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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sometimes I wonder why I stick with FreeCAD. "Oh, you want to rotate a rectangle in a sketch and keep its dimensions? NO, FUCK YOU, IMPOSSIBLE!"

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today marks 17 years since I returned to my home state of Massachusetts from Florida. I can't say I miss FL most of the time either - mostly in January and February.

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I watched the puppet episode. I could have done without it, but it wasn't as bad as I feared.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Wow, what are the odds that the great Scott Adams would pass away on the same day as Scott Adams the Dilbert cartoonist?

Twitter post:
The great Scott Adams has passed away

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:

A yellow lightbulb mascot is stuck in a doorway.

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

First dark-eyed juncos sighted today. The end is near (and by that I mean the end of going outside because it's going to get cold and miserable).

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

It's time for #bulbposting 2025, Fall edition! This tool is the bulb planter's best friend. I only had 12 narcissus bulbs to plant today, but this was a lifesaver last fall when I planted 50 or so Siberian squill bulbs. #flowers #gardening

A Makita drill with an auger attachment for boring holes to plant flower bulbs

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The fact that "AO3 Maintenance" is a trending topic says pretty much everything you need to know about Bluesky.

"AO3 Maintenance" in a trending-topic capsule.

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Humanity could power their exodus to the stars if only science would pause work on erectile dysfunction drugs long enough to create the pasta-antipasto reactor.

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Man, I miss Dr. Gene Scott. Skip to 10:18 to get to the good bit, although his preaching starting at 3:14 is worth it if you've got the time. I may be an atheist, but if I was ever going to follow a weirdo man of God, Dr. Gene would be it. #drgenescott

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Kill Some Pissants for Jesus Featuring Dr. Gene Scott by Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D.

YouTube video by Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D.

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Well, today I did one of the most American things ever - I couldn't find something I knew I had somewhere, so I bought another one on Amazon.

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Every once in a while I remember that Frank Zappa's version of Stairway to Heaven exists and it makes me happy. It's pretty incredible, from Ike Willis's vocals to the note-for-note guitar solo played by the horn section. #zappa #stairwaytoheaven

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Stairway To Heaven

YouTube video by Frank Zappa - Topic

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Anyone else still pissed off that the Unicode Consortium insists that squirrels and chipmunks are the same thing? 🐿️

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I regret to report that Bulbposting 2025 is on indefinite hiatus. The giant alliums were the last bulbs to bloom and I'm learning that summer bulbs almost aren't a thing (and, no, tubers and rhizomes don't count!) But fall will be here sooner than you think and then... BULB PLANTING! #flowers #bulbs

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Current goal: move to Canada, start up a shortwave broadcasting operation to broadcast messages of truth and hope to the resistance in the US.

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Because fuck you, I'm an adult, I can do what I want - I bought a cotton candy machine. I'm pleased to report that Werther's Originals can indeed be made into cotton candy. Also, the controls are comedy gold - INSURANCE!

A cotton candy machine resting on two sawhorses.

The controls of a cheap cotton candy machine, including a useless voltmeter, an uncalibrated temperature control, and "insurance" (a fuse).

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Inspired by Technology Connections' (@techconnectify.bsky.social) video about awnings, I've installed awnings on two windows of one of our bedrooms!

Two windows with newly-installed awnings

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

As a guy on the spectrum, this tracks!

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The tallest of these giant alliums is about 4 feet tall! And best of all, they're BULBS!! #bulbposting #bulbs #flowers

4 purple giant alliums with the one in front in focus.

Four purple giant alliums in my front garden.

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

If you thought Bulbposting 2025 was done, boy oh man were you ever wrong! BULBS!! #flowers #bulbs #spring

Are they daffodils or are they narcissus? WHO KNOWS?! All I know is that they're BULBS!!

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

"Breakin' the law, breakin' the law!" Not really, though. Every time I use my Flipper Zero to clone my hotel key and open my door, I feel like such a 1337 h4xx0r! And I wonder why hotels are still using Mifare Classic RFID cards. #flipperzero #rfid #security

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Best song of 2025, OPSEC category.

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

BULBS!!! The hyacinth is mostly in full bloom now! And a patch of grape hyacinth appeared in the lawn in a spot that I thought it had been wiped out from, so that was a nice surprise! #bulbs #flowers #spring #bulbposting

A slightly out-of-focus picture of grape hyacinth growing in my lawn.

Two yellow daffodils and four hyacinths.

Three hyacinths in full bloom and one laggard in the back

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It's so nice when they're doing this rather than trying to murder each other.

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The squill is mostly in full and the hyacinth is starting! #bulbs #flowers #spring

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

How to know you're still a Python noob, despite having programmed in Python for years: you get bit in the ass by the shallow-vs-deep copy of dictionaries. No, dict1 = dict2 does NOT make a copy of dict1! 😡😡😡😡 #python

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The great thing about BULBS is that they change every day! We're finally getting some actual blooms, including the first Siberian squill of the season! #bulbs #flowers #squill

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Snowdrops - the first BULBS of the season! BULBS!! #bulbs #flowers #spring

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C.H. Romatowski @romatowski.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Funny how that only ever runs in one direction.

Tweet from Pixelated Boat @pixelatedboat

Centrist: Politics is all about compromise
Me: So compromise with the left
Centrist: Oh god no, I meant compromise with racists

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Given how much corporate money NPR has been taking for years, I'm not even slightly surprised by this. I stopped giving them money years ago when this shit started getting bad, and I'm glad I did.

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

So, which is the best guitar chord - Am or Dm? It's definitely one of those two.

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Nazi punks fuck off for sure but I'd love for nazis who like other types of music and ones who don't like music at all to also fuck off

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

In my city there is one cybertruck and one DIY parody of a cybertruck and the parody truck has become a local celebrity. Meanwhile, I always wish I had some rotten eggs to throw at the tesla whenever I see it.

A parking lot showing a cybertruck in one spot, next to a car that has built a cybertruck-esque shell around it out of green plastic. It's really hard to describe exactly how silly this vehicle looks next to the green car.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/02/2025

Anyway people talk about hallucinations, but some of that is just overindexing shit posts. The whole thing with “no countries in Africa that start with the letter K” came from a shitposter who put that on Reddit just so when someone said “Kenya” they could answer “Kenya lick deez nuts.”

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/02/2025

Archive Request xkcd.com/3052

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Need something to cheer you up? This video never fails to do that for me. Also, this song is the reason why "very delicious cheesecake" has become shorthand for anything good in my life. #kingmissile #cheesecake

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King Missile - The Cheesecake Truck

YouTube video by Nicko

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I just found out that Ron DeSantis is known by a variety of nicknames include "Rhonda Sandtits" and "Swamp Hitler" and I'm endlessly amused by this!

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website" This is either comedy gold, a horror show, or both. Now the only question is whether it was intentional or not. Link goes to archive.today because soft paywalls suck.

archive.ph

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I really can't help but wonder how all those people who chose not to vote for Harris because of Palestine feel about their decision now that Trump wants to forcibly displace millions of Palestinians and treat Gaza as a real estate development.

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Don't ever change, Western MA!

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Musk praised the energy and enthusiasm of his team: “There haven’t been this many high school kids involved with the government since Matt Gaetz was in Congress.”

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Elon Musk’s Team Receiving High School Credit for Running Government

A sixteen-year-old was elated to learn that he would accrue class credits for serving as Secretary of the Treasury.

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Flapjack @flapjack413.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Got an email today from the Harris campaign (I had been a contributor) asking me to give $25 to the DNC. I'm sorry, what? Are you serious? We're in the midst of a literal coup, the Dems are doing nothing, and they want me to pay them? Yeah, I unsubscribed from their emails. 🙄

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