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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 · 15/10/2026
whole lotta long photons being refracted there
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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 12/10/2026
We can't wait for all the wonderful talks this weekend at Roguelike Celebration 2026! Each day this week leading up to the event we're going to highlight our speakers. Grab a ticket to see the talks live: ti.to/roguelike-ce...
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Roguelike Celebration: 2026
Celebrate the rich history and inspiring future of roguelikes with streamed talks and more in our own custom-built roguelike social space! Roguelike games have been part of gaming culture for over 30 ...
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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Let's talk a little more about Margaret Hamilton because she deserves it In 1961, Margaret Hamilton was tackling massive systems, having previously wrangled room-sized computers that blared like a foghorn whenever they crashed.
The famous photo of Margaret with the code she wrote to put a man on the moonThe lego set of Margaret Hamilton my daughters gave me
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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
logging on
business woman kissing computer before murdering it
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 12/10/2026
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Q*bert Game: Angry Swearing
Alt: Q*bert Game: Angry Swearing
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 12/10/2026
This is the end of every Shin Megami Tensei game, right?
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area woman @explodingpiano.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
someone made this with snoopy
snoopy showing the steps to making a martini
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 10/10/2026
You can't make me believe that he's not easing us into a landing pad on the moon on a commuter flight
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 09/10/2026
A few months later, but hey: Remember how I was trying to dig stuff up on Signal Decay from Live365? I dug up a little more and made a mixtape blog.lmorchard.com/2026/10/08/s...
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Recovering Signal Decay, Three Songs at a Time
TL;DR: Around 2002, I listened to an internet radio station on Live365 called Signal Decay. With no surviving playlists or recordings of my own, I went digging through the Wayback Machine and pieced t...
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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 06/10/2026
there is so much going on here
I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.
He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense".
He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defenseY'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.
#that's so funny
#what does he think when someone wants to keep a baby
My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.
Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM
status-quo-hater
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If he's a Viking larper and believes it's self defense against the attacking baby does that mean the baby gets to go to Valhalla if it's aborted

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Yknow what I should ask him this next time l encounter him

Update. Yes he believes aborted babies go to Valhalla.
#saw him a couple days ago and told him hes tumblr famous now.
#i don't think he's aware of what tumblr is
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
forbes.com
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Scott Jenson @jenson.org · 21/09/2026
My "Future of Desktop UX (part 2)" talk at #KDE Akademy is now up and it's racking up lots of views. I'm excited people want to discuss this more. Now I just need someone with Wayland experience to help me prototype this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Af...
youtube.com
Scott Jenson: Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?
YouTube video by The KDE Community
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 17/09/2026
this is unexpectedly enticing to me, as a former guile main in high school
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 17/09/2026
About the time I was waking up, there were rumors that the pork industry was making a move
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 17/09/2026
Like, you remember all those TV commercials for drinking milk and eating cheese? Picture that, except taken to AI levels of hype. Dairy farms in every municipality instead of data centers. Dairy as an ingredient in everything - we went out for cocktails and my boulevardier had half-and-half in it.
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 17/09/2026
Already posted this on Mastodon, but maybe folks here would appreciate this: I had a dream that the dairy industry somehow convinced investors that they were a trillion dollar concern.
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 15/09/2026
OK
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 14/09/2026
wait... that's where they are? i've been doing this all wrong
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 14/09/2026
Listening to bird song from a nest outside my window and I'm wondering what the world would be like if people just went outside and screamed to attract mates?
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 11/09/2026
gonna make this the notification sound for text messages
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 11/09/2026
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 11/09/2026
(department of redundancy department in that skeet 😅)
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 11/09/2026
Yeah, but I mean like, as a feature of the harness. Like View Source in a browser - which, admittedly is less effective in the SPA-era, but did help a lot of folks demystify how web pages worked for a lot of folks
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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today's distraction: building FujiGrid, a screenful of simultaneous Atari computer emulators. Pressing the S key enables sound for all of them at once, which is quite a cacophony 
Screenshot of 30 different Atari 8-bit computer games running at once
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 11/09/2026
Really wish there was an easier way to "view source" on the whole literal context that harnesses send to models. Started building my own harness just to understand it all better. Really demystifies the whole "where did that come from" - like, oh yeah, from the cheat sheet pasted into the context.
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 11/09/2026
I've seen too many terrible meme videos and I expected a plane made of drones to come flying in 😅
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 11/09/2026
just once in a game, I want her to say "i'm too old for this shit" before blasting a tentacle dinosaur
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 11/09/2026
[Fertility clinic waiting room] Me: [chanting] semen, semen- Other patients: semen, SEMEN Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] SEMEN, SEMEN, SEMEN!
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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 10/09/2026
DLSS 5 is just a lighting pass and not an ai hallucin--
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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thank you DLSS 5 for making my favourite character, Menu Warlock, look how I always imagined!!
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Whimsy Bunny Doodles 🐇 @whimsybunnydoodles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 08/09/2026
Funny enough, there's a ruby-crowned Kinglet attacking the reflection in our parked car's driver's side mirror right now
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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 · 19/08/2026
compost the rich, they're full of mercury and other toxins
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 18/08/2026
You do
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 17/08/2026
Oof, I'm so sorry. We've lost a few buns suddenly, too, and it's always terrible.
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 11/08/2026
a little white-out would make that unambiguously great
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CSketch @csketch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Oh my god I think I found the video.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 30/07/2026
Does anyone remember a streaming radio station called "Signal Decay" from Live365 back in the mid-2000s? Played a lot of EBM, synthpop, futurepop. Every now and then I go looking for any details on it, but seems like bitrot ate everything
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/07/2026
it's time to live mas
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John Wick Cocking Pistol - Keanu Reeves
ALT: John Wick Cocking Pistol - Keanu Reeves
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 23/07/2026
yo quiero LIBERTAD
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 21/07/2026
Also, with the sound off and a tiny video, this looks like he's campaigning for Talarico 😂
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 21/07/2026
What kind of pasta is this maniac ordering?
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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 20/07/2026
What this means is that just like you can have a variable named x in C++, you can have a variable named 7 in FORTRAN. Or, in this particular case, 3. Apparently, the original programmer got tired of typing pi. But instead of defining a variable named "pi" -- well. You can guess, can't you?
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Andras Bacsai @heyandras.dev · 13/05/2026
We made a fake repo with fake bounties, and the bots are applying fake PRs, so we know who is fake, and we can ban them from the Coolify repo. IQ over 1000
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Les Orchard @lmorchard.com · 14/07/2026
The way it was explained to me - by a psych professor in the 90s, thus the APA guide in my brain - is that it stops being a simple list when items are longer than 1-2 words or the list is greater than 4-7 items. Different brains use working memory differently and need punctuation help for chunking
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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 · 14/07/2026
I don't have a copy of it on hand anymore, but IIRC even the AP stylebook recommends using a comma in a list of complex items like this. That said, lots of us had the Oxford comma drilled into us by the APA stylebook. So, even stylebooks disagree www.righttouchediting.com/2024/10/03/a...
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AP Style and the Serial Comma - Erin Brenner
It's well-known that the AP Stylebook rules omit the serial comma, however, there are some lesser-known but important exceptions that help avoid confusion.
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