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• Post #4480360

  This could be a coincidence but if you mutter "you useless pack of fucking assholes" while on hold for transfer between departments at your bank the call gets picked up immediately..

• Post #4480015

  A brief brain dump about drilling in metals: The short version: modern high speed steel twist drill bits are ok to use for drilling in wood, aluminium, brass and mild steel. People will say use lube on steel but I rarely bother with lube below 10mm diameter, a good rule of thumb is that they can be run at 2000rpm up to 5mm, 1000rpm up to 10mm and 500rpm or less above. Faster in things other than steel. They will be "grabby" in copper-based alloys like brass, more on that downth...

• Post #4457196

  #tooloftheday touch screen work gloves used to write this toot. Utterly brilliant! $14 totaltools dot com dot au

• Post #4454801

  If you didn’t want to come back changed, you shouldn’t have travelled.

• Post #4441697

  “Show some respect, ‘The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father’, noob!” “The Mu Corps killed my mother when they took me” “Serves her right for harboring an unregistered mentat. Mentats United is the only logical way to raise a Neurodivergent” “You never had a mother, did you?” “Tankie and proud, decanted right here at the academy.” “Machines could do spreadsheets and Neuros could have families. It worked before.” “Thats a fable, and blasphemy besides, don’t let the Brothers hear you sa...

• Post #4408175

  Further proof nobody at apple has ever done a day’s work. A dirty and slightly scratched finger completely defeats fingerprint recognition. (Note for purposes of security this is not the finger I use for ID but it is similarly scuffed up) (Previously on Techbros Don’t Visit Real Workplaces: ① Siri thinks power tools are constantly calling her name. ② Watch thinks white noise from motor spindles is dangerous sound level)

• Post #4390785

  The Toshiba Lithetto is a pocket sized trilithon engine still appreciated by hardcore infodruids. While all modern computing devices share the same circumsilicon processing technology as the first stone circles, the development of the integrated circle at Bell Labs, and the infocyclotron and the World Wide Wirtzite at CERN mean that most devices we use today use etched waveguides as their Circular Processing Unit. The Lithetto was remarkable, especially in a pocket device, for using size 08...

• Post #4387585

  #HackOfTheDay snag dead printers from e-waste or #FestivalOfDiscardia and recover the stainless steel rollers. The machined shafts and rubber rollers are great for all kinds of tool handles.

• Post #4366026

  #RandomSelfie

• Post #4346109

  Can I get a “fuck yeah”?

• Post #4325379

  One for @MelissaBearTrix@gives.hugz.online #StraightOuttaShenzen https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_mKVv3Tv

• Post #4303464

  “It’s bullshit. Those things don’t work” “It’s the future, Afterlife Intelligence is going to revolutionize coding. You need to get an ouija board or you’ll be left behind!” “Even if it did work the concept that a dead spirit can help with coding is daft. Would you ask your ninety year old grandpa for coding help?” “That’s not how it works. At Microschlock they stack-ranked their coders, fired the bottom half, murdered the top quintile and captured the spirits as AI agents. Reduced pa...

• Post #4262049

  “I understand the disposable coveralls and the showers, but why does the decontam mist smell like fly spray?” “It is fly spray.” “What, why? Is pyrethrum some kind of herbal radiation antidote? Is this woo? It sounds like woo.” “No it’s all because of Jason. He was smuggling arthropods to work and putting them through the gamma ray irradiator. Thats why he got fired.” “Why would he do that? “ “Big black market for radioactive critter bites. Where do you think all those supervillains...

• Post #4235099

  I seem to have lucked on to a piece of god’s bronze (eh @vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz?). Cuts like butter. (Video alt: six second clip of a bronze cylinder on a lathe being parted off, chips flowing like golden waterfall)

• Post #4221120

  “Captain, Incoming hail” “On hold, Mx Werf!” “Ye—What“ “This system borders the Ferengoid Prosperity Zone.” “Sir?” “I have never had a hail that was not spam from that sector.” “What should I tell them?” “Transmit that their hail is important to us; Miss Darta, fetch my flute” #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

• Post #4218695

  OMG if I had any money I would be telling you to shut up right now. (It’s open source so I know what I’m padding my next jlcpcb order with) https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/29/senswear-an-open-source-modular-nordic-nrf54l15-development-platform-for-wearables/ https://github.com/Sens-Wear

• Post #4190827

  Ohai #RandomSelfie

• Post #4177725

  RE: https://old.mermaid.town/@futzle/116994918059341574 TDD is fine I guess, but have you tried spending three hours editing the wrong file as a code improvement process?

• Post #4137671

  Fucking AI slopshovelers don’t even understand the difference between “yes” and “no”, but sure, let’s bet our civilisation on them.

• Post #4124330

  “Uh, hi, it’s Kevin…” “Heh, I didn’t know synths used telephones, can’t you just use your head or something” “Karen’s policy, sick leave on her team must be phoned in, voice call no texting. Between you and me it’s borderline racist.” “I didn’t know synths got sick, either.” “Snapped a belt in my hip drive, can’t get out of bed” “Bed, gee I’m learning a lot today!” “Oh, honey, you have no idea, but this conversation is getting enn ess eff dubleyoo. I’ll buy you a drink sometime and fill...

• Post #4086275

  “We are sorry but your civilisation has not met one of the Galactic Commons membership criteria. We will return next rotation to reassess you.” “Oh, Darn. Was it the wars? We could stop—well, try to.” “Alas it is more serious; the single planetary paper size requirement. We admire your A series; perhaps if you focused your wars on the recalcitrants?” #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

• Post #3999450

  “Oh no, what’s with the moon boot?” “That storm last night; lightning strike caused a power glitch and the SoftStairs in my apartment phased out just as I was climbing them” “Ouch, Sorry to hear that. Kinda glad I live in a house made of stone. “ “But programmable architecture is just so convenient—my cousin visited last month and we used a macro to temporarily rearrange our four bedrooms into five slightly smaller ones” “Yeah nah, you can keep your I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-Matter thanks...

• Post #3974785

  “Fifty rounds of Winchester Silvertip in 25ACP please?” “You still carrying that Beretta? God dammit it will be the death of you, gurl.” “Meh, precision beats punch in the Werewolf hunt. Besides, the price of silver is fucking criminal right now. How’s business?” “Well I’m not making any extra margin on ammo, all the profit goes to the stackers. This business in Persia is displacing a lot of Djinni. You want to make sure you have a fresh polishing cloth on you. Have this one, on...

• Post #3943245

  “What the heck, why is there a wind turbine sitting on the ground in your backyard?” “Granny flat!” “What?” “Well, you know how some offshore wind farms have keeperhomes where folk live under the turbines?” “Yeah, never saw the point…” “I grew up on one, it was magical! My mum retired last year but she misses the Life.” “And?” “And I got this turbine shell for a song at auction. She’s moving on next month.” #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

• Post #3924562

  When the V-parasites went airborne we nearly lost society to PHANG syndrome. All the media blared that you must wear an airtight mask and cover all exposed skin outdoors. BUT who has that on hand?. Well, somehow a few of us did. A mysterious cadre of neighbours wearing gas masks and form fitting latex self-organised to deliver prophylactic coverings to the rest of us. I’m not sure what purpose the cat-ears served, but we owe these anonymous heroes a debt. #Tootfic #MicroFiction #Pow...

• Post #3924332

  “Battle Stations! Main power is out! Gravity on battery. Damage report” “False alarm Captain, Engineering tripped the Warp Leakage Detector” “Send a distress signal, Warp Leak, Assistance required. Signal abandon—“ “Wait, Captain! An engineering intern put their coffee in the dilithium oven by mistake. No leak.” “These fucking Earth ships, I swear…” “Say again, captain?” “Never mind, carry on. I’ll be in my ranting uh ready room” #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

• Post #3906332

  RE: https://aus.social/@jimbob/116938472030477729 China: *makes $1500 electric utility vehicles* Queensland: ILLEGAL MOTORCYCLE!

• Post #3904499

  Maybe the real fault in the kernel was the assholes we tolerated along the way.

• Post #3880852

  This totally snuck up on me, but as mentioned in today’s PBS Space Time, today marks 50 years since the first human landing on Mars. Six Soyuz launches in 1975 lofted tanks of uranyl chloride/heavy water to (inconveniently) low earth orbit where Apollo 24 and 25 boosted half of them Marsward. Apollo 27 and its nuclear saltwater thruster delivered an American, Australian and Soviet crew to Phobos Base on 16 July 1976. Against orders the crew played an excruciatingly long game of low-gravity...

• Post #3599125

  There’s a particular strip-mall nearby that I drive past a few times a week. I’m sure you know the kind too, rather dingy, slightly inconvenient to access, and home to an endless succession of hopeful new businesses that only last a few months each. The rent must be absurdly cheap. Cafes and burger bars seem to be the shortest lived tenants. Restaurants run a close third. Computer repair places seem immune to the curse. For about six months now I’ve been seeing a new sign, plain y...