Ovaltine Tranzac
@elvedin.officialawesome.com
Apprentice sage, digital magician, analog musician.
My adjectives are pedantic/romantic.
He/him.
Toronto.
My adjectives are pedantic/romantic.
He/him.
Toronto.
Pinned
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This is not an open source licence. oshwa.org/resources/op...
December 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This is not an open source licence. oshwa.org/resources/op...
"I have to say this"
I have to say this and will try to do so gently... how well do you know this individual and how certain are you of their identity?
Because that repeated use of "my dear" language in most interactions would raise a fscking *massive* 'scam' red flag for me, unless it was known feature of that person.
Because that repeated use of "my dear" language in most interactions would raise a fscking *massive* 'scam' red flag for me, unless it was known feature of that person.
December 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"I have to say this"
Which four fighting games mattered the most to YOU growing up?
Street Fighter II Champion Edition
Samurai Shodown
Mortal Kombat
Tekken Tag Tournament
Street Fighter II Champion Edition
Samurai Shodown
Mortal Kombat
Tekken Tag Tournament
Which four fighting games mattered the most to YOU growing up?
Street Fighter II Turbo Hyper Fighting
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Dragon Ball Z Hyper Dimension
Killer Instinct Gold
Street Fighter II Turbo Hyper Fighting
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Dragon Ball Z Hyper Dimension
Killer Instinct Gold
Which four fighting games mattered the most to YOU growing up?
Mortal Kombat 3
Dragon Ball GT Final Bout
Killer Instinct Gold
Soul Calibur
Mortal Kombat 3
Dragon Ball GT Final Bout
Killer Instinct Gold
Soul Calibur
December 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Which four fighting games mattered the most to YOU growing up?
Street Fighter II Champion Edition
Samurai Shodown
Mortal Kombat
Tekken Tag Tournament
Street Fighter II Champion Edition
Samurai Shodown
Mortal Kombat
Tekken Tag Tournament
Technomancin' the night away.
December 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Technomancin' the night away.
"AI is DnD and you're the dice"
honestly i think part of the reason "ai" art falls totally flat is that the way you can actually excel at art using a robot is by using the robot as a prompt for human imagination, but people use it in the other direction. it's like the opposite of how you'd use an rng in a tabletop game
December 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"AI is DnD and you're the dice"
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Every year I like to share this version of "Silver Bells" I helped make (you can hear me playing saxophones & singing gang vocals). It's sad and wistful and messy and joyful all at the same time, the way the holidays tend to be. cedarstriprocketship.bandcamp.com/track/silver...
Silver Bells, by Cedarstrip Rocketship
track by Cedarstrip Rocketship
cedarstriprocketship.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Every year I like to share this version of "Silver Bells" I helped make (you can hear me playing saxophones & singing gang vocals). It's sad and wistful and messy and joyful all at the same time, the way the holidays tend to be. cedarstriprocketship.bandcamp.com/track/silver...
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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"so how does this scale?"
bro, it doesn't.
the fuck is wrong with you.
bro, it doesn't.
the fuck is wrong with you.
November 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
"so how does this scale?"
bro, it doesn't.
the fuck is wrong with you.
bro, it doesn't.
the fuck is wrong with you.
d.b.s. on vinyl is some cool shit, man.
Do "I is for Insignificant" next @dinealonerecords.bsky.social
Do "I is for Insignificant" next @dinealonerecords.bsky.social
d.b.s.
www.dinealonestore.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
d.b.s. on vinyl is some cool shit, man.
Do "I is for Insignificant" next @dinealonerecords.bsky.social
Do "I is for Insignificant" next @dinealonerecords.bsky.social
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I wish the Internet had lived up to its promise of empowering individuals over institutional middlemen and monopolists
December 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I wish the Internet had lived up to its promise of empowering individuals over institutional middlemen and monopolists
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Your social class is determined by your relationship to the means of production.
Do you do a job for a wage or a salary, or do you own the things that workers need to do their jobs, and make money off of that ownership?
That’s it. That’s all. It’s really fucking simple.
Do you do a job for a wage or a salary, or do you own the things that workers need to do their jobs, and make money off of that ownership?
That’s it. That’s all. It’s really fucking simple.
Has anybody else noticed high profile socdem influencers and talking heads have just stopped talking about class as a relationship to the means of production?
We have a whole fucking generation of “Marxists” who don’t understand Marx from first principles, and make money lying about it.
We have a whole fucking generation of “Marxists” who don’t understand Marx from first principles, and make money lying about it.
December 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Your social class is determined by your relationship to the means of production.
Do you do a job for a wage or a salary, or do you own the things that workers need to do their jobs, and make money off of that ownership?
That’s it. That’s all. It’s really fucking simple.
Do you do a job for a wage or a salary, or do you own the things that workers need to do their jobs, and make money off of that ownership?
That’s it. That’s all. It’s really fucking simple.
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y'all have got to start making 'zines . I don't care if they're bad. Sometimes it's better if they are. I just need everyone who reads this to make a 'zine.
December 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
y'all have got to start making 'zines . I don't care if they're bad. Sometimes it's better if they are. I just need everyone who reads this to make a 'zine.
Al Fatihah
December 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Al Fatihah
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Slightly nauseating gameplay for 4D Sports Tennis, a proto-3D game in first person from 1990 on MS-DOS. From the 4D Sports series, though it only has two more games and one of them is racing. Made by developer Distinctive Software, which was founded by a 17-year old Don Mattrick!
#chosting
#chosting
December 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Slightly nauseating gameplay for 4D Sports Tennis, a proto-3D game in first person from 1990 on MS-DOS. From the 4D Sports series, though it only has two more games and one of them is racing. Made by developer Distinctive Software, which was founded by a 17-year old Don Mattrick!
#chosting
#chosting
Us too, Canada. Perhaps moreso.
The postal service is not a business, measuring it by revenue is the wrong frame for understanding its worth.
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
December 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Us too, Canada. Perhaps moreso.
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The postal service is not a business, measuring it by revenue is the wrong frame for understanding its worth.
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The postal service is not a business, measuring it by revenue is the wrong frame for understanding its worth.
There's no meaningful distinction between gaming accommodations and using accommodations.
Put the colour blind and high contrast settings in Display, not Accessibility, make *every* bathroom and transit stop accessible, and stop making people verify their needs for stupid shit like extra test time.
Put the colour blind and high contrast settings in Display, not Accessibility, make *every* bathroom and transit stop accessible, and stop making people verify their needs for stupid shit like extra test time.
I have personally benefited from disability accommodations, also gaming of them is 100% real, and I don’t see the point in denying it.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
There's no meaningful distinction between gaming accommodations and using accommodations.
Put the colour blind and high contrast settings in Display, not Accessibility, make *every* bathroom and transit stop accessible, and stop making people verify their needs for stupid shit like extra test time.
Put the colour blind and high contrast settings in Display, not Accessibility, make *every* bathroom and transit stop accessible, and stop making people verify their needs for stupid shit like extra test time.
While my wife is out of town, I'm getting a mural painted in the kitchen of Mt. Rushmore, but all the faces are mine, but there's graffiti over the whole thing, but the graffiti is of our last name, but it's Bart Simpson doing the spraypainting, but wait look closer it's actually my son and he's Mt.
December 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
While my wife is out of town, I'm getting a mural painted in the kitchen of Mt. Rushmore, but all the faces are mine, but there's graffiti over the whole thing, but the graffiti is of our last name, but it's Bart Simpson doing the spraypainting, but wait look closer it's actually my son and he's Mt.
I'm having the opposite of the usual thing and I'm already writing (or wanting to write) 2026 instead of 2025 when writing dates.
December 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I'm having the opposite of the usual thing and I'm already writing (or wanting to write) 2026 instead of 2025 when writing dates.
Most people are rich but compare themselves to a mean extremely skewed by billionaires that puts them much closer to the poorest than the richest and then they lack the emotional maturity to process it so it gets squashed to "everyone is poor". Modern society wants to have none of the conversations.
When yall say things like everyone is poor it makes me realize that you have not actually looked poverty in the face.
It is absolutely disingenuous for anyone to liken him/herself to people who cannot pay bills, who are unhoused, who truly have empty cupboards, who do not have warm sheets.
It is absolutely disingenuous for anyone to liken him/herself to people who cannot pay bills, who are unhoused, who truly have empty cupboards, who do not have warm sheets.
December 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Most people are rich but compare themselves to a mean extremely skewed by billionaires that puts them much closer to the poorest than the richest and then they lack the emotional maturity to process it so it gets squashed to "everyone is poor". Modern society wants to have none of the conversations.
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what no Roland Barthes does to a mfer
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
what no Roland Barthes does to a mfer
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"Hey friend, happy with your controls yes or no"
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"Hey friend, happy with your controls yes or no"
People that use the term "virtue signalling" pejoratively either believe that virtue is done silently, or that it's not done at all. Either way, they are wrong; safely ignore what they say.
@anisota.net's data visualization harvest (anisota.net/harvest) is very nice and good.
@anisota.net's data visualization harvest (anisota.net/harvest) is very nice and good.
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
People that use the term "virtue signalling" pejoratively either believe that virtue is done silently, or that it's not done at all. Either way, they are wrong; safely ignore what they say.
@anisota.net's data visualization harvest (anisota.net/harvest) is very nice and good.
@anisota.net's data visualization harvest (anisota.net/harvest) is very nice and good.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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