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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Banging out a little tool to easily analyze the effective result of selecting a #Gentoo portage profile, since I wasn’t turning up any existing tools for that (surprisingly). Wanted to know exactly what it /meant/ for stage1/stage3/etc that I was selecting one […] [Original post on social.coop]

Another screenshot of same TUI application, showing an expanded make.defaults section with recursive expansion (some of the ‘env vars’ are themselves mappings).

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

*crying softly in why-did-#1Password-have-to-fucking-self-own* *also crying softly in #BitWarden not yet cribbing 1P’s ‘indicate to the user they said they use some integration for sign-in, not user/pass’ feature*

Screenshot of BitWarden showing an entry for circleci.com with a “username” field value of “USE GITHUB”

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I now have so many opinions which make people look at me as if I’ve got two heads, that I guess now I look like some sort of cursed beholder? don’t catch the brain-fucking-up disease (whaaaaa) don’t normalize fascism (wow /really/????) don’t rent your […] [Original post on social.coop]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Wezterm’s cute enough so far, but no matter how I fuss with either it’s or iTerm2’s font settings, I can’t get them to resemble each other. iTerm2’s text is much “thicker” and brighter (but with eg antialiasing off, iTerm is then the thinner/nastier looking one […] [Original post on social.coop]

Screenshot of two overlapping terminal emulator windows with nearly the exact same text in each (SSH login followed by a Gentoo emerge package search). The left hand is Wezterm and the font’s lines are a bit thinner/crisper, with the right hand being iTerm2 and having thicker/bolder looking font (which also makes it appear to be brighter, though I believe both are set to the same settings.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

catfishing.net #840 - 7/10 🐈🐟🐟🐈🐈 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐟 Lots of deep cuts today. I think the first question, which 3% of people including me got right, might be a personal best 🤔

Histogram of the day’s scores. The mean and median are around 3-4. I got 7! woo!

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@brainscraps.net also holy shit I can see your quote posts now, bless based bridgy fed!!!!

Screenshot of desktop Ivory showing a bridged bsky account's quote-post actually appearing as a native Mastodon quote-post instead of a post-with-a-link.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

seemingly every other @catfishing entry: "Animal taxa named by Carl Linnaeus" Me:

Cartoon character (a glowing green skeleton in a dark colored outfit) angrily saying "Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?"

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

There's a reason #NewJersey is called the "Garden State". 🥕🌽🌱🥗

Photo of a small dining room table with blue tablecloth and black wooden chairs. On the table is a yellow towel, upon which is arrayed a big pile of delicious-looking carrots, ears of corn, and Brussels sprouts.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

99% sure I had this set as a kid, should see if its constituent pieces are in the tubs in our basement. #LEGO

Photo of chapter 2 of the Lego Space coffee table book, with the year of the second generation of set design - 1987 - and the cabin-with-pods-and-lasers spaceship design, the "STARDEFENDER 200". It's very white and blue themed.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

TFW you put your GI system through the wringer via copious adult beverages, while visiting what's ostensibly a theme park for children.

Photo of an early LEGO Space set in an ad for LEGOLAND, which reads, in Danish, "LEGOLAND rumfart". Presumably "rumfart" is significantly less funny to Danish ears than to those of your humble monolingual author.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

It's decorative gourd season, motherfuckers! (Also succulent season? Apparently?)

Photo of a garden store shopping cart full of garden plants, decorative gourds and some tiny cute succulents.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

/Somewhat/ happy with the performance of Year-Ago Jeff, whose homelab codebase was already ~80% correctly sliced up into generic vs Linux-distro-specific segments. Also /somewhat/ happy with Today Jeff who is so far passing his saving throws vs shiny, and […] [Original post on social.coop]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Meh. That'll do. (TBH, I should have tried returning it, though I do at least recall pinging the maker to say "oi!")

Photo of a very nicely apportioned card deck box with faux sigils and the title "the WORMSONG ORACLE DECK", now sporting a freshly printed warning label that reads "✨WARNING! GLITTER ✨"

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Suddenly wishing I had a color-capable full-size label printer instead of a(n otherwise very nice) B&W strip-style one. Will have to make do with some variant of this which is much narrower and less colorful 🥲 (To go on a gorgeous 'oracle deck' of playing cards […] [Original post on social.coop]

Official-looking squarish warning sign reading:

⚠️ WARNING
✋🏻 Do NOT open or use
⛔ Contains glitter
💥 Playing surface WILL become contaminated

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

This is @SnoopJ and @mpirnat's faults. Still slaps nearly 30 years (AAAAAAAH) later. The music, I mean, I ain't seen the film. #Pi #RoniSize #Autechre #AphexTwin #MassiveAttack #ClintMansell #BancoDeGaia and many more.

Screenshot of a mobile phone's music app showing it playing the soundtrack to the movie Pi (1998). The track "Watching Windows" by Roni Size (albeit a remix) is currently playing.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

When the LLM vendors are all "yike, AGI is-a comin'! we better pump these brakes so we don't kill everyone!":

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

@diazona @nik I dunno, I see this particular sentiment too often, tbqh 🥴 (Maybe the quoted person changed visibility or quotability after David's toot went out?)

Screenshot of web mastodon on diazona's original instance, somehow still showing whatever David quote tooted as "Post pending" with no obvious way to navigate to the quoted toot.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

people likely to get a negative diagnosis for neurospiciness in an evaluation: probably pick the first/closest/cheapest neuropsych from the phone book / internet, call them, done me: (screenshot) 😓

Partially obscured screenshot of a Things.app todo-list project window that seems to be about "ADH…", with three separate subsections labeled "Research", "Payment" and "omg just d…", containing a total of at least 10 individual todo items.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

#NewJersey sometimes busting out cloudscapes that oughtta be in a gallery someplace. (I am mostly art-illiterate so I can't tell you what style this would be.)

Photo of a late evening sky above a foreground of dark treetops.

The left side is very dark, opaque gray storm clouds; the right is perhaps 50% blue, 50% wispy; and the center has a striking cloudfront blending the sides together and catching the setting sun.

It's not quite sunset yet, so the sunlight is only just starting to get an orange-y tint to it.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Wondering why I sent so long without returning to regular old drum n bass 😍

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

"show cat" yea, sure, I haven't posted this thing in a while. I still love it to bits and will be very sad if it develops serious problems. Though I also wish its creator a long, healthy, and safe life free of Russian aggression, and not just so they can help me […] [Original post on social.coop]

Photo of a Nixie-tube desk clock (amber colored lights, round-cornered rectangular shapes) in a blackened wooden enclosure, with various computer desk crap in the background.

Photo of same clock with some books in the background, more close-up, with the lighting showing a bit more of the wood tones in the casing. The small ventilation holes and tastefully centered control knob are also more visible.

Photo of same clock from farther back, in its normal resting spot on a bookshelf above a computer monitor (whose top is just barely visible, showing a row of macOS menubar icons). The books in the background are all nerdy-ass videogame, fantasy, scifi, or Japanese light novel bullshit. (eg: Half-Life, WoW, Twelve Kingdoms, Syd Mead, Zelda, AssCreed)

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

ME: hmm maybe I'll complain more on social media EVEN MY TOOLS: omg just shut up dude ME: okay.png 😅🤣

Photo of a hand holding a screwdriver whose handle bears the text "be quiet!"

(Hashtag joke explainer: It is presumably from the PC cooling/ventilation company of the same name and branding.)

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Didn't even know #Lego was putting these out but in hindsight it makes perfect sense. Also, 🤩

Photo of a "LEGO SPACE" large format hardcover book with a tastefully arranged set of LEGO space kits on the cover.

Photo of a "LEGO SPACE" large format hardcover book interior page showing a few specific kits, including "6826 - TWIN-WINGED SPOILER" and "6848 - STRATEGIC PURSUER"

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

@chrisjrn @offby1 or a couple days nonstop driving from NJ! 😌… 😭

A screenshot of Apple Maps showing a 2873 mile 1d17h drive from my location to Sensorio.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

Let's go Norway! (Yes, I know. This is an Icelandic beer. Still Scandinavian and/or Nordic 😝) #MensWorldCup #WorldCup #BRAvNOR

Photo of a hand holding an Einstok beer can adorned with a stylized Viking head.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

[Steve Jobs announcing the iPhone voice] An air quality alert! A heat advisory! A flood watch! These are not three separate days, this is one day, and we are calling it Sunday.

Screenshot of the iOS app Weather Strip showing a lot of weather happening today.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

[eye contact] Taking the mother-in-law to the nearby up-up-upscale shopping mall to escape the heat.

Selfie of Caucasian male in gray baseball cap (bearing a 20 sided die graphic), maroon historical woodland animals print face mask, and blue spaceflight graphics t shirt. Behind him is a random bougie mall storefront.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

@petrillic @SnoopJ did y’all do this on purpose, because if not, talk about TL serendipity!

Ivory mastodon client screenshot showing two adjacent boosts, both about smart (or dumb) washer/dryers

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

Wow, I /love/ Rocket Lab’s mission patch design and punnery. A+. 😍😍😍 www.flickr.com/photos/rocketlab/alb… My top four attached but do click through, there are many! #RocketLab #Space #Rockets #Spaceflight

Faux DLSR viewfinder mission patch saying PICS OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN

Stylized rocket launching over green hills and a sunrise, reading ANOTHER ONE LEAVES THE CRUST

Orbiting satellite graphic with moon and earth in the background, reading THEY GO UP SO FAST

Black and red Seattle skyline with launching rocket, reading WITHOUT MISSION A BEAT

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