Ángel

@angel@triptico.com

I post in English / publico en español

No AI was used in any of my writings, tunes, doodles, or software



LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO (novela)https://librosdelfuturo.es/producto/la-atalaya-recortada-contra-el-cielo/
YO NO SOY PAVEL (novela)https://distrito93.com/catalogo/yo-no-soy-pavel/
tilde.clubhttps://tilde.club/~angel/
Ann Hell Musichttps://exode.me/accounts/annhell
Keyoxidehttps://keyoxide.org/hkp/1AFAE6809099EB5CD65A4E32B498DDC28F4584FF

Location: 40.4235492,-3.6617828

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[?]Ángel » 🌐
@angel@triptico.com

Though I write my novels in Spanish (my native language), I also write short pieces in English. Some of them are published here, tagged as .

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    [?]Ángel » 🌐
    @angel@triptico.com

    Mi relato de ciencia-ficción Tan lejos, tan solos ha quedado finalista del II Certamen Cuentos del bosque oscuro 2025.

    https://youtu.be/EuUyROUN-Bg?si=YboaUH-iSE_8mPTo&t=573

    Cartel del certamen

    Alt...Cartel del certamen

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    [?]Ángel » 🌐
    @angel@triptico.com

    Ya está a la venta mi última novela, LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO. Se puede comprar en librerías de España, en la web de la editorial (Ediciones Cydonia / Libros del Futuro) o en Amazon.

    Comprar LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO (editorial Libros del Futuro)

    Sinopsis:

    Bran tuvo una adolescencia complicada, y su vida adulta no es mejor. Una sucesión de pérdidas familiares, una gran cicatriz en la cara y sus circunstancias personales han forjado en ella una personalidad esquiva.

    Y como si fuera una maldición añadida, la protagonista hereda y debe hacerse cargo de una casa familiar, epicentro de buena parte de las desgracias que se abatieron sobre sus seres queridos.

    Una visita a la enmohecida y arruinada vivienda, ubicada en un pequeño pueblo madrileño, sumergirá a Bran en una travesía angustiante por túneles oscuros, estancias claustrofóbicas y seres terroríficos.


    Portada de LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO

    Alt...Portada de LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO

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    [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
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    Dear friends of - the BSD Cafe Journal needs some attention.

    This isn't the best time for me to revive it myself, and that's exactly why I'm counting on you!

    I'm sure you have great ideas, thoughts, projects, and articles that would fit perfectly in that space.

    So don’t be shy 🙂
    The BSD Cafe Journal is waiting for you!

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      [?]Victor Moral ⁂ » 🌐
      @victor@taquiones.net

      Bruce Campbell, el mítico Ash de la saga 'Posesión infernal', anuncia que sufre un cáncer incurable. "No temáis, soy un viejo hijoputa muy duro"
      https://www.espinof.com/actores-y-actrices/bruce-campbell-mitico-ash-saga-posesion-infernal-anuncia-que-sufre-cancer-incurable-no-temais-soy-viejo-hijoputa-muy-duro


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        [?]David Gerard [he/him] » 🌐
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        in case you ever wondered why bluesky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank

        bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team

        Why
‪@why.bsky.team‬

Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff.

In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

        Alt...Why ‪@why.bsky.team‬ Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

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        [?]Ángel » 🌐
        @angel@triptico.com

        Unexpected serifness is bliss

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          [?]Ángel » 🌐
          @angel@triptico.com

          Done what? The circled nines?

          White and circled numbers have Unicode codepoints.

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            [?]Ángel » 🌐
            @angel@triptico.com

            Same to me as a Spanish speaker. We (among other things) can call that thing a cesta or cesto, and using a diminutive, a cestita or cestito, so I totally understood it on first sight.

            CC: @peterkotrcka@bsd.cafe @stefano@bsd.cafe

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              [?]Ángel » 🔓
              @angel@triptico.com

              I love that the wastebasket is called cestino in Italian 😆

              CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe

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                [?]Ángel » 🌐
                @angel@triptico.com

                ⑨ CURSED ❾

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                  [?]Adrianna Tan » 🌐
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                  one of the nice things about working for yourself is, you can simply choose not to use any microsoft products

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                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
                  @angel@triptico.com

                  I wish you my best for both of you. Take care, my friend.

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                    [?]Ángel » 🔓
                    @angel@triptico.com

                    do you often redbubble on your mobilek?
                    Not really, just casually got dropped there

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                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
                      @angel@triptico.com

                      Wow. Qué hermosura. Oddly, I found it first while Redbubbling from my mobilek, then came here to fedi to say this

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                      [?]ffuentes » 🌐
                      @soy@ffuent.es

                      fue el primer sistema para el que probé instalar pars texto-plano y fue un fracaso rotundo porque no me federaba pero he visto últimamente que se está usando más y parece que ya funciona.

                      por otra parte fue más simple y rápido, no tiene una gran estética pero siempre me ha funcionado bien

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                        [?]Victor Moral ⁂ » 🌐
                        @victor@taquiones.net

                        Recogida de firmas para "presionar" a Google y que retroceda su medida totalitaria de excluir aplicaciones no firmadas por ellos de Android.

                        https://www.change.org/p/stop-google-from-limiting-apk-file-usage

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                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
                        @angel@triptico.com

                        Cozy fish, enjoy

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                          [?]LibreOffice » 🌐
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                          Another update for today: We're planning to revive LibreOffice Online, a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl

                          A fresh start for LibreOffice Online

                          Alt...A fresh start for LibreOffice Online

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                          [?]50+ Music » 🌐
                          @50years_music@mastodon.online

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                          [?]normis » 🌐
                          @normis@g.dodies.lv

                          Finally a #snac first FediClient! @mastoblaster

                          Too bad I already moved to #GoToSocial due to lack of snac supported apps at that time :(

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                            [?]JP Mens » 🌐
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                            I forget who relatively recently was looking for an iOS client capable of working with : via @elena I read about @mastoblaster which says of itself:

                            Built for snac, by design
                            Many apps support snac as a side effect. MastoBlaster makes it primary and follows snac’s Mastodon API support closely for predictable, polished behavior.

                            mastoblaster.app

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                              [?]Ángel » 🌐
                              @angel@triptico.com

                              I wish you strength. Take care, my friend.

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                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                🫂 best wishes

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                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                  Just in time!

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                                    [?]Ángel » 🔓
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                                    Yes, @prahou@merveilles.town page at Redbubble is the paradise, I got some stickers from there because wow

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                                      [?]Ángel » 🔓
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                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                      Some things must be fixed then

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                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                        Golden green

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                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                          So true

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                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                            @angel@triptico.com

                                            🤦 I wonder if this developer understands anything

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                                            [?]khm [he/him] » 🌐
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                                            There are other problems with that section: to begin with, you can tell not even he believes it. It's a bad-faith argument and he knows it, so he has to stack the emotional deck in the reader's mind. "my modest use," "the kind of rathole," etc. Nothing like beatifying your choices and comparing dissenting thought to vermin!

                                            The bigger problem, though, is that it's a bullshit mischaracterization of the opinions he's attacking. At first I though it was a deliberate misdirection; pretty common in online shit-talking. Elsewhere in the document he talks about "Refusing to run an LLM on your laptop because you don’t like Sam Altman" which is exactly the sort of dismissive trivialization of legitimate concerns internet trolls like to undertake.

                                            Then I noticed he writes about 'Ollama' as though it's an LLM itself, rather than a tool used to run an LLM. So, I'm now wondering if he just has no idea what the fuck is going on, and maybe actually does not understand that the tools he's using aren't just of shitty people but have ongoing horrific external costs -- including the "open source"† models to which he's addicting himself.

                                            † - they're almost all not, of course; just another term the AI hypeboyz redefined

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                                              [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                              @prahou@merveilles.town

                                              the future is still old news

                                              girls and machines

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                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                @angel@triptico.com

                                                The future is a nightmare of the past

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                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                  That Reddit post is extremely embarrasing

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                                                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                    Love the color palette and the dithering

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                                                      [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
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                                                      has its own account - powered by

                                                      Follow @mastoblaster to receive all the updates, insights, etc.

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                                                        [?]FelisCatusDomesticus » 🌐
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                                                        [?]🕯️Curious Magpie 🕯️ » 🌐
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                                                        @alexadeswift @StillIRise1963

                                                        Two women sitting together at a table. The woman on the left is dressed as a medical professional and has her hand on the hand of the woman sitting next to her who is dressed in a red shirt with her opposite hand holding her forehead looking down at the table.

In the top panel, the medical professional says "does it hurt?"The woman in red says "yes"

In the bottom panel the medical professional says, "go vaccinate your kid or I'll punch you again."

                                                        Alt...Two women sitting together at a table. The woman on the left is dressed as a medical professional and has her hand on the hand of the woman sitting next to her who is dressed in a red shirt with her opposite hand holding her forehead looking down at the table. In the top panel, the medical professional says "does it hurt?"The woman in red says "yes" In the bottom panel the medical professional says, "go vaccinate your kid or I'll punch you again."

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                                                          [?]Week in Fediverse :fediverse_light: » 🌐
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                                                          [?]khm [he/him] » 🌐
                                                          @khm@hj.9fs.net

                                                          I use lemmy from a snac account. You can follow lemmy communities. New threads just show up as regular posts, and you can reply to them, etc.

                                                          But a simple 'single-community' lemmy server would probably be a neat thing to make...

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                                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                            Cool car and background

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                                                              [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                              Is the computer saying "you are a bitch"?

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                                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                Inspiring!

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                                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                  Tarte Tatin

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                                                                    [?]Adoracion Rodríguez García » 🌐
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                                                                    El perro Paco tiene ya su escultura en Madrid

                                                                    Muy merecido homenaje al que fue el can más famoso de la Villa y Corte madrileña. Callejero, «gato» a pesar de ser un perro, y gourmet, a juzgar por los manjares que pudo degustar en su azarosa vida. Cayó en gracia a la nobleza madrileña y se hizo muy popular en el Madrid castizo. Hasta que su mala fortuna hizo que un torero le clavara su estoque, por haberle arruinado su faena (repugnante […]

                                                                    https://nutriguia.com/gastronomia/el-perro-paco-tiene-ya-su-escultura-en-madrid.html

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                                                                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                    @angel@triptico.com

                                                                    Page 27 of EXISTIR (1986)

                                                                    the full thing (in Spanish / en español)


                                                                    Ilustration by Ángel Ortega of the unnamed protagonist of EXISTIR, in three panels, walking through the ruins of a subterranean city, surrounded by columns and giant skeletons

                                                                    Alt...Ilustration by Ángel Ortega of the unnamed protagonist of EXISTIR, in three panels, walking through the ruins of a subterranean city, surrounded by columns and giant skeletons

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                                                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                      So it seems. Here in Spain we also had a luminous morning.

                                                                      Hope you won the combat in the watchtower

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                                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                        No U

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                                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                          Gorgeous!

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                                                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                            Also, what an incredibly blue wonder of a sky

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                                                                              [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                              @angel@triptico.com

                                                                              Directly to the battlements of the tower, so the battle begins

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                                                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                So soothing

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                                                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                  This Apple attitude is a bit insulting and elitist. One would thought that developers that pay you deserve a little better care, but it's Apple after all.

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                                                                                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                    @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                    Wow. So Bill Gates is a garbage fire of a person.

                                                                                    Who could have imagined this. Also, water is wet, or so it seems.

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                                                                                    [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                                                                    @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                    I’ll probably release the first alpha of later next week.
                                                                                    There are bugs. There are missing parts. But it works!

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                                                                                      [?]khm [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                      @khm@hj.9fs.net

                                                                                      Forgive me if I say something here you already know.

                                                                                      Clusters are in datacenters for a lot of reasons, and those datacenters have cooling infrastructure, power infrastructure, and sustainability considerations. Those maintenance considerations can be as simple as making sure there's enough space for technicians to access stuff, or as stupid as "keep the high-voltage wires away from the coolant pipes in case they leak". Those last things are the first thing you lose when you don't have enough space. This in itself makes every successive problem even worse.

                                                                                      Cooling is a huge pain in the ass -- it was bad back then, and it's worse now. Your average HPC rack (almost indistinguishable from an "AI" rack) is pulling hundreds of kilowatts, and there are realistic plans for that to hit a megawatt within a year or two. All that compute generates heat. In the conex box (basically a shipping container) the only option we had was basically to air condition the inside of the box, which was fragile. The current favorite is to run cooler liquid through pipes that make direct contact with the heat sources, and pump it outsite to heat exchangers, essentially venting the heat into atmosphere. This requires regular maintenance (pumps break, pipes corrode) which is going to be infeasible in orbit. It also, you know, requires an atmosphere into which we can dump the heat. Space, famously, does not have one of these, and as a result, heat is a problem. Check out the ISS and you can see how huge the radiators are compared to the rest of the structure. The ISS uses ammonia as coolant and can dissipate six kilowatts of heat, which is enough for one of our hypothetical rack switches.

                                                                                      Power's an issue; I mentioned the scale earlier, and nobody has a serious plan for producing that much power in orbit.

                                                                                      Finally there's maintenance. The traditional dipshit techbro approach is to just spam hardware until you have so much that it doesn't matter if something breaks. Actual datacenters, while not exactly job-rich, still require technicians to come in, prune dead hardware, and replace it with working stuff. The power and cooling systems need maintenance. It's not going to look good on the balance sheet when you've got a network technician stuck in orbit for eight months, especially when the mission they're supporting is something that would have worked just as well in Duluth.

                                                                                      These are the primary problems we hit trying to put a small cluster in a box to achieve well-understood, stable workloads. AI is eat-the-world hungry; you literally cannot have enough compute, by design. You would need to lift hundreds of thousands of tons of shit into the sky... if you could get it to work at all, which I do not think they can.

                                                                                      My prediction: Tesla's got some half-assed coprocessors they've creaively named "AI1" and so forth. I believe they're going to build some super-low-powered completely goddamn useless machines, shove them into an existing space-capable structure, line the walls with lead to block out the stray radiation, and put a handful in orbit to declare victory. They will not serve any real function, but dumbasses will eat up the resulting press release.

                                                                                      CC: @astraleureka@treehouse.systems

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                                                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                        @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                        Happy birthday to her, and best wishes.

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                                                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                          @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                          The war has began

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                                                                                            [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                            @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                            the great cyber war

                                                                                            vt100 on a stack of boxes, wearing a helmet with an m16 by its side

YOUR 
PC
NEXT?

                                                                                            Alt...vt100 on a stack of boxes, wearing a helmet with an m16 by its side YOUR PC NEXT?

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                                                                                              [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                              @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                              Fascinating!

                                                                                              CC: @bsdcan@bsd.network

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                                                                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                Love exists. It's just elusive and brittle.

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                                                                                                  [?]Jeff Sikes - Hire me! » 🌐
                                                                                                  @box464@mastodon.social

                                                                                                  Next up in a new store is merchandise! I had to grab my own set of stickers for this one, the artwork is so cool!

                                                                                                  You've got Susie, snac's default icon embedded in a QR code. And then this ridiculously amazing artwork from @prahou that is just a must have for your sticker collection - or on a shirt - or mug. Just get it!

                                                                                                  redbubble.com/people/analognow

                                                                                                  An alien with a wig and makeup on, with the words "SINCE YOU LEFT ME, I'VE BEEN SNACPILLED" with a website address for the snac platform. The client is holding a small Susie avatar.

                                                                                                  Alt...An alien with a wig and makeup on, with the words "SINCE YOU LEFT ME, I'VE BEEN SNACPILLED" with a website address for the snac platform. The client is holding a small Susie avatar.

                                                                                                  The default snac user avatar, Susie, black and white, embedded in a QR code sticker.

                                                                                                  Alt...The default snac user avatar, Susie, black and white, embedded in a QR code sticker.

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                                                                                                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                    The ocean is also just a big bowl, as water reservoirs. Everything is a sequence of shrinking bowls

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                                                                                                      [?]☭. evie [they/she] » 🌐
                                                                                                      @vie@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                      I think it's interesting how software engineers are (among?) the most eager working class group to replace themselves with LLMs.

                                                                                                      It's interesting because LLMs do a worse job than us, we lose ability/skill to do our job the more we use it, lose our jobs, produce worse software, are less satisfied with our work, etc.

                                                                                                      Yet so many of my peers seem to be super excited about and advocate for it, while other working class groups at least detest LLMs if not even consider organising themselves to protect their trade/jobs from LLMs.

                                                                                                      Are we becoming the cops (read as: class traitors) of this techno-fascist dystopia?

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                                                                                                      [?]Lars Wirzenius [he/him, they/them] » 🌐
                                                                                                      @liw@toot.liw.fi

                                                                                                      @joshbressers Some people like driving too fast on mountain roads. Some people parachute. Some people juggle running chainsaws on fire. We commit to main. We are all the same.

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                                                                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                        I remember wangchunging back in the Dance Hall Days

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                                                                                                          [?]Palabra del día » 🤖 🌐
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                                                                                                          Palabra para el viernes, 6 de febrero de 2026:

                                                                                                          UMBELA

                                                                                                             Del lat. umbella 'quitasol'.
                                                                                                              1. 1. f. guardapolvo (‖ tejadillo voladizo sobre un balcón o ventana).
                                                                                                                 Sin.:
                                                                                                                    + guardapolvo, tejadillo, voladizo.
                                                                                                              2. 2. f. Bot. Grupo de flores o frutos que nacen en un mismo punto del tallo y se elevan a igual o casi igual altura.
                                                                                                          Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)

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                                                                                                          [?]Kris [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                          @isotopp@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                          Nikolai Kardashev was a Soviet radio astronomer and astrophysicist who wanted to know how one could even detect extraterrestrial civilizations at all, the “SETI problem”.

                                                                                                          He concluded: by energy consumption. The Kardashev scale is therefore not an ISO standard (ISO = Interstellar Standards Organization?), but a thinking tool devised by one person.

                                                                                                          The scale says:

                                                                                                          • Type 1: Uses all the energy available to its planet. For example, an albedo-zero world completely covered in solar cells.
                                                                                                          • Type 2: Uses all the energy available to its star system. Not a million satellites in orbit, but a Dyson sphere that captures all the light and radiation of a star.
                                                                                                          • Type 3: Uses the energy of all stars in a galaxy.

                                                                                                          The idea of launching data centers into space, more precisely into LEO, must therefore be evaluated on a different scale:

                                                                                                          The Kardashian scale

                                                                                                          • A Type 1 civilization on the Kardashian scale has a public discourse that is no longer driven by facts, but by emotion and attention.
                                                                                                          • A Type 2 civilization no longer has this discourse under control, and counterfactual emotional discourse begins to control politics, research, and the economy, where unscientific and outright stupid narratives now take over steering.
                                                                                                          • A Type 3 civilization has complete epistemic decoupling: visibility has fully replaced truth, reach beats evidence, and consistency is irrelevant as long as the narrative is exciting. Physical limits are dismissed as “bad vibes”, and criticism is read as a moral flaw and subversion.

                                                                                                          So we are not measuring energy, but loss of contact with reality. Many tech visions of recent years (everything from and including Bitcoin onward) map directly onto this scale.

                                                                                                          We are now already a Kardashian Type 2 civilization.

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                                                                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                          @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                          Good night. Take rest, my friend.

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                                                                                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                            @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                            I'll even do pkg_add -u with you

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                                                                                                              [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                              @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                              I will always do ❤️

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                                                                                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                Looked delicious!

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                                                                                                                  [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                                                                                                  @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                                                  The time is probably right.

                                                                                                                  Back in 2022, when I was still using iOS, I wasn’t completely happy with the Fediverse apps that were available. I was mostly using Akkoma, and the interface I liked the most was actually its web UI, even on mobile. So I started playing with Xcode and put together the foundations of an app tailored to my needs.

                                                                                                                  A lot has changed since then and today we have great alternatives like IceCubes, Mona, Ivory, etc. Each one has strengths and weaknesses though, so I picked up my old project again and kept pushing it forward.

                                                                                                                  So I’m happy to announce that my app will finally see the light: I’ve been using it for the past few days and, in my spare time, I’m fixing bugs and adding missing features. I’m building it around my own needs, so it doesn’t have to “appeal to everyone”. I wouldn’t call it opinionated, but it’s definitely targeted.

                                                                                                                  The app will have one key trait: support will be a first-class feature, not an incidental one. Many apps, especially on iOS, support snac as a side effect, but the experience is often not optimal. In this case, the choice is deliberate and it strictly follows the Mastodon API support implemented by snac. So snac will work properly (within the limits of the platform, of course).

                                                                                                                  Among the features already implemented: the app is minimal and lightweight (under 10 MB, including debug code), easy on RAM, and privacy-first (for example it strips EXIF data from media before posting, so the server will never see it). On snac it also cleans up the "Boosted by Aoderelay" messages that appear when using a relay, removes the character limit, and supports posting in Markdown.

                                                                                                                  I also added support for Apple Intelligence to generate alt text, both for the media I post and for media posted by others that is missing alt text.

                                                                                                                  Everything is processed locally through Apple APIs and only on supported devices. The results aren't amazing, Apple Intelligence is extremely limited, but in my opinion it's the only privacy-friendly and ethical way to approach it. And of course, you can disable it.

                                                                                                                  On Mastodon it supports all the main features: lists, quote posts, granular notifications (you can choose what you want for each category), notification grouping, multi-account support, and it works.

                                                                                                                  It's still missing a few things (block, etc.) and has some bugs, which I’m spotting as I keep using it.
                                                                                                                  As soon as it's stable enough, I'll invite a few people to test it. I still haven't fully decided how I'll distribute it: an Apple Developer account has a yearly cost, and I hope to reuse it for other projects too. So this app might be paid, with a trial period, but if possible (I still need to check what’s feasible) I'd like it to be free if you connect to one of the BSD Cafe instances, illumos Cafe, or any snac instance, including your own.

                                                                                                                  I don't know how long it will take before it's ready... but I can already tell you what it will be called.
                                                                                                                  It already has a name, and it's... MastoBlaster.

                                                                                                                  This name was chosen for personal reasons, and also because of its similarity to Master Blaster by Stevie Wonder, which even today feels relevant and fitting for the Fediverse.

                                                                                                                  Stay tuned!

                                                                                                                  MastoBlaster, showing my profile on my phone

                                                                                                                  Alt...MastoBlaster, showing my profile on my phone

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                                                                                                                    [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                                                    @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                                                    acquired - tome of pf

                                                                                                                    (this is not sponsored content, I just like the book)

                                                                                                                    thank you @pitrh

                                                                                                                    nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-ed

                                                                                                                    girl studies the ancient tome of PF

                                                                                                                    Alt...girl studies the ancient tome of PF

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                                                                                                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                      Can't you carry it with you?

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                                                                                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                        🫂

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                                                                                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                        @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                        This is an awesome composition 🥰

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                                                                                                                          [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                                                          @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                                                          8 panel comic

sun girl, black girl,
girl brain bus, girl,
girl finger, laptop,
girl hand, laptop

                                                                                                                          Alt...8 panel comic sun girl, black girl, girl brain bus, girl, girl finger, laptop, girl hand, laptop

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                                                                                                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                            @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                            See you not at FOSDEM

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                                                                                                                              [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                              @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                              Love from someone also not at FOSDEM

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                                                                                                                                [?]May Likes Toronto [Any Pronouns] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                @mayintoronto@beige.party

                                                                                                                                May's tech-hype predictions for 2026 [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                                                                May's tech-hype predictions for 2026 onwards:
                                                                                                                                - The month after major public pensions and governments buy huge stakes in the AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc), the US AI bubble will start crashing. This will happen in 2026.

                                                                                                                                - At this point, free access to LLMs will go away. Corporate LLMs will raise their prices by at least 100x to make up for the loss in users and casual revenue.

                                                                                                                                - Unfortunately, this^ means AI coding /marketing wouldn't go away. It'd just be far, far more expensive and require deeper approvals. Your boss will have AI and you won't be able to summarize it.

                                                                                                                                - China and the rest of BRICS will take over the free AI market because they can. Perfect opportunity for propaganda and cyber warfare here.

                                                                                                                                - Many software products that wrap base commercial models will see their operating costs skyrocket. They'll basically need to rip it all out, or embed a cheaper model.

                                                                                                                                - Essentially, companies who haven't built out a proper data/AI team will fail unless their base non-AI product is still relevant.

                                                                                                                                - Small companies will die when they fail to transition out of this mess. There will be a wholesale buyout, like the dot com crash. This means deeper consolidation at the FAANG level.

                                                                                                                                - We've had essentially an entire generation of juniors who had a cheap/free magical crutch for years. How will you train people to read, write and code again across every industry?

                                                                                                                                - The costs of cloud services will also skyrocket, since they need to pay off their bullshit AI hardware/data centre investments. We may see a return to on-prem/hybrid IT. (This will be REALLY interesting for how software evolves from the current SaaS model.)

                                                                                                                                - Some people will start hyping quantum, but we're at least 2+ hype cycles away from that.

                                                                                                                                - (This one's a wild guess.) The next hype cycle is probably going to be in hardware/wearables/physical space, but that's ridiculously expensive to get into. It'll basically just be marketing.

                                                                                                                                - The techbro doomers will claim to have predicted this the whole time. They'll have more than enough money to start the next hype cycle for the next round of VC/PE hot potato.

                                                                                                                                - Western governments are still going to try to implement "AI" even after the crash and the prices go up.

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                                                                                                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                He was great. Maresias and One and One are also great tunes by him.

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                                                                                                                                  [?]The Whore of Blahbylon » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                  Every time I see an interesting or good quote posted online, I run to Wikipedia to make sure the person quoted wasn't some closet Nazi, sexual predator, or religious nutjob, and time and time again I find only disappointment.

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                                                                                                                                    [?]Palabra del día » 🤖 🌐
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                                                                                                                                    Palabra para el miércoles, 28 de enero de 2026:

                                                                                                                                    APOTROPAICO

                                                                                                                                       Del gr. ἀποτρόπαιος apotrópaios 'que aleja el mal' y -aico.
                                                                                                                                        1. 1. adj. p. us. Dicho de un rito, de un sacrificio, de una fórmula, etc.: Que, por su carácter mágico, se cree que aleja el mal o propicia el bien.
                                                                                                                                    Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)

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                                                                                                                                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                    @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                    LA VERDAD SOBRE LAS SIRENAS / THE TRUTH ABOUT MERMAIDS (2015)


                                                                                                                                    A drawing by Ángel Ortega, showing an underwater giant anglerfish monster with an appendix that looks like a woman outside the sea surface

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                                                                                                                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                      Hope things get better soon. Take care, my friend.

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                                                                                                                                        [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                                                                        @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                                                                        @occult @kelp @neauoire subversive.pics is purposely not on any social network. I won't stop anyone doing what you're describing, but I have no desire for it.

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                                                                                                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                          @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                          Stunning and peaceful. Love it.

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                                                                                                                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                            @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                            ❤️

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                                                                                                                                              [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                                                                              @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                                                                              Do you ever wonder how different thing would be if we had met in the data swamp?

                                                                                                                                              Alt...Do you ever wonder how different thing would be if we had met in the data swamp?

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                                                                                                                                                [?]jwz » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                @jwz@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                @Migueldeicaza @bigzaphod @jamesthomson "I feel like I get 10x more done" is the new "I think the stripper really likes me".

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                                                                                                                                                  [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                  @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                                                                                  Get snac'd up (not just) for !

                                                                                                                                                  You can now purchase propaganda stickers and apparel to show your allegiance or to wage war with.

                                                                                                                                                  redbubble.com/people/analognow

                                                                                                                                                  Blessed be the hacker @grunfink for they can C.

                                                                                                                                                  snac's suzie qr, points to comam.es/what-is-snac

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                                                                                                                                                  snac alien

SINCE YOU LEFT ME

IVE BEEN SNACPILLED

comam.es/what-is-snac

                                                                                                                                                  Alt...snac alien SINCE YOU LEFT ME IVE BEEN SNACPILLED comam.es/what-is-snac

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                                                                                                                                                    [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                    @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                                                                                    subversive.pics is now aggregating 11 subversive galleries with @occult being the latest addition.

                                                                                                                                                    Instagram is starting to foam at its machine mouth!

                                                                                                                                                    subversive.pics

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                                                                                                                                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                      @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                                      Let the royal heads roll

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                                                                                                                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                        @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                                        Pentium-M Man is wise

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                                                                                                                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                          Down with the kings

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]Lucie / minute [they/sie] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                            @mntmn@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                            Remember "don't print this email" in signatures that was a bit cringe? It doesn't feel that cringe anymore in retrospect. I'm doing an experiment now with this new email signature :D Anyone doing something similar? Could it catch on?

                                                                                                                                                            edit: BTW please absolutely steal/modify this idea if you want!

                                                                                                                                                            Lucie L. Hartmann, CEO
MNT Research GmbH
https://mntre.com

Did you know? Using AI wastes a lot of energy and contributes to 
climate change. I'm happy to just receive your raw bullet points 
instead of a formal email if you're short on time. 
Lets save some energy!

                                                                                                                                                            Alt...Lucie L. Hartmann, CEO MNT Research GmbH https://mntre.com Did you know? Using AI wastes a lot of energy and contributes to climate change. I'm happy to just receive your raw bullet points instead of a formal email if you're short on time. Lets save some energy!

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]False Knees » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                            @falseknees@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                            Coo coo

                                                                                                                                                            We see two house sparrows drinking out of a puddle. The male says to the female: "Good puddle!" to which she replies "I love you but you have low standards". Pigeons arrive in the background, the female says "Ope! Here comes the herd" There is a long horizontal frame of the two sparrows in the midst of a bunch of pigeons cooing around them. The male then says "gentle giants" the female agrees "mhm" and then says "coo" and the male responds "haha. coo!"

                                                                                                                                                            Alt...We see two house sparrows drinking out of a puddle. The male says to the female: "Good puddle!" to which she replies "I love you but you have low standards". Pigeons arrive in the background, the female says "Ope! Here comes the herd" There is a long horizontal frame of the two sparrows in the midst of a bunch of pigeons cooing around them. The male then says "gentle giants" the female agrees "mhm" and then says "coo" and the male responds "haha. coo!"

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]🌪 MikeMathia.com 📡 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                            @mikemathia@ioc.exchange

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                            @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                                                                                            this fall cannot front

                                                                                                                                                            Just two anime girls living in the moment.

                                                                                                                                                            Alt...Just two anime girls living in the moment.

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                                                                                                                                                              [?]it's pronounced 'yagoda' [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                              @j-g00da@donotsta.re

                                                                                                                                                              Trees part 2


                                                                                                                                                              https://kamiokan.de/dreams

                                                                                                                                                              #kamiokandedreams

                                                                                                                                                              A comic. Panel 1: a figure with no face standing in empty room, a window behind, text: "I let them in through the window". Panel 2: open hand, text: "they wanted to show me something in the forest. It was my 18th birthday that day... 'I hope it's IBM EM95 4U 256GB memory module' I thought". Panel 3: a figure in the forest pointing at something, text: "I think I knew them well, but I can't recall their name". Panel 4: faceless... face, text: "or their face". Panel 5: A sign "plague, keep out", text: "despite the warnings, we went deep into the woods, where they told me about the book". Panel 6: A giant artery in the forest, liquid flowing out, text: "and showed me the arteries of the earth". Panel 7: giant artery with two figures inside, they are soaked in liquid, text: "we looked for the largest one, and when we found it we climbed in, and we walked and walked for eons, deeper and deeper, to the rhythm of the heart far ahead". An eye looking forward below (still the same panel), text: "it was the best day of my life".

                                                                                                                                                              Alt...A comic. Panel 1: a figure with no face standing in empty room, a window behind, text: "I let them in through the window". Panel 2: open hand, text: "they wanted to show me something in the forest. It was my 18th birthday that day... 'I hope it's IBM EM95 4U 256GB memory module' I thought". Panel 3: a figure in the forest pointing at something, text: "I think I knew them well, but I can't recall their name". Panel 4: faceless... face, text: "or their face". Panel 5: A sign "plague, keep out", text: "despite the warnings, we went deep into the woods, where they told me about the book". Panel 6: A giant artery in the forest, liquid flowing out, text: "and showed me the arteries of the earth". Panel 7: giant artery with two figures inside, they are soaked in liquid, text: "we looked for the largest one, and when we found it we climbed in, and we walked and walked for eons, deeper and deeper, to the rhythm of the heart far ahead". An eye looking forward below (still the same panel), text: "it was the best day of my life".

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                                                Coño, pensé que Jan ya se había muerto

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                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                  @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                                                                                                  strlcpy(3)

                                                                                                                                                                  MATA_Bots descend upon Fish's bunker.

Bots: "CLEAR! KEEP MOVING, THE FISH IS HERE"

Fish: "I'll buy you time. Use the ventilation system. Go wake her up. Get her out."

Bots: "GOT A SEALED DOOR. BREACH IT"

Fish: "And Purple? Thank you."

Bots: "BREACHING! MOVE MOVE!"

Fish: "For what it's worth... I wish for unlimited ammo."

                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...MATA_Bots descend upon Fish's bunker. Bots: "CLEAR! KEEP MOVING, THE FISH IS HERE" Fish: "I'll buy you time. Use the ventilation system. Go wake her up. Get her out." Bots: "GOT A SEALED DOOR. BREACH IT" Fish: "And Purple? Thank you." Bots: "BREACHING! MOVE MOVE!" Fish: "For what it's worth... I wish for unlimited ammo."

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                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                    @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                                                                                                    last of the fish

                                                                                                                                                                    no

                                                                                                                                                                    Girl lounging on a desk. there are 9front no-thinkpad, and game of trees posters behind her. a fish plush toy. and some other computer-speak stuff.

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                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                      @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                                                      EL NUEVO DEMIURGO / THE NEW DEMIURGE (1993)


                                                                                                                                                                      A drawing by Ángel Ortega, showing a reptilian god nurturing a dead world with its own flesh and blood and bringing it back to life

                                                                                                                                                                      Alt...A drawing by Ángel Ortega, showing a reptilian god nurturing a dead world with its own flesh and blood and bringing it back to life

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                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                        @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                                                        Wow! Fortunately, magpies are usually peaceful creatures. I totally understand that you were frightened, given that awful experience.

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                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                          @stefano@fedihome.stefanomarinelli.it

                                                                                                                                                                          The Magpie

                                                                                                                                                                          A bird’s noise is enough to bring back memories of months spent half-trapped because of a magpie.

                                                                                                                                                                          https://my-notes.dragas.net/2026/01/18/the-magpie/


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                                                                                                                                                                            [?]jwz » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                            Let's say you run a nonprofit animal shelter. And for some reason, some people feel you should be seeing hockey-stick growth, but the donations aren't covering it.

                                                                                                                                                                            So you decide to start up a side-line of selling kittens for meat.

                                                                                                                                                                            Then you will inevitably have someone stroking their chin and saying, "Yes, yes, but how could they afford to stay open if they weren't selling kitten deli slices?"

                                                                                                                                                                            Some might say - maybe you aren't an animal shelter any more. Some might say.
                                                                                                                                                                            jwz.org/b/yk2A

                                                                                                                                                                            Screenshot

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                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                            @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                                                                                                            the return of AUTOMA!

                                                                                                                                                                            automa was the name of my blog in the past. it was abolished for no particular reason and its contents lay spread about in various corners of the internet.

                                                                                                                                                                            the section now returns, aggregating all the weird articles, stories, guides and posts.

                                                                                                                                                                            triapul.cz/automa/

                                                                                                                                                                            blonde alien ladies with machine guns

AUTOMA

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                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                              Is that a Fiat Cinquecento behind the bushes?

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                                                                                                                                                                                Julie Newmar

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                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                  @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                                                                  CASTING NO SHADOW

                                                                                                                                                                                  He felt bored one day and decided to go see a movie, no matter which one. So he walked down Martín de los Heros street, entered a cinema and chose a random French film. This was the most important decision in his life: almost instantly, he fell in love with the actress. She was young, pale-skinned, hair black as night, eyes like a universe. When the film ended he already felt a missing piece inside his heart.

                                                                                                                                                                                  He realized he was unable to express that love in words; so big, so overwhelming, so eerie. He had no alternative than to keep living his life: lost some friends, met new others, found a job in number crunching, as he liked to say.

                                                                                                                                                                                  Years passed and he missed no new movie featuring her; he saw great stories, mediocre films and crappy flicks just because she was there. Every time the screen showed her face he felt like a delightful rendez-vous: how is you life, are you doing well, missed you so much. And every time he felt his heart breaking into pieces. Sometimes he even cried, his face covered by his hands, warm tears in the dark theater, always surrounded by strangers. Because love hurts, love is like a sickness, love is a strange and silent death.

                                                                                                                                                                                  One day, on one of those occasions when disappointments pile over each other, he decided to travel to Paris. Once there he felt he also loved the streets, the corners, the chimneys; it was a world that was a bit like her, a bit part her. He also felt the sadness of loving something that is almost not there, a mirage, a trompe-l'oeil. The bittersweet feeling of a life wasted loving a ghost.

                                                                                                                                                                                  And then he saw her. It happened on those tiring stairs in Montmartre, no less; he was sweating and panting while she moved almost like having the wind in her sails. He recognized the crow-black hair, the pale face, the glittering eyes now surrounded by little wrinkles, more beautiful than ever. Twenty-five years ago he saw her playing the grieving spouse of the great composer Patrice de Courcy and that day he started living. He smiled her and she smiled back.


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                                                                                                                                                                                    So it begins

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                                                                                                                                                                                      Never heard this before. It's great. Thanks

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