@arrath.bsky.social

Book nerd, professional exploder, video game enjoyer.

Looks like its time to trawl used book stores, I need me the first two books of the X-Wing series and I want the old, rad covers to match the rest that I have.

Oh dear, we've been saying "big yawn!" and "biiiig stretch" to the dog so often that now we're saying it to ourselves and each other.

Had a close call visiting a local establishment's website yesterday. A CloudFlare dialogue came up, and after clicking to confirm that 'I was not a robot', it prompted me to: * Press Windows+R (opening a run command window * Paste something from my keyboard and press enter Don't ever do this.

A scam CloudFlare box stating "Additional Verification Required", and then providing instructions that install malware on your computer.

The dilemma of logging in to see "30+" on the notification icon. Did something I say go nuclear overnight, or did bluesky have a vibe coded moment. Answer: the latter.

Two decades of dedicated attention to my PPE at work appear to have atrophied my safety squint reflexes. I don't know how else to explain the two bugs that have dive bombed right in to my eyeballs over the past 8 days. I'm trying to be on vacation here!

I'm reading the latest book in Craig Alanson's Expeditionary Force and while it is a fun romp as always, I am yet again reminded that this series is a cognitohazard directed at me specifically. The attention the books pay to oft-overlooked things like logistics, the wear & tear that a frantic...

I keep "Poetry Magazine" in my bathroom and read that instead of more phone time and it's been a shockingly effective way for me to get through a lot of poems and find some I love.

Maybe I can help. Vaccines are a product of natural sciences that study unchanging physical properties and while imperfect, are the best chance we have at understanding the world around us. Economics, however, is simply astrology for pedophiles

oliver@eikopf.com · 3mo ago

very tired of pretending that dismissing modern economics is somehow more reasonable than dismissing vaccines. if you’re not an expert, you don’t get to pick and choose parts of a field to believe! you have no way to tell between legitimate and illegitimate results in that field!