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@etchachan.bsky.social
Like the loch. Formerly https://cohost.org/etc . I don't know how much I'll actually be using this. They/them.
Slowly constructing a site at https://zawn.dev/ where longer posts will hopefully end up.
Slowly constructing a site at https://zawn.dev/ where longer posts will hopefully end up.
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“Impenetrable”. *Moats*. I suppose it is sometimes good that some people’s understanding of conflict is distinctly last millennium.
February 13, 2026 at 12:39 PM
“Impenetrable”. *Moats*. I suppose it is sometimes good that some people’s understanding of conflict is distinctly last millennium.
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figured out how to make this website usable, finally
February 11, 2026 at 5:24 AM
figured out how to make this website usable, finally
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I never noticed this either.
February 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I never noticed this either.
Someone replaced the contents of zombo com with some useless shit. It doesn’t even seem to be a scam, which would at least have had a point.
chaos.social/@jonty/11603...
chaos.social/@jonty/11603...
Jonty Wareing (@[email protected])
This is an act of cultural vandalism: https://zombo.com
RIP zombocom, 1999-2026. You could do anything at zombocom.
Anything at all.
chaos.social
February 8, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Someone replaced the contents of zombo com with some useless shit. It doesn’t even seem to be a scam, which would at least have had a point.
chaos.social/@jonty/11603...
chaos.social/@jonty/11603...
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If you are too young to remember Surya, she was a fucking ICON. The only person in history to do a BACKFLIP with a SPLIT ON THE AIR, which she’d land ON ONE FOOT
Of course she wasn’t properly appreciated in her time because racism.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pAhy...
Of course she wasn’t properly appreciated in her time because racism.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pAhy...
February 8, 2026 at 1:46 AM
If you are too young to remember Surya, she was a fucking ICON. The only person in history to do a BACKFLIP with a SPLIT ON THE AIR, which she’d land ON ONE FOOT
Of course she wasn’t properly appreciated in her time because racism.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pAhy...
Of course she wasn’t properly appreciated in her time because racism.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pAhy...
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I know you’re joking but literally this is the illegal backflip they’re referring to
February 8, 2026 at 4:07 AM
I know you’re joking but literally this is the illegal backflip they’re referring to
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I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane
February 5, 2026 at 1:46 PM
I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane
There’s a lot about physics that just sounds like a shitpost. “Yeah, if you squirt stuff noisily enough it’ll catch fire”.
Resonance ignition produces high‑frequency waves inside a shaped cavity. These waves resonate and heat the propellants until they ignite.
The first test campaign for this technology ended in November 2025, supported by @esa.int through the Thrust! initiative.
The first test campaign for this technology ended in November 2025, supported by @esa.int through the Thrust! initiative.
Rocket ignition that resonates
www.esa.int
February 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM
There’s a lot about physics that just sounds like a shitpost. “Yeah, if you squirt stuff noisily enough it’ll catch fire”.
New covid vaccine approved in the uk. I wish it was easier to find useful information about its effectiveness than to find antivaxxers condemning it.
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/01/31/a...
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/01/31/a...
Another Approval and More NextGen Covid Vax News (Update No 37) - Absolutely Maybe
This month, Arcturus’ self-amplifying mRNA vaccine was approved for use in the UK. There were also new clinical trial results for another…
absolutelymaybe.plos.org
February 1, 2026 at 10:22 AM
New covid vaccine approved in the uk. I wish it was easier to find useful information about its effectiveness than to find antivaxxers condemning it.
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/01/31/a...
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/01/31/a...
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I have been laughing at this for a solid five minutes.
January 29, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I have been laughing at this for a solid five minutes.
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A rare case of a great landing (you can reuse the airframe after landing) that wasn't necessarily also a good landing (you can walk away from the airframe after landing).
January 29, 2026 at 2:38 AM
A rare case of a great landing (you can reuse the airframe after landing) that wasn't necessarily also a good landing (you can walk away from the airframe after landing).
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The big problem with this isn't that Bing is blocking them
The problem is that every search engine that's not Kagi, Google, or Yandex uses Bing as a backbone... so EVERY search engine is blocking them
Yahoo!, Duckduckgo, Ecosia, etc... all use Bing's dataset, and being cut off from Bing means PAIN
The problem is that every search engine that's not Kagi, Google, or Yandex uses Bing as a backbone... so EVERY search engine is blocking them
Yahoo!, Duckduckgo, Ecosia, etc... all use Bing's dataset, and being cut off from Bing means PAIN
Bing has blocked neocities and all user subdomains from its search index.
We’ve spent months trying to resolve this through official channels and gotten nowhere.
Until this gets resolved, we are recommending that people do not use Bing.
Blog post with details: blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01...
We’ve spent months trying to resolve this through official channels and gotten nowhere.
Until this gets resolved, we are recommending that people do not use Bing.
Blog post with details: blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01...
Neocities Is Blocked by Bing
Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
blog.neocities.org
January 28, 2026 at 2:18 AM
The big problem with this isn't that Bing is blocking them
The problem is that every search engine that's not Kagi, Google, or Yandex uses Bing as a backbone... so EVERY search engine is blocking them
Yahoo!, Duckduckgo, Ecosia, etc... all use Bing's dataset, and being cut off from Bing means PAIN
The problem is that every search engine that's not Kagi, Google, or Yandex uses Bing as a backbone... so EVERY search engine is blocking them
Yahoo!, Duckduckgo, Ecosia, etc... all use Bing's dataset, and being cut off from Bing means PAIN
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This is one of those stories where the headline is perfect, any more detail would probably ruin it for me.
January 27, 2026 at 9:39 AM
This is one of those stories where the headline is perfect, any more detail would probably ruin it for me.
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I am begging you to not take information security advice from a pseudonymous Bluesky account claiming to be the "Alternative National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration".
January 26, 2026 at 9:28 PM
I am begging you to not take information security advice from a pseudonymous Bluesky account claiming to be the "Alternative National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration".
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Today I learned “Norwegian Christian laws forbade citizens from conversing with and interacting with trolls, and in documents dating from 1274 to 1781, doing so would result in severe punishment” (source: Wikipedia), and I kinda think many people nowadays would be better off if this law was revived
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Today I learned “Norwegian Christian laws forbade citizens from conversing with and interacting with trolls, and in documents dating from 1274 to 1781, doing so would result in severe punishment” (source: Wikipedia), and I kinda think many people nowadays would be better off if this law was revived
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Gotta love a good hop
Cartoon by Sarah Andersen
Cartoon by Sarah Andersen
January 22, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Gotta love a good hop
Cartoon by Sarah Andersen
Cartoon by Sarah Andersen
This is nice, but I find it unsettling that there’s a mixture of traffic that drives on the left, and traffic that drives on the right.
January 22, 2026 at 7:43 PM
This is nice, but I find it unsettling that there’s a mixture of traffic that drives on the left, and traffic that drives on the right.
Saw a post worrying about microplastics in lube (and it’s overblown; polyethylene glycol isn’t microplastic) and I thought I’d see what I had here… turns out to be mostly cellulose, but also contains something called “guar conditioners” and , uh, I never knew my “guar” needed conditioning?
January 21, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Saw a post worrying about microplastics in lube (and it’s overblown; polyethylene glycol isn’t microplastic) and I thought I’d see what I had here… turns out to be mostly cellulose, but also contains something called “guar conditioners” and , uh, I never knew my “guar” needed conditioning?
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Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
January 20, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
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This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
January 18, 2026 at 4:56 PM
This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Guess you could say the Metaverse
Didn’t have legs
😎😎😎
Didn’t have legs
😎😎😎
The division has lost over $77 billion since its inception in 2020.
Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg's Vision Fails
The company has laid off some 1,500 virtual reality developers as part of a broader shift toward AI wearable devices.
trib.al
January 18, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Guess you could say the Metaverse
Didn’t have legs
😎😎😎
Didn’t have legs
😎😎😎
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I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
January 9, 2026 at 4:20 AM
I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.