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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@elfin LOL! You say that like a cop hearing about a frequent flyer being picked up.

David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Mastodon runs so much better without Docker and it wasn't any harder to setup. #Mastodon #Linux #Server #Admin #Sysadmin #SysOp

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@elfin I actually think I know the answer to this question. I believe it was in the transition to Windows 95 from Windows 3.1 and at the time the primary complaint about computers was they were too complicated and that it was hard to remember what the file extensions did. So Windows 95 was in […]

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Do other men pull on their own beard when it gets long enough, or is it just me?

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@JessTheUnstill No just put them in that Titan submarine! It'll be fine.

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@JessTheUnstill I'm a fan of sending them to space and then launching them at the sun.

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

The Strength I Sold The world provides a home to snatch away, A cruel design where broken things decay. I am the tool, the heavy iron cracked, Here to be discarded for the strength I lacked. The metal pits with rust, the leather tears, Hardening brittle with the passing years. I fray at every […]

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Anyone else remember when photographers were screaming that people who used Photoshop were not real photographers?

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Guillermo Esteves @gesteves.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Grand Teton & Mount Owen, Grand Teton National Park. October, 2019. 📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR 🎞 183 mm – 1/900″ – f/8 – ISO 160 🔗 www.allencompassingtrip.com/3165/gr… #Landscapes #Photography #NationalParks

Grand Teton and Mount Owen. Both mountains have heavy snow cover, and a layer of clouds is in front of them.

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

As I approach my 50th year on the planet, which is coming up in just a few short years, it's often that I do not get surprised by the things people call me: the names, the snide comments, and things like that. I actually got, for the very first time in my life, called a "large language model" […]

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I'm feeling kind of alone today. Disconnected. I hate living alone but I also hate people because they always disappoint. #MentalHealth

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Bryan H. Rombough @bryanrombough.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Jennell Jaquays, Trooper, 4518th Lift lnfantry (the Duke of Regina's Own Huscarles) Regiment, Traveller: Spinward Marches Campaign, Game Designers’ Workshop, 1985 #JennellJaquays #TravellerRPG #TTRPG #TabletopRPGs #TabletopRoleplayingGames #RPGs #RoleplayingGames www.farfuture.net

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@heavyelement.com "If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold" - Andrew Lewis

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

"My fellow teachers, imagine, if you will, a magic 8 ball full of internet memes hooked up to a chainsaw and your bank account..." No no no... gotta tone that down a little.

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

That's entirely fair. I also have to remember not to make every NPC they get to know someone who will betray them. It's an easy trope in the moment, especially if I have a brain fade and forget what I had ultimately planned.

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Sadly I do, and even more sad than that, many of my students don't remember that time. In fact some of the young adults I see don't remember that time

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@derickr every time I see a flock in the air like that, I wonder what it would feel like to have the wind coursing through your feathers and just to be able to extend your wings out and glide.

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@elfin really truly wish that this wasn't true but it is. To be fair we Gen Xers were taught through and through that if only people could get together and communicate from all over the world, it would solve all of our problems. Well turns out that was a bunch of bullshit.

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@elfin You know, I really like that piece. I can't even for certain say why, but it just speaks to some part of me that likes the absurd.

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@tabcreations.com I don't give them hints at all. I want it to hit them like a sledge hammer when it happens. If I can get them to think they owe the NPC that's even better.

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

And here is a picture of the most beautiful little pug dog (and also the most cranky, as he's old) that I've ever owned. I am very lucky to have him. #Pug #Dog #DogsofMastodon #PugsofMastodon

A fawn pug on a gray blanket covering a futon couch. The pug has a gray face and his ears are just slightly back. He looks relaxed and slightly annoyed

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I know my dad doesn't get or approve of any of that. I also know for a fact that if I said I was trans he (and my mom and sister) would be my ride or die. I hate so many children don't have that.

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I like this... Mine 3 things... 1) I have a beautiful and cranky little pug dog snoring at my hip right now. 2) I've got some good friends 3) I don't feel as lost today as I usually do.

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Here is a tightened version with every dash removed: --- I am going to make a general response here. On another platform, I got flamed pretty hardcore by the anti-AI crowd. I am not going to debate the morality of AI itself because AI is simply a tool. In my opinion, the real culprits are the […]

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear" (Gramsci, 1971, p. 276). I think that perhaps, the monsters we see now may kill the whole world before it is reborn without them. It is […]

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@emptywheel.bsky.social You say that like it's surprising? GOP always, always, tells everyone what they are doing / going to do because that's what they blame the other side for doing it. It's absurd.

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Stars in my galactic star map application, generated randomly with real science and math backing them up. Still working on it. I need to switch over to a 3D rendering library to minimize data transfer to the client to render the map. Lots, lots, lots […] [Original post on social.moltenaether.com]

This screenshot shows a digital 3D space-mapping interface set against a deep navy-purple background, divided into three main sections: a wireframe viewport on the left, layer controls in the center, and a data card on the right. The primary visualizer depicts a transparent, cuboid volume bounded by thin purple perspective grid lines, filled with a warm amber haze that fades toward the top. Scattered within this volume are hundreds of small, glowing starlight points, predominantly warm white and amber, with a few notable individual stars glowing bright mint green. A scale indicator in the lower-left corner indicates that the volume spans 1.25 sectors, equivalent to 5 parsecs or 16.3 light-years.

Positioned directly to the right of the viewport is a vertical column labeled "Slabs," which displays eight stacked buttons with connector lines pointing to horizontal layers inside the 3D cube. These buttons track exploration progress from bottom to top: slab number 50, slab number 51, and slab number 52 are each 100 percent charted, while slab number 53 is approximately 99.62 percent charted, slab number 54 is approximately 82.32 percent charted, and slab number 55 is approximately 19.29 percent charted. The top two layers, slab number 56 and slab number 57, are both listed as "Unknown".

The right side of the screen features a dark panel with technical metrics for "Block 76-184 (27 sectors a side)". It details Rings spanning 2052 to 2078, Layers from 149 to 175, Slots in ring 2052 from 4710 to 4735, and Slots in ring 2078 from 5299 to 5327. Total sectors are given as 1.58 times 10 to the 4th power (15,800 sectors), with 1.06 times 10 to the 4th power generated, indicating 67 percent completion. Center coordinates along the x, y, and z axes are negative 6175.9, 5488.1, and 648.0 parsecs, with a distance from the core of 8.26 kiloparsecs, or 2.69 times 10 to the 4th power light-years. The panel concludes with italicized instructions explaining that users can click a slab on the map or select a button beside it, drag or use Shift plus the arrow keys to rotate, right-drag or Shift-drag to move, scroll or pinch to zoom, and select "Reset view" to restore the default perspective.

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I'm a huge Star Trek fan, of course, and I was watching a clip from Star Trek: Insurrection. When Commander Riker, played by Jonathan Frakes, tells Gordie La Forge, played by Lavar Burton that he wants to suck up the metreon gas to shove down the Sona's throat. The woman at the ops station is a […]

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

One of the things I miss the most from the relationship that just ended back in April is having no one to share the weird random flotsam and jetsam of thoughts with. Just the weird crap that you tell whoever is in that space in your life, where you tell them all the shit that goes through your […]

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Does anyone else miss the days when we all thought a free and open-source protocol would mean that everyone would be chatting and talking all on the same system in the future? Now it's completely not that

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@moira 😂LMAO, well if I had just looked at the tags I would have known that. I feel a bit silly now

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@moira an exgrilfriend of mine loved black truffles and had some imported. I couldn't taste the difference in what we made vs. what we would usually do with the recipe. It was so lack luster, I have no idea what it was supposed to taste like but it was pretty mid. I think truffles might be a scam.

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Why do we keep having to wait for a month that has a catchy way to say something we want to do and make it a challenge? I just read "Opt Out October" and we know the famous November directives... Like, dude, stop please. There's enough going on in October, November, and December. Why do people […]

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I would love malevolent fogs containing damp squirrels spreading mossy darkness over a pumpkin spice anything.

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I could not be happier that this absolute puddle of immoral and greedy flesh that pretends it's a man lost friends over stripping half the United States population of foundational rights to their own bodies. Oh gee, you lost friends. I am so sorry. Not! […]

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I really hope we find a way to have another show by the writers who are doing #StarTrekSNW the way they have chosen items to connect continuity throughout the show have really been impressive. Things that connect to bigger things in the plots. I'm going to miss watching the brave crew of the […]

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I don't really have anyone to talk to about this so it's getting posted here. I'm a huge #StarTrek fan, major fan of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds and I'm watching one of this last seasons (no spoilers) and some of the deep cut Trek lore is absolutely beautiful to me. The references they make, how […]

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Getting ready for my next phase of development for my galaxy generator. I'm going to next develop an algorithm to generate the tech level (TL) of a technological civilization and also calculate a habitability index for worlds. Now this is of course mostly for game mechanics reasons but I want it […]

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David Hagar @cyclops.social.moltenaether.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Sitting on my couch thinking about ice cream and watching Taskmaster wishing there was a new episode of Would I Lie to You. #BritishComedy America could never do anything like Would I Lie to You, everyone takes everything too seriously here.

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The Gaffer @thegaffer.hobbitwhispers.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I think that I shall never see A song as lovely... wait, that's not the way it goes. #ConfusedSongsOrPoems #HashTagGames

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The Gaffer @thegaffer.hobbitwhispers.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Land of Confusion (Genesis. Or was it Phil Collins? Or maybe Genesis?) #ConfusedSongsOrPoems #HashTagGames

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