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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 1h

Ah, my favourite character, Kryten.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 2h

The server has finally overcome its self-loathing.

"But that should be a 2xx response", says someone overly beholden to their employer's rules.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 3h

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion.
(Oil and pastel on fibreboard, 1944)

Following his timely dispatch of one Charlie K, the Reaper has been enjoying a well-earned vacation. Hence the fact that this individual still walks.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 3h

It behoves me to add that the transition from a one-computer household to a multi-computer one was, in my case, entirely of my own choice.

Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 3h

Nowadays, there is something of a retro charm to receiving emails such as this. Memories are evoked of a time when there was merely "the computer", rather than several per household.

Official correspondence from the Overseas Bank of Oversea.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 4h

Whenever conscientious frets disturb my rest, I just remind myself that my parent company's parent company is wholly owned by shareholders.
I am merely taking back what they stole by fiat.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 4h

I work from home. Sometimes I am paid to sleep.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 5h

All those medieval Swedish coins were actually the worm's pension fund.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 5h

The Xbox handheld that cannot play Xbox games is disproportionately popular among Cybertruck owners.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 7h

George Thorogood could have become the perfect criminal. His "bad to the bone" defence would prove surprisingly popular among jurors.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 16h

Some people who witnessed the construction of Tower Bridge may have also used Unix.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 9d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 2d

"Every epoch dreams of its successor."

Whereas I considered including Frog and Toad in this lineage, their corresponding year would likely be disputed.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 2d

At last, the sequel to logs.