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Charles Stearns

@pinballgeek

software engineer/manager • IoT • pinball • boardgames • bourbon • tiki drinks • introvert • PDX • he/him

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I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed

06.03.2026 21:20 👍 3417 🔁 677 💬 20 📌 0

I didn’t think this was the year I’d bother to move my gaming PC to Linux, but it’s sure starting to look like it’s worth the effort.

04.03.2026 02:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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That’s not how hacking works at all

03.03.2026 23:43 👍 89 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0

it's 2026 and the cool S is still not in unicode

28.02.2026 06:07 👍 632 🔁 142 💬 15 📌 3

I have to imagine it’s not actually going to be that simple. I’m curious to see how companies navigate this.

20.02.2026 17:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

17.02.2026 21:12 👍 7027 🔁 3091 💬 29 📌 95

Personal pet peeve, calling the meeting a Standup in the invite, but it's 30min, includes 10+ people, and everyone brings laptops. that's not a Standup, that's a Status Meeting.

17.02.2026 15:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
an orange cat is being a really silly guy. he’s half upside down with his head hanging off the radiator cord with one ear bent and some teef showing

an orange cat is being a really silly guy. he’s half upside down with his head hanging off the radiator cord with one ear bent and some teef showing

I understand I was really disruptive today but in my defense I’m literally a silly little guy

11.02.2026 06:21 👍 5156 🔁 524 💬 72 📌 21
A drawing of Guile from Street Fighter and Guinan from Star Trek TNG in a crouched fighting stance side-by-side, showing the similarity between Guile's hair shape and Guinan's hat shape

A drawing of Guile from Street Fighter and Guinan from Star Trek TNG in a crouched fighting stance side-by-side, showing the similarity between Guile's hair shape and Guinan's hat shape

Guile... Guinan... Guilenan

06.02.2026 21:15 👍 9604 🔁 2544 💬 22 📌 55
A cartoon illustration of a wizard and witch enjoying an evening cocktail in their living room. Caption reads "They both enjoyed being under the spell of a good Manhattan."

A cartoon illustration of a wizard and witch enjoying an evening cocktail in their living room. Caption reads "They both enjoyed being under the spell of a good Manhattan."

Magical. #grickledoodle #manhattan #wizard #witch #drink #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

02.02.2026 22:40 👍 204 🔁 33 💬 3 📌 2
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❤️

30.01.2026 19:57 👍 28067 🔁 9221 💬 362 📌 760
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With the encouragement from my son, I decided to do something fun for the finale!! :)

24.01.2026 22:04 👍 223 🔁 40 💬 8 📌 1

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind.

It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty.

Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face.

Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

24.01.2026 03:15 👍 12449 🔁 4180 💬 105 📌 72

As a WSU alumni I know this look on the sidelines.

10.01.2026 02:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, the stock pads are hot garbage. They could probably get away with releasing a special edition with the only feature being pads that aren’t crap.

10.01.2026 02:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, I thought this was going to be the actual championship game but the wheels seem to have fallen off UOs game.

10.01.2026 02:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nothing is normal and no one is okay. You're doing great. Says Skeletor clearly losing it.

Nothing is normal and no one is okay. You're doing great. Says Skeletor clearly losing it.

07.01.2026 15:43 👍 851 🔁 326 💬 5 📌 8

I keep coming back to these with the after market velour cups when I want to really LISTEN to an album.

09.01.2026 23:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A stick figure made of overlapping punctuation marks from a typewriter labeled as Craig saying:


ladies & gentlemen,
the world that was promised to us in our childhood has been stripped away from us by the very people that forced us to work toward it. the only future left for us is one that we make for ourselves, and one that abandons the lie, accepting that the world will never be back the way it was. you were all lied to, and it is our sacred burden to hold the liars to account, and take back from them all that we have given to build the castle they, now hide within as our world crumbles to dust.

 also, the weekend.

A stick figure made of overlapping punctuation marks from a typewriter labeled as Craig saying: ladies & gentlemen, the world that was promised to us in our childhood has been stripped away from us by the very people that forced us to work toward it. the only future left for us is one that we make for ourselves, and one that abandons the lie, accepting that the world will never be back the way it was. you were all lied to, and it is our sacred burden to hold the liars to account, and take back from them all that we have given to build the castle they, now hide within as our world crumbles to dust. also, the weekend.

09.01.2026 22:52 👍 436 🔁 164 💬 4 📌 3

Growing up in a very rural town, Computer Chronicles was one of my earliest sources of computer news. The archives of the show are an invaluable snapshot of that time, as computers transitioned to mainstream.

05.01.2026 23:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
the dandy warhols through a weird lens

the dandy warhols through a weird lens

2025 - it was a year that happened 🤷🏻‍♀️
2026 - ???

31.12.2025 19:48 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

The correlation between companies named after the Tolkien legendarium and their CEO/Founder being a chittering skinwalker fingering his own taint at the idea of draining the planet of all its resources and then fucking off to a sealed dome in New Zealand while everyone else suffers is extremely high

31.12.2025 02:18 👍 1952 🔁 366 💬 70 📌 28
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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21.12.2025 02:51 👍 22960 🔁 5956 💬 824 📌 1616

the go links and use of “their LDAP” means this was probably created by a googler or xoogler. well done whoever you are!

17.12.2025 23:24 👍 45 🔁 3 💬 9 📌 0
cartoon of Santa and Rudolph dueling on the plains of Vulcan with lirpa.

cartoon of Santa and Rudolph dueling on the plains of Vulcan with lirpa.

From my Larchives.

16.12.2025 23:16 👍 104 🔁 21 💬 6 📌 2

Not to get too meta, but the genius of the bit is that it carries so much more than the physical comedy of the sketch (which is great). Archie Bunker has a way to do things: the way he's always done them, the way everyone is supposed do them. No one should be different, and nothing should change.

15.12.2025 22:34 👍 79 🔁 8 💬 7 📌 0

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

14.12.2025 13:24 👍 11385 🔁 2142 💬 129 📌 181

I’m imagining a whole new business venture until @funranium.bsky.social shows up.

12.12.2025 23:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is an incredible game, the demo was so fun I played it twice. I love this approach for the release date trailer.

11.12.2025 17:12 👍 25 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0