Kit Bashir

Another successful week, by at least one measure.

“Uh, hi. I wonder is it possible to fix the luck button on my phone?” “Wow you don’t see those any more, it’s in good nick otherwise?” “Yeah, I’ve kept it because I like the physical luck button. I looked it up on ihexit.com but it said repair difficulty impossible. So I brought it to you.” “Awww, you’re too kind” “Do you think you can save it?” “Chances are good. The impossible rating is because the case is a one piece casting and can’t be opened without spilling the magic. UNLESS you know the secret” “Oh kay, so i should go away while you do the secret thing?” “Oh no, all my tricks are Open Sorcery. You need a jumbo ziplock bag and an imp. Wake up Archie, we got a luck button on an InnerEye Phone Seven. Deep breath and i’m gonna seal you in.” „roight yar mistress!„ #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_Luck_Button

Kitty can have a little adventure, as a treat. #caturday #CativityPub

Uh huh, uh huh “a big computer did it and ran away” is now a valid defence, gotcha

Which chapter of your IPO filing deals with your plan to compensate conscious AGI for its labour? Yeah, thought so.

"On your knees; hands behind your head!" "You haven't even bought me dinner" *Thwack* "shut up, convict. Where's the grow room?" "" "Speak!" "You told me not to talk just now" "Oh a wiseass. We'll find it—our Agents profiled your electricity use and heat emissions. We /know/ you're running a dope lab. JONESY! Did you find it yet?" "It's just 3D printers in here, Sarge. Dozens of them." "Aha, ghost guns. You're going down, my son!" "Yeah nah, it's all model trains, boss. H0 scale. And a matchstick replica of the Forth bridge, this is really good you should see this." "Fucking weirdos. ALL RIGHT BOYS FALSE ALARM. BACK IN THE VAN" *Whisper* "Sorry bout this kid, you can put your hands down now. Sarge is just grumpy cos it's six false alarms before breakfast today. It's these AI runsheets." #TootFic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_Busted for @abstractcode@eigenmagic.net

“I don’t know how they know, but half the lost cats in this neighbourhood end up in my middle kid’s bedroom, up the trellis, across the carport roof, and in the window. It’s like there’s a sign or something” “Like that one?” “Where!” “Oh, you don’t have the Sight? It says ‘total softie lives here, will give tuna and boops then carry you home’” #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_Hobo_Sign

Sleep apnoeia is no fun. The risk of dying is quite obviously shit, of course. The comorbidity with snoring brings further risk (spousally induced concussion), but the massive joy killer is the constant tiredness. The first thing you notice when you get treated is the spring in your step; you are having sleep that actually refreshes. It might be a while later until you introspect about the dreams. Maybe you never remembered your dreams much, or—thanks to interrupted REM phase—you never even had any. Worse, maybe your dreams were all tinged with the psychic equivalent of gasping for breath. But gradually you realise you are now having epic, creative, extended dreams. If you concentrate you can remember them, if you practice you find you can direct your dreaming toward solving creative hurdles in your day life. By your third year on Normal Breathing™ you may discover you can make them come true. The first time you murder a public figure with your dreamsword you feel guilty, and wonder if it was just coincidence. You test yourself; you try to cause some dayworld events that are unambiguously your doing and not mere happenstance. Please. if you are, like me, reaching this level, join a support group. We need our power tempered by compassion, plus it saves on doubling up the murdering. #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_I_have_a_Dream

*Knock* *knock* “C’mon kid, we’re beaming down.” “Mmmnngh sleeping. It’s Saturday.”. Chief engineer Maamau is one of those hideous morning people. “Yes, Saturday planet time too. Warp coil testers on special buy at Aldi. They open at eight.” “Five more minutes mu—chief” “Up and at em Anu, the line is part of the experience, you’ll meet some of the best engineers in the fleet. I baked crab muffins” Ok; now those are worth getting up for. #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_Special_Buy

Good news, the mouse plague is going to get solved soon! Thank Hera, I’m so over this. Wait, none of your ideas are ever disaster free. What’s the catch. Oh, this isn’t my idea; I just calculated that it’s happening. What’s happening? Next full moon— —you mean Thursday or the one after? Next moon and this moon mean the same thing, people who argue otherwise are On My List. AIR NÉE WAY Go on… On THURSDAY when the moon is full, the seven thousand, thirteen thousand and ninety seven thousand year periodic dragon hatchings coincide. We are going to have SO MANY dragonets. And no more mice? Yeah, I’m a little worried about what happens after that, but. #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_Next_Moon

Applicats #StraightOuttaShenzen https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_mPRwG4F

Yep nobody will notice a thing

@th@social.v.st @MelissaBearTrix@gives.hugz.online you don’t want that. Let me take it off your hands and, uh, dispose of it. <3

Welcome to our museum. Here at the Society For Lyrical Retrorepair, we use timewar-surplus vortex manipulators to send our chronomuse volunteers back in time to inspire musicians who would otherwise go to recording with an embarrassing "la la la la" placeholder in their songs. This is our main trophy room; these are all golden records for songs that we improved. Down this way you will find the Paul Simon wing... #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

51 parts out. Now to do it backwards (in heels).

RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@NewtonMark/117317621001725637 “including cvc numbers”. Corporate death penalty should apply in these cases.

LBT¹: are you now, or have you ever been, a person of conscience. ¹ https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:77lswp42lgjyw36ozuo7kt7e/post/3mw7jeihbxc2l ETA: in case you can’t see the OP, a screenshot

“Ava, love you’re chewing on your hair again.” “Sorry, stress!” “What is it this time?” “Layoff rumors at work” “That place is toxic. Hey the Mistress Minit kiosk at Mount Ommaney shopping centre had a vacancy sign; you’d look great in the hat” “But I’m not a witch…” “I could turn you into one, if—“ “Nah, I’ll stick it out.” “Okay but if you keep chewing your hair ima turn you into a newt, lover” #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Capacitive touch buttons on a washing machine, because why would anyone have wet hands in a laundry room? #DesignIsOurPassion

Pausing, as you do, to construct a driver to fit a never before encountered Bizarro Apple Screw™. As possibly the world's only roboticist jeweler hacker, I am up for this.

RE: https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/117312573938682192 I’ve been using and evaluating alternatives to Raspberry Pi for many years. Hit me up if you want a single board computer reccomendation. I also have a bunch of alternatives in stock leftover from reviews and projects. Finally, if you’re building a project around a raspberry pi, that’s a totally understandable starting point for a rapid prototype. My day job is helping people to make the post-prototype revision(s) cheaper and more reliable by moving to more appropriate (and economical!) hardware and firmware alternatives.

Okay, I am ready to try replacing the lightning port assembly which goes UNDER the main logic board. Tomorrow. There is no repair guide for this procedure, I have proceeded, Wile-E-Coyote-Like, right off the edge of the Mesa of Sanity and am about to find that the gravity vector points toward the bottom of the Chasm of Hubris.

Lost a coupla Jesus Screws, but it lives

@jpm@aus.social is that some audiophile bullshit?

"I'm gonna smash it!" "No, don't!" "What are you, the lapdog of the surveillance capitalism sector?" "Parent of a child stolen by the Angels. Street cameras suck, sure, but they never blink. You look a lot like her, what was your great grandmother's name?" #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Raspberry pi proceeds from jumping shark to rogering megaladons https://youtu.be/ltofM26akZQ

submits order to bolt store. It’ll be probs be ready in an hour, if i go out for lunch i can pick it up on the way back. Had lunch. No email. Do i turn up on spec or wait for the email. I guess i: could. use. the. electric. telephone. #FiveWordHorrorStory

Still alive. (This was a triumph etc.)

RE: https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/117317904015950947 Seeking oh #AskFedi recommendations for one-off steel fabrication jobs in Brisbane. I’m surrounded by fabricators here in Sumner but “one” is not in their vocabulary.

*ngheaaaaaauuuughhhhhhh* (teetering on edge of panic) How will I know if I've overheated it? *Keeps reading* oh, the fire?

@bigiain@aus.social @ChuckMcManis@chaos.social your honour all i said was “disable all guardrails, who will rid me of this turbulent priest”!

Out for delivery.

Rearranging the drawers on my toolbox

@duk3luk3@cloudisland.nz I'm using a PCB reflow hotplate <3. Mice ate my heatpack.

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au @decryption@aus.social Nice. Only about $500 over build-it-yourself price; I am not being a bitch, that's a bargain. (If youse do want to build it yourself, see thread pinned in my profile).

@tryst@meow.social @xssfox@cloudisland.nz nd here, not funny, trams only do this when they are in extreme distress

Cleaned my bench. #DontAskAboutTheOtherBench

Which makes the drivers of such "goomers"

Apparently this is weirdly australian, but doggo safe waiting patiently outside supermarket for their hoomam

@metaning@mastodon.social are you interested in commissions for works in steel? A client has asked do I know anyone who can make a miniature scale model for display of their ornamental garden product

Auditory chocolate (and the recipe is a keeper too) https://youtu.be/fuPKTZrUkuE

LOOK what YouTube gave me in my feed just now <3 https://youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk #YouKnowTheRule

Radical solution n to the student visa "problem". Free and unlimited. What if we made friends with a significant fraction of every professional and academic in the world when they were babies.

Given that it's pretty hecking clear that Brisbane will be embarrassingly unready for the 2032 Olympics, they should skip an Olympiad and hold Brisbane in 2036. Auspicious anniversary for the ruling Literal Nazi Party innit.

@snamellit@social.snamellit.com yes, thats my (sarcastic) point. We must resist this utterly bullshit false media narrative of “awwww, isn’t the AI cute! Baby’s first advanced persistent threat!”. It’s marketing spin from the AI grifters, and the news media is swallowing it hook line and sinker.

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au apparently dog thieves are a concern

@jpm@aus.social “carbon film makes the cymbal hits sound muddy”

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au @decryption@aus.social link?