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Amateur writer and musician, makin' my way through the pacific northwest. Loves a good old map, to spend time in quiet, most kinds of music and to daydream on fun questions. ❤️ @sporadicrat.bsky.social

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How the e-mail finds me

09.03.2026 10:00 👍 48 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
A playful poster graphic featuring flat illustrations of national postal services around the world that use bird logos. From March 2022

A playful poster graphic featuring flat illustrations of national postal services around the world that use bird logos. From March 2022

Postal services around the world that use birds as logos. One of my favorite poster graphics I've made! 🐦✉️

08.03.2026 19:47 👍 2095 🔁 795 💬 14 📌 7
It's got a 2.8 GHz *Desktop* Pentium 4, 1 GB RAM, ATI Radeon IGP 345M, and the original spinning disk was replaced with a 120 GB SSD. It can easily be reset to factory settings using the recovery partition, which was preserved in the drive change. The CPU was repasted a year ago.
The display is a very crisp XGA (1024x768) LCD panel, which doesn't have ghosting issues. It's great fun for RollerCoaster Tycoon, but it can handle somewhat more demanding games as well.
It's got the original power supply.
Being a 20-year-old laptop, there are some caveats: First of all, it weighs eight pounds, lol.
I've found one stuck pixel, but it's stuck as black, so it's not super noticeable. There is a DVD drive, but it unfortunately doesn't work. It'll also need a new CMOS battery. The actual device battery doesn't hold a charge, but it used a *Desktop* Pentium 4, so it maybe got 90 minutes battery life when it was new.

It's got a 2.8 GHz *Desktop* Pentium 4, 1 GB RAM, ATI Radeon IGP 345M, and the original spinning disk was replaced with a 120 GB SSD. It can easily be reset to factory settings using the recovery partition, which was preserved in the drive change. The CPU was repasted a year ago. The display is a very crisp XGA (1024x768) LCD panel, which doesn't have ghosting issues. It's great fun for RollerCoaster Tycoon, but it can handle somewhat more demanding games as well. It's got the original power supply. Being a 20-year-old laptop, there are some caveats: First of all, it weighs eight pounds, lol. I've found one stuck pixel, but it's stuck as black, so it's not super noticeable. There is a DVD drive, but it unfortunately doesn't work. It'll also need a new CMOS battery. The actual device battery doesn't hold a charge, but it used a *Desktop* Pentium 4, so it maybe got 90 minutes battery life when it was new.

The Vaio, in action.

The Vaio, in action.

Between a recent trip to Japan and buying a new laptop, my nerd budget is in a significant deficit.

Anyone want to buy a *very slightly* cursed Sony Vaio? $100 plus shipping, or local-ish pickup.

08.03.2026 19:52 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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A man and his kingdom

08.03.2026 18:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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08.03.2026 03:23 👍 13559 🔁 4418 💬 96 📌 66

What's the current day equivalent to getting picked to go get a new overhead projector light from the library?

07.03.2026 02:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

have another, the floofiest rat you ever did see~

perfect for snuggles :3

06.03.2026 23:24 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Stew from a medieval tavern

06.03.2026 19:00 👍 262 🔁 44 💬 2 📌 2

Fred Meyer has always come in clutch for that stuff. No one thinks to go there

06.03.2026 01:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"Unalive" "grape" "seggs" This has got to stop. Do people hear themselves? Its like talking to a particularly sensitive toddler. We can't remove serious words from our language just because we're afraid some fickle algorithm will show our posts to less people

21.02.2026 19:20 👍 6926 🔁 2645 💬 175 📌 185

my favorite tech product category is small under powered laptops....that yellow macbook neo be looking veeeeryy small and underpowered and riiight up my alley. A true nugget.

also YELLOW

05.03.2026 00:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know shit really sucks rn but like... in case people need to hear it you're allowed to be happy and excited about good news when it does come

04.03.2026 22:22 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Moment of silence

04.03.2026 20:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands and says `` yes well done '' . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands and says `` yes well done '' .
04.03.2026 20:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Doesn't even have a error code so frustrating x.x

04.03.2026 20:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There's something about modern windows/MS teams error messages that are just incredibly frustrating. It's literally

"There was an error, try again in a little while."

Like yo that does nothing to tell me what the problem is and if i need to fix something.

04.03.2026 18:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What makes you special is taking action in your own way. Not drowning in it

03.03.2026 22:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's why being calm and kind is so important and an act of rebellion. There are those who are built to fight and those that are built to sooth.

02.03.2026 21:42 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Growing up is realizing horrors persist every day and understanding that you're not special because you're living through it.

There's always been horrors.

02.03.2026 21:38 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
IRS Free File | Internal Revenue Service

friendly reminder that turbotax is a scam and the IRS literally gives you a list of websites you can use to help file your taxes for free
apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/

18.02.2025 05:29 👍 926 🔁 562 💬 21 📌 16

Such a dream job

03.03.2026 19:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Long live 2D animation (& practical effects).

28.02.2026 11:56 👍 9042 🔁 2811 💬 25 📌 54

That's why being calm and kind is so important and an act of rebellion. There are those who are built to fight and those that are built to sooth.

02.03.2026 21:42 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Growing up is realizing horrors persist every day and understanding that you're not special because you're living through it.

There's always been horrors.

02.03.2026 21:38 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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02.03.2026 18:41 👍 341 🔁 88 💬 4 📌 0
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The Avian's Apprentice: Chapter 13 - Progenitors by RushJay - SoFurry Lore abounds! Seeking help from the Vulpines in casting Kelkera learns where Vulpines come from and the story of their first, their progenitor! But is it all true? Or is it told through a cultural len...

Chapter 13 of The Avian's Apprentice is now up!
sofurry.com/s/1O55w0dm

01.03.2026 18:17 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” 
- Albert Camus

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus

01.03.2026 13:18 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Even more reasons to love Magritte

27.02.2026 19:53 👍 58 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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Time for some Bible study

28.02.2026 15:39 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i just wanted to log in on an app goddammit. Forget it

27.02.2026 15:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0