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Confusing future archeologists since the 1980s.

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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 02/10/2026
Queue “The Boys are Back in Town
Young male deer grazing around the fire pit in our yard, has modest antlers
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 22/09/2026
Yes but do you have a separate home/work ICQ?
View of two ICQ UINs:

ome 7672534 ICQ
work 4283157926 ICQ
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 22/09/2026
Just went to "back in my day" someone on em-dashes by saying, "I've known how to type an em-dash on a mac for..." and then I paused for some head math and came up with 30 years?!? Rude.
Cover of "Beyond the Mac is not a Typewriter" by Robin Williams
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 20/09/2026
Remember when you had to pay for Mac OS upgrades?
An old black Macbook with the "Mac Box Set" with DVDs for Snow Leopard, iLife, and iWork
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 11/09/2026
How I picture the drivers
Brent Spiner playing Data and his brother Lore on Star Trek: The Next Generation
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 04/09/2026
there's actually not to hard to spot via satellite view, they are the large buildings with no truck docks, and generators parked next to them. Here's a few from around Columbus
overhead view of 4 units of AWS style data centers, there are generators for both buildings in between 1,2 and 3,4.A few units of Meta's datacenter at New Albany, the bottom unit is still under construction and active construction is visible all around the siteGoogle's facility in New Albany, across the road from MetaSome of the oldest AWS units at New Albany (Beech and Jug St), I believe this is the original us-east-2, 5 'units' with an AEP substation also pictured
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 31/08/2026
Reminds me of this piece I saw in Portland years ago
Poster for "Lost: masking tape" with picture of roll of masking tape, it is attached to a pole with many old flyers with masking tape of the same kind in the picture

Long text on poster reads:

"Please help me find my roll of masking tape (pictured above, beneath the sharpie, Sharpie is not missing.) Lost since Sunday in t around West Hollywood. About 1 year old. Tag says "3M" Now first of all I realize my sign is hung with masking tape. IT IS DIFFERENT MASKING TAPE, I am looking for the exactl prictured above. I had to buy more masking tape to hang this sign, if that answers your question. This lost masking tape has cost me now the cost of two rolls of masking tape, the one I lost and then the one I had to buy to hang the signs of lost masking tape. If I decide to hang more signs b/c there are no leads, I will have to buy even one more roll of tape, making the cost up to three rolls. $$$ reward. this is on top of all the $ i've spent on replacement If you have any leads please tweet me @meganamram"
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 24/08/2026
What's your favourite acting role by a singer?
Lucia Micarelli and Steve Earle as Annie and Harley in Treme, sitting on steps while Steve Earle plays a guitar that says "This machine floats" on it
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 31/07/2026
don't forget
the 811 "call before you dig" chopper designed by Orange County Choppers and featured on the television show American Choppers
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 20/07/2026
Really wish people wouldn't fall for this dreck, if you think that's what real planes really looked like, then here's a REAL GIF of Elvis REALLY ACTUALLY driving bsky.app/profile/matt...
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 13/07/2026
Loving what Apple is doing with design these days
Call button in the upper right corner of Voicemail screen in Apple phone app, with two different shades or green one light in the middle with a larger different shape darker green behind it
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 09/07/2026
Something about old radial-arm saws that really makes you think #woodworking
End of the arm of a DeWalt radial arm saw, with an old Dymo embossed label that reads "THINK" placed on top of the arm.
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 26/06/2026
This was my introduction to Peter Lorre as a child. I can still hear the way he says “professor”
Peter Lorre as Conseil in Walt Disneys 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 22/06/2026
Vintage public service poster that reads "Strike Down This Monster" and it shows a man with an ax about to strike a flaming hound that represents the forest fire. The man is protecting ships, tanks, mortars and other military equipment form fires. Additonal text "Forest fires delay victory"
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 22/06/2026
The only person who ever looked cool with an RE20 is the guy singing the Urban Dance Squad song in Hackers who is rocking it handheld
Scene from Hackers 1995 where a singer on stage holds an Electrovoice RE20 in his hand while standing and singing. His hand barely reaches all the way around the mic
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 17/06/2026
Achievement unlocked?
Screenshot of chat bubble with text “@jasonkoebler.bsky.social has
blocked you”
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 16/06/2026
Wait till you hear that kids LOVE this food and most schools and institutions will "feed" it to your kids as a "treat" !!!!
the raw ingredients for chocolate chip cookies (minus the chips) in a bowl about to be stirred up
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 16/06/2026
I don't think you even understand what you yourself are trying to argue. There's no 'trick' or anything here. You asked an LLM to search UGC from the internet and it summarized the UGC from the net. Where is the actual 'trick' that made it do something other than exactly what you asked it to do?
The fact that such small snippets of texts in even single comments can be used to ultimately trick LLMs raises questions about whether Reddit’s volunteer moderators or Wikipedia’s volunteer editors are going to be able to durably protect the communities they moderate and edit from AI manipulation over time.
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 16/06/2026
I'm going to hit up some local stores and shops before ordering off eBay for the #ShittyCameraChallenge, but this is pretty funny Tempted to try it, see if it breaks and then try to use the protection plan, just to see what happens
Ebay modal popup offering "Addition service" for "canon powershot g3 digital camera" with picture, Allstate Logo, and buttons.

Text:

Protect your purchase
from Allstate

1-year protection plan - $9.99
2-year protection plan - $13.99
No, thanks. I’ll get my own protection plan.

 - Add peace of mind with a protection plan
 - Protection from breakdowns & malfunctions, like broken buttons or screens
 - Covers 100% parts and labor, deductible may apply
 - Hassle-free 5-day Service Guarantee and 24/7 customer support
 - Risk-free: cancel or transfer anytime (full refund in first 30 days)

Learn more (link)
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 09/06/2026
And if you were wondering how successful they were, the Randolph Freedpeople ended up settling in Shelby and Miami County in Sidney, Piqua and surrounding communities. To this day, Mercer county is almost entirely white.
Wikipedia screenshot, text:

The racial makeup of the county was 94.2% White, 0.5% Black or African American, 0.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4% Asian, 1.3% Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, 0.8% from some other race, and 2.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino residents of any race comprised 2.2% of the population.[14]
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 09/06/2026
Me as a child wondering why the neighboring county feels so weird to visit: Me as an adult reading about their history: (from 1846)
Wikipedia screenshot, text:

An armed mob of German settlers assembled at New Bremen stopped the Randolph Freedpeople from going to their land and forced them to return down the canal. Mercer County settlers also published resolutions against the settlement of Black people in the county. One of these read:

    "Resolved. That we will not live among Negroes, as we have settled here first, we have fully determined that we will resist the settlement of blacks and mulattoes in this country to the full extent of our means, the bayonet not excepted."[7]
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 01/06/2026
Elderly Rose from Titanic meme with text "It's been one hundred years"
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 01/06/2026
Fun fact, you can still have pretty much this exact functionality if you enable the "Show Script menu in menu bar" option in Script Editor:
Screenshot of Apple's "Script Editor" application's Settings. Four tabs at the top General, Editing, Formatting, and History, with General selected. 

Notably at the bottom, the "Script menu" option is enabled for "Show Script menu in menu bar" and "Show Computer scripts" with "Show application scripts" set to "at top"
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 01/06/2026
capability check....... basically still possible:
Example of the scripts menu in macOS enabled from 'Show Script menu in menu bar' in Script Editor settings. The scripts folder is open and an alias to Safari has been added, and their is an alias to the script folder on the desktop. The script menu is open and it reflects the contents of the open folder window.
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 26/05/2026
Doing some data analysis on REITs and uhh, is this normal for one company to own this many houses?
Map of Columbus Ohio with a large number of map markers targeting in a select few neighborhoods. Many of the markers are obscured by other markers, because they are very densely packed on the map.
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 25/05/2026
sus
a screenshot of Kagi image search results for "bad peacemaker cosplay"
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 23/05/2026
reminds me of the first time I read "The Mac is Not a Typewriter" and started putting all of my numbers in Skia because it had numerals with descenders, talk about awkward teenage years.....
screenshot of text "I was three 3000 years ago." in Helvetica Neue, but the digits of 3000 are set in Skia, which includes a 3 that descends below the baseline, similar to a y or g.
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 22/05/2026
Hey @kagi.com please don't gaslight your users by showing them something else when they correctly typed the exact word they were looking for. This ended up making me question my spelling and sending my on a goose chase instead of helping me.
Screenshot of Kagi search for prostrate. Below the filtering buttons it states: 

" 13 relevant results in <0.20s. All results from external indexes.
Showing results for prostate
Search instead for prostrate"
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 22/05/2026
my mental health needed this today
screenshot of google search AI summary for the search "write a poem about why google search sucks ass"

The AI summary:

"Google Search has become heavily bloated with SEO spam, sponsored links, and forced AI answers, making it frustrating to find raw, authentic information. The once-simple "10 blue links" have been buried under a sea of endless corporate advertisements and heavy tracking.

I type a prompt to seek the truth,
Hoping for the days of youth,
When simple queries brought me pages,
Crafted by the hands of sages.

But now I scroll through endless ads,
Peddling the newest fads,
And paid results that block the view,
Concealing what is tried and true.

The SEO is slick and deep,
A harvest made for those who reap,
With keywords stuffed and margins wide,
With nothing useful left inside.

And when I ask a simple query,
My mind grows tired, my eyes go bleary,
An AI bot just writes a lie,
Beneath the vast corporate sky.

A million trackers watch my clicks,
A digital web of greedy tricks,
They feed me what they want me fed,
While useful blogs are lying dead.

So here I am, I search in vain,
A victim of the modern reign,
Where answers fade and profits swell,
And search engines are built like—well..."
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 21/05/2026
This is single-handedly the best feature on Bluesky. If you say something like "hey pedophiles are bad" a bunch of people will announce to the world "Hey thats me!! I'm a huge pedophile!" and remove themselves from your online existence. Still can't believe this website is free.
Screenshot of list of bluesky users that have blocked me after quote posting a pedophile apologist:

"Today at 12:30 PM
@petshopproductions.bsky.social has blocked you


Today at 1:37 PM
20 people have blocked you
@mossyolk.bsky.social has blocked you
@catbold.space has blocked you
@kaiylin.bsky.social has blocked you 
@divorcedpapers.bsky.social has blocked you
@copper74nsfw.bsky.social has blocked you
@smugtomoko.bsky.social has blocked you 
@glorifiedextra.bsky.social has blocked you
@kemowoomy.bsky.social has blocked you
@fluffalhyena.bsky.social has blocked you @anonpervysage.bsky.social has blocked you
@lapismaid.bsky.social has blocked you 
@vitalia.kawaii.social has blocked you
@vitalia.kawaii.social has blocked you
@nightfallgemini.bsky.social has blocked you
@ispupi.bsky.social has blocked you
@batgirltongue.bsky.social has blocked you
@rustcolor.bsky.social has blocked you
@clumsyacid.bsky.social has blocked you
@dear-kumari.bsky.social has blocked you
@htblack.bsky.social has blocked you
@trilicon.bsky.social has blocked you"
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 18/05/2026
Computers are actually still really, really, really dumb and stupid sometimes, example #85783: Spell check has no idea what the correctly spelled word here could possibly be, no suggestions at all
screen shot of typed text "A modest peronsal productivity gain:"

where peronsal is spelled incorrectly and underlined in red dotted line.
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 18/05/2026
Like when that stupid stuff about pilots being DEI hires was in the news all I cloud think is you could literally be the blonde poster child for your national airline and still be the biggest factor in the worst aviation disaster in history
Magazine ad for KLM featuring pilot Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten and a KLM livery 747 “KLM. From the people who made punctuality possible.”
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 14/05/2026
But Safari has hacking features designed to "bypass[snip] a technical limitation" that produce "falsified identity metadata" which "crosses into impersonation" by pretending to be the official Microsoft Edge browser?
Screenshot of Safari's 'Develop' menu with the 'User Agent' sub menu open, showing a list of Safari (iOS and iPadOS), Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Firefox user agents that can be selected in addition to "Default" and "Safari 26.3"
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 12/05/2026
taking psychic damage after realizing people genuinely think these are equivalent problems
Screenshot of text with highlights drawn. Original text:

"It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Bluesky has been a net negative for US politics. They corralled everyone on the left into a little glass fishbowl where they shout at one another & everyone else ignores them. Meanwhile, all the pols & institutions stayed on X & are being dragged farther right."

Highlight #1: "they shout at one another & everyone else ignores them." labeled as "The real grievance, people are mean to me!"

Highlight #2: "Meanwhile, all the pols & institutions stayed on X & are being dragged farther right." labeled as "A minor footnote, no big deal"
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 12/05/2026
In other news, Bambu Lab has announced they are blocking Safari since it is a browser designed for "falsified identity metadata" and "bypassing a technical limitation" which "crosses into impersonation" According to their team using Safari "could create...problems...caused by unauthorized traffic"
Screenshot of Safari's 'Develop' menu with the 'User Agent' sub menu open, showing a list of Safari (iOS and iPadOS), Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Firefox user agents that can be selected in addition to "Default" and "Safari 26.3"
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 29/04/2026
It's always a good day to listen to Steve Reich
Screenshot of Spotify interface showing cover of Album Reich: Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich * Bill Ryan * Grand Valley State University Music Ensemble * 2007 (14 songs, 1 hour 1 min)

The picture of the album cover show an aerial photograph looking straight down at roads, rivers and mix of green and brown fields.
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 29/04/2026
same energy, tbh www.palantir.net/blog/palanti...
Twitter screenshot of Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn, text: My "Not involved in human trafficking" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

11:11 PM - 20 Nov 2013Screenshot of blog post titled: "Is Palantir.net Related to Palantir Technologies?" 

Subhead: "No - We are two completely different companies"

by George Demet Jan 15, 2026
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 29/04/2026
I remember this!
Box of Muppet Learning Keys™ Kid's Computer Keyboard for Atari and Commore. It has a non-standard keyboard, plus numbers, ruler, pictures, colors and other fun buttons on a large colorful plastic keyboard.
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 28/04/2026
based on their board of directors? no, there is virtually no one there that has ever talked to a normal person
Screenshot of wikipedia section:

"Board of directors
As of November 2025:

- A. G. Sulzberger, chairman of The New York Times Company and publisher of The New York Times
- Amanpal S. Bhutani, CEO of GoDaddy
- Manuel Bronstein, former CPO of Roblox
- Beth Brooke, former global vice chair of public policy for Ernst & Young
- Rachel Glaser, former CFO of Etsy
- Arthur Golden, best-selling author
- Meredith Kopit Levien, president and CEO of The New York Times Company
- Brian P. McAndrews, former president, CEO, and chairman of Pandora Media
- David Perpich, vice chairman of The New York Times Company, and publisher of The Athletic
- John W. Rogers Jr., founder and chairman of Ariel Investments
- Anuradha B. Subramanian, CFO of Beast Industries
- Margot Golden Tishler, chair of the Ochs-Sulzberger Trust
- Rebecca Van Dyck, CMO of Airbnb"
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 27/04/2026
I've gotta go drag my IIe from my parents house, it had the dual disk drive and monitor that stacked perfectly and were the exact width of the computer. Picture of same setup (not mine)
Apple IIe with Double 5 1/4" floppy drive (two disk drives in one case) stacked with matching green on black monitor that all align perfectly with width of computer.
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 14/04/2026
Apparently my copy of The Macintosh Way is signed by Guy Kawasaki
Cover of The Macintosh Way by Guy Kawasaki in hardcover
Signature on page inside cover dated 8/12/89
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 14/04/2026
It's a great day to delete your Doordash account:
Screenshot of popup confirmation to delete doordash account: 

"Confirm account deletion - Are you sure you want to delete your account and customer data from DoorDash? This action is permanent and cannot be undone."

With "Cancel" and "Delete Account" buttons
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 10/04/2026
Of course there's a tweet from 2013 that's relevant to the whole "My speech about not knowing jeffery epstein has people questioning how I know jeffery epstein" deal
Screenshot of tweet from "shut up, mike @shutupmikeginn" on 11/20/13

Text of tweet: "My "Not involved in human trafficking" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt." 4,291 RETWEETS 9,467 LIKES
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 02/04/2026
Screenshot of twitter post by Ebert @horsedivorce:
"me: can you dust my wets? server: you can just ask for Parmesan cheese

me, confused, lifts all of my spaghetti with my hands: please. My wets."
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 30/03/2026
beginning to sense a theme here
Screenshot of Google Maps with Darke County Dog Shelter highlighted, but in 4 places on screen (sidebar, popup, label, search bar) it is called "Darke County Dog(WE DO NOT TAKE CATS) Shelter"
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 30/03/2026
por que no los dos?
Kyocera 7135 Palm Pilot cell phone. Yes a flip phone with number pad on bottom and a touch screen and writing area for Palm grafiti handwiriting
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 25/03/2026
Imagine Cereal Killer from 1996 shows up thirty years later back in NY to solve a logistics crisis….
Matthew Lillard as Cereal Killer in Hackers 1996Matthew Lillard as Mr. Charles in Daredevil: Born Again season two episode one titled “The Northern Star”
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 24/03/2026
current status #woodworking
screenshot of slide with title and heading "What is a euro screw? A quick introduction" in white text on a green background on the left side and a close up picture of a thick screw with a complicated head pattern on the right
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 23/03/2026
welp about to try the euro screw, and no that is not a euphemism #woodworking
Picture of self-centering drill bit in package labeled "5mm hex-shank centering bits  Meches à centrer à queue hexagonale de 5 mm Made In Talwan/ Fabriqué à Taïwan 722271"
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Mikey P @mikeyp.net · 16/03/2026
That was a lovely music video.
Screenshot from L'Impératrice video for the song Peur des filles credits with text: 

"Men may have been harmed in the making of this music video.
If so please know we are truly not sorry and laughing our heads off.

©2020 - kill all men and take over this planet - all rights reserved."
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