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Les Orchard

@lmorchard.com
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he / him; semi-hermit in PDX, USA; tinkerer; old adhd cat dad; serial enthusiast; editor-at-large for lmorchard.com; astra mortemque superare gradatim. Just visiting here, mostly posting over there 👉 hackers.town/@lmorchard

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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 11/09/2026
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 21/08/2026
I think that's the stuff that the Engineer drank in Prometheus
The cup of weird transformation fluid the Engineer drank at the start of Prometheus
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 14/07/2026
Now that I got an actual look at a recent edition of the AP stylebook, this is what I mean. And folks here are saying there is room for confusion & misinterpretation.
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 28/06/2026
Kinda reminds me of Little Computer People from the C64 (in a good way)!
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 19/06/2026
Meme image: NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL NOW
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 18/06/2026
On linux, I only see this because we can't have any fun
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 12/09/2025
Sailing the seas of cheese
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 27/05/2025
They need to give these AI neck pendants more of a face and personality
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 17/04/2025
That's a nice, compact little case too! I just got a pair of Heltec V3 boards to try the #meshtastic stuff too, but my batteries were too large for that case. So I ended up printing this snazzy one.
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 15/04/2025
If you see this post, share a pic from your device with no explanation.
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 20/03/2025
Post your favorite Doctor Who, wrong answers only.
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 27/01/2025
I can't find any specific news stories or PR announcements - but it seems like all the Taco Bell locations near me at least are bereft of the green!
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 29/12/2024
I printed a Taco Bell hot sauce rolodex #3dprinting www.printables.com/model/343724...
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 25/12/2024
I’m seeing a lot of folks digging into their cable hoards today to hook up new electronics. Have I ever shared my cable card catalog in my office? (okay, so there’s a few more things than cables in there, but…)
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 19/12/2024
I saw this set of stairs dedicated to Yeats when I was in Dublin this past summer, so I think you're on to something!
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 18/12/2024
@coreshow.bsky.social Hey guys, just saw my 2024 stats in Pocket Casts and I guess I like your podcast? 😅
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 16/12/2024
Which is creepier - Hollow-eyed Santa or Dead Santa? #3dprinting #holidays
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 16/12/2024
There was a slightly creepier face choice available (on the right) that I almost went with :) www.patreon.com/posts/new-mo...
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 16/12/2024
Moar #3dprinting seasonal nonsense
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 09/12/2024
First test flight of the MMU3. Also: sheep
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 09/12/2024
So, we have a water fountain for the cats. I'm buying new filters for it. Turns out they're "MyfatBOSS" brand sold by "dasdasasasasds" Like.... what? Eh, it'll be fine.
Screenshot of part of an Amazon order. It reads:

MyfatBOSS 18PCS Carbon Filters and Foam Pre-Filter Replacement Compatible with Petsafe Drinkwell Avalon Pagoda Seascape Sedona Water Bowl Water Fountain Prefilters,Pet Water Fountain Filters,12+6 Pack
Sold by: dasdasasasasds
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 05/12/2024
Moar MMU3 progress! This thing’s finally starting to look like the picture on the box. Got a few more spool holders to cobble together, then some modifications to the printer itself. Hoping to have it whirring away this weekend #3dprinting
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 04/12/2024
What's up Pavarotti?
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 04/12/2024
MMU3 progress! Got all the needfuls printed and assembled most of the bits that go whirr. Next comes more spinny bits and then a brain box #3dprinting
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 02/12/2024
This is my hole! It was made for me! codepen.io/lonekorean/p...
Screenshot of a codepen demo named DOMO DANCE PARTY!

It features several dancing Domokun heads, which are squarish brown monsters with open rectangular red mouths with pointy teeth. It's cute
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 01/12/2024
Oh yeah, I've had this thing for about a year now. Been printing all kinds of little stuff like upgrades for coffee stuff in the kitchen and laundry room. And then a bunch of toys. And then a wall with shelves for toys :)
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 30/11/2024
Performing an MK4S upgrade on my Prusa #3dprinter - so far, so good!
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 29/11/2024
Thankful to the deities managing Oregon weather for a pleasant grill day wherein I seem not to have botched the turkey
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 14/11/2024
Re: tamagotchi, I regret to inform you that…
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 18/07/2023
I’m not a cool poster, here have a picture of my cat Cheddars looking like a tardigrade
Cheddars, a chubby orange and white cat, rolling on her back in a sunbeam with paws in the air
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 06/07/2023
Well, vs mastodon, i think he’s talking about this difference
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 01/07/2023
reskeet with a photo where u look vaguely menacing
Me, wearing a Domokum bomber hat and a Domokun hoodie, spookily lit from below, with a vaguely surly expression
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 30/06/2023
I think i have realized that Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips is hair goals
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 29/06/2023
Hob Gadling is my role model
A panel from The Sandman comic, featuring a scruffy Hob Gadling saying "The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it."
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 27/06/2023
ST:E idea of sexy is rubbing aloe gel on sunburns, meanwhile Farscape is shoving glowsticks into skulls and has spider ladies licking bondage gear
Natira (a spider lady) licks Scorpius (a leathered up goth alien)Scorpius (a desperate sweaty leather goth) has a glowstick receptable poking out of his head and is desperate for his boytoy John Crichton to insert a new glowstick
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 27/06/2023
Yeah, this is a thing a bunch of Mastodon clients (like Ivory) improved. Would be nice to see that here too, along with edits to describe after posting
Screenshot of posting an image with alt text on Ivory, featuring a visible preview of the image alongside text entry
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 27/06/2023
This was a gripe I had about the Ivory app on Mastodon, and they fixed it after a few versions. Now you see what you’re describing alongside text entry
Screenshot of alt text entry on Ivory, including both image and text box
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 27/06/2023
The alt text entry UI could be better in the bsky app. Mastodon clients have had this issue too: you can’t see the image you intend to describe while describing it
Screenshot of writing a post with an image“Add alt text” interface: a text box with no image visible
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 24/06/2023
Took a bike ride across town to pick up some new Forest Gin from Freeland Spirits in PDX
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 23/06/2023
There’s a lot of clever posting going on around here but really all I have to offer today are these bunnies in a sunbeam
Two black bunnies loafed flat on a rug, touching noses at an angle to each other
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 23/06/2023
Hello fellow Orange caretaker
Cheddars, an orange & white cat, sprawls on her side in a sunbeam on a pink rug
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 23/06/2023
This is a safe space, right? I feel like I can share here the last thing I ever liked on Twitter
Dad: you can't just listen to weird music and wear ridiculous outfits like that

Also dad in 1984:
(an epic mulleted & mustachioed man in a neon blue jacket with a shouldered boom box)
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 22/06/2023
Unusual bean configuration detected
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 22/06/2023
Hi, here's me and Cosmo. We're watching a scrub jay scoop up peanuts
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