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that said, I recently sold a desk top. the guy said he'd be there at 2:13pm, and not only was he bang on time, he gave me the $20 without haggling!

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 02/10/2026

this is why we can't have nice things etc etc

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

Amazon: can you return it me: no Amazon: why me:

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

spoiler alert: it is fucked.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

sometimes you get a package and you know it's going to be fucked before you even open it.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 11/09/2026

let's call it dry run number 2.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 05/09/2026

also behold - on the same installation! - this artisanal attempt at splicing. ladies and gentlemen that is ethernet.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 05/09/2026

spent a week off work preparing for the arrival of the sprog. I've also - unrelated - been staring at wiring like whatever the fuck this is.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 23/08/2026

and in the territories! I took this one in Yellowknife a couple of years ago.

a stop sign on Bryson Drive in Yellowknife, with "STOP" both in English and one of the local indigenous languages.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 22/08/2026

c'mon at least try and be original.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 19/08/2026

surprisingly I haven't changed my stance on the UCP recently.

a text from the UCP, which I reply to telling them to go fornicate somewhere else.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 17/08/2026

this was distracting me.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 08/08/2026

I miss it. unfortunately it met an untimely end at the hands of a dipshit driving a G-Wagon.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 31/07/2026

now I can control my AC with Home Assistant, instead of having to use the remote like a goddamn peasant.

an ESP32 mounted on some veroboard along with some components, including an infrared transmitter and receiver.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 03/07/2026

"non-contiguous states just don't work" my guy, just wait until you hear about Alaska.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 03/07/2026

"non-contiguous states don't work". really? nothing comes to mind?

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/06/2026

"sink's fixed. don't pour oil down it again." ~fin~

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 11/06/2026

er, you okay there Cloudflare?

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 05/06/2026

there's definitely worse places to be.

a pint of '88s' Wave Pool and a food menu for the Ship & Anchor.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 04/06/2026

comparing server hardware from the late 90s to a GPU almost 30 years older is bullshit, c'mon. source: www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-ha...

"In the aftermath of the Dot Com Bubble, dead startups flooded the market with cheap server and office gear, which allowed plucky founders to cobble together their own services. A single Sun Microsystems Ultra Enterprise 3000 cost $43,000 ($89,000 in today’s money) and had a power draw of between 1,200W and 1,500W, but could run an entire company’s infrastructure. A single B200 Blackwell GPU uses 1,200W, and more-complex AI coding tasks can take up four to twelve of them for a single user’s output. Put simply, you can’t really do very much with a few of these GPUs, and what you can do isn’t profitable, scaleable or valuable."

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 04/06/2026

I'M SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 04/06/2026

water and I have a history and it's not a good history.

an industrial dehumidifier in a kitchen, pointing at a wet spot in the ceiling that didn't exist previously.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 30/05/2026

YOUR PIRATE SHIP CAN EAT A BAG OF DICKS.

Alestorm on stage. With inflatable rubber ducks.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 27/05/2026

stopped by to sign the Water Not Coal petition @waternotcoalab.bsky.social and met the man himself Corb Lund. #ableg #yyc

Corb Lund (in the cowboy hat) with a bearded idiot (me, not in a cowboy hat).

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 18/05/2026

I chose Canada and I chose Alberta. Alberta leaving Canada would mean losing the Canadian passport and frankly that's not what I signed up for. @4alberta4canada.bsky.social #ableg #ab #yyc

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 18/05/2026

not sure how this one works.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 16/05/2026

oh come the fuck off it

Heavy snow storm forecast for tomorrow in Calgary.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 15/05/2026

I have an amateur radio license! I like to do stupid things with electronics. I'm currently lying on my sofa and this is my view:-

a threatening looking dual band 2m/70cm yagi antenna.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 15/05/2026

are you fucking kidding me Alberta.

the weather forecast for Calgary, forecasting snow for Sunday.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 13/05/2026

inject this shit into my veins.

David Parker - 1h
Wow, I have to say, this gives me hope in the justice system. Court injunction on the counting of signatures has been denied! There will be a Referendum this Fall! Game on folks.

(half an hour later)

David Parker - Turns out, she killed the injunction but then invalidated the whole petition.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 13/05/2026

there's a non-zero chance this guy is going to, uh, enjoy himself later over these.

A set of AI-generated images, depicting Trump on Canadian $5, $10, $20 and $50 bills. The images are attached to a tweet that reads "I'm going to motherfucking Hell for this post! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣☠️ Enjoy the Liberal tears!"

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 05/05/2026

ngl this one made me laugh

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 05/05/2026

rip my notifications this morning

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 05/05/2026

this guy is either big mad, decided to hit every button in the list, or possibly both.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 04/05/2026

I am deeply offended by the accusation here that I am a yank.

I got added to a list named "Yank libs".

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 04/05/2026

I am both of these things yes.

I got added to a list named "White Moderate (derogatory)".

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 04/05/2026

I get notifications when people add me to lists because sometimes it's funny. these 3 are all the same person. given the name of the first one, the irony is that they appear to have more lists than I do.

Someone added me to 3 lists: "List Fetishists", "Leave me alone" and "Soft boys".

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 22/04/2026

this probably isn't going to end well.

a Uniden BCD436HP scanner in bits hooked up to an FT232 JTAG breakout board.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 20/04/2026

anyway we're divvying up the scanning between the 7 of us on the board. after 2 days worth of work I'm about 1/3 the way through 1 box. please shoot me.

two bankers boxes full of financial records for the building I live in.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 03/04/2026

lest it thinks it gets off the hook here, Alberta what the fuck do you think you're doing.

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