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Bartleby, the Scrivener

@shrike.seattle.wa.us

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses. -- Utah Phillips Now in zone 9a! http://shrike.seattle.wa.us (Intermittently)

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The "e-bikes are cheating" trope is just "protected bike lanes are unnecessary because I rode all over the place without them" for a new era: A mix of gatekeeping and survivorship bias that allows the person invoking it to defend their perceived status.

10.03.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 403 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 9

Me, basically every day

10.03.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

you ever find yourself working really hard on the wording of a post and then you’re like…what am i doing

10.03.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 108 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
Interior of an old computer wih circuit board and fanes exposed

Interior of an old computer wih circuit board and fanes exposed

It's surprisingly clean on the inside given the dirt on the outside.

08.03.2026 23:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It won't POST in it's current state whoch is likely due to corroded capacitors. Very commin problem with these machines.

08.03.2026 23:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He was asking $175 and I offered $150. This is an increddible find at this price. I've been looking for one for ages.

08.03.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
IBM PS/2 P75. A beige computer from 1990 about the size and shape of a briefcase with a keyboard that folds down to reveal an orange plasma screen. This computer doesn't boot in it's current state.

IBM PS/2 P75. A beige computer from 1990 about the size and shape of a briefcase with a keyboard that folds down to reveal an orange plasma screen. This computer doesn't boot in it's current state.

Picked up this dusty IBM PS/2 P75 at the ham club swap meet yesterday

08.03.2026 23:00 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

My Washington State tax is going to go up and that's a good thing. We had the most regressive tax structure in the country for DECADES.

06.03.2026 20:47 πŸ‘ 2020 πŸ” 172 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 10

This mfer said he doesn't know if he's neurodivergent

07.03.2026 05:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

needs more .......

05.03.2026 22:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nobody wants this, nobody needs this

05.03.2026 22:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good God, just let it be

05.03.2026 22:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The fuck kinda name is Markwayne

05.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good luck finding a sub $1000 machine any time soon, bro. You can thank your useless little toy for that.

04.03.2026 23:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You will be shocked to know that the recommendations were bullshit.

04.03.2026 23:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, dipshit, I actually know how to do my job without the hallucination engine making shit up.

04.03.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

LMAO someone sent in a help request looking for a sub $1000 PC, then attached a PDF of the recommendations that ChatGPT gave him.

04.03.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyway, the real answer is the Endurance Monty Dinner Fork

03.03.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

1) never been officially diagnosed
2) 2, mainly because it looks like it would fit inside the jar of capers

03.03.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"the functionality of Darksky has been rolled into the official Apple Weather app" my ass

02.03.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Apple killing Darksky was the single worst thing that has ever happened to me, a PNW cyclist.

02.03.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

LMFAO I LITERALLY KNOW EXACTLY WHY THIS HAPPENED AND I CAN CONFIRM TO YOU IT'S ENTIRELY 100% ON THE PART OF WHOMEVER PROGRAMMED THEIR PHONE SYSTEM THIS WAY πŸ‘‡πŸ½πŸ§΅

27.02.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 710 πŸ” 323 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 23

This mockery has been up for *MONTHS*

27.02.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

lyra.horse/x86css/

24.02.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 2610 πŸ” 874 πŸ’¬ 131 πŸ“Œ 158
A seed starting tray with grow lights and a heat mat

A seed starting tray with grow lights and a heat mat

It begins

23.02.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

im not a linux evangelist but people post on here weekly like "i miss when computers were more like the early 2000s and had basic software and i didn't have to pay attention to all the flashiness and complexity and updates" girl what you desire is running stable debian on a spare thinkpad

17.02.2026 05:41 πŸ‘ 1610 πŸ” 376 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 19
An empty room with green walls. 2x4s are laid out on the floor int he rough shape of a rectangular frame. There is a lase level hanging on the wall.

An empty room with green walls. 2x4s are laid out on the floor int he rough shape of a rectangular frame. There is a lase level hanging on the wall.

The same room, half of a frame has been constructed and attached to the wall at table height.

The same room, half of a frame has been constructed and attached to the wall at table height.

The same green room. The frame is completed and stretches across one wall and extend partially along the two adjacent walls.

The same green room. The frame is completed and stretches across one wall and extend partially along the two adjacent walls.

The same room, the frame is now mostly out of sight, covered by three butcher block desk tops wrapping around three walls.

The same room, the frame is now mostly out of sight, covered by three butcher block desk tops wrapping around three walls.

Studio reno weekend

17.02.2026 02:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Col. Lockjaw from OBAA wearing khakis and a suit jacket walking stiffly toward a lifted Fort pickup truck

Col. Lockjaw from OBAA wearing khakis and a suit jacket walking stiffly toward a lifted Fort pickup truck

15.02.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

got in an argument with this khaki wearing guy who had his pristine f150 parked all the way across a sidewalk (?) and in the course of the argument i asked β€˜do you do a lot of backcountry driving in that thing’ and it upset him so bad he had to lock himself in his truck lmao

14.02.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 2857 πŸ” 229 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 15

The people responsible for this are going to the same level of hell as the designers of Outlook.

15.02.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0