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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h

[Request for recipe advice, meat related]

Due to poor planning i’ve ended up with two 500g parcels of pork mince to use this week. A batch of sausage rolls is a staple for the Teen Eaters, but what to do with the other? (The Teen Eaters say two batches of sausage rolls is a GREAT solution) […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

If the AI overlords want to conquer humanity, maybe start by learning not to put hallucinated words into the mouths of High Court judges. https://youtu.be/RgjzurZwpzE?si=i-cant-believe-its-not-skynet

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

The human genome is pleased to announce that it has been acquired by GalactiComm in a transaction involving 56 quadrillion UltraCredits in cash, stock and population indentures. Humanity will remain an independent brand and organisation under the GalactiComm banner and is expected to flourish […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Really? The milkshake duck is a terf? fucking hell.

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

If the AI overlords want to conquer humanity, maybe start by learning not to put hallucinated words into the mouths of High Court judges. https://youtu.be/RgjzurZwpzE?si=i-cant-believe-its-not-skynet

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Quantum Feline Tunneling (that phenomenon where cats get into places they are Not Allowed) just won the Nobel Prize for Physics. https://youtu.be/RgjzurZwpzE?si=a-big-girl-did-it-then-ran-away

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

If you've been working in the #arduino ecosystem, it's probably time to check out #zephyr OS. Under the banner of the Linux foundation, Zephyr is a free platform that won't be bought out from underneath you. (It's so good, that even Arduino announced they were adopting it, after their previous […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

@tante spoiler(?) the same nothing we learned the last ten times?

Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

The human genome is pleased to announce that it has been acquired by GalactiComm in a transaction involving 56 quadrillion UltraCredits in cash, stock and population indentures. Humanity will remain an independent brand and organisation under the GalactiComm banner and is expected to flourish […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

@jernej__s edited to add image from now-deleted (?) original.

Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

LBT¹: Just look at those clowns! And also the colourfully-dressed protestors.

¹ Last Boosted Toot²
² https://pnw.zone/@LeftCoastBec/115331152436263037

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I’m on record as saying I *despise* time travel; nothing good ever comes of it. But I’m making _one_ exception. NoBait is a browser extension that receives the “news of the week” via tachyon backscatter from next week, and filters out any of today’s news articles that turned out in hindsight to […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I never would have opted for total cyber-conversion if I knew how many hours I would be spending debugging YAML files.

#tootfic #microfiction #poweronstorytoot

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I’m on record as saying I *despise* time travel; nothing good ever comes of it. But I’m making _one_ exception. NoBait is a browser extension that receives the “news of the week” via tachyon backscatter from next week, and filters out any of today’s news articles that turned out in hindsight to […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

A fascinating object sitting right on the dividing line between “super jupiter” and “brown dwarf”. https://youtu.be/B6CLI63DTgQ?si=your-mom-shouted-its-url

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I never would have opted for total cyber-conversion if I knew how many hours I would be spending debugging YAML files.

#tootfic #microfiction #poweronstorytoot

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Piggleston Pecanpants @lilpecan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Today I saw someone toot, in dismay, people are posting their everyday life to Mastodon when they could simply buy a diary for $1.99. I can't stop thinking about this.
What if this is all they have? What if they're isolated with or without people in their life? What if the only kind word they […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

[ouchie]

Ouch #ouch

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I went to sit on my lab stool today and instead knocked it over, fell backward against the sharp corner of a trolley and landed on top of the wreckage over everything. Ouch. Injury pic down thread if you want to see. Turns out the legs of the stool were bent, reducing its footprint. which is why […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

“Where’s Kevin?”

“Working from home today, says his charger got disconnected in the night and he needs to stay cabled this morning”

“Haha, you know it’s the Monday after the grand final, right?”

“No, why would I know that?”

⦕Nor what a Synthetic hangover looks like, either⦖

“What was that?” […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Getting to that point where I'll rewrite this client's PHP monolith for *free* if I can just get them off Modbus.

It's in my head, and now you have to hear it too:

🎵Into the sea, you and me
All the years and still yak fur
No Em Que Tee Tee,
just this treacherous thing
"We missed you", hissed […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

“Where’s Kevin?”

“Working from home today, says his charger got disconnected in the night and he needs to stay cabled this morning”

“Haha, you know it’s the Monday after the grand final, right?”

“No, why would I know that?”

⦕Nor what a Synthetic hangover looks like, either⦖

“What was that?” […]

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Maartje @maartje.dev · 3d

Welcome to the Fediverse! Do you trust these two sharks more to keep your social media alive than a silicon valley CEO? Then this is your site!

A pink and blue shark working on a server rack

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

If you are going to the march, leave your gender marker beacon at home—not a lot of people know this but there is a serial number in the protocol that can be used to track and/or identify you. Wear a non-smart pronoun pin, like we did back in the dirt ages, if you present in a way that makes […]

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aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Please be patient with the ghost infestation, we have called the relevant people

Fitness center will be closed on such-and-such date
Ghost hunting event being held

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