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Robby Raschke
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mostly music appreciation, some programming stuff here and there, a bit of systems thinking
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myshetland.co.uk/monster-on-a...

I'm rarely on my own. Always someone trailing around after me!
#myshetland #shetland #whitecat #monster #shetlandislands
Monster on a Mission
Monster doesn’t usually come out with me on the breakfast round mostly because it is too early and only essential personnel go outside but today he was there, following me wherever I went, mo…
myshetland.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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asls.org.uk
“Tablet is a sort of crystalline fudge made from sugar, condensed milk, more milk, butter, more sugar and – that might be all, actually. It is an alchemical procedure, not a recipe.”

—Don Paterson on tablet, in his memoir TOY FIGHTS (Faber, 2023)
#memoir #tablet
💙📚
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
But the doyen, the dauphin, the deus pater of traybakes was of course Scottish tablet, which essentially dispensed with all the other ingredients and got straight down to business. The feeling of tablet is as hard to describe as masturbation; can you remember how it felt to walk before you could walk? No. You can't. So stop asking me. Nor can you watch me eat it, for I am going to eat it like a fat Labrador in the corner, angrily and alone. Tablet is a sort of crystalline fudge made from sugar, condensed milk, more milk, butter, more sugar and – that might be all, actually. It is an alchemical procedure, not a recipe. All is stirring, adding, pausing, timing, condensing, cooling and waiting. The result is a semi-hard square of fawn heaven that tastes like what it is, forty pints of milk squashed into a block of gold. It is milky and buttery and crumbly and both hard and soft; it is sweeter than anything you've tasted in your life, and electricity rushes up the sides of your face as your dopamine surges in anticipation of the next bite, and your inhibitory neurons throw down their rifles, tear off their uniforms and join the lack of resistance. Tablet puts all thoughts to rest, bar those of tablet. To say that you cannot stop eating it would imply that you'd contemplated trying.
December 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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This is incredible.
Violent Magic Orchestra | Boiler Room: Osaka
YouTube video by Boiler Room
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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I don't understand this whole "Gen ?" stuff, but I'm going to try anyway.

Gen X are today's Boomers

Am I doing this right?
December 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
An easy way to explain luddites:

Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.

And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.

That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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The kind of headline that makes me go "what now?"
Farmer who killed his 76-year-old aunt using a teleporter had sentence reduced by 18 months
December 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
I've had a rough day, and I think I've earned this.

GOAT PAJAMA PARTY.

Goats are from @sunflowerfarm.bsky.social in Cumberland, Maine (via their YT). Bless their chaotic little hearts and tiny pink noses.
December 3, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Having reduced myself to now using slack for my youtube watch later list and general viewing, I am wondering if premium is worth it. Does anyone have experience with youtube premium? Does it really stop all ads from getting played? How does that interact with possible ad-blocker interference?
December 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Interessante Ergänzung zu diesem (älteren) Text von @arimak.bsky.social ⬇️
Mit Kreuzen gegen völkische Siedler: Ausrufezeichen im Dorf
Ernestine Monville-Raabe und Martin Raabe vom Netzwerk „beherzt“ kämpfen gegen den Einfluss von völkischen Sied­le­r:in­nen in der Lüneburger Heide.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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rbb24.de
Eine rbb-Recherche deckt kriminelle Strukturen und massive Verstöße gegen das Arbeitsrecht bei Subunternehmen von Essenslieferdiensten auf. Die Arbeitsministerin will die Branche jetzt stärker regulieren.
Was indische Lieferkuriere in Berlin erleben - und wie sie sich wehren
Eine rbb-Recherche deckt kriminelle Strukturen und massive Verstöße gegen das Arbeitsrecht bei Subunternehmen von Essenslieferdiensten auf. Die Arbeitsministerin will die Branche jetzt stärker regulie...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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This has been floating through my timeline a LOT, and loathe to say it, it's starting to grow on me 🙃
robynelyse.bsky.social Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 6d
Even Marc Jacobs makes ($1850) mistakes.
Freakishly hideous lavender marc jacobs peplum sweater and tan pants with built-in FUPA
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Love these three books, they are properly mind bending in the best way.
premeemohamed.com Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 8d
Never not thinking about Octavia E. Butler's XENOGENESIS series and how explosively that first book blew my mind and how badly I wish I had read it when I was younger (I was in my 20s)

I wonder how different my writing would look today if I had
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Can recommend. Great view into Isreal and Palestine from a completely different and very illuminating perspective.
November 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:

The Notwist
Hanabie
Jah Wobble
Yawning Man
Sudan Archives (currently at)

(simply the last 5 I've been to)
aesthr.com Æ. @aesthr.com · 10d
introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:

Korpiklaani
Evanescence & Within Temptation
Nightwish (2x)
Sigur Rós
Hamferð
mothsandrust.bsky.social bethistopholes, devil in the modern world @mothsandrust.bsky.social · 10d
introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:

thrice
alexisonfire
mannequin pussy
hotel mira
charly bliss
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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stephanfaris.bsky.social
Gen-X: 42
Millennials: 420
Gen-Z: 69
Gen-alpha: 6, 7

Solve for the next generation
mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 10d
Seen on Reddit:

"42 is just old people 6 7"

And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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I've been to enough Pop-Kultur festivals now to spot music industry types a mile away. Why are there so many at this Sudan Archives gig?!?
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Been trying to figure out why I like some live music venues more than others. One of the reasons I got figured out. I prefer venues with ample opportunity to lean. I realise seating is tricky, but a sturdy long bar, ledges on walls, ideally vertical, but horizontal's ok, and columns are all good.
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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afelia.bsky.social
Kennt ihr developer, die Lust auf richtig sinnstiftende Arbeit haben?
Aula sucht welche!
www.aula.de/software-unt...
Software Unterstützung | aula
Zusammenarbeit mit Freiberuflern/Agenturen
www.aula.de
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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I am starting to think that doctors pushing nutrition as a medicine are being lazy. Fair enough, only eating crap is going to be bad. But a decent varied diet that still leads to recommendations by a doctor to change, that's surely pretty dodgy these days.
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Always intriguing and a bit scary when researchers find the reasons for noticeable environmental changes.

Article about fishermen noticing the warming from January: www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/norwegi...
thebarentsobserver.com The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 11d
The additional warming in the Eurasian Basin originates from the Greenland Basin, which, due to rapid warming, is no longer functioning as a cold source for the Eurasian Basin as it did in the past. #climatechange
The deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean are warming now too
While it is well documented that global warming is heating the world's oceans, there is now further evidence that even the deep waters are being affected.
www.thebarentsobserver.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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The kind of thing that makes you do a double take. A portable machine with 3 Intel 8086s and 256KB of RAM in 1978!

From "The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squeak" by Daniel Ingalls (open access available: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...)
SMALLTALK-78 In 1978, 16-bit Microprocessors were coming into production, offering us the chance to build a portable Smalltalk computer. Memory costs were also dropping, so that it was reasonable to fit an entire Smalltalk image in main memory without OOZE. Alan managed to find some extra funding for a young Xerox engineer, Doug Fairbairn, to build a prototype portable machine. The machine was named "NoteTaker" and used three Intel 8086 processors on an innovative bus structure that Doug had designed, coupled to 256K bytes of resident memory. (Footnote 21) Footnote 21: The NoteTaker actually had three 8086's; one to manage the disk, one to run Smalltalk, and a special "fast" 8Mhz 8086 to manage the Ethernet. Ever looking for more cycles, I wrote a special version of BitBlt that ran in the Ethernet processor, and took BitBlt commands off a queue from the main Smalltalk processor. This nearly doubled the speed of text-heavy operations.
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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sarahhennies.bsky.social
This works for Spotify, too.
rcolesworthy.bsky.social Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 12d
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Kinda surprised no-one's made a Base67 encoding yet
retr0.id David Buchanan @retr0.id · 12d
movie: we can't trace their payload, it's behind two layers of base64!

computer knowers: *groan*

reality:
screenshot of text: Triple-Base64 Encoding All exfiltrated data is encoded through three layers of base64 before upload: content → base64 → base64 → base64 This serves multiple anti-forensic purposes: Evades GitHub's built-in secret scanning Bypasses third-party secret detection tools Makes casual browsing of repository contents ineffective Complicates forensic analysis of stolen data
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I once live-tweeted our attempt to cancel a mis-sold Virgin Media contract.

It went viral to such a level that eventually the CEO had to call me personally to apologize for how fucking awful they are. Just to give them some modicum of a PR save they could use to counter the massive negative press.
catbus.phd Catbus ☃️🎄❄️ @catbus.phd · 12d
underrated feature of old twitter was people with a decent following being able to bully brands into acting right
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

I think I might have a decent chance at getting saved
A selfie of three main characters of the TV show Lucifer, from left to right, Aimee Garcia as Ella Lopez (forensic scientist), Lauren German as Detective Chloe Decker (homicide detective), and Lesley-Ann Brandt as Mazikeen (demon), who also appears to be the one taking the picture.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM