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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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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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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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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
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Currently playing: The Lord of the Rings (1978) Soundtrack

(Astonishingly, the LP does not credit any orchestra or musicians, weird.)
Vinyl record playing next to the LP cover of the original motion picture soundtrack of The Lord of the Rings (1978) composed and conducted by Leonard Rosenmann. The cover shows the title chiseled into a cracked wall. Inner cover of the double LP, showing Rivendell on the right and on the left four film stills and the track listing and credits: Side 1: 1. Theme from The Lord of the Rings 2. The History of the Ring 3. The Journey Begins; Encounter with the Ringwraiths 4. Riders of Rohan Side 2: 1. Escape to Rivendell 2. Mind of Moria 3. The Battle of the Mines; The Balrog Side 3: 1. Mithrandir 2. Gandalf Remembers 3. Frodo Disappears 4. Following the Orcs 5. Attack of the Orcs Side 4: 1. Helm's Deep 2. The Dawn Battle; Theoden's Victory 3. The Voyage to Mordor; Theme from The Lord of the Rings Composed and conducted by Leonard Rosenmann. Orchestration - Ralph Ferraro Music Editor - Jim Henrikson Recording Engineer - Grover Helsley Technical Supervision - Jim Stern Remix Engineer - Jim Stern Mastering Engineer - John Golden Art Direction and Design - Phil Carroll
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Two bands that debuted with live albums:
1987 Jane's Addiction
1989 Primus
Cover of 1987 live album Jane's Addiction showing Perry Farrell with naked torso wearing a girdle. Cover of 1988 live album Suck On This by Primus showing a plasticine baby holding a milk bottle.
October 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Just the covers are 💥
Cover of 2019 album Wakage Ga Itaru. The four members of Atarashii Gakko are drawn manga cover style in front of a fence, through which dark blue-white blossoms and green foliage can be seen. They all have nose bleeds and are holding one hand to their faces. Cover of 2018 album Maenarawanai. The four members of Atarashii Gakko in walking profile under a covered walkway. They have been photographed upside down though and inserted into the picture, so their hair is standing straight up and they are holding their skirts down.
October 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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If you see this, post a pic from your device with no explanation
Grey wall with graffiti showing the backs two people wearing dark grey shirts and white trousers as the are walking away. Their shadows are visible, lending a very 3D appearance to the graffiti. Some very faded unreadable text from a red marker is visible below the figures. The wall appears to be made from large breezeblocks, with joins visible through the plaster, some of which has broken off.
October 3, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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I'm the exact amount of sozzled to make these two sentences of The Book Of Love by Kelly Link be utterly sublime, no idea why, but the pictures they invoke are delightful.
"He could have turned himself into a bird to waft up to the Cliffs on his own damn wings. He could have turned himself into a baby elephant or Céline Dion or a hot-air balloon made out of lettuce and diamond dust."
September 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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All of mainstream western media at the moment
The Droogs from A Clockwork Orange in their white uniforms and bowler hats, some of them carrying long batons, heading out for an evening of ultra-violence.
September 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Eins dieser Worte, die falscher und falscher aussehen, je mehr man drauf guckt
Das Wort "Meer"
September 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Hard to see in the picture, but yes, they are secured with ropes.
Two people on a domed glass roof.
September 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Brings up fond memories of the late 80s standing in a West Berlin phone booth (unlimited length local calls for ~10 cents) and hooking up to a bulletin board with one of these Epson HX-20 laptops with acoustic coupler modem.
Epson HX-20, an early laptop computer with keyboard, a 4x20 character LCD screen and a tiny dot matrix printer, first released in 1982.
September 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Field mouse snacking on sunflower seeds that have fallen down in between a small ornamental quince bush
Same as post text
September 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Rare dramatic sunset in Berlin
Sunset that looks like something is burning behind some high rises on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin
September 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Our damaged apricot tree has had a woodpecker taking advantage of the split open bark. Looks like a squirrel might have used the hole to stash two hazelnuts. But the woodpecker must've come back and now only the shells are left stuck in the hole
Empty hazelnut shells stuck in a woodpecker made hole in a tree where the bark had previously split open wide.
August 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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One thing that helped my plants is to cut off the older leaves. The plant only needs those closer to where the fruits are, towards the tip. I leave maybe 3-5 leaves down from the first courgette.
Courgette, aka zucchini, plant, showing a relatively leafless trunk until the zucchini start growing.
August 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Russell breaking his back
August 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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In the museum they have a "model" made by Gaudí for different, but similar church, and it's innovation took my breath away
Upside down architectural model made by hanging weights from strings. Same model, head on perspective.
July 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Without saying The Fifth Element, fav Bruce Willis Film?
Bruce Willis, naked apart from what looks a bit like a bomb strapped to his chest, injecting himself with an industrial strength syringe in the film Twelve Monkeys (1995)
July 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Wusste, dass mir der irgendwie bekannt vorkommt. Hier ein Bild von Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
July 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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If you see this, quote with a robot, that isn't from "Star Trek", "Star Wars", "Dr. Who" or "Transformers"
The robots "Vital Information Necessary Centralized" aka VINCENT, Maximilian and "Bio-sanitation Battalion" aka BOB from the 1979 film The Black Hole
July 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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June 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Post a random photo otherwise everything goes wrong in June.
Drummer of the band Help bashing away while bathed in red light
June 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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First year that the peach tree is bearing fruit. Fingers crossed they ripen and are edible.
Young peach tree, ca. 5 years old, situated amongst some low fern. Four early peach fruits on a small branch in the middle of the tree. They are about 2 cm big and fuzzy green with the beginnings of reddish colour developing on the southern side.
May 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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If you like your noise rock on the faster side, check out Help from Portland, OR.
helpifuckingneedit.bandcamp.com/music
They just had a lot of messy fun opening for Whores. in Berlin
Drummer, guitarist and bassist from the band Help bathed in red light
May 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM