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Sterling @ssterling.net · 29/09/2026

R.I.P. “Tiny Baby” ‘23 Chevrolet Bolt EV 2LT Sept. 2023 – Sept. 2026 You cost me insanely little money to run, and you allowed me to exact revenge on the worst of parkers. You also literally weighed two tons and frequently got stuck in wet grass.

A parked, oversized SUV with about a third of its width in another parking space, and a small electric vehicle fitting in that remaining space without going over the lines. There’s about 5 cm between the cars.

A small electric car stuck on a muddy hill inside a sheep farm. The tow hook is attached to the front, and two planks of wood are situated in front of the tires.

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 27/09/2026

thinking about the 2;40 am #life , eyrs

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 21/09/2026

[Deer struck by vehicle] I still can’t believe I came out of this unscathed. My wife, however, ended up with a bruise. The buck almost certainly perished. R.I.P. my financial stability for the time being :gphn_cry_loud: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbmuXNtZzeU #deer #cars #dashcam

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 20/09/2026

Pedro, la cebolla está aquí.

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 09/09/2026

at work (daycare) and I woke up four two- to three-year-olds with an unexpectedly loud fart and one cried

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Mx. P. Evil Scientist @jackalopezone.neocities.org · 26/08/2026

[dad from walk hard voice] WRONG GUY FROM HOME ALONE 2 DIED

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 26/08/2026

Well, it appears I’ve lost my resistance to poison ivy and its ilk. That, or maybe I was just *too* balls-deep in it last week—knowingly, by the way. Either way, I’m fucking suffering.

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 18/08/2026

new favorite out-of-context Wikipedia sentence: “It took him roughly 2 years, from 1978 to 1980, to eat the Cessna 150.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito

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Michel Lotito - Wikipedia

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 14/08/2026

Un niño me dice que español no es un “cool” idioma segunda y que japones o ruso son idiomas mejores—bruh, entiendo un poquito de japones pero ¿¿cuando usaré realmente estas idiomas?? El más de mi vida será en los EE.UU. LMAO

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 12/08/2026

Been on the phone with various ISPs, trying to get something more reliable than what I’ve got, but with the same features. This exchange is with a clueless sales rep at Frontier: me: “I would like a static [slowly:] I-P-V-four address with my service.” rep: “Uhh, let me put you on a brief hold […]

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taco, cultist bird/cat :verified420: :neocat_floof_devil: @fedi.birdcat.online · 11/08/2026

science needs to study bottom keysmashes as a source of entropy

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 09/08/2026

German bakers greeting each other at the start of the day like „Gluten Morgen!“

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 09/08/2026

am I actually a therian or do I just have escapism issues

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 05/08/2026

#streaming update! I was originally quite upset about being asked to switch positions, but—this new job is much less stressful! The bottom line: I’m going to get back into streaming starting this week, now that I don’t crash every evening. Tonight, I think I’ll do a bit of Minecraft on @mrj505 […]

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 05/08/2026

When I was a freshman in high school (around fourteen years of age, for non-Americans), my friend and I determined that a phenomenal yet harmless prank to pull would be to take his mom’s leftover spaghetti in red sauce and distribute it through the school sealed inside condoms. Through the most […]

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 01/08/2026

My wife and I were sitting in our car, windows down, parked by an old, defunct bank, when a lithe, middle-aged woman pulling one of those tall carts came by and asked to “borrow” a cigarette. I replied, “Sorry; don’t smoke, never have,” and expected that to be the end. She then pivoted to say […]

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 31/07/2026

My wife and I have been unexpectedly strapped for cash this pay cycle, and I’ve been too exhausted from work to really look into it. Anyway, I went online to pay on my car loan today, and—$0 due?! Turns out I accidentally paid the bill twice during Anthrocon LMAO #finance

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 28/07/2026

Just learned that it’s not a normal childhood experience to have kept a catfish in the bathtub for a couple days before Christmas Eve.

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 24/07/2026

I forgot my third wedding anniversary, which was two days ago. It’s fine, though, because my wife completely forgot, too.

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 22/07/2026

You know that big-ass storm that just hit a lot of the eastern U.S.? Somehow, I had power during the whole thing, but like, *now* it’s out. Actually confused; flooding itself doesn’t usually cause problems. Anyway: my online services are all down, since I know a few people check my socials for […]

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taco, cultist bird/cat :verified420: :neocat_floof_devil: @fedi.birdcat.online · 22/07/2026

HAHA THSS IDIOT LEFT HIS LAPTOP OPEN RATS RULE BIRDS DROOL #Puppet #Puppets #Puppetry #Rats

two rat puppets are smiling at the camera. the one on the left is purple, the other on the right is brown.

two rat puppets are leaning against each other as they look at the camera. the one on the left is purple, the other on the right is brown.

a brown rat puppet is staring directly into the camera lens, blocking most of the frame. a purple rat puppet looks on from behind.

a purple rat puppet kisses a brown rat puppet as the brown rat puppet is surprised.

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Mountain State Furries @mountainstatefurries.org · 20/07/2026

We promise our secretary is a responsible adult. #furry #bowling #zorua

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 17/07/2026

DOC SAID I HAVE THE TACO BELL LETTUCE EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA PARASITE LMAO #cyclosporiasis

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 17/07/2026

me: grabs wife’s hand backwardsly and stares at her wife: “What are we?” me: “Two tubes with increased motility and the machinery necessary to support it.”

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 14/07/2026

Now that the trial’s over, I can begin sharing some of the bonkers shit I heard: counsel: “What did you think were the contents of the bag?” witness: “Drugs, or cereal.” … counsel: “So, not a gun?” #law #juryduty #drugs

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 14/07/2026

I so wish I could talk about the case I’m a juror for because some of the stuff that’s been said would make for great humor

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 14/07/2026

Fevered, miserable, still a juror. One hour in, I could no longer contain whatever was trying to exit my nose. Couldn’t quite get the attention of the bailiff from where I was, so I raised my hand during a lull to ask, “May I get some tissues, Your Honor?” Certainly not the stupidest thing I’ve […]

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 12/07/2026

Well, I’ve finally started my feathersuit project in any serious capacity. Not fursuit—a costume of a couple thousand or so individual fabric feathers. Bonkers, I know. First blog post: www.ssterling.net/furry/feathersuit… . I’ll use the #feathersuit hashtag, if you wanna follow! […]

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taco, cultist bird/cat :verified420: :neocat_floof_devil: @fedi.birdcat.online · 10/07/2026

frankly i treat furry as like the apex fandom like crabs to evolution. all roads lead to funny animals

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 09/07/2026

Before and after: physically moving my modem such that it relies on a long Cat5e cable instead of a long coax cable—or, more accurately, on multiple short, aging coax cables of dubious sources, all chained by two TV-grade splitters and a push-on type coupler. #networking #internet

Table of downstream DOCSIS channels, all of which have power of between about −15 dBmV and −20 dBmV, as well as a signal-to-noise ratio of about 32 dB. Downstream 21 in particular has an absurdly high error rate, especially uncorrectable.

Table of downstream DOCSIS channels, all of which have power of between about −4 dBmV and −7 dBmV, as well as a signal-to-noise ratio of about 39 dB. Downstream 22 has a few corrected errors, but there are no uncorrectables.

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Sterling @ssterling.net · 02/07/2026

Finally found my wallet—in my grandmother-in-law’s freezer. Time for Anthrocon! #ac2026

Leather wallet on the lower door shelf of an upright freezer.

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 23/06/2026

My wife’s breakfast while at her grandmother’s: shredded Colby Jack she melted in the microwave scooped atop a leftover pork chop. #cooking

Mediocre photo of an inordinate amount of gooey yellow cheese atop a pork chop alone on a large plate.

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 09/06/2026

greeting fellow Spanish speakers during June like “¿hómo estás?”

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 01/06/2026

Baby Yoda is Minions for millennials

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 30/05/2026

Typically, for me, burnout feels like a match: stricken to great effect, steadily aflame for a bit, then slowly exhausting its fuel till it’s shrunk too much to survive. This time, at my new job teaching pre-kindergarten at a daycare center, I feel like I’m a gas cooktop: one whose knob is stuck […]

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 24/05/2026

Suppositorial phenylephrine is one of the greatest things ever invented.

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 13/05/2026

The funniest thing I experienced working the polls today (aside from all the “Independents” seething that the Republican primary is now closed) was this exchange, in the context of the two “I Voted” stickers available: old man: “So is the blue sticker for the retarded men?” me: chuckles […]

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 13/05/2026

Dolly Parton going on about this 9–5 stuff when I just pulled a 5–9 #pollworker

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 17/04/2026

A veces, mis colegas me dice que hablando con los estudiantes hispanohablantes en español no es bueno por aprender inglés. Like, no hablo solo español y lo hago “fácil”—solo traduco alguno des palabras en los instrucciones; más del traducción y lógico grammático es hace del estudiante. No es […]

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 11/04/2026

In response to “how ya doing?”, I went to say “pretty okay”, except I messed up some phonemes, and it came out as “pretty gay”

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 02/04/2026

For two weeks, my QRZ.com page unintentionally said I was a member of the “Silent Key Century Club”. Guess I was getting about fifty years’ head start! #amateurradio #hamradio #skcc

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 25/03/2026

Just reading the manual for the Yaesu FT-60R has convinced me to buy it. I originally thought it’d be pretty limited solely because it doesn’t have an LCD screen, but literally the only thing that my Baofeng AR-5RM does better is have twice the character limit for channel names. #hamradio […]

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 25/03/2026

Sometimes, I wonder what’s hidden in the collateral damage of my content filters.

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 25/03/2026

I thought this entire time that VHF repeaters just… didn’t have a lot of range—then I was informed that my clear-as-day “WV8IRD listening” occasionally interrupts ongoing QSOs—which in turn led me to figure out that my Baofeng AR-5RM just sucks and gets front-end overloaded unless I’m right up […]

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 25/03/2026

mi aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas

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Sterling @fedi.ssterling.net · 23/03/2026

Went to check QRZ.com—a ham radio callsign directory—and… I don’t know whether to feel insulted, represented or both. #autism #hamradio #amateurradio

Screenshot of QRZ.com’s homepage, featuring—amongst other, more typical things—a card saying “Special Event: World Autism Awareness”, which depicts four Among Us characters, one of which is multicolored and dabbing, alongside the text “It’s OK to be different”.

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