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vees, 3 months ago to random

Admins: Remember to check your emoji libraries for the words "windmill" and "friendship" and suspend any instance that allows Nazi symbols in their custom emoji set.

vees, 10 months ago to random

New toy - USB multimeter. Most fun I’ve had for $16 in a while.

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vees, 9 months ago to random

My feeds on Mastodon are entirely English speakers. Please recommend accounts in other languages I can follow and interact with here.

vees, 3 months ago to random

Friends of Mastodon,

I follow a lot of folks. I make a lot of Mastodon lists. I add a lot of folks to a lot of lists.

If you're reading this I probably follow you.

Please let me know in the replies if you self-identify into any of the following lists so I can add you so that I see your posts in that particular category:

Artists
Baltimore/County
Co-workers
Dev/DevOps/InfoSec
Feds/Fed Adjacent
Flashlight collectors
Freemasons
Ham Radio/Maker
Homelab
Instance Owners
IRL (Met in meatspace)
Keyboard collectors
Knitting/Crafting
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Policy Wonks (Knowledge Fight)
Scouts
Teachers/Educators/Research
Virginia/DC

I'm also happy to add new categories if you think you are representative of one.

I'll probably boost this once a week or so just to refresh to my followers. Ignore this post if you don't care. Thanks!

vees, 2 months ago to random

Please download my new app that detects brick and mortar chain restaurant #surge pricing and notifies local food truck operators of an arbitrage opportunity.

vees, 6 months ago to random

I just described to someone where I lived as “where the old Kmart used to be,” and instantly aged 50 years.

vees, 4 months ago to random

Son is home sick from school today. He's taken to calling my nonstop chain of Zoom meetings "your YouTube channel."

I'm going to end every meeting from now on by shouting "Like and subscribe!"

vees, 26 days ago to random

Son's rock tumbler has found a home on a sound dampening mat inside the backyard shed. Could not imagine trying to find a home for this cacophonous machine anywhere in our living space.

vees, 1 year ago to random

Maryland Highway Administration quietly closed my service request from February to review a terrible intersection design. They did not realize that I have a Kanban board called "Local Government" with regular reminders to follow up on service requests I file.

This morning I escalated the close and extracted a promise of adding "guide marks" though the intersection.

Don't try to out-bureaucrat me, I've been forged and sharpened in the glowing furnace of federal contracting project management.

vees, 1 month ago to random

For all the noise about Threads federation, people are replying to @potus posts like it matters.

vees, 8 months ago to PokemonGO

I have three Magikarp.

14/15/15 level 20
14/8/1 level 2 Shiny
8/4/3 level 13 Shiny

I have 363 candy, so I'll need to make this decision soon:

Which would you evolve first?

#pokemongo #magikarp

vees, 6 months ago to random

I love being able to text 911 instead of talking to a human.

vees, 3 months ago to random

Testing images

vees, 1 month ago to random

I just realized my kids put clean glassware away in the cupboard right side up. I always put them upside down so that dust settles on the outside and not the bottom. Now I’m not sure if that’s weird or not.

vees, 25 days ago to random

I miss userland tildes in URLs. We should have brought them back for the Fediverse.

vees, 11 months ago to baltimore

#Baltimore City won't make projected revenue on I-83 speed camera fines because drivers slowed down. You love to see it.

vees, 1 month ago to PokemonGO

Astonished that #pokemongo didn't find a way to incorporate (monetize) the #eclipse into their game for U.S. players today.

vees, 1 month ago to random

Three helicopters over my neighborhood: city police, county police, local news. Not a great sign. #carney #baltimorecounty

vees, 1 month ago to random

How do I opt out of the new weird icon in my Windows 11 search input box every week? I'm trying to focus on code here and this cartoon bat is not making it easy.

vees, 1 month ago to random

When I bought a rabbit's foot keychain at my elementary school craft fair in the 80s, what are the chances it was from an actual rabbit?

vees, 1 month ago to random

This gem just came through my LinkedIn feed.

Please don't teach kids about EBITDA. Teach them about unions, collectives, and revolution. Then when they finally learn about value extraction from worker exploitation they'll realize how unnatural it is.

I was 35 before a CFO explained EBITDA to meand I'm still bitter that it's something taking up space in my brain.

vees, 26 days ago to random

As lovely as this day is I think the pollen is about to close my throat completely and chase me inside.

vees, 20 days ago to random

How old is epistolary.org? When you used to get paper receipts from InterNIC in the mail old.

vees, 9 days ago to random

I feel like I get more phishing exercise emails than actual phishing attempts, but that's probably a good thing.

vees, 3 days ago to diy

#DIY #Repair advice wanted:

We have this accordion/sliding door in our house. The circled spring-loaded peg on the bottom of the door (matching the one on top) got pushed all the way into the frame through the particle board. How would I replace it in a way that’ll last?