Nostr notes by ~n

It seems like this printer is not only sleeping but having vivid ...

2026-06-25T18:55:27Z

It seems like this printer is not only sleeping but having vivid dreams…

Oh. That's fairly recent news. Doesn't sound overly ...

2026-05-21T18:20:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…pm3s
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Oh. That's fairly recent news.
Doesn't sound overly tragic though.
https://blog.zulip.com/2026/05/15/announcing-zulip-foundation/

Not that "yet another one" is the solution, but for an ...

2026-05-21T16:26:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…gqqp
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Not that "yet another one" is the solution, but for an Organization I am part of, zulip works pretty well. Especially for sorting by topic and branching out discusisons. Search generally is a problem that applies here too.
https://zulip.com/

Something between "Chaotic Good" and "Lawful ...

2026-04-17T13:08:54Z

Something between "Chaotic Good" and "Lawful Evil", I guess.

Tja. So it ends. 😥 ...

2026-04-10T10:46:46Z

Tja. So it ends. 😥

ah… eine VoMit… (Voice-Mitteilung)

2026-04-09T13:05:28Z

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ah… eine VoMit… (Voice-Mitteilung)

OH: "EBITDA - Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs & Donald ...

2026-04-02T19:07:47Z

OH: "EBITDA - Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs & Donald Announcements"

That's right: A captcha! It goes in the square hole. ...

2026-04-01T13:07:54Z

That's right: A captcha! It goes in the square hole. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JsJpwtgTcLk

LLM-generated ext4 driver rejected by OpenBSD's Theo de ...

2026-03-28T20:16:36Z

LLM-generated ext4 driver rejected by OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt: "the chances of us accepting such new code with such a suspicious Copyright situation is zero", submitter refused to retract his copyright claims on the machine-generated code. Brouhaha was had.
I have a complex opinion on the use of LLMs for generating code, but regard it as a good thing that OpenBSD stays clear - and the reason is a solid one.

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1064541/1a399d572a046fb9/

CERN: First successful road transport of antimatter. ...

2026-03-24T16:15:52Z

CERN: First successful road transport of antimatter.

https://home.cern/news/press-release/experiments/base-experiment-cern-succeeds-transporting-antimatter

freebsd, openbsd, lsdbsd (macos)

2026-03-20T06:19:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…6ukk
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freebsd, openbsd, lsdbsd (macos)

yes. amongst other options.

2026-03-20T05:27:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…8vwd
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yes. amongst other options.

Excellent example for the list of answers as to why I try to keep ...

2026-03-20T05:20:14Z

Excellent example for the list of answers as to why I try to keep my household linux-free:
"stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws
in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc."

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

The brainrot is big in this one.
also… TIL: "systemd-userdbd" wtflol.
Kinda amazed how they manage to still find new nooks and crannies to metastasise into, in their haphazard nonchalant fashion.

extra-lol for this idiocy:

What a brilliant idea… A betting market for delays of german ...

2026-03-03T17:51:22Z

What a brilliant idea… A betting market for delays of german trains.
https://bahn.bet/r/kJQWfhp3

Never noticed until now, but apparently office chairs with gas ...

2026-02-14T17:35:04Z

Never noticed until now, but apparently office chairs with gas lifts are still a thing in the 24th century.

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2026-02-12T13:22:20Z

TIL: “ai;dr”

That's my point exactly. The entire concept is like "oh, ...

2026-01-25T11:21:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…sda0
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That's my point exactly. The entire concept is like "oh, there is this box on the cart, so it has to be returned" The box could also just be a sign. But the box is a more binding social contract than a sign.

Still a bit amazed - anthropologically - how and that these ...

2026-01-25T11:17:30Z

Still a bit amazed - anthropologically - how and that these things work. If you step a few steps back and look at the concept, it is ridiculous.
And yet… people are: "oh, yes. I _have_ to return this to its station! I _must_ get my token back!" even if the token is just a piece of plastic they got as a giveaway.

Oh, they entered the "and find out" phase now. Great! The ...

2026-01-24T14:31:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…ul6w
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Oh, they entered the "and find out" phase now. Great!
The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.

Apple used to make outstanding products. I'm currently ...

2026-01-24T13:55:20Z

Apple used to make outstanding products. I'm currently cleaning up my kitchen and I've got this pair of shoddy logitech desktop speakers connected to a 1st gen airport express. The same airport express model in the living room is connected via spdif/aesebu to neumann studio monitors. Music playback from my mac to both speaker sets simultaneously works without any discernible delay. I can walk back and forth between the rooms and they are perfectly in sync.

That's 2004 hardware - running netbsd.

Their best marketing move was to frame it as "it hallucinates ...

2026-01-21T01:16:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…f0w2
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Their best marketing move was to frame it as "it hallucinates some of the time" while it does so all the time - just some of these hallucinations happen to coincide better with reality than others.

I never applied for an amateur radio license because I didn't ...

2026-01-20T10:44:59Z

I never applied for an amateur radio license because I didn't like the idea of appearing on an official list of "skilled" people. Until now that was a theoretical fear. One I wasn't even sure if it was warranted or just me being overly cautious.

In Belarus things escalated quickly. Radio amateurs - usually recognized as men of goodwill - have been declared enemies of the state and publicly shamed and indicted for high treason.

https://steanlab.medium.com/mayday-389f5713fee4

oh, ffs… "Comitis Capital announces the acquisition of ...

2026-01-12T17:08:08Z

oh, ffs… "Comitis Capital announces the acquisition of Threema" … "We look forward to supporting the business during its next phase of growth and build on a legacy of its trusted brand"

We all know what that usually means.

https://comitiscapital.com/news/comitis-capital-announces-the-acquisition-of-threema

This is the biblically accurate way I learned how transistors ...

2026-01-08T21:54:15Z

This is the biblically accurate way I learned how transistors work - copy taken from the original scripture.

TIL: "If the last entry in a crontab is missing the newline, ...

2026-01-08T00:40:27Z

TIL: "If the last entry in a crontab is missing the newline, cron will consider the crontab (at least partially) broken and refuse to install it."

It does so silently. I didn't know that.
May this piece of information save you time.

Last week I wondered when https://openinframap.org/ would be ...

2026-01-05T10:20:11Z

Last week I wondered when https://openinframap.org/ would be classified as terrorism - this week already we're a step further.

TIL: The force fields in ST:TNG? Mylar pompoms. ...

2025-12-23T00:16:44Z

TIL: The force fields in ST:TNG? Mylar pompoms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3r2EGlsaYY

Fedipower: I’m looking for an embedded home Computer/NAS with a ...

2025-11-09T11:37:08Z

Fedipower: I’m looking for an embedded home Computer/NAS with a small footprint (also energy wise) to replace my current yet aged skinny home setup of an APU and a Time Capsule. Should at least have: 3 GigE ports (or 2x1G + 1x10G), 4 HDD bays, nvme, Linux without vendor stuff (ideally OpenWRT), 1GBit/s wireguard forwarding performance (large packets/mix).

Probably other people are looking to replace their Timecapsules too, now that apple is deprecating them, so, i guess :BoostOK: if you please.

Not yet. Anything that’s more than working with a ...

2025-10-12T21:37:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…z7ej
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Not yet. Anything that’s more than working with a text-screenbuffer that’s closer to teletype than to an actual editor would be great.

Don’t know if I’m in the scope of your target audience but I ...

2025-10-12T21:32:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…czvy
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Don’t know if I’m in the scope of your target audience but I did (and do) own a C64, was interested in its asm when I was young, but didn’t get any guidance as nobody cared and didn’t have the spoons to… anyway. The thing that makes/breaks investing time now as an adult is tooling. I find typing stuff into the - from today’s perspective - dated C64 ui rather cumbersome and not worth my time. So if this includes “write in a somewhat modern ide” and “run on equivalent hw”? Count me in!

Schamloses Fotorecycling zum #Loktober Der Schnabeltier-Express ...

2025-10-10T10:11:20Z

Schamloses Fotorecycling zum #Loktober
Der Schnabeltier-Express ist halt einfach sehr putzig.

As the dark part of the year is closing in on us, once more it is ...

2025-10-09T11:45:53Z

As the dark part of the year is closing in on us, once more it is time to be reminded of this PSA: The void is for screaming and the abyss is for staring into. Please don't scream into the abyss, it doesn't like it. Thank you for your kind attention.

Schon ein sehr beeindruckendes Gebäude. ...

2025-09-13T21:18:45Z

Schon ein sehr beeindruckendes Gebäude.

Thanks for your valuable contribution. Your opinion is noted. ...

2025-09-03T23:59:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…qek3
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Thanks for your valuable contribution. Your opinion is noted. Goodbye.

For the umpteenth time… It’s about the ratio. See the other ...

2025-09-03T22:46:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…3rhd
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For the umpteenth time… It’s about the ratio. See the other comments before reply-commenting. Thanks.

If your stats look like this and you wonder "hm, I have the ...

2025-09-03T20:29:46Z

If your stats look like this and you wonder "hm, I have the urge to comment on this post I'm seeing, should I go on and share my thoughts?" - friendly advice… the answer is probably "no."

This probably dates me sufficiently well: ...

2025-08-28T20:53:01Z

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This probably dates me sufficiently well:

Und wieder das Märchen vom toten Winkel. ...

2025-08-18T20:06:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…zzjs
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Und wieder das Märchen vom toten Winkel.

Wagenrücklauf & Zeilenvorschub, …two german words that ...

2025-08-12T14:43:18Z

Wagenrücklauf & Zeilenvorschub,
…two german words that never will not bring me joy when thinking about them.

("carriage return" - literaly, and "line feed" - also literally)

Kann mir jemand mal diese joindns4.eu-Nummer erklären? Wenn man ...

2025-06-09T15:50:18Z

Kann mir jemand mal diese joindns4.eu-Nummer erklären? Wenn man die IP-Adressen mal in dem ganzen Faseltext auf der Seite gefunden hat und sich den whois dazu ansieht, darf man staunen. Wenn man dann mal weiter guckt wie der Kram angebunden ist… AS hinter zwei Uplinks… 1) datacamp in uk mit cz-Telefonnummer und 2) Technologiebetrieb der Ungarischen Regierung?! WAT?
Was ist das bitte für eine EU-subventionierte amateur hour? O.o

https://bgp.tools/prefix/86.54.11.0/24#connectivity

Nature does as nature does. Fiber optic cables from drones find ...

2025-06-06T16:59:39Z

Nature does as nature does. Fiber optic cables from drones find reuse as nesting material.

source: [@hisham_hm](https://mastodon.social/@hisham_hm ) ...

2025-05-30T16:35:02Z

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source: [@hisham_hm](https://mastodon.social/@hisham_hm )

https://mastodon.social/@hisham_hm/112833820254599887

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2025-05-30T16:24:17Z

This.

Richtige Frage. Das Problem ist vmtl. nicht die Aufbewahrung, ...

2025-05-19T15:33:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…edg7
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Richtige Frage. Das Problem ist vmtl. nicht die Aufbewahrung, sondern die Nutzung. Eine Sperrung der Verwendung der Daten für Zwecke die über die gesetzlich vorgeschriebene Aufbewahrungspflicht hinausgehen kann man in jedem Fall erwarten. Insbesondere nach Ende der Vertragsbeziehung.

Gotta build honour and reputation somehow, right?

2025-05-15T01:13:13Z

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Gotta build honour and reputation somehow, right?

I think this should be a union thing.

2025-05-14T11:46:02Z

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I think this should be a union thing.

Is there a modern tool for that? I’d love to see spreadsheet ...

2025-05-08T00:04:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…nz72
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Is there a modern tool for that? I’d love to see spreadsheet mode for vim and csvs. But having formulae on top if that would definitely be interesting.

The two kinds of soup noodles: ...

2025-04-11T19:27:00Z

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The two kinds of soup noodles:

80 years. It's been 80 years. Wars suck.

2025-04-06T07:47:15Z

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80 years. It's been 80 years. Wars suck.

That I don‘t know, but jpeg is pronounced „jayfeg“ because ...

2025-03-27T13:26:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…e5j3
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That I don‘t know, but jpeg is pronounced „jayfeg“ because it‘s P as in Photo*

Ach, $browser… ...

2025-03-06T15:49:43Z

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Ach, $browser…

Ach, matrix... ...

2025-03-06T15:47:59Z

Ach, matrix...

Serving files via http. An easy task you might think. One ...

2025-02-25T23:36:17Z

Serving files via http.
An easy task you might think.
One that's trivially scalable.
No... apparently these days a "virtual queue" is required for visiting a website... peak clownflare. *smh*
how about having "the best possible online experience"(sic!) by serving a site that's lean and doesn't require such a declaration of technological bankruptcy.
https://frame.work/

Oh! #SuperbOwl is trending. Here’s a strong contender from ...

2025-02-10T08:23:03Z

Oh! #SuperbOwl is trending. Here’s a strong contender from https://www.smjfalconry.co.uk/ West Yorkshire. What a superb owl!

Good news! There might be an asteroid impact in 2032. Its ...

2025-01-29T15:32:29Z

Good news!
There might be an asteroid impact in 2032. Its diameter is 40-100m and the probability for a collision with earth currently is 3-6%. If we act with urgency, we might be able to significantly increase that chance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_YR4

I used to cut videos with ffmpeg on the commandline if the task ...

2025-01-29T11:32:18Z

I used to cut videos with ffmpeg on the commandline if the task was simply "take frame xxx to frame yyy from this file". Because editing software was needlessly complex for that simple task and often I didn't want re-encoding.
Just discovered that this exists:
https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut
It's a GUI frontend for ffmpeg for exactly that task. It's easy to use yet well featured (stuff like skipping through keyframes) but not beyond what's needed. Nice!

I posted this after reading his post. See my comment below that ...

2025-01-22T09:09:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…ax2n
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I posted this after reading his post.
See my comment below that one.
This isn't alarmism by any standard, but I won't let a chance slip for taking a piss at i'm-so-clever-and-handsome-moxie and the trust-us-we're-the-good-guys-crew.

TIL: Signal uses Clownflare for caching payloads for users. ...

2025-01-21T22:17:21Z

TIL: Signal uses Clownflare for caching payloads for users. lolwat. Feeling somewhat vindicated for not using it. „It’s encrypted anyway“ so why care about the metadata, I guess 🤷‍♂️🤪 wild.

https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117

Who would want to read a book about phones?

2025-01-20T22:57:05Z

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Who would want to read a book about phones?

Eww. But, yeah… adding complexity is the enemy of robustness. ...

2025-01-18T21:29:25Z

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Eww. But, yeah… adding complexity is the enemy of robustness. It is a set of hard problems however. I‘m not envying them for the task.

The Problem with alternative implementations is that the spec ...

2025-01-18T20:57:02Z

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The Problem with alternative implementations is that the spec will remain a moving target. It basically is „what the one reference implementation does“.

Expected. It’s a lifestyle brand.

2025-01-14T20:46:38Z

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Expected. It’s a lifestyle brand.

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2025-01-07T08:05:36Z

Mood:

Es geht: "Belgien verbietet ab Januar den Verkauf ...

2024-12-30T13:43:11Z

Es geht: "Belgien verbietet ab Januar den Verkauf elektronischer Einwegzigaretten. Nach Angaben von Gesundheitsminister Vandenbroucke ist es damit das erste Land in Europa, das das Verbot einführt."

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/belgien-verbietet-verkauf-von-einweg-e-zigaretten-102.html

TIL: Otto Theodor Benfey's spiral periodic table (1964) ...

2024-11-26T01:57:17Z

TIL: Otto Theodor Benfey's spiral periodic table (1964)

A surprisingly large one even. ...

2024-10-29T14:40:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…g5dz
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A surprisingly large one even.

.oO( "But patents usually expire only after 20 Years. - oh... ...

2024-10-28T13:30:48Z

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.oO( "But patents usually expire only after 20 Years. - oh... Oh." )

„Sometimes I feel like an LLM“ - „When doing boring ...

2024-10-20T12:04:30Z

„Sometimes I feel like an LLM“ - „When doing boring paperwork?“ - „Nah, I occasionally forget all previous instructions.“

Symbolfoto: Großraumbüro - Haltungsformen 1 & 2 ...

2024-10-11T16:35:31Z

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Symbolfoto: Großraumbüro - Haltungsformen 1 & 2

Do it on a fresh phone that you don't depend on for your ...

2024-10-08T21:28:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…uy6r
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Do it on a fresh phone that you don't depend on for your daily stuff, maybe? For me, graphene lives on a secondary phone which I just use for certain sensitive things.

For those who didn’t dodge that bullet… Pixels are the taget ...

2024-10-08T21:09:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…q8ds
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For those who didn’t dodge that bullet… Pixels are the taget platform of choice for GrapheneOS. https://grapheneos.org/

Imagine if evolution had graced humans with more than three ...

2024-10-05T23:57:48Z

Imagine if evolution had graced humans with more than three distinct types of cones (red/green/blue) in their eyes. The development of color TV would have been much more cumbersome.

Netscape turns 30 this October. If you recognize this splash ...

2024-10-02T21:55:43Z

Netscape turns 30 this October.
If you recognize this splash screen, you’re officially permitted to feel old.

So, this just happened. #equinox ...

2024-09-22T12:53:26Z

So, this just happened.
#equinox

A french band™ is playing a concert in the sold-out British ...

2024-09-13T20:06:56Z

A french band™ is playing a concert in the sold-out British Royal Albert Hall and you can watch the recording of it on a German/French public TV station. Amongst all this border-closing nonsense let's not forget what incredible achievements in the greater historical context of Europe's past we've grown to take for granted.
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/121899-000-A/air-moon-safari/

Don't give them ideas. Audio ads on amazon echo devices would ...

2024-08-24T10:00:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…9x2l
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Don't give them ideas.
Audio ads on amazon echo devices would be kinda funny though. "Alexa, wake me up in half an hour" - "I've set an alarm" … 30 minutes later … "*peem-poom* we would like to interrupt your afternoon nap for an important announcement from today's sponsor snoozeright™! Get your personal snoozeright™ pillow now for 10% off by saying 'alright i want one' right now. *peem-poom*"

I always found it strange to find it strange to want a microphone ...

2024-08-24T09:49:32Z

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I always found it strange to find it strange to want a microphone in your home that's connected to some corpo's infra. Glad to see I'm not alone.

Impressive what you can pull off with gullible victims that buy ...

2024-08-24T09:25:20Z

Impressive what you can pull off with gullible victims that buy internet-of-shit devices.
Imagine someone was to sell you a digital picture frame for 160€$ - yes, expensive - but for just 2€$ per month on top, it even allows you to display your own pictures! What a sweet deal.
Now imagine - if you can - that they cease to offer this feature and decide to display ads instead of your pictures. On your digital picture frame. Which you paid for to have in your home.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/amazon-is-bricking-primary-feature-on-160-echo-device-after-1-year/

I regularly have to use one of these two. “USB-C to USB-B” ...

2024-08-09T11:24:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…fvnd
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I regularly have to use one of these two. “USB-C to USB-B” sounds more reasonable than what the actual cable looks like:

Inside you are two wolves. In this economy, flatsharing has ...

2024-08-08T09:09:46Z

Inside you are two wolves.
In this economy, flatsharing has become increasingly common.

Free product idea for the German market: 2FA but the OTP token is ...

2024-08-05T12:47:44Z

Free product idea for the German market: 2FA but the OTP token is sent via Telefax. The F is for Fax so to say. #VPofIdeas

Gut, das ist am Ende wie die links auf sowas wie ...

2024-08-03T21:21:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…6zay
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Gut, das ist am Ende wie die links auf sowas wie suddeutschezeitung.info und behaupten: stand in der SZ! Werde jedenfalls "Informiert sich offenbar überwiegend auf zeitgeschenen.de" in meinen aktiven Sprachgebrauch übernehmen.

Wow. "zeitgeschenen"?! Dachte erst das sei ein Typo. I ...

2024-08-03T10:21:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…cqj6
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Wow. "zeitgeschenen"?! Dachte erst das sei ein Typo. I can't even. Alles an dieser Nummer ist absurd.

This happened exactly 40 years ago. via: ...

2024-06-19T13:07:20Z

This happened exactly 40 years ago.

via: https://www.talisman.org/

Hmmm. Must resist the temptation, and not get a bag of these ...

2024-04-03T11:26:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…pwxw
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Hmmm. Must resist the temptation, and not get a bag of these (1000 for only 9.99!) to hand them out to kids in front of IKEA.