Filipe M.

@macfilipe.bsky.social

386 Followers 274 Following

Answerer of rhetorical questions. Never met an absurd that couldn't be further reduced. Will shitpost for pizza. Cogito, ergo screwupium. (Acoustician by day, noise maker otherwise)

a stick figure pointing at a sign that reads "BAD" and saying "well that's not a good sign"
Mbappé hitting the Spanish goalkeeper with his elbow.
Screenshot from the Qualifying results for the Silverstone round of the F1 Academy racing series, showing Chiara Bättig, a 16 year old wildcard driver from the Red Bull Junior academy, getting pole position, ahead of more experienced drivers.
Weather app screenshot: current outdoors temperature is 30°C and it's almost 1am. Yes, the wrong 1 to be this hot.
Weather app screenshot showing 30°C / 86°F at fucking 00h30. Doing great, planet, doing great.
A screenshot of a 10 day weather forecast mostly summarising hell, with maximum temperatures between 31ºC and 38ºC, and minimum going up to 22ºC, and absolutely no rain whatsoever. Yay.
Gmail Inbox screenshot, showing the excerpt from an email from LinkedIn, that reads "Filipe, meet Barack Obama at White House".
A screenshot from the weather app showing 29°C temperature for Guimarães, Portugal, with a forecast max of 35°C.
A close up shot of a pair of Moza CRP2 sim racing pedal set, in black of some gold blingy bits.
The rear end of a Moza Racing wheelbase, i.e. the bit that holds the steering wheel and makes your wrists hurt.
A white and orange cat lying sideways in a patch of grass and tree leaves. Not my cat, but I called him Tim.
Microsoft's new brilliant idea: a nag button that begs users to upgrade their plan on the top right corner of the screen at all times.
A tiny little multi effects pedal for guitar, Soran Tiny Stomp.
A photograph of a TC Electronic Plethora X3 multieffects pedal, loaded with a Compressor, Doubler, and Chorus, in each of the 3 slots.
A cartoon by TwistedDoodles of a TV anchor saying "NEXT UP WE WILL DISCUSS THE TOPIC WITH SOMEONE WHOSE JOB IS TO BE A WELL RESEARCHED AND RESPECTED EXPERT IN THE AREA, AND iN THE INTEREST OF BALANCE WE WILL ALSO TALK TO AN IDIOT"
A photo of a bunch of guitar pedals and stuff on a flat, black surface. Clockwise from top right: Strymon Timeline Delay, an eBow box, a DOD Looking Glass, Soldano Super Lead Overdrive, Kernom Ridge, TC Electronic Combo Deluxe '65.
A screenshot of the 5-day weather forecast starting yesterday, showing a max temperature of 29ºC for today, and a minimum on 1ºC for tomorrow. Temperatures in Celsius, and yes, wtf.
Screenshot of a 5 day weather forecast, starting yesterday, with max temperatures going from 15 to 28 / 29, then coming down to 16 / 15. Minimum temperatures go from 10 tomorrow to 2 on Saturday. All temperatures in Celsius, because water rules!
a screenshot of YouTube studio for my pedal platform channel showing 10,000 total subscribers
A screenshot of the YouTube studio app showing my PedalPlatform channel sitting pretty at 9,999 subscribers squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Close up photo of a brand new Gotoh 1996T in Cosmo black, replacing the original unit on the Ibanez JEM Jr. guitar. Result!
Close up photo of the Ibanez JEM guitar, showing the ball ends of the strings, that usually go on the bridge, up by the tuning pegs, because Thomas Nordegg (Steve Vai's legendary guitar tech) told me to!
A close up photo of a slightly battered Ibanez JEM Junior floating / locking tremolo system, missing the 1st string.
A Soldano Super Lead Overdrive guitar distortion pedal, black with white knobs, inside the box and protective plastic bag, waiting anxiously for the end of the workday...
A photo of a guitar, a PRS SE Custom 24 in some wild poplar burl / knotted wood finish, in a "burst" colour: wood colour in the middle, black in the edges. There are a few more guitars on the background of the image, but they don't really matter compared to this one...
Screenshot of a comment some lovely person dropped on one of my YouTube videos that reads: "Great advice if you ant to start a U2 cover band. What a total shit review....embarrassing"
A screenshot of Reddit user "shepherd_eyes" reply to a post about Lewis Hamilton being seen with Kim Kardashian at the Super Bowl: "Car 44 given a reprimand for ignoring multiple red flags"
a drawing of 4 examples of human evolution, with the homo sapiens turned around saying "go back, we fucked up everything"
A MacOS error message trying to be helpful by asking if I want it to delete a file I just created in another Mac. The message reads: ""ReverbTest.mp3" Not Opened Apple could not verify "ReverbTest.mp3" is free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy." The only options are "Done" (i.e. NOTHING gets done), or "Move to Bin". Really helpful.
A large guitar pedal inside its box and plastic wrapper. The box's lid is open, and the side reads "designed and built in California USA".
A photo of Captain Jean Luc Picard's Funko Pop vinyl toy.
Screenshot of Microsoft Word's "blank page", with 4 different AI pestering prompts, the content of which is too stupid to even read and I just want to get rid of.
A snowshoe cat called Bob sleeping on the sofa.
A very red Maserati Biturbo coupé car. Not my photo.
a screenshot of the right-click options menu on a Mac, highlighting the possibility of stacking icons
Michele Mouton and her Audi Sport Quattro.
a Lancia Delta Integrale rally car doing what it's supposed to do, i.e. fly off a jump.
a nascar xfinity series Toyota supra in red and white livery
The extruder cog assembly from a Bambu A1 3D printer: a big yellow cog and a small indented wheel on the same spindle.
A screenshot of the Microsoft Word preferences window, Copilot tab, showing the "Enable Copilot" checkbox unchecked.
a set of Tonerider Rebel 90 guitar pickups.
a sticker and guitar pick from tonerider, a guitar pickups manufacturer, included in the delivery box.
A screenshot of some person commenting on one of my YouTube videos, advising me to "Sell all my gear".
Oooh! Windows 11 design menu with new font, new icons, new everything.
A screenshot of the "new" Google AI Overview, being extremely wrong as usual. Excerpt: "The Xiaomi Watch S3 has a removable bezel. If the back of your Xiaomi Watch S3 fell off, it's likely the bezel, not the en- tire watch back, that's detached. The bezel is designed to be interchangeable and can be removed and reattached by twisting it."
a crowd of stick figures, one raises their hand and says "uh, hi, yes, I have a question, what the fuck"
line drawing of a crowd, one asking "uh, hi, yes, I have a question... what the fuck"
Weather app screenshot. Current temperature 33, max 38, minimum 19.
a sceeenshot of the article that reads "Perhaps by design, though, the day was somewhat more restrained than other displays Mr. Trump has praised, such as Bastille Day celebrations in France."
Bob, a snowshoe cat, laying down on a teal blanket with his front paws stretched, and my hand cuddling him.
A tray of Lego pieces and the instructions for the Nigel Mansell Williams FW14B
a two part cartoon depiction a small crowd, one of the characters raise their hand and says "uh, hi, yes, I have a question", "what the fuck"
A cartoon depicting a crowd, with one person raising their hand and asking "uh, hi,yes, I have a question, what the fuck"
Last photo of the Ampero screen showing the 2.3.1 firmware version, the latest at this time.
Photo of a screen showing YouTube Music playing Skid Row's Quicksand Jesus, from 1991's Slave to the Grind. I miss those days. Or not.
Another photo of the iPad screen, we're now on 15 mins, 48 secs, and some more change...
Yet another photo of the Ampero, back at the "Firmware Update" screen. Hopefully that's the last round.
Another photo of the Ampero, this time rebooted into a spiffier new interface.
A photo of the iPad that's controlling my camera, reading 9 mins 13 secs and change. That's how long we've been here... so far.