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Switchy leatherman into bad puns, thick boys, and distributed systems. Purveyor of fine jockstrap selfies. Woof.group admin.

Jim Starkey: "Of interest only to third-rate […]

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Joining the Indivisible Spotify boycott today, to try and convince them to drop ads for ICE. This one is painful--I use Spotify constantly, and have been a subscriber for a decade. I've got a huge investment in playlists there, and they're one of the few services […]

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October 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Oh man, this was probably my earliest full-length talk. My 2009 undergrad thesis, on the Casimir effect. If you ever wanted to learn about zero-point energy and how to subtract infinity from infinity, the slides might be a fun read: https://aphyr.com/media/comps-presentation.pdf
October 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
October 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
babe wake up. it's 2002 and I just put fluxbox on your thinkpad. we're gonna play jedi knight 2 tonight but first I need to borrow your external CD-RW to burn copies for everyone
October 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
tell me your bank's marketing dept is run by cishets without telling me etc etc
October 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Re-upping this from 2022: I double-dog-dare someone to give a talk at a queer conference where every time you advance slides, you do it by hitting refresh on this web page:

https://aphyr.com/media/queer-theory/talk.html
October 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
2013, one of my early talks. Slides all drawn with a technical pen on graph paper, photographed with a DSLR, and cleaned up in Gimp.

https://aphyr.com/media/talks/2013/riemann-0.2.0.pdf
October 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Throwback to 2011, before I started doing hand-drawn slides
October 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
So uhhhhh I've been through a lot of padlocks and it is *surprisingly* hard to find a well-proportioned, attractive, and properly weighted lock for a typical chain collar. Many locks are slightly too big or too small, or (as in the Titalium series or the […]

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October 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Begging Apple to use a small part of their $400 billion/year in revenue to hire one (1) UX designer for the Apple TV app
October 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Sup bros
October 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
New program has a pump day and I'm kind of loving doing lighter weights at high volume
October 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Cleaning up old photo storage and oh my god remember before the pandemic when I had HAIR???
October 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
sorry, sorry, I'm trying to delete it
October 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Lats are coming in nicely right now, but I feel a little... deflated, if that makes sense. Been fighting recurring injuries and taking a lot of time off, or working with light weight, the last four months. Hoping that when I get my serratus anterior strengthened […]

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September 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Dumb jock day at the gym
September 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If the Gay Agenda were real and we actually HAD infiltrated the highest echelons of US corporate power, Under Armour would stop making bland polos, re-release these tights, bring back jockstraps, and also their white shoulder-patch compression tees.
September 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Like Inigo Montoya, I have been hunting for a specific man for the last decade. Unlike Inigo Montoya, I mainly want to find him so I can steal these specific tights.
September 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
me: please cut this line and paste it above
vscode: gotcha boss
me: what is this
vscode: the line above the line you cut, boss
me: did I highlight wrong?
vscode: no boss
me: did I not press ^X?
vscode: no you did boss
me: did you not specifically cut the text I […]

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September 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
me, preparing to teach a class in java
September 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Thanks Scruff, I hate it.
September 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The complaint form Ofcom says you should use to report websites for violations of the #onlinesafetyact does not allow you to enter URLs, because it might be illegal for Ofcom to look at them.

What is going ON over there.
September 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
What's up, legs?
August 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
(if you're wondering, I don't use `find -delete` often, and forgot that it is for some insane reason *order sensitive* and will delete everything, not just matching files, if you forget that fact)
August 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I cannot emphasize enough how *fun* it is to call companies that spam on Mastodon and ask them when they plan on posting about the gay BDSM they said they were into, instead of market research spam.

"Maybe an intern did it--we'll put a stop to that immediately." […]

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August 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM