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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 4h

How soon after a smoke detector starts beeping with a low battery warning do you change it?

a week? month? a few months? Or when it goes quiet?

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 5h

ALL the applications.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 7h

Also alas mum never finished her flight training. She stopped and started and then stopped again when she was having me. Oops. Soz mum.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 8h

Serendipity. Mum has two stories she tells about WWII. One, my stepdad in Arnhem surviving the bridge bombing. Second, from her GP in the ‘60s when she went for her pilot medical - he talked about being shot down over Germany.

Just found googling, those events happened within 2 hours of each other!

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 9h

Can I be a kind of secular nun. Just holed up in a castle. With a couple hundred other uhhh nuns? Just for a decade or two?

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lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · 11h

can't believe Windows 95 turned fifty this year

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 20h

I adore your style and subjects btw and have for a while. I’m glad you post.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 21h

A little joy from the weekend. I have this intersex+trans sticker on the back of my car.

After shopping on Saturday I found a note under my windscreen wiper on part of a torn off shopping receipt:

“Love the sticker! Jade xxy”

People are the important thing folks <3

A photo of the back of a dark Falcon xr6 with a sticker above the xr6 badge. The sticker is a little intersex sticker with a wave in it like a stylised flag in wind with a pink blue and white trans flag behind.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 21h

Another re-made poster.

from 2002, the TiBook 'Sends other UNIX boxes to /dev/null'

Print files of all the remade this and other posters, flyers and stickers at www.danamania.com/print/

A screenshot of Apple's poster and occasional magazine double spread. Titled at the top it "Sends other UNIX boxes to /dev/null" and shows a PowerBook G4 Titanium with a screenshot of a terminal window and powerpoint window in the same UI, with an iTunes dock menu popping out. On the desktop is a firewire drive, iPod, and an optical disk of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

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🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2d

“Why do you need to join her discord? We have a perfectly fine sub at home”

The sub at home:

The back of a Blue Sky studio subwoofer to pair with my reference monitors

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1d

THIS. THIS SUMS IT UP BEST.

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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 1d

coworker, sobbing: If NASA's missile fails, we're all going to be devoured and I can't bear to look up and see that awful thing!

me, realizing that no one will ever know I completely whiffed a deadline because I forgot and not because of the world eater: what's important is that we're all together

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 1d

One of those arrived on my last day at Cambridge IV. At least, i think it was one of those? Walked past it as I was heading out but too many people were crowded around it

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1d

The Macintosh PowerBook BLIT was definitely safe for looking at all possible images.

For a little while, anyway.

$A photo of a Macintosh PowerBook BLIT, with eight separate small and chaotically sized screens on its display where there would normally be one. Designed not to show all of an image at one time, it's showing some probably completely innocuous fractal-like design in part across the screens.$

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1d

11 years ago now.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1d

Short story; I wasn’t confident the new NAS would slip in invisibly so I asked a manager to test a thing. It worked ok. Good, confident now. Manager told everyone new nas was now the one to be used. Then I wiped that test migration and did the actual one two days later. Most folk lost two days work.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1d

Oh I still have bad dreams about a NAS migration… and that was a simple simple thing screwed up by one manager…

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1d

The proofs were uncalibrated.

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”

Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Translate 'yoroshiku onegai shimasu'”.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1d

A photo of a partly fleshed out commander data in angy serious mode from the movie First Contact with a sticker on his chest stating DANGER THIS MACHINE KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN METAL AND FLESH. IT CHOOSES FLESH

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2d

A classic DANGER warning sign. It has a red oval above against a black background with DANGER inside it in thick white text. Below in bold black text on the remaining white background it states "THIS MACHINE KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN METAL AND FLESH. IT CHOOSES FLESH."

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Selene 🏳️‍⚧️ | ⚸ @selene.euyis.me · 2d

starting libreoffice for like the first time ever in a decade and what

whose idea is it that in dark mode a document should be white on black like unless you expect it to never ever hit a printer buddy you’re literally or at least pretending to be a serious office suite

oh wait it’s black on white again in print preview this somehow feels even worse I love a wysiwyg editor that lies to you even more than they usually do

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An Enigma Shrouded in Mystery (Shadowlab) @shadownetworks.org · 1d

"Redefining the world wide web."

Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1d

Arachnotechnology.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1d

Bingo!

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1d

Arachnotechnology.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1d

The Macintosh PowerBook BLIT was definitely safe for looking at all possible images.

For a little while, anyway.

$A photo of a Macintosh PowerBook BLIT, with eight separate small and chaotically sized screens on its display where there would normally be one. Designed not to show all of an image at one time, it's showing some probably completely innocuous fractal-like design in part across the screens.$

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