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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

Celebrating the United States right now is like if the Titanic band was selling merch.

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

It’s been a bit since I posted an oscilloscope photo, and that feels wrong.  So here’s a #tektronix 7854

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The Venn Diagram I imagine every time I install a window AC

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

“THIS IS A 7:00AM TRAIN, PLEASE PUT YOUR HEADPHONES IN IF YOU’RE LISTENING YOUR PHONE. THANK YOU” I just said at full voice in the train. Dafaq is wrong with people?

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Mom @milph.mom · 25/06/2025

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

“Door dash for bears” 😄

"AllTrails has a new generative Al feature that can be asked to
'shorten my route' or 'make this more scenic.'
But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers say the feature is going to exacerbate an issue they've been warning about for years: hiking apps providing false information."
AllTrails launches Al route-making tool, worrying search-and-rescue members
One of the world's most popular hiking apps has a new generative Al feature that can be asked to "shorten my route" or "make this more scenic."

Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social • 2d so basically it's doordash for bears

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

New favorite insult dropped: “If you fall for this now, with decades of hindsight from the War on Terror you should probably have someone follow you around and smack your hand anytime you're about to trade your family's cow for magic beans”

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Things I miss from city living: Mike’s Knife Sharpening truck. He’d drive around in this funny little truck and bang on a bell to let you know he was near by. He was from south brooklyn but we’d see him up in northern Manhattan at least once a year. #NYC

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

A rule of thumb that will rarely lead you astray in this country is to assume that a riot was started by the people who showed up armed and dressed for a riot.

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Asimov’s first rule of vacuum cleaners: A vacuum must always be able to roll over its own cord. Looking at you Miele.

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Dear every company: Please kindly fuck right off with your apps. It’s a web page. It looks the same as your webpage. You didn’t write it in C or C++ or C# or Cb or C for workgroups or rust or whatever. Its. A fucking. Web page. Don’t make be install a 300MB web browser that’s only good for one site.

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Ivy - "Perfect Pervert" @ivynyx.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Luddites weren't anti-tech. They were against technology being used by the capitalist class to capture wealth at the expense of the worker. I am a Luddite, and a tech enthusiast. They're not in opposition. I want technology that makes MY life better, not that sells my life piecemeal to corps.

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

“Is your video violent pornography, or the teletubbies?” I feel like there’s a -big- middle ground missing from these two categories I apparently must choose between  #youTube #coppa

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

There’s an ethereal beauty of an analog sampling scope /almost/ working  #oscilloscope #analog #electronics #crt #retroTech

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Peter Mulvey @petermulvey43.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We've got an All-Timer right here folks!

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I drove to NJ yesterday and as soon as I crossed the border the speedometer switched to strip malls per hour.

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Bluesky is cancelling accounts when foreign governments ask them to, and Threads is doing adverts soon. Corporate public messaging systems do not exist to facilitate communication. They exist to make money for the shareholders. That's. It. Come join us on the #fediverse

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I’m gonna refine the shit out of some macro data (Yeah, I know it’s not the same model… ) #severance #retroComputing

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

To anyone who ever worked on the Deltek/Maconomy expense reporting platform: Your work is bad, and you should feel bad.

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Ah Seattle, I forgot how much your airport… well… it’s an airport. Good for you for trying.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 08/04/2025

every republican policy is just mad libs for sociopaths. “we’re banning [noun] to protect [imaginary victim] from [thing that doesn’t happen]”

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I tried to listen to Bare Naked Ladies on Spotify, but now it only plays 80% of the song.

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

naw man, you just don't get it; this was well orchestrated deception at the highest. they're playing 3 dimensional chess man, you libs are too stupid to understand. My man is playing 4 dimensional checkers, 5 dimensional Connect 4, 6 dimensional Yahtzee, and 7 dimensional Chutes & Ladders.

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Lighting up these indicators that were a part of the house’s original security system made me unreasonably happy.

A pair of incandescent indicators in a wood panel wall, one red, one white, each approximately 8mm in diameter

A Power Designs 3 output power supply on a shelf in a basement, hooked up to the wires from the indicators on the floor above.

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

#columbia university is: #1: a for profit corporation #2: a NYC real estate venture #3: ? #4: ? #5: a terribly overpriced bookstore, probably #6 - #15: ?? #16: an institution of higher learning

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

If I bring some meth to the pharmacist, can they put it back into the allergy meds to make them work again?

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken] CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Actually, it’s only called a ‘Lecturn’ if it’s from the Lecturn region of France.

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Busses in #NYC are pointless without bus lanes. They need their own right-of-way. And if they had a path where only busses went, they wouldn’t even need to pave the whole road; only the two strips where the wheels went. And busses get crowded quickly, maybe they could attach a few of them together.

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Just whipped this up after beating in SSO for the last 20 minutes

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

[fixture] 1 [through] 4 [only] [position] [focus point] 1 [only] [color] [focus point] 2 It’s absolutely deranged that we used to program moving lights like this. #theatre #lighting #DMX512 #stageHand #ETCLighting

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Ooh, these are nice. Haven’t fully run them through their paces, but reading dead nuts on my fluke. I need a GPIB adapter to really have some fun with them. #electronics #testAndMeasurement #retroTech

A pair of programmable power supplies sitting on a bench, one showing +48V, the other showing -48V.

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I really do appreciate it when open source developers make their applications cross-platform, but if one of the install steps on MacOS is ‘install Xcode’, that’s gonna be a hard pass for me.

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Ryan D. Williamson @ryandane.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

If only we had a word for a shape with three sides.

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

DVI is the Gen-X of video formats

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oak blanco @abomination.computer · 13/02/2025

politically i think it’s safe to advertise cigarettes to children again. but you’re not ready for that conversation

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The problem with casting Cristopher Walken in anything is that you never go “oh hey, it’s The Emperor” you go “Hey look, it’s Christopher Walken!” #dune

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Will we see more of Mahomes on the field or in super bowl commercials selling shampoo or insurance or doritos or mobile phone service or whatever the hell he's hawking this week?

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Imagine coming to america for the first time and your first 3 experiences are JFK, the AirTrain, then the E or A train? If it was me, honestly I don’t know that I would have made it out of the airport before booking my immediate return trip.

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

#NYC, we had a good 2 decades, but I don’t miss your 3rd world shit hole mass transit system AT ALL.

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I will be specifying these speakers exclusively for all future installations, no substitutions. #ISE2025 #barcelona #avtweeps

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

#barcelona is running trains every 100 seconds durning rush hour. Suck it #NYC #MTA #ISE2025

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Me: I don’t have that many CRTs Also me: oh… This is just what’s racked. Still more to unearth and organize. #CRT #oscilloscope #retroTech #tektronix #basementGoals

A number of 1960 cathode ray oscilloscopes and CRT monitors organized on shelves.

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Paul Carbone @forty2.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

🎶Strike up the music, the band has begun, The Pennsylvania Polka 🎶 #groundHogDay

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