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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Much easier when you grab the good thread. I still hate sleeves, but I can't deny that they have a bunch of space for sloganeering. Patch came from @ithaspockets.gay

The sleeve of my light weight jacket, with a freshly sewn on patch bearing the wheelchair user icon and the word "cripplepunk" in green embroidery.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The day I tire of this album, they'll be using a shovel to tuck me in to bed.

The cover for the 1995 album Zeitgeist, by the band Levellers. It's a smeary painting of a weird horned blue face on a yellow and orange background, in the distinctive style employed by Jeremy Cunningham, who paints Levellers album covers and plays bass and/or bouzouki on their songs, some of which he writes (but doesn't sing).

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Photo for the record. It's subtle, but I can't not see it now that I know.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's a region of Norway, noted for said embroidery, but also for a much more complicated version of the fiddle, with extra strings that work on resonance to make accompanying drones, and inlays gone wild.

A hardanger fiddle on a wooden table top. It's clearly based on a conventional violin, but all the ebony parts have fancy pearl and bone inlays, and the head has twice as many tuning pegs as normal to account for the extra strings that it has concealed under the fingerboard.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Time to provoke some reinstalls.

The cover art for the classic Deus Ex, a game that always gets reinstalled whenever someone talks about it.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One good thing about taking the kid to the library every day to get homework done is I get the chance to look in the friends of the library book store, and pick up some light reading for myself.

The front cover of a hardback edition of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty.

The spine of said hardback. It is a solid two inches thick, wider than the neck on my bass. I checked.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It'll benefit from a little setup work, but it's right. And it matches my car!

A metal flake orange bass guitar, sitting on a moving blanket in the back of my metallic orange Honda.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Name your favourite Disney princess (wrong answers only)

Chiana, from Farscape, as played by Gigi Edgley. A silver-haired, grey-skinned alien hottie, whose sexuality is basically "yes" and whose consistent moral principle is that anything she can pry loose isn't nailed down.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Starting the new label maker off right.

The corner of my monitor with an embossed tape label on it reading "PROTECT TRANS KIDS", because it's a good message and the wheel type label maker is punk as fuck.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Honestly, my most retvrn-coded opinion is we need a comeback of ridiculously extra arcade stuff. Bring back Hyperbowl!

A Hyperbowl arcade setup: four bowling alley chairs, a big screen, and a waist-high pedestal in the top of which is a full-sized bowling ball used as a trackball, to steer the onscreen ball through the wacky lanes offered.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This is the Posting Rig I need.

An opened Battletech sim pod, a little cubicle you can sit in and use the controls and screens to pretend you're piloting a big stompy battlemech.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yay, package! You never find everything in adaptations, but this is as close as I can get to the original. Just got to wrap my head around assuming RTL reading order.

The big hardcover book I got myself, a translation of the complete The Ghost in the Shell, by Masamune Shirow.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I love Yang's cattiness about the Cat-C4.

My reliable Mech Tech, Yang, telling me I've collected enough scrapped parts to build myself a Catapult C4 variant, which has two honking great big LRM-20 launchers and basically no other offensive weapons. His considered opinion is: "Do you like LRMs? Compared to the Catapult-C1, the C4 is focused on doing one thing and doing it well. And that thing is putting a cloud of missiles in the air with two LRM-20 launchers. There's a lot you can do with this 'Mech, as long as what you want to do is shoot a lot of missiles. When it runs out of missiles, it has jump jets and reinforced leg armor."

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

They still make new versions of these and dammit I'm gonna blow the $20 in office supply store rewards from my kid's back to school shopping on buying myself one.

The classic turn-the-wheel plastic-embossing Dymo label maker that was SO satisfyingly TACTILE to use even as it's way less efficient and versatile than the modern ones that print out a strip of label.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You probably already knew this, but if you happen to have two mechanical pencils that are identical other than one having a different hardness of lead in it, fingerboard tape is great for marking them without making them bulky to hold.

Two identical mechanical pencils, one of which has two rings of yellow vinyl tape around it so I can tell them apart and know which is loaded with HB and which is loaded with 2B.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Learn to read Japanese" is on my to-do list, but said list is kind of

The famous photo of Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of the source code for the Apollo computing systems: a stack of paper almost as tall as she is.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Let's face it, none of this is surprising.

Several CDs laid out. Two Tom Morello Nightwatchman albums, a live recording of the soundtrack for O Brother Where Art Thou, and two Angine de Poitrine.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

And there we go. One afternoon's work, and much less bulk than the shipping case. Tailor made for my clip-on sunglasses, with anti-crush reinforcement.

My hand holding a red leather slip case for my magnetic clip on sunglasses. Genuine leather, hand-sewn by me.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

So, it turns out that a diagnosis of dysentery is about specific features of the diarrhea, rather than a specific causative organism. Which means we might be lucky enough to deploy the good old Oregon Trail message if someone Herman Cains themselves with this.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I'll admit that the reading glasses are a touch bold, but I was primarily buying for "not breaking if I fall asleep on them" rather than exclusively on looks.

Me in my reading glasses, which are pink plastic frames with just a hint of cat-eye. I'm also wearing good studio headphones.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It's new glasses day, and honestly I'm happy that I can barely tell the difference. New ones don't need cleaning yet and came with nifty magnetic clip on sunglasses. That's about it for differences that aren't a marginal prescription update.

Me, looking grumpy, a bearded middle aged person in glasses. It's just RBF, I always look grumpy.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I was expecting the big package full of treats, but not yet the small one.

A stack of my recent extravagance on thriftbooks, consisting of several Marcus Didius Falco books I didn't already have copies of plus a couple I did, but now in not-crispy editions rather than the fragile old mass market paperbacks I'd been scared to reread due to imminent disintegration.

Some cool pin badges from NerdyKeppie.com, reading "Justice is a persistence predator", "Outlive the bastards", and "Hearts starve as well as bodies. Give us bread, but give us roses.", the last with art of a loaf of bread and also roses in trans pride colors.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Everyone has forgotten the lesson of Party Cannon: stand out from the crowd.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

My state flag is a bit shit, I'll concede, but it does allow for a decent identifiable Pride variant.

The front of my house, with a California flag that's had the red stripe along the bottom replaced by a rainbow, flying from a flagpole screwed to the trim. In the background is my obnoxiously orange Honda Fit, backed into the driveway all fancy-like.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Decided to support my local music store and also establish a vibe. Now the question is whether to put the new one on my purse, or stick with the jacquard skulls one I stole from my electric and put the rainbow on the guitar.

I bought myself a new guitar strap. It's rainbow.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This photo is gonna get a lot of mileage.

Da Chicago Pope, standing in the aisle of an airplane, and holding a baseball bat with the air of someone who knows how to use it. It was probably a gift, but he really looks like someone who's about to have some very blunt words with whoever just stole his window seat.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Show me a cool physical game.

The good old Diablo Battle Chest from back when there were only two Diablo games (plus expansion packs, though only the Diablo 2 expansion pack is included in this.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Another reason for a big computer: sticker space! Big thanks to @skatunenetwork.bsky.social for the newest addition!

The two newest stickers on the glass side of my computer case: a pirate skull with a hat in non-binary pride colors, and a rainbow holographic "SKA AGAINST TRANSPHOBIA" sticker courtesy of Jer.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Don't know exactly what model number this is, but I'd be a bit nervous driving a vehicle that's literally knee height in modern traffic.

A street parked Porsche thingy, one of the old ones, with the wide 5 wheels and the Volkswagen ancestry. The only badge on it says "Spyder". It's very low to the ground. Like, "driving around on a skateboard" low. Not even as tall as the wheel of the pickup it's parked next to.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Post a logo, emblem, or title (with its original font) that remains as perfect today as when it was new. Some days, I wake up and I choose violence.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Managed to make some space for the shiny discs and their annoyingly large boxes.

A row of DVDs, on a bookshelf. Messy, but at least accessible. The titles, for sickos: Ghost in the Shell (the anime film, not the live action with ScarJo), the Jurassic Park collection, Blade Runner 2049, the director's cut of Hellboy (2004), the sci-fi channel miniseries Dune and Children of Dune, Orphan Black, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Pan's Labyrinth, the main line Mad Max movies, Pacific Rim, the three seasons of Deadwood, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. My tastes range widely and frequently include stuff that's generally regarded as a bit crap.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

So I was at one of my local Pride events this weekend, and basically all the stalls had variations on this sticker, including the ones run by healthcare providers. Really encouraging.

My reusable water bottle with a sticker of a rainbow shape in trans pride colors and the slogan "PROTECT TRANS KIDS". Also visible is the bottom of a sticker with the text "THE TREE IS THIRSTY" but that's not the one I'm talking about.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The obnoxious Bible thumpers at Pride ain't keeping up with the meta. Dude just accused all us queers with our profusion of "protect trans kids" stuff of wanting to read Harry Potter. Only reason nobody laughed is nobody else is listening to him.

Yup, I pulled out the knee length Chucks with the neon rainbow laces again. Did you know they made these bad boys in size 13?

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I KNOW IT'S LEGAL BETWEEN "DIFFERENT INDUSTRY" AND ABANDONMENT BUT I DON'T NEED TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT

A box of an extra protein version of Kraft mac and cheese, which carries the trademark name "PowerMac", which gets right on my nerves as someone who yearned for a Power Mac back when that was the good computers from Apple.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Breaking: the J G Wentworth Opera Company have withdrawn from the Freedom 250 Celebration

A group of people in cliche Wagnerian opera costumes, all of whom have structured settlements or annuities, but need cash now. I'm very sorry for the earworm I've just given you.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

My county has just the worst, most generic stickers ever.

My county's "I voted!" sticker, a circle with a little American flag in it and a thick dark blue border with the text "I voted!" in English, Spanish, and Chinese. No whimsy allowed.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

And this is just the ones I actively use.

A notably full reusable grocery bag, with a scrawled marking of "exoskeletal components" in black sharpie.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Trying to decide whether I want to go straight to remaking the plastic bit of the headband in real leather. It's easily removable, and making a template is probably a good idea...

My hand holding a pair of Samson Sr850 headphones, budget friendly reference headphones that have a good flat frequency response, but a self-adjusting headband built from cheap plastic.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Well that's a bit of a pisser. And I've checked, the manufacturer doesn't sell parts. I'm about done with closed back gaming headsets at this point, though, got a set of open back reference headphones on order.

The back of the right ear cup off my gaming headset, kind of broken and coming apart. Seems like build quality is just not there any more.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Also, apparently I should wear this shirt more often.

Me, wearing a black shirt with the slogan "outlive the bastards" across the chest, along with the website you can buy it from: ithaspockets.gay.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Super jealous of this guy. What a unit.

Some lucky guy has gotten hold of a vintage eMac, the low-cost educational market successor to the original iMac. It is a huge chonky CRT based white wedge of a computer, and this guy has the extremely rare plexiglass stand for it as well. The full-sized keyboard next to it shows that it is a ridiculously huge machine, and I remember it being super huge and incredibly heavy.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

There's no rule that your tastes have to be internally consistent, and it's more fun if they aren't. Here's today's haul.

The spines of 5 CDs that I got at Rasputin's: Piece of Mind and Powerslave by Iron Maiden, Diesel and Dust by Midnight Oil, and Joyride and Look Sharp! by Roxette.

The DVDs I got: Sergio Leone's Dollars movies, season one of Orphan Black, a big boxed set of NASA archive footage from Apollo 11, and the complete Blackadder.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

A meme image created by VASpider, showing a medieval illustration of a corpse getting out of its coffin with the caption "and another thing about John FUCKING Calvin".

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Sometimes you want to watch a movie where bloody idiots made dinosaurs and then got eaten. Sometimes you want to watch a terrible movie where bloody idiots made dinosaurs and got eaten. Best to be prepared for all eventualities.

A boxed set of the first 4 Jurassic Park movies that I picked up for $9.95 plus tax at Rasputin's. Some good movies. Some very less good.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Your timeline has been blessed by hella chonky spam musubi!

Two real big bricks of seaweed-wrapped rice and spam on a plate. One has a bite taken out of it. The seaweed isn't quite wide enough to get all the way around.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Arrangements have been made. The rice cooker is doing its thing.

A rectangular plastic box sitting on a sheet of seaweed.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

My computer is now permanently blessed.

The glass side of my computer case, showing the gubbins within, and also a sticker with the text "SPAM: ALOHA MADE" and the cartoon image of a happy little spam musubi.

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McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Your timeline has been blessed by spam musubi!

A serving of spam musubi on a plate, courtesy of Zippy's.

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