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Max Kaehn

Max Kaehn

@mithriltabby.bsky.social

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Reader. Gamer. Maine Coon Cat wrangler. Software engineer. Zen practitioner. https://www.mithriltabby.com/ If you are just looking for a follow back, look somewhere else.

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Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 4m

i'm 54, it would be silly for me to subscribe to a teen magazine. of course this little glamour girl will get a gift subscription

fluffy brown tabby nestled in a wicker basket

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 2d

Though it does mean Phryne comes to yell at me as I dry off after a shower.

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 2d

When we brought Cleo home as a kitten back in 2000, I inadvertently stumbled on a wise strategy: cats get fed _after_ the human gets out of the shower and gets dressed. Training the cats on this has made it much easier to sleep in for any reason.

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 6d

I think it was a Unitarian church in Berkeley that consecrated vitamin C tablets and orange juice for Linus Pauling's birthday, back in the 1980s.

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 8d

whoops

four cats in a cat tree

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 9d

It was so cool being able to change the font by switching out the little orbs

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, seventh grade typing class for me. On a manual typewriter.

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 9d

A fine is a price. Fines should always exceed revenues for the act being fined. And if a corporation commits a crime that would put a human in prison, its shares should go to prison and be voted by the justice system, dividends going to the government. That would improve incentives.

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 9d

Just gave to svcommunityservices.org ($100 plus covering the transaction fee).

Receipt for donation to Sunnyvale Community Services

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 9d

Just gave to svcommunityservices.org ($100 plus covering the transaction fee).

Receipt for donating to Sunnyvale Community Services

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 9d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal... was fun, but I don't know if it's available on any modern platforms.

Eternal Darkness - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 9d

An apparently meatloaf pose cat traveling across the water with a small wake, captioned "Duck typing"

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 10d

Someone recently came up with the notion that maybe it was a single regular-sized one that was *very* troublesome. “It’s a lovely morning in the 18th Dynasty, and you are a horrible frog.”

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 15d

Reminds me a bit of www.monumentvalleygame.com

The Monument Valley game series from ustwo games

Experience these award winning, meditative puzzle games by manipulating monuments and creating evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.

www.monumentvalleygame.com

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 20d

I dropped off my ballot at the library on Sunday afternoon and got notification that it was counted this evening. Vote-by-mail is very pleasantly low-stress.

Digital "I voted" sticker for Santa Clara County

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 21d

Or it was one regular-sized but very clever creature. “It’s a lovely morning in the 18th Dynasty, and you are a horrible frog.”

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 22d

My wife: “I can’t feel my fingers. Aren’t you cold?”
Me: *points at two cats on my legs*

Two cats curled up on outstretched human legs. The human’s feet are bare.

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 23d

here in Sunnyvale, California the local crows do not fuck around

partially defleshed rat skeleton hanging from a telephone wire

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 25d

Wrote up my notes on the ballot here in Sunnyvale, CA. mithriltabby.dreamwidth.org/182030.html

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · 27d

Explain your username:

For 18 years, I had a silver tabby named Yeti; he’s in my profile picture. At one point I was explaining Runequest’s notion of heroquesting to a friend and had to make up some mythology on the spot, so the story had a “mithril tabby” in it. And I needed a unique username.

Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 27d

Explain your username:

Its my name.

James Mendez Hodes @lulavampiro.bsky.social · 27d

explain your username:

all capoeiristas formally receive an insulting nickname based on their idiosyncrasies. my wrestling background led to several awkward in-game grappling situations, so mine is "lula" ("squid"). b/c that username's often taken online i further specified it to my favorite squid.

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · Sep 29

"Make it possible for computer programmers to write in English and you will find they cannot write in English" was already in the fortune database back in the 80s.

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · Sep 29

You can have my share! I got the gene that makes coconut taste bitter. It's amazing how much variation there is in the human experience of flavor.

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · Sep 29

I would not be surprised if the zoning codes outlawed them in the 1950s. That happened a lot back then.

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · Sep 28

Yup. Mental health care may turn out to be just as important an ingredient for improving the housing crisis as public transit

Max Kaehn @mithriltabby.bsky.social · Sep 28

That’s a worthy thing to organize around and run candidates for city council to change the zoning codes.