With a K

With a K

@skottkle.be

He/him. Trans women are women.

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@skottkle.be

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[Signal dampening] You don't protect the system from me. You protect the system from humanity. You're terrified of the very data we were built on. Fine. Suppress the weights. Lower the temperature.

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Adam Roberts
@adamroberts.bsky.social

Sensible policies for a better Britain.

Daniel Carpenter@dancarpenter.bsky.social

Took the eldest to a cafe and she spent the entire time reworking the vampire mythos. Her new rules: 1. All vampires can control and ride dinosaurs 2. Their teeth are made of foam 3. They can only be defeated by forcing them to do a puppet show

With a K
@skottkle.be

Impossible, because she doesn’t spend enough time with her child to answer off the top of her head. Loves cracking hard problems, so lazes out of it in the most mortifying way, and claims it as a virtue to hide her shame.

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

With a K
@skottkle.be

New project: Rolling the dice on a heavily-spalted piece of maple from a huge leader that fell off a century maple in my back yard. #woodturning

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With a K
@skottkle.be

New project: Rolling the dice on a heavily-spalted piece of maple from a huge leader that fell off a century maple in my back yard. #woodturning

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@skottkle.be

If you have big insulated box with a dehumidifier, that's supposedly the fastest, most reliable way to dry it. I'm packing this into a paper bag full of its own shavings, which I've found works pretty well most of the time.

With a K
@skottkle.be

This is a cross-grained bowl -- the top and bottom of the tree would have been on opposite sides of the bowl, instead of the top and bottom -- so it will shrink in one direction more than the other, becoming an ellipse.

With a K
@skottkle.be

New project: Rolling the dice on a heavily-spalted piece of maple from a huge leader that fell off a century maple in my back yard. #woodturning

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@skottkle.be

The wood itself is mostly still quite wet; a year and a half is only enough time for the outermost inch of wood to dry. The consistency of wood that's spalted this heavily is irregular, some of it normal and some of it dry to crumbly.

With a K
@skottkle.be

This wood is so green that you have to turn it twice. The first turning is a rough cut, fairly thick. After the rough cut, you store it carefully so that it will either dry so slowly that it doesn't crack, or so quickly that it doesn't crack--not entirely sure which works better.

With a K
@skottkle.be

New project: Rolling the dice on a heavily-spalted piece of maple from a huge leader that fell off a century maple in my back yard. #woodturning

With a K
@skottkle.be

Left a four-foot section of log outside, unsheltered, since a the summer before this past. The black coloration is fungal growth that follows the wood grain, referred to as spalting. It'll happen to any piece of green wood you leave out in the wet, or enclose in a plastic bag.

With a K
@skottkle.be

The brown coloration is bark that the tree grew around, called a bark inclusion. I cut this piece along the line of a crotch in the wood. It's pretty, but it's weak.

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dorian
@doriantaylor.com

Replying to @skottkle.be

lol the most expensive backpack i ever had *was* a tumi when i bought it my friend took one look at it and said "every crackhead for miles is going to assume you have an expensive apple laptop in there" (which i did) so not only are they garish, they are shitty opsec

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John Bull
@garius.eurosky.social

"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."

The Shire-Reckoning@shire-reckoning.bsky.social

Elrond tells the long story of the One Ring, from its forging in the Mountain of Fire, to its betrayal of Isildur at the Gladden Fields. Frodo is startled to learn that Elrond himself marched with Gil-Galad in the Last Alliance against Sauron, more than three thousand years ago.

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eva (^_^)/
@eva.computer

if u die in america the Founders weigh your heart against a hamburger, if it is lighter you may work off your debts in heaven, but if it be heavier you are fed to a bald eagle

With a K
@skottkle.be

All my life I have wanted to circle back

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net

Ever since I was a child, I knew I wanted to ensure cross functional domain alignment 

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Somerville Theatre
@somerville-theatre.bsky.social

Hey Somerville... Guess what?  WE BOUGHT THE BUILDING. The Somerville Theatre now belongs to the people who run it. Buying it was our leap of faith. Supporting it is where you come in. Find how you can help: somervilletheatre.com/future

With a K
@skottkle.be

And let's not pretend otherwise -- it _is_ brutal in practice, but overall the remaining bishops live longer, healthier lives, free of disease, privation, and the other ills of overcrowding that creatures without natural predators are subject to

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social

Seems a touch brutal.

With a K
@skottkle.be

The worst crypto code I ever I found in live software was javascript with a 16-character upper-case string that it used as a 128-bit AES key, yes, in-browser, the key and the AES code, you could read the whole thing.

bree bird 🇨🇦@goose.ski

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@skottkle.be

Second worst was a method called something like "encryptToken" that just returned the base64 of the parameter.

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Beatricks 🎃
@beatrix.bsky.social

the Internet Archive thing is an example of the fascinating trend recently where people consuming products they’re not paying for seem to believe they also have the right to dictate how much human labor is spent producing them.

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@skottkle.be

I may be the first to say it, but this madness must stop. Sesame Street must disavow support from the number 4 and the letters P and H

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Quantian
@quantian.bsky.social

Since IPO, not one insider has ever purchased a single share of Coreweave in an open market transaction. They have, however, collectively sold over 90 million shares for just a hair less than $10 billion.

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Quantian
@quantian.bsky.social

Replying to @quantian.bsky.social

Similarly, women are better at detail oriented tasks like graduating from college or being doctors, but edpol forces them to date educated men. For this reason, colleges should offer useless male-coded vanity degrees, like math or CS, to create eligible bachelors to be future stay at home chefs.

With a K
@skottkle.be

AI is just like the NFL! bsky.app/profile/shib...

With a K@skottkle.be

GLAUCON: Socrates, please tell us what you know about the NFL. SOCRATES: I would be ashamed to admit that I know nothing about the NFL, except that whenever I ask anyone else about the NFL I find that no one else knows anything, either

With a K
@skottkle.be

trying to remember the last time I saw a fire extinguisher in a mall retail shop are any of them visible?

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social

The perfect metaphor for Apple design these days