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Leo R. Comerford
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I am Leo Richard Comerford. Did you know ... rats *cannot* be *sick*?
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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · Dec 7
It happened again.
A photograph from above of a messy desk with a cheap light-wood veneer. On the desk are two fairly large mugs, both full of yellowish tea (green tea). One is an insulated mug made of stainless steel, with a plastic handle and a brushed exterior with a logo just visible. The other is ceramic with white glaze and a red pattern just visible on the side. Below, at the bottom of the photo, there can be seen a floor with a dirty, faded grey carpet with a diamond pattern. The front of a left slipper with a grey tartan upper can be seen on the floor. The front edge of a black plastic ATX-sized PC case can also be seen there jutting out in front of the desk, as can the left part of a cheap plastic Dell keyboard (in an AT layout) which sits roughly on top of the PC case. At the left of the image, to the left of the cups, on the desk, there is the right edge of the detachable keyboard of convertible laptop/tablet. Held to it by a band on the right is a computer stylus. Close behind the cups (above, in the photo) a USB-SATA adapter: a small black rectangle of plastic sitting roughly on its side as it is propped up by red SATA and black USB cables coming from it. Behind that is a stack of messy papers and books, including many sheets of used A4 (some lined, some printed, some with spiral-binding strips) and a DVD box with a studio photo of a man holding a mechanism up to his face (/Secret Weapons for the Modern Drummer Part 2/). To the right of the cups there is another small stack, with a large book with a brownish colour-printed cover underneath a large (12”) drum practice pad (grey, with the words “DRUM” and “SINCE” visible—part of a licensed Gretsch logo). On top of that is a small white ceramic rice bowl containing orange segments. The corner of another plate with an orange ring on its rim is also visible there.
leocomerford.bsky.social
An uncommonly pretty little model railway: youtube.com/shorts/vcrPo...
Nゲージレイアウト 立体交差 分割式#鉄道模型 #nゲージ
YouTube video by タカナカ鉄道
youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
leocomerford.bsky.social
Like poisioned water downstream of a corpse, much stupidity is actually downstream of mendacity.
October 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
leocomerford.bsky.social
/Bilboard/ 3 Apr 1982, p. 65:
The following text, in black text on a white (faded to yellowish) background: "What was the price of stock in AT&T on April 1, 1944? ☎ Do men waste more time on the job than women? ☎ Do eskimos really rub their noses? How nutritional are TV dinners? ☎ How many bones do dogs have? ☎ Have a question? Call your library! ☎ American Library Association" The final ☎ is greatly increased in size, reaching up to the previous line of text. The final line with "American Library Association" appears in very small print, on the bottom left. All the text except the last line is in a very bold weight. The font looks (roughly, at least) similar to Helvetica. The last line is not bolded.
August 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
leocomerford.bsky.social
I've seen enough: as the acknowledged authority and designated responsible person news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7525... ;) I'm officially recognising this as the final end of the 2010s Cool Microsoft era. www.theverge.com/news/757461/.... Historical debate may now begin.
GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team
www.theverge.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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daniloc.xyz
hate to watch an 80’s movie or show and see a prop whose design clearly relies on NURBS

a technology not broadly available in CAD software until the 90’s

Takes me right out

Now I’m going to ruin it for you too, you can’t unsee it
A very boxy Polaroid camera from the 80’s A smoothly swooping, curvy Polaroid from the 90’s A boxy 80’s cash register A swoopy 90’s cash register, pretty beaten up
April 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
leocomerford.bsky.social
What ever happened to Google's celebrated "Night Walk in Marseille" Street View experience? www.martinkool.nl/cases/google... Looks like it's been
@killedbygoogle.com?
A photographic image of a pedestrian bridge in Marseille at night, with text and UI elements superimposed on it: the (former) start screen for Google's "Night Walk in Marseille" pedestrian Street View experience. In the centre of the image there is white centred text with two buttons underneath. The text says: NIGHT WALK IN MARSEILLE Explore the sounds, streets and soul of the city [Start from here] [Start from the beginning] The "Start from here" button has a bright blue background indicating it as the default choice. Different lines of text have different font sizes, "NIGHT WALK" being very large. The photograph is taken from standing eye level, looking straight across a narrow (maybe 3m wide?) pedestrian bridge. At the far end of the bridge there is a narrow street, slightly wider than the bridge, which separates two terraces of apartment buildings, built up about five stories above the height of the bridge. There are large amounts of messy, unattractive graffiti at ground level on the walls. Soon after the bridge gives way to the street, the street turns into stairs, a split pair to the left and right leading up with a central stair in the centre apparently leading down. It seems (it's hard to make out in the grainy image of a darkened street scene) that the street then recombines and leads up, through one or more additional fights of stairs, to something which is marked by large, wide and narrow blue-and-white sign on top of a long pole. The buildings are in a nineteenth-century style, with outer walls in a light-greyish stone. The scene is lit by somewhat harsh street lighting: two sodium lights are visible on the left side of the street after the stairs, mounted high up on the left-hand-side building. The buildings nearest the bridge also have a facades facing out onto the street (or perhaps canal or stream?) which the bridge crosses: these take up the left and right part of the photograph (except where they are covered by the handrails of the bridge).
May 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
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I can't put into words how much I truly love these two 12th century characters.
Look kids, they're waving at us!
Centuries of time between us and the doodler vanish and I find myself waving at the screen like an eejit.
THEY ARE SO CUTE.

Source;
initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/3132
May 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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lupusalatus.bsky.social
Looking for some summer reading? Try out a tiered reader if you are ready to read some “real Latin!” Both these books are now available on Amazon! You can also purchase Erictho on my Etsy store: lupusalatus.etsy.com. Sample pages are available from lupusalatus.com/erictho
May 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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dfeldman.org
From @[email protected]
Mean girls - the show Median girls - they’re ins highway median Mode girls - they’re into fashion Range girls- they’re cowgirls
April 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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theregister.com
UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order
UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order
Blighty’s latest stab at encryption? A secret order to pry open iCloud, sources claim The UK's Home Office refuses to either confirm or deny reports that it recently ordered Apple to create a backdoor allowing the government to access any user's cloud…
dlvr.it
February 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
leocomerford.bsky.social
Was Jan Łukasiewicz an Irish philosopher? A question to which the answer is both 'yes' and 'no'
February 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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harrymccracken.com
I wrote about how doctors are embracing Apple Vision Pro—to a degree that surprised even Apple, developer honcho Susan Prescott told me. https://www.fastcompany.com/91269127/apple-vision-pro-healthcare
January 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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jdwilko.bsky.social
Was it extremely lazy of me to use R to calculate ‘3000-355’? Yes. But I feel like doing so shouldn’t have crashed my PC
January 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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mauskino.bsky.social
A blatant reminder that the AAA games industry is broken and that we need better labour laws not only in Indonesia but across the globe: People Make Games' latest video on the Brandoville abuse reports: youtu.be/RR9HQ2C6h_4?...
100 Slaps: The Breaking News The Games Industry Ignored in 2024
YouTube video by People Make Games
youtu.be
January 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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arnorosenfeld.bsky.social
Scoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism

forward.com/news/686797/...
Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.
forward.com
January 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
leocomerford.bsky.social
Important opportunity, especially for EU govs etc. The Web is controlled by whoever controls an up-to-date browser, and now that amounts to Google, Apple & one ailing US nonprofit funded by Google. *And* antitrust may soon force Google out. @igalia.com is a proven team, starting from a good basis.
rego.bsky.social Manuel Rego @rego.bsky.social · Jan 7
So happy to see the results of the work on @servo.org during the last couple of years to bring the project back to life. This effort has been lead by @igalia.com with the help of the wider Servo community. Thanks everyone!
For more details check my last blog post: blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-...
Servo stats for PRs merged on the main repository since 2018. Showing that the current numbers are similar to the ones in 2018-2019 in terms of PRs merged and average number of contributors per month. The chart shows the data from the table on the blog post: https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-revival-2023-2024/#some-numbers
January 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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shadowtodd.bsky.social
Absolutely nuts. ScreenRant made a YouTuber take down a video because she called them a "content mill" (how dare she)
jennygeist.bsky.social Jenny Geist @jennygeist.bsky.social · Dec 18
NEW VIDEO! In January, I made a video titled “The Geek Content Mills Ruining the Internet.” In November, that video disappeared. The reason why? Screen Rant's parent company, Valnet, sent a cease & desist letter to my house. So… let's go over that. It's quite the situation.

youtu.be/dLCfRwnG8ro?...
A fictional Screen Rant article titled "10 Reasons You Should Cease & Desist" next to Jenny who is awkwardly covering her eyes and averting her gaze.
December 18, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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babyshoes4cash.com
I know not what hardware Windows 12 will run on, but Windows 13 will run on sticks and stones
December 11, 2024 at 6:07 PM
leocomerford.bsky.social
It happened again.
A photograph from above of a messy desk with a cheap light-wood veneer. On the desk are two fairly large mugs, both full of yellowish tea (green tea). One is an insulated mug made of stainless steel, with a plastic handle and a brushed exterior with a logo just visible. The other is ceramic with white glaze and a red pattern just visible on the side. Below, at the bottom of the photo, there can be seen a floor with a dirty, faded grey carpet with a diamond pattern. The front of a left slipper with a grey tartan upper can be seen on the floor. The front edge of a black plastic ATX-sized PC case can also be seen there jutting out in front of the desk, as can the left part of a cheap plastic Dell keyboard (in an AT layout) which sits roughly on top of the PC case. At the left of the image, to the left of the cups, on the desk, there is the right edge of the detachable keyboard of convertible laptop/tablet. Held to it by a band on the right is a computer stylus. Close behind the cups (above, in the photo) a USB-SATA adapter: a small black rectangle of plastic sitting roughly on its side as it is propped up by red SATA and black USB cables coming from it. Behind that is a stack of messy papers and books, including many sheets of used A4 (some lined, some printed, some with spiral-binding strips) and a DVD box with a studio photo of a man holding a mechanism up to his face (/Secret Weapons for the Modern Drummer Part 2/). To the right of the cups there is another small stack, with a large book with a brownish colour-printed cover underneath a large (12”) drum practice pad (grey, with the words “DRUM” and “SINCE” visible—part of a licensed Gretsch logo). On top of that is a small white ceramic rice bowl containing orange segments. The corner of another plate with an orange ring on its rim is also visible there.
December 7, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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stevenlevy.bsky.social
Bluesky peep, I need a reader question for this week's Plaintext . Imagine your delight as I answer your question--about anything!--in this newsletter and web column. Ask me anything!
December 4, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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b0rk.jvns.ca
it's zine sale time!

from now until the end of the day on Friday, all my PDF zines are 50% off with the discount code WIZARDPDF

print zines are 30% off with code WIZARDPRINT

wizardzines.com
an image with the discount codes and the titles of all the zines and the cool character from the "How DNS Works" in the background
November 29, 2024 at 1:51 AM
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maximpetergriff.bsky.social
28/11/24
black ice and sun squint walking along with kiddo all the names of the sun oh aye it's a Bobby Dazzler watch your step, it's slippy there
November 28, 2024 at 9:41 AM
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foundinantiquity.bsky.social
Have a free tiered Latin fable, Lupus et Agnus ('The Wolf and the Lamb')! It's a sample poem from my Phaedrus project, The Beasts of Rome: A Tiered Reader of Phaedrus Fables I. foundinantiquity.com/thebeastsofr... More info below! 1/3
November 27, 2024 at 6:02 AM
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dylanmp.bsky.social
Apple continues to assist the Russian government's digital censorship efforts, removing the app of the news outlet RFE/RL from the App Store in Russia. Apple has already removed over 100 VPN apps from the Russian App Store this year in compliance with censors' demands. www.rferl.org/a/apple-remo...
Apple Complies With Russian Authorities, Removes RFE/RL App
Apple has informed RFE/RL that it has removed Current Time's app from the Russian version of its App Store at the request of Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media regulatory agency.
www.rferl.org
October 18, 2024 at 5:55 PM
leocomerford.bsky.social
x.com/justacoverba... In less than a generation mankind has progressed from charging phones from cigarette lighters to charging cigarette lighters from phones. Truly we are living in the future now.
x.com
x.com
October 13, 2024 at 7:12 AM