Nostr notes by Nanoraptor

Sneezed wrong and it feels like I just shot six organs out. Like ...

2026-06-24T11:12:34Z

Sneezed wrong and it feels like I just shot six organs out.

Like being ripped in half from one bellybutton to the other.

Cis folk - have you ever had even the most fleeting thought to ...

2026-05-14T22:37:59Z

Cis folk - have you ever had even the most fleeting thought to change your name? To what? For any reason. Just cool. Connection. Vibes. Whatever.

Do it.

Angsty pretentious teenage me writing a dream journal near ...

2026-05-04T03:40:13Z

Angsty pretentious teenage me writing a dream journal near christmas 1987 shows up as 95-100% AI generated, by detectors offering to sell me services to re-generate my text with AI more humanised so it passes as not AI.

It hurts to think about — even more than reading 16 year old me.

This thing will forever be my obsession. ...

2026-05-02T08:49:23Z

This thing will forever be my obsession.

Observe this bun. ...

2026-04-28T13:18:27Z

Observe this bun.

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2026-04-28T07:27:42Z

iFieri

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2026-04-27T00:01:09Z

Memories.

As yellowed a piece of mac gear as I've ever owned. I suspect ...

2026-04-18T01:36:46Z

As yellowed a piece of mac gear as I've ever owned.

I suspect some kind of wacky chemical exposure in the environment it was used in.

If I was in the desert on a horse with no name I’d simply name ...

2026-04-12T21:31:38Z

If I was in the desert on a horse with no name I’d simply name the horse.

I have decided you could probably parachute to earth from the ...

2026-04-09T04:55:59Z

I have decided you could probably parachute to earth from the moon if

1. you got a little bit of a boost to escape the moon
2. carried about a cubic metre of SRB propellant to slow you down once you get to earth and
3. carry a packed lunch or two.

hey it's that time again. do you have data? that you like? is ...

2026-04-02T21:44:12Z

hey it's that time again.

do you have data? that you like? is it backed up? do you have automatic backups you've checked are actually happening?

in multiple locations?

have you done a test restore to make sure the backups work?

*even an extra copy on a flash drive is better than no backups*

HR Giger Counter. ...

2026-04-02T03:52:36Z

HR Giger Counter.

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2026-04-01T12:06:54Z

Will you most likely pick:

more keyboards should have obtuse parts. things that aren't ...

2026-03-28T07:28:15Z

more keyboards should have obtuse parts. things that aren't needed. switches that will never be touched.

num lock. static lock. try. try not. F15. unpipe and unpipe 2.

A wild animal of any possible species decides to voluntarily ...

2026-03-27T23:32:34Z

A wild animal of *any* possible species decides to voluntarily move in and live with you politely.

Which animal do you hope it is?

Imagine a computer like a PDP-11 but with more than 3 billion ...

2026-03-24T12:56:28Z

Imagine a computer like a PDP-11 but with more than 3 billion SP4T switches. The switches are various combinations of 'magic' and 'more magic'

the authors of the code are dead, there are no comments except for old code, and sometimes the comments run anyway

and it's wet

this is biology.

Non-standard fittings. An allegory. ...

2026-03-22T08:19:46Z

Non-standard fittings. An allegory.

http://www.danamania.com/stories/Non-Standard%20Fittings.html

Just cos it came up elsewhere - if you want to use my art for ...

2026-03-19T11:13:21Z

Just cos it came up elsewhere - if you want to use my art for other stuff, you don’t have to ask - just go futz with it, build on it, tear it down. Have fun.

Not speaking for any other artist - just me. Be free little pixels and words and shit.

If you’ve ever had a PET scan then there was a time in your ...

2026-03-16T20:46:14Z

If you’ve ever had a PET scan then there was a time in your life where you shot antimatter and gamma rays from your eyes.

(Technically many other places too yes but give yourself this win)

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2026-03-16T08:34:34Z

The Ides of Mac. ...

2026-03-15T19:46:01Z

The Ides of Mac.

iso paper sizes are delicious: sides are 1:sqrt2 or about 1:1.414 ...

2026-03-13T21:35:43Z

iso paper sizes are delicious: sides are 1:sqrt2 or about 1:1.414

A4 is 210x297mm

A4 folded in half is 148x210 or A5.

A3 is two A4s, or 297x420

go to A0 841x1189 or one square metre.

A-1 (A Minus One) is 2 square metres.

Australia is ~A-43

The visible universe ~A-179

A proton about A139.

A Quark? A151

Presumably A232 is one dimensional though, as it's planck length on the long edge.

Going to invent a guitar that has magnets below the strings and ...

2026-03-13T05:11:39Z

Going to invent a guitar that has magnets below the strings and when the strings vibrate within the magnetic field it will make an ELECTRIC SIGNAL thus I will call this Magnet Guitar a MAGNETAR

*wait. I’m being told…*

I’m happy to say magnetars are already available.

I came across a functioning coder today asking if a kilogram was ...

2026-03-10T10:00:09Z

I came across a functioning coder today asking if a kilogram was 1000 or 1024 grams.

Yes they did ask, yes they verified, yes they accepted 1000 grams.

I swear ten thousand years in the future some fucker will 'oops, black hole!' 'cos they began in comp sci and learned kilo = 1024 first and NOBODY WILL CATCH IT. Humanity will be WIPED OUT because YOU LOT KEPT THIS SHIT UP.

At what age would your being-you-ness have caused someone to burn ...

2026-03-08T00:51:10Z

At what age would your being-you-ness have caused someone to burn you for being a witch?

Figure it's been long enough for globaltalk folk to have the ...

2026-03-04T09:17:57Z

Figure it's been long enough for globaltalk folk to have the actual image exclusively. Here, bitmap for joy.

I do have one! UV inkjet printer joy. ...

2026-03-02T11:12:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…5s6n
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I do have one! UV inkjet printer joy.

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2026-03-02T10:52:36Z

microdiskette

For Globaltalk, in Marchintosh 2026. 18.5 hours, 1 bit, black and ...

2026-02-28T04:27:54Z

For Globaltalk, in Marchintosh 2026.

18.5 hours, 1 bit, black and white only.

(Original .pict on a bunch of your globaltalk servers)

Two large O-type stars orbiting together forever, happily doing ...

2026-02-26T19:54:26Z

Two large O-type stars orbiting together forever, happily doing their thing and then some K-type orange dwarf flies in completely skewed from the ecliptic just zipping about and BOOM the K-type has no idea where it'll be in 5 minutes and THE WHOLE SETUP IS NOW A 3 BODY MESS.

This is how ADHD feels.

I am a documented survivor of recurrent radiation injury ...

2026-02-19T09:37:32Z

I am a documented survivor of recurrent radiation injury resulting from sustained interaction with an unshielded Class G2V fusion reactor exhibiting high-energy particle emission, extreme luminous flux, aggressive short-wavelength electromagnetic leakage, and episodic plasma bursts attributable to confinement instability - all operating in the complete absence of attenuation systems, emissions baffling, shielding protocols or output modulation controls.

Mac Pro 2008, or Stainless steel kitchen remodel? ...

2026-02-08T02:03:38Z

Mac Pro 2008, or Stainless steel kitchen remodel?

Some more for amusement. ...

2026-02-03T11:11:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…e5r3
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Some more for amusement.

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of ...

2026-02-03T11:09:00Z

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip

(with thanks to Julia Rez (npub1md9…yexm) for the original pic)

At Aldi I'm browsing near a family with small kids and I hear ...

2026-02-03T03:56:44Z

At Aldi I'm browsing near a family with small kids and I hear "Katie get off the floor love"

Katie goes "I'm a penguin mum!", flops down on the floor and just kicks herself along the whole length of the aisle making penguin noises.

Katie, I hope one day you'll know the effort your parents made not to laugh out loud.

I think they're kinda proud.

The 68NC040 was a version of Motorola's 68040 that lacked an ...

2026-02-02T19:38:53Z

The 68NC040 was a version of Motorola's 68040 that lacked an FPU, MMU, and CPU - and came in a convenient weight-saving package that also used almost 15% less power.

Panasonic CR2032D donut battery. ...

2026-02-01T22:21:23Z

Panasonic CR2032D donut battery.

Vantabeige is the concept of the colour and texture of an ...

2026-01-30T13:00:43Z

Vantabeige is the concept of the colour and texture of an inoffensive object in your home that’s unwanted and unseen, but is still just *right there*. If you look around now you’ll see it, and realise you could discard it - but you’ll forget to. It might be in a prominent position but you won’t notice it unless you go specifically looking for it based on a memory, vibe, or exercise in attention.

It’s always been there. That spot. On the bookcase, or drawer, or table…

Hey you! Do you have data? Is it backed up? Are your backups ...

2026-01-26T07:53:13Z

Hey you!

Do you have data? Is it backed up? Are your backups working? Have you tested them? And that better way of testing them?

Also take batteries out of your stored devices. Yes even lithium ones.

And have you followed up that weird feeling/sound/movement your body is doing lately?

The soul inhabits the keyboard and rests there a little. ...

2026-01-12T10:40:34Z

The soul inhabits the keyboard and rests there a little.

The thinkfriend is the only portable computer that can love you ...

2026-01-10T06:17:45Z

The thinkfriend is the only portable computer that can love you back. It is never too slow, too hot, low on battery nor does it fail to boot. It simply is, and is very good at it.

A record this week, 4 claims my pics are AI; one photo + three ...

2026-01-10T01:19:22Z

A record this week, 4 claims my pics are AI; one photo + three pieces of art from ~2010s.

AI isn't fucking up art, it's fucking up people's perception of what art or creativity can be or what things not phone camera pics can be.

Modern phone camera shots are more AI than my photoshopping btw.

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2026-01-10T00:51:49Z

Vibes.

My sis just sent me this - a pyrocumulus eruption above a fire ...

2026-01-09T04:48:53Z

My sis just sent me this - a pyrocumulus eruption above a fire about 50km away.

Eras have a habit of being named - The Great War, The Spring ...

2026-01-07T22:08:44Z

Eras have a habit of being named - The Great War, The Spring & Autumn Period, The Renaissance, The Summer of Love, The Troubles, The Old Republic, The Jazz Age, The Machine War, The Swinging Sixties and so on.

What’s the name of this era of yours that you’re going through right now, personally?

It's so fascinating to see the changes in one company's ...

2026-01-03T02:47:55Z

It's so fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

My two great successes (or failures, depending, though you know ...

2025-12-30T01:31:28Z

My two great successes (or failures, depending, though you know me I'll take the former).

The SUPERDANA 66x outlet from 2023, now filling up search results in shit search engines everywhere (ok - and because of it, good ones too)

And the Iced Vovo with Marshmallow in multiple forms since ~1998, which has convinced more than half of my home country that they remember the days when Iced Vovos had marshmallow topping (it never did)

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2025-12-28T09:43:32Z

Metaphor

When the internet turns to complete trash and you burnout, ...

2025-12-28T03:45:22Z

When the internet turns to complete trash and you burnout, what’s your figurative, hyperbolic, but *emotionally true* “that’s it I’m done, I’m going off to _____________” fantasy?

Hedge-witch tending to small woodland creatures is mine.

What bothered me about LLM use growing, and why people would ever ...

2025-12-28T03:27:31Z

What bothered me about LLM use growing, and why people would ever ask it anything at all when it only gives an answer that sounds like an answer might, had me missing something glaringly obvious until this week.

I realised it while on my eighth google for the purpose of diagnostic LEDs on a Mac Pro 4,1 CPU board - and getting links to bad forum answers, and videos (some AI generated themselves) I realised…

Search engines today also only give shitty approximations of what answers are like.

What’s your name for your people? Your lot. Your squad, gang or ...

2025-12-26T12:31:13Z

What’s your name for your people? Your lot. Your squad, gang or moots, oomfies, degenerates disasters goons goblins besties chat or fam? Crew? Weirdos? Menaces? All you buncha units, lovelies, darlings or the hive mind? Coven, flock or brood? Inner sanctum or The Old Ones? Swarm, cult or situation?

The original Mavis Beacon was, curiously, also a very good typing ...

2025-12-25T06:44:28Z

The original Mavis Beacon was, curiously, also a very good typing tutor.

BeBox BeHemoth All-in-one. ...

2025-12-24T23:00:46Z

BeBox BeHemoth All-in-one.

Ford Falcon Concorde. This is what was taken from us. ...

2025-12-24T14:12:20Z

Ford Falcon Concorde.

This is what was taken from us.

Imagining Asimov's three laws of robotics, plus hundreds of ...

2025-12-20T20:07:27Z

Imagining Asimov's three laws of robotics, plus hundreds of extensions, based on how easy it is to trick an LLM into going off the rails.

Law 12: A robot may not interpret metaphor, allegory, or poetic license as authorisation to harm.

- added after the UK parliament's 'spill their blood like wine' incident.

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2025-12-19T11:55:34Z

CMYK colour matches. ...

2025-12-16T10:32:31Z

CMYK colour matches.

Sometimes the old technology is the best technology. ...

2025-12-15T21:53:39Z

Sometimes the old technology is the best technology.

Be sure to only purchase genuine LOCKMART CM-88B replacement ...

2025-12-15T12:36:20Z

Be sure to only purchase *genuine* LOCKMART CM-88B replacement parts.

Mine probably helping wildlife rescue folk sedate and treat an ...

2025-12-13T23:35:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…lkuz
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Mine probably helping wildlife rescue folk sedate and treat an emu that'd stepped on a hypodermic needle and been walking around with it in its foot in pain for weeks. Truly dinosaur stuff.

What's your most memorable experience with a wild animal, ...

2025-12-13T23:21:15Z

What's your most memorable experience with a wild animal, whether on purpose or by accident?

From a convo with friends. ...

2025-12-12T04:32:21Z

From a convo with friends.

A few years ago I found a boxcutter in a sink at work that'd ...

2025-12-09T21:19:25Z

A few years ago I found a boxcutter in a sink at work that'd been there for months.

Having a flatbed printer designed to print on solid objects and 5 minutes...

On writing without distractions. ...

2025-12-09T09:47:46Z

On writing without distractions.

You miss out on all the GOOD bits. the company, the conversation, ...

2025-12-08T15:47:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…fgva
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You miss out on all the GOOD bits. the company, the conversation, the great food, and accusing wildlife of being lazy daysleeper upside downy fuckers.

The bit I don't get about AI art is that what I chase after ...

2025-12-08T15:46:49Z

The bit I don't get about AI art is that what I chase after in my own work is the *doing*.

Finding a -flow- where I can kind of see a thing in my head, start working towards it, and it changes continuously as I tell myself a narrative behind what I'm making.

AI art is like instead of going out for an evening with friends, talking, and a great meal followed by dessert then lazing about in a park swearing at bats - you press a button and suddenly you're so full you could burst and have rabies.

To settle an argument (shh it’s one inside my head), how many ...

2025-12-08T11:41:44Z

To settle an argument (shh it’s one inside my head), how many days per month do you get that are completely unscheduled and you can do absolutely nothing at all?

(As in nothing scheduled. Maybe potter. Write. Do people. Do art. Or not if you choose.)

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2025-12-07T06:17:06Z

What amount of touchscreen-only controls should cars have?

From the '80s, PhotoShop 0.87's original icon in '89, ...

2025-12-04T11:17:48Z

From the '80s, PhotoShop 0.87's original icon in '89, and Back to the Future from '85 showing a photo shop next to the numerals '88 as Marty drives a DeLorean (built in '81, '82 and '83) towards it.

Then PhotoShop went on in the Future to 86 trust in Photos like something out of 1984.

Toot for love ...

2025-12-03T09:24:59Z

Toot for love

USB4 OverDrive HyperConnect Type‑G‑TwinRow Deluxe 4.3X(n)™ ...

2025-12-03T00:31:00Z

USB4 OverDrive HyperConnect Type‑G‑TwinRow Deluxe 4.3X(n)™ aka USB Type X: For the multi-tiered, data-fragmentation connectivity compatible device, enabling nominally predictable data propagation conventionalities through user adherence to interfacial alignment protocols.

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2025-12-01T22:55:16Z

Red pandas are called that because they’re communists.

If you want to you can shapeshift just a little bit as a treat. ...

2025-11-29T04:51:16Z

If you want to you can shapeshift just a little bit as a treat.

Cereal ports, for connecting a hull modem cable with the correct ...

2025-11-24T05:13:02Z

Cereal ports, for connecting a hull modem cable with the correct pin-oat. Beware wiring quality or you could end up with croptalk and bad seednal propagation.

Some setups could do with a germinating resistor pack.

I’ll delete this if you pay me.

Pay more and I might apologise too.

A classic. ...

2025-11-21T23:28:34Z

A classic.

Facebook was launched closer to the release of the original ...

2025-11-19T14:24:25Z

Facebook was launched closer to the release of the original Macintosh than to today.

Windows does update. Now opens Game Bar when webcam turns on. ...

2025-11-18T21:32:52Z

Windows does update.

Now opens Game Bar when webcam turns on.

Industrial paper cutter uses a webcam to detect registration dots.

Game Bar opens on every sheet feed.

I swear half of admin work in 2025 is slapping windows' fingers away from the controls. No! Bad OS. BAD!

*gets the spray bottle*

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2025-11-18T11:49:54Z

Truly smart devices would choose not to connect to the internet.

Tidied the collection a little. ...

2025-11-14T19:58:15Z

Tidied the collection a little.

A Termite grenade, a powerful if slow incectiary device for the ...

2025-11-13T21:31:40Z

A Termite grenade, a powerful if slow incectiary device for the destruction of wooden structures.

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2025-11-13T13:57:38Z

Patina.

Nintendo Gamma Boy. ...

2025-11-08T02:50:42Z

Nintendo Gamma Boy.

for @npub1g8x…7wul ...

2025-11-04T10:30:48Z

for Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (npub1g8x…7wul)

Rumour has it that you can still look through record stores and ...

2025-11-03T12:42:01Z

Rumour has it that you can still look through record stores and find absolute classics.

Your occasional reminders: 1. Do you have backups, do they work, ...

2025-10-24T23:50:51Z

Your occasional reminders:

1. Do you have backups, do they work, have you tested them with a restore?

2. Is your body being weird? chase that up if you haven't.

3. Remove the batteries from your old stored devices. They all leak except the ones that don't and you won't know which until they do.

4. Check your Quad-G5 liquid cooling systems in storage for leaks.

What's that thing called when you see someone post something ...

2025-10-23T07:29:04Z

What's that thing called when you see someone post something so mind-numbingly wrong you need to go get some facts right before replying, go down a rabbit hole, and 14 months later you're probably one of the top 5% of experts in this niche subject and can't find the original wrong post to refute it?

Tim Cook's total time at Apple is three years longer than ...

2025-10-23T01:31:47Z

Tim Cook's total time at Apple is three years longer than Steve Jobs'

The Macintosh System 7 was the first W I D E S C R E E N ...

2025-10-22T02:42:03Z

The Macintosh System 7 was the first W I D E S C R E E N Macintosh.

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2025-10-21T09:49:55Z

386.

Let’s make it popular among the cis folk to change names from ...

2025-10-19T23:09:27Z

Let’s make it popular among the cis folk to change names from time to time cos it’s metal as fuck.

*Especially* if you were born in the 1900s.

“Who… who are you?!”

“I have had many names, over millennia…”

Swap the feet and inches in your height. If you were 5’6”, ...

2025-10-19T09:15:17Z

Swap the feet and inches in your height.

If you were 5’6”, now you’re 6’5”.

How much does this change your life?

Droppings from from chickens who live near a wrecking yard. They ...

2025-10-18T03:27:08Z

Droppings from from chickens who live near a wrecking yard.

They eat shattered windscreens as gastroliths and out they eventually come as little precious stones.

Theropod gems. C-glass. Crop diamonds.

I don’t know what was in Pandora’s box but I bet it was ...

2025-10-14T08:31:05Z

I don’t know what was in Pandora’s box but I bet it was stored in one of these and she bumped just ONE corner.

BBC Model Linear B ...

2025-10-11T12:36:55Z

BBC Model Linear B

I will pop up the illustrator file when I get home :)

2025-10-11T08:55:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…88cy
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I will pop up the illustrator file when I get home :)

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2025-10-11T07:38:55Z

Apple's classic Pascal poster re-make. Art downloadable from ...

2025-10-10T19:47:01Z

Apple's classic Pascal poster re-make.

Art downloadable from http://www.danamania.com/print/Apple%20Pascal%20Poster/

<jef raskin voice>why, why, why, I invented ...

2025-10-08T11:25:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…jd5h
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<jef raskin voice>why, why, why, I invented Dana!"</jef raskin voice>

(overly obscure and tortuous references r us)

It me. ...

2025-10-08T11:02:05Z

It me.

If you were born before 1995 then you’re older than most ...

2025-10-08T10:21:50Z

If you were born before 1995 then you’re older than most people.