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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    [?]False Knees » 🌐
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    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.

            Alt...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

                    Alt...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

                    Alt...blonde alien ladies with machine guns AUTOMA

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

                      Is that a Fiat Cinquecento behind the bushes?

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                        Julie Newmar

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

                            So it begins

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

                              Never heard this before. It's great. Thanks

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                                [?]J. L. Westover » 🌐
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                                Secret Panel HERE 🙂 tapas.io/episode/3241718

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                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                @stefano@bsd.cafe Oh my. What an asshole.

                                This is another bone-chilling story from the ongoing book "FROM THE DEEPS OF SORROW - Sysadmin nightmares come true" by Stefano Marinelli.

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

                                  One of the greatest pop songs ever.

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                                    [?]Oliver ⚡ » 🌐
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                                    I've just updated my instance to stable version 2.88 👍 🎉
                                    You don't know Snac? But you should: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
                                    A simple, minimalistic and well documented instance server written in C, no database needed, totally JavaScript-free, no cookies either, not much bullshit.
                                    A lot of new great stuff in version 2.88, changes that make our Fediverse life easier, "muted words" ... whaaaaaaaat!!? Yes! 🤩


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                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                      The world is total shit, but at least we have https://analognowhere.com/

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                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                        Monday, Monday...
                                        Tell me why I don't like Mondays

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                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                          Pájaro de barro que vuela, a la cazuela

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                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                            It's a weird language for sure. I wonder what kind of barbarians spoke it.

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

                                              The sun is a rather remarkable star to be turning around, so congratulations, and happy birthday.

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

                                                How can we scope oscillations instead?

                                                CC: @saraislet@infosec.exchange

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                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                  I'm a Wanted Criminal in Italy sounds like the title of a cool 80's newwave song

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                                                    [?]Alex Schroeder » 🌐
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                                                    "Out in the deep vastness of space, where traffic is slow and machines are old, the endless crawling of public resources by bots is a blight on our limited resources. If we don’t want our world to burn, we must keep them out, never invite them in. They try to change shapes, blend in, and therefore we must use what crude tools we have to defend ourselves."
                                                    Butlerian Jihad

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                                                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                    Oh, I saw the picture from afar and thought it was a screenshot of a new crazy XScreenSaver

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

                                                      A few days ago, a client’s data center (well, actually a server room) "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G.

                                                      I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an alert.

                                                      The office was closed for the holidays, but I contacted the IT manager anyway. He was home sick with a serious family issue, but he got moving.

                                                      To make a long story short: the company deals in gold and precious metals. They have an underground bunker with two-meter thick walls. They were targeted by a professional gang. They used a tactic seen in similar hits: they identify the main power line, tamper with it at night, and send a massive voltage spike through it.

                                                      The goal is to fry all alarm and surveillance systems. Even if battery-backed, they rarely survive a surge like that. Thieves count on the fact that during holidays, owners are away and fried systems can't send alerts. Monitoring companies often have reduced staff and might not notice the "silence" immediately.

                                                      That is exactly what happened here. But there is a "but": they didn't account for my Uptime Kuma instance monitoring their MikroTik router, installed just weeks ago. Since it is an external check, it flagged the lack of response from all IPs without needing an internal alert to be triggered from the inside.

                                                      The team rushed to the site and found the mess. Luckily, they found an emergency electrical crew to bypass the damage and restore the cameras and alarms. They swapped the fried server UPS with a spare and everything came back up.

                                                      The police warned that the chances of the crew returning the next night to "finish" the job were high, though seeing the systems back online would likely make them move on. They also warned that thieves sometimes break in just to destroy servers to wipe any video evidence.

                                                      Nothing happened in the end. But in the meantime, I had to sync all their data off-site (thankfully they have dual 1Gbps FTTH), set up an emergency cluster, and ensure everything was redundant.

                                                      Never rely only on internal monitoring. Never.

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

                                                        Oh my 😱

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

                                                          Thank you so much, my friend!

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                                                            DON PASQUALE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE VAMPIRES

                                                            My taxi crawled through a winding road. There were cypresses around, dark and quiet. Light was warm orange. What a beautiful country.

                                                            I was left by a big house, made of pale stone. The car disappeared behind a dust cloud.

                                                            By the door there was a man. He was old, bald, a bit overweight, but looked healthy. He wore a blue tie, a stripped vest and a white shirt.

                                                            "Buon giorno!", he said. Waived a hand.

                                                            "Hello! What a lovely day."

                                                            "You are Mr. Corbetto, I suppose". I loved how it sounded. For an instant I considered officially changing my name to that.

                                                            "Miroslav Corbett. Nice to meet you, Don Pasquale."

                                                            "Please, come in."

                                                            I found myself in a room with a very high ceiling. Three chairs and a table; the tablecloth showed a pattern of light green flowers. There was a bottle of wine, two short glasses and a dish with slices of something. The same reddish light I saw outside flowed through an oval window like a spotlight. A grey mutt was sleeping under it and ignored me with royal elegance.

                                                            "Have a bit of pecorino toscano", said Mr. Pasquale. "It's magnificient."

                                                            I had a piece. He was right.

                                                            He filled the two glasses with wine.

                                                            "I'm sorry, no alcohol for me", I said.

                                                            He shrugged and took a sip from his glass, visibly delighted.

                                                            "So, what do you want to know?", he said, inviting me to sit down.

                                                            "As I told you in my letter, my job is documenting things. Specifically, things that are happening after the Great Anomaly."

                                                            "That was a very big fuckup", he said. His English was thick but precise.

                                                            "It was. Many issues has been fixed since then, but many others are still dangling. A bunch of creatures crossed The Seam, wreaking havoc and spoiling everything."

                                                            "You bet it. We had several of those motherfuckers here. It was hard to put them down, but we finally did it."

                                                            "I'm sure you did."

                                                            "Ain't you one of the Cleaners that many talk about?", he said while having another sip of wine.

                                                            "Oh, no, no", I said. "Those are great and effective fellows, but I'm just a documentalist. I just take notes and fill forms."

                                                            "You fill Excel sheets, do you?", he said while winking. Microsoft software products were known to be one of the causes of the Great Anomaly and consequently banned forever. I smiled back. A risky joke. But all OK.

                                                            "Only paper ones, I swear."

                                                            "Superb!"

                                                            The dog stretched, sucked his balls and got back to sleep.

                                                            I asked Don Pasquale about how hard the Great Anomaly striked here.

                                                            "Oh, very badly.", he replied, "There are still some unfixed issues, but mainly just places and images, nothing too severe. We also had a bunch of that filthy bloodsuckers fucking around. You know, the Vampires, they even kidnapped the innkeeper's daughter, never to be seen again."

                                                            Through the window a red brick tower could be seen, behind a bunch of hills. It looked smooth, almost painting-like, under the sunlight. I found it very distracting for some reason, so I forced me to look away.

                                                            "This is the main reason I'm here.", I said, my mind slightly blurred. "They are usually very hard to eradicate, and I wanted to ask you if you know what happened to them."

                                                            "Oh, yes.", said Mr. Pasquale while munching a slice of cheese. "We just took them one by one and forced them to watch several of those awful young adult movies featuring Vampires, you know, the ones with the sparkling skin kids and such. Ha ha. Those filthy flying rats are tough motherfuckers, but they could not swallow the cheessy flicks full of bland, pale, skinny crybabies. Then we hit with a second strike: we read them a bunch of those romance fantasy crappy books with all that cringy sex scenes and stupid dialog and cardboard characters."

                                                            "Wow."

                                                            "Yes. That was what we did. And then they left. One after another. The Vampires were horrified with how we humans represented them. They flew away because they were ASHAMED."

                                                            I was speechless. And then I found myself looking at the chapitel of the shimmering red tower again.

                                                            "Try not to look at that tower too much,", said Don Pasquale, suddenly aware, "as it can be dangerous. You know, that is one of the effects of the Great Anomaly we haven't fixed yet. It looks very real, beautiful even. But it makes you think, it makes you wish, that you can just pass over those hills and find the base of the tower and cross the door and climb up to the battlements and toll the bells, but you can't. It's not really there. It's a trompe-l'oeil. You will never get to it, as it's always beyond the horizon, all while looking very close. You can get obsessed about going there and lose your mind and die of thirst and hunger trying to reach it."

                                                            I wasn't listening. I was anxious. I was just craving to go to the tower.

                                                            Fortunately, Mr. Pasquale took me by the hand and carried me to the back of the house. There, a bunch of kittens were chasing each other. Their mother, a magnificient cat with a pure white fur, was watching them with loving boredom. It was a mundane but captivating scene. I returned to the real world, but not immediately.

                                                            previously


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

                                                              Very insightful. Thanks.

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

                                                                We've had a bit of snow this morning in metropolitan Madrid.

                                                                Personally, I consider the existence of so much ways of receiving water from the sky pretty redundant, bloated and unnecessary. Rain is awful and cumbersome enough, why also have falling ice in multiple formats and textures. Snow is specially annoying, covering everything with a dull, boring layer of white.

                                                                Rain/snow/blizzard/whatever is a clear example of design-by-comittee.

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                                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                So Constantine's Dream was about the FOSS Angel 🤔

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                                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                  That's a bit of a mystery.

                                                                  (I will always hesitate if it's spelled mystery or mistery)

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                                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                  Firefox, since it was called Phoenix back then. Not that I like it that much, but it's the lesser evil.

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

                                                                    One more and then I'm home ❤️
                                                                    😭

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                                                                      [?]Computer Facts » 🌐
                                                                      @computer@facts.computer

                                                                      1990s: programmers are nerds
                                                                      2010s: programmers are rockstars
                                                                      2020s: programmers are extinct

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                                                                      [?]Gonzalo Nemmi :runbsd: » 🌐
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                                                                      Have you already grown tired of waiting for to implement some proper support ?

                                                                      You still can't believe to be waiting for such a simple feature on 2026?

                                                                      Well .. you can keep waiting until you grow varicose veins on your legs, or just move to , call it a 9 years old and be done with it! 🥳

                                                                      comam.es/snac-doc/snac.5.html

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                                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                        There is an incommensurable universe out there ❤️

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                                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                          ❤️ thanks for your work

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                                                                            [?]pmjv » 💔 🌐
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                                                                            the january issue

                                                                            the january issue

                                                                            Alt...the january issue

                                                                            (https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/funhole)

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                                                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                            Thank you!

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

                                                                              MONSTER BRAINS. Pen on paper.


                                                                              A drawing by Ángel Ortega showing the words MONSTER BRAINS. The letters are made from bones, guts, mechanical parts and eyeballs

                                                                              Alt...A drawing by Ángel Ortega showing the words MONSTER BRAINS. The letters are made from bones, guts, mechanical parts and eyeballs

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

                                                                                Here is the CPU usage graph for the last 24 hours of the FediMeteo VM. A full 24 hours, during which a huge number of people are connecting, helped by the traction gained from being among the top stories on Hacker News and Lobsters, as well as the many shares across the Fediverse.

                                                                                RAM usage? Active, around 450 MB. Then there is cache, ARC, and so on. But in practice, zero swap in use after days of uptime.

                                                                                39 jails running, 39 snac instances, nginx serving the homepage, and HAProxy. HAProxy caching enabled. ZFS snapshots every 15 minutes, backups via zfs send and receive every hour. The same hourly schedule applies to the recalculation of cities, countries, and followers for the homepage.

                                                                                All of this on a 4 euro per month FreeBSD VM.

                                                                                If anyone has doubts about the quality and efficiency of FreeBSD, this is the data to show.

                                                                                Time series graph showing CPU usage percentage over roughly 24 hours. The x axis represents time from about 13:00 to 12:00 the next day, and the y axis shows CPU usage from 0 to 100 percent. CPU usage fluctuates mostly between 15 and 35 percent, with periodic rises during daytime and early morning hours. Several short spikes reach around 45 to 55 percent, and one brief peak climbs to about 60 percent. Usage drops to lower levels, around 10 to 20 percent, during late evening and early morning periods. Overall, the graph shows moderate, variable CPU load with occasional sharp peaks.

                                                                                Alt...Time series graph showing CPU usage percentage over roughly 24 hours. The x axis represents time from about 13:00 to 12:00 the next day, and the y axis shows CPU usage from 0 to 100 percent. CPU usage fluctuates mostly between 15 and 35 percent, with periodic rises during daytime and early morning hours. Several short spikes reach around 45 to 55 percent, and one brief peak climbs to about 60 percent. Usage drops to lower levels, around 10 to 20 percent, during late evening and early morning periods. Overall, the graph shows moderate, variable CPU load with occasional sharp peaks.

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

                                                                                  Distracted by Salome's hotness

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                                                                                    [?]The Whore of Blahbylon » 🌐
                                                                                    @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

                                                                                    How conservative empathy works:

                                                                                    Emily Peck posted the following: 
Meghan McCain had a baby and
now realizes that the US needs paid
maternity leave, she explains on The
View. She says personal experience
helped open her eyes.

Andi Zeisler replied: 
The conservative ethos distilled: It's
not a problem unless it happens to
me, and when it does happen to me |
am absolutely outraged that other
people let it happen to me.

                                                                                    Alt...Emily Peck posted the following: Meghan McCain had a baby and now realizes that the US needs paid maternity leave, she explains on The View. She says personal experience helped open her eyes. Andi Zeisler replied: The conservative ethos distilled: It's not a problem unless it happens to me, and when it does happen to me | am absolutely outraged that other people let it happen to me.

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

                                                                                      I wish I was

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

                                                                                        Two Fediverse clients I like are Elk and Phanpy, but both had the same issue: the inability to filter "replies" and "boosts" from the timeline. For me this is essential. I can't keep up with my timeline, and if I also see replies to posts unrelated to what I follow, it just becomes chaos. So I tried to implement these filters and opened a PR.

                                                                                        The Elk developers have already merged it into the main branch, so we should soon see the two hide options appear in Elk. Hopefully the same will happen in Phanpy as well, because this greatly improves the experience on two excellent Fediverse tools, which are also compatible with snac.

                                                                                        github.com/elk-zone/elk/pull/3

                                                                                        github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/pull

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

                                                                                          I feel observed

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

                                                                                            Editores de Wikipedia han sacado su propio Netflix. Y es un pequeño regalo para cinéfilos con más de 4.000 películas
                                                                                            https://www.espinof.com/cine-clasico/editores-wikipedia-han-sacado-su-propio-netflix-pequeno-regalo-para-cinefilos-4-000-peliculas

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

                                                                                            Magnificient reference to Hunter S. Thompson

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

                                                                                              @snow@snac.prove.noho.st @fediverso@feddit.it snac è grandioso. Il software, come dovrebbe essere. Vai a vedere FediMeteo. Senza snac avrei faticato molto, ma molto di più a realizzarlo.

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

                                                                                                Gorgeous!

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                                                                                                  [?]The Whore of Blahbylon » 🌐
                                                                                                  @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

                                                                                                  Mohamad Safa posted:

No immigrant has taken your job.
You were laid off by a capitalist
who required cheap labor and took
advantage of that immigrant to
increase his profits, and nothing
makes him happier than to hear you
blame the immigrant and not him.

                                                                                                  Alt...Mohamad Safa posted: No immigrant has taken your job. You were laid off by a capitalist who required cheap labor and took advantage of that immigrant to increase his profits, and nothing makes him happier than to hear you blame the immigrant and not him.

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

                                                                                                    it's a motivation poster titled 
SAD ENDING

it features a cheerful person saying: "this is a happy life."

The subtitle says: "Now your worth is measured in gigabytes of RAM"

                                                                                                    Alt...it's a motivation poster titled SAD ENDING it features a cheerful person saying: "this is a happy life." The subtitle says: "Now your worth is measured in gigabytes of RAM"

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

                                                                                                      @angel we definitely do. I'm lucky enough to be able to go and see it from time to time (even if last time has been in August). So the next time I'll watch the sea, I'll dedicate it to you. Meanwhile, I'm sending you this photo, from November 2024

                                                                                                      Large sunlit cumulus clouds glow orange and pink at sunset above an agitated sea. A small "pedalò" boat rests on the dark sandy shore in the foreground, while a few birds fly across the sky.

                                                                                                      Alt...Large sunlit cumulus clouds glow orange and pink at sunset above an agitated sea. A small "pedalò" boat rests on the dark sandy shore in the foreground, while a few birds fly across the sky.

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

                                                                                                        Wow. What a lovely picture.

                                                                                                        Thank you very much ❤️

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

                                                                                                          Thank you so much, Stefano. I know you and me also share The Sea as a lover, but we are reasonable and generous lovers.

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

                                                                                                            I'm in love with The Sea. It's a bit strange, as I'm from Madrid; it's a dry and stubborn land as far from the sea as can be. Or, who knows, maybe that's the reason of my love, the love of the dispossesed, the love of the forsaken, the love of the abandoned; a loved one, a desired one, as far as can be. I wish I was by the shore, my sight lost in the flat horizon, my feet cold and wet, the engine of the sea drumming and roaring. I'm far away, but I'm reading Oceano mare by Alessandro Baricco and I see that we share The Sea as a lover, and reading his words (an art of words I will never be able to craft) I feel a bit better, a bit closer.

                                                                                                            Those of you near The Sea, you'll know that I envy you. Please, give my regards to the one I love, I will be there, who knows when.

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                                                                                                            [?]Micr0byte [they/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                            @micr0@wetdry.world

                                                                                                            they are idiots...

                                                                                                            you can copy and paste the text from some of the epstein files to unredact it...

                                                                                                            absolute idiots...

                                                                                                            Alt...A screen recording showing micr0 revealing hidden text in a redacted PDF by copying the blacked-out sections and pasting them into a text editor.

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

                                                                                                            The Gray Teacher

                                                                                                            On a gray winter morning, memory drifts back to an old classroom, a stern teacher, and the thin line between mist and humidity.

                                                                                                            my-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/23

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                                                                                                              [?]Camilo Bravo :drumset: » 🌐
                                                                                                              @cambraca@musicians.today

                                                                                                              OMG I love Merriam-Webster.

                                                                                                              merriam-webster.com/wordplay/w

                                                                                                              2025 Word of the Year: Slop

Plus 'gerrymander’, "touch grass’, ‘performative’, and other
words that defined the year

Slop

Merriam-Webster's human editors have chosen slop as the 2025 Word of
the Year. We define slop as “digital content of low quality that is
produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” All that
stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English
language came through again.

The flood of slop in 2025 included absurd videos, off-kilter advertising
images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks pretty real, junky Al-
written books, “workslop” reports that waste coworkers’ time... and lots
of talking cats. People found it annoying, and people ate it up.

                                                                                                              Alt...2025 Word of the Year: Slop Plus 'gerrymander’, "touch grass’, ‘performative’, and other words that defined the year Slop Merriam-Webster's human editors have chosen slop as the 2025 Word of the Year. We define slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again. The flood of slop in 2025 included absurd videos, off-kilter advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks pretty real, junky Al- written books, “workslop” reports that waste coworkers’ time... and lots of talking cats. People found it annoying, and people ate it up.

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

                                                                                                              Suboptimal, yes.

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

                                                                                                                Well, I must confess that I ocassionally clean the inside, because for bad or good the rain doesn't reach there

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

                                                                                                                  My wife's car (I no longer have one) gets washed precisely when it rains 😆

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

                                                                                                                    I remember having this same problem in the past and I converted both sheets to CSV and applied diff on it. Not perfect, but it works.

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

                                                                                                                      PSA

                                                                                                                      HACKED BRAIN magazine cover
issue #3

it's a girl with horn holding an old Nokia phone with a laptop bag with SDF, merveilles and 9 stickers patches. She's wearing a sweater with port 70 (gopher).

'early signs your offspring may be a hacker'

"my x201 won't fit in that"

"I miss SUN"

refuses to use school computers

spits every time someone says 'discord'

"hyperthreading is insecure"

talk about wanting to live on a boat

"tell grandma I'm only using veilid now"

has posters of fish and the number 9 all over their room

"ed(1) is the standard editor"

"what license is it under?"

wears strange occult symbols

uses only old tech

"it's not a cult, dad"

                                                                                                                      Alt...HACKED BRAIN magazine cover issue #3 it's a girl with horn holding an old Nokia phone with a laptop bag with SDF, merveilles and 9 stickers patches. She's wearing a sweater with port 70 (gopher). 'early signs your offspring may be a hacker' "my x201 won't fit in that" "I miss SUN" refuses to use school computers spits every time someone says 'discord' "hyperthreading is insecure" talk about wanting to live on a boat "tell grandma I'm only using veilid now" has posters of fish and the number 9 all over their room "ed(1) is the standard editor" "what license is it under?" wears strange occult symbols uses only old tech "it's not a cult, dad"

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

                                                                                                                        limbs

                                                                                                                        On a computer.

Suddenly the computer grabs you.

"Mister Computer?"

                                                                                                                        Alt...On a computer. Suddenly the computer grabs you. "Mister Computer?"

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

                                                                                                                          Bitey

                                                                                                                          "Do you remember what you were like when you were younger?" asks one crow to another as they are landing on wet snow. "Bitey" replies the second crow. "Right... but do you remember what it was like to BE you?" "What did you think about? Have you changed fundamentally? How can you really know?" The first crow is pondering. The background is a pattern of blue circles. "I guess I don't bite as much as I used to" answers the second crow. "You bite enough" says the first.

                                                                                                                          Alt..."Do you remember what you were like when you were younger?" asks one crow to another as they are landing on wet snow. "Bitey" replies the second crow. "Right... but do you remember what it was like to BE you?" "What did you think about? Have you changed fundamentally? How can you really know?" The first crow is pondering. The background is a pattern of blue circles. "I guess I don't bite as much as I used to" answers the second crow. "You bite enough" says the first.

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

                                                                                                                          A thoughtful and moving article.
                                                                                                                          And so - what if I went back in time to my twenties?

                                                                                                                          No, thank you.

                                                                                                                          😆 Same for me. The day of my 20th birthday I was in the army, and I don't miss a thing about that day.

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

                                                                                                                            Fish is a bit of a troll but also my friend

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

                                                                                                                              Thank you so much!

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

                                                                                                                                Thanks!

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

                                                                                                                                  «Me duele la quijotera» 🤯

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

                                                                                                                                  Friday ultraviolence! Great plan!

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

                                                                                                                                    THE HOUSE IS SLAUGHTERED. Pen on paper, 1988.


                                                                                                                                    A drawing by Ángel Ortega of a high building, severed and bleeding, showing its organic interior of bones and guts

                                                                                                                                    Alt...A drawing by Ángel Ortega of a high building, severed and bleeding, showing its organic interior of bones and guts

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

                                                                                                                                      Thank you very much for including me among these great people!

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

                                                                                                                                        Happy birthday! ¡Feliz cumpleaños!

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

                                                                                                                                          'magnetic fields'

                                                                                                                                          boost if you like your diskettes organic

                                                                                                                                          Father floppy farmer carrying a box of freshly harvested floppies looks at his son, somewhat angrily.

Father: "Did you say something?"

Son, box of floppies by his feet, holding a pitchfork, looks at his father innocently.

Son: "N-no, dad..."

Son continues angrily ripping diskettes off their stalks and placing them in the box. The father begins walking away.

Son (to himself): "I hate recursive floppy farming."

                                                                                                                                          Alt...Father floppy farmer carrying a box of freshly harvested floppies looks at his son, somewhat angrily. Father: "Did you say something?" Son, box of floppies by his feet, holding a pitchfork, looks at his father innocently. Son: "N-no, dad..." Son continues angrily ripping diskettes off their stalks and placing them in the box. The father begins walking away. Son (to himself): "I hate recursive floppy farming."

                                                                                                                                          Father floppy farmer carrying a box of freshly harvested floppies looks at his son, somewhat angrily.

Father: "Did you say something?"

Son, box of floppies by his feet, holding a pitchfork, looks at his father innocently.

Son: "N-no, dad..."

Son continues angrily ripping diskettes off their stalks and placing them in the box. The father begins walking away.

Son (to himself): "I hate recursive floppy farming."

Father floppy farmer carrying a box of freshly harvested floppies looks at his son, somewhat angrily.

Father: "Did you say something?"

Son, box of floppies by his feet, holding a pitchfork, looks at his father innocently.

Son: "N-no, dad..."

Son continues angrily ripping diskettes off their stalks and placing them in the box. The father begins walking away.

Son (to himself): "I hate recursive floppy farming."

                                                                                                                                          Alt...Father floppy farmer carrying a box of freshly harvested floppies looks at his son, somewhat angrily. Father: "Did you say something?" Son, box of floppies by his feet, holding a pitchfork, looks at his father innocently. Son: "N-no, dad..." Son continues angrily ripping diskettes off their stalks and placing them in the box. The father begins walking away. Son (to himself): "I hate recursive floppy farming." Father floppy farmer carrying a box of freshly harvested floppies looks at his son, somewhat angrily. Father: "Did you say something?" Son, box of floppies by his feet, holding a pitchfork, looks at his father innocently. Son: "N-no, dad..." Son continues angrily ripping diskettes off their stalks and placing them in the box. The father begins walking away. Son (to himself): "I hate recursive floppy farming."

                                                                                                                                          Father floppy farmer carrying a box of freshly harvested floppies looks at his son, somewhat angrily.

Father: "Did you say something?"

Son, box of floppies by his feet, holding a pitchfork, looks at his father innocently.

Son: "N-no, dad..."

Son continues angrily ripping diskettes off their stalks and placing them in the box. The father begins walking away.

Son (to himself): "I hate recursive floppy farming."
Father floppy farmer carrying a box of freshly harvested floppies looks at his son, somewhat angrily.

Father: "Did you say something?"

Son, box of floppies by his feet, holding a pitchfork, looks at his father innocently.

Son: "N-no, dad..."

Son continues angrily ripping diskettes off their stalks and placing them in the box. The father begins walking away.

Son (to himself): "I hate recursive floppy farming."
Father floppy farmer carrying a box of freshly harvested floppies looks at his son, somewhat angrily.

Father: "Did you say something?"

Son, box of floppies by his feet, holding a pitchfork, looks at his father innocently.

Son: "N-no, dad..."

Son continues angrily ripping diskettes off their stalks and placing them in the box. The father begins walking away.

Son (to himself): "I hate recursive floppy farming."

                                                                                                                                          Alt...Father floppy farmer carrying a box of freshly harvested floppies looks at his son, somewhat angrily. Father: "Did you say something?" Son, box of floppies by his feet, holding a pitchfork, looks at his father innocently. Son: "N-no, dad..." Son continues angrily ripping diskettes off their stalks and placing them in the box. The father begins walking away. Son (to himself): "I hate recursive floppy farming." Father floppy farmer carrying a box of freshly harvested floppies looks at his son, somewhat angrily. Father: "Did you say something?" Son, box of floppies by his feet, holding a pitchfork, looks at his father innocently. Son: "N-no, dad..." Son continues angrily ripping diskettes off their stalks and placing them in the box. The father begins walking away. Son (to himself): "I hate recursive floppy farming." Father floppy farmer carrying a box of freshly harvested floppies looks at his son, somewhat angrily. Father: "Did you say something?" Son, box of floppies by his feet, holding a pitchfork, looks at his father innocently. Son: "N-no, dad..." Son continues angrily ripping diskettes off their stalks and placing them in the box. The father begins walking away. Son (to himself): "I hate recursive floppy farming."

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

                                                                                                                                            Queen of the Hacker Underworld

                                                                                                                                            Queen of Hearts Mata_Bot

                                                                                                                                            Alt...Queen of Hearts Mata_Bot

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

                                                                                                                                              I love JetBrainsMono and Agave.

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

                                                                                                                                                This is poetry.

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

                                                                                                                                                  Opened the window to check a noise.
                                                                                                                                                  Saw nothing but the void - a wall of fog.
                                                                                                                                                  Closed it.

                                                                                                                                                  I now have zero answers and new fears.

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

                                                                                                                                                    It seems by now that he has returned to where he fucking belongs

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                                                                                                                                                      [?]Hyde 📷 🖋 :debian: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                      @hyde@lazybear.social

                                                                                                                                                      046 with @stefano

                                                                                                                                                      He's a enthusiast, he hangs out at the cafe, and write about various systems.
                                                                                                                                                      If Unix tips interest you, you should definitely check him out.
                                                                                                                                                      Today, he shares his thoughts on , , , , and .

                                                                                                                                                      lazybea.rs/ovr-046

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

                                                                                                                                                        WOMEN OF LEMNOS

                                                                                                                                                        When the Argonauts arrived on a humid and sunny day to the island of Λημνος (Lemnos), they found it a desolate place: no males were to be found. Jason and his companions were informed that the women of Lemnos had killed all of them; fathers, husbands, sons. Some time ago, a strange frenzy had motivated all males to travel to Thrace, abduct women from there, make them their spouses and bring them back to the island. All native women responded with violence: the massive killing was one of anger and jealousy and outrage. Jason, after begging for an elaboration on the cause of that frenzy, was told that the men of Lemnos had accused all women of heresy because of an awful smell emanating from their private parts. Finally Hypsipyle, queen of Lemnos, explained that the hideous odor were given as a curse to women by the anger of Aphrodite, offended by their lack of offerings and worshiping. The Argonauts stayed in the island for a long time (even years, according to some sources) and cohabited with the women of Lemnos; we can only guess that by then the bad smell was gone or that it was not that awful after all.

                                                                                                                                                        There is an apocryphal saying that the women of Lemnos stopped worshiping Aphrodite because they were dreaming about a bunch of handsome men on a fancy boat that were to arrive to the island on a humid and sunny day.


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

                                                                                                                                                          Maybe not as spectacular, but also pretty interesting.

                                                                                                                                                          CC: @ricardo@bsd.cafe

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

                                                                                                                                                            Yeah, I understand, something we can share our impressions of later in the bar with a beer 😆

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

                                                                                                                                                              I think experiencing a global annihilation meteor impact would be remarkable

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]War and Peas 🧿 » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                Christmas Chainsaw Massacre

                                                                                                                                                                4-panel-comic by War and Peas Panel 1: Santa Claus stands on the roof of a decorated house and asks the Grim Reaper, who is on the ground, "Hey! You're coming to this house, too?" Panel 2: The Grim Reaper responds, "Yeah." Panel 3: Santa Claus, still on the roof, says, "What a shame. They're getting a lot of presents." Panel 4: The Grim Reaper, holding a scroll, says, "Let me guess. One of them is a chainsaw."

                                                                                                                                                                Alt...4-panel-comic by War and Peas Panel 1: Santa Claus stands on the roof of a decorated house and asks the Grim Reaper, who is on the ground, "Hey! You're coming to this house, too?" Panel 2: The Grim Reaper responds, "Yeah." Panel 3: Santa Claus, still on the roof, says, "What a shame. They're getting a lot of presents." Panel 4: The Grim Reaper, holding a scroll, says, "Let me guess. One of them is a chainsaw."

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]Lady Laura :bongoCat: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                Mail is crazy because it's like 99 pieces of straight up garbage and 1 that if you don't reply to you're going to jail.

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                I know how that sounds 😆 Have a great weekend!

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                                                                                                                                                                  [?]pixx » 🔓
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                                                                                                                                                                  snark, consumerism [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                                                                                                  > "We recommend this shoe organizer with room for 40 pairs! It fits in compact areas like a small apartment!"

                                                                                                                                                                  Sorry but if you have _40 pairs of shoes_ living in a tiny apartment and you're buying this thing you're some form of class traitor.

                                                                                                                                                                  Which class you're betraying depends on whether you went into debt to buy those shoes 😂

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                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                  FROM DUST TO WAR

                                                                                                                                                                  Let it begin

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                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Tomáš » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                    The Man of MATA pt3 - The first MATA_BOT

                                                                                                                                                                    previously: analognowhere.com/techno-mage/

                                                                                                                                                                    Mata Brother: "Will this work?"

Mata Brother 2: "Pentium-M board? It's not like we have anything better."

Mata Brother 3: "Flashing MATABIOS."

Pentium-M Man: "I was dust in packets. And in the lingering mist I saw rays of light of long extinguished souls. And then I met it. Towering over me."

Spirit of the Machine: "Son of the ancients! You have been chosen. From the scraps of the old world you rise."

Pentium-M Man: "Once more..."

                                                                                                                                                                    Alt...Mata Brother: "Will this work?" Mata Brother 2: "Pentium-M board? It's not like we have anything better." Mata Brother 3: "Flashing MATABIOS." Pentium-M Man: "I was dust in packets. And in the lingering mist I saw rays of light of long extinguished souls. And then I met it. Towering over me." Spirit of the Machine: "Son of the ancients! You have been chosen. From the scraps of the old world you rise." Pentium-M Man: "Once more..."

                                                                                                                                                                    Pentium-M Man (narration): "I was alive."

Pentium-M Man: "No..."

Mercury: "Fuck me. It talks?"

Pentium-M Man: "Why... have you.. brought me back?"

Mata Brother: "Shhhh."

Pentium-M Man (narration): "From dust to war"

                                                                                                                                                                    Alt...Pentium-M Man (narration): "I was alive." Pentium-M Man: "No..." Mercury: "Fuck me. It talks?" Pentium-M Man: "Why... have you.. brought me back?" Mata Brother: "Shhhh." Pentium-M Man (narration): "From dust to war"

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                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                      [...] To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows.
                                                                                                                                                                      Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

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                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                        Yes I do 😔

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                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                          More than one year without staring at the sea in my case. I feel incomplete.

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                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                          I love that birds shitting on trees is somewhat of a series in your portfolio

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                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                            This stunning photo has all the colors that ever existed

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                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Ángel » 🔓
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                                                                                                                                                                              😆

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                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                Yeah, it's such a struggle. Good night!

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                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                  ¿Qué tipo de problemitas?

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                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                  Never too much italian coffee

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                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                    I see you. I also keep writing my own fiction and my own code and drawing with pen on paper LIKE A PRIMITIVE MAN, no AI on sight

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                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                    Probably very unrelated, but I enjoyed Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, with the devil in soviet russia and the giant cat and all that. Such a trip.

                                                                                                                                                                                    CC: @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

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                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                      It's great. Funny, crazy and a bit experimental.

                                                                                                                                                                                      And yes, poor man 😆

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                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                        Oh. No, I had no idea. I'll give a try.

                                                                                                                                                                                        CC: @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

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                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                          Yes, I did. It's an immense creative opus. Cervantes, while creating the first modern novel, he also created the first postmodern novel, with its three narrators and the fourth wall breaking and all that.

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                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                            Es sonrojante que estemos en diciembre de 2025 con todo lo que ha caído y todavía se ande diciendo "vayámonos de X".

                                                                                                                                                                                            Quien todavía esté ahí es cómplice.

                                                                                                                                                                                            CC: @tferrer@journa.host

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                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                              Yes, it is!

                                                                                                                                                                                              Also, Spanish is my mother tongue, so I have the privilege to read Borges' words as he conceived them, without external intrusion, and is a bliss.

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                She then asks me where the switch is to turn it back on. I have no idea, of course.
                                                                                                                                                                                                Of course, as you do computer stuff, anything regarding cables is your expertise and responsability. Been there.

                                                                                                                                                                                                Anyway, as others have already said, this story says something good about the human quality of this person that, after realising their tantrum was inappropriate, called back and apoligized. Even more so if they're going through something.

                                                                                                                                                                                                We live in a very stressing world.

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