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Steve Leach

@stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy
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CS Hobbyist. In #MadisonWI since 2019. #AI, #Aquaponics, #BariSax, #Bikes, #Brains, #C, #Carfree, #CargoBike, #CleanEnergy, #Coffee, #Cycling, #Debian […] [bridged from sigmoid.social/@stevenaleach on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026
@pbloem Strangely, my current laptop has one. Yes, it's a tiny bit faster running compute intensive loads, but also cranks the fan up to the point where it sound like the poor computer is trying to do a vertical takeoff and so I generally leave that key alone.
Cropped image of the keyboard on a Alienware m15 R5 GeForce RTX 3070 laptop on which FN+F1 is some kind of boost/performance/"full speed" key.
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026
YES! It wasn't budget slashing, just snow. Mauna Loa Observatory data is back from Jan 9th on. The data suddenly becoming unavailable right at the beginning of the year had me seriously spooked. www.co2.earth/daily-co2
Graph of daily average CO2 at Mauna Loa Observatory last 31 days, a scatter plot showing a gap of missing data from Jan 5th to Jan 8th of 2026.
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026
Watching "Andor" and I've got some questions about this design... The clarinet body stuck on the end of a flute is bad enough, but the added tube hanging under it isn't actually plumbed into the main tube in any way and wouldn't really be part of the instrument.
A cropped screenshot from  S1E12 of "Andor" showing an alleged instrument that appears to be made from parts of a flute and clarinet combined into one tube, decorated with a second tube with stylized keys and mechanisms attached.A screenshot of a mocked up instrument from Andor: A metal clarinet body has been combined with a flute and is held like a transverse flute by the player, while a second steampunk style tube is suspended below the main tube toward the head, likely consisting in part of parts of another clarinet along with various steam punk greebles attempting to look like more keywork though the second tube is not actually plumbed into the main tube and isn't really part of the mock-up instrument.
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025
Started moving instruments today. One load of saxophones - I'd rather expected the baritone and it's bulky case to be pretty much a load by itself. But it, three altos, three stands, and a case full of accessories all packed nicely into a single trip […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]
A loaded bicycle cargo trailer on 20" wheels, stacked high with instrument cases and folded sax stands, secured with rope above and open frame trailer sides.  It is behind to a 20" ebike, the rear of which is visible, with the trailer bar attached to the seat post.  The setting is a yard with snow in the background, the rear of a house to the right side of the frame.
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025
Interesting - it looks like makeup over a bandage?
A zoomed and cropped image from DJT's Truth Social post from Dec 14th, shows his hands at his sides with what appears to be flesh toned bandaging on the back of the right hand, blended and disguised with makeup.

Original post: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115720167024828284
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025
It's always fun seeing random weather from parts unknown in Google News. There's (of course) no way to actually set the location and with 5G home internet it seems to be entirely random - somewhere in the continental US, but that's about the only constraint […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]
Screenshot from Google News.  Text reads: "Your local weather 17F Google Weather".
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025
Trump's latest "Truth Social" [sic] post should be ringing alarm bells for everyone: "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!". Regarding veterans in congress urging service members to refuse unlawful orders. Not clear if he's threatening to kill service […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]
From DJT's "truth social" page:

SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP??? President DJT


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Washington Examiner

@WashingtonExaminer

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Democratic veterans in Congress urge service members to refuse unspecified unlawful orders
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025
I can't pin down why, but somehow Trump's super tacky bathroom remodel (EVERY surface made of the same marble with dramatic grain) looks incredibly 1980's to me. There's nothing there that reminds me of any particular image/scene/style from the 80's but […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]
Four shots posted by Trump on his social media site showing a remodeled bathroom in the White House.  All surfaces including floor, walls, shelves, an enclosure for an over-sized tub, basically the entire room is all the same marble, white with dramatic black veins.  Exceptions are the tub and toilet which are white.  Every fixture (faucet, heating vents, etc.) are gold and a literal crystal chandelier hangs from the ceiling.  Next to the toilet is a very large window with no curtains looking down on the White House grounds through which people can be seen in front of other buildings (and who would have a clear view of anyone using the toilet).
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
Ummm... No. Just No.
Some Crazy BS posted by POTUS on his private social media site: 


"Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax. Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue. It took courage to do so, and for that we are all grateful. MAGA!!!"
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025
Google News still insists on putting this "local weather" thing in the upper right. Still provides no way of actually *setting* the location but selecting at random as usual. But it *used* to at least show the city name for whatever random city and state it […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]
A whether forecast for location unknown: "Today
54°29°
Mon
53°28°
Tue
52°26°
Wed
56°26°
Your local weather
52°F
Google Weather"
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025
Wow.. just wow.
A post by what is, unfortunately, the current POTUS: "I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled! Something happened between then and now because his audience is GONE, and his “talent” was never there. Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who’s not funny, and who puts the Network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat GARBAGE. He is yet another arm of the DNC and, to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major Illegal Campaign Contribution. I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers! Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad Ratings."
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025
How bad has it gotten now? Let's check in... Yup. We're at *that* point now.
A reprehensible post from a disgusting man with a creepy profile picture, with face paint like a wrestler or comic serial killer, by the name of  "Donald J. Trump" on a fake social media platform called "Truth Social"[sic].  It reads: "I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025
Having never heard of such a thing as a "Charlie Kirk" until a few days ago all of these headlines about "Kirk" being killed keep auto-associating with the character from Stars Hollow. As a result, I'm now on season 2, episode 2 re-watching Gilmore Girls.
The character "Kirk" from Gilmore Girls is shown on a sidewalk leading away from a house, walking a small leashed pig.
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025
It's a useless analogy, but I can't help thinking of ANN weights as equivalent to synapses. I figure that puts the model that's now taken up long-term residence in my laptop's VRAM (7.2B #RWKV) at somewhere around the complexity of at least a small rodent. On […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2025
OMFG: Well.. at least he has goals, I guess... Can someone get this bastard a cat to stroke while he writes stuff like this? Yea. This is the big glorious vision he has of a "better" "America".
Trump on "Truth Social":

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

Because of the Violence and Criminality I have seen due to the Open Border Policy of Sleepy Joe Biden, in particular allowing millions of people into our Country who shouldn’t be here, I wanted something representative to show how we fight back, and then, it happened, I saw a picture of ALCATRAZ looking so foreboding, and I said, “We’re going to look into renovating and rebuilding the famous ALCATRAZ Prison sitting high on the Bay, surrounded by sharks. What a symbol it is, and will be!” Conceptual work started six months ago, and various prison development firms are looking at doing it with us. Still a little early, but lots of promise!
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2025
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2025
With the site failing, Truth Social now reports correctly... "No Truths" for Donald Trump's stream:
Donald J Trump's "Truth Social" Feed, showing "No Truths" "When this user composes a Truth, or ReTruths, you will see it here."
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2025
Apparently there are Spam-Bots on Mastodon now:
Private mention
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Nicole @infected60@mastodon.holeyfox.co

@stevenaleach Hi, I’m Nicole! But you can call me the Fediverse Chick :D

I’m a proud Polish girl from Toronto (29 y/o)

I’m currently taking the pre-health sciences program at George Brown College hoping to get into the medical field someday!

You can add me on Friendica: https://friendica.namestaci.cz/profile/fediversechick/profile

Join my discord here: https://discord.gg/GhaBwWJb

Join me on matrix here: https://matrix.to/#/#nicoles_place:mat
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025
I'm so tired of seeing "Shorts" in the results when I search for anything on Youtube. Nope. Not ever gonna click on one. Not gonna happen. I assume it's meant to be a "TikTok" clone? And no... I'll never click on one of *those* either.
Feedback form being filled in for YouTube.  Text reads:

"Please provide a way of turning of "Shorts".

I am basically forced to filter (select long/medium) to get rid of them which means that if there are any videos of shorter length I might have found worthwhile I won't see them.  Why?

Because this [sic] weird "Shorts" get inserted into the results... (super-short videos cropped the "wrong way" like you're looking at a cell phone).

And the only way to see search results without them is to exclude all short videos.  So that's what I do."
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2025
Project continues to progress - I believe the core code is complete and am now writing the library/tools and documentation thereof. I was hoping to be "done" by today... and I am I suppose.. but now I need to turn it into tools and text as well […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2025
I remember reading Popular Mechanics as a kid when it was respectable and generally pretty high quality content. When did they go tabloid?
News headline from Popular Mechanics:

An Engineer Says He's Found a Way to Overcome Earth's Gravity.

Features a sci-fi CGI glowing torus of light.
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2025
@voided I don't get it... Clearly I'm a moron but here's the #Rust and #Python - Python sending payload to Rust server. And... it fails.. which... I absolutely cannot begin to understand.
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2025
§ 2635.702 Use of public office for private gain. An employee may not use their public office for their own private gain; for the endorsement of any product, service, or enterprise (except as otherwise permitted by this part or other applicable law or […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]
Musk and Trump at a Tesla promotional event held at the White House.  They stand in front of a line of Tesla vehicles which Trump spent nearly forty minutes pitching and praising in violation of both tradition and federal law.
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2025
I'd love to know exactly when this was decided and when this was announced. The polling data disappeared off the main site just hours after #Trump's lines crossed into net disapproval. The main site was still there, but the polling was gone leaving the left […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2025
Well... isn't that interesting. Last night, Trump finally crossed over into net disapproval on FiveThirtyEight, with a net negative of -0.3. As of this morning the approval polling is GONE from FiveThirtyEight. As soon as the lines crossed, all FiveThirtyEight approval polls went away entirely.
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2025
Happy #538 line crossing day, for those that celebrate.
Screenshot of 538's plot of approval polling for Donald Trump, a falling green line above a rising red line, finally crossing over today with red (disapproval) above green, with "+0.3 disapprove" as of Mar 4, 2025.
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2025
Screenshot of Trump post to "Truth Social", Mar 4 2025 which reads:

"All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter."
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2025
I'm always fascinated by the bizarre slop strange that finds it's way into my Google news-feed:
Headline from the site "Ecoportal", reading: "The world is shocked! China is storing the gravity of Earth in this huge cube"
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2025
A current screenshot from Whitehouse dot gov. This is embarrassing. Dear America: Be Ashamed. Be Very Ashamed. #whitehouse #ap #jouranlism #trump
Screenshot showing the url: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/02/statement-on-trump-white-house-victory-against-the-associated-press/

The Heading, in all caps, reads: " Statement on Trump White House Victory Against the Associated Press
February 24, 2025"

Text which follows reads: “As we have said from the beginning, asking the President of the United States questions in the Oval Office and aboard Air Force One is a privilege granted to journalists, not a legal right. We stand by our decision to hold the Fake News accountable for their lies, and President Trump will continue to grant an unprecedented level of access to the press. This is the most transparent Administration in history.”
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2025
"MADISON STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 2025 MARCH 7 2025 Wisconsin Capital 12-3 PM SCIENCE IS FOR EVERYONE Find your local rally site and other ways to get involved: standupforscience2025.org" standupforscience2025.org/madison-wi" […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]
A flyer image with artwork featuring the Statue of Liberty and bold text reading: 

"MADISON

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 2025

MARCH 7 2025
Wisconsin Capital
12-3 PM

SCIENCE IS FOR EVERYONE

Find your local rally site and other ways to get involved: standupforscience2025.org"
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2025
#Madisonwi #notmypresidentsday #democracy #uspol
A crowd at a rally outside the Wisconsin capital.  The capital building is shown in front of a blue sky with a large crowd gathered in the snow, many holding signs, a large American flag near the foreground.
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2025
#Ominous
Screenshot from Trump's "Truth Social" page.  It is a post by Trump reading "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law."
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2025
I don't know why, but I'm re-watching #babylon5 and I can't stop staring at Delenn's hair.... If they'd just combed it *over* the bone thing, it would be great... instead the hair clearly passes under it and that just doesn't work.
Screenshot from the TV show Babylon5 featuring the "half-human" character Delenn - of a species that doesn't normally have hair.Screenshot from the TV show Babylon5 featuring the "half-human" character Delenn - of a species that doesn't normally have hair.
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2025
@futurebird @davidho One of the obsessions in the back of my head for the past few years: An ebike tow-able solar camper/micro-house boat with a minimal trailer assembly that packs onboard along with the bike. I think it's possible. I built a *road-bike* […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]
An extremely large wooden box/trailer supported by wheels toward the rear and by a 2x4 tongue hitch resting on the rear rack of a bicycle stands in a large room with black and red tile floor.A green-grey box with an open door in the center and red bicycle reflectors on each side.  This is the rear view of a bike camper parked next to a building in Oakland, CA.A purple Purple Peugeot road bike with a slanted rear cargo rack is leaned against the side of a pastel green/grey trailer which dwarfs the bicycle.
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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2025
The standard journalistic unit "the size of a football field" is usually, but not always, applied to objects floating in space. It's ironically odd when you see it applied to a patch of ground on Earth for which "acres" or similar more useful units tend to […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]
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