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clonezone

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Music-obsessed software geek. Wrote a good chunk of Perl::Critic. Banner image is “The Gift” by Richard Notkin.

See also @clonezone / https://microblog.galumph.com

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@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

In the past I have removed and cleaned for a job

I think it was one of the more dangerous jobs I've had, we came super prepared and kept to strict regulations

Please don't mess around with this stuff, it can be super dangerous with extreme consequences in the long term

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMx139eTxoc

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@stux The freakiest part of the video for me was all the naturally occurring stuff. Not like I'm going to go hiking in a dusty desert or or anything, but still.

@BobHorowitz@sfba.social avatar BobHorowitz , (edited ) to random

Oh dopey me. I don't know why I tagged yesterday's photo FensterFreitag because it clearly wasn't Friday and there were no Fensters. Well what can I say? Even light sabers, when they age, get less and less sharp.

Anyway, here is a picture of my favorite building in all of San Francisco: the 190-foot tall concrete grain silos on Pier 90. Built around 1920, the silos are now abandoned. Having ceased operations following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, they are sadly slated for demolition, date to be determined.

Honestly, I will miss this giant behemoth on the waterfront. Massive buildings thrill me... and, photographically speaking, asphalt and concrete are the meat and potatoes of urban photography while trees and bushes are just vegetables, side dishes, readily pushed aside. You may quote me on that 😉

Happy Monday, everyone. It is raining here in San Francisco.

Set in a landscape of asphalt roads and utility wires, and surrounded by chain link fences, two rows of giant gray concrete silos trail off behing a pair of massive, rectangular service stacks. The 190 foot tall stacks have shattered windows punctuating their upper floors... and they sport some impressive graffiti in places that are very hard to reach. A metal catwalk, 160 feet in the air, connects the two stacks. Grim, shorter buildings, also abandoned, cluster around the base of the stacks. Photographed on a gray, overcast day. There are no trees or bushes in this picture. None.
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@BobHorowitz The “… vegetables, side dishes, …" bit got a “YEAH!" from one of my brothers.

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📷 City of Chicag - Department of Broken Signs and Weird Spacing

2017/5/18 on North Broadway

Exterior of an old municipal building with a letters on the side that are falling off. The sign is supposed to read “City of Chicago - Department of Streets & Sanitation”. However, the final “O” of “Chicago” is gone and the “I” is barely hanging on. Even prior to decay, the spacing between the words “Department of Streets & Sanitation” is off.
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@clonezone@mastodon.social avatar clonezone , to random

🎥 The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011)

Sad that this was made after Lady Jaye was dead. It would have been more interesting with their participation. As it is, this is more like “The Ballad of Genesis (With a Focus on Lady Jaye)”.

(Warning: If, like me, you get motion sickness from unsteady camera, this has a lot of handheld stuff in it.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Genesis_and_Lady_Jaye

@clonezone@mastodon.social avatar clonezone , to random

Tonight’s movie: "The Bridge on the River Kwai"

Without spoiling it for anyone, is Nicholson’s (Guinness) final act an accident or on purpose?

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Ugh. Day-for-night photography. Blech.

@clonezone@mastodon.social avatar clonezone , to random

@glennf Calling in the typesetting knowledge while you're recovering— what's going on with a 1960s newspaper having such bad alignment problems: https://toot.wales/@HannahHowe/115605483426520347

@HannahHowe@toot.wales avatar HannahHowe , to random

I’d like to invite you to vote in our Favourite Doctor Who Companion Poll

Semi-Final Results:
Alex Kingston - River Song 48% v 52% Karen Gillan - Amy Pond
Elizabeth Sladen - Sarah Jane Smith 69% v 31% Bernard Cribbins - Wilfred Mott

Final
Karen Gillan - Amy Pond v Elizabeth Sladen - Sarah Jane Smith

Please vote below 👇

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@fanden @HannahHowe It's Team Old vs Team Young. I.e. it's a measure of Hannah's audience age.

@clonezone@mastodon.social avatar clonezone , to random

Sometimes fountains need to reboot.

One of the pillars of the Crown Fountain displaying a Microsoft Windows boot animation instead of the usual parade of giant faces. Photo taken the evening of 2025/11/20.
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@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , (edited ) to random

I wonder..

Have you been taught in-depth about the First & Second World War in school?

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@stux Historical event that I've learned about outside of school that I most wish that I had learned about in school: the Haitian Revolution.

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services avatar FediTips , (edited ) to random

There are two ways that servers on here can accept new members:

-Sign-ups where you join instantly

-Sign-ups where the server moderator has to manually approve your membership

Approval sign-ups make moderation much more effective, but some people seem to find them more difficult.

If you are someone who finds approval sign-ups more difficult, could you explain the main thing putting you off?

(By the way, this isn't meant to be judgmental, just want to find out what the main barriers are! 🙂 )

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@FediTips I would never join anything with restricted registration. I am never going to put myself under the potential disapproval of some arbitrary dictator. It raises the hackles. How dare you judge me?

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It's time for the second episode of "Ask Veronica!" This time, I'd like to talk about "distros."

Ask me distro questions, and I'll distill the common threads into a video for YouTube/PeerTube!

You can ask me here, or via email: ask (at) [the name of my channel] (dot) net.

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@vkc What's with the deprecation of lsb_release in favor of /etc/os-release for identifying which distro that you're on?

@HannahHowe@toot.wales avatar HannahHowe , to random

For debate.

The Daleks were essential to Doctor Who becoming a television phenomenon 🤔

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@HannahHowe Ummm… that's a debate? Or am I missing some context?

@jerry@infosec.exchange avatar jerry , (edited ) to random

I need help settling an argument.

Hypothetically of course, would “coronal mass ejection” be an appropriate name for a cat?

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@jerry My mother had a himalayan that looked like it belonged on one of those cutesy greeting cards.

I called it “Fart Blossom”.

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

I'm not the best in describing stuff in media for alt-text and I should improve that

But, I DO add alt-text in every bit of media I post ❤️

It's important for people who use screen readers so it can describe the media

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@stux Alt-text is helpful for people that don't need screen readers in order to understand the intent of the poster.

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@stux So many posts say something along the lines of “this is bad”, but, until you read the alt text for the image, you don't know which of the many bad things present they're specifically talking about.

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    clonezone ,
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    @NanoRaptor Beetroot. Lots of beetroot. Tasty cheese. A burger with the lot. Meat pies. Pourable custard.

    (I spent 7 weeks in the Sydney area in April/May 2000.)

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    i’m going to start sending out emails that start: “Hostile reminder:”

    Two emails, with subject lines “A Friendly Reminder For Your Pet” and “Friendly reminder: Your feedback for Stripe”
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    @molly0xfff I always read "friendly reminder" as "passive-aggressive reminder".