Orman
@orman.bsky.social
Programmer dragon fursuiter | Also goes by @lizardorman |
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Today in headlines that sound like a joke set-up
January 24, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Today in headlines that sound like a joke set-up
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in the face of the Horrors, I will continue to post silly inane shit in the hopes it gets at least one person to LIGHTLY and SENSIBLY chuckle
January 24, 2026 at 10:37 PM
in the face of the Horrors, I will continue to post silly inane shit in the hopes it gets at least one person to LIGHTLY and SENSIBLY chuckle
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If I had a snout I could sleep under all these blankets with just my little nose poking out for fresh air. Who designed this universe. 🤷
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 AM
If I had a snout I could sleep under all these blankets with just my little nose poking out for fresh air. Who designed this universe. 🤷
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Thanks so much to @gaze.bsky.social for getting me this super cool VHS footage of Shiba's (the canine) first outing since 1991 >ww@ And how lucky to run into Walden!! What year is it anyways?! #fursuitfriday
January 23, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Thanks so much to @gaze.bsky.social for getting me this super cool VHS footage of Shiba's (the canine) first outing since 1991 >ww@ And how lucky to run into Walden!! What year is it anyways?! #fursuitfriday
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It remains weird that this is how a UK member of parliament resigns his or her seat:
January 23, 2026 at 4:46 PM
It remains weird that this is how a UK member of parliament resigns his or her seat:
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It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star A Giant Squid!
January 23, 2026 at 6:55 PM
It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star A Giant Squid!
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A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
January 23, 2026 at 11:44 AM
A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
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Finally found it, the gender fluid
January 22, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Finally found it, the gender fluid
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Pixar sent us some cupcakes. They cost around $1.7 billion.
January 23, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Pixar sent us some cupcakes. They cost around $1.7 billion.
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YouTube music is so funny cause you'll think you've trimmed out all the fat and then a Tobuscus song you liked when you were 12 comes on
January 21, 2026 at 3:26 PM
YouTube music is so funny cause you'll think you've trimmed out all the fat and then a Tobuscus song you liked when you were 12 comes on
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I'm incapable of reliably committing the names of the Great Lakes to memory because my brain absolutely rejects the fact that there's a Lake Superior but no corresponding Lake Inferior.
January 22, 2026 at 2:43 AM
I'm incapable of reliably committing the names of the Great Lakes to memory because my brain absolutely rejects the fact that there's a Lake Superior but no corresponding Lake Inferior.
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Today I learned that apparently kids in school are being given the assignment "go home and ask your parents what their favourite meme is and write a report about it"
January 22, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Today I learned that apparently kids in school are being given the assignment "go home and ask your parents what their favourite meme is and write a report about it"
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I'm so old, all the memes from my youth were from TV commercials
January 22, 2026 at 2:39 PM
I'm so old, all the memes from my youth were from TV commercials
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My first feature of the year explores the phenomenon of Quake Brutalist Jam for @theguardian.com, and how the FPS mapping community is keeping old-school level design alive. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...
‘It’s the underground Met Gala of concrete murderzone design’: welcome to the Quake Brutalist Game Jam
Quake Brutalist Jam began as a celebration of old-fashioned shooter level design, but its latest version is one step away from being a game in its own right
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:18 PM
My first feature of the year explores the phenomenon of Quake Brutalist Jam for @theguardian.com, and how the FPS mapping community is keeping old-school level design alive. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...
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Atmospheric photograph of the Forth Bridge, taken from Rodney at sunset in Oct 1940 while she was based at Rosyth. Years of hard service lay ahead, and without an extensive refit she was in poor condition by late 1944, spending the remainder of the war at Scapa Flow
📷 IWM A 1207
🧵10/10
#NavalHistory
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🧵10/10
#NavalHistory
January 22, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Atmospheric photograph of the Forth Bridge, taken from Rodney at sunset in Oct 1940 while she was based at Rosyth. Years of hard service lay ahead, and without an extensive refit she was in poor condition by late 1944, spending the remainder of the war at Scapa Flow
📷 IWM A 1207
🧵10/10
#NavalHistory
📷 IWM A 1207
🧵10/10
#NavalHistory
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TIL you can "get gnomed" when using Linux.
A combination of installed packages can cause GNOME desktop to spontaneously appear on your computer.
There's even a whole subreddit dedicated to it.
www.reddit.com/r/gotgnomed/
A combination of installed packages can cause GNOME desktop to spontaneously appear on your computer.
There's even a whole subreddit dedicated to it.
www.reddit.com/r/gotgnomed/
January 22, 2026 at 10:12 AM
TIL you can "get gnomed" when using Linux.
A combination of installed packages can cause GNOME desktop to spontaneously appear on your computer.
There's even a whole subreddit dedicated to it.
www.reddit.com/r/gotgnomed/
A combination of installed packages can cause GNOME desktop to spontaneously appear on your computer.
There's even a whole subreddit dedicated to it.
www.reddit.com/r/gotgnomed/
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Define yourself by more things you love than things you hate or you’ll rot yourself from the inside
August 21, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Define yourself by more things you love than things you hate or you’ll rot yourself from the inside
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why is it hard to have a funeral for an elephant
it's a mammoth undertaking
it's a mammoth undertaking
January 21, 2026 at 7:58 PM
why is it hard to have a funeral for an elephant
it's a mammoth undertaking
it's a mammoth undertaking
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To the layperson aerodynamics might as well be witchcraft.
And these tubes here, designed to set Matthew Hopkins running to the nearest haberdashery, are the peculiar abuse of physics known as the Flettner rotor.
And these tubes here, designed to set Matthew Hopkins running to the nearest haberdashery, are the peculiar abuse of physics known as the Flettner rotor.
June 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
To the layperson aerodynamics might as well be witchcraft.
And these tubes here, designed to set Matthew Hopkins running to the nearest haberdashery, are the peculiar abuse of physics known as the Flettner rotor.
And these tubes here, designed to set Matthew Hopkins running to the nearest haberdashery, are the peculiar abuse of physics known as the Flettner rotor.
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It's weird to me that American Dragon Jake Long is old enough to drink today...
Happy 21st to a lovely show! HA it probably has a lot to answer for, really introduced me to partial transformation as a fun, useful trope, and had a lot of really fun creatures.
Happy 21st to a lovely show! HA it probably has a lot to answer for, really introduced me to partial transformation as a fun, useful trope, and had a lot of really fun creatures.
a cartoon character is chained to a purple cloth
ALT: a cartoon character is chained to a purple cloth
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January 21, 2026 at 11:10 PM
It's weird to me that American Dragon Jake Long is old enough to drink today...
Happy 21st to a lovely show! HA it probably has a lot to answer for, really introduced me to partial transformation as a fun, useful trope, and had a lot of really fun creatures.
Happy 21st to a lovely show! HA it probably has a lot to answer for, really introduced me to partial transformation as a fun, useful trope, and had a lot of really fun creatures.
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some bits of wisdom from tunglr
January 21, 2026 at 10:29 AM
some bits of wisdom from tunglr
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the classic example here is the Toyota "unintended acceleration" lawsuits, where NASA and NHTSA concluded not that the code was responsible, but that the code was so convoluted that it couldn't be ruled out. thousands of global variables. unstructured C programming. pure spaghetti.
January 21, 2026 at 4:41 PM
the classic example here is the Toyota "unintended acceleration" lawsuits, where NASA and NHTSA concluded not that the code was responsible, but that the code was so convoluted that it couldn't be ruled out. thousands of global variables. unstructured C programming. pure spaghetti.
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yeah I wouldn't suggest vibecoding the firmware for your safety-critical life support systems. but lemme tell you, you're probably not going to want to look at a lot of the code that *actual humans* write for those things either.
January 21, 2026 at 4:37 PM
yeah I wouldn't suggest vibecoding the firmware for your safety-critical life support systems. but lemme tell you, you're probably not going to want to look at a lot of the code that *actual humans* write for those things either.
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If your engineering culture is such that changes can be merged that no one is accountable for, then you have way bigger problems than whether PRs are being generated using LLMs
Actual Engineering Manager here.
Everyone talks about Vibe Coding, but I don't hear a lot about Vibe Debugging. My nightmare is that something burps out a mess of code and *no one is responsible for it*. If one of my people writes it... well they get to fix it. If no one writes it.......
Everyone talks about Vibe Coding, but I don't hear a lot about Vibe Debugging. My nightmare is that something burps out a mess of code and *no one is responsible for it*. If one of my people writes it... well they get to fix it. If no one writes it.......
January 19, 2026 at 10:25 PM
If your engineering culture is such that changes can be merged that no one is accountable for, then you have way bigger problems than whether PRs are being generated using LLMs