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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 22h

His face falls, he mutters something in Norwegian at me that I can't understand, and he turns on his heel and walks out. I'm left standing there, totally bewildered, the absurd spanking machine flailing away at the air nearby. What just happened? (Truly, WTF, Brain.)

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h

[food] Did I eat too much salmon tonight? Who can say, who could judge such a thing

A white dinner plate on a kitchen table, holding asparagus with mushrooms, a cherry tomato / feta / basil salad, a baked potato, and a large chunk of salmon topped with lemon slices and dill. It could be too much salmon! That is possible. This is my tribute to Fat Be(ar|n) Week.

(In the background is a second plate, similarly portioned.)

To be fair, this was meant to generate leftovers.

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Neville Park @nev.status.nevillepark.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Sidney Crosby has discovered the radiator. #DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #cats

Sidney Crosby, a large black cat, draped over a lime green towel that is covering an old cast iron hot water radiator. His paws are resting on the lid of a plastic storage bin next to it. He is blissfully asleep.

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

@deborahh Waymo isn't going to be allowed into the province until 2028. That gives us a bit of time. That company has provided *ample* evidence that they either do not take seriously their duty of care from remotely operating heavy machinery next to untrained pedestrians with no safety cordon […]

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nvill park @nv.oulipo.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

toasty cat on radiator #catlipo

A black cat lying on a cloth on an old cast iron radiator, looking coy

That cat now snoozing on radiator, looking blissful

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

The local patisserie knows that people only want one thing and it is _disgusting_

Two iced sugar cookies in clear square plastic bags sitting on a white kitchen countertop. The cookie on the left is shaped like a bat in flight and is flooded in black icing, with white accents for its piercing eyes and menacing fangs. The cookie on the right is shaped like a vaporous ghost with arms raised high, and flooded in white icing with black accents for its howling mouth and haunting, dead-gaze eyeballs.

(Neither cookie is even slightly disgusting, they both look hilarious and delicious.)

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Ah, the turning of the seasons, that inexorable rhythm that evokes both dread of the powers we can do nothing to resist and comfort that people thousands of years our ancestors weathered the same The evenings are cooling, the sunlit hours are slowly shrinking, the squirbs are rapidly squorbing

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

@anna I've heard that after your fortieth dose they let you officially call yourself a colander

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Hmmm I wonder how many (boiled) potatoes I would need to build a battery that could deliver enough power to run emacs on Debian on, say, an RK3308BS single board computer

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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

I've spent nearly two decades running #NetBSD and for much of it, people's reactions were largely the same: "I have an x86 computer, pretty much everything is x86 now, why should I care about portability?" Despite being famous for it, portability is not what draws me to NetBSD. I honestly […]

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Man, my... fourth post to Twitter ever, back in 2007, was about playing Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin while commuting to work. Plus ça change, eh?

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

@jonny @Taweret it's true, we could use some sea monsters But that's a November thing

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

And that's a wreck! Nobody fucked off into the sea but Morgan, twisted by years of isolation and grief, found himself unable to rejoin a society he found unrecognizable and which he had unwittingly been terrorizing for years; that society, for their part, perforated the only Morgan they had even […]

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

(Wait, was Vincent's portrayal of a wounded Morgan retreating into the church door there a motion reference to Nosferatu?? It seemed reminiscent of it!) #monsterdon

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

For pete's sake, Morgan, give the poor woman the life-preserving injection that she now can't give herself! #monsterdon

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

I finally got around to putting a bit of time into that new Castlevania game, Belmont's Curse - the one from Motion Twin, the same crew who built Dead Cells. It's good! The music is great, the art style is good; it seems to be building most directly off the mythos established in the recent few […]

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[Minor spoilers for Widows Bay (2026) season 1] While we watch tonight's #monsterdon feature, Katie is needle-felting a fox head pelt for the halloween costume she's putting together: Patricia's dress, tiara, and headpiece from her Sunset Cocktails uhhhhh event. (She finished the antlers […]

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Yelling "come back!" at a dog running away is, you must admit, a pretty low-percentage play #monsterdon

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

A couple of years ago this movie hit particularly hard because of the early days of COVID and the lockdowns being so fresh in our memories. In this viewing the pandemic themes still hit and resonate, but there's another aspect too: a professional scientist, skeptically grounded in consensus […]

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Apropos Mr. Price's lamentable lathework there, This Old Tony posted a particularly pertinent project just recently: youtu.be/hksOKMqCqZs #monsterdon

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Revisiting a favorite from 2024¹ (& 1964), tonight's #monsterdon feature is "The Last Man on Earth" featuring Vincent Price's impressive throwing arm. Get your copy of the film ready to go in about three minutes, or set up your timed mutes for an hour and a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A video store spinner showing a section title label ('"LAST" films'). On the right is a title card for the film "The Last Man on Earth", on a four-quadrant layout: the top right quadrant is the film title in black on a white background, with the red text "Vincent Price" above it; the bottom right features a spooky looking house with peaks and gables at night, all windows lit; the bottom left shows a ghostly white silhouette of a person with a slim waist and long hair floating in the wind standing over a woman on her side, sleeping or perhaps dead; and the top left quadrant is a 2/3 portrait of Vincent Price's face, highlight on his eyes and eyebrows, looking towards the camera with consternation and resolve.

The back of the movie case, featuring a bunch of small production text that I won't bother transcribing but also this descriptive paragraph about the film: Screen legend Vincent Price (Tales of Terror, The Raven) gives a masterful performance in this post-apocalyptic sci-fi chiller, the first and most faithful adaptation of Richard Matheson's classic novel I Am Legend. A plague envelops the earth, decimating the population and leaving one man still alive: scientist Robert Morgan (Price), who exhibits I strange immunity to the deadly disease. The rest of the earth's people slowly turn into bloodsucking vampires and Morgan must use all of his knowledge to survive their onslaught. Directed by Sidney Salkow (Twice-Told Tales) and produced by Robert L. Lippert (The Earth Dies Screaming), this seminal classic influenced the creation of Night of the Living Dead plus countless imitations.

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@chrsbm hey @cks , are you aware of this account using your name?

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Hot coffee mid ride on a cold day tastes like pure joy

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

She likes to hang out here so she can look you in the eye when you come around the corner. #PicaTheCat

Pica the cat looks around the corner at eye level. She is cute, curious and maybe a little judgemental.

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Did some good work this week, at $JOB and at the gym. Not enough good work at home though. Going to sleep well tonight, get some good vegetables at the market in the morning, grab some truly excellent bagels for breakfast, then get in some cycling errands before meeting up with the siblings and […]

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Nelson Minar @nelson.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

🆂PICY 🅷APPINESS 🅸N 🅽OODLES

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

[History of Concrete (2026); impressions, no spoilers] That was not at all the type of film my sister and I were expecting to see, not even remotely! But it was interesting and thought-provoking and certainly gave us a lot to talk about on the bike ride home. Knowing what I know now about I […]

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Ooh I think it might be long wool cycling shirt weather tomorrow!!

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

It's kind of amazing to read through @jonny 's thread¹ just kind of noodling around within Facebook/Meta's new "Muse" product and finding dozens of showstopper security vulnerabilities. The more I learn about this pile of toxic waste, the more I believe that the only way this product could have […]

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Ugggggh I bought PC-brand Skyr at the supermarket yesterday because it was two bucks cheaper than the stuff I usually get, and I figured it was worth checking whether the cheaper stuff was close enough Dear reader: It Was Not Close Enough(tm) learn from my mistake big ol' bowl of goop

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

*the ghost of Adrian van Wijngaarden appears bearing a rolled up newspaper* "NO. BAD" *whack*

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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Ooooh wow github.com/ardiri/dev-palmos/tree/m… A historical collection of Palm OS development resources, including SDKs, technical documentation, developer conference presentations, source code, utilities, examples, and other materials accumulated during the early years of mobile […]

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Psst Zelda fans in #Toronto, looks like we have plans next October www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/even… cc: @mhoye (I'll snag tickets for you + O when they go on sale)

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The Legend of Zelda™ - Toronto Symphony Orchestra

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

if algol 68 was so good why is there no algol 69 or blgol 68 checkmate, haters

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I want to start making some progress on the project to digitize all the vinyl I got from my uncle - a full wall unit of shelving. Not because I want the digital recordings more than the glossy black platters, but rather because the work of it will bring me to listening through many albums I […]

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Chris Siebenmann @cks.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

[AI/LLM stuff] People say there''s a decent future ahead for local LLMs using lightly-used, available cheap datacenter GPUs after the economic crash? Well, maybe. We have some donated hardware and: Several generation old DC GPU: idles at ~30 watts, maximum draw 290 watts, probably doesn't need […]

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Bahaha, my local video store is marking Annual Video Store Day tomorrow with a late fee debt jubilee, among other things. 😂 www.instagram.com/bay_street_video/… (Which is less extravagant than it might sound because they are _very_ cool about applying their late fee policy […]

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@jameskoole.ca sheesh, I can buy a whole fanless living room computer for less than that (even at current inflated hardware prices!) and enjoy a viewing experience blissfully devoid of advertising. I don't understand Apple's product strategy here.

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Neville Park @nev.status.nevillepark.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Update: he stretched out more and made a comfortable little noise #DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #cats

The cat with his tail curled over and his back leg stretched out

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Neville Park @nev.status.nevillepark.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

URGENT: I should get up but the cat is lying on my legs #DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #cats

Sidney Crosby, a large black cat, lying on my bed on top of my legs which are under the covers.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

When driving, teach your kids to count cyclists, so it becomes second nature to them to look for cyclists, once they start driving.

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@nelson Oh? I haven't seen even the name of this game cross my radar yet. I'll check it out. Thank you for mentioning it!

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