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Waltteri

@waltteri.net
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Finished a MSc in CS at University of Helsinki 🎉 Senior SWE at Cactos, battery energy storage systems. Previously Senior SWE at Garden, SRE at Webflow. Recreational computer graphics, Rust, photography, cycling. He/him. Mastodon (Twitter) @anotherwalther

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 10h
I wanted to do a serious painting and record the whole drawing process, just to have an example for the youtube. It ended up taking over 10 hours, so I'll have to do multiple x16 speed edits to make it at all palatable to watch.
Digital painting of a light green path in a forest surrounded by trees on both sides. A creature with aspects of both an insect and a dinosaur is standing on a tree root in the upper left of the image, surrounded by a few smaller flying creatures. The image is painted in mostly warm tones, making it appear to take place in early morning.
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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 14h
i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:
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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Did you know you only need a small brain to make silly little drawings?
4 panel comic:
Panel 1: pink blob guy on a table, pencil in their hands. Grey circle on a piece of paper and a glass of water on the table. They say “look here”
Panel 2: Proudly, they hold up the drawing of a grey blobby character on two stick legs up in the air. The pink blob says “I drew this!”
Panel 3: Satisfied they sit back down on the table. They now go “it’s not much, but..” The grey drawing looks a bit peeved because the drawer is calling it “not much”
Panel 4: But it’s okay, because now the pink blob is very pleased finally. He says “it came from my brain!” Holding the pencil up. The grey drawing blob is happy again, too. End well, all well!
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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 17h
"I can't trust digital cameras to do exactly what I want" skill issue. Either put it in modes where it works the way you expect, or spend a little time sitting with the menu about how the different modes try to operate. They may be complex, but they're not possessed. They do what they're set to.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 16h
rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived
Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is
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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
every morning I get on here and collect my little notifications, like harvesting medicinal herbs from a monastery garden. I think I am allergic & they may be killing me a little but I do it anyway
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I finished the book I borrowed from the library and now they're letting me borrow another book?!? This is genius!! You guys should all get one of these "library" things. Highly recommended.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
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King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
working 9 to 5
little doodle kitty with a post it tie and a post it suitcase
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emily s. @emily.news · 06/10/2026
I don't want to live forever, but I do want to last long enough to know everything, see everything, and meet everyone
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Javier Arevalo @thejare.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Watching how Megademica 4K builds its uv tables is almost as fascinating as watching the intro play. What an insane thing to build and script in 4K. www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi... Self-mod code, stack for fast table traversal and other Z80 tricks I used myself in the 80s, but the pattern generator...
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Waltteri @waltteri.net · 05/10/2026
good morning folks, let's make a nice week 🧡
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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A Spiced Pumpkin Sergal 🎃🍂 @adorablesergal.neocities.org · 05/10/2026
Cohost users have seen some shit. (Now I must log off, good night)
Cohost user Phorm, Verified Vixdjinn posts an iconic movie still from Bladerunner's "Tears in the Rain" monologue, but writes "I've seen social media you people wouldn't believe. Livejournal collapsing in on itself after Russian acquisition. Tumblr self-detonating to appease credit card processors. I watched Twitter smolder in self-immolation at the hands of an incurious manchild. All those posts will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to log off."
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A Spiced Pumpkin Sergal 🎃🍂 @adorablesergal.neocities.org · 04/10/2026
We were also gifted this. Truly, the Last Webbed Site.
Jae makes ao cohost post urging users to "not block yourself", writing, "i don't know why multiple people tried this but: don't do it. it breaks shit. we're going to put a fix up tomorrow (when i am actually working) to make it impossible to do but also. come on. don't do it. i have to go manually fix it when you do. thanks."
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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 04/10/2026
A picture of a beige PC era screen with speakers and keyboard to suit, and the text "It's now preferable to turn off your computer"
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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 18/11/2025
The witch made him hot chocolate. "They say I'm strong," he said. "And I am." He took a sip. "They say I can overcome any hardship." "Mm," said the witch. "And I can. I do." The witch said nothing. "But I shouldn't have to!" "No." The witch held the hero as he wept. "No, you shouldn't."
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 21/08/2026
People, young and old, came to the witch for directions. "I seek adventure." "I seek wisdom." "I need a place to feel at home." "I feel like I need to cry, but I can't." The witch listened, and told all where to find what they sought. And the local library thrived. #CrossRepost
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We all do harm by being.
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🩸 morteraphan 🗝️ @morteraphan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I feel you, brave little plant [oc] 🪴
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Golgari Gal @golgarigalsplashes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#Tokentober Day 2: Human I’d rather be a pig than a fascist
Token Creature - Human
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Micron pen drawing of Porco Rosso giving a thumbs up from the cockpit of an airplane while looking toward the viewer
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I can’t stop laughing
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El_Paz @el-paz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#tokentober Day 1, a bit late. CONSTRUCT yeah, it’s Clippy. Sorry, not sorry. At least he knows you’re trying to play Urza’s Saga.
Clippy the Windows helper asking if you’d like help playing Urza’s Saga.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/10/2026
This is not the point of the post but the image at first glance really does look like two giants, one of whom is for some reason straddling the school
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
pushed my to do list off all week now i have a million and one things to do today when will i learn
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026
i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

OH. right! i get it now!

i get why AI is so depressing to me. because covid already shrunk my world to almost nothing, where almost all of my life revolves around socializing and watching videos on the internet (which is being ruined by AI) and creating creative works through coding (which is being ruined by AI), often using open source tools and libraries (which are being ruined by AI)

i already had so little and now even that is being rotted away before my eyes
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Eric Klug @klugalters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hand painted, gilded Balefire Dragon in the style of a medieval illuminated manuscript.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026
the thing is that Literature is actually full of good books but if you present it as the former rather than the latter you lose a lot of people who might otherwise enjoy it
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Soul Music “In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”
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VØ₦ ฿Ø₲ ₩ł₮₵Ⱨ @bogwitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah, that checks out
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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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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope everyone has a Hussein
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 29/09/2026
People who care I don't shoot full frame: people who own full frame cameras, DPReview, Reddit, IG influencer-types People who don't care I don't shoot full frame: my collaborators, my clients, me
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H (エイチ) @therealhanamaru.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Finally the -tober prompt that I can follow to my heart's content
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
some photos about movement and time
sunlight on a wall, broken plaster and peeling paint. exposed sandstone brought to the surface, picked out in relief with layers of plaster falling away. there's a "warning: 24hr cctv" sign to the side; it isn't relevant for us. we're focused on the warm afternoon light, the various earthy colours of old paint, the decay and the neglect. all of which are beautiful, if you stop and look at the contrast in textures. the light is moving slowly here, that we think of it as unchanging. and so it is with crumbling stone.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Itō Jakuchū's 'Frog' of 1790 for me is the iconic image of numbed uncomfortable bafflement at the predicament of existence in the coming modern world, much as Munch's 'Scream' expressed it through horror.
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Waltteri @waltteri.net · 29/09/2026
"Maybe the Earth would be better off without us."
"Safe and clean and perfect"
"like a toy nobody ever played with."
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t4trees @repinuj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
interrupting your regularly scheduled programming
The MTG card [[Octavia, Living Thesis]] hand painted to look like a print of an octopus based on the traditional fish printing method Gyokatu. 

Gyokatu was a way to keep records of fisherman’s catches by brushing a fish with ink before pressing it onto paper. 

This was painted with Golden Fluid Acrylics and Army Painter spray primer. After masking off the name and stats, I primed the card. Then I alternated between sanding and painting white. After that, I applied thin coats of acrylic to recreate the inked prints based on a handful of works I saw online. The red “stamp” is my initials and the black characters say elemental octopus
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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 28/09/2026
Do you ever just know you’re going to die younger than you should because the circumstances you’re stuck in. As I sit here each day for more hours than I want or should, constantly stressed & burnt out, largely for things beyond my control as an autistic person, I can just feel the years vanishing.
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Jenn @geekgalgroks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My fellow dehydrated noodles, Did you go into the office today? Do you hate everything about commuting? Did you forget a water bottle and just didn't drink anything while at the office? You know the drill. Go wash your hands, get a new beverage, and chug. You gotta hydrate.
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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
fun fact: one of the things that made me decide "no, I will get an actual diagnosis", rather than just assuming, was the subtitle of a thread about ADHD on the SomethingAwful forums because it hit so hard it hurt it was along the lines of "if you were lazy, you would be having fun"
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 27/09/2026
when i was 20 i almost got a tattoo that says “when the going gets tough the tough gets going” now in my middle age im like when the going gets tough brush ur teeth drink some water and take a nap, that tough going isn’t going anywhere and u r not gonna be tough for being tired
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Secret Panel HERE 🐢 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/share-care-132206373
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Waltteri @waltteri.net · 25/09/2026
magic the gathering: reality fracture pre-release
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Juno @slopmoding.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
One time I managed to find the exact spot where that photo was taken on google maps
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