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Tabitha Sable

@tabbysable.bsky.social
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Anyone who cannot understand that a useful science can be built on stunt hacking will not understand my life, either. All we have is each other. To change everything, start anywhere.

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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Without downloading new pics, describe your gender
An illustration of how to inspect front brake pad depth on a car by sighting through a hole in the caliper. A floating disembodied face is present, interrupting the wheelwell arch, and a dashed line runs from their eye to the brake pad inspection window.

The whole thing looks like a shitpost.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
You may fascinate a woman by offering her specialized fasteners.
A pair of bolts for affixing a rack to the front cantilever brake bosses on a bicycle. A hex “nut” has threaded protrusions from both sides. It screws in to the brake boss as a standard bolt, and then provides a stud to screw the rack onto. This reduces the tendency for the rack vibration to loosen the brake mounting bolt.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Glad to see the industrial illustrator from the 1990s Mazda manuals is still working in the field.
A diagram of inspecting the pads of of automotive disc brake. A disembodied face hovers near a brake caliper assembly, and a dotted line connects the face’s eye with the caliper inspection window. The whole diagram gives the impression of a shitpost.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Attention Lesbians: The adorable little toolbox from Harbor Freight is really well made, costs $20, and comes in several cute colors. www.harborfreight.com/mini-steel-t...
A two-drawer mechanic’s toolbox. It is painted bright purple and is about the size of a breadbox.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A wide panoramic image showing a massive stormcloud over a parking lot. There are beautiful twists and whorls of light on dark grey, with yellow sun peeking out in a few places.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🚨 ingress-nginx is now retired 🚨 Stop by the SIG Security booth P-4B at #kubecon #cloudnativecon for a commemorative sticker! We will be there this afternoon and Thursday afternoon. Hope to see you there!
A cackling goose (Branta Hutchinsii) in flight, proclaiming “I migrated off ingress-nginx!”

Does she look joyful? Does she look mischievous? Is she just glad it’s over? Only you know for sure!
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Note also the 2020 copyright date on their webpage. What a scam.
Screenshot of a Linux terminal displaying the output of “whois gillyweeds.com” including the creation date of Dec 8, 2024.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Gotta go, my ride’s here
Leliel from Evangelion, an abstract malevolent entity that apparently consists of energy confined within curved surfaces in higher-dimensional space. The photo depicts its shadow, which appears to be a huge black and white striped sphere floating above Tokyo-3.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I had never heard of this movie, but the anger of this boring man’s review makes me think it’s probably really good.
Screenshot of a comically angry movie review. It begins “Millennial self-indulgence.
This is yet another fetishistic project from yet another artist wannabe (read, maladapted person), that wants to take herself very seriously.”
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
A great exploit happened here! Happy Honkukah, all 💥
The goose from Untitled Goose Game
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Btw… they use Arch
Screenshot of the Steam Machine specifications, noting “Operating System: SteamOS 3 (Arch-based)”
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
They figure it out 😍
The 3 main characters from Singin’ In The Rain collapsed adorably onto an overturned couch together after staying up all night.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
What’s your sign?
A faux-marble plaque in a marble frame on a marble wall. Text reads:

Main Phone
Switch Room

NOTICE
Main Phone
Switch Room
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This diagram looks like a shitpost
Caution: Do not touch the ink tube.

A line drawing illustrates an inkjet photo printer. A human reaches toward the ink tube and receives an admonishment.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Bugs Bunny saying “NO”
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Hard Mode Quiz! If you were a NON-LEGENDARY creature, which would you be?
Faerie Miscreant. A hand-size humanoid creature with dragonfly wings kneels on a book, slicing through one page with a tiny sword.

The card’s flavor text reads “One faerie distracts the judge while a second steals the law.”
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I love this new slide film from Harman Technology! It’s great for wildlife photography!
A bright blue damselfly rests on the edge of a saturated green leaf. The bug’s long body becomes blurry toward the end due to shallow depth of field.

Shot on Harman Phoenix @ ISO100, cross-processed in E6 with 1.5g/L NaOH in the color dev to remove the magenta cast.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Under the right circumstances, it looks like a whale!
Lake Harriet Bandshell, illuminated at night. The curved roof at the front is lit from below and looks a little like the plates of a baleen whale.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Just like @sailorhg.com’s “purr programming”
A woman posing while wearing a graphic tee. A cozy high-key illustration in a cyan and magenta color palette shows a femme programmer laying on her tummy and sitting up to a laptop, while 3 cats lounge on or around her. Across the top the motto “purr programming” is written in a loose and attractive cursive.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
He is an anthropomorphic pile of tubular bicycle tires, and he will shank a man without remorse.
An utterly unsettling late-1800s advertisement for Michelin tires. Bibendum is standing and offering a toast with a coupe glass full of dangerous road debris. He holds a cigar in the other hand. Beside him are two corpses of others of his kind, labeled (in French) “Tire X” and “Tire Y”. The dinner table is littered with other hazardous objects such as nails and safety pins. An open can of tubular tire cement sits near his plate, looking for all the world like a beer can.

Text: NUNC est bibendum!! c'est— à— dire: “À VOTRE SANTÉ LE PNEU Michelin BOIT L'OBSTACLE!”
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Here is a few from my sister’s boat race last weekend. Shot with a Nikon F100 and the 35mm F/1.8G DX. (Lens designed for APS-C DSLRs, thus the heavy vignetting. Love this lens on film! 😁)
Dozens of rowing fans sit along the north shore of the Montlake Cut, watching the Windermere Cup. Rich blue paint on the concrete sea wall, oil-pastel green leaves, and textured dark teal water are noticeable.Black block letters spell LAKE UNION CREW on a wild orange-red background while vibrant green water laps at the concrete.A dopey black floof of a dog smiles at the camera, surrounded by the pants as shoes of a crowd of rowing fans.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
So excited to see my teammates Kaitlyn and Jordan getting their flowers for their work with VAP at Datadog! The Gatekeeper deployment they replaced was my project, and it’s wonderful to see it replaced with something better 🤩
Kaitlyn and Jordan presenting at KubeCon EU 2025. The slide describes history of Pod security controls at Datadog.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Stop by the SIG Security booth in the Project Pavilion and say hello! We’ll be open another half hour, until 13:45. P-17B: we have stickers, friendly faces, and hacks!
The SIG Security co-chairs, Cailyn, Ian, and myself, smiling before the SIG booth. A goose honks in the distance.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Whatever it is, spit it into a bottle and sell it to me!
London Underground sign for Bank station.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Two raccoons are paddling a bark canoe, with a possum and a skunk as passengers. Caption: “There’s no time to explain: climb aboard”
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The sky had pretty things to say last night in Minnesota #aurora
A horizontal photo of the Aurora borealis, showing a tall magenta streak, and fluffy magenta, yellow, and green bands. A low rambly horizon traces the bottom of the frame and hundreds of stars dot the sky.A vertical photo of the Aurora borealis, showing many magenta streaks, and fluffy magenta, yellow, and green bands. A low rambly horizon traces the bottom of the frame and hundreds of stars dot the sky.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Your photo is really pretty, and I really enjoy the juxtaposition of straight and curved lines in it due to the power lines and railroad tracks. There was an aesthetic like this in 1990s anime.
A giant mecha walking toward the camera, framed by the setting sun and dense power lines, from one of the Evangelion series
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.
An oblique photo of the Golden Gate Bridge from the Marin side. The roadway curves along to the right of the frame in front of a green hill, while the bridge rises along the left side and nearly disappears into fog.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Picture tax
A cozy room. Next to a brick chimney is a cubical end-table of light oak wood with intricate cathedral grain, about 20” on a side. In the foreground is a rainbow-gradient shag rug. In the background is a simple gray couch, a vintage racing bicycle, and a bi pride flag.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Force of Will. Not only did I play it in every deck for years and years, but I love how its existence fundamentally changed the nature of the game. You can’t just overextend yourself, secure in the knowledge that your opponent doesn’t have UU up. This is the judge promo alternate art version 🤩
M:tG card “Force of Will”, judge promo alternate art version. A woman with long hair and leather armor leans forward with a look of serene concentration on her face and gestures behind herself with her hands. A massive gout of flame stops just before her, seemingly deflected by a magical barrier she is creating.

Card text (from the original Alliances printing): “3UU, Interrupt. You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will’s casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.”
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Tolarian Academy. When this card came out, I was a teenager at a residential math and science school. How could I not absolutely love it? Also, it was wonderful to see Type 2 overrun by combo decks that could go off turn two, right after we all thought they finally figured out game balance 😁
Magic: the Gathering card Tolarian Academy. A tall, white building with spires and dormers. “The academy worked with time—until time ran out.”

Card text: “Legendary Land. T: Add U to your mana pool for each artifact you control.”
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Lion’s Eye Diamond. I adore the history of trying to “fix” Black Lotus, and the way that this card sat for a long time, unbroken, before someone finally found a way to use it well.
The Magic: the Gathering card “Lion’s Eye Diamond”.

Card text: “0, Artifact. Sacrifice Lion s Eye Diamond, Discard your hand: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.”
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Scroll Rack. Amazing utility, a mono-white draw engine with Land Tax, and the art is *gorgeous*. Some day I’m going to cosplay this girl. This is the painting that got me into the art of @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social For years I basically always knew what I was going to draw 🤩
Magic: the Gathering card “Scroll Rack”. A fantasy academic with mousy blonde hair spins a large wooden machine filled with scrolls. She holds one in the hand with which she is moving the rack, and has several more precariously balanced in her other hand. Her outfit consists of blouse and slacks that seem to be made of blue velvet with leather accents on the cuffs, arms, collar area, and seat.

Card text: “2, Artifact. 1, T: Choose any number of cards in your hand and set those cards aside. Put an equal number of cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then put the cards set aside in this way on top of your library in any order.”
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Balance, the most powerful card in M:tG. Did you ever wish you could cast Mind Twist, Armageddon, and Wrath of God all at the same time for only 1W? Guess what, you can! I love how this card rewards planning ahead, and can solve just about any problem.
Magic: the Gathering card “Balance”. A knight in stylized gold and green armor with a feathered helmet holds aloft an ostentatious brass measuring balance.

The card text is “1W, Sorcery. Whichever player has more lands in play must discard enough lands of his or her choice to equalize the number of lands both players have in play. Next, equalize the cards in hand and then creatures in play the same way. Creatures lost in this manner are considered buried.”
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Let’s do this! Mind you: I used to play Type 1, and I sold my cards around 2006
A intentionally-badly-edited text image meme. “Get to know my MAGIC THE GATHERING taste, for every like I’ll post one CARD I love”
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Screenshot of my Co—Star headline today. “Stray cats survive.”
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Post an album that changed your musical outlook This was the album that made me realize that jazz is real and alive, and not just a bunch of rich old white guys idolizing Miles
III by BADBADNOTGOOD

An obscure B&W photo, that I think shows three musicians, the underside of some kind of drum, and the ceiling, seemingly taken from a camera lying on the floor beneath them
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
Oh that’s the gentle kind! The usual kind has a single curved point on each jaw, like a pincher made of thumbtacks.
Stock photo of a tenaculum, a type of surgical forceps with a single sharp point at the end of each jaw. It is about 20cm long and has gold-plated handles.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 30/06/2024
I saw this one somewhere and liked it so much I saved it
Machine-generated “inspirational” image. A conventionally-attractive woman with surfing gear stands amid gentle ocean waves. Text is overlaid: “Take on ambiguity and act immoral. Choose happiness.”
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 09/06/2024
Paulo Freire meme: In the upper half, Mario is seen riding Yoshi. In the lower half, Yoshi is seen riding a horse. Text is overlaid: “When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.”
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
Sysadmin voice: “It says ‘cuddle’.”
A section-marker sign in a rural department store. It has a photo of a few beef cows standing in a pasture and says “CATTLE”
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
Periodic reminder that @amalelmohtar.com @maxgladstone.bsky.social “This is How You Lose the Time War” is absolutely fantastic.
A screenshot from Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Alice is squeeing: “Oh! Is there anything better than an epic love story that transcends all space and time?”
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
I used to be a gamer
A backlit Game Boy Advance, displaying a scene from the last boss fight of Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land

Kirby floats in a black empty space, with a bisexual-colored nebula below and pinprick stars above. Nightmare, a bisexual-colored sphere covered with white five-pointed stars, floats near Kirby. They are fighting by launching five-pointed stars at one another.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
If you see this, post the best portrait of yourself drawn by someone else. Made by @mcapriglioneart.bsky.social, who was a total joy to work with, in addition to her head-spinning talent and astounding levels of gayyyyyyyy.
An illustration of a queer fairy with a tool belt. She wears shoulder-length green hair, glasses, superfluous welding goggles, brown coveralls, bracers with fingerless gloves, several pouches, and a smirk like a cat. Her gossamer wings are visible behind her, in a way that begs the question of whether they are physical or purely magical.
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
The kind of exes that have dinner together twice a week. “Where you been, bestie?” “You know, here and there.” That shit’s **in the docs**
A picture of the beginning of Job, in English translation.

One day, the lesser gods came to attend upon Yahweh, and the Accuser came among them. Yahweh said to the Accuser, "Where are you coming from?" and the Accuser answered Yahweh, "From roving and roaming about the world."
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
@racheltobac.bsky.social we saw this shiny jacket and thought of you :-)
A cute shiny little jacket on a hacker
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Tabitha Sable @tabbysable.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
Search your camera roll for “hell” Awww, yes. This is literally one of my favorite poems ever.
Dril tweet from 2012:

IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL
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