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Rick @abnormal.gay · 23/09/2026

best thing i ever did for my chess elo

screenshot of lichess preferences
show player ratings
no yes
no is selected

hides all ratings from Lichess, to help you focus on the game.
This setting only affects what you see. Rated games will still impact your rating

Rick @abnormal.gay · 12/09/2026

this ended up being a one-day read because i couldn't put it down, highly recommend. hard to describe without spoiling, but if you like space ships, classic sci-fi/fantasy monsters, and bands of misfits going on adventures, you will enjoy

Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
cover has the title and author with vampire jaws around the text and a space ship in the corner

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 09/09/2026

this is so cool you can tent the iphone duo so that you can send it absolutely fucking flying across the room when you flail at the snooze button

iphone duo half folded and perched like a tent on a bedside table with the alarm going off showing stop and snooze buttons

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 14/08/2026

@leslie.crxsh.site *sigh* i guess this is the world we live in now

🤖 AI-assisted setup (easiest path): clone this repo, plug your jailbroken Kindle in over USB, and ask your AI coding agent to set it up. Point it at AGENTS.md — it contains exact device facts, access methods, and the full procedure with verification gates. Manual steps below if you'd rather do it yourself.

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 24/07/2026

anyway, for all my moaning, it's pretty cool when a project comes together

a tiny midi keyboard and a numpad that has had musical notes glued on top of some of the keys

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 18/07/2026

i was playing black. i won this position. i guess they forgot how to play chess?? (if they had made the indicated queen move, i would have resigned)

chess board showing an impending forced checkmate for white (in 3 moves). black is trapped in the corner and white is up two bishops

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 30/06/2026

lol fedex is so tired of people calling for no reason

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 15/06/2026

"...will make a virtue of punishing themselves in the name of Art. It is for this reason that many people measure the quality, depth, and value of art by the amount of suffering poured into it..." mans out here shading generations of musicians. i love it.

Practicing not performing, is our present concern.

Our main concern now is not the unsuccessful performances that result from these wrongs, but all the damage caused during the countless hours, weeks, and years spent practicing. How much discomfort and suffering we must put up with! They can and must be avoided, especially since pianists have an enormous repertoire to cope with, larger than any other instrumentalist, and cannot afford to waste time and energy on wrong practice habits. With all the frustrations of strenuous practicing, many pianists become either discouraged or obsessive about proving themselves and will make a virtue of punishing themselves in the name of Art. It is for this reason that many people measure the quality, depth, and value of art by the amount of suffering poured into it. My apologies for sounding glib, but I wish merely to make the point that the mechanics of piano playing ought to be completely painless, enjoyable, and gratifying whether one practices or

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 11/06/2026

a list of several great violinists and one goddess

This is brilliant meme
this is brilliant sarah chang, ray chen, anne-sophie mutter, leonidas kavakos, gil shaham

but i like this
hilary hahn

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 11/06/2026

the "popular with friends" feed is teaching us about cause and effect

top screenshot of a nancy mace tweet

text: some people expect me to be eating a pint of ice cream after my loss. I have other plans

the largest bowl of beans i've ever seen

below
Parker Molloy post
This is the type of content you're all missing out on if you're not on Threads

screenshot of a post from miralax_us
anyone else pooping

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 20/05/2026

ok look i can't be the only one thinking it

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 15/05/2026

did a cachyos thing on another device to see what all the hype is about and whether it really is a friendlier version of arch. nope still arch

screenshot

error: cachyos-extra-v3: signature from "CachyOS <admin@cachyos.org>" is invalid
error: failed to synchronize all databases (unexpected error)

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 14/05/2026

ok i mostly like harper for spelling and grammar, but i need it to learn about contractions. it gets so confused about apostrophes

you're fresh so you don't neglect them],
This looks like a prefix that can be joined with the rest of the word.

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 06/05/2026

and why drive around in a vehicle that makes people say "ew not that thing" when you could make people say "oooo what's that thing?"

volkswagen id buzz in front of a floral mirror. It's a modernized, electric redesign of their classic bus or "hippie-mobile"

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 28/04/2026

we just gotta get people to look at "available" which isn't free *per se,* but if a program suddenly needed that amount of memory, the kernel would reallocate it. and in the meantime, i'll happily use my transparent disk cache, thank you very much! like maybe we just don't report the other numbers

screenshot of a free report

total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 30Gi 13Gi 4.4Gi 124Mi 15Gi 17Gi
Swap: 15Gi 4.7Gi 10Gi

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 26/04/2026

should i commit yet or nah?

17 files changed, 3687 insertions(+), 328 deletions(-)

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 25/04/2026

look rust is a wonderful language with an incredible compiler/language server that provides an enormous amount of useful feedback. it does come at a cost though

screenshot of a system monitor app
rust-analyzer 0.3% cpu 3.4GB memory 5239 down arrow

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 24/04/2026

Why isn't it workingggggggggggg oh i see. this is what we refer to as a "logic error" my bad

$code snippet if self.state.options().contains(&composer) { self.state.push(new_option: composer); }$

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 17/04/2026

it appears that the linux-image-amd64 is the linux-signed package and there's some naming weirdness

terminal screenshot

Package: linux-image-amd64
Version: 6.19.10-1~bpo13+1
Priority: optional
Section: kernel
Source: linux-signed-amd64 (6.19.10+1~bpo13+1)
Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 16.4 kB
Provides: linux-image-generic, linux-latest-modules-6.19.10+deb13-amd64, virtualbox-guest-modules, wireguard-modules (= 1.0.0)
Depends: linux-base-amd64 (= 6.19.10-1~bpo13+1), linux-image-6.19.10+deb13-amd64 (= 6.19.10-1~bpo13+1)
Homepage: https://www.kernel.org/
Download-Size: 1,700 B
APT-Sources: http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports/main amd64 Packages
Description: Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 11/04/2026

Ok look posting a picture with your car is kinda tacky but i think we can give them a pass source: www.flickr.com/photos/nasah...

the Artemis II astronauts with the recovered orion capsule with the balloons still inflated

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 06/04/2026

i literally walked into a 1x1 hole earlier i'm so mad

bar graph of how i die in minecraft

skeleton with a small bar
blaze with a tiny bar
wither skeleton with a little bigger bar
lava with a slight bigger bar
walking off blocks has an enormous bar

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 04/04/2026

is this a puzzle? reason says i want to enable that, but it feels backwards. glad we solved the tracking cookies problem

screenshot of a cookie option menu

text is Do not sell or share my personal information with Off/On selection box. On is selected and green

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 21/03/2026

dont talk to me or my son ever again

New Minecraft baby villager in the acacia variant. He’s smol with a giant block head

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 13/03/2026

no but the framework 12 seems really neat i wonder.... nevermind

screenshot of laptop configuration

DDR5-5600 - 32GB (1 x 32GB) + $405

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 12/03/2026

i wonder how they implemented it *sees performance chart* oh so it's rust *checks github* every time

performance chart with bars

Harper - 10ms
small bar
LanguageTool - 650 ms
larger bar
Grammarly - 4000 ms
giant bar

github language chart with a color coded bar representing the following percentages

Rust 81.8%
Typescript 10.3%
Svelte 4.6%
Javascript 1.0%
Just 0.7%
HTML 0.5%
Other 1.1%

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 09/03/2026

I'll just write a quick little shell script to try to organize my scanned sheet music by composer. *two weeks later*

screenshot of a lines of code report in a table form

Language Files Lines Code
SQL 16 84 75
TOML 1 23 21
Rust 9 1343 1188
|- Markdown 1 7 0
(Total) 1350 1188
Total 26 1457 1284

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 06/03/2026

Musicbrainz style guidelines are based

Trans artists

If a trans artist changes their performance name to match their gender, always use the current name, not a deadname, as the artist name (even if more releases exist under the deadname at the time of the edit).

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 03/03/2026

its the hurr durr six hundos by ol' mate senn!

bell curve meme

left side dumb guy saying hd 600

middle crying guy saying i must try every headphone to find the perfect one

jedi dude saying hd600

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 27/02/2026

case in point: i did not know about sort by key or the reverse helper, but this is exactly what i want, and cleaner than what i wrote (slightly)

search.sort_unstable_by_key(|k| std::cmp::Reverse(k.len()));

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 24/02/2026

i wasn't aware that he toured (he's been dead for 130 years)

StubHub

https://www.stubhub.com
Anton Bruckner - 2026 Concert Tour Tickets
Tickets On Sale Today And Selling Fast, Secure Your Seats Now. USA Tickets 2026. Compare Prices on the Worlds Largest Ticket Marketplace

Buy Sphere Las Vegas...Pittsburgh Symhony...Tickets on Sale...Cheyenne Frontier Nights

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 18/02/2026

guys guys guys json has a boolean type what are we doing

quote success quote colon quote true quote commma

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 24/01/2026

no this is not the album artwork from your one cousin's soundcloud this is from a major record label for a recording with some of the best musicians in the world. eh it was the 90s

sony classical album art with title Schubert Boccherini
Isaac Stern Cho-Liang Lin Jaime Laredo Yo-Yo Ma Sharon Robinson

the text is super-imposed over a washed-out painting. it does not look high quality

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 24/01/2026

this is adorable but that is NOT how a dog's ears work

marketing image with an MP3 player that looks like an ipod and a dog wearing headphones

it claims "HiFi Sound Equalizer supports, make your own style"

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 17/01/2026

My search led me to this eldritch horror. Original caption: “Dynamic collage of football, tennis, and basketball with sports app score tickers.” The fingers😭 I’m losing hope

Horrifying ai slop image of a young white man holding a tablet showing an unidentified sport with a net in the middle of the field. His right index finger has a finger tip half way up his finger and his left index finger is a basketball. The table has a bunch of generic and unidentifiable app icons. There are miniature athletes floating in midair near his hands

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 31/12/2025

I have questions (Yes obviously they changed the title for SEO)

YouTube screenshot
Text 2024 and 5 years ago is circled in red
Title upgrading an iPod mini in 2024
Compucentric 72k views 5 years ago

Thumbnail is an iPod mini with the text old iPod new life

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 29/12/2025

They’re super evil

Scooby doo mask reveal meme
First panel has the mask still on and says “a new meal kit service”
Second panel Fred has pulled off the mask and it says “hello fresh subsidiary”

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 20/12/2025

Ok what is happening in the WiFi router market

Product listing for a WiFi router that looks like Bob the minion

Davolink Minions Series WiFi 6 / 6E Gaming Router WiFi Extender
Dual & Tri-Band Gigabit Wireless Internet Mesh System Fast 8K
Streaming Low Latency WPA3 Secure Home Wi-Fi (Bob)

Technical diagram of the minion WiFi router
It has an led on the front, LAN and WAN ports in its back, the power cord goes in its but, and it has other buttons and switches on the back

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 20/12/2025

Look I know that companies mostly want to make “gaming” routers that look like spiders lying on their backs but you /could/ make your WiFi router look like a cute bunny instead.

A wireless router/access point that is a white box with rounded edges. It has ports on the front that give it a face and two white antennas on the back that look like ears

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 19/12/2025

No no no no Absolutely not Fuck no no no No Bad No Evil NO

Amazon Basics UPS Battery Backup & Surge Protector
800VA/450W, 12 Outlets, Standby Uninterruptible Power Supply, for Power Outage Protection, Compact, Black
Large box with lots of power outlets and Amazon basics printed on the side

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 15/12/2025

Ok hear me out Fidget toy?

Amazon product listing for a big red emergency stop button for $9.99

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 13/12/2025

Mobile firefox says it’s too many tabs. Why you gotta do me like that?

Screenshot of a navigation bar with left and right arrows, plus sign, three dots, and a rectangle with and infinity symbol in it

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 10/11/2025

Not bad. Better with alt text

MIKIE SHERRILL
FOR NEW JERSEY
"I ran for office to deliver for New Jerseyans, even in the face of Washington leadership that keeps failing people. And last week we won with a broad coalition after laying out a plan that takes bold action on costs, despite political pressure and people saying it couldn't be done. Voters made it clear: the American people want leadership with a backbone. And at a critical moment when they need leaders to stay strong under pressure, the Senate is on the brink of caving on a bill that the American people can't afford."
"Make no mistake, if this deal passes, it will lead to New Jerseyans paying far more for their healthcare, when they are already paying more and more for everything. Making this deal is malpractice - we have more than 9 million people in New Jersey who are counting on us to fight for them, and instead Washington is putting them in harm's way. Not on my watch."

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 08/11/2025

my own pronouns journey, for completeness. couldn't line of best fit this, i guess if you discard the any/all as an outlier, but seems bad to throw out one out of five data points.