Eric G. @ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026A #BurningMan essay that brought it all home for me: medium.com/@paradoxpollack/the-trou… 000
Eric G. @ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026Today's pet peeve: if you are going to use an invective, use the damn, fucking invective. Replacing characters with punctuation marks to soften it is stupid. There are plenty of actual softer words that can be used instead if needs require. 001
Eric G. @ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026I'm not terribly musical but I think it might be possible to sing 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer' using the Hawaii Five-O theme music. I call on the fediverse to prove or disprove this and to provide the appropriate supporting evidence. 001
Reposted by Eric G.Das @srdas.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026The Halal Biriyani Cart at the Beginning of the Universe #TooEarlyBooks #HashtagGames 011
Eric G. @ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026Fine. Fine. I need to dig this out. www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/watdestroyallsoftware.comWat 000
Reposted by Eric G.Prickly Pam (D-PA) @pricklypam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026@ericg What fun!! I kind of fell into programming. Started as a keypunch operator. Remember those? Sorted big stacks of cards through a mechanical sorter. Big tape drives and huge disk packs. Dumb terminals. Then COBOL, then Assembler. Figuring out errors by computing the hex offset from the […]mstdn.socialOriginal post on mstdn.social 112
Eric G. @ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026I was about eight years old. A friend of my father's showed me his work. I don't remember the name of the company. At his desk were dozens of reels of paper tape wound on spools. Some contained only a few inches of tape, others contained more. He ran a short reel through a reader. The reader […]beige.partyOriginal post on beige.party 100
Reposted by Eric G.Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026Heute @conjugateprior 102
Eric G. @ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026@Htbaa I was just looking at that yesterday. I agree that it will take a bit but it does seem compelling. 000
Reposted by Eric G.Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026🎢 Abandoned rollercoasters from around the world! Once excited, screams filled the air. Now they are rusting and silent. Do you love rollercoasters, or are they not your idea of fun? #ThemePark #Rollercoaster #Photography #Abandoned #LostPlaces #Explore #Fun 13420
Reposted by Eric G.Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026Hey everyone, just thought you should know that Saskatchewan is beautiful. 2230
Reposted by Eric G.Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026A La-Z-Boy And His Dog #HashtagGames #FurnitureMovies 102
Reposted by Eric G.Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026I needed a goat-apple-opera break from grant-writing and I bet you do too. 2050
Reposted by Eric G.Aetherius Eldritch ⛤🧙♂️🎙✍ @mdt.mast.lat.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026#DatoCurioso ## El pueblo español que suena a chiste pero es pura historia Si revisas el mapa de Galicia, en España, vas a encontrar una pequeña aldea en el municipio de Toques llamada **Coitos**. Aunque el nombre actual desate risas y bromas, su origen no tiene […] [Original post on mast.lat] 000
Reposted by Eric G.Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026@ericg the Spanish one or the Polish one? 201
Eric G. @ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026It appears that I'm a passport stamp and a plane ticket away from a move to Galicia. The wait for the stamp is tough: could be tomorrow, could be November or anywhere in between. 100
Reposted by Eric G.Maj - 🇨🇦 @maj.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026Why do we get "hyperbolic" but not "hypobolic"? #words #rhetorical 201
Reposted by Eric G.Das @srdas.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026Drab gloomy dark stormy day got you down? Why have some PAKODAAAAAAAAAAAAS! #Food #Indian #IndianFood 123
Reposted by Eric G.Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026Just upped my monthly contribution to my local Mastodon instance. Please support your local instance if you have the means. Decentralization is what keeps the fediverse free and weird. 0281
Reposted by Eric G.Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026I still lurk on the r/London subreddit and came across this hilarious piece of activist art which turns a bin into a "smart glasses amnesty bin" that apparently is just across the Ray Ban store. 💅 www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1w… #pervertglasses 236152
Reposted by Eric G.laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026This is Just to Say (by Cato, a tabby cat): I have stolen the plums that were on the counter and which you probably would have preferred I did not I'm not sorry they were so rolly so fun I put them under the couch #Caturday #CaturdayEveryday #Cags #CatsOfMastodon 22115
Eric G. @ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026Note to self regarding my Spanish language lessons: Quiero té and Te quiero mean very different things. 000
Reposted by Eric G.Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Catnip Madness Shirt. I tried to wean my cats off of catnip once. They immediately switched over to crystal meth. Moral of the story: Never tell a cat what to do. collabs.shop/hvmytv 105
Eric G. @ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026Profound sadness and existential dread and here's another day I must face. My only option is to live it, be kind to those around me and push through. I fear for everyone. 010
Reposted by Eric G.Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Schrödinger's Shooter exists as both a deranged leftist motivated by dangerous rhetoric AND as a misunderstood troubled youth who needed Jesus until the waveform collapses 483349591