood.

Drawing explaining the JS execution model and event loop

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Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 9d

The Toronto feed got migrated and improved.

Instead of being purely driven by filtering the main feed, it now combines that with a list, which can be separately curated, of local accounts whose posts go in mostly wholesale.

Effectively trivial with @graze.social, this gives me a lot of ideas.

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Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 11d

I migrated the ThriftSky feed over to @graze.social and it was easy and it was quick and I would recommend it and I will be migrating all* of my feeds there.

*there is only one other feed

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Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 11d

What mythos-of-control would you choose?

Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 11d

Homer (with Bart) is talking to the Movementarians: "And what size is this Vintage 90's Toronto Blue Jays satin jacket (men's small)?"

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Truth Magnum @truthmagnum.bsky.social · 11d

Do you know how expensive that is

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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 12d

This is an astonishing piece of writing.

Women* Write the Balkans @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 12d

We're immensely proud to share with you "Airborne," a new story by @enaselimo.bsky.social:
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...

"According to Bosnian documents, he is a traitor. According to Turkish documents, he is a spy. According to American documents, he is an alien. According to them all, he is to be put in no position to help others or himself."
Ena Selimović: Airborne
Illustration: gray and black embroidery of B-2 bomber patent drawings on a blue background

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HANGMAN PAGE @hangmanpage.bsky.social · 13d

fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know:

help.hbomax.com/us/Feedback/

tbsnetwork.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/req...

HBO Max | Feedback

help.hbomax.com

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Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 13d

Nelson Muntz is looking up at a movie theatre marquee off camera and saying "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title"

From The Simpsons, Season 7 Episode 20 "Bart on the Road", Nelson, Milhouse and Bart have just walked out of seeing the movie Naked Lunch.

Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 13d

Who has had the highest ratio of impact to actual presence in your life?

Rules:
Presence > 0, the presence should beget the impact

Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 13d

Google Translate only works unidirectionally for paternal vs maternal relatives when translating to 🇧🇦. Even with leading/context it fails, e.g. "My wife's mother is my..." vs "My husband's mother is my..."

So instead of maintaining my interlingual eloquence, I am now fool.

Thanks, technology!

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reggie seidman @ennui.org · 15d

cyberjunk

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Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 15d

substack.com/home/post/p-...

Paul Virilio

Bunker Archéologie, 1975

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Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 17d

Sweet pin haul at the yard sale today

A small assortment of metal pins attached to a small square of brown grid paper: OS/2 Warp, USWA Local 6500, Gibson acoustic guitar, Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, Canada Post, Metro Toronto Zoo, City of Toronto, Toronto Board of Education Sesquicentennial, Copps Coliseum, Ontario, Wolf, Toronto Board of Education

Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 20d

Running/operational lights and headlights are different. Learn how to operate them both. Your headlights are to help you see, your running lights are to help you be seen. Stop turning your headlights on in the middle of the day because of a bit of rain or cloudiness, you're needlessly blinding us.

Thee Spooky BlackSky👨🏾‍🍳 @xavierbeloved.blacksky.app · 20d

Ayo serious Question
Quote this with your biggest pet peeve about Driving

Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 20d

Crossing to the other lane when turning. If we're turning onto a two lane road from opposite directions, we should be able to do so simultaneously.

Signalling at the start of the turn/lane change rather than in advance.

Racing. It's not a race! Zero benefit and you make it worse for all involved.

Thee Spooky BlackSky👨🏾‍🍳 @xavierbeloved.blacksky.app · 20d

Ayo serious Question
Quote this with your biggest pet peeve about Driving

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Telemelt @telemelt.com · 22d

Telemelt 2 is a networked multi-system browser emulator designed to recreate the experience of playing console games with a single controller in a room full of friends. We worked hard to make the shared experience we wanted to use.

Telemelt

Telemelt is a multi-console emulator built around passing a controller

telemelt.com

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Ovaltine Tranzac @elvedin.officialawesome.com · 24d

Renee's pre-show outfit is from the Jeff Hardy collection. #AEW