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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 18/09/2026

Spotted a new California plate in the wild. Apparently 9ZZZ999 has been issued, and we're on to the new pattern, which started with 000AAA1.

A picture of a California license plate: 001AMC1.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 15/09/2026

Today I ran into an SSL certificate that's been expired for almost 9 years.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 13/09/2026

This summer, I added a garden bench/cabinet with a solar panel mounted above it, and a battery/controller/inverter setup inside. I rent, so I can't put anything on the roof, or tie it to the house panel. (Balcony Solar is almost a thing here, and I'll be looking into it). So, this is off-grid.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 13/09/2026

I've had this outdoor workstation setup for some years now, and it's been fantastic. I think I do more hands-on-keys work here than anywhere else. This is an old picture, there is now a SFF desktop machine bolted to the bottom of the upper desk surface, instead of just a hot-desk for a laptop.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 12/09/2026

GTA 6, or something.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 10/09/2026

"Home River" means many different things. The river I grew up nearest was the Potomac, but I spent more time in the waters of the Shenandoah. But the river that I long for, that I will always want to go back to, is the Nantahala, especially the lower part before you get to the Georgia state line.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 09/09/2026

It's very hot outside.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 06/09/2026

It's on one of the Big Ten Network overflow feeds.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 06/09/2026

Always a pleasure to see the confederate-loving racist knobs at VMI get crushed by an in-state team. Yes, they are traditionally bad at football, but only because they're traditionally bad at everything. No redeeming qualities. Well, maybe one. The ring makes a good fishing weight.

Halftime scoreboard. VMI is losing 45-0 to Virginia Tech.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 11/08/2026

I've been madly at work tuning up the college football data machine, and trying to give it a little more personality. It's getting closer and closer.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 09/08/2026

Two years ago, I saw Chappell Roan do this song, on this stage. #SFGMC did it so much better.

Members of the sf gay men's chorus, performing pink ponyclub.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 06/08/2026

For the record: This man's toupee fooled basically all of America (if not the world) for like 20 years, and he was sweating through it and doing athlete things on TV. When your hair is your brand, you can do (almost) miracle work with fake hair. But a cheap rug will always look like a cheap rug.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 06/08/2026

Like, let's be honest for a minute. Ted Koppel's hairpiece somehow was more believable.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 06/08/2026

The question is: "Every member of Congress has learned to look away when the President starts talking about his enormous [BLANK]."

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 01/08/2026

Sometimes it's the AI mistakes that are the most fun. This is not what I was looking for, but dammit, I'm going to find a way to use it.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 30/07/2026

It's been a few months since I asked an AI to draw a cartoon of a cat farting in an elevator. It is getting somewhat better at this particular task:

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 19/07/2026

Current status includes an homage to Anchor Steam, an IPA created by Iron Maiden, and whatever the insane clownfish posse is. Perhaps there are underwater magnets?

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 05/07/2026

Bring the lightning. Let Thor smite some of these MFers.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 05/07/2026

This is what the DC 4th of July celebrations used to look like, before Reagan banned rock acts in the 80s, the Park Service started banning alcohol in the 90s and the security idiots implemented checkpoints post-2001. I was somewhere in this crowd, and I still remember the Katrina and the Waves set.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 27/05/2026

Replacing our garden gnome, who had already lost his butterfly and his fingers.

A garden gnome in a lotus position, with each of his hands giving the bird.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 07/05/2026

For sale in my neighborhood.

A picture of a still, in front of some red flowers.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 22/04/2026

This looks Italian; like that hand in motion started out under her chin. The sentiment is clearly the same, and that's most of what matters anyway.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 14/04/2026

And then there are the maltitol sweetened, zero-sugar gummy bears, mainstay of pranksters, destroyers of latrines.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 30/03/2026

Submitted without comment...

An album cover for an album named "...and the horses they rode in on." It depicts three horseback-mounted police with large wooden sticks, chasing a long haired man with a bad mustache and a lit doobie on the streets of Los Angeles.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 24/03/2026

Had to dig pretty deep into my personal archive (aka old junk drawer) to find a Bianca sticker for my new laptop, but at least I still had some.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 19/03/2026

I'm not so confident in the rest of tonight's picks, so I'm going to post this now... ESPN says there are 538,436 others like it, and more than 26,000,000 that have missed at least one game so far.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 19/03/2026

One of those brackets is mine, though I doubt it'll last the day.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 19/03/2026

Best sports day of the year.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 19/03/2026

This particular piece of AI art was not at all what I was going for, but it also seemed worth sharing.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 10/03/2026

Let's get this over with.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 07/03/2026

I do not limit myself to flour when visiting the restaurant wholesale store. This remains a highly popular ingredient, that's still not (officially) sold at retail?

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 03/03/2026

Hold on. I've now been told that in a 15-1 game, it's appropriate to go to the 10th inning? That seems about as useful as tits on a bull.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 03/03/2026

As the world baseball classic players get ready to enter the round-robin pools, they've made short work of MLB teams who are in classic spring training form. USA beats SF 15-1. Italy beats Chicago Cubs 9-4. Mexico beats Arizona 6-3.

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Toxic @toxic.sf.ca.us · 26/02/2026

Oh, FFS, Lenovo. The keyboard on my newest thinkpad, which is a later generation of my previous one (X1 Carbon), looks and feels about the same as the old one. That's good... these keyboards are part of why I'm a loyal Thinkpad user. So, why the heck did they swap CTRL and Fn?

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