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  OMG, was I ever sharing a brain with whoever set this cryptic 🤯 My wildly all time best ever time, even with this version jumping squares and having to go back and retype several answers. #cryptic #lovatts #crossword

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  If only I had two jockey wheels and a cassette on my bike, I'd be able to save $30 AUD by not having to buy this tool to break a chain free of the indestructible, high strength grip of chain wax. 🤯🤷 Or, if I had and old or spare jockey wheel, and a screw… I actually find it a bit easier to fit a wax-stiffened chain back onto the bike, as it doesn't collapse floppily into a heap at every single link, but will happily poke out into mid-air, freeing one hand to grab the master lin...

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  If anyone is trying to disassemble their Ortur LU2-10A laser module (say, if it's suddenly making a horrible intermittent screeching noise like some debris is caught in a fan), the secret is 4 screws under the big sticker. They pull the laser module heatsink against the exterior heatsink, so you can spread new compound, slide the module into the housing, then squish the heatsink compound with the 4 screws. #Ortur #laser #LU2-10A

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  If I read: "We’re headed towards more roundness to invite a friendlier brand tone" and compulsively vomit, I guess that means I'm officially a grumpy old man. Also, WTF is that word salad trying to mean? I know it's ringing the "AI SLOP" warning bell in my brain.

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  If anyone is bored with the competence of Cutting Edge Engineering, Blondihacks, Keith Rucker, etc., YouTube just served me up this guy, working alone, in bare feet, misusing machine skates, dropping a brand new lathe, and trying to catch it! 🤯😱

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  First we lost the wars against the emus, now bogongs take out our radar! https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/clouds-but-no-rain-moth-swarms-bamboozle-the-weather-radar-20261021-p617gp.html #bogong

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  The Lion, the Witch, and the Small Box at the Very Back of the Top Shelf of the Wardrobe. #LostAndFoundABook #HashTagGames

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  Drove to a new servo today, chasing the lowest price for my 2nd fill-up this year (unsubtle "I ride my bike lots" gloat 🤪). Had a bit of a panic to realise there were no humans there, other than me. It was a U-Go, where you do your paying at the pump, choosing from some prearranged values. I was madly calculating in my head: fuel tank capacity * price per litre, rounded down to the next lowest option, and wondering what happens if you don't pump the whole amount of th...

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  I appreciate that AliExpress wants to save me $2, but I'm not sure if I have to buy an extra 0 items, or 1,070,003 extra items 🤔 #AliExpress

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  IMHO, getting a colour-matched chain isn't really worth it 🤷 Too subtle. I don't regret it, but I don't think I'd ever bother again (unless, as in this case, AliExpress lines up multiple offers and discounts so that it's cheaper to buy a colourful chain than a boring chain🤪) #BikeTooter

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  At the lakeside, reading. I overhear: 1: "Oh, he's friendly!😀" 2: "Mine, too!😀" 1: "Stop, Handbag Yapster1" 2: "Stop, Handbag Yapster2" 1: "STOP! STOP!" 2: "STOP! STOP!" Psycho pretend dogs 1 & 2 continue to loudly and frantically disembowel each other, while simultaneously forcing their owners into an impromptu public Shibari session, courtesy of those stupid extending leashes. 1: "They're NEVER like this!" 2: &q...

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  Another one for my collection of people parking across my driveway:

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  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org We had a woodburning stove when I was growing up. The treatment for my asthma was early morning swimming every day until I could swim a mile. 🥶 The Dr also said that people grow out of asthma at 7 year intervals; 7, 14, 21 etc. So, when I left home to share a flat with a mate, and lived on microwaved pizza, being 21 was *obviously* what cured my asthma 😂

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  @Unixbigot@aus.social Oh, please tell me that the Very Small Screwdriver That Could was launched at a significant fraction of lightspeed to loop the collider a few times before doing its thing.🪛

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  @cmconseils@mastodon.social If the blocks were named, wouldn't Alexey Pazhitnov, the Russian who wrote Tetris in Russia, have named them "Dmitri", or "Boris and Natasha" etc.?

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  @catsalad@infosec.exchange Prior to all these AD times, there was the period known as BC, for "Bulky CRT"

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  @sundogplanets@mastodon.social You'll never make it as a tech bro … The proper response is to identify a competing niche, and get governments to throw buckets of money at you. In this case, if someone is launching sunlight-as-a-service, clearly everyone who isn't in their target market must be in the market for darkness-as-a-service. This would just need 58,001 huge satellites which could be positioned to block either the direct or reflected sunlight from the 58k Reflect Orbital bozo...

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  New bike project, as suggested by AliExpress: Fit a spoke protector disc to my FRONT wheel, in case the chain breaks, comes off, whips forward, and entangles itself in the spokes of the front wheel. 🤯 #BikeTooter

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  I was taken aback to read the handwritten note from a librarian, explaining the system problem with attempting to borrow a DVD was: "because it hadden been borrow in a long wile" 🤯 I thought librarians were supposed to be better than average with words.

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  Is there any need to trim this excess molding flash from the rim of these tyres? Cheap tyres for a cheap bike, running butyl inner tubes. I'm guessing "don't bother", but wondered if there was any chance of it getting bunched up and rubbing the tube? But then, it's just thin rubber against rubber, like the whole tube against tyre … 🤔 #BikeTooter

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  Finally annoyed enough by YouTube's constant, repeated, multi-level attempts to get me to log in, I tried the SBS app on my TV, and found some Studio Ghibli movies! 🎉 Take that, YT! You've enshittified yourself in the foot!