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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 4h

I've been in tech since the mid 90s, and I've met one person who was into the windows event system.

In that same timespan I've met dozens of people who had a C&B torture fetish

If I had to choose between the two, I'd reach for the meat tenderizer every time

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 4h

I can't even picture him getting hard (bad mental image!) for anything other than thinking of genocide. I can't speak for the ladies out there either, but he doesn't seem very arousing either.

.... so are we sure Elon hasn't been hanging around his wife (plot twist: he has)?

Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 5h

Oh no no, Arch was SO yesterday. The distro hopping hipster drug of eye searing colorized console choice these days is CachyOS

Just like Arch but with more buzzwords and less stability!

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 6h

I'm sitting in the auditorium at Seattle University, watching the KOMO-sponsored debate with moderators Joni Balter and Chris Daniels. Loving that the audience seems to be largely students!

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 6h

Can't get publicly humiliated by Putin and that Temu Winnie the Pooh looking bastard if nobody's left to watch the logs, right? #infosec

Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 9h

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 23h

Fantail Falls, the 75ft falls where Fantail Creek meets Awarua (the Haast River) just west of Tioripātea (Haast Pass).

South Westland rainforest #GreatNZRoadie #Nikon

A waterfall not named after a birds tail, but simply that the base fans outwards. A waterfall surrounded in native NZ rainforest.

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Lola Jovan @lolajovan.com · 8h

Take a walk through the Mitchell Point tunnel with us!

#tunnels #columbiarivergorge #hike #oregon #love

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 13h

Where the hell is his neck

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Pipa @pipapipia.bsky.social · 13h

I am in a place of high mountains and valleys at 1800m. altitude. Everything is so wonderful.😘💙

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 14h

It's a free country, and you don't need Jim the Porta Potty Guy's permission to knock them over (door down) once the National Guard person enters.

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TDKlein @tdklein.bsky.social · 14h

empty alleys
doors are barred
the hearths are cold

silence falls, to
mingle with
memory's haze

shades, like ghosts
upon a strangers face -
do stones remember?

#senryu
#haiku
#micropoetry
#poetry
#PeopleOfBluesky
#classicmono
#monochrome
#streetphotography
#blackandwhite
#photography
#EastCoastKin

b/w picture of a narrow, medieval alley, in a small town, Quercy. Built with the shining limestone of southern France - a lone woman is walking from the clear light into the falling dark, looking up, veiled by autumn's shades - October 2024

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 14h

New short Cory Doctorow article on companies using apps to bypass regulations lithub.com/how-american...

How American Tech Cartels Use Apps to Break the Law

The death of competition spells doom for regulation. Competition is an essential component of effective regulation, for two reasons: First, competition keeps the companies within a sector from all …

lithub.com

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 1d

It seems fitting these days. Society, humanity, tech, and me - everything's
just kinda broken

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 1d

Oh that's nice - looks a little like the southern part of the cascades loop (which is currently on fire). I'll add that one to my todo list - thanks!

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 1d

Thanks! I might have to check it out in the car first

With squids and wrecks and impounding it sounds like Chuckanut Dr just south of you - there's usually some sort of cop drama going on if it's a weekend

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 1d

If you had to name a good backroad for riding up there, what would it be? I've been in WA four years now and keep meaning to visit BC but always get sidetracked

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 1d

Wallace Falls #waterfallwednesday #photography

Alt-Text courtesy of David Attenborough.

Upper Wallace Falls in Gold Bar, WA. iPhone 15 Pro.

<attenborough>
Few know that Gold Bar is "The Official Meth Capital of the Pacific Northwest", and the pure glacial water of the Wallace River, fed by Wallace Falls in this image, is the secret ingredient.

The "magic" in this water isn't actually magic at all, but bear feces. The bears eat meth enthusiasts when they venture into the forest, and the blood of the local Washingtonians - enriched by a potent mixture of THC, methamphetamine, and psilocybin - enters the bear's digestive system, which is later excreted into the Wallace River in a highly concentrated form.

This hallucinogen filled water is then recycled back into meth, and thus begins anew The Circle of Meth!
</attenborough>

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Clueless Toshika @cluelesstoshika.bsky.social · 1d

A worthwhile read.
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 1d

This is why interns exist. They may not be able to fix it for you, but their suffering will make you feel better

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Hallicrafters @hallicrafters.bsky.social · 1d

#Photography

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 2d

🎵Because I'm still in love with you 🎵
🎵On this harvest moon 🎵

(lyrics in alt text)

Come a little bit closer
Hear what I have to say
Just like children sleepin'
We could dream this night away

But there's a full moon risin'
Let's go dancin' in the light
We know where the music's playin'
Let's go out and feel the night

Because I'm still in love with you
I want to see you dance again
Because I'm still in love with you
On this harvest moon

When we were strangers
I watched you from afar
When we were lovers
I loved you with all my heart

But now it's gettin' late
And the moon is climbin' high
I want to celebrate
See it shinin' in your eye

Because I'm still in love with you
I want to see you dance again
Because I'm still in love with you
On this harvest moon

Because I'm still in love with you
I want to see you dance again
Because I'm still in love with you
On this harvest moon

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 2d

And FWIW PBS streaming is excellent, even the free tier

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 2d

The circle of life:

Piracy -> the golden era of streaming -> enshittification and sucking up to politicians -> back to piracy

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Wolfgang Whyte 𓃦 @wolfgangwhyte.bsky.social · 2d

A cloud-high turret of Castle Mountain on a frosty Mountain Monday ᨒ

#MountainMonday #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #bluesky #photo #landscape #art #nature #classicmono #mono #monochrome #bw #bnw #blackandwhite #mountains

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Bring a Trailer @bringatrailer.bsky.social · 2d

See this Kaase "Boss Nine"-powered 1969 Ford Mustang SportsRoof listed now on BaT!

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1969-ford-mustang-213/

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