Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
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For the masses, not the classes.
Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him.
Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did.
Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard.
Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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3d ago
@MissGayle @mattblaze Mastodon also has more self-appointed HOA presidents than anywhere I've ever been. It's a mixed bag. Nobody owns the place, so everybody thinks they own the place.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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3d ago
@mattblaze I hate the folks who think artists promoting their own work is "spam". Individuals making things is the point. Literally the reason I'm here rather than somewhere else. I specifically, explicitly, entirely, want to see what people are making.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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4d ago
@Strandjunker if eugenics is the goal (it is for theses folks), then the metrics look great.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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5d ago
@quinn@social.circl.lu too bad Kissinger is dead.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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5d ago
@quinn@social.circl.lu Spent 3 billion dollars and got the endorsement of both Cheneys only to lose to Trump, and they're still pretending like they don't know why they keep losing. Gotta shift right, or we won't win any Republican voters, the only voters that matter.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Apr 10, 2026
"Opinionated" software sounds great until you find out the author has the stupidest opinions you've ever heard in your life.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Apr 05, 2026
@gleick the Times Waffle House desk has all the best paranormal experts on speed dial.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Feb 07, 2026
@mitsuhiko I'm not sure I'm happy about it, as it's going to cause major disruption, and not in the good "let's disrupt big megacorp with our startup" way. Given the people in control of the industry and government right now, I don't think it's going to be pleasant or good for humanity.
But, it does work remarkably well, it is fun, and it lowers the friction of driving new projects to completion so much that I feel silly not just walking down my todo list and knocking them all out.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Feb 07, 2026
@mitsuhiko there are a bunch of projects I had on my todo list, some for years, that I could have done at any time, but they would have taken more effort/time than I had in me. Over the holidays, I knocked out a half dozen of them, including a couple of quite large ones.
I was extremely skeptical, but I've now done several projects with it, and I can't pretend the results aren't astonishing. I don't think a non-technical person could have done any of them, but it sure made me faster.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Feb 03, 2026
@misty as my music gear has gotten older, I'm finding more and more doing audio work in Linux is better than Windows, because Windows broke drivers and Linux never has. So, Linux supports a LOT more hardware, if you consider old stuff. (This is true of old GPUs, USB devices, printers, scanners, etc. as well. But, audio is just where I actually care whether some cool old thing I have still works or not.)
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Jan 26, 2026
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence. From /r/nursing. https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/1qnomyy/alex_prettis_coworkers_take_a_moment_of_silence/
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Dec 08, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop has there ever been a more successful war than the one Osama Bin Laden waged against the US? He whupped us with a handful of flight school dropouts. He said "Death to America", and America said, "Yeah, let's do that."
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
@swelljoe@mas.to
For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him. Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard. Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.
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