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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1461076803498348551 Teethcams and magnets, but not magnetic teeth]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1461076803498348551 Teethcams and magnets, but not magnetic teeth]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1475635575059206144 meme clothes and more meme clothes]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1475635575059206144 meme clothes and more meme clothes]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1477015729325023234 keycaps: dogbutt and nft and more, oh my]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1490841392779726848 RFID cows and undefined trousers]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1495581169752342528 weird mini-pcie and pcie adapters, and external molex power]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1499140639388168194 ZIPPERFACE, plastic raincoats, and strange chicken devices]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1549433831693774848 Trying to find light-up pushbuttons, I get distracted by exercise devices and the amazing quantum resonance magnetic bioplasm non-linear system full body analyzers]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1561406477834731520 Smart doors, bird costumes, and keyboard autoclickers]


==Anthropomorphic Animals (aka Furries)==
==Anthropomorphic Animals (aka Furries)==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1443594134237843465 That time I collected my list of fursona jokes and realized this probably isn't a joke]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1443594134237843465 That time I collected my list of fursona jokes and realized this probably isn't a joke]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1425836996602200064 Hey does your fursona have to be a single animal-person? Can it be like, four animals with a hive mind?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1425836996602200064 Hey does your fursona have to be a single animal-person? Can it be like, four animals with a hive mind?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1507367968845443074 Bird furries on airplanes, vampires on the moon, the mysterious Horsetaur, and the furry spectrum]


==ADHD==
==ADHD==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1318207136636096512 The US Presidential Date System, invented in the 4th Year of Trump]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1318207136636096512 The US Presidential Date System, invented in the 4th Year of Trump]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1105181992843337729 Windows 95 doesn't know about George W. Bush and his ideas about Daylight Saving Time]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1105181992843337729 Windows 95 doesn't know about George W. Bush and his ideas about Daylight Saving Time]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1493247698312384514 HEY POPE, REVAMP THE CALENDAR ALREADY]


==The Cold War & Radiation==
==The Cold War & Radiation==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1333528312937803778 Do lights in games use real electricity? Yes, maybe, it depends, no.]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1333528312937803778 Do lights in games use real electricity? Yes, maybe, it depends, no.]


==Computer Keyboards & Mice & Joysticks==
==Computer Keyboards & Mice & Joysticks & Printers==


*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1204080220212322304 The looming security implications of mechanical keyboards]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1204080220212322304 The looming security implications of mechanical keyboards]
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*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1163489760687480839 How Mice Work]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1163489760687480839 How Mice Work]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1153789322295779328 How keyboards communicate keypresses to Windows, and why you can't easily get a keyboard with an Emoji Button]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1153789322295779328 How keyboards communicate keypresses to Windows, and why you can't easily get a keyboard with an Emoji Button]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1489285932029206533 Why are printers are so terrible?]


==Computer History==
==Computer History==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1374088629224579075 How many crabs do we need to run Doom?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1374088629224579075 How many crabs do we need to run Doom?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1445425424067006466 Computers are Magic. Literal Magic]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1445425424067006466 Computers are Magic. Literal Magic]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1517929234819297282 The time I hacked Github on accident, and more stories of weird test machines]


==Chemical Elements==
==Chemical Elements==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1457749433844568066 How to scam people with NFTs and how the IRS is going to ruin it: a beginners guide]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1457749433844568066 How to scam people with NFTs and how the IRS is going to ruin it: a beginners guide]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1461373276148490247 Someone else stole all the NFTs and made a torrent. Good. But the replyguys do not stop.]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1461373276148490247 Someone else stole all the NFTs and made a torrent. Good. But the replyguys do not stop.]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1484266161168474113 Do not engage with NFT-avatar people, just block them. Twitter wants you to be mad, so mad.]


==Electronics==
==Electronics==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1184491323056771078 Space Cannibalism, aka In-Situ Resource Extraction (outline)]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1184491323056771078 Space Cannibalism, aka In-Situ Resource Extraction (outline)]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1445753791463129104 The kingdom of base-11]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1445753791463129104 The kingdom of base-11]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1511402856355561474 IRS Isekai, or how the tax collectors found a wizard's secret summer home]


==Flea Market (Electronics/De Anza)==
==Flea Market (Electronics/De Anza)==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1137365714824597504 June 2019]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1137365714824597504 June 2019]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1172959598971514880 September 2019]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1172959598971514880 September 2019]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1512902077910945795 April 2022]


==Floppy Disks==
==Floppy Disks==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1065024550310600704 There are floppy disks on the International Space Station: How'd they get there?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1065024550310600704 There are floppy disks on the International Space Station: How'd they get there?]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1032285477590593538 How can we get power out of a black hole?]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1032285477590593538 How can we get power out of a black hole?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1494342562630365184 Why is there an astrological symbol for Makemake? and what the heck is dark matter?]


==Science Fiction & Anime==
==Science Fiction & Anime==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1340018870749294592 Kira from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Ivanova from Babylon 5 meet up for coffee]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1340018870749294592 Kira from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Ivanova from Babylon 5 meet up for coffee]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1357385826561232896 Spock's name, and old computers in the far future of Star Trek]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1357385826561232896 Spock's name, and old computers in the far future of Star Trek]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1481657505688158209 When did vampires start being scared of crosses?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1029833904352456704 Is space full of vampires?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1483159483257810945 Has anyone written a Star Trek novel about Worf's Bar Mitzvah?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1486365187741421569 Dune is a utopia because there's no computers, and how Copyright solves the Fermi Paradox]


==Thrifting==
==Thrifting==

Latest revision as of 19:30, 21 August 2022

I like to ramble about things on twitter. Sometimes these are interesting long threads, so I'm going to try to collect them here.

Aliexpress/ebay/amazon is full of Weird Junk

Anthropomorphic Animals (aka Furries)

ADHD

Biology

Calendars

The Cold War & Radiation

Computer Displays

Computer Keyboards & Mice & Joysticks & Printers

Computer History

Computer Programming/Engineering

Chemical Elements

Cryptocurrency/NFTs

Electronics

Fiction Writing

Flea Market (Electronics/De Anza)

Floppy Disks

Games

Gender

My Government Job

US History & Politics

The James Webb Ground Device

Linguistics

Magazines

Misc Science

Money

Music

Personal History

Religion

Space Science

Science Fiction & Anime

Thrifting

Video, Film, & Television