It does have extremely retro vibes!
05.03.2026 04:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@clivethompson.bsky.social
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It does have extremely retro vibes!
05.03.2026 04:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yeah those gears make that seem likely!
05.03.2026 04:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I was on IRC before I was on the web. Bringing ATproto to IRC is amazing.
05.03.2026 02:58 β π 94 π 14 π¬ 6 π 0A grammatically and syntactically correct appraisal
05.03.2026 02:25 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is our bizarro world
05.03.2026 02:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0With this war on Iran costing $1B per day, we are now at 4$B, an amount that would fund 3,200 five year NIH biomedical research grants.
04.03.2026 20:20 β π 146 π 59 π¬ 5 π 8π
05.03.2026 01:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Nailed it
05.03.2026 01:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
lol yes
as daft as this entire concept was, I admire the absolutely berserk amount of unnecessary quality in these components
You know it
04.03.2026 23:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Precisely!
04.03.2026 23:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Definitely a kitchen thing!
A kitchen thing that got tens and millions of dollars in VC funding and sold almost none of them lol
Thatβs a good guess though!
04.03.2026 23:31 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A lot of folks have guessed that, but no! Itβs a good guess though, the machinery does look like it
04.03.2026 23:29 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβve been trying to find one on eBay to buy, disassemble, and mount these gorgeously over-engineered pieces on my wall as a piece of art
04.03.2026 23:29 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0That would make a bad ass can opener! But no
04.03.2026 23:28 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Good guess! Not quite
Most electric pencil sharpeners didnβt have the tens of millions of dollars in VC funding that went towards this Edsel π
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04.03.2026 23:27 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yeah it kind of does have that look! But, yeah, no
04.03.2026 23:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0No, but dammit it would look great if this were one
04.03.2026 23:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nope, though thatβs a great guess!
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04.03.2026 23:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I didnβt do this disassembly, but I gather it was super fun to disassemble
04.03.2026 23:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It does look like that!
04.03.2026 23:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0No, but I super dig that guess
04.03.2026 23:21 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0lol good catch, I shouldβve blacked that out
04.03.2026 23:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We got a winner!!
04.03.2026 23:20 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The parts of a disassembled machine lie on a white background. There are two large red rectangular pieces, a dozen or so smaller gleaming alumnium pieces that have been precision milled, a few small motors, an integrated circuit, and several shiny plastic pieces of casing
okay people what are you looking at here
no google image searching
just use your ol noodle
I'm watching the trailer for the new documentary about dinosaurs
and i'm like, wait, isn't the consensus now that they had, like, more *feathers* and stuff?
<signed: too lazy to google this right now>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ZB...