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My general interests: # Puns , computery stuff and occasional political things that amuse or appall me. Also, I like # trees and # dogs .

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My general interests: # Puns , computery stuff and occasional political things that amuse or appall me. Also, I like # trees and # dogs .

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@whybird@aus.social · Mar 02, 2026

Well, this is a new one on me, though my #Sewing consists only of basic repairs.

I was reattaching a hem on a skirt that has been in regular use for years, and I came across the broken off tip of a machine needle that must have come from the original manufacturer!

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My general interests: # Puns , computery stuff and occasional political things that amuse or appall me. Also, I like # trees and # dogs .

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Mark Whybird

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My general interests: # Puns , computery stuff and occasional political things that amuse or appall me. Also, I like # trees and # dogs .

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@whybird@aus.social · Feb 17, 2026

Nutbush is a #NoEffort answer, at least if you are in #Australia!

#DanceRelatedTowns
#HashTagGames

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If these fail, you can always complain to my dean, who definitely wants to hear your thoughts about how faculty use social media. That's George Mason University. Operators are standing by.

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Correction: George Washington University. I always get those confused.

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Another weird complaint I frequently get here (in addition to not using enough hashtags, failing to content warn about ordinary, innocuous comments, and posting insufficiently chromatic art) is that I

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My general interests: # Puns , computery stuff and occasional political things that amuse or appall me. Also, I like # trees and # dogs .

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My general interests: # Puns , computery stuff and occasional political things that amuse or appall me. Also, I like # trees and # dogs .

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@whybird@aus.social · Dec 30, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social I’ll have you know had to unfollow an unnatural number* of other, lesser accounts just to follow you! ;) (Zero is, according to many sources, not one of the Natural Numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_number )

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Found elsenet. And now, with my memories of home taping off the radio using a cassette recorder and a microphone, I feel *ancient*:

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@cstross@wandering.shop One of my first programming exercises was to print/plot audio cassette case inlays using a SHARP PC-1500 programmable calculator and its four-colour ballpoint ink plotter. http

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@mschomm@bonn.social Oooh! My first useful computer (I don't count the ZX-81 it replaced) was a Casio FX-702p, basically similar to your Sharp but with an alphabetic (rather than QWERTY) keyboard. Cou

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My general interests: # Puns , computery stuff and occasional political things that amuse or appall me. Also, I like # trees and # dogs .

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@whybird@aus.social

My general interests: # Puns , computery stuff and occasional political things that amuse or appall me. Also, I like # trees and # dogs .

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@whybird@aus.social · Nov 22, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop @mschomm@bonn.social The part of me that is into #retrotech is very, very tiny… but that part of me is drooling right now.

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Found elsenet. And now, with my memories of home taping off the radio using a cassette recorder and a microphone, I feel *ancient*:

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My general interests: # Puns , computery stuff and occasional political things that amuse or appall me. Also, I like # trees and # dogs .

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Mark Whybird

@whybird@aus.social

My general interests: # Puns , computery stuff and occasional political things that amuse or appall me. Also, I like # trees and # dogs .

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@whybird@aus.social · Nov 22, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop Before that, we’d put tapes in our cauldrons. You know, to mix them.

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Now that Trump supports releasing the Epstein files, which are in the custody of the branch of government he controls, he doesn't need a congressional vote. He can just release them. Perhaps he didn't

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My general interests: # Puns , computery stuff and occasional political things that amuse or appall me. Also, I like # trees and # dogs .

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@whybird@aus.social · Nov 17, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social Piggybacking on your post to promote the victims’ psa they just released: https://youtu.be/FEz_Yoa1QCE

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The current Pope in 1982. He's even from Chicago: obviously a Blues Brother. As someone elsenet remarked, "He looks like he spent the 80s hunting undead gangsters and complaining about the wind."

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@cstross@wandering.shop …dog collar? doesn’t anyone read these descriptions before posting anymore?

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@whangdoodler@piipitin.fi Clerical collars are colloquially called dog collars here in the UK.

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My general interests: # Puns , computery stuff and occasional political things that amuse or appall me. Also, I like # trees and # dogs .

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Mark Whybird

@whybird@aus.social

My general interests: # Puns , computery stuff and occasional political things that amuse or appall me. Also, I like # trees and # dogs .

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@whybird@aus.social · Nov 15, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop @whangdoodler@piipitin.fi And AU, even (especially?) by the clergy who used to wear them 35 years ago. Source: I’m a PK. (Preacher’s Kid)

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