Tertium Quid

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I.T. Ops nerd, aspiring Real Programmer, philosophy enthusiast, leftist, queer liberationist. ACAB.

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An extremely fucked-up looking Chinese hairless dog, nearly engulfed by a presumably normal pair of human hands. I'm sure the dog is actually a very nice dog and it's not nice to make it stand in for human decrepitude and uselessness. I love dogs, honest.
Described in post. Also from bed.
Described in post again, but as a bonus, this part's background is a weighted blanket because I am a slob who reverse engineers things in bed
Fully described in the post!
A mechanical pencil's guts with the nose, clear lead tube, and knock visible. A spare lead is inside,
A map of the globe showing what countries follow the GAAP standard for accounting, and which ones follow IFRS. The USA is colored in light blue, indicating GAAP. The ENTIRE REST OF THE WORLD is dark blue, indicating IFRS.
An image of an Obsidian editing window, with some chapter headings along the left side, a "Linked mentions" pane on the right, and down the center, in much larger, vertically set type, "Conatussy", accidentally run together from the "Conatus system" header in the document
Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones
A can of Pringles, in the middle of two others, which are truncated by the frame. A noticeable grease stain is a few centimetres short of climbing all the way up the sides of the can. At the top is the meme test "SOON."
An old meme, featuring a grizzled-looking orange cat in the background, with a darkened apartment behind it. It stares balefully to the foreground, where there is an unsuspecting, slightly out-of-focus chihuaua. The top text in the classic Impact font reads simply "SOON."
An image of the Silent 700, a 70s-era terminal, its beige plastic casing yellowed with age. There is no screen, but a thermal paper roller is in the middle of the device. At the back are two large rubber cups, meant to receive an old-timey telephone receiver.
A ballot for today's election is depicted in an AnarchyChess post from Reddit. The captions says "What do I do in this position? (I'm white)"
Eight six-sided dice in various colours. They are "skew dice", where the faces have four sides but with different lengths. Their appearance is an abomination, but apparently they roll fairly.
Two images in a Bluesky feed. The top depicts a colourful flower arrangement. Below, a Virginia Opossum, mouth open as if yelling, swaddled in a pink and white blanket so only its cute widdle face is visible. Another blanket in frame makes it look as if this image is a zoomed-in look at the top one.
Image of a Silent 700, an early terminal with only a thermal printer for a "display" and a pair of rubber cups to place a telephone receiver into after dialling up to a remote server manually
An illustration of a fantasy game character with a spiky black semicircle over them. They have an expression of dismay, and the title "Meltdown!" is below. This is a sanity-damage indicator from the game Darkest Dungeon.
A distorted reflection in a car's rear wing mirror, giving the vague impression of a nun's face
An image of a Texas Instruments Silent 700, its plastic housing yellowed with age. This machine has a pair of rubber cups to hold an old-fashioned corded phone's receiver, a thermal printer, and a simple keyboard.
An illustration by Armando Veve, apparently from some March 24 magazine, depicting a cross-section of skin with hair follicles, sweat glands, and five fanciful chambers with anthropomorphized mites reading, listening to music, turning clay sculptures, relaxing in a hot tub, playing an organ performance, and working out. The headline reads "Hundreds of tiny arachnids are likely on your face right now"
An ad attached to a bicycle rack, with a picture of people rowing an outrigger canoe. The copy reads "LOTUS SPORTS CLUB" and, as if a subtitle or slogan, "Feel free to play with the layout if you think it needs it"
An image of a Virginia opossom, Delphinis virginiana, squeezed tightly in the track of a sliding glass door. Its mouth is slightly open, as if to express its dismay. Next to in on the ground is a welcome mat that says "BE NICE OR LEAVE"
Computer code from a Go program. On a line saying `fmt.Println("God is dead.")`, "is dead." appears in a grey, italicized font, indicating the auto-complete suggested by Co-Pilot, an LLM for programming.