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Jack Witherell

@makeshiftsavant.bsky.social
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no longer micro or soft no longer seattle guy gourd observer follow me for tech support, 3D rendering, music, basil

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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"absolutely no chrome spheres over checkerboards permitted in this room" followed by a chrome sphere over a checkerboard posted out of spite
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
made a rancid little mashup for no reason
soundcloud.com
I Opened Maplestory
Listen to I Opened Maplestory by Makeshift Savant #np on #SoundCloud
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
my friend posted a screenshot of their phone's settings detecting a refresh rate of 2,147,483,647, which I then called out as being the eighth mersenne prime
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
gamecube stickers can now be bought on my etsy www.etsy.com/listing/4529...
Nintendo Gamecube Decal StickerSticker sitting on top of a gamecube for comparisonSticker on a laptopSticker on a Steam Machine
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
rubato spoilers
rubato with him head stuck in he bottle
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
it took me an hour to figure out how to graph on this calculator and all i got was y=x
swissmicros R47 graphing y=x (a straight diagonal line)
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
the small short list of drafted bsky posts I will never commit to refining or posting because they're too niche and noided. alt text for context
a bluesky post by Matt Keeter: And this is why I'd like to tell you all about Urbi-
[Matt is yanked offstage by a comically large hook]

a drafted reply by makeshiftsavant (me): they kicked me out of hoon school (the hooniversity as it were) when I misused the cishet rune


this post is referring to Urbit, Curtis Yarvin from the paypal mafia's psychotic post-humanist futurepunk wet dream apocalypse language with terrifying syntax and semantics regarding the use of "runes". Runes are symbol composites, such as "BarDot" referring to a pipe symbol followed by a period or a "kethep" which is a karet symbol and a hyphen, and are the core syntax of the language.

My comment alludes to a mythical "cishet" rune being a cause for dismissal, as a way to parody that the supporters of urbit are entirely without healthy discourse. If you ever wanna go for a wild ride, look at the urbit docs. You're guaranteed to find at least one gem of insanity on every page.

full disclosure: as far as I can tell Matt Keeter is not a supporter of Urbit and his reference to it is inconsequential. I'm an avid Urbit hater.a screenshotted bluesky post by @airbagged.bsky.social starting with the words "my mouse was acting up" with a picture of Mina from Mina the Hollower circled and pointing at the first few words of the post.

This is because Mina is capable of being a menace to society and is also a mouse. There's no other joke here.a bluesky post where I say "surveillance discourse in america is severely worsened by the confusion surrounding modern identification systems. both the frail elderly and ambitious irreverent youth now find themselves unable to discern between the definition of a "Real Fake ID" and a "Fake RealID". I could never get the wording of this joke correctly and therefore remains a loose jumble of potential interpretations.

I just think it's humorous to think that there are different kind of people 1. want a RealID so they won't have issues when flying/crossing borders etc. 2. want a fake ID so they can commit crimes or circumvent legal barriers 3. have an ID and can't tell if it's a RealID or not and also that 4. sticking the word "Real" or "Fake" between these terms can greatly shift the meaning of the subject around between multiple interpretations.Discord user saying "watch me as i masturbate aha ha ah haaa (feel good)"
a parody of the line "watch the way I navigate ha haha ha haaaa" gorillaz song "feel good inc". I had said this over voice chat at some point and it stuck around in our friend group.
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
malicious behavior: putting a gamecube sticker on a steam machine because apparently we're not allowed to call it "the gabecube"
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
bro this sandwich is so fking good you gotta come try this
despite everything: it's still rainier
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
new laptop sticker (which I will start selling soon if anyone even cares)
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I got really far on this project a few weeks ago before I got lost in about 700 lines of dearimgui soup, and after scrapping a pen tool and falling victim to a lot of bad design choices, ended up with something intricate but not too useful. Hopefully I can revisit it again soon
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
dummy breaks (fader oriented programming)
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
bnuuy
a rabbit i spotted in the suburbs of tacoma wa
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
dougie jones close up
my sister's cat, up close
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
wallpaper o'clock again thanks blender
those funny waves from the silly sony console but they're falling off a ledge
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
For Easter, I made a small little terminal alias that generates phrases using wordnet. Just for fun. A quick break from doing real work.
picture of my terminal window, running the command 'phrase' several times, created the following phrases: operose jellaba, hifalutin stickiness, laticelike sermonism, olive correspondence, uncared-for melanism, lustrous anthropopathism, ribless prunus_glandulosa, retracted vale, calloused chancellor_of_the_exchequer, riparian muffin_case, ungracious inland_revenue, insensitive fret, saltish sandy_mushroom, antimonious excise_tax, monolithic national_security_council, ex_gratia progressive_party, oncoming borsh, curly_grained peanut, etymological supraglacial_moraine, cohesive ferric_oxide, bitterish pseudococcus_comstocki, 17 drilling, genic phlebotomy, agamic hold
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I just tried to login to my xbox account on my phone. This triggered OAuth for my microsoft account and opened a tab where it asked for my msft email address, and when i gave it, was told that I could either give it my password or login with my github account. I chose to login with my github account
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Mike from Twin Peaks walks around the black lodge with his arm outstretched. A "ctrl+f" find searchbar from steam is looking for the word "jackpot" but finds no results.
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
yup, it's still rainier
An image of Mt. Rainier, from a bridge over Puyallup River
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
@stveronicaphoto.com I rolled lydia tightwad in my new animal crossing save
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Good news everyone, I'm now 100% decoupled from Seattle.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 07/11/2025
I just found out Linux is a real os
and people use on purpose
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
bro just add more pins
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
this is my new ragebait machine btw
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, professionally, I am no longer a software engineer. I'm now an Aerospace Manufacturing Engineer. I apologize to the nobody that this inconveniences.
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
monome norns (denki oto pcb, 3d printed case)
Monome Norns System Menu running on an OLED ScreenMonome Norns Synthesizer in a 3D printed case
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Windows 11 running in a QEMU vm using my 7900x's iGPU, while linux uses my dedicated card. If you had told me so much as a year ago that this would be my operating system endgame, I wouldn't have believed you.
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
wow, the elektron tonverk is fucking EMPTY inside it's an 8gb linux machine. wifi and bluetooth are not available yet.
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I'm about to invent a new device called the Flash Drive Cooler. It'll be a minifridge the shape and size of a USB hub. It's sole purpose will be to act as a place to keep your crap flash drive between uses to avoid thermal throttling during large file transfers.
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
psa: you can use a gpu to satisfy your truck driver instincts (audio from a korg electribe-mx puking)
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Starting a new request for discussion: Has James Bond achieved chim?
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
@dendycrew.com @pinkieoats.boo i keep that thang on me at all times
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
why isn't renoise working oh, got it, cool
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Can somebody do me a favor and change their Bluesky handle to Ableton Lynch
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
low effort octatrack jam because I tricked my friend into trying to get one /w this demo
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
An opinion piece (hopefully not too sensationalist) where I complain about Mozilla and their latest public crashout event. substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com
What it Means to be Evil
How a weak backbone translates compromising ideals into eroding behaviors.
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
uh oh I'm writing on substack now substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com
I Just Wanna Use My Computer
What it takes to switch to Linux without feeling it
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I love getting shit from Japan because they always hit you up with That New Shit as a bonus prize
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
one week later and I'm now fully on arch linux let's gooooo
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
preamps are cool
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
video editing and utility rack for portable use
A modular synthesizer with a 3d printed case, and four rows of modules - a faderbank, analog video FX, filter bank, function generators, tube and clipping distortion
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
spicy composite
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Hydro @the-hydroxian.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
looking for skill to hone finds person who achieved it asks them "is this skill achieved via grinding or lockpicking?" person is confused while i pull out a chart showing what counts as lockpicking or grinding person laughs, answering, "just practice, you'll get it" looks inside lockpicking
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Vostok Atlas
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
the otamatone surgery (it's just a capacitor, a speaker, and a board with some transistors arranged as a flip flop oscillator tuned by the resistance of the strip)
The inside of an Otamatone, showing an incredibly simply design.
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
disting NT gets bored after a while and starts mandelbrotting
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Jack Witherell @makeshiftsavant.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
I've tampered with the box please do not tell my employer
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