Mike Rodriquez

@glowrocks
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Listening for the secret, searching for the sound ...
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Time for #Mikes(almost)DailyDistraction

Today features a poop* dragon, specifically, a crystal dragon.

It's in front of its progenitor, a larger crystal dragon made w/2 filament colors, white & another that is not one color, but a color gradient.

*Rerouted 3D printer filament waste (aka poop).

TIL big specialized forums have started backdating millions of LLM-generated posts. Now you cannot be sure a reply from 2009 on some forum for physics or maps or flower or drill enthusiasts haven't been machine-generated and totally wrong.

https://hallofdreams.org/posts/physicsforums/

PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory

An exposé no one will read, about the widespread falsification of user posts in PhysicsForums, a scientific community founded in 2001. This is a microcosm of the death of the human-written Internet.

Hall of Impossible Dreams

In today's distraction from < waves hand > all this -- a macro closeup of a 3D poop dragon.

Poop prints are made from the waste that occurs when changing filament color.

To ensure a clean transition, a certain amount of filament is "pooped" out.

This can be redirected to another object w/cool results!

More info in the alt text.

OMG.

Via Joyce Vance. #KashPatel

"Why did you come to this time? To warn us?"

The time traveler laughed. "Why would anyone listen to me?"

"You're from our future-"

"No, I'm from a different timeline, a different future. I'm a refugee."

"To here? Now?"

"It looks fucked right now, but this is the timeline that pulls through."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

wild/wide new '90s san francisco tape collection, now added to @livetapes, supposedly made by an usher who worked at shoreline/warfield/greek, etc., with microphones on wristband. not the highest of fis, but lots of cool stuff. tons posted already: https://archive.org/details/@neekrive
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

I'm not a MacOS developer, but I deeply empathize with the need to write the pain into a long commit message.
#iterm #macos #development

Today we're being assaulted, to break us. We won't break:

"MAGA commander terminates female Navy pilot’s Top Gun application—unveils anti-DEI '10 Commandments'"

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/24/2298893/-MAGA-commander-terminates-female-Navy-pilot-s-Top-Gun-application-unveils-anti-DEI-10-Commandments?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web

MAGA commander terminates female Navy pilot’s Top Gun application—unveils anti-DEI '10 Commandments'

And so it begins … the MAGA military commanders are now running the show, gleefully flaunting their newfound power to thumb their noses at the Constitution and dismantle every vestige of equality in our armed forces, taking particular pleasure in...

Daily Kos

In this photo, I demonstrate how I am richer than all the billionaires combined.

I have Althea, and she loves me. And they don't have either.

JFC the ability some people have to turn any subject into a political discussion is both amazing and sad.

I could post "The flowers that bloom in this area are beautiful" and there will be at least one person who has to say "Well those flowers would have a bigger bloom if not for the states inability to handle the dry brush in the area. This is truly a sign of incompetence by our leaders."

Just fuck off man. I'm just over here trying to admire the beauty of the world. FFS.