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I break things and write detailed reports. Rapid Prototyper. Maker. Apprentice Knifemaker. Sometimes I try to help explain social situations to dudes.

Trans rights are human rights and Black lives matter.

I love you.
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#MakeAllTheThings
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November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Service Outage

xkcd.com/3170/
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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My friends and I were featured in Wired magazine today! (cc @tacticoolgf.bsky.social @picatinnyrailed.bsky.social @inrange.tv etc etc)

www.wired.com/story/the-ha...
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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In this week's Tell-It Report:

Feds indict 2 men for plot to invade a Haitian island, kill the men and enslave women & children to fulfill their sex fantasies
Aide for GOP rep indicted for staging an attack by "violent leftists"
Ohio cop acquitted in shooting Ta'Kia Young
Feds Indict Two White Men in Plot to Enslave Women, Children on Haitian Island
Federal prosecutors say that two men from North Texas conspired to invade the island and kill all the men.
dlvr.it
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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It's weird how aggressive some folks can be when you decline alcohol. Like they need you to justify why you aren't drinking.

Please don't be that person.
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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I 100% agree and would add that if you are hosting a holiday event and you do NOT have something festive, creative and delicious for your guests to drink without alcohol in it, you are actually an asshole

don't make them drink tap water while everyone else has bespoke cocktails!
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:

Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.

If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.

Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I fell into Test Engineering by accident. A friend at GE Appliances told me to apply to their SWQA team and all the things that frustrated previous managers turned out to be strengths for this sort of role.

It allows me to combine my wide & deep knowledge of how things work and my love for details.
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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you should always treat larger Signal chats with people you don’t know well and trust as inherently not-secure
November 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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You will never guess what this is in reference to.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Nov 22 should be declared a hacker holiday
Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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all my homies are
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The evolution:
- 5ish years ago I made my first single colour led board, you can see the bodge wire as I made mistakes.
- Now, I have made a custom game boy PCB with my own screen driver that's smaller than the led board
November 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
One of my "Capital O Opinions" regarding a good SWQA team is that we exist to make the devs look better, not worse.

It's too easy for the relationship to devolve into the Test Engineers scoring points against the devs, putting them on defensive footing and reducing collaboration.

1/5
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Normalize asking what things mean
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM