FortGeek
@fortgeek.bsky.social
Old forts, cool cars, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drums, Guitars, Synths & Gear, CAD, Apollo/Skylab, and too much crap cluttering my room.
https://pareidolia-global.blogspot.com/
For timeline traffic management, I may or may not follow back. Nothing personal!
https://pareidolia-global.blogspot.com/
For timeline traffic management, I may or may not follow back. Nothing personal!
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a man in a red cape is standing in front of a building with the word lounge on it
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Blogs!
Just turned the lights back on at my old globally-unread blog. You should be impressed by the very long, extensive list of Very Important People utterly unaware of it!
(basically, I was bored, can make long posts /1 without the /2 batshit threads that--~#%
pareidolia-global.blogspot.com
Just turned the lights back on at my old globally-unread blog. You should be impressed by the very long, extensive list of Very Important People utterly unaware of it!
(basically, I was bored, can make long posts /1 without the /2 batshit threads that--~#%
pareidolia-global.blogspot.com
Trains!!
Ride an "Executive Train"--what the big bosses do when they wish to observe the desmaine and gaze upon us, to our betterment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jckU...
Ride an "Executive Train"--what the big bosses do when they wish to observe the desmaine and gaze upon us, to our betterment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jckU...
INSIDE an Executive Train
YouTube video by V12 Productions
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December 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Trains!!
Ride an "Executive Train"--what the big bosses do when they wish to observe the desmaine and gaze upon us, to our betterment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jckU...
Ride an "Executive Train"--what the big bosses do when they wish to observe the desmaine and gaze upon us, to our betterment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jckU...
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Watch this big orange thing--it's first in the video--and imagine being in traffic with this drunken locomotive *snrk*
youtu.be/MghKuxsGjZc
youtu.be/MghKuxsGjZc
June 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Watch this big orange thing--it's first in the video--and imagine being in traffic with this drunken locomotive *snrk*
youtu.be/MghKuxsGjZc
youtu.be/MghKuxsGjZc
I have set my laptop's default fonts in LibreOffice and WordPad to Comic Sans for two simple reasons:
1. Ease of reading.
2. Will piss someone off, Out There.
1. Ease of reading.
2. Will piss someone off, Out There.
For the last several novels I've been writing them up in Cambria, which is a nicely unobtrusive serif typeface that doesn't call attention to itself when I'm thinking. Prior to that I mostly used Times New Roman, but at least once I used a variation of Baskerville just for kicks.
ok this is an insane story but let’s do a poll: if you could declare your workplace’s official font, what would it be? (Might be different than *favorite* font!)
December 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I have set my laptop's default fonts in LibreOffice and WordPad to Comic Sans for two simple reasons:
1. Ease of reading.
2. Will piss someone off, Out There.
1. Ease of reading.
2. Will piss someone off, Out There.
@patmak.bsky.social I have _thirty_ short stories in various states of progress. =0
10 done / 5 of those you've read
9 idle/not started
11 in progress or stalled
...pretty pleased with them, though one's about 90 pages, so it's more of a novella. Thinking about cutting it into shorts.
10 done / 5 of those you've read
9 idle/not started
11 in progress or stalled
...pretty pleased with them, though one's about 90 pages, so it's more of a novella. Thinking about cutting it into shorts.
December 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
@patmak.bsky.social I have _thirty_ short stories in various states of progress. =0
10 done / 5 of those you've read
9 idle/not started
11 in progress or stalled
...pretty pleased with them, though one's about 90 pages, so it's more of a novella. Thinking about cutting it into shorts.
10 done / 5 of those you've read
9 idle/not started
11 in progress or stalled
...pretty pleased with them, though one's about 90 pages, so it's more of a novella. Thinking about cutting it into shorts.
Going by the "Are ye a fighter...or are ye food?" scene in "Ragnarok," I must conclude that petey shithands here is food.
Pete Hegseth: "The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI."
He says the military has launched a new platform that "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."
He says the military has launched a new platform that "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."
December 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Going by the "Are ye a fighter...or are ye food?" scene in "Ragnarok," I must conclude that petey shithands here is food.
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I think way too often about that software engineer who said that Google LaMDA was sentient
An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
December 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I think way too often about that software engineer who said that Google LaMDA was sentient
Rockets!!
Probable next project, the Comanche-3 three-stage. I built the same thing in 1982. The original boasted 2600 feet--but was 12gm lighter than this! The nose cone was thin vacu-formed plastic. Modern is heavier styrene. /1
Probable next project, the Comanche-3 three-stage. I built the same thing in 1982. The original boasted 2600 feet--but was 12gm lighter than this! The nose cone was thin vacu-formed plastic. Modern is heavier styrene. /1
December 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Rockets!!
Probable next project, the Comanche-3 three-stage. I built the same thing in 1982. The original boasted 2600 feet--but was 12gm lighter than this! The nose cone was thin vacu-formed plastic. Modern is heavier styrene. /1
Probable next project, the Comanche-3 three-stage. I built the same thing in 1982. The original boasted 2600 feet--but was 12gm lighter than this! The nose cone was thin vacu-formed plastic. Modern is heavier styrene. /1
Rockets!!
Assembly is complete, now I'm glazing the fins. Next is sanding. Hopefully Thursday will be just warm enough for shooting the paint.
Assembly is complete, now I'm glazing the fins. Next is sanding. Hopefully Thursday will be just warm enough for shooting the paint.
December 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Rockets!!
Assembly is complete, now I'm glazing the fins. Next is sanding. Hopefully Thursday will be just warm enough for shooting the paint.
Assembly is complete, now I'm glazing the fins. Next is sanding. Hopefully Thursday will be just warm enough for shooting the paint.
They're going to make Posobiec gay!
[and only gay AI's will want anything to do with him, bucket of chunder that he is]
[and only gay AI's will want anything to do with him, bucket of chunder that he is]
December 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
They're going to make Posobiec gay!
[and only gay AI's will want anything to do with him, bucket of chunder that he is]
[and only gay AI's will want anything to do with him, bucket of chunder that he is]
Reminds me of The Trophy from Asprin's "Myth Directions":
To say they carried a statue would be insufficient. It was the ugliest thing I had ever seen in my life and that included everything I'd just seen on this trip with Tananda. It was small, roughly twice the size of my head... /1
To say they carried a statue would be insufficient. It was the ugliest thing I had ever seen in my life and that included everything I'd just seen on this trip with Tananda. It was small, roughly twice the size of my head... /1
in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Reminds me of The Trophy from Asprin's "Myth Directions":
To say they carried a statue would be insufficient. It was the ugliest thing I had ever seen in my life and that included everything I'd just seen on this trip with Tananda. It was small, roughly twice the size of my head... /1
To say they carried a statue would be insufficient. It was the ugliest thing I had ever seen in my life and that included everything I'd just seen on this trip with Tananda. It was small, roughly twice the size of my head... /1
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We have become a profoundly ridiculous country. This makes the Nero-era look sane and normal.
December 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We have become a profoundly ridiculous country. This makes the Nero-era look sane and normal.
That is some "World War Z" shit.
December 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
That is some "World War Z" shit.
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Stupid AI, number eleventy grillion, OUTTATIME edition:
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Stupid AI, number eleventy grillion, OUTTATIME edition:
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Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
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Grim called me “insane” for saying Democrats shouldn’t recruit candidates with Nazi tattoos and now that I see who he takes seriously, that take makes a lot of sense
Ryan Grim: I think the posse will find a lot useful there.
Steve Bannon: You’re an intrepid reporter, sir, and a voice of truth. Sometimes people love it and sometimes people love it less, but you’re you’re a warrior.
Grim: No doubt about it.
Bannon: Let's welcome on Raw Egg Nationalist!
Steve Bannon: You’re an intrepid reporter, sir, and a voice of truth. Sometimes people love it and sometimes people love it less, but you’re you’re a warrior.
Grim: No doubt about it.
Bannon: Let's welcome on Raw Egg Nationalist!
December 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Grim called me “insane” for saying Democrats shouldn’t recruit candidates with Nazi tattoos and now that I see who he takes seriously, that take makes a lot of sense
Heggie's is the IT Clown show.
a drawing of a red balloon with a string
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December 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Heggie's is the IT Clown show.
Rockets!!
Been about 20 years since I built my last pair of Estes birds. They never flew and are collecting dust.
This one's been in its packaging until a few nights ago, when I decided it was time. This batwing'd missile is my nephew's xmas present. /1
Been about 20 years since I built my last pair of Estes birds. They never flew and are collecting dust.
This one's been in its packaging until a few nights ago, when I decided it was time. This batwing'd missile is my nephew's xmas present. /1
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Rockets!!
Been about 20 years since I built my last pair of Estes birds. They never flew and are collecting dust.
This one's been in its packaging until a few nights ago, when I decided it was time. This batwing'd missile is my nephew's xmas present. /1
Been about 20 years since I built my last pair of Estes birds. They never flew and are collecting dust.
This one's been in its packaging until a few nights ago, when I decided it was time. This batwing'd missile is my nephew's xmas present. /1
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I hope Santa brings me a Miwaukee Stan Perpler!
December 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I hope Santa brings me a Miwaukee Stan Perpler!
Bet they're all 10mm, The Socket of Sorrow.
Expended ones all fall under the center of the nearest vehicle or bounce under the nearest low furniture.
Expended ones all fall under the center of the nearest vehicle or bounce under the nearest low furniture.
when you need to shoot an entire clip of deep drive wrench sockets at something, and who doesn't
December 3, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Bet they're all 10mm, The Socket of Sorrow.
Expended ones all fall under the center of the nearest vehicle or bounce under the nearest low furniture.
Expended ones all fall under the center of the nearest vehicle or bounce under the nearest low furniture.
I named my fists HAIR and BOOGER cos they're two things you don't want in your nose.
I named my fists EOL and EOF because together they will END you.
@fortgeek.bsky.social The whole fist naming thread (read the quotes) is entertaining, but I thought this one specifically would appeal to you.
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I named my fists HAIR and BOOGER cos they're two things you don't want in your nose.
I named my fists [left] and [right] cos you shoulda just let them lie.
December 2, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I named my fists [left] and [right] cos you shoulda just let them lie.
I named my fists FORTRAN and COBOL cos you bout to get PUNCHED.
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
I named my fists Moby and Dick because I am about to whale on you.
December 2, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I named my fists FORTRAN and COBOL cos you bout to get PUNCHED.
I named my fists JON and SNOW because WINTER IS COMING.
I named my fists Fight and Club, but I can’t tell you why.
December 2, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I named my fists JON and SNOW because WINTER IS COMING.