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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

sheesh, do electron apps just default to mallocing 1.5TB of memory? #linux #electron

screen grab of a few lines of 'top' output, showing Signal and Discord both with a virtual size of ~1400GB of memory.

Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Geometry in real life. The window grids line up when you look straight through, but it's a sliding window and they're an inch or so offset in depth. When the morning sun shines through at an angle, the shadows on the flat shade are now offset vertically. #geometry

a photo of a window shade with horizontal lines misaligned on the left and right sides.

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Wanted a "Vote" sign. Have a "yes on 50" sign. The bear is cool. A little packing tape and construction paper and we're good to go! Early voting starts October 6th in California. #vote #california

A "don't poke the bear / Yes on prop 50" yard sign, with a grizzly bear holding a flag. the flag has new lettering added saying

Vote!
Early voting starts Oct 6th

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Coast guard rescue helicopter training at Pillar Point Harbor. #coastside #coastguard #PillarPointHarbor

orange Coast guard rescue helicopter hovering just offshore. a diver can be seen just about to jump in.

screenshot of adsb exchange showing the recent track of the helicopter, currently well within the harbor breakwater.

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Zeno's Chocolate chip cookie - I can never finish the cookie because I have to eat only half of the cookie, then half of what's left, and so on to infinity. #cookie #philosophy

one eighth of a large chocolate chip cookie.

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Classic warning sign: "You are being monitored" But why is the stick figure waving a kitchen sink over their head? #signs #technology

a warning sign showing two stick figures, one waving a large boxy object over their head threateningly. caption is "you are being monitored"

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@sundogplanets I don't know how well it would work on peaches, with the larger pit and more texture. The one I have worked well with the plums that looked like the ones in your bucket.

back of box with photos showing operation

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

#AmateurRadio #antenna question My yaesu handi-talkie got knocked off a table and bent or broke the antenna (photo 1). Is this antenna still usable, or will I damage the radio if I use it? Bonus question: I ordered a replacement antenna but got the wrong one […] [Original post on sfba.social]

original antenna on left, incompatible replacement on right

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Disappointed that the @WIRED story on military lasers doesn't even have a passing reference to Real Genius. www.wired.com/story/landmark-deal-w… #laser #military

the laser beam is heading right toward the house full of popcorn!

screen grab from Real Genius.

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Birthday present to me 😁 "Independent bookstore edition" even! #book #RebeccaSolnit

pink book cover

The Beginning Comes After the End
Notes on a World of Change
Rebecca Solnit

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

There are ~9000 stars in the night sky visible to the naked eye. This is a SaVi rendering of the subset of a 40,000 satellite constellation visible - less than 10% of what SpaceX is proposing to ruin the night sky with. #satellites #spacex

A whole lot of red dots indicating satellites on a white bulls-eye diagram

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

How many decades ago should this helmet have been discarded? 😬 #BikeTooter

label on a bike helmet indicating test standards and a manufacturing date of FEB 96

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

The ship from R&S "Space Madness" looks an awful lot like Planet Express ship. #RenAndStimpy #SpaceMadness #Futurama

cartoon image of a spaceship, colored green with red fins and a wind-up knob on the underside.

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

One of these batteries will work, the other won't. 😠 #garage #electronics

two small batteries with a crucial difference between them that is not obvious at a glance.

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

[creepy crawlers] Ants. I hate them. Any suggestions how to caulk up an electric outlet? They're coming in through the receptacles as far as I can tell. #ants #bugs

Ants streaming in via an electric outlet

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

@ai6yr I usually use duckduckgo for generating QR codes. Just "QR whatever" and it displays it.

A qr code that means hello world, generated by duck duck go.

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025

@ai6yr can't tell what the yard sign is; I don't think it's a "Don't poke the bear" yes on 50 sign, but that would be the best one.

Blurry crop from video of yard sign, obvious "100" on it but can't tell much else.

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

Cancelled my Disney/Hulu subscription. Any suggestions on what independent media subscriptions I should spend that $19/month on instead? #canceldisney #cancelhulu #JimmyKimmel

Hulu cancellation subscription confirmation. Reason given is
"I am cancelling my subscription bundle because Disney is shamefully acquiescing to the Trump administration demands to suppress dissenting speech by firing Jimmy Kimmel, and I can no longer in good conscience support them with my patronage."

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

@spocko @ai6yr and who can forget the Seiko IRC Pro? (credit: @NanoRaptor )

A skillfully drawn imaginary wristwatch featuring a full QWERTY keyboard, presumably for chatting in IRC. But who uses either IRC or wristwatches any more?

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2025

@ai6yr This has three ways it can end up. 1: a funcional implementation of RFC1149 "IP over avian carriers" 2: a functional implementation of Hitchcock's 1963 classic, "The Birds" 3: a compelling data point in the "birds aren't real" debate. #birdsarentreal

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2025

I love hardware stores, where I can get just one of the random thing I need to fix a dresser drawer handle, instead of having to get a whole box.

A screw-in insert for a wooden dresser drawer knob

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

@jrconlin @ai6yr @nondailychickens @chicken The ol' Feed & Fuel is the best place in town to pick up chicks

Front of the Half Moon Bay Feed & Fuel company, featuring their slogan, "the best place in town to pick up chicks"

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2025

I'm going to spend my lunch hour on my local street corner with my #NoKings sign. It'll just be me, but maybe someone will see it and realize they're not alone with their disgust with the SCOTUS Archbishop of Canterbury wannabees. #coastside #indivisible

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2025

This is a pretty pink flower. The scientist asks, why is it pink? The artist asks, why is it pretty? The botanist asks, what kind of flower is it? The psychologist asks, what does it make you think of? The therapist asks, how does it make you feel? The […] [Original post on sfba.social]

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2025

Two stories next to each other on NPR this morning. The first talks about the possibilities what AI can do, the second reports on the dumpster fire of what AI can do. #ai #vibecoding

Screenshot from NPR.org showing a story about vibe coding and a story about RFK's "make America healthy again" report

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

Pinks and purples. Coral bells, chives, society garlic, and five-spot. #bloomscrolling

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

Fiesta marigold and Eleanor monkey flowers. #bloomscrolling

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

Blue-eyed grass and blue springs pestamin. #bloomscrolling

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025

@GottaLaff we mustn't lose sight of the fact that these kidnap victims are real people with real lives. The administration wants the public to believe these are non-people. I made a printable (preferably not on a color laser printer) poster to try and connect […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Printable poster. Image of Rumeysa Ozturk and a QR code for the 5calls.org activism website.

Poster text:
KIDNAPPED
Rumeysa Ozturk
Detained Since: March 25, 2025

International student ambushed and kidnapped off the street in Massachusetts by masked ICE agents, with no justification or due process. Currently detained thousands of miles away in Louisiana.

Call your congressperson to speak up against violations of constitutional due process rights.

Printable poster. Image of Kilmar Abrego Garciaand a QR code for the 5calls.org activism website.

Poster text:
KIDNAPPED
Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Detained Since: March 12, 2025

Husband and father abducted in Maryland, accused of being a gang member with zero evidence. Deported with no due process, despite a court order against his deportation. Currently imprisoned in a concentration camp in El Salvador.

Call your congressperson to speak up against violations of constitutional due process rights.

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2025

#birds at Colma #BART - house finch and a northern mockingbird. Identified by Merlin Bird Id.

Screenshot of an app showing birds identified by their calls on a sound recording.

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2025

Nero may or may not have fiddled while Rome burned. But he sure was happy about it, as it gave him the opportunity to build a new palace for himself. #resist #impeachtrump Bonus: "Look daddy, I can drive the pretend car too!"

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2025

Planting vegetables, so had to cut down some flowers. But they look pretty on the table now. #BloomScrolling

A vase with cut flowers in pink, yellow, and purple.

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2025

Damnit, it looks like "Giant Meteor 2032" is no longer in the running. www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-530789… #giantmeteor2032

Political style bumper sticker reading "giant meteor / just end it already"

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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2025

When adding #AltText to an image, should it be (a) descriptive *only* of what can be seen in the image, (b) describe the image in a larger context, (c) lightly editorialized, or (d) a full post in it's own right, e.g, including jokes and snark? For example this […] [Original post on sfba.social]

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