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Tom Swartz

@tswartz07.bsky.social

I'm the cryptid behind your local Denny's. Hot Sauce, Beers, Tech, Postgres, Amateur Radio. 750,000 Scovilles. Opinions my own, all that jazz. Big fan of space, both outer and personal.

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hey everybody lifelong tech expert here

> "system crashโ€ deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility

that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

25.01.2026 17:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15378    ๐Ÿ” 6128    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 254    ๐Ÿ“Œ 119

if you wrote this scene into a book the editor would accuse you of being hamfisted

23.01.2026 17:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 96    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Gotchaโ€”letโ€™s dig into that step by step.

1. ๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ป๐—ผ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ต, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. Youโ€™re not just immobileโ€”youโ€™re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. ๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—บ. That makes total senseโ€”itโ€™s a natural human impulse, and youโ€™ve been through a lot.

23.01.2026 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18456    ๐Ÿ” 5951    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 197    ๐Ÿ“Œ 107

It has not been lost on me that the two preeminent contemporary uses of LLMs is the infinite generation of 1) CSAM and 2) media that serves no purpose other to publicly denigrate, humiliate, and dominate women and minorities.

22.01.2026 17:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3811    ๐Ÿ” 1011    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

21.01.2026 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8439    ๐Ÿ” 3048    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 83    ๐Ÿ“Œ 36
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This dude is intense and correct

15.01.2026 09:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9220    ๐Ÿ” 2966    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 95    ๐Ÿ“Œ 370
A drawer full of squessers, labeled โ€œSquessersโ€

A drawer full of squessers, labeled โ€œSquessersโ€

Like 12 years ago my friend sent me this picture from his work and it immediately, permanently changed the name of this utensil in my head. The bytes were fully overwritten. I donโ€™t remember the former name of this item and frankly I donโ€™t care

09.01.2026 02:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1750    ๐Ÿ” 428    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 46    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

isn't it wild how we actually live in a world with cyberpsychosis, but instead of being able to get cybernetic limbs it comes from a chat program that "yes ands" too hard

13.01.2026 18:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1450    ๐Ÿ” 268    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

and i've been hoping to eat a chili pepper that will do this to me ever since

06.01.2026 01:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1192    ๐Ÿ” 101    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Today is the last day that you can repost this image

31.12.2025 07:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25313    ๐Ÿ” 14928    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
The family of mice singing โ€œNo cheeses for us meecesโ€ in the opening song (โ€œScroogeโ€) of THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992), a movie that I saw in the theater at age 10 and which immediately became a formative movie and deeply held family favorite, its annual viewing soon becoming a family tradition, and which has always been incredibly dear to me, even though I consider myself only an average enthusiast when it comes to the Muppets (I grew up with them and still love them with that warm childhood purity but I am not at Disney-Adult-levels of obsession or passionate opinionโ€”but I will say that THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL is one of the best adaptations of Dickensโ€™s story in the entire history of cinema, and no one since โ€™92 has come remotely close), and which I have always found incredibly moving and beautiful and tragic and redemptive, and which always makes me cry quietly during several key scenes; it is one of my strongest links to childhood memory.

The family of mice singing โ€œNo cheeses for us meecesโ€ in the opening song (โ€œScroogeโ€) of THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992), a movie that I saw in the theater at age 10 and which immediately became a formative movie and deeply held family favorite, its annual viewing soon becoming a family tradition, and which has always been incredibly dear to me, even though I consider myself only an average enthusiast when it comes to the Muppets (I grew up with them and still love them with that warm childhood purity but I am not at Disney-Adult-levels of obsession or passionate opinionโ€”but I will say that THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL is one of the best adaptations of Dickensโ€™s story in the entire history of cinema, and no one since โ€™92 has come remotely close), and which I have always found incredibly moving and beautiful and tragic and redemptive, and which always makes me cry quietly during several key scenes; it is one of my strongest links to childhood memory.

When they ask me what radicalized me

23.12.2025 02:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2928    ๐Ÿ” 806    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15
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If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

22.12.2025 17:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10579    ๐Ÿ” 3657    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 71    ๐Ÿ“Œ 180
a skeliA SKELITEN DRINKEN A NICE GOBLET OF JUICE AND THERE SAYIN "I DONT CARE WHO U ARE, I DONT CARE WHERE YOURE FROM, I DONT CARE HOW YOU L OOK, IF YOU SEED YOUR TORRENT'S, YOUR MY FREIND " - AND THATS REAL TALK SEED YOUR TORRENTS FUCK PAYING FOR STREAMING VIDEO - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

a skeliA SKELITEN DRINKEN A NICE GOBLET OF JUICE AND THERE SAYIN "I DONT CARE WHO U ARE, I DONT CARE WHERE YOURE FROM, I DONT CARE HOW YOU L OOK, IF YOU SEED YOUR TORRENT'S, YOUR MY FREIND " - AND THATS REAL TALK SEED YOUR TORRENTS FUCK PAYING FOR STREAMING VIDEO - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

TRUE FREIND - dashare.zone ADMIN

18.12.2025 21:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 470    ๐Ÿ” 114    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
12.12.2025 22:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2436    ๐Ÿ” 568    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

I donโ€™t say this often, but I actually do believe Sam Altman on this one

09.12.2025 23:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 206    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Iโ€™ve found itโ€™s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

29.04.2025 22:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10518    ๐Ÿ” 4557    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 149    ๐Ÿ“Œ 215
A golden retriever holding an octopus in its mouth, so it looks like tentacles

A golden retriever holding an octopus in its mouth, so it looks like tentacles

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

09.12.2025 02:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17656    ๐Ÿ” 4016    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 141    ๐Ÿ“Œ 92

every time i see that water tower i remember the animaniacs are trapped in there by david zaslav. Yet every story leaves it out

04.12.2025 15:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2105    ๐Ÿ” 347    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

12.11.2025 22:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2970    ๐Ÿ” 652    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 109    ๐Ÿ“Œ 63

Everyone excited to buy a Steam Machine.

12.11.2025 23:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2869    ๐Ÿ” 433    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 24
06.11.2025 15:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3780    ๐Ÿ” 1256    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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I entirely forgot that I made this anti-ASMR video (Sound warning headphones users)

27.10.2025 02:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4406    ๐Ÿ” 1538    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 147    ๐Ÿ“Œ 89
atlantic article screenshot 
headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get
sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight 
by yasmin tayag

atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

23.10.2025 12:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11420    ๐Ÿ” 2959    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 170    ๐Ÿ“Œ 430

my #1 issue for 2026, ahead of everything else including guaranteeing my own rights and safety, is bringing back the stockades for That Fuckin Guy specifically

16.10.2025 19:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1452    ๐Ÿ” 163    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Graphic showing the proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

Graphic showing the proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

In the first 100 days I will dig down into the place of honor. On day one I will issue an Executive Order that the radical woke warning signs be removed and anyone perpetuating the "dangerous and repulsive" lie to be terminated. I will restore the country by touching the ancient treasures.

24.01.2025 03:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1402    ๐Ÿ” 324    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

Is the red one in the background the same type? if so, they definitely look like habaneros to me.

08.10.2025 19:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

American brands: We paid an AI slop company to make a chat bot that wonโ€™t load

French brand: We hired the best living comic artist to make an original short film with a top director and Production IG

18.09.2025 16:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2424    ๐Ÿ” 709    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
RAY: Because I pay attention. I PAY ATTENTION. You didn't know I was paying attention because you weren't PAYING ATTENTION.

RAY: Because I pay attention. I PAY ATTENTION. You didn't know I was paying attention because you weren't PAYING ATTENTION.

losing my mind now that everyone else finally noticed that ezra klein is stupid

16.09.2025 14:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1632    ๐Ÿ” 190    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

Can you imagine how embarrassing it is to just call the cops and be like yeah, my loser son is the most wanted man in America, no he's still here

12.09.2025 13:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 853    ๐Ÿ” 87    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

his father was unavailable for comment

09.09.2025 21:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11597    ๐Ÿ” 2297    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 55    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

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