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BigBadBiologist

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Big Bad Biologist. Doggo daddo. Alliteration Aficionado. (I'm a retro computing enthusiast that livestreams a lot of my restoration work, normally at noon eastern on Saturdays) Trumpers please kindly fuck off. https://www.youtube.com/@BigBadBench

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · Nov 14

Since activity here is picking up, here’s my intro: I do #vintageMac and #vintagePC repairs, restorations, and janky modding on my Saturday noon eastern streams. I work on random other electronics as well. I like soldering, but my skills are questionable. youtube.com/@bigbadbench

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 18h

Trump can simply give $40 billion in US tax money to his pals in Argentina, openly admit it is for the intended purpose of keeping the MAGA allied right wing government in power, and pocket billions for himself. The US has no laws anymore and that's your money they are stealing.

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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 17h

I survived... somehow. 📺 I hope you did too! 😅

Support my retro archiving and tinkering shenanigans by purchasing this stylish shirt or mouse pad.

shop.mac84.net/products/i-s...

#youtubedown

I Survived the 2025 YouTube Outage

Let everyone know you made it through the 2025 YouTube outage... in style!

shop.mac84.net

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 1d

39 trace repairs, RTC and battery back on and it’s testing perfect!

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 1d

Kind of amazed this just worked.

Old PowerBook putting the "Universal" in USB

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 1d

39 trace repairs, RTC and battery back on and it’s testing perfect!

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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🎻 Sophie Rose Music 🎹 @sophierosemusic.bsky.social · 2d

Bot a bad version either..

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Simon @simonxix.com · 2d

You can tell an LLM not to invent data as much as you want but it will very much continue to invent data.

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Jeri Ellsworth @jeriellsworth.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone out there have schematics, boot cartridge ROM dumps for the Philips P2000B/P2500?

Information is very sparse for this machine. The cartridge isn't compatible with early machines and seems to have some kind of multiplexed bus.

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Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️📼 @ronscompvids.bsky.social · 3d

Many thanks to @mac84.bsky.social, @oldskool.org, VCF Midwest and anyone unfortunate enough to have been caught in the audience!

Got a PowerPC #Macintosh and no idea what to do with it? If so, watch this video!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=569u...

Getting the most out of your PowerPC Macs! | VCFMW 20 (2025)

YouTube video by VCF Midwest

www.youtube.com

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Jeri Ellsworth @jeriellsworth.bsky.social · 2d

Look at those violent thugs!!!

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

WAR-TORN PORTLAND

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 2d

Working on More Cool Things™ for jcm-1.com

How about a JCM special version of the MiniPerformer+ for the Mac Plus, that clips over the CPU?

No soldering required. No permanent mods.

Interested? Sound off in the comments.

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 2d

Well poo. I forgot I still need to do the analog board.

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🎻 Sophie Rose Music 🎹 @sophierosemusic.bsky.social · 3d

Too many macs to fix.. arggghhh

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 3d

THIS. If a politician is willing to abandon today's Inconvenient Vulnerable Group in the name of political expedience? They'll abandon them all. And fascists will not be appeased by any of it, anyway. They just switch targets. That's how this works.

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 4d

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 3d

100% restored Macintosh Portable. that basically took my entire weekend to complete, but I am happy. Another one saved from the brink of death!

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, there’s a reloaded board.

BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 3d

Spent some time before and during @davesvinappletech.bsky.social ‘s stream today working on the Classic. We’re up to 31 trace repairs with caps and CPU back on. Working fine! (Still need to wire up the RTC)

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 3d

Reporting to you from the hallscape that is Portland Oregon: I just walked home from Sunday brunch in SE Portland and spotted some typical Portland graffiti. 💖

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 4d

At the end of yesterday’s stream, we only got 19 bodges done, but a lot of the work went into exposing traces and clearing out vias.

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polymatt @polymatt.bsky.social · 4d

Another huge restoration project is slowly coming together… actually this one is as more like a complete reproduction 😅

Doing some color matching and texture tests for the final finish. That means the video isn’t too far away!

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Dave’s Vintage Apple Tech @davesvinappletech.bsky.social · 6d

Oct12, 2025 8:00am PST 11:00am EST Sunday Retro Repair Show🔨 ebay Horrors let's open the Box🎃 youtube.com/live/u_NaxWH...

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 4d

The CD-ROM emulation does work in DOS, but I’m not sure if they got the redbook audio working