Quartz 🍇🍋‍🟩

@quartz.xtal.net

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30 - he/they - 🇩🇰🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 - retro tech nerd, programmer, VR DJ, film lover, purple robot kobold (sometimes protogen) - SFW(ish) but MDNI🔞 PFP by @cosmicsaturn.bsky.social www: xtal.net - ftp: ftp.xtal.net

Meme of woman at a PC looking behind and mogging at the viewer
My hand holding a ticket for The Odyssey at the BFI IMAX, Waterloo (London)
Screenshot of my post from my phone. It shows an emoji of a distorted face (kinda like the flushed emoji, but with big eyes)
image of idris elba staring, with the caption saying "fuck"
Rainbow flag with text on top reading "HOCKEY STICK HANDLE". (taken from the thumbnail of the YouTube video titled "OBJECTS THAT I HAVE SHOVED UP MY ARSE" by Bruno Powroznik)
From status.bsky.app: "We are investigating an issue with our CDN origin, which is occasionally failing to load media assets." July 3, 2026 at 16:04 GMT+00:00
A simple drawing of a crying creature with a cartoonish hole on its forehead, and its brain sitting on the ground in front of it, with the caption reading "WHY IT NO WORK" and the creature yelling "aaaaaa". Original artwork by WagnerMutt.
Shinobeetle from Deltarune chapter 5
HTTP access logs showing multiple requests, all with the user agent "Claude-SearchBot/1.0"
Meme of D.W. from Arthur looking at a door with a sign on it. The subtitle reads "That sign can't stop me because I can't read!"
@draimgang (on twitter): "this shit probably feels so good if you're a game". Underneath is a screenshot of Steam's "Verify integrity of game files" button.
A screenshot of a Silicon Graphics IRIX desktop (running 4Dwm, the classic Motif-based window manager for IRIX), taken from my main PC via VcXsrv, an X11 server for Windows. Netscape is running natively on the SGI Indy, and is showing a GIF of my Protogen doing a silly little dance. A performance monitor named gr_osview is also shown.
Electro's original post "egg for lunch 🥚🍽️", followed by a reply from Jam saying "My pan..." with an image of their stainless steel pan burnt.
Drawing of Timmy Turner praying next to his bed, saying “Please God let this happen because it would be so fucking funny”
i'm so fucking scared
that one idris elba stare meme with the caption "fuck"
That one Olympic shooter guy from Turkey who has no special equipment on him, holding a gun, while his other hand is in his pocket.
Boards of Canada’s latest album, Inferno. Pictured here is the double LP vinyl record (special edition with translucent red vinyl), with the CD version on top of it as well.
Screenshot of a C programming forum post from 2011. OP asks "Does anyone know of a POSIX-equivalent for GNU's memmem(), which searches for a sequence of bytes within a larger block of memory?" Someone replies with "I think you might want comp.unix.programmer" (as in the Usenet group)
Wikipedia article. Title: Jamming avoidance response The jamming avoidance response is a behavior of some species of weakly electric fish. It occurs when two electric fish with wave discharges meet – if their discharge frequencies are very similar, each fish shifts its discharge frequency to increase the difference between the two. By doing this, both fish prevent jamming of their sense of electroreception. [A picture is shown of a diagram two opposing knifefish facing each other. Left fish shows a red waveform of 401 Hz, with an arrow pointing upwards with a blue waveform of 407 Hz with the label “higher frequency”. Right fish shows a red waveform of 399 Hz, with an arrow pointing downwards with a blue waveform of 393 Hz with the label “lower frequency”] Two neighboring Eigenmannia perform the jamming avoidance response: When two fish with around the same frequency meet, one fish shifts its frequency upward and the other shifts its frequency downward.
We are currently experiencing elevated error rates across PDS instances and are investigating. May 18, 2026 at 22:43 GMT+00:00
Meme of Squidward sleeping in bed with a smile
Extremely JPEG compressed “deep fried” caricature of Elvis Presley with his mouth wide open, green lasers shooting out of his eyes, surrounded by blue lightning bolts, with bottom text that reads “Hound dog” in an intense bold font and a sobbing emoji next to the text.
The exterior of the Rivoli bar/restaurant at Queen St. in Toronto, Canada.
A screenshot from Pokopia. An amped form Toxtricity and a low key Toxtricity are both sleeping together in bed all cutely. (yes they're gay)
A screenshot from Pokopia. Noibat is eating a Rawst Berry (a berry in the Pokémon universe that looks like a blue strawberry)
A plate of spaghetti with garlic, anchovies and parsley, topped with parmesan cheese
"How Pokémon ROMs Actually Work", uploaded by a channel named "Digital Dimension", 649 views, uploaded 3 days ago. The thumbnail is generated AI slop with piss-filter anime guy and fake video game cartridges that aren't even Pokémon.
Photo of guy with fancy suit and gold watch, hands clasped together while looking confidently at the camera.
The profile of @why.bsky.team, with a label that reads “User Blocking You”
meme of horse looking towards the sea, with vertical text reading "hort" and horizontal text from the "r" reading "rage"
my hand inside the mouth of a green lautus-k
Screenshot from Bluesky's status page. "Some systems down We are investigating an incident with service in one of our [reginos] "We are experiencing further issues. We appreciate your continued patience" April 16, 2026 at 06:42 GMT+00:00"
The “two of them” cats; two small grey kittens on a blue backdrop that both look nearly identical.
British Airways flight with a sky bridge connected to it
Double cheeseburger and fries
A receipt for Five Guys Burgers and Fries. I’ve ordered a cheeseburger, fries and water
A picture inside the BFI IMAX in London. The auditorium is dark, and on the screen is a pre-show promo image of Project Hail Mary shown.
Picture of a British Airways A320 wing and motor, as seen from the inside of the plane through the window. It is a sunny day.
The "nothing to see here" scene from Naked Gun. On top of Frank Drebin, who is gesturing that there's nothing wrong, is a screenshot of Bluesky's status page that says "All systems Operational". In the background is an exploding building, with screenshots of various Bluesky errors plastered around it, such as "post failed to upload", "unable to connect", "check your connection and try again", etc.
A crude black-white drawing of a YouTube thumbnail and title I saw in my dream. The video title is "Watch this man vocal-stim in 15 countries for 15 minutes". The picture depicts a profile shot of a man with a big chin and a comically huge dent on the back of his head, while slightly leaning back. The man is wearing swimming goggles, and has a smiling (almost mischievous) grin on his face. A standing mic is resting directly underneath his chin (not even close to his mouth), and a tiny little lavalier mic is nested in his head's back-dent, with a wire connected to it.
A VRChat selfie of my Robold inside a world designed around Spinda's Café from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. In the back is Spinda's Juice Bar and the Recycle Shop.
Sticker of my Robold holding a leash on his collar, with a shy expression on his face. Artwork is by CosmicSaturn.
Heracross sitting in my bed in Pokopia, eyes closed and asleep.
Screenshot of Pokopa, with Heracross talking to me after spawning at a habitat.
A screenshot from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. Bidoof is talking to Chatot. The character portrait is showing Bidoof with a sad expression. The dialog box for Bidoof says: "My stomach really hurts... Ooogh..."
Post by @crackticker on Twitter: "linux audio haters been real quiet ever since my pipewire crashed"
My hand holding a package of 7-eleven tuna-mayo onigiri
A drawing of my robold (robot kobold) running on all fours, having zoomies and jumping/running very fast around the room and on the walls
Two login buttons for Runbox: Runbox 6, Runbox 7
a picture of a brand new nintendo switch 2 in its box (with mario kart world included) on the passenger seat of my car.
A picture of Anthony Bourdain sitting at a table outside of a café. He is wearing round sunglasses and a leather jacket. On the table is a baguette sandwich, a pack of cigarettes, a lighter, coins and a cup of coffee.
My orange cat, named Richie, laying on the couch sleeping.
the slime plushie in my hand, after being washed. he's now clean and completely spotless, and only a little bit wet still (but not much)
a dragon quest slime plushie inside an open washing machine
The eBay listing for the fake Pokemon FireRed cartridge. It looks convincingly like a real cartridge, with the embossed numbers on the label, as well as the look of the shell.
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