SaltimBonker 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇮🇱

Tipsy turbo tugboat captain, 7-color pressman, gearhead, fixer, busted-knuckles club, Salty Silver Daddy™ ©MCMLXII made in Santa Ana. Recovering type/font nerd.

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NIP-05 Address

gronk_at_pettingzoo.co@mostr.pub

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2023-09-13 00:01:57

Kind of meh on the iPhone 15. Better camera is always better but the one in my 13 Pro Max is fine, battery life is fine, and USB-C isn’t enough to make me spend $550 to pay this one off then buy a new one. Probably gonna pass. For now.

2023-09-12 23:56:15

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@npub19ag…qgye @npub1ahq…wjwd there’s nothing forcing you to use iCloud at all, as long as you’re ok with backing up all your photos and videos to a Mac or PC, and being responsible with regular local backups.
It does however make a lot of that automatic. Your choice.

2023-09-06 02:51:12

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@npub1gmx…atcq deal but I get a turn at the lash.

2023-09-06 02:44:44

But I’m the one who’s supposed to give up driving and flying… got it.
This also goes for crypto mining and AI farms.
https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/111013045846595702

2023-09-03 04:44:18

Oh hope they’re stuck in a wet mud-floor tent with their sick kid.
WTF is wrong with these Burner shitweasels?
https://mas.to/@nesmb/110998965442468495

2023-09-02 18:14:03

Thpbbth #Bleptember #Blep
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2023-08-31 01:42:35

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 @npub1z0t…wj4p @npub1eee…e209 @npub13yh…a5se oh I know that machine and the museum, both in the old place in N Andover and the new one in Haverhill. Frank Romano was my mentor at RIT.

2023-08-31 01:19:47

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@npub1z0t…wj4p @npub1eee…e209 @npub1hvd…9sq9 Y’all giving me prepress trauma flashback. Jaz and SyQuest and Zips that self-destructed but it was always my fault. Drum scanners that destroyed $400 chromes. Newton rings. Old balky Linotronics. Fucking DAT drives and Dantz Retrospect that turned tapes into snarls. Making blue lines. Psycho neurotic designers. SCSI!! That six-color+spot varnish British Airways job I had to manually trap but was f’ing gorgeous when finished.
It got me through grad school. Ugh.

2023-08-20 21:58:44

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@npub13c6…lkgd @npub1jcn…0xst Been walking into another room and going “Errr why did I walk in here again?” for years.

2023-08-16 04:09:14

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@npub1v0j…9rfl IKR?!
"Yeah, ship it. No more development, no bug fixes. It's fine!”

2023-08-16 03:43:55

Shitty act comes on the Apple Music stream I made a long time ago:
Me: “Don't play this artist again.”
Siri: “OK, got it!”
Me: “The fuck you do” because same shitty act will replay within an hour or two.
I'm on to you, Siri, and your bullshit.

2023-08-13 22:11:13

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@npub1v0j…9rfl ooo good one.

2023-08-13 21:50:25

Nobody has said anything to me about why I’m masking of late on planes. If someone did, my answer would be “None of your fucking business.”
https://thefolklore.cafe/@juergen_hubert/110880682233915706

2023-08-09 02:01:39

1. Open Google translate. (http://translate.google.com/)
2. Input some dots (...................).
3. Select "Japanese".
4. Click "Listen".
5. Laugh like an idiot.

2023-08-07 22:24:09

It’s new at least but pretty basic. (@ Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Fond du Lac in Fond du Lac, WI) https://www.swarmapp.com/flying_badger/checkin/64d16ef998e21a654633f052?s=hqKP9KHbZvbYPBb23Joks798VkE

2023-08-06 17:53:08

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@npub1v0j…9rfl Birthday?

2023-08-05 19:36:17

Next time you see one of these stickers/license plates…
And it makes me angry that several states issue these.
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2023-08-04 20:42:15

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@npub1v0j…9rfl oh for sure. They think they’re gonna skim billions off subscriptions. BMW tried that shit once. It didn’t last.

2023-08-04 18:49:37

Everybody hates GM’s decision to kill Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its EVs - The Verge <— I think GM is making a colossal mistake here. Not that I’m in the market but if I was, and GM or any other had pulled CarPlay/Android Auto, those brands would be off the table. https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/4/23669523/gm-apple-carplay-android-auto-ev-restrict-access

2023-08-04 15:08:21

The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ TV remote were a mechanical marvel <— yes pls stop with the giant hundreds of buttons remotes. The ones for my TV and amplifier are huge and I only ever use the on/off and volume controls.
And I’m old enough to be envious of neighbors who had these TVs. You could hear the hammer strike the metal anvil but not the actual sound it produced. Then I’d go back home to our sad old Sears B&W tv where I was the “remote” for my parents. https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remote-control-button-of-the-month

2023-07-20 05:19:52

All cats love boxes.
ALL cats.
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2023-07-16 06:03:26

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@npub1gmx…atcq In-N-Out is another owned-by-Jesus-addled-fanatics shitty grease pit along with Cookout and Chick-whatever.

2023-07-16 03:07:25

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 Max sheet is 750x530mm or 29-ish x 20.8”. Total ink coverage really doesn't affect it as the ink is already a cured film before impression, but officially we advise to keep it under 300%. And it's NOT inkjet!

2023-07-15 22:59:01

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 Wow. OK then! My fastest is 3,000/hr duplex.

2023-07-15 22:49:37

JFC you have to see it in person to appreciate how fucking HUGE this thing is. (@ Spruce Goose in McMinnville, OR) https://www.swarmapp.com/flying_badger/checkin/64b31fc4a561605a0aab1a34?s=7b-ipH1_gZTeR6P19ei4zoI1xCY

2023-07-15 02:49:20

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 4/4? Did you consider printing it on a B2-size Indigo or are you running FM/high-linescreen?

2023-07-13 03:41:52

There’s people lining up outside this shop next where I’m having dinner to further wait inside for fucking s’mores. #Portlandia

2023-07-06 01:51:20

Two chimpanzees arguing:
1. You’re going to Hell
2. What's in Hell?
1. People like you
2. What's in Heaven?
1. People like me
2. You need to work on your threats
Since that’s trending.
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2023-07-02 05:49:29

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@npub1r4h…u0jf 😹 that’s probably on purpose.

2023-07-01 03:24:12

I don't know why anyone would want a folding phone that instantly doubles in thickness when closed and will (not if) suffer some kind of catastrophic screen failure.
I get it; it's a mini-tablet when opened, but the tech isn't there. You're paying a lot to be an alpha (not in the TOTES MASC sense) tester.
Two coworkers have Samsung fold things and both screens are badly creased and one is cracking. These aren't old.
https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/06/rip-to-my-pixel-fold-dead-after-four-days/

2023-06-27 20:25:12

Absolutely unacceptable that scientists are being harassed, doxed, threatened, etc for being fucking right. https://open.substack.com/pub/yourlocalepidemiologist/p/harassment-against-scientists-is?r=h87a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

2023-06-26 20:50:32

At the cat factory shipping dept.
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2023-06-18 16:39:11

Tiny dragon on our deck. Some kinda moth. I KEEL YOU GIANT HOOMAN!!
A spotted apatelodes per reverse image search.
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https://ptzo-masto-pettingzoo.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/110/566/190/225/191/711/original/75e65db97abf0f18.jpeg
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2023-06-18 02:55:37

I swear half y’all drive like fuel is free.
$10 the shriveled-dick MAGAt badly steering that roaring no-muffler 6,500lb jacked-up POWER!! STROKE!! TURBO!! DIESEL!! at 95mph whines and bawls like a toddler at the pumps.

2023-06-14 19:15:35

Meoooo!
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2023-05-28 18:51:54

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@npub1ldk…5msg Sorry. Fixed.

2023-05-28 18:47:24

Well this happened. Stupid cinderblocks…
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2023-04-06 02:28:29

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#[0] Ugh. Fortunately my allergies aren't so bad this year.
So far.

2023-04-06 02:22:43

Ugh it's early April here in Atlanta/GA/US and the AC just kicked on set to 24* from today's 30° high... but high of 11 on Saturday with cold pissy rain that better not mess with my travel plans that day.
I hate shoulder season. And AC; that cold draft drives me bugfuck.
*I use metric because the entire fucking planet does, not as affectation.

2023-04-01 21:44:14

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