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Florian 'floe' Echtler

@floe.butterbrot.org
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Research Hobbyist, Tenured Hacker, Antifascist. Jack of all trades, master of some. Associate Professor for Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark. Founding Editor […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ hci.social/@floe, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 19h
Came across a brand-new BMW with the next-gen front grille and now I can't unsee it 🫣
A blue BMW with a slit-like front grille Front picture of Lord Voldemort with exaggerated nostrils
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 20/09/2026
@funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social That looked to funny to be true, so I tried it myself and yes, it actually works 🤣
Screenshot of a Google Gemini chat:

10.46: is the orange piece of shit still alive?

Ja, Donald Trump er i live og fungerer som USA's president.
Han er aktiv i offentligheden og har senest markeret sig med politiske tiltag som
indgaelsen af en ny forsvarspagt med Danmark vedrerende Grenland, oprettelsen af et nyt "Al Force" samt underskrivelsen af omfattende sanktioner mod
Rusland. ) 

Al-svar kan indeholde fejl. Fa flere oplysninger
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 13/09/2026
Obviously, Trump is massively unpopular right now, across the board - almost. There's four states where he still has a net-positive approval rating, namely Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, and West Virginia. Interestingly, three of these are clustered in the […] [Original post on hci.social]
Map of all US states, coloured by Trump approval rating. Deep red everywhere, except ID/WY/ND/WV.
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 12/09/2026
Teams is really *mwah* quality software. Was just booking a meeting and I'm intrigued by the new choice of rooms. I certainly wouldn't mind meeting at a cheese stand in Shibuya, but I do wonder about the travel budget... 🤔 #teams #microsoft #outlook
Screenshot of the Teams meeting setup, and the list of available rooms includes one meeting room in Aalborg as well as a couple of locations in Japan, e.g.:

Daiwa Roynet Hotel Sakaihigashi 5, Sakai, Osaka, Japan
Amane Resort GAHAMA 5, Beppu, Oita, Japan
Shibuya Cheese Stand 5, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 04/09/2026
Oh look, it's Count Binface's little cousin! (Would still vote for him, even a little kitchen thingy would still do a better job than Farage.) #ukpol #binface #farage #reform
A kitchen oil sprayer that looks a lot like count binface
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 01/09/2026
Grrrr. 😡 Screw you, Google. This is a sideloaded app that the Play Store should just silently ignore (I sideloaded it in the first place because of some senseless region block, so I can't find it on there anyway). I already tried: - disabling Play Protect - […] [Original post on hci.social]
Screenshot of the "Get this app from Play" popup
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 18/08/2026
Me vs. the garden hose #gardening
Marble statue of Laocoön and His Sons

The sculpture depicts the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being attacked by sea serpents.
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 17/08/2026
New metal album just dropped BLOOD FERTILIZER 🤘 #gardening
A black plastic box labelled "Blood fertiliser" with a picture of a berry bush
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 17/08/2026
Did a brief personal style experiment, and can now conclude with absolute certainty that I am NOT a moustache guy. Can barely look at the pictures. 🫣
Self portrait with a horseshoe moustache Self portrait with lampshade (?) moustache
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 17/08/2026
TIL that TNT wasn't originally developed as an explosive... 🤔 "Hey Julius, I just blew up a house with a bucket of your yellow paint!" "Nice try, Carl, it's not even April 1st yet." "..." #history #histodons
TNT was first synthesized in 1863 by German chemist Julius Wilbrand and was originally used as a yellow dye. Its potential as an explosive was not recognized for three decades, mainly because it was so much less sensitive than other explosives known at the time. Its explosive properties were discovered in 1891 by another German chemist, Carl Häussermann.
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 15/08/2026
Went through a random underpass in Aalborg and found it plastered with... Bitcoin graffiti? 🤨 This is not something you usually expect to encounter in "the real world"... #bitcoin #crypto
FIX THE MONEY, FIX THE WORLD 

BUY THE F****** DIPHODL

NOT YOUR KEYS, NOT YOUR COINSDONT
TRUST
VERIFYSHA256
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 30/06/2026
Apparently so many people are "borrowing" milk crates from Arla that they now have started putting "Have you seen them?" ads on the milk cartons 🤭
a milk carton inscribed with (in danish): "Efterlysning: har du set den her? Hvert ar forsvinder 270,000 mælkekasser, scan og hjælp den hjem." And a picture of a milk crate.
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 07/06/2026
Tried a fun new little boardgame today: Tacta. Plays quickly, super simple rules (bit a cross between Uno and Domino), 2-6 players. Only downside: you need a _lot_ of table space and non-clumsy players. We lacked both 😅 8/10. #boardgames #nanoreview
Board game box labeled Tacta on a wooden table
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 05/05/2026
Me, trying to think of a Startrek-Starwars mashup meme for May 4th: 🤔 Star Wars fans: 🤦 #MayThe4thBeWithYou #starwars #starwarsday #gimp #noai
Darth Vader, facepalming on the bridge of the Enterprise-D.
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 29/04/2026
Do more #bloomscrolling 🌸
A thick branch, backlit by the sun, with a few fresh cherry blossoms
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 14/03/2026
Kid wanted fish potatoes for lunch - one 3D print later: problem solved 😁🐟🥔 #3dprinting #parenting
A baking tray with fish-shaped potato slices and a 3d printed fish cookie cutter
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 14/03/2026
The parliamentary election is coming up in Denmark, which means that every tree and street light is plastered with election posters. I just found the most underhanded and simultaneously content-free of them all: dude with puppy. 🐶🙄 (I'd vote for the puppy, but […] [Original post on hci.social]
Election Poster from the "Moderaterne" party, showing just a guy with a puppy
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 26/02/2026
Some deep and serious conversations with the teenager today 🤔 #parenting
Chat screenshot:
> The most sane thing I have done today: ask myself if having socks on while sleeping is illegal

🤔
Probably depends on for how long you've been wearing the socks
Might go against biohazard regulations at some point
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 16/02/2026
There are a few cm of ice on the Limfjord, and I just saw the most cobbled-together DIY icebreaker ever: Yes, that's a backhoe. Kudos. #Aalborg
Small freighter making its way through an iced-over fjord, with a backhoe at the bow that literally breaks the ice
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 14/02/2026
I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER #dogsofmastodon
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 26/01/2026
BTW, that's Antarctica, not Greenland, and I fully support sending Trump there without a hat and just a regular coat 🥶👍
Dumb whitehouse.gov post with Trump going hiking with a penguin
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 10/01/2026
Apparently, there is one person who co-authored 37 papers for #chi2026 😑 This is rather ridiculous, what sort of contribution per paper can you expect here? Probably time for a cap on how many papers you can be author on. /cc @sigchi […] [Original post on hci.social]
Log-scale graph of "#CHI papers per author" (x-axis) vs. number of people.
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 24/12/2025
NOW WITNESS THE FIREPOWER OF THIS FULLY ARMED AND OPERATIONAL CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT Merry Christmas, everyone! 🥳🎄 (#3Dprint from www.printables.com/model/553601-dea… #christmas )
A tiny 3D printed Death Star, hanging in a Christmas tree
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 19/12/2025
PSA: winter holidays start today, so don't forget to take the kids' lunch boxes out of their schoolbags, or be prepared to dispose of a level 3 bioweapon in two weeks 🫣 #parenting
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 15/12/2025
Undated find from my random picture folder, enjoy 😁 (might have been at University of Regensburg a bunch of years ago?)
A graffiti in a bathroom:

THINGS I HATE:
I. LISTS
II. VANDALISM
III. IRONY
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 12/12/2025
My 2nd-year students sent me a code snippet to review... I'm not super familiar with the express.js framework they've been using, but I do think little Bobby Tables might like to have a word 😈 #infosec #sql
export const addUser = (connection)=>{
  router.post('/api/data/add/user', (req, res)=>{
    const data = req.body;
    connection.query(
      'INSERT INTO usertable (FirstName, LastName, Username, AccessCode, UserEmail) VALUES (?,?,?,?,?)',
      [data.FirstName, data.LastName, data.Username, data.AccessCode, data.UserEmail],
      (err, results)=>{
         if(err){
            console.error(err);
            res.status(500).json({error: 'Database insertion (User) failed'});,→
         return; }
     res.json({ success: true, id: results.insertId});
    })
  })
  return router;
}
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 18/11/2025
WER WAR DAS? !!?!11elf! 👿 Mein innerer Schwob ist traumatisiert 😭 #bayern #food #allgaeu
Screenshot von Dominos Pizza, mit "Hüttengaudi" Käsespätzle Pizza.
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 17/11/2025
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 13/11/2025
OK, what the hell? This sounds like the worst case of bullshit bingo I've ever heard, that's basically the last three hype cycles combined?! I doubt this sort of thing will get a lot of traction on the Fediverse. 🙄
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 09/11/2025
It's been a while since I posted my personal collection of weird #HCI papers: floe.butterbrot.org/matrix/rants/we… Any good stuff from the last 1-2 years I missed? Bring on the crazy 😁
A Raspberry Pi board in a bowl with ice cream.A muffin on a visibly greasy tablet screenA guy with a bike helmet on his head. Attached to the helmet is a contraption that can pull his ears.Guy sitting on a toilet, with a wired toilet brush next to him.
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 08/11/2025
Oh damn, my laptop has started to inflate 😳 The lid doesn't quite close anymore because the battery is pushing the keyboard up. This is fine. 🫣
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 27/10/2025
Absolutely couldn't dissuade the kid from spending 30 bucks of their own money on a Minecraft fox lamp, but I have to admit it's damn cute 🦊 #minecraft #parenting
A lit-up blocky Minecraft fox on top of some math homework
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 21/10/2025
Time to write the last CHI reviews, so I'm putting on my R2 hat 😈 #chi2026 #academia #Reviewer2 @sigchi
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 26/09/2025
New puppy, who dis? 😁 Say hi to Nelly 🐶 #dogsofmastodon
A frontal picture of a cute light-haired dog puppy, held in my arm.
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 12/09/2025
It's definitely been a few years since I was last editing CHI papers right up to the deadline... 😅 ... but now it's DONE. #chi2026 #cheers
A screen showing the PCS homepage, and my arm holding a bottle of Augustiner Helles in front.
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 28/08/2025
Semester start is approaching quickly, live view from inside my head: #academia
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