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lexer

@theshrine.ca
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An eclectic dialectic, and always hectic; a geriatric millennial trying to keep up with this wacky world. they/them From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.

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lexer @theshrine.ca · 22/08/2026
she's even presentbly doubling down, which makes it much funnier, but i still am proud of having had this happen on the bird app. whoopsie!
b& by jk rowling on x dot com
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 16/08/2026
aaaaaaaaaaa it's always a tiny minority of extremely motivated nutjobs who silently take over and ruin everything. and i forgot about this article because it was from a million years ago i mean almost THREE years ago 🙃
excerpt from the propublica article: "Law students were also fueling this new movement: In the spring of 1982, three of them founded the Federalist Society, a debating and networking group for conservatives and libertarians who felt ostracized on their campuses. Scalia and Bork spoke at the group’s first conference, at Yale Law School. There weren’t enough people to fill the school’s auditorium, so they held it in a classroom."
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 15/08/2026
goes to reflect on the quality of the new york times' journalism when their ever shrinking staff is spending their time scrolling down a list of thousands of people, tearfully right-clicking and hitting "Block", all whilst choking back "why... why do all of these people hate me?"
journalist visiting twitter versus visiting bluesky comic meme
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 14/08/2026
i know there's a zillion threads on this platform whining about AI (including my own) but i'm still going to add my two and a third cents anyways skipthedishes now has AI in its search for grocery stores? what the fuck. stop doing this ffs
skipthedishes prompt for a grocery store with an (enabled) toggle for "AI mode", which puts placeholder text in the input prompt. the text reads "I need bread, milk, and eggs"
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 14/08/2026
tada. here it is. thank god AI is somehow magically immune to having its input well poisoned unlike traditional search engines! absolutely nothing can go wrong with a tool that's ultimately controlled by a psycho neonazi billionaire. absolutely nothing!
same techbroguy following up with "which is why i stopped using Google search last year and switched completely to Grok for the latest live information"
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 14/08/2026
this techbroguy isn't wrong, in that google search has been churned into a pile of useless mush. but i guarantee you the next sentence will be...
some ai techbro whining about google search in a tweet: "another reason Google Search is barely usable now and why you should stop using it. it literally lists Sam Altman as having died on august 12, 2026. Horrible"
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 14/08/2026
and "some google engineer" is intentionally worded because i dunno who this asshole is and don't really care beyond "the work he's doing is dangerous and needs to be reined in. here's one of the grand wizards of this techbro AI cult himself sprouting equally deranged nonsense, minus the awareness:
sam altman tweeting "one of the things i like most about the openai team is how focused they are on our customers and users succeeding, and how much they celebrate it"
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 14/08/2026
these people are deranged. that they have some degree of awareness over the damage their tools can inflict makes them even more dangerous.
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 14/08/2026
lego makes a lot of dumb stuff ever since they did the shift to licensing other stuff but this one takes the cake thus far. why would you buy the fucking logo of a franchise? insane.
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 14/08/2026
endlessly amusing that the actual rover is still going but lego gave up on the kit
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 13/08/2026
they are so comically self-unaware that it hurts my brain. a solid "fuck you" to this company. **cops are not workers**. they routinely serve as the paramilitary wing of a fascist State; just look at how long this one article is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... #AbolishICE #AbolishThePolice
a poster, "Happy labour day, from compliant technologies"
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 13/08/2026
all of their promo materials feature one cop using the GLOVE against the target. as if yank cops don't just dogpile the (probably black) victim.
still from G.L.O.V.E. promo material
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 13/08/2026
i know this is a ridiculous thought experiment but let's just say that ICE officers aren't a pack of psychotic morons and are well trained in the usage of these things. these requirements are beyond absurd for them to be safely deployed in the chaos that is a protest. #AbolishICE
a page from the spec sheet describing how to properly use G.L.O.V.E.s: no more than two simutaneously making contact, and avoid the head, face, throat, chest, and groin areas; approx. 15 seconds duration is recommended per application
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 12/08/2026
i looked up the specs on these things, and they well more than capable of pumping out enough juice to induce cardiac arrest. and i'm sure all of the very well-trained ICE cops will attempt to use these as responsibly as possible to prevent such from happening. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/...
chart from a spec sheet for the G4 and G5 G.L.O.V.E. products. G4 column lists the maximum voltage at 210-380V, the maximum current at 0.9-1.5 amps (NOT milliamps!), pulse duration 100-115 microseconds, pulse charge 84-125 micro coulombs, and pulse repetition rate at 29.7 - 30.8 "pps" (assumed to mean "pulses per second"). the G5 spec are similar but shifted overall to be lower (e.g. G5 has 0.7-1.2 amps)
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 11/08/2026
YouTube comment: the fact that this isn't from like 18 years ago... is the world's sense of humour healing
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 08/08/2026
wait what "influencers" are soulless grifters who would do anything for a buck? my mind is much wow on the plus side this polling data is encouraging www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
chart detailing polling data for data centre support across canada. majority opposed across the country
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 07/08/2026
no further questions i guess
still from a news clip with the headline "Richard Wadsworth", and the subheadline "owns giant rat". Richard is in the background.
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 07/08/2026
he's even doubling down. what a total deranged lunatic.
some congresscritter posting really bizarre dumb takes on the bird app
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 07/08/2026
pump and dump, baby
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 06/08/2026
so the solution to having #flock cameras being (righteously) pillaged is to... replace them with #axon cameras that could potentially be (righteously) pillaged. www.404media.co/cities-are-d...
simpsons i'm learnding meme
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 05/08/2026
brain fart, shoulda thought to do the proper "nuke it from orbit" option.
"Permanently delete my account" for AI slop.
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 05/08/2026
to my eternal embarrassment, i forgot i had a *ha*geepissteamshirt subscription. i'm tired of this #AI #AIslop nonsense gaining traction; it's time to pull a plug on a tool that isn't even all that useful tbh
[ch** gee piss t thirt] Subscription Cancellation. "Your Plus subscription will be canceled but will remain active until the end of your billing period on Aug 29, 2026."
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 05/08/2026
copium meme
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 05/08/2026
okay i wanted to find an accompanying video for this hilarity, but i instead discovered that cat staircase tubes are a thing, and yes i am going to be installing one ASAP
a ginger cat squeezing into a tube intended to descend a storey
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 04/08/2026
#AOE2 #AgeOfEmpires2 DE writes out a lot of dumb log files. i managed to punk the `telemetry` folder with using a blank file, but doing so with the `SlowLog` folder causes the game to crash 😆
Fatal error when trying to work around AOE2 attempting to put files in a directory named `C:\Users\lexer\Games\Age of Empires 2 DE\logs\SlowLog`
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 03/08/2026
literally bombing the moon is some really dumb high tech shit, but we have some really smart low tech shit that could have solved this problem had it been deployed on June 28, 1989
one possible solution to the world's problems, when applied to a certain set of "people".
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 03/08/2026
i don't know how to translate "please replace" into the Gregorian calendar, but hopefully whoever the tech "Me Soon" is can get around to fixing this medical device
Serial #: I AM TOTALLY DEAD
Date: PLEASE REPLACE ME
Technician: ME SOON
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 27/06/2026
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 26/06/2026
so anyways here's a funni maymay to end it all. hit like and subscribe for more commie posts
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 20/06/2026
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 29/05/2026
#yxe #saskatoon come join us! solidarity forever!
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 12/04/2026
Poster of Yuri Gagarin with the caption "Looking at the earth from afar, you realise it is too small for conflict, and just big enough for co-operation."
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 10/03/2026
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 08/03/2026
bonus points if anyone can name these three weirdos
a historical puzzle
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 24/12/2025
merry celebrations and this treasure chest: you just got rickrolled
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 16/12/2025
* indicates the descimation of the oil and gas industries that destroy the world so as to make line go up. and then, we (the people who aren't in 'the club') get to suffer the consequences of ecological devastation
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 21/10/2025
the list of services affected by yesterday's AWS oopsie should prove to people that amazon is way too big and needs to be slammed with anti-trust lawsuits and [updated] Sherman Act'd into a million pieces #AWS #Amazon
al jazeera graphic listing services affected by the AWS outage
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 13/10/2025
what is truly surprising about this discovery, and after asking all of my friends and giving them "the apple test", the results have been quite interesting indeed: most people i've spoken to self-report as a 3, possibly a 2 if they can focus
the phantasia "apple test". a scale of 1 to 5; 1 being vivid, 5 being no image in the mind's eye.
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 12/10/2025
i finally managed to tweak my language to get imageFX to produce this absolutely incredible image
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 08/10/2025
a sampling of "Food Not Bombs" pamphlets
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lexer @theshrine.ca · 30/07/2025
a screenshot a twitter post containing an attachment of Canada with two Saskatchewan-shaped provinces, one of them highlighted. the tweet text reads: "I bet most Americans don't even know what this province is 😒"
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