TTK Ciar

@ttkciar.bsky.social

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#Engineer, #anarchist, husband, #GenX, ex- #goth, #dog owner, #cat owned Focused on #Covid19, #ClimateChange, hybrid #nuclear energy My meager #writing: http://ciar.org/ttk/orcish_opera I also like #birds (mainly corvidae). #corvid #cawmunity

Uncanny-looking man pointing at text: "Look!! When I imagine you said things you never said, and then argue against that imaginary version, you sound totally unreasonable!"

Screenshot of Reddit discussion.

AbyssianOne quotes NewspaperPossible210: "I imagine I'll drop my $20 of OpenAI stuff considering GPT5 seems like dog water."

AbyssianOne: "What sort of water do you give your dogs?"

NewsPaperPossible replies: "sorry bad expression I wouldn't treat a dog like that."

The assembled crew of The Liberator ftom Blake's Seven.

A basket of eggs on a cluttered counter, slightly overflowing with eggs of different hues (white, off-white, tan, brown) and dates written on them in Sharpie: 4/12, 4/14, 4/16

Thanos brandishing the Infinity Gauntlet

Photo of a back yard with orange tree, low black iron wrought fence, ferns, palm trees, and other greenery, also round stepping sones and a small wooden bench with a wide bowl on it filled with bird seed.

Two Chihuahuas curled up together on a blanket-strewn couch, with worried expressions on their tiny faces

Todd the Wraith chuckles, but he has clearly seen better days. Caption reads: "[LAUGHS IN WRAITH]".

ref: https://halhefner.artstation.com/projects/BQAKr

Artist's rendition of pre-human hominids gathering around the Monolith from the book "2001". Caption is "The dawn of intelligence".

A man has woken up and stumbled into the kitchen, where he is faced with a kangaroo.
Kangaroo says: "I'm a communist, and what are you?"
Man says: "I'm an anarchist."
Kangaroo says: "Cool, we can be friends until the revolution."
Kangaroo's expression becomes severe, and it says: "After that it gets difficult."

Butterfly meme, with dude gesturing at butterfly asking "Is this AGI?" and butterfly captioned "The ELIZA effect".

Image of a Cisco 6509-E (a very large network switch, nineteen inches wide and twice as tall), captioned: "I am not a toy. I am not a Christmas present. I am a 40 year commitment. Please think hard before you give someone a 6509-E chassis this holiday season."

A still-folded "Chaotic Good" T-shirt laying on my office desk amidst thinkpad and computer monitor

Paul Darrow as Kerr Avon, looking nonplussed in a black and silver jacket

Screenshot from tsunami.gov, showing huge swaths of inland territory in red, near Santa Rosa and Sacramento

Butterfly meme, with guy asking "Is this AGI?" and butterfly captioned "The ELIZA Effect"

Picture of smiling scientists, one of whom is brandishing a baseball bat.
Caption is: "SCIENTISTS FOUND A CURE FOR FASCISM"

Cartoon of comically excited face

Top panel: Shows a scene from Star Wars with a line of imperial stormtroopers, captioned "FASCISM: You really think it will be this obvious."
Bottom panel: Shows a line of police in riot gear, captioned: "YES"

Hazeltine 1500 dumb terminal

Insane rant about vaccine conspiracies.

Mazikeen the psycho cat in my lap

Mazikeen the psycho cat, on top of cat tree in office window, yawning and stretching.

Mazikeen the psycho cat, looking cute atop the cat tree in my office window.

Bloom County cartoon: "If two million people do a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

DM: You come across a dire rat.
PC: I try to befriend it and keep it as a pet.
DM: A wolf stands in your path.
PC: [With rat on shoulder] I try to befriend it and keep it as a pet.
DM: Before you stands Baphomet, Prince of Beasts.
Last panel shows PC, rat, wolf, and Baphomet cozying together by campfire.

ST-500 ethernet "vampire tap" network device

2U rackmountable server on a workbench with its top cover off, revealing glistening hardware within.

Meme: Guy captioned "Generation X" gesturing to a butterfly captioned "Construction site". Guy is saying "Is this a playground?"

A precisely laid out keyhole-like shape, with two straight lines and two curved, captioned: "Behold a Square, A shape with four sides of equal length, with four right angles."

A keyhole-like shape of precise layout, two straight and two curved.
Caption: "Behold a Square, a shape with four sides of equal length, with four right angles."

Cat in front of really big cardboard box in hallway

Small white shaggy dog napping on blue pillow

Colander of red peppers being washed under kitchen faucet