any foe willing to eat the pieces off the board has a definite advantage

tabby colored house cat walking across a table top board game with colorful bamboo pieces on hexagons.

Playing the boardgame Takenoko which involves moving a panda piece, a gardener piece, and in our house also a cat piece.

begging the bsky team to implement passkeys before they do any more novelty AI bots

a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

a computer monitor with a back side vesa mount on it, inverted to support an iPad that peeks over the top with its rear facing camera.

a computer monitor with a back side vesa mount on it, inverted to support an iPad that peeks over the top with its rear facing camera.

Was using JUST an iPad for quite a while to remote in a distant member of the Mothership group that's been campaigning for over a year (!) but decided to increase video size and camera quality. Realized the little vesa mount could do double duty as an iPad support.

top level headings in a markdown manager (obsidian) with names like story, geography, entities, etc.

An example of an NPC named A Boy and His Dog

Sample of one of my campaigns currently managed in Obsidian. I use markdown frontmatter for "data" so I can quick searches. Makes it easy to link to [[an NPC name or alias]] with markdown/wiki style links

Obsidian mostly these days. Used to be DevonThink.

Player facing it used to Notion but free tier is cramped for space so mostly Google Drive

My take is that people don't have money anymore. Jobs that used to make decent money no longer do so. Healthcare and rent are unaffordable.

Everything costs way too much.

Colorful orb on cover of the book "The Edge of Space-Time" by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.

New book day (by @chanda.blacksky.app ). Between this and Artemis at least there are much needed SCIENCE IS AWESOME vibes happening.

Frequency-opathy. Full recovery is expected

small handheld radio disassembled on a work surface.

surgery on my kenwood handheld #hamradio

a safety page reading "This service manual does not describe PRECAUTION."

SECTION 1: SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
"You're on own here, buddy, good luck don't die"

I have several "modern" mp3/flac players but I'm actually looking for something that support apple music. very few of the custom android units do unfortunately. I prefer owning my own files but I also do want music discovery (and not via spotify)

classic white apple ipod with scroll wheel.

Honestly I think if Apple released an iPod that only did audio it would slay. People are so desperate to leave their phones.

In HS, we read a story in English class that featured a man marrying a woman made of water, and he does something to upset her, and in the throes of her emotions, she starts drowning him with her liquid body

I have tried so many times to figure out the name of that story. Still no idea what it was.

a nanovna analyzer showing a clean SWR chart with a single well defined dip at a specific frequency.

a nanovna analyzer showing a spiraling graph of recursive spirals, every twisting into madness.

Testing some #hamradio antennas I received reveals the two most common antenna types:

* (1st photo) common UHF tuning
* (2nd photo) common "contacting Cthulhu via a dimension of pure madness" tuning

When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge.

I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass.

Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.

EFF is finally leaving X and here is a blog post about why: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

a single woman's shoe in a box.

Bad news: Instead of toner I received a single shoe.
Good news: I have the shoe you are missing. Hit me up.

new "offgrid" #mesh ( #meshcore in this case ) node for deployment to get over the ridge near my house.

Human trials begin for drug that could let adults regrow teeth for the first time

Yes but *where*

ham radios on a shelf

My normal anxiety response is "prepare" so I just dropped some radios in a metal tin (honestly useless here in Seattle, we're far to close to Targets for that to be truly useful) and rebuilt my antenna switching to enable my TM-71 #hamradio to pass through my duplexer :/

Info about an account sharing viral video of the moon saying it’s Artemis 2 but it’s not, and that account is blocking people who point it out

Just in case folks miss this due to the block

a purple hued mountain range, The Olympics, as seen from the view of a car driving down a seattle street at dusk.

The Brothers looking pretty and purple from Seattle tonight.

I’m sorry, if you’re a journalist and you’re still going to the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, fuck off.

Scott! Thanks for the event, opportunity, and support. This is what ham radio is all about to me and it meant a lot! Please pass my thanks along to Rex as well (I'll drop him a note via QRZ).

Antique straight key for sending Morse code next to a round tuna fish can converted into a radio with a lot of exposed circuit components visible.

Just made my first cw (Morse code) #hamradio contacts on this 50 year old famous “tuna tin” radio!

Antique straight key for sending Morse code next to a round tuna fish can converted into a radio with a lot of exposed circuit components visible.

Just made my first cw (Morse code) #hamradio contacts on this 50 year old famous “tuna tin” radio!

Watching Hegseth basically recreate every error of turn of the century France's "cult of the offensive" like he's working through a grocery list.