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ian @slomobo.com · 7h

my 7lb Chihuahua got ejected from the dog park for drop kicking a poodle from the top rope

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ian @slomobo.com · 16h

guy who learns about and gets really into sriracha in 2025

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ian @slomobo.com · 1d

an ass for an ass leaves the whole world b'hind

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ian @slomobo.com · 1d

you can't be bigoted against AI (but I wish you could)

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ian @slomobo.com · 4d

lyrics aside, the production on the new Taylor album is not great, right? I didn't have high expectations from Max Martin but it's kind of aggressively flat and cheap sounding

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ian @slomobo.com · 4d

I should just bite the bullet and get into meshtastic/LoRa. surely there aren't a bunch of greasy sovcits dominating the field of amateur radio, right??

ian @slomobo.com · 4d

every time I start to get interested in some decentralized tech, I'm very quickly thrown off by the stench of bl*ckch**n weirdos lurking around the corner

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ian @slomobo.com · 8d

taking my vape out of its carrying case and sniffing the length of it like a fine cigar

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 15d

Tower Dungeon rules. Tell a friend to tell a friend.

Miguel Sternberg @spookysquid.bsky.social · 15d

This is from Tsutomu Nihei's new dungeon crawler manga, Tower Dungeon. Nihei's always been incredible at conveying vast crumbling spaces and it's really paying off in this new series.

Manga panel. A long vertical panel small figures dwarfed by stairways and columns in the background and a dark yawning abyss in the foreground.

View of a castle like structure on steep cliffs. The outer walls of the floating tower dungeon can be seen beyond it. Under it you can see distant mountains peaking through.

Tall vertical panel. The exterior of the tower dungeon looking down from above. A rickety wooden staircase runs along the wall like a fire escape.

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ian @slomobo.com · 15d

this is what anime is all about, to me

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ian @slomobo.com · 15d

a partial page from the manga "Sakamoto Days"

the first panel shows a partially broken sniper rifle barrel saying "As far as I'm concerned..."

the second panel shows a helicopter falling out of the sky, with the speech bubble: "...Everything in this world is a gun."

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ian @slomobo.com · 15d

don't talk to me until I've had my controller substances

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ian @slomobo.com · 17d

it's actually a complex system of beyblades kept primed and spinning, to be deployed to neutralize threats

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ian @slomobo.com · 21d

3D printing is dangerous because it allows criminals to print untraceable "ghost keyblades" instead of buying them from a licensed keyblade vendor

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ian @slomobo.com · 21d

croissantcels when a real kouign amann head enters the room: 🤯

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ian @slomobo.com · 22d

I bring a sort of reasonably-skeptical-of-AI vibe to work that the entire tech industry really dont like

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · Sep 6

The whole point of computers was to not be unpredictable unreliable black boxes. I'm going crazy every day. Everything that originally interested me in computers is being starved. I'm stuck in an industry where no one wants what I care about. My life is a mistake.

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ian @slomobo.com · Sep 5

locked in for this flight rn

A phone screenshot of a Gameboy emulator playing Pokemon (3rd-gen). It is currently a battle between a Jumpluff and a Gastly.

In the top right of the screen is an overlay of a Northernlion VOD

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ian @slomobo.com · Aug 26

nothin much, what's near link with you

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ian @slomobo.com · Aug 25

some more CAD / 3D printing stuff. It's a little organizer for the game Earthborne Rangers

A gray 3D-printed container holding a stack of cards, with 4 vertical slots on the front. Each slot is holding different colored circular tokens.

A CAD wireframe model of the box from the previous image

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ian @slomobo.com · Aug 24

no structural integrity. what most places get wrong is putting the same amount of spread/mayo as a regular sandwich. problem is, focaccia is already like 50% olive oil

ian @slomobo.com · Aug 24

I'm finally going to say what no one else has the courage to say:

focaccia is not a good sandwich bread

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · Aug 22

This one's from five years ago today

Photograph of a comic in a sketchbook. A pig is walking and ranting aloud.
PANEL 1: PIG: "Isn't it hilarious how tiring therapy sessions are?"
PANEL 2: PIG: "I'm simply saying aloud what a huge piece of shit I am to a guy who mostly doesn't talk."
PANEL 3: PIG: "This is all my brain does all the time anyway! It should be the easiest thing in the world to simply SPEAK it."
PANEL 4: PIG: "Maybe the real thing is being confronted again and again with how solvable so many of your problems are if you were a different person, how much the solution is 'Just do differently than you want to.'"
PANEL 5: PIG: "Knowing how much of what I think and do is in service of maintaining a cell where I'm prisoner, warden, and architect. Knowing it's killing me because that's what I built it to do."
PANEL 6: PIG: "There's a tiny dot of my life over which I have any control at all, and I use that control to replicate the same abuse of the world onto myself. How DULL."

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ian @slomobo.com · Aug 22

the one with the JO crystal?

ian @slomobo.com · Aug 21

start placing bets on what the next BS hype bubble will be.

my money's on some nasty Bryan Johnson blood infusion type shit

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