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@tef.bsky.social
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previously: failed mathematician, youtube one hit wonder, blogger, crow photographer, former programmer currently: unemployed and very tired. tef all lowercase, they/them thank you

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 1h
seeing i've made one good post this month and reassuring myself that i still have it
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 1h
working out the difference between a homeowner association and a frat house and as best as i can tell it's a different set of hazing rituals
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 6h
I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British
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cryptic 🔄 pollinator @magicscience.info · 12/12/2024
packet marked with DO NOT THROW AWAY "YOU MUST EAT" MANDATORY CRYSTALS DO NOT THROW AWAY
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 4h
i think my most controversial opinion is that homework, not discovery, is the better daft punk album
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 5h
political power grows out of the barrel of a gnu/linux
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Netscape @netscape.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
DON DRAPER, wearing a Changshan: if we want to sell this revolution as being truly universal under Heaven, we need to make inroads with the fairer sex… how about “women hold up half the sky” MAO, sucking on his teeth: god damn it gweilo you’ve done it again.
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 5h
taking my advice and political analysis from a guy who'd get tricked by nasreddin
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 5h
a statistician told me this joke, it goes like this three mathematicians bump into three economists on the train, they're on the way to a joint conference, and the economists are a little puzzled the mathematicians only have one ticket between them
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 5h
have seen a one two post combo of a "computers can think but no-one understands it" and "that's society's problem, layman understanding trumping expertise" and wouldn't you know it it's an economist rather than a programmer for once
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 8h
working out the german compound phrase for "wishing you were at home but you are already at home"
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
writing a rationalist fanfic about 'who framed roger rabbit?' but it's a series of spreadsheets and charts explaining the economic benefits of a freeway system and justifying the wholesale destruction of toontown
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 14h
seen two posts back to back, "the problem with burnout is that you let everything slide and it gets worse" and "hey if you emailed me last year, sorry about that, but i am starting to get out of the hole now" and yeah i feel both of these posts in my bones
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 16h
good morning
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 23h
forget it kid, it's toontown
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
once tradtional programming falls entirely out of fashion and becomes lost knowledge, i can sell a zachtronics style indie hit game about building 8 bit microcontrollers
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/09/2026
Reason I think this is neat is that there's provably unexplored space left to check out. It's cool if you want to make a roguelike deckbuilder but you absolutely do not have to.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Yes, I fell for the "Got your nose" trick, but that shouldn't distract us from the real issue of nose theft in our society
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
working out that i shouldn't allowed to post in the first hour where i'm waking up (i'm sad) and ultimately the best posts seem to come after bering awake for 20 or so hours (sad but laughing anyway)
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
writing a rationalist fanfic about 'who framed roger rabbit?' but it's a series of spreadsheets and charts explaining the economic benefits of a freeway system and justifying the wholesale destruction of toontown
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
several of you have been asking for an update on "we count numbers consecutively in an irc channel" and i'm pleased to announce someone made the effort to draw a graph
a time/count graph of the irc counting game, there are seven lines that trend upwards, surprisingly at a consistent rate
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𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐠 @ruleo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
fine, cinemascope it is
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
petted a cat
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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...
"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
thinking about the google search appliance and in retrospect it's quite funny they never really managed to make a product out of search
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
honestly. waking up about midnight and going to bed at 4am is kinda serene in it's own way
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
given the sex cult stuff, and i guess the return to office mandate wasn't really anything more than "it's easier to fuck your secretary when you're both in the office"
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
several of you have been asking for an update on "we count numbers consecutively in an irc channel" and i'm pleased to announce someone made the effort to draw a graph
a time/count graph of the irc counting game, there are seven lines that trend upwards, surprisingly at a consistent rate
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
yeah, fine, i'll go eat breakfast and try to stop ruminating on the casual cruelty constantly on display
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eevee @eev.ee · 29/09/2026
look if nothing else, our culture would get over its prudishness real fucking fast if there were a macro wolf guy who was just jacking off downtown and rubbing his balls on buildings and whatever. instant, massive icebreaker. but none of that can happen without this small business loan
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
solving problems for other people usually involves thankless, almost anonymous work, where invisibility is a measure of success but sometimes it involves yelling "i obviously don't want to do this, you should be thankful" and demanding featly for their noble sacrifice
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
good morning, life is suffering
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it is kinda funny how websites basically ship something more akin to a pdf than to markdown, despite being written in html
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
explaining why every enterprise app needs a task tray icon by linking to a decade old video about "make my logo bigger" www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOwi...
youtube.com
Make My Logo Bigger Cream
YouTube video by André Salomão Brito Mattos
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
every so often i bump into another smoker at a company meeting or large social gathering and the topic comes up "oh everyone vapes" or "just us, huh?" and i always reply "we're a dying breed"
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/09/2026
Social media is weird because if you give people a good feeling they will be overfamiliar with you, and if you do not do that they treat you like a human yelp page
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
being in a different timezone to everyone else and trying to work out who the discourse is about this time, and running through the checklist: teenager with naive opinion? op-ed columnist who wants other people to suffer? and stopping at astroturfed marketing campaign and double checking
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anus mascot at the Brazilian Congress of Coloproctology (CBCP 2026)
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
good morning
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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i do not think it is ok for "full album" youtube playlists to include music videos for some tracks. those have sounds in them that are not from the album.
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Portponky @portponky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is awesome so I cut one out of wood and made a double sided puzzle.
Wooden puzzle of star shape made from 7 piecesOther side of wooden puzzle with square shape, same 7 pieces, partially assembled
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A guy says to his mechanic "Hey Fran, my 1950's Studebaker is making a weird noise." The car sounds out "booum da hu da hmmh da hoon da ina." Fran opens the hood and says "well, there's your problem." A pleasant man with piercing, a beard and dreadlocks sits near the engine. Frank remarks "Jonathan Davis from Korn is under the hood."
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you adopted a feral cat to the inside and he keeps meowing maybe he just really wants to smoke real cigarettes. You don’t know what he was up to before
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
been helping a friend debug their netgame code - doing that correctly means doing 2pc, so don't do that - ids that change contextually are probably going to bite your ass - that should probably be one message not two, and atomic
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
soundtrack by the radiophonic workshop's very own daphne oram! (a reworking of 'teen beat' by sandy nelson, arranged by johnny hawksworth)
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
bumped into an incredible website gavin-theobald.uk/HTML/Pentagr...
a silver rectangle cut into seven pieces and rearranged into a regular pentagram
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
hey, this rules
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
working on some motivational slides for the company offsite
a three panel comic about a dog that wants you to throw a frisbee, but also doesn't want to stop holding on to it, but it has been edited to read "Pls Slop??", "NO GRENADE!!", "ONLY SLOP"
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