Mark T. Tomczak

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Career software engineer living something approximating the dream he had as a kid. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.fixermark.com/@mark, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

Onion Article: "Why are we having a meeting with HR?" Circled in the image: "Desk beehive bothering people"
A black, white, and roan puppy, dozing in a patch of soil next to a garden of green weeds.
An anthropomorphic cute brown rabbit wearing a little blue polka dot neckerchief, pointing to themselves and looking shocked.
Bishop, looking at Forge who is silhouetted by a bright light through a door. Forge says to Bishop "You can try again. And again if you have to."
Comment on a soundtrack on YouTube. "@theodor3gabriel: Wanna say thanks to my homie Bach for writing Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and making it possible for Bloody Tears to exist."
Forge, from the X-Men cartoon series (1992), reassuring Bishop. "Then we try again. And again if we have to."
Red banner: "INCIDENT WITH PULL REQUESTS" Update - Creation of new Pull Request threads (including line and file comments) continues to be affected.
Console output for "dps-bot," a script that generates "Take XdY Z damage" messages when run. A sampling: - Take 6d4 constant damage - Take 3d100 crab damage - Take 2d6 subcontractor damage - Take 8d100 class damage - Take 3d20 fail damage - Take 8d8 laproscope damage - Take 8d8 seashore damage - Take 1d4 pitching damage
Google calendar appointment: "Another book in the Murderbot diaries should be out", May 1
Ad for a coffee shop in Pittsburgh, featuring an illustration of a football player positively guzzlinga giant coffee cup with the caption "DRAFT FUEL STARTS HERE"
Cardboard sign on a flat wooden table that says "NO EATING DURING LUNCH: you may not eat or have food at these tables"
The cast of "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" grinning and lounging around on the grass loosely draped on each other. Caption: Detecting Sadness Cadets: Cuddle-Puddle Formation, Now!
An imagined origin of the catalogue of ships from the Trojan War. The storyteller, having been challenged on his knowledge of the Trojan War to "name every ship," proceeds to do so.
A humorously-distorted "tween-frame" of a sleep-deprived Beckett Mariner shoving a blue-skinned woman with antennae out of her way as the woman reacts with shock at the unexpected shove to the back. Mariner's mouth is pursed mid-O in the phrase "MOVE Jennifer!"
Gas station with a 'NO SHORTAGE OF GAS' sign in front of the station.
A printout receipt paper ticket of a Pennsylvania "scratch off" instant win game. You can basically print this out then immediately walk over to the counter and try to redeem it; no need to even read the paper.
Ad email from Universal Yums, the snack delivery company. "Pounce on Poland before it's gone!" "One last bite of Poland. We snacked from Warsaw to Krakow to Torun, but now, sadly, we must bid Poland do widzenia. Get your Poland box before it's gone!"
"Treatment is available for panic disorder. Search NHS Talking Therapies."
The Devil (represented as a man in a red wrap wearing a cap with a long red feather) contemplates a chessboard across the table from a human deep in thought. An angel looks on from the side, their eyes cast down and head inclined slightly towards the human. The human can mate in six moves.
Four panel meme, featuring Leela and Bender. Bender's head has been replaced by the image of a circuit board imprinted with a sword. Leela: "I just think we should try to save the human. They're our friends! Bender: Hahaha! Oh wait... You're serious. Let me laugh even harder. BAA HAA HAA!!! The sword has many names. Durandan, Durandal, Durandana. Charlemagne used to always call him Durandana, the fruitcake. All the many implements of war to him were in some way feminine. Not that you know the story.
Three panel reaction meme. Panel 1: muted, intereseted. "There's a new Control game coming soon" Panel 2: intrigued, excited. "You play as Dylan Faden" Panel 3: ecstatic. "There's gonna be a new Old Gods of Asgard banger"
Plaque, in English lettering and Braille. HELEN KELLER AND HER LIFELONG COMPANION ANNE SULLIVAN MACY ARE INTERRED IN THE COLUMBARIUM BENEATH THIS CHAPEL The Braille is lighter than the surrounding metal, discolored by repeated contact with skin oils.
Leela, from Futurama, glowering at a cackling Bender.
"The Atomic Habits Workbook," James Clear
Sign in a Starbucks that says "The Matcha Edit"
Dave Bowman in 2001: A Space Odyssey, looking out of his helmet. The surrounding environment is reflected in the glass of the helmet so we see it indirectly; the shot is focused on his face and his reaction to the environment.
Michael Bluth (character, Arrested Development) pulls a bag out of a refrigerator labeled "Your information is only secure if every copy is secured in a system where copies are too cheap to meter." Opens the bag and looks in. Goes "I don't know what I expected."
Two-panel meme: Elmo, from Sesame St, stands at a table with fruits labeled "my actual work" and a giant pile of cocaine labeled "messing around to see what I can get away with in org-babel." He slam-dunks his face into the pile of cocaine.
A pile of gaudy green "SHU SHOP" brand sandals in a discount shoe rack. Four of them are stacked on each other.
Ad copy for an upcoming movie. The headline reads "THEY WILL KILL YOU IN THEATERS MARCH 27."
A collapsed construction scaffold at a building. Circled, labeled "The day you're having." Also circled: A propane tank directly next to the collapse. Labeled "The day you don't even realize you didn't just have."
A picture of the Eye of Ra, with the caption "My Child... That is not very First Contact Accords of you."
Five panel comic. First three panels: a guy in the gym lifting weights, getting more and more ripped. Panel 4: he morphs into a wolf hybrid form from the game "Altered Beast." Panel 5: he uses his power move and rips through the gym as a flying arrow, equipment and other gym bros flying wildly.
Intuit building 6 7 sign
The in-vehicle audio system playing Brad Paisley's "Welcome to the Future."
2-panel meme comic. Panel 1 is Rick, from Rick and Morty, encouraging Morty to step through a portal. Rick is labeled "The JIRA board," Morty is me. Rick is saying "Let's go, in and out, 20 minute bugfix." Panel 2: Rick and Morty stress-crying in the car, a week later. The panel is labeled "The Weekly Standup".
Google ShakeAlert, warning about a 5.9 magnitude earthquake about 189.7 miles away.
Three panel comic, an edit of https://xkcd.com/918/ Panel 1: A person is excitedly telling a seated individual "You should join Mastodon!" "What is it?" "Not Twitter!" "What's it like?" "Twitter!" Panel 2: the seated individual sits, pondering, in front of their computer. Panel 3: "Oh, what the hell. I guess that's all I really wanted." The seated individual joins Mastodon.
News headline: "Drunk raccoon found passed out in Virginia liquor store bathroom." Picture is of the aforementioned raccoon, fast asleep on its tummy, between a toilet and a trash can in a bathroom.
The Red Bull Advent Calendar. One Red Bull per day in December!
Movie poster for "Hoppers," featuring an anthropomorphic beaver looking ecstatically at a transmogrification pad that appears to turn humans into animals the tagline is "Human. Nature."
Vivid red and green northern lights illuminating the night sky above a dark, cloud-covered landscape.
The Onion, fact checking political news. "CLAIM: Mamdani is a communist." "False: Any real communist will happily spend six hours explaining why this isn't true."
An image from Elden Ring, of a Tarnished standing in a field with dead trees under a blood-red sky. Emblazoned across the image is the text "PENNSYLVANIANS ELECTED" in the style of a boss-vanquished message.
Solid Snake from the Metal Gear franchise riding on the back of a bipedal robot. Caption reads "A weapon... To surpass Metal Git..."
Meme: "The myth of 'consensual' voicing." A man with Mario (from the Nintendo franchise)'s face, saying "I CONSENT!" A woman with the Nintendo logo saying "I CONSENT!" The Italian flag saying "I DON'T!" Tag: "Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?"
2-panel meme. Panel 1: A woman labeled "Readers of Wuthering Heights" saying "Why can't you just be normal?" Panel 2: A child labeled "Heathcliff", screaming.
Pee-Wee, in Pee-Wee's playhouse, smiling and looking at his giant ball of aluminum foil.
Still from TRON Legacy: ISO city being destroyed by the forces of CLU in "The Purge."
A price placard at Giant Eagle Supermarket, advertising $7.99 "Corn Stock."
Lawful good: Every function requires a docstring describing inputs and outputs Neutral good: Public functions require a docstring. Where helpful, inputs and outputs are documented Chaotic good: Public functions require docstrings. Lawful Neutral: The linter fails if the docstring does not match the template True neutral: I document whatever I won't remember Chaotic neutral: The linter checks for a string at the top of a function Lawful evil: "The Foo Function" Neutral evil: "Docstring" Chaotic evil: def Foo: eval(BODY) Foo.__doc__ = BODY
Close-up of the face of a chihuahua staring into the middle distance superimposed over a black-and-white image of helicopters dropping off soldiers in the Vietnam War.
Meme: D.W., from the cartoon "Arthur," looking at a WRONG WAY road sign on a door. She says "That sign won't stop me because I am drunk!"