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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Why do I want a giant D20? I'm not 100% sure this makes any sense, but has anyone made outdoor social distanced D&D work? #DnD #SocialDistancing

3D printing software screenshot showing a D20 3d model split in half for printing

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

So tired of slop of all kinds. I miss when the majority of what I saw on a day to day basis was an expression of human ingenuity, intention, and knowledge.

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

I got no idea if these are gonna work out before frost but with the el nino maybe??? I #bean meaning to do this, but better late than never. Give #peas a chance. /1

photo of 2 seed packets that have been opened: sweet pea sweet dreams mixed colors & garden bean bush bean blue lake 274. Next to them, is a ziploc showing today's date 9/1/26 labelled with the beans variety name, containing wet paper towels and beans, hopefully to sprout. Not pictured, the same ziploc for the sweet peas

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Happy belated pride month to Jira Slack automation

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Saved 13 bucks with this cap so I don't need to replace these extremely pointy secateurs to avoid accidentally stabbing myself. #3DPrinting makerworld.com/models/717419?appSha…

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Tasty, but might have under-fermented it a bit before shaping getting it into the fridge for cold proofing. Thoughts? #Sourdough

a view of freshly sliced sourdough that was out of the oven for about an hour before slicing, focusing on the crumb.

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

[re: spider] spider hammock snooze update #JumpingSpider

a mottled brown jumping spider lies on its back relaxing in its little silk nest in the corner of the habitat

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Almost forgot to update this meme this year. It's not really very funny anymore, if it ever was.

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

[re: spider] it's dinnertime, caught a fly #JumpingSpider

a mottled brown jumping spider with shining black eyes in the corner of a shiny acrylic enclosure (with reflections in both walls) has caught a small fruit fly with red eyes and is eating it.

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Microgreens are sprouting nicely.

Dandelion plants sprouting in a tray of damp coconut coir

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

[re: spider] I just think they're neat. My pet is so cute!!! #JumpingSpider

a jumping spider looking like a cat begging for treats with its paws up

a jumping spider with its fuzzy mottled white/brown paws (pedipalps) curled in front of its "chin", looking at the camera

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

[re: spider] The fly that's been in the enclosure for hours has finally been rumbled. Dinner time! #JumpingSpider #ASpiderNamedCat

a jumping spider holding a small black fly it has caught

a jumping spider has just caught a black fly with red eyes

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

[re: spider] We have named the spider "Cat" (@D3ecerra came up with that one 😃) because a #JumpingSpider is really just a tiny cat, with crab characteristics. Cat is enjoying exploring their new home.

a medium sized clear acrylic jumping spider enclosure with a spider visible just barely if you look hard enough. There's a rope ladder and a water dispenser, some leaves and sticks, and a little swing.

A cute little brown mottled jumping spider on a cotton fiber rope, looking at the camera, in warm light.

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Google Maps reviews of places that don't need reviews remain the funniest comedy on the internet. #reviews #CanadianForcesStationAlert #PolarBears #NoGiftShop

Google maps of Canadian Forces Station Alert, an arctic military installation. 2 local guides rate 3 and 1 star, the first because of the lack of a gift shop, and the other because they didn't like the polar bears (although that one seems like a joke)

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

[re: spider] Behold the mighty hunter and the carcass of their defeated and feasted upon prey - the most dangerous animal in the world, the mosquito! #JumpingSpider

A jumping spider looking at the camera in front of the out of focus husk of a dead mosquito that it ate

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

[re: spider] It's been a while since I took many macro photos so this is gonna take some getting used to. #JumpingSpider

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

[re: spider] Slightly better photo of my pet's hunting prowess #JumpingSpider

jumping spider which has caught a mosquito

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

[spider] I caught a young jumping spider that was inside our house today. I've wanted to keep one as a pet for a while, but I hadn't bought springtails and flightless fruit flies yet. The "cat" distribution system at its finest. I haven't named them yet but this […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

photo of a young jumping spider feeding on a mosquito

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Found what I think is a black ichneumon parasitoid wasp indoors, US Midwest. Does anyone know what species it is? There are some thin white line markings lengthwise on the back of its thorax. Hard to get a good picture. #WaspsOfMastodon #entomology

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

"Weekend at McConnell's" is still going on but hey I won't miss Graham one bit.

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Holy shit. Send an electrician to that poor family's house immediately!!!

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

Reflection pool cocktails came out great 😂

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

How many volts do y'all figure this doorbell is?

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

Found this in our silverware drawer. No idea what it is meant for, does anyone know? #hardware #whatisthisthing

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

What disease is this affecting a #peony plant? Asking #gardening folks for information and advice please. #askfedi #plantdiagnosis

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

but... ponder me this... is your corb, orbanic corb on the orb? #memes #corb #orb #pondering

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

Man is Google fucking desperate. They were spamming me Gemini marketing stuff to my personal (backup email on my gmail account) email account because I *one time* accidentally clicked yes to their "PLEASE LET US SHOVE GEMINI INTO YOUR PHONE'S ORIFICES" popup that […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

Google account page confirming my unsubscribe from "Gemini product & marketing updates" emails.

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

The geniuses over at Anthropic heard their parrot say "I'm sad" and go, "hey, wow, is this parrot commenting on philosophy? Wow" More in alt text. #HighOnYourOwnSupply

the section of the "claude mythos preview" "system card" PDF document from Anthropic titled "5.10 External assessment from a clinical psychiatrist" that just flat out anthropomorphizes the model by talking about "character and potential wellbeing" which are not concepts that make sense to apply to an LLM, among other various clowneries like referring to Claude's "excellent reality testing" and "mental and emotional functioning". If you want to suffer through all the text, find the PDF and read it from there.

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

who wants to buy this high end graphics card, you can run an ethically trained six parameter LLM on it 😉 while heating your home, or maybe even run minesweeper

Radeon HD 5870, a 17 year old graphics card that's e-waste now

I don't actually like LLMs don't @ me

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

Getting the #sourdough starter/levain rolling after some days on pause in the fridge and suddenly realizing I have no bread flour in the house and no time to shop and it's gonna do extreme weather in an hour. #oops

A freshly fed sourdough starter jar on a warming pad

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

If you need me I will be making sourdough 6 years late #memes

meme where the guy slaps tape onto an actively leaking hole in a water tank and it stops the leak.
labels:
the guy - "me"
the leaking water tank - "fascist ai hellscape"
the tape - image of a loaf of sourdough
the still wet but no longer leaking tank: "my mental health"

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

"How are you doing?" "About 8500% Done"

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

First failed 3d print, so far my ratio with the #BambuLab #A1 is pretty good... this model failed quite badly though.

what was supposed to be the orderly bottom of a little plastic mountain is instead a pile of plastic spaghetti

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

Using the #SeeStar S50 to capture interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS right now and I'm definitely capturing it. It's this blurry line right here. Multiple minutes of photo data capture have been combined in the image, causing the blurry line to show as the comet moves […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

A dim blurry line appears in the live view of a smart telescope app, passing through a triangle of stars.

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

M33, 15 minutes #SeeStar S50 auto stack, no denoise, light polluted area. #astrophotography

A spiral galaxy, M33. The image is a little noisy and there are visible rectangular changes in contrast due to varied atmospheric conditions and presence of trees over the image capture period

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

First auto stacked #SeeStar S50 test, the red giant Mirach, β Andromedae. 9.5 minutes of data, light polluted area

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2025

Stock #Ubuntu 24.04, #Wayland + #GNOME, I get this every time Synergy starts. It's been broken as well even once I allow permissions, but I haven't had the time/energy to look into what's wrong with it. Does anyone know if there is a no-fuss setup guide for Synergy […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

A pop up presumably from the GNOME wayland "compositor" whatever that is (I haven't really bothered to learn about how this stuff works), or Wayland itself, asking permission for "An application" to capture input events

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2025

People who have any sense would know to make their first chat request message on signal actually identify who they are to the person they are messaging, right? I blocked this account for this.. no fucking idea who it could be. If that's you, uh, do better next time […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2025

Garden planter baby bunnies... they will grow up to be our nemeses, but the cuteness means we must watch over them and keep them safe. Very conflicted. Anyway, behold the cute buns.

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2025

The Moon, at about 20 minutes after peak totality of the #LunarEclipse tonight. #Astrophotography

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2025

that's a fun juxtaposition personally, I like to have some practice using judgement and actually understanding what I'm doing #AI

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Eric Stein � @toba.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

okay so Wayland or some shit is making my new windows I open not open in the foreground which is basically never what I want ever, and it's going to fuck with how I use my mouse and keyboard as well? I love this future

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