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@surreptitious.ly
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Guy who does things. Musician, hacker, tinkerer, father, woodworker, budding activist, ייִדיש
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How much time have I spent here
Installation screen from a terminal displaying "Generating initramfs", which for some reason still takes an eternity.
March 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Humphrey Bogart caricature by Al Hirshfeld which looks remarkably like Emil Bove, but more youthful.
February 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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A Good Place reference with Chidi (me watching the halftime show) telling Michael (Kendrick) that he got all four clues only for Michael to reply that he left more than 1200. It's funny. Trust me.
February 14, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Meanwhile...
Email excerpt from The Forward opinion piece stating that Trump's "outrageous plan" "could also be just what the Middle East needs"
February 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Oh no.
Screenshot of a game I bought, Glitchspace, many years ago, but never played. At least I think I bought it.
February 9, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Comic by Jake Likes Onions, first panel is a hypnotist telling a man he's getting sleepy, very sleepy. The man replies in the next three panels, "PFFFF, joke's on you, pal. I'm already sleepy. I'm fuckin *always* sleepy."
February 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Sorry, Moses, your parlor tricks just don't impress her...
Duolingo lesson of the Yiddish for "and he split the sea" with Lily, the goth Duolingo mascot making a "whoopedy doo" shrug and eye roll.
January 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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We had blankets like this in the 70s.
A colorful 70s granny square blanket like we used to have in our living room.
January 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Ok I'm going to make organsky a thing now wooooo!

I mean insofar as I can make anything a thing on here
A Hammond B3 organ in horrible lighting over here on organsky
January 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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There is a phrase for every occasion, though...
Duolingo translation I got the other day of "the Jews are tired"
January 13, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Mine was a 1966 Dodge A-100 with a slant six and no seat belts, held together mostly by rust. Bought it in 1997? or so, sold two years ago. I used it to commute from Boston to North Andover for a while in the late 90s. In the slightest accident I would easily have been badly killed. So lucky.
1966 Dodge A-100 in all of its rusty splendor.
January 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Wood burning Hebrew text spelling מֹשֶה, Moshe, with a cool little tagin on the shin and hey that always make me think of them being little sprouts growing on the letters. Part of a shulchan I made for our sanctuary.
December 11, 2024 at 3:15 AM
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Here it is along with a beard, glasses, and two hats (I have a smaller one under the cap!)
TMBG photobombing my selfie. The nerve!
December 8, 2024 at 5:58 AM
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Highly, highly recommend these for many reasons, if you care about fidelity, if you care about your hearing and are a musician, and if you're tired of in-ear solutions that don't stay in comfortably... @smashit.bsky.social might be interested...
A picture of my new Ultimate Ears 18+ Pro 6-driver in-ear monitors, with the case. My name is on the case, don't doxx me, thx. A close-up of the monitors, they're finished with a wood veneer inside the lucite. These have the port option for attenuated ambient sound. The right monitor in some old guy's ear I don't know who this is he's wicked old.
December 6, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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Finishing phase, using shellac and paste wax. #chatoyance #woodworking #woodsky
A figured maple wood frame with a first coat of shellac applied.
December 3, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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Making a frame from figured maple tonight. #woodworking and I'm going to take a huge risk with this tag: #woodsky
Flame maple freshly planed 4 frame pieces mitered and rabbeted Shavings from my miter knife thingie Frame glued and clamped
December 3, 2024 at 2:53 AM
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Another repair, this time my MacBook battery, all thanks to @ifixit.com #ifixit #righttorepair
MacBook pro from 2017 with the back removed, pry cards shoved under one of the battery packs for show, prior to removal of all the little bits (motherboard, all connectors) that need to be removed before the battery can be fully exhumed because this is one of the worst battery designs ever.
December 3, 2024 at 2:14 AM
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You know, back in my day we used to have a "turbo" button on the front of the case, have you tried that yet?
Turbo button on an old 486. It used to make things fast. In reality it was pushed in 100% of the time, so...
November 25, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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Ta-da!
The iPad with the new digitizer in place, powering up successfully.
November 25, 2024 at 5:31 AM
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Fixing a 9th generation iPad with a broken digitizer. What a huge pain in the ass. But success! #righttorepair #ifixit #ipad
Removing the smashed digitizer, it has tons of little plastic picks stuck under it to try to keep the glue from re-sticking Remnants of the shattered digitizer. The LCD lies to the left and the iPad is at the top of the image. The home button re-... uh... homed to the new digitizer. Bits of broken glass still stuck to the edges. This was a huge pain to get cleared out.
November 25, 2024 at 5:30 AM
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וואָס אַ צופאַל. איך גענומען אַ דרעמל מיט אַ הינטעלע פּונקט איצט
The author lying in bed with a puppy on the side his wife usually occupies.
November 24, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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hey newbie welcome to blue sky here are a few tips and tricks to get you started
Gene Ray's time cube website from the 90s. It's insane. Literally.
November 15, 2024 at 5:16 AM
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If you see this, post a concert photo you took

Phish, Las Vegas, Halloween 2018
9 cubes, even though there are 12.
November 10, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Lol, lmao even.
No artificial intelligence, ever.
November 8, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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די נייעס איז ליידער נישט גוט.

The news is unfortunately not good. How apropos.
Duolingo stating the obvious. The news is unfortunately not good.
November 7, 2024 at 4:30 AM