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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ADUs banned two years after Da Mare got into office, eh

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

he looks like Jack Black in High Fidelity if he's finally gotten a prescription for Ritalin

a still from the film HIgh Fidelity, with John Cusack (looking vaguely bored) and Jack Black (with a manic grin, wearing a loud hawaiian shirt)

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Or as I like to call the tornados, Children of the Corn Sweats

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah, the his of discovering you have either zero or five of any given tool or supply at the rent's house because they get put away in arbitrary and disparate places Today's haul: three modular jack crimpers, zero cable hook clips

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the world needs more chiral lego, with pieces that look nominally like they're symmetrical, but are not actually so (and you don't find out until several steps or hours into assembly)

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

www.jwz.org/doc/about-jw...

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Bears-Eagles game had a mariachi band play the national anthem - and boy oh boy, amongst the players and staff there were *so many* sour faces. I hope they do this more often. (The performance, FWIW, was great and the crowd loved it)

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I usually just go to Al's

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

8 bit micros generally only had single-sided disks, and often only 35 tracks per side; making a flippy disk let you use the unused side the particle coarseness of media wasn't the issue with higher density; the *coercivity* is the determining factor (and also the width & alignment of the write head)

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I continue to read BtAS as "Buffy the A-hole Slayer" and everything still checks out

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I still think about the job interview where the hiring manager asked questions about stuff I had posted on my LiveJournal

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy autumnal equinox (or spring for the upside-down folks)! I will celebrate by complaining about my feet being cold for the next six months

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think the "Great Slate" thing he did broke something inside that COVID just utterly tore asunder

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm sure Jeffries will find some way to downplay it

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Atom Heart (aka Señor Coconut, or Erik Satin, or about a million other names) has had an astonishing variety of work in a myriad of styles; he's worth checking out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Sch...

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

play them the Senor Coconut covers of Kraftwerk - eg www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pg4...

youtube.com

Trans Europe Express

YouTube video by Señor Coconut - Topic

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

delicious but also can turn the moistest wetlands into desert the popeyes here has a sign saying that you must also get a drink if you're just ordering biscuits

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the formerly ubiquitous printed map books of japanese cities used to have famima/7-11/lawson/etc as landmarks

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

if it were in chicago, it would be mike royko's basilisk

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

they're on bandcamp pinkbreathofheaven.bandcamp.com and have a coupla videos on youtube, well worth checking out if you're into shoegaze

youtube.com

Pink Breath of Heaven - The Wind Is Calling (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Anyway, despite not caring for the opening act, Pink Breath of Heaven was great and me and the other forty people in the club had a good time

Pink Breath of Heaven performing in a tiny club area, maybe 40 people tops. A light is shining on the vocalist; the other three band members are hard to make out. The vibe is shadowy, which is probably appropriate for shoegaze

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The opening act was unpleasantly reminiscent of karaoke - but I am also notoriously fussy about performance

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Opening act should consider something other than G (or maybe G♭, it's hard to tell) and work on expanding his click tracks to full electronica songs

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Opening act is having trouble staying in key and in time with their click track Volume is definitely too loud for the size of the venue Crowd is overwhelmingly male (80℅+ I'd say) They have Spiteful Brewing on tap, which is helping

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Subterranean is *tiny* and downstairs is at ground level

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On my way to see Pink Breath of Heaven at Subterranean; have verb pleasantly surprised at the transit trackers' accuracy

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

there's one that I *think* is under construction in the Don Valley for the Ontario Line, but I've heard or seen remarkably little about it www.blogto.com/city/2024/08... (unsurprisingly, there have been lots of delays)

blogto.com

Toronto bridge will be first major elevated Don River crossing in almost 100 years

The new Ontario Line subway under construction in Toronto will include many individual achievements that will collectively form the 15-stop, 15.6-km …

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the new subway line bridge

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Welcoming committee, post vcfmw and Johnnie's Beef (boy, was he interested in the latter)

A smiling white dog, relaxing on a cooling mat. He is very cheerful and content; he may have obtained some errant french fries

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Saved myself from buying a bunch of retro tech at #vcfmw by having forgotten to go to the ATM prior Seems like it might be showing younger (a good thing) but still too many beards, not enough catgirls

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

but you get to vote on one of three new... well, they're characters, all right (since the URL is hard to find: www.jreast.co.jp/suica-new-ch... )

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

have you seen the Tomy Blip? electromechanical, and surprisingly simple innards

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

maybe lentils; a crapload of them are from canada

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I half-think he's doing it to test the dog-piling rules

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

tetraethyl lead's naysayers will see the error of their ways once cars have paved the way to our glorious horsepoop-free future

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

there's the "if you're not using AI for coding you are morally bereft" Discourse if you want something more techbro ragebait

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I've heard several people independently opine that LLMs and their ilk can be really quite helpful for reverse engineering; "assembly code on a known platform" does seem like an almost ideal constrained environment for inference

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think the dialect map thing shows that I speak "General American", pretty much; most similar at 51% and least similar at 46% strikes me as within margin of error of each other (I'm also not convinced Californian ain't just the average American vocab, given how many people move there)

Cities most & least like you

Interpolated from the nearest survey responses.
Most similar

San Francisco, CA (51%)
Los Angeles, CA (51%)
Philadelphia, PA (51%)

Least similar

Oklahoma City, OK (46%)
New Orleans, LA (46%)
Nashville, TN (46%)

a whopping 5% difference between most and least similar, eh

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

yeah, there are some genuinely malevolent trolls, and about half the beesky team seem like they're cheering them on (presumably, they think that "a massive generational L awaits" if they got banned)

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

and if it matters if it's their favorite people they've steadfastly supported (will pencil, et al)

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's 99F at 5pm and the only people in the park are me and Elwood and the other two guys with their dogs The dog park is pretty much entirely in the shade and has a filled kiddie pool, which helps

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Most of the suburban animus I've seen most relates to suburbanites who claim their suburb is "better" than Chicago; this usually seems to be Napervillites

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Creatures, 1990; my mom freaked out about me going into The City by myself (even though I was 17 and in college) and wouldn't relent unless I found someone else to go with me; by the time I did, tickets were sold out

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

tbh, 400V caps don't bother me so much, as long as you have a suitable resistor to discharge with (which are cheap and readily available, although I have no idea if Maplin or its equiv still exists) - especially since it's probably just mains rectification at 220V CRT caps and bits, OTOH...

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

generally the latter; I'll go through every once in a while but there's usually little on masto that's timely or requires immediate attention/response if something is particularly interesting on masto it'll often show up on one of the discords, too

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Chicago feels small to me - but after living in London and Tokyo, NYC didn't feel gargantuan to me, either. Also, I suspect COVID continues to fuck up what nightlife and bustling activity is like; it's the social equivalent of CJD eating holes all over

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I hope "not gonna Lie" with talking about SU(n) was intentional

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm in Albany Park; while I'm not up for biking, chowing, beverages, and talking are all A-OK

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