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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@darkuncle doh! I'm not even (by far not even...) the most prolific rabbit-pic poster in the house rabbit circle I circulate in here... For those not in the know, #RabbitsOfMastodon and #HouseRabbit are generally good for what ails an aching soul. (Here's an […] [Original post on mindly.social]

Photograph of a pet house rabbit that has climbed up on the back of an upholstered sofa. She is mostly an albino, with a white coat and pink eyes, but for whatever reason had a bit of grey in the fur on her nose bridge.

She was our conejo diablo. She knew she wasn't supposed to be up there.

She is looking right at the camera, with a "What are you gonna do about it?" look on her face. She looks like she might chew a hole in the blanket that she's exploring up there.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

So here is a replacement kit map you can print, cut out, and stick inside the lid of the kit so you can actually find the bit you want on the first try. I can't attach a PDF, so here's a PNG, which should print at the right size at 300dpi. Note: I used symbols […] [Original post on mindly.social]

A black and white diagram showing the types of driver bits and their locations in the kit case.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

It occurred to me that my Unix-iversary is somewhere around today. This year marks 35 years that I've been using Unix and its descendents and cousins and step-children. Small potatoes by the standards of anyone who was at Bell Labs in the '70s, but long enough […] [Original post on mindly.social]

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@EdwinG Well, thank #^$* for that! Now if we could just get them to not sell off everything owned by the government that would be greeeeeeeeeeeeat. #privatization #CanPol #DigitalServicesTax #StandUp

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Threatening to tank your nation's economy if your central bank doesn't do something that will tank your nation's economy is certainly a choice. www.cnn.com/2026/09/04/economy/trum… #USPol #economics #trade #tariffs #tantrum #Trump #BlazingSaddles

A still frame from "Blazing Saddles" (1974), showing the sheriff Bart holding a pistol to his own head.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Yes, THIS! Or maybe NOT THIS!, not sure. Quote posts are going great, BTW. #Mastodon #QuotePost #QuoteToot #sigh #THIS

Screenshot of a Mastodon post/toot using the "quote" feature to comment on another toot. This toot merely says "THIS!", while the embedded quoted toot is not displayed, with a message "Post is unavailable."

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

I was completely unprepared and had a lot of trouble operating my camera in pitch blackness, but here's tonight's lunar eclipse as seen from my backyard in southern #Saskatchewan. #LunarEclipse #moon #eclipse #astronomy #Canada #SK #YQR #occultation

Photograph of the lunar eclipse of 2026-08-27 as seen from southern Saskatchewan. The moon is - or was - full, but the earth's shadow has progressed from it's lower left almost all the way to the top right, leaving a fairly thin crescent moon with the "open side" facing approximately the 7 o'clock position, rather than a normal crescent moon's ordinary 9 or 3 o'clock.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

The legendary Cliff Stoll gave a talk at DEF CON 34 in Las Vegas this month. He talked about the hacking incident that he experienced and investigated, and wrote about in his book "The Cuckoo's Egg" (1989). He's hilarious, and if you haven't read the book, it's […] [Original post on mindly.social]

A shot from within the audience at a talk given by author and scientist Cliff Stoll. He's a Doc Brown-like man, slender with wild, long grey hair, prominent glasses, eclectic fashion sense, and wearing a backpack throughout his talk.

Virtually everyone in the audience that can be seen is wearing a pair of headphones that have glowing purple logos on each ear.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

What with various volcanoes deciding to act up recently and therefore being in the news, I thought it was a good time to compare geology and politics. #USPol #magma #geology #politics #MAGA #RockStupid #volcano

A chart titled "Geology vs. MAGA" with three columns. The first is a description, the second is labelled "Magma", and the third is labelled "MAGA".

The items down the description column read:

1. Arrives with heat and fury
2. ... but without a clue
3. You don't want to touch it
4. ... because everything it touches dies
5. Final result is rock-stupid

Under the Magma and MAGA columns, every item contains a green checkmark.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

TSN appears to have changed some website code. I'm pretty sure the game in Calgary tomorrow doesn't start at 1:00 am. Reported this via support chat. Of course it took a while to get past the "you're holding it wrong" default position of the support chat […] [Original post on mindly.social]

A partial screenshot of the TSN.ca website showing the CFL's broadcast schedule for this week. It shows nonsensical start times for games, like a game in Calgary starting at 1:00 am Calgary time.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Come to the dark side. Join us. We have chocolate. Also blood. Chocolate and blood. -- More seriously, I fear these sorts of application-specific displays are going to go the way of the dodo. It's gotten to the point where a reasonably large pixel-mapped […] [Original post on mindly.social]

A small appliance user interface element - the display - showing one thing that is illuminated - the word "Chocolate" along with an icon of a partially-eaten chocolate bar. They glow blue-white against the near-black of the rest of the display.

A second shot of the appliance display. In this one, not only is the "Chocolate" selection illuminated, but there is a second item illuminated, reading "Blood" with an icon for a drop of blood.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

[Pet passing] Friends, George passed suddenly and unexpectedly in the night. My partner gave him his usual snacks before she went to bed, then I did the same later. As is my habit, I talked to him and told him I would see him in the morning. It was […] [Original post on mindly.social]

A photograph of George, a large brown-grey house rabbit. He's a half-a-lop, with one erect ear and one lop ear. He is sitting on a sofa among the debris of his norty destruction, looking straight into the camera without a shred of remorse.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

We had a visitor in the back yard early this evening. This is a young white-tailed jackrabbit (which is a species of hare, not a true rabbit) probably from this spring's first batch, so he's probably about 3 months old. The proportions are different from an […] [Original post on mindly.social]

A young white-tailed jackrabbit sits amongst long grass and dandelion leaves in a suburban backyard in the middle of the Canadian prairies. It is alert, looking at the camera with ears high and pointing in different directions. Everything from mid-chest down is lost amongst the vegetation.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

It's alive! Project: portable, rechargeable bench power supply. Powered by 3x21700 Li-ion cells. Constant-voltage and constant-current mode, with automatic switch (i.e. current limit). Output voltage from ~500mV to ~30V, up to 3 amps at lower output voltages […] [Original post on mindly.social]

Photograph of a black ABS electronics project box that has had the described project built into it, viewed from above the front face/top.

At the top is a battery-level gauge. Below this are two meters; on the left, an analog current gauge featuring a red pointer, black lettering/lines, and a white background, with an unlit red LED above it. The red LED lights when the power supply is in constant-current/current-limited mode. On the right is a digital voltage meter, currently showing 18.0 volts. Above it is a green, lit LED, indicating the supply is in constant-voltage mode. Below the voltmeter is a red on-off rocker switch.

Below each of the meters is a chunky knob, allowing the adjustment of the current limit and the voltage setting. Below those are two 4mm banana-jack / combination terminals, one red and one black, for the supply's output.

On the small side perpendicular to the face that is visible, a chrome wire fan guard can be seen.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

I wanted to save this for Bunny Butt Friday, but (a) I'll forget, (b) the Mastodon web UI doesn't expose the scheduled-post functionality, and (c) I think this qualifies as toes-out. This is George. George is a Big Bun. George is a Wide Load. Sorry for the […] [Original post on mindly.social]

A large greyish-brown house rabbit is shown lying on his stomach, facing away from the viewer, splooted with his rear legs splayed wide and his big bunny butt front and center. His tail's light-coloured underside is clearly visible, and his ears stick out from his head at the four o'clock and eleven o'clock positions.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

I have someone showing up in my replies that is setting off my "that's hinky" detector. Replies have good grammar and spelling, full sentence structure. They are in the same general subject area as the messages they are replies to, but they're just off a bit […] [Original post on mindly.social]

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Evergreen. > A third straight day of military action is testing the US-Iran ceasefire #USPol #MangoMussolini #Kegbreath #Iran #ceasefire #PeteKegbreath #DepartmentOfIncompetence

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

This is perhaps a deeper relationship than I want with a tube of glue [1]. [1] Actually a chemical adhesive - specifically, a type of contact cement - rather than glue, which is made from animal tissues. I'm using it in the looser sense because that's what the […] [Original post on mindly.social]

An image from an AliExpress product listing for a type of contact cement. It shows a tube of the product and a hand pulling the cap off the tube, revealing a small brush.

The seller name "Bad Shun Da" is at the top of the image, and text inset in the image reads:

"As glue, I understand you better"

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

So, if we called this a "prediction market" where you could use your skills and knowledge to try to ~~win~~ earn money, but you kept seeing shadowy figures in hats and dark glasses come out of a door marked "Staff Only", move to a table, place a large bet, win […] [Original post on mindly.social]

Photograph taken inside a casino in Las Vegas at a roulette table, showing the croupier running the game and a few players around the table. The wheel is visible in the back, and there are numerous bets placed on the field.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

Yes, they are removing 3.5" floppy disks from 5.25" floppy disk drives. Why do you ask? Attaching the bomb to the computer is much more relatable. #Hollywood #oops #HowDoesIComputer #HowDoIComputer #1993 #movie #film

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

So, we had a severe thunderstorm watch this afternoon, and then a little while ago they changed it from a watch to a #warning. It was somewhat humid, low 20s C, and basically no wind at all. And then suddenly, in the space of 30s, the sky got dark, the wind […] [Original post on mindly.social]

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

Hello, I'm your host Enormous Rabbit, and welcome to today's edition of "Dutch or rot-13?". Here's today's challenge: #Dutch #rot13 #DutchOrRot13

A screen capture of the Mastodon web user interface, showing a single toot. It is two paragraphs, one long and one short, in Dutch, though the English word "grapefruit" appears in it. The specific contents of the text are not important to the joke.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

"What do you get when, in 2026, you tell a 19-year-old underpaid graphic artist to 3D-render you a scene for a cheap product listing, in which a Walkman-type portable cassette player is shown alongside another cassette standing on end, and the artist is too […] [Original post on mindly.social]

A 3D rendering from a product listing for square rubber drive belts as used in cassette tape machines and various other equipment. This image has a photo of a number of such belts overlaid on the image as if they are in the foreground, but the rest of the render is the real horror-show.

There is a purple object in the back, standing vertically, which is supposed to be a compact cassette, such as you would buy blank or prerecorded with music in the 1980s. The graphic artist is a young person who has never seen a cassette, much less used one. They were told to "do a picture of a Sony Walkman with a tape partially loaded, and another tape standing beside it", and thought "well, a tape is apparently removable media, like those old floppy diskettes, so I'll make one of those".

The purple abomination is square, like a 3.5" diskette, with the two holes for driving tape reels in the middle, vertically, and too close together, horizontally, for this to be workable at all. There is a blank cassette label above the holes, plus another below them. At the bottom are 4 random holes because someone told them "cassettes have holes down there for something".

The Walkman-type device is bizarrely proportioned so that it can take one of these monstrous square "cassettes", and the tape bay is open, with another green monster sticking slightly out of the machine.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

This is going to be a fun AliExpress return/refund conversation... "So did you receive the heatshrink plastic you ordered?" "Well, yes, but ..." #AliExpress #CustomerService #HeatShrink #HeatShrunk #oops

An overhead photo of a large quantity of purple PVC heat-shrink tubing, commonly used on lithium-ion cells and battery packs. It is 80mm-wide tubing, and about 10m of tubing rolled together and then plastic-wrapped into a flat shape, many layers thick. One end of the flat pack has been fully heat-shrunken, and is curved and about half the size of the other end.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

More #USPol here, though this is about #media. The rot is worse in the #USA than most democratic nations [1], so examples of what I'm about to bitch about flourish there. The problem is that the media - mainstream media, corporate media, legacy media - has […] [Original post on mindly.social]

A screenshot taken from a mainstream media news article about Trump's unsanctioned renovation of the Washington, D.C. reflecting pool and the way that he awarded the contract for the work.

One sentence is highlighted. It reads, in full:

"Atlantic Industrial Coatings was awarded the contract for the project by the Trump administration in a controversial no-bid contract that critics say bypassed the normal competitive bidding process. "

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

So, the Melon Felon posted this "truth" today. This strikes me as an absolutely bizarre post, because it can be accurately rephrased as: "Welcome home to victim Justo Betancourt, who been released from the concentration camp known as Alligator Auschwitz […] [Original post on mindly.social]

A screenshot of a Truth Social "truth" post from the notorious felon, rapist, and child abuser Donald J. Trump. The "truth" says, in full:

"Welcome home to Justo Betancourt, whose Daughter, Arianne, fought very hard to free her father from Alligator Alcatraz. Enjoy your Freedom together!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

@foon I'm not sure where you are - maybe USA? - but you don't have anything like these? I took these from Walmart Canada's website, but the Robin Hood one is sold everywhere here. I would think other big brands would have something equivalent. I'm not […] [Original post on mindly.social]

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

I've been 3D-printing for around five and a half years. So I'm not a rookie, but I just made a #rookie #mistake. I've spent the last couple of weeks making compartments and dividers and such for the toolboxes I take to the Repair Cafe. Lots of test #prints to […] [Original post on mindly.social]

A very close macro photograph of the business end of two 3D printer ("FDM") nozzles. One is new and shiny, with a precise, small orifice at the tip of the nozzle. The other is used, duller, with tiny bits of plastic adhered to it. The orifice is rougher but also much larger, around 1.5 times the diameter it should be.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

Even at my age, the inner 9-year-old still exists. I hope it does in you, too. #foolishness #HotSauce #snerk #CockBrand

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

My toolbox is gonna be better organized for the Repair Cafe this Saturday. 💪 #RepairCafe #toolbox #organize

A 3D rendered image of a large number of differently-shaped compartments inside the ghostly outline of a toolbox. Each compartment is shown in a different colour, and they each have different sizes, shapes, and relief of various of their walls to provide better access to a large range of small tools. There is a large open area in the middle, suitable for larger tools or future compartments.

These models are for 3D printing the compartment organizers. The models are programmatically generated, rather than drawn.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

One #accessibility issue I mention frequently is web designers, presumably for aesthetic reasons, making low-contrast colour choices. It also frequently goes along with selecting a #font so small that only people with excellent vision (and no #presbyopia) can […] [Original post on mindly.social]

A small excerpt from a screenshot of a web page. It contains documentation for programmers. There is a column of navigation links running down the left side of the image, in dark grey on a light grey background. The text is tiny and low-contrast, as described in the text.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

The the show is almost all melted. Again. Again. The weather on the prairies this fimbulwinter has been pretty bad. I blame the groundhog, who saw his shadow back in February, giving us the traditional "six more months of winter". #Canada #prairies #weather […] [Original post on mindly.social]

A still frame from the movie "Groundhog Day" (1993). Bill Murray's character, Phil Connors, awoke on his first "repeat" of Groundhog Day, and when the camera is put on him at the festival, he says "Well, it's Groundhog Day. Again."

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

For when I'm working on something containing an energetic battery. (Inspired by Big Clive, obviously) #LiIon #LithiumIon #bang #explosion #fire

A large, empty coffee can sits on a workbench. Its original label has been removed, and replaced with a black-on-white one that says "Explosion Containment Coffee Can".

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

The local white-tailed jackrabbits (a species of hare, not a true rabbit) are now well into their change-from-white-to-brown cycle, but the snowstorm earlier this week is not making it easy on them. #jackrabbit #hare #rabbit #wildlife #Canada #SK #YQR #UrbanWildlife

A white-tailed jackrabbit sits hunched in the snow, facing into the sun at dawn. Its eyes are half-closed, and its ears are folded flat against its back. It stands out quite visibly, as it has mostly completed the change from its winter coat to summer coat.

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