The Scenes that Made Me: Star Wars

Mon 19 May 2025

Luke looking wistfully out at the dual sunset on Tatooine as The Force Theme plays hauntingly in the background, beckoning him to his grand adventure

Luke looking wistfully out at the dual sunset on Tatooine as The Force Theme plays hauntingly in the background, beckoning him to his grand adventure

Having grown up in the 1980s, one thing random friends would often ask me (actually what family friends would ask my mom) was: "Has he …

Category: Entertainment Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Beauty Entertainment Ethics Life Loss Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Science Fiction

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I (again) want Star Trek to be real

Sun 11 May 2025

When I was in High School, I fell madly in love with Star Trek: The Next Generation. The fascinating characters, the (at the time) amazing special effects, the stories, the optimism, but most of all, the technology.

My eyes dazzled seeing huge touchscreens, digital tablets, and incredible spacefaring vessels every …

Category: Ethics Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Computing Entertainment Ethics Life Non-technical post Philosophy Science Fiction

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I really wish the Fediverse had more permanence

Sat 10 May 2025

One of the things I hear people on the Fediverse celebrate is its incredible transience. There's no one big central network, so posts have nebulous reach throughout the network, depending on how well-"connected" your instance is, and many people set posts to auto-delete after a set period of time …

Category: Life Tagged: 100DaysToOffload ADHD Beauty FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Federated Services Life Linux Loss Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Social Media

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Gathering Hashtags from the Fediverse

Thu 08 May 2025

Background

One minor foible of the fediverse instance I'm on is that searching (for accounts or hashtags) can be quite slow. As a workaround for now, I've saved a list of accounts I've followed for easy reference, but I also wanted some way of saving a list of hashtags to …

Category: Tech Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Computing Content Warning Federated Services FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Linux Non-religious post Productivity Social Media

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A Toast to the Prolific ones

Tue 06 May 2025

A screencap of the "toast" scene from The Wolf of Wall Street

I wanted to take some time out today to acknowledge some folks on the fediverse that are remarkably prolific, just for fun.

Prolific blogger — Rubenerd

Oh holy moly. This fella has words. Lots of words. Many very fine words. Just look at bro's output for 2024:

~ $ curl -s https://rubenerd …

Category: Life Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Beauty Computing Entertainment Federated Services FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Hobbies Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Productivity Social Media Writing

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