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Affinity became a freemium product? ah, fuck
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 AM
porg.es
the Dutch really did invent what is objectively the worst quotation style of all time
words quoted with a French-style guillemet pointing inward on the left and high curly double-quotes on the right
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
porg.es
Who is the poet 管鳥 Kanchō that Robin D Gill cites in “The Peony and the Poet”?

simplyhaiku.thehaikufoundation.org/SHv3n2/inCon...

The name shows up on one other website, with a slight diff poem:

唐音も少しいひたき牡丹哉
唐音をすこし言ひたき牡丹哉

Google Books shows more results, in books about Buson. Is it a nickname?
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
porg.es
the implications of James Mickens’ Mossad/not-Mossad threat model are not meant to include “throw up your hands and do it anyway”

www.usenix.org/system/files...
smithkstead.bsky.social NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 12d
hello new zealand police, we the israeli police are just gifting you this kitchen appliance for you to plug into the wall in some sort of office. oh you're putting it in the national HQ? that's wonderful, thanks
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
porg.es
I can't find our staple gun but I know that if I go and buy another I will immediately find it upon my return
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
porg.es
if you want to have this house, you can!†

†offer may be conditional on exchange of monetary value

www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/r...
November 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
porg.es
modern building techniques were preëmpted by the Heart Sutra: form is no different from emptiness; and emptiness, form
a photo of a wall with the gib board removed and insulation and the void behind visible
October 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
porg.es
considering a new ontology for backlog management: is this work flotsam or is it jetsam?
October 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
porg.es
very weird seeing your house empty but staged. “hi yes, this is what our house would have looked like if we were better people who didn’t accumulate objects”
A photo of the interior of a house with white walls and wooden floor and kinda generic but recent furniture in it. There is also a wall with pink blobs and shelves and a plant on the shelves. Through a window the bush outdoors is visible.
October 23, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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yeah I know about linked lists
A series of four double adapters chained together
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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made up some Picts for next Pendragon session, got overly excited at the results and ended up making enemies for all the battle encounters as well
Paper miniatures of picts, cut out of printed flat paper. They are standing on a cutting mat. Similar but Saxons wielding spears. One row forms a shield wall. Another similar photo but depicting Irish kerns with Celtic designs on their shields. A row of knights made out of paper cut outs. The riders and horses are different pieces glued together.
October 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
porg.es
hell yeah, the Chaintech Desperado AGP with composite video out: all you need to experience trains, rockets, and jetskis
A photo of a CD reading: desperado AGP v3.0 2d/3d graphics and video accelerator It has a rocket, a train, and a jet ski bursting out from the spindle hole
October 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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went to Mitre 10 with no shoes on only to be served by an American at the checkout
October 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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fixed a funny bug in Excel that’s been there for more than 20 years
October 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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“etymologically, of course, the plural would be ‘mahs jong’”
October 9, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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me buying RPG books: haha yes, this rules

me moving house: what the fuck
October 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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rwoodsmall.bsky.social
i don't know what the source of this video is but I love it
September 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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can’t believe that private equity killed Hammacher Schlemmer
October 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
porg.es
this feels like looking at the photo of kids playing with blue asbestos

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?
Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its effect on creativity
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
porg.es
Written on a cardboard box: Bedroom 2 - Hanafuda & Hanafuda accessories
October 3, 2025 at 3:06 AM
porg.es
sometimes you have to admit the Catholics are right
a photo of a plate with a slice of a very (very) gooey washed rind Brie on it
September 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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jenbanim.mastodo.neoliber.al.ap.brid.gy
If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men
September 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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mehr.nz
new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity

next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)
Reti earmarks $70m of new agency's budget for AI commercialisation grants
September 18, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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started reading the Hobbit with 5yo and just got up to where they’re discussing the map

“... and those are the directions? wait! if we know that M is North then it’s N, P is South so it’s S, cross is W for west and east... [E is for east] ... S is for E! so we can translate the runes!”
the map from the Hobbit book, ill-lit with a lamp coming from the top right
September 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM