Sam Retro-Talon

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Retro #utahraptor 🦖 | 🐾 #furry #dinofurs 🐾 | ♂ he/him | 💛 single | storm addict ⛈️🌪️🌨️ My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/SamRetroTalon Current Avatar / Ref by @warest.bsky.social 📅 Next Cons: -

Two batches of classic mead are fermenting! They should be ready to drink before xmas if all goes well. I actually got inspired to start brewing back when Skyrim came out and kinda kept making small batches for fun. I guess the "mead with juniper berries" in it kinda made me curious.

Photo of two fermentation containers standing in a rack.

The left one is a small white barrel type with a red lid on it and a small faucet on the bottom end. Attached on its top is an airlock which makes sure nothing gets into the barrel while letting CO2 out.

The right one is a classic glass carboy which lets you see its contents much better. The mead must has a brownish color with a bit of white foam swimming on the surface. The top of the glass vessel is sealed off by a rubber cap which also has a fermentation lock on it. It is a small glass tube filled with water that's shaped like a siphon.

Both containers are standing on a wooden particle board which is part of a blue heavy loads shelf. The shelf is standing against a white concrete wall.

What a day! Spent a lot of time tending to vulnerable servers because of the recently published PHP vulnerabilities. Thanks to the hard work of so many patches are already available and installed tho!

So I guess playing games with a trackball mouse works pretty well for me! Been playing some Phasmophobia because it's spooky month and the only issue I bumped into is that having to learn the new ghost's behavior.

I seem to have a thing for trying out the more difficult recipes - this time making a rainbow colored yule log. But it tasted pretty good with the vanilla cream filling. Learned a few things long way too! 🌈

Photo of a piece of rainbow colored yule log on a plate. It is a rainbow colored and thin cake that has been rolled up, filled with vanilla cream. The cake is sitting on a white plate. 

The log is topped with differently colored chocolate candy in the colors of the rainbow. The leftmost candy is red, the next ones are orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and the rightmost ist brown. The rolled up cake itself has similar colors with orange being in the center.

Never thought that destroying your own stomach could be so fun, haha xD By the way, I'm fine, no worries - it was part of a drinking game but I did not want to drink so I went for habanero chips ;3

Hm, so in order to leave more than one reaction emoji on a Telegram post I need Premium? That's kinda funny 🤣 Like Lefty the Salesman on Sesame Street. Maybe they should try that too: selling letters after disabling them on your keyboard. "Would you like to buy an O? Maybe a T?"

Boy oh boy, my sleep cycle is garbage right now. Kinda wished I could sleep normally again but I either fall asleep and wake up again prematurely or I can't fall asleep at all. It's frustrating :/

In the past people thought that in autumn flies would start to bite and suck blood like mosquitos. Of course that was just mother nature who gave this little critter a sexy straw to poke at living things. Little stable fly I caught and released - looks like a regular fly but it loves your blood (:

Macro photo of a Stable Fly (Stomoxys) caught in an insect catcher. It is rubbing its front legs together.

My doc's been using a platform / app to manage various things which has been working ok. Now they've just sent me a notification about their newest feature: ✨ AI Assistants ✨ People are already shredding each other apart over this.

Just been shown a demo of an AI code plugin and it felt like watching a slapstick comedy show. Dude had to revise code very often, it was humorous at best. Honestly would like to see hardware prices drop again a lot more. But it feels like I'm waiting for Godot there *sighs*

Back to stone age! xD Well not quite... Internet went brrrrr and my mobile connection is garbage because of the nearby festival. Got to at least say hi on Twitch albeit with potato resolution :3 Thank goodness Paleo Pines works offline though, gonna pet some dinos then curl up to sleep ^~^