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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 12m
#LudumDare / #ldjam was already on its last legs, and I already wouldn't have been able to participate this weekend... but it sure is disappointing the extent to which it and the community is fine with LLM slop entries. The entire point of an event like LD is undermined when you aren't writing […]
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 1h
This jumping spider won't stop staring at me while I try to poop.
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h
[Sad posting] It's upsetting to be reminded of how much normal, healthy/functional people are able to get done day to day. When someone completes a project in a weekend that would take me 6-8 months of continuous stressing. I mean, fuck, I've had the parts for this IKEA desk leaned against my […]
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Maybe with Linux doing this latest wave of LLM shit more people will take me seriously when I say: Abolish operating systems!
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Think I might fuck around and subscribe to my local newspaper.
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Everyone, I have a suggestion: New Skill November. #NewSkillNovember
NEW SKILL NOVEMBER

[an art nouveau painting in autumn colors of a woman playing the harp]

LEARN A NEW SKILL OR REBUILD AN OLD ONE; THE ONLY RULE: DO IT YOURSELF, DO NOT USE AI

Sketching, knitting, whittling, a musical instrument, a foreign language, a tricky video game, cooking, weaving, changing oil, riding a bike, painting, pixel art, website design, digital image editing, bookbinding, calligraphy, identifying mushrooms, embroidery, soldering, that one thing you've been putting off

Do the hard part yourself, no matter how imperfect it feels. Learn and internalize how it really works. Consult guides written by human experts, and ask your fellow human beings for help. Take pride in knowledge and abilities that are an intrinsic part of your existence and not dependent on renting from corporations.

art by Charles Louis Hinton for a November issue of Harper's Bazaar, 1896
banner by 0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
GTO (2026) was pretty good.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
[How to Memorize Anything] I wrote this for my students but I thought I'd share it here too. To memorize vocabulary words, formulas or definitions you should practice *recalling* that information. Just reading or copying the thing you want to memorize over and over may not help you remember it […]
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Happy Leif Erickson Day!
An image I made back in the LiveJournal days. The base is the old "Bitches don't know about my dick" meme that time has forgotten. A young bro has taken a mirror selfie showing off his shirt. I crudely edited it. His shirt is now in runic characters but if converted to normal English letters reads "BITCHES DON'T KNOW ABOUT MY DISCOVERY OF AMERICA" He's been given a beard, a gold Mjölnir necklace (yes I know he was Christian, fuck off), an axe, and a bejeweled, horned helmet (again, fuck off). I've been sharing and reposting this image for decades because I'm very proud of it.
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
They call me the Jambalaya Messiah. (They don't.)
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
I'm right at the level of knowledge for #birding / #birdwatching where I still don't know what anybody but like the dozen most common birds in my yard are called, but I DO know that what I want to call them is almost certainly wrong. What this has resulted in is me just giving up completely and […]
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
I'd like to be Under a tree ........ In the shade
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
People who have a 3d printer: In your experience, are they actually useful for stuff, or are they just one of those things that seem neat but mostly end up sitting around gathering dust? #question #3DPrinters
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
It's that time of year again: time for me to ask for advice on how to spend the money my employer offers for "learning and development". I've got a few hundred bucks available, but it's gotta get approved by a manager person. What should I try to convince them on? I've done a bunch of books in […]
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
I've been seeing a lot of articles lately about Starbucks closing lots of stores around the country; has anybody gone through and looked at correlations between which locations are being shut down and which locations have unionized? Just kinda curious, ya know?
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
It's kinda refreshing to do a simple meme thing like back in the days when social media was fun. I dunno if this is THE 9, but it's 9 that came to mind. (From my9games.net/en ) Also, what? Come at me. My games are good. #My9games
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
My secondhand blursed cowboy computer wizard statue finally arrived. Might try to do a photoshoot later and make a profile pic.
Blessed/cursed hand-carved and painted wooden statue of a creepily grinning cowboy sitting on a stump with an old laptop in his lap labeled "COMPUTER WIZARD". His left hand holds a floppy disk labeled "FLOPPY DISK". He's got blue jeans, and orange, long sleeved shirt, brown cowboy boots, a brown vest, a brown cowboy hat, and a yellow neckerchief. His hair and mustache are brown with grey highlights. He will certainly protect me from electronic evils such as viruses and LLMs. I just know it.
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
I've been off work for the past 3 weeks to recover from my surgery, but have to return tomorrow. Absolutely dreading it.
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
I hear a lot of talk of the mythical "hoodie weather" but I don't know what that actually means. What is "hoodie weather" to you? What temperature? Humidity? Etc.?
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Mech pilots as a sci-fi analog for truckers, not soldiers.
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
When they eventually get around to making a US version of #Taskmaster, the role of taskmaster should be given to Shaq.
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
My recent permacomputing-related polls have had interesting results, mostly because they reveal to me that most people's assumptions have nothing to do with my actual goals.
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
[Medical-related existential whining] Over the past 6-8 months I've finally dealt with a number of major health problems that have plagued me for my entire adult life. It's cool and all, but it also is leaving me very forlorn about the two separate times these problems lead to me dropping out […]
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Remember that time Israel planted bombs in a bunch of pagers and walkie talkies and then indiscriminately maimed and murdered a bunch of people it baselessly claimed were terrorists including multiple small children? That's worth remembering, imo.
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
This guy's the limit.
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
The Diogenes of Horses
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
I think it's important at this point for everyone interested in the #smolweb / #smallweb / etc. to categorically and explicitly commit to ensuring that every protocol it incorporates be simple enough that any dedicated computer practitioner can implement it themselves on their hardware of choice […]
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
Panopticon as a blueprint; not just for a prison, not even just for a single totalitarian police state, but for the whole of humandom.
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
I like some aspects of #tokipona and dislike others. I think I've come to realize that what I actually want is a language that prioritizes the exact opposite things as Toki Pona.
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Make Personal Computers Personal Again #permacomputing #retrocomputing
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Resource request time! I've got some old hardware that I'd like to try to develop a custom ROM for. The ROM is, fortunately, on a chip that can just be pulled from its socket and replaced. I don't, however, know much about the architecture of the device; how the memory map works, how to handle […]
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
Perhaps as an anarchist, left to decide between an array of evils to support in an electoral system, a good question to consider is this: which of these candidates, if they came to victory because of my support and were able to achieve their goals... which of them would lock me away in the most […]
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." - some idiot who thinks they only have one enemy.
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
Are there any books or other good resources in existence for implementing LOGO from scratch? #LOGO #programming #turtlelogic
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Pronouncing "Vegemite" like "Yosemite" over and over until the Australians decide to overthrow the US government.
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
When Galadriel said, "some things that should not have been forgotten we're lost"... I felt that. (Where is my copy of Metroid Fusion??) #LotR #Metroid
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
I often wonder how non-near future historians will classify the last couple centuries of world/US history. We tend to think in terms of presidential periods or decades or periods of/between wars, but these are all granular details that nobody will concern themselves with a millennium from now.
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Before becoming President of the United States, Bill Clinton first came into the national spotlight in 1987, when he performed the saxophone in the hit sitcom Full House. #history #UShistory #presidentialhistory #saxophone #USPolitics #Clinton #BobSaget #funfacts
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
RE: kolektiva.social/@lumecolca/1168747… Never doubt how committed I am to the bit. I'm currently laying in a hospital bed recovering from very major surgery and someone in the hallway, for reasons beyond my kenning, played the intro loudly and you bet your britches I danced […]
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Anxiety.
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
The "Antebellum Period" refers to the period of US history before the founding of Taco Bell in 1962. #history #ushistory #facts #TacoBell
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
I should stop trying to do online auctions. They are not compatible with my fragile mental health
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
Good morning, Roman Space Telescope. Good luck. #RomanSpaceTelescope
Early morning Falcon Heavy launch over the neighborhood
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
I love living in the gopher capital of the world. #gopher #tortoise #gophertortoise
A big gopher tortoise is wandering through my neighbor's mowed lawn. Our dirt road is visible at the bottom of the image
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
Hati time. #eclipse
The moon, partially eclipsed in the sky with scattered clouds
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
For the first time ever, I just saw a little dung beetle pushing a ball. It was so good!
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
Heavens to Murgatroyd-vania
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
One of my former teacher colleagues is now the lead candidate heading into a runoff for city council of my hometown. It's very cool and I'm proud and excited for him. There's a real chance that this election might finally shift the powerbase away from the developers; a thing that's been needed […]
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
Fining Facebook $200 billion or whatever would be cool and all, but until the billionaires are removed from society and from being billionaires don't try to pretend anything that's happening is "justice". What Zuckerberg is being accused of is nothing less than global-scale child endangerment […]
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Lúmëcolca @lumecolca.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
Local election had interesting results.
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