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Jimijamflimflam

@Jimijamflimflam@mstdn.social

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I’m Jimi.

I quietly contemplate these days. I enjoy reading about and infrequently discussing #SciFi, #Fantasy, #Horror, #Science, #USPolitics and #Noir. I’ve been #TentCamping over half my life.

#StarTrek🖖rocks.
I love all #Tolkien.
#MST3K is hilarious.
Michael Myers🔪the 1st shape.
#Ghibli storytelling is *gorgeous*
Han shot first.
#Svengoolie rules!

Early Gen X feral latchkey kid. Married. Mostly harmless. I block AI & jagbags.

We call them gym shoes round here.

Human	Not Immortal. Really.
Location	In far Northern Illinois. Previously Braga, Pt., Funchal, Pt., Barrie, Ontario. Far Northern Illinois before all that.
Banner Image	Fall is the season on the lakefront in Barrie, Ontario. A photographer in a yellow jacket sits under a reddish dynamic sculpture. New construction is visible in the background. Blue sky with scattered white clouds. The lake is reflecting the blue sky.
Toots	Toots disappear like tears in the rain. However it takes a while. So I got that going for me at least.

Jimijamflimflam 2m ago

bythehandofbob 17h ago

From this minute: A lot of purple marks on 2 facing pages in my wire-bound #sketchbook.#ballpoint they sell these pens in stores, you coulda done this.

Jimijamflimflam 12m ago

emptywheel 2h ago

There's no reason not to attack on this. Donald Trump is on the payroll of the Saudis, Emiratis, and Qataris. He just accepted a flying bribery palace from the Qataris. He's sharing chip technology Biden refused to. There's your sell-out to Islam, right there. Works for Adams too, but w/Türkiye

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uyh5huzxtthtkg6htsgt56lh/post/3lsmbqct4us2q

Jimijamflimflam 19m ago

Weekend Editor 2h ago

@Jimijamflimflam

Pretty clearly inspired by Skippy's List of things he is not allowed to do in the military.

A nice riff on the theme, though.

https://skippyslist.com/list/

Skippy's List » Skippy’s List: The 213 things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the U.S. Army

Jimijamflimflam 19m ago

Mark Eichin 3h ago

@Jimijamflimflam
(A total station is absolutely a wizard's staff though) First career-specialized Skippy's List I've seen, now I need to find more of them :)

Jimijamflimflam 20m ago

Hugo Mills 3h ago

@Jimijamflimflam Every silly health and safety rule is a piece of institutional memory, written in blood.

Jimijamflimflam 20m ago

PonderStibbons 3h ago

@Jimijamflimflam

Some people take all the fun out of everything!

Jimijamflimflam 4h ago

A mystery. #grickledoodle #cats #lady #horror #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Jimijamflimflam 4h ago

Jimijamflimflam Jan 14, 2023

The Dig Director handed me this after I signed on the line and I was…so, so disappointed. Like really the only point of me being here is to move some dirt around?

#Archaeology
#silly

Jimijamflimflam 4h ago

Great job everyone, you made it!

Jimijamflimflam 5h ago

Mother Bones 6h ago

#Via Mark Joseph Stern / mjsdc
June 27, 2025, 10:11 AM

"I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard."

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Dan Ports 19h ago

When adopting a new 100GbE switch, it’s important to follow gradual introduction procedures to keep your existing cats from becoming stressed and developing RDMA aggression.

#cats #catsofmastodon #networking #homelab

Chad McCullough 19h ago

@dan I don't see any lies in this statement.

john spurling 19h ago

@dan Make sure to enable support for chonky frames.

Nick Gully 18h ago

@dan scratch the backplane front to back only.

kwayk42 16h ago

@dan has Miso accepted the new member of the family?

alyx (dual-stack)12h ago

@dan I did the same with Emma and our Juniper PTX1000 100G router last year

CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

@alyx @dan Cats love network equipment!

alyx (dual-stack)12h ago

@catsalad @dan emma is fascinated by zelazny

alyx (dual-stack)12h ago

@catsalad @dan she also likes to sit on network switches

alyx (dual-stack)12h ago

@catsalad @dan and she likes to look at even more servers

HTTP 1.1/418 Teapot 9h ago

@alyx @catsalad @dan That cat looks like she has some *opinions* about technical choices being made.

The Turtle 9h ago

@alyx @catsalad @dan most people just scare their cats with cucumbers.

Dave Fischer 58m ago

@alyx @catsalad @dan Old photo, previous cat:

smartperson 50m ago

@davefischer @alyx @catsalad @dan dang an SGI…

Dave Fischer 46m ago

@smartperson @alyx @catsalad @dan I massively reduced my personal collection recently, I only kept one SGI:

mr_daemon 46m ago

@davefischer @alyx @catsalad @dan nice O2, and nice cat. Proves the "slightly elevated warm" attractor theory.

Here's my old man when he was younger, sitting on a shitty D-Link

alina🏳️‍⚧️🐾

@alyx @catsalad @dan thank you so much for these pics they're awesome

@alyx @catsalad @dan this should be the pic for some http.cat status code, i just dont know which

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@bread @catsalad @dan @alyx access denied

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@bread @catsalad @dan @alyx Emma looking at the opened up zelazny is perfect for 500: internal server error tbh

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@alyx @dan @catsalad top-of-rack cat

Kierkegaanks regretfully 10h ago

@alyx @catsalad @dan keeping CAT cables away

Codey McCodeface 8h ago

@alyx @catsalad @dan "I heard this uses Cat-5, I'm just waiting on the other four."

ieee 754 carrot facts 1h ago

@alyx @catsalad@infosec.exchange @dan non-blocking

Tim Chase 34m ago

do they prefer Purrracuda Networks, Ubikitti, or Hissco hardware?

alina🏳️‍⚧️🐾

@alyx @catsalad @dan who of them is emma and who is zelazny

alyx (dual-stack)12h ago

@alina @catsalad @dan emma is the cat, whose website is at https://emma.pet and she's on fedi as @emma

zelazny is a former freenode server

Emma <3 - Home

pictures of Emma #cattax

mirabilos 10h ago

@alyx @catsalad @dan Katze und OpenProjects IRC! 😻

evil and intimidating lesbian 12h ago

@catsalad @alyx @dan
hey @lexi do you still have a link for that rack mount cat bed by any chance :3

Lexi 🌸12h ago

@lea @catsalad @alyx @dan it's in our signal dms somewhere

evil and intimidating lesbian 11h ago

@lexi @catsalad @alyx @dan https://futurerack.info/main.php#/products_pets

hehehe
kity

FutureRack

Server racks as home furniture.

alyx (dual-stack)11h ago

@lea @catsalad @dan @lexi HAHA YES

Fuxle 🦊🏳️‍🌈6h ago

@catsalad @alyx @dan that is why its called netcat

Deka Black 1h ago

@catsalad @alyx @dan That cable modem is BLESSED by the Great Supreme Catatonic

@dan i made the horrible mistake of adopting a network switch without any gradual introduction procedures. by the end of the night, my existing cat, thinking it was defending its territory, had unfortunately taken the switch's life with a swift crunch to the vitals. the switch had no way to fight back, as it is optimized for connecting network devices, not combat with deadly animals such as the common house cat, and thus quickly went down without putting up a fight at all. i quickly rushed the networking equipment to the veterinarian, however it was already long gone by then. even though i only had the switch for one night, i had already grown attached to it. i decided to have the switch's remains cremated and spread out among the network closet, causing my co-workers to ask what the fuck i was doing, leading to my eventually firing due to my erratic behavior.

@dan does this feline wear a ESD collar? :)

They call them CAT cables for a reason.