Tabitha Sable

@tabbysable.bsky.social

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Anyone who cannot understand that a useful science can be built on stunt hacking will not understand my life, either. All we have is each other. To change everything, start anywhere.

A two-drawer mechanic’s toolbox. It is painted bright purple and is about the size of a breadbox.
A wide panoramic image showing a massive stormcloud over a parking lot. There are beautiful twists and whorls of light on dark grey, with yellow sun peeking out in a few places.
A cackling goose (Branta Hutchinsii) in flight, proclaiming “I migrated off ingress-nginx!” Does she look joyful? Does she look mischievous? Is she just glad it’s over? Only you know for sure!
Screenshot of a Linux terminal displaying the output of “whois gillyweeds.com” including the creation date of Dec 8, 2024.
Leliel from Evangelion, an abstract malevolent entity that apparently consists of energy confined within curved surfaces in higher-dimensional space. The photo depicts its shadow, which appears to be a huge black and white striped sphere floating above Tokyo-3.
Screenshot of a comically angry movie review. It begins “Millennial self-indulgence. This is yet another fetishistic project from yet another artist wannabe (read, maladapted person), that wants to take herself very seriously.”
The goose from Untitled Goose Game
Screenshot of the Steam Machine specifications, noting “Operating System: SteamOS 3 (Arch-based)”
The 3 main characters from Singin’ In The Rain collapsed adorably onto an overturned couch together after staying up all night.
A faux-marble plaque in a marble frame on a marble wall. Text reads: Main Phone Switch Room NOTICE Main Phone Switch Room
Caution: Do not touch the ink tube. A line drawing illustrates an inkjet photo printer. A human reaches toward the ink tube and receives an admonishment.
Bugs Bunny saying “NO”
Faerie Miscreant. A hand-size humanoid creature with dragonfly wings kneels on a book, slicing through one page with a tiny sword. The card’s flavor text reads “One faerie distracts the judge while a second steals the law.”
A bright blue damselfly rests on the edge of a saturated green leaf. The bug’s long body becomes blurry toward the end due to shallow depth of field. Shot on Harman Phoenix @ ISO100, cross-processed in E6 with 1.5g/L NaOH in the color dev to remove the magenta cast.
Lake Harriet Bandshell, illuminated at night. The curved roof at the front is lit from below and looks a little like the plates of a baleen whale.
A woman posing while wearing a graphic tee. A cozy high-key illustration in a cyan and magenta color palette shows a femme programmer laying on her tummy and sitting up to a laptop, while 3 cats lounge on or around her. Across the top the motto “purr programming” is written in a loose and attractive cursive.
An utterly unsettling late-1800s advertisement for Michelin tires. Bibendum is standing and offering a toast with a coupe glass full of dangerous road debris. He holds a cigar in the other hand. Beside him are two corpses of others of his kind, labeled (in French) “Tire X” and “Tire Y”. The dinner table is littered with other hazardous objects such as nails and safety pins. An open can of tubular tire cement sits near his plate, looking for all the world like a beer can. Text: NUNC est bibendum!! c'est— à— dire: “À VOTRE SANTÉ LE PNEU Michelin BOIT L'OBSTACLE!”
Dozens of rowing fans sit along the north shore of the Montlake Cut, watching the Windermere Cup. Rich blue paint on the concrete sea wall, oil-pastel green leaves, and textured dark teal water are noticeable.
Kaitlyn and Jordan presenting at KubeCon EU 2025. The slide describes history of Pod security controls at Datadog.
The SIG Security co-chairs, Cailyn, Ian, and myself, smiling before the SIG booth. A goose honks in the distance.
London Underground sign for Bank station.
Two raccoons are paddling a bark canoe, with a possum and a skunk as passengers. Caption: “There’s no time to explain: climb aboard”
A horizontal photo of the Aurora borealis, showing a tall magenta streak, and fluffy magenta, yellow, and green bands. A low rambly horizon traces the bottom of the frame and hundreds of stars dot the sky.
A giant mecha walking toward the camera, framed by the setting sun and dense power lines, from one of the Evangelion series
An oblique photo of the Golden Gate Bridge from the Marin side. The roadway curves along to the right of the frame in front of a green hill, while the bridge rises along the left side and nearly disappears into fog.
A cozy room. Next to a brick chimney is a cubical end-table of light oak wood with intricate cathedral grain, about 20” on a side. In the foreground is a rainbow-gradient shag rug. In the background is a simple gray couch, a vintage racing bicycle, and a bi pride flag.
M:tG card “Force of Will”, judge promo alternate art version. A woman with long hair and leather armor leans forward with a look of serene concentration on her face and gestures behind herself with her hands. A massive gout of flame stops just before her, seemingly deflected by a magical barrier she is creating. Card text (from the original Alliances printing): “3UU, Interrupt. You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will’s casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.”
Magic: the Gathering card Tolarian Academy. A tall, white building with spires and dormers. “The academy worked with time—until time ran out.” Card text: “Legendary Land. T: Add U to your mana pool for each artifact you control.”
The Magic: the Gathering card “Lion’s Eye Diamond”. Card text: “0, Artifact. Sacrifice Lion s Eye Diamond, Discard your hand: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.”
Magic: the Gathering card “Scroll Rack”. A fantasy academic with mousy blonde hair spins a large wooden machine filled with scrolls. She holds one in the hand with which she is moving the rack, and has several more precariously balanced in her other hand. Her outfit consists of blouse and slacks that seem to be made of blue velvet with leather accents on the cuffs, arms, collar area, and seat. Card text: “2, Artifact. 1, T: Choose any number of cards in your hand and set those cards aside. Put an equal number of cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then put the cards set aside in this way on top of your library in any order.”
Magic: the Gathering card “Balance”. A knight in stylized gold and green armor with a feathered helmet holds aloft an ostentatious brass measuring balance. The card text is “1W, Sorcery. Whichever player has more lands in play must discard enough lands of his or her choice to equalize the number of lands both players have in play. Next, equalize the cards in hand and then creatures in play the same way. Creatures lost in this manner are considered buried.”
A intentionally-badly-edited text image meme. “Get to know my MAGIC THE GATHERING taste, for every like I’ll post one CARD I love”
Screenshot of my Co—Star headline today. “Stray cats survive.”
III by BADBADNOTGOOD An obscure B&W photo, that I think shows three musicians, the underside of some kind of drum, and the ceiling, seemingly taken from a camera lying on the floor beneath them
Stock photo of a tenaculum, a type of surgical forceps with a single sharp point at the end of each jaw. It is about 20cm long and has gold-plated handles.
Machine-generated “inspirational” image. A conventionally-attractive woman with surfing gear stands amid gentle ocean waves. Text is overlaid: “Take on ambiguity and act immoral. Choose happiness.”
Paulo Freire meme: In the upper half, Mario is seen riding Yoshi. In the lower half, Yoshi is seen riding a horse. Text is overlaid: “When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.”
A section-marker sign in a rural department store. It has a photo of a few beef cows standing in a pasture and says “CATTLE”
A screenshot from Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Alice is squeeing: “Oh! Is there anything better than an epic love story that transcends all space and time?”
A backlit Game Boy Advance, displaying a scene from the last boss fight of Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land Kirby floats in a black empty space, with a bisexual-colored nebula below and pinprick stars above. Nightmare, a bisexual-colored sphere covered with white five-pointed stars, floats near Kirby. They are fighting by launching five-pointed stars at one another.
An illustration of a queer fairy with a tool belt. She wears shoulder-length green hair, glasses, superfluous welding goggles, brown coveralls, bracers with fingerless gloves, several pouches, and a smirk like a cat. Her gossamer wings are visible behind her, in a way that begs the question of whether they are physical or purely magical.
A picture of the beginning of Job, in English translation. One day, the lesser gods came to attend upon Yahweh, and the Accuser came among them. Yahweh said to the Accuser, "Where are you coming from?" and the Accuser answered Yahweh, "From roving and roaming about the world."
A cute shiny little jacket on a hacker
Dril tweet from 2012: IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL
1985 Shelby Omni GLHS press photo
Song of One of the Girls, by Dorothy Parker Here in my heart I am Helen; I'm Aspasia and Hero, at least. I'm Judith, and Jael, and Madame de Staël; I'm Salomé, moon of the East. Here in my soul I am Sappho; Lady Hamilton am I, as well. In me Récamier vies with Kitty O'Shea, With Dido, and Eve, and poor Nell. I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.
Front of a bottom plate for a 60% keyboard. Holes are visible to allow room for the parts that poke down from the bottom of the PCB. Two nails have been driven in and cut to height, to fit into the locator holes on the PCB.
Two different-sized Doc Marten’s Rainbow Rub-off boots resting side by side in the sun on a train seat. The right one is on the photographer’s foot, with the shank covered up by her bootcut jeans. The left one is almost absurdly smaller, and nobody is currently wearing it. Subtle differences in the color patterns are visible.
Screenshot from Co—Star, recommending “Full abandon.”
A still life of my menorah, lit for the first night of Hanukkah with blue and purple candles. It is about six inches tall, with minimal adornment on its curving branches that bring the 8 candles to a uniform height, centered about the shamash. Warm light from above casts minimal shadows on the oak table, which also holds a black candle in the shape of a human skull, a fork, and a cut crystal coupe glass full of kombucha. A dining chair and a large cat tree are visible in the out-of-focus distance.
Screenshot from Co—Star: “Water the garden instead of pulling out the weeds.”
Several beautiful and large multicolored koi gape their mouths toward the camera. One of them has a bright orange spot on a mostly white body, another is dark orange with majestic black spots.
“sickos cackling appreciatively at a window” meme, with a catgirl. She has fabulous eyeliner and a crop-top.
“Sanctuary”, by Dorothy Parker: My land is bare of chattering folk; // The clouds are low along the ridges, // And sweet’s the air with curly smoke // From all my burning bridges.