David Hand
@ptolemar.ch
Little teapot. Laparoscopic code surgeon. Unabashed user of Gentoo. Acceded to #NAFO on 2023 Apr 25. He/him/etc.
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David Hand
@ptolemar.ch
· May 29
Okay, so it turns out that they only replaced my hip.
Any uncoolness, lack of drip, or failure to be with it is my own responsibility.
Any uncoolness, lack of drip, or failure to be with it is my own responsibility.
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Hailing frequencies open! Thinking of doing a Found Episodes fundraiser for groups providing aid in Minneapolis. Be a Transporter Chief for $5! Or get your own entire episode for more.
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![A partial clipping from an old TV Guide reads as follows:
Steel (Rupert Everett) battles General Zod (Ian McKellen) to protect Metropolis from his totalitarian rule. Casting: You Decide.
7 PM channel 13 STAR TREK: YOU PICK THE SHOW(CC)—Science Fiction; 60 min.
Riker and Troi visit a planet that resembles 21st century Earth leading up to World War 3. Trapped and freezing on a class D planet, Worf declares that "ICE HAS NO HONOR." Transporter chief: Your Name Here.
[SCI] MOVIE(CC)—Animated; 2 hrs.
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January 26, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Hailing frequencies open! Thinking of doing a Found Episodes fundraiser for groups providing aid in Minneapolis. Be a Transporter Chief for $5! Or get your own entire episode for more.
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I remember how well that worked for Philando Castile—in Minneapolis. www.cbs17.com/news/nationa...
January 25, 2026 at 12:18 AM
I remember how well that worked for Philando Castile—in Minneapolis. www.cbs17.com/news/nationa...
Dude's not wrong. Don't drive on ice.
BTW, "freezing rain" is 100% a synonym for "ice".
My high school in Toledo basically never had a snow day. It sucked. Freezing rain, though, shut the place down.
Nobody who knows anything fucks with freezing rain.
youtube.com/shorts/l6H8W...
BTW, "freezing rain" is 100% a synonym for "ice".
My high school in Toledo basically never had a snow day. It sucked. Freezing rain, though, shut the place down.
Nobody who knows anything fucks with freezing rain.
youtube.com/shorts/l6H8W...
January 22, 2026
YouTube video by JasonKPargin
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January 23, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Dude's not wrong. Don't drive on ice.
BTW, "freezing rain" is 100% a synonym for "ice".
My high school in Toledo basically never had a snow day. It sucked. Freezing rain, though, shut the place down.
Nobody who knows anything fucks with freezing rain.
youtube.com/shorts/l6H8W...
BTW, "freezing rain" is 100% a synonym for "ice".
My high school in Toledo basically never had a snow day. It sucked. Freezing rain, though, shut the place down.
Nobody who knows anything fucks with freezing rain.
youtube.com/shorts/l6H8W...
I used to have an app that told me every single thing that my representative voted on. Even state representatives.
I can't recall the name of it, nor can I find anything like it.
Is there any such app?
I can't recall the name of it, nor can I find anything like it.
Is there any such app?
January 22, 2026 at 11:48 PM
I used to have an app that told me every single thing that my representative voted on. Even state representatives.
I can't recall the name of it, nor can I find anything like it.
Is there any such app?
I can't recall the name of it, nor can I find anything like it.
Is there any such app?
I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org
Called @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social, whom I hope will find her voice. Even called both of my rotten Senators, for what good that may do.
Called @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social, whom I hope will find her voice. Even called both of my rotten Senators, for what good that may do.
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
January 22, 2026 at 1:59 AM
I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org
Called @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social, whom I hope will find her voice. Even called both of my rotten Senators, for what good that may do.
Called @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social, whom I hope will find her voice. Even called both of my rotten Senators, for what good that may do.
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Lowkey when you boil it down, if Obama + Merkel didn’t let Putin get off scott free in Crimea we kinda wouldn’t be in this current predicament
Setting the precedent that you can just take shit w/ no justification and repercussions got hammered in more with Bibi/Israel and now here we are…
Setting the precedent that you can just take shit w/ no justification and repercussions got hammered in more with Bibi/Israel and now here we are…
January 21, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Lowkey when you boil it down, if Obama + Merkel didn’t let Putin get off scott free in Crimea we kinda wouldn’t be in this current predicament
Setting the precedent that you can just take shit w/ no justification and repercussions got hammered in more with Bibi/Israel and now here we are…
Setting the precedent that you can just take shit w/ no justification and repercussions got hammered in more with Bibi/Israel and now here we are…
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Wired Magazine has apparently removed the paywall from this important article:
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Wired Magazine has apparently removed the paywall from this important article:
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
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i put all my talent points in computer and now i dont like computer anymore
January 17, 2026 at 2:29 AM
i put all my talent points in computer and now i dont like computer anymore
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For those who have never heard of the MOVE bombing
The largely forgotten history of Philadelphia’s police bombing of Black organization MOVE
This week marked the 40th anniversary of one of the worst tragedies in Philadelphia’s history. In May 1985, the city’s police department dropped an improvised bomb on a residential home that housed th...
www.pbs.org
January 15, 2026 at 11:10 AM
For those who have never heard of the MOVE bombing
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I didn't know about this Signal For Help hand gesture until today. I'm quite sure that a lot of other people don't know it either (as demonstrated in this video). If you just learned it now too then it was worth posting.
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...
October 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I didn't know about this Signal For Help hand gesture until today. I'm quite sure that a lot of other people don't know it either (as demonstrated in this video). If you just learned it now too then it was worth posting.
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...
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BJ Blazkowicz is gonna love beating the shit out of ICE.
The Indiana Jones movies 50 years from now are going to have ICE instead of Nazis.
January 11, 2026 at 5:33 AM
BJ Blazkowicz is gonna love beating the shit out of ICE.
This is so extremely useful in all areas of your life. Especially romantic life.
We have a saying in theatre: when you get a note (a correction or critique after a runthrough, you TAKE THE NOTE. Do not argue. Do not justify. Do not waste everyone’s time explaining.
We all fuck up. It’s okay. Just take the note.
We all fuck up. It’s okay. Just take the note.
January 9, 2026 at 4:10 AM
This is so extremely useful in all areas of your life. Especially romantic life.
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Those of you who believe in mortal sin ought to recognize this for what it is.
“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin ... don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told.
“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,’” said another.
Our #3 most-read story of 2025:
“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,’” said another.
Our #3 most-read story of 2025:
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...
www.propublica.org
January 5, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Those of you who believe in mortal sin ought to recognize this for what it is.
This punctuation mark may also be called a Nathan Hale, who defiantly regretted that he had but one asterisk for his country.
‘Asterisk’ comes from a Geek word meaning “little star.”
*Greek
*Greek
January 2, 2026 at 7:27 AM
This punctuation mark may also be called a Nathan Hale, who defiantly regretted that he had but one asterisk for his country.
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10x programmers have always been the ones that don't write tests or fix bugs
December 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
10x programmers have always been the ones that don't write tests or fix bugs
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Did these fucks finally read the city of god or what
December 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Did these fucks finally read the city of god or what
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
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i will never forgive the techbros for ruining computer
computer was the only thing i liked
computer was the only thing i liked
September 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
i will never forgive the techbros for ruining computer
computer was the only thing i liked
computer was the only thing i liked
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If you're watching people dig into the newly-released Jeffrey Epstein documents, but you are sure where they are coming from?
They're from here: oversight.house.gov/release/over...
They're from here: oversight.house.gov/release/over...
Oversight Committee Releases Additional Epstein Estate Documents - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
oversight.house.gov
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
If you're watching people dig into the newly-released Jeffrey Epstein documents, but you are sure where they are coming from?
They're from here: oversight.house.gov/release/over...
They're from here: oversight.house.gov/release/over...
The song sung by Balthasar in Much Ado About Nothing can be sung to the tune of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Use this information wisely.
Use this information wisely.
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The song sung by Balthasar in Much Ado About Nothing can be sung to the tune of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Use this information wisely.
Use this information wisely.
I'm three hops from Richard Feynman. (Two from Murray Gell-Mann.) Doesn't exactly make me a theoretical physicist.
Off the top of my head, in terms of degrees of separation I managed to get from myself to *Jimi Hendrix* in "three hops," this is a WILD assertion to make
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I'm three hops from Richard Feynman. (Two from Murray Gell-Mann.) Doesn't exactly make me a theoretical physicist.
My first time making a #Halloween costume from scratch. Mr 5 has become a Copper Golem, from Minecraft.
October 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
My first time making a #Halloween costume from scratch. Mr 5 has become a Copper Golem, from Minecraft.
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Democracy is likely to be eaten by a grue.
October 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Democracy is likely to be eaten by a grue.