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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

still a work in progress, so it's messy

small server rack with a white server and battery backup mounted

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

my wife found one with babies in a little hole in our yard a few weeks ago!

a very close up shot of a spider with babies on her back.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

sitting out in the driveway for our neighborhood yard sale and thinking about this picture I took yesterday.

a side view of a yellow Audi S3. it just went through the car wash and is very shiny.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

apparently Mowgli's dewormer is in powder form so now I am now super inconspicuous driving around in a fully-tinted Audi with this in my glove box.

a clear plastic ziploc bag of smaller Iploc bags with white powder in them

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

W/o downloading anything new where are you mentally

a quite large sea lion lays propped up on a post on a dock by some water.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

we are at the science museum in Vancouver and there's a brown-lipped snail chowing down on some cucumber 😍😍

a brown-lipped snail hanging on the edge of a slice of cucumber.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

disclaimer: I AM FINE, as is the other driver and her cat. my car, however, is not. it did its job and kept me safe. everyone walked away. FD guys were very surprised at the great condition of the inside cabin given the look of the outside. shoutout to Audi engineering.

front view of my yellow Audi S3 after an accident. the engine is more or less gone. the hood is very crumpled.

side view of my yellow Audi S3. you can see the front end damage a bit.

second front view of my yellow Audi S3 after an accident. the engine is more or less gone. the hood is very crumpled. the radiators are crumpled on the ground.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

got my @wired.com print issue in the mail today. they went to a Cybertruck meetup to interview people. this single exchange is the saddest, biggest-fucking-loser thing I've ever read. hahahahahahahahaha

excerpt from interview below a picture of a Cybertruck:

ROGER DAVIS, age not given, from San Diego:

Q: What do you like about the truck?
A: "What I love about the truck is just how it's so polarizing."

Q: And are you married?

A: "I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women
don't like the vehicle."

Q: In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate
Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it?
A: "Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice."

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

introduce yourself with four spaceships.

Firefly-class ship "Serenity" from Firefly

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

we are at a showing for Clue at @butleru.bsky.social they just had an interview with Lesley Ann Warren who seems lovely.

a movie screen showing "Scott Stander presents Clue The Movie 40th Anniversary Screening. Hosted by the original Miss Scarlett Lesley Ann Warren. It includes a picture of the character in the famous green dress as well as a headhot of the actress.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I would love to get out of bed but

Mowgli, our black pittie is sleeping in some blankets.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

we have a visitor! cw: praying mantis close-up

a praying mantis on a window with its head turned towards the camera

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

timeline cleanse. the boys were sunning earlier today.

Mowgli, our black pitbull with a white chest is laying in the grass looking out. my arm is resting on his back as we both sit in the sun.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

*sigh* another drive down. and unfortunately my replacement is also DOA. here's hoping a new replacement arrives quickly. #homelab #truenas #selfhosted

an error message from TrueNAS indicating a faulted hard drive.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

y'all wearing this in a 5 Guys where it's 100% Mexicans cooking is fucking WILD

a racist white boomer man stands waiting for his order at 5 Guys Restaurant. he's wearing a camo hat and a green sweater that says "We owe illegals nothing we owe our veterans everything" on the back.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

god linkedin suuuuuuucks. no i don't have a million fucking dollars IN SAVINGS OR ANYWHERE. DO YOU KNOW HOW EXPENSIVE IT IS TO EXIST.

screenshot of a post from Fisher Investments. it says "Are your savings worth more than $1,000,000? Will you be able to make ends meet in retirement?"

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

UPDATE: we have TWO monarch caterpillars!!!

two monarch caterpillars. one is unfocused in the foreground, vertical on a plant stem. the other is in focus in the background, perched horizontally on the underside of a leaf.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

look at our new friend! I've been told it's a monarch caterpillar! 🐛🐛🐛

a close-up of a caterpillar with black, white, and yellow stripes sitting on the stem of a plant.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

one creature in this photo has a partially torn ACL but is being a huge idiot about it. he goes nuts if he's kept inside while one of us is cutting the grass. buffoon.

Mowgli, our black pitbull, is walking in the grass next to the lawn mower. He also has some grass on his back.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

it's 92F outside and my lab sits directly underneath the roof but plex must live on. lab AC unit working overtime today #homelab #plex #grafana

a time-series chart showing energy usage. it is a 90-minute window showing mostly 1kW usage the whole time for my lab AC power.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

the compressor is mounted into a molded plastic bottom casing, and the bolts were just spinning in place. not good. my grand idea? u-bolts. check this shit out.

the underside of a rackmount AC unit with bolts sticking out of it.

a top-down shot of the inside of the AC unit. the compressor is on the right. it is held down by a u-bolt.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

unracked. brains removed and replaced into new chassis. next: rack new chassis, move drives over. #homelab

2 server chassis laying open on the floor

server chassis laying open with components installed.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

this weekend's #homelab project. consolidating 2 separate chassis (2U 12-bay & 3U 16-bay) into one 4U 36-bay Supermicro chassis. and praying I have the right low-profile brackets for everything 🙏🏻

top view of the Supermicro CSE-847 chassis. the lid is off showing the empty interior. there are random parts and tools surrounding it.

top view of a full server chassis slid out of a rack.

front view of 2 server chassis in a rack.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

on the other hand, the distant view to the north is very nice.

a dusk-ish view of a mountain ridge in the distance.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

oh. neat. now the server won't start after patching 🙃

screenshot of the mysql installer showing that the "Starting the server and upgrading system tables" task has failed

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

reading The Last Emperox and this is a bit on the nose these days eh @scalzi.com ?

a page from The Last Emperox by John Scalzi: "Let's be clear about what's going on... It's the end of civilization as we know it. and it's going to be great for business."

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

context: got a vasectomy Friday. got this delivered today. no one I've texted has fessed up yet.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

hoooooo boy got the storage upgrade completed last night. love having ample elbow room 😍 #homelab #storage #truenas #selfhost

screenshot of TrueNAS storage pool info showing 113.87 TiB of free space.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

ugh. I really want this table. it's gorgeous. a bit big for the space we have, though. also it's very pricey lol.

a breakfast table with a two-tone stained square top. the base is a shade of dark brown with 3 drawers. there is a barstool to the left, and 2 wooden chairs on the right.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

rails arrived today. got the chassis racked and plugged in, drives installed. idling it "only" adds about 130W of power usage. the bottom 12 lights are red because the new drives aren't connected to a controller. still waiting on that to arrive. #plex #homelab #storage #truenas

the front of a server rack. there are multiple chassis shown. the focus is on 12 drive sleds with flashing red lights.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

pending the arrival of 2 more parts... #plex upgrade this weekend 😍 #homelab #storage

3 stacks of hard drives, 4 drives in each stack. each drive is in a static bag. they are all sitting on a deskmat with a graphic of the lunar surface on it.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Mowgli is looking on (im)patiently as Katie does some repairs on his pickle toy.

my wife is sitting at a table with a plush toy pickle in front of her. behind her is a kitchen. in the foreground sits our black pitbull Mowgli. he is sitting patiently by the couch while staring at her as she works.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

love to have ice damming (again). *sigh*

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

i've shoveled the driveway twice today and you can barely tell.

a picture of my driveway from a security camera. the snow in the driveway is nearly as tall as the surrounding yard. there is a trashcan at the end of the driveway, and a pole light in the yard.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

y'all. my in-laws have truly leaned into my car purchase 😂😂 #audi #s3

an off-white square pillow with the text "life without my audi & my dogs... I don't think so."

in the middle is a graphic of the front of a yellow audi with 2 dogs in the back seat, a male figure leaning out the driver's window and a female figure out the passenger window.

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Mal @malcolmrogers.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

progress on building a #PC for my sister-in-law for xmas with (mostly) spare parts. really wish I could do like... 2-3 of these a month but seems like mostly people build their own or buy prebuilts. no one wants to let a random from the internet build their stuff 😂