Kit Bashir
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Kit Bashir's Bio

Hacker. Parent. Scientist. Rantist. Atheist. Roboticist. Treehugger. (they/them¹).

At Accelerando Lab I research, design and build custom IoT and electronics solutions...fast!

Every day I write a over morning coffee, as a self-test of my brain. If you like them, buy me another coffee? (Link 👇)

¹ subject to change without notice 🐣

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Kit Bashir has 93 posts.


Kit Bashir

No Gracie, I know the bag is the same colour and sound as your treats, but these Wasabi peas are Dad treats. Not for kitties.


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Version 2 of this with thanks to the RetroProofing gang!

Some folk inferred---from the fact that Earth had hosted single-celled organisms for over three billion years before multicellular life finally arrived on the scene---that the leap from single- to multi-cell is the “Hard Step” that explains why we do not see a universe teeming with intelligent life.

Those people were about half correct.
On a farm planet, the Hard Step is avoiding the notice of the strikebreaker drones; machines tasked with ensuring that the planetwide bacterial soup produces petrochemicals and feedstocks and
not, say, us (or anything else multicellular).

Any phenotypes that show signs of unionising - forming cellular collectives that benefit themselves rather than the Bosses - get stomped down HARD by the Strikebreakers. Complex life only got going hereabouts when an unlikely catastrophe broke the breakers.

We worked all this out only after we dug up a broken drone. But not, alas, before we repaired it.


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@pjf what a perfect moment


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It's 2025 and everything sucks and everyone is job hunting, please enjoy this slowly unfolding thread of tech jobs at places that aren't making the world worse.

If you're hiring at not-evil (or even minimally evil) orgs, please reply w your tech jobs too?


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@anne_twain yeah fairy nuff, good spot. That next sentence is a trainwreck tho, work cut out fixing that one.


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“I dunno, that big ol’ car looks kinda badass. What’d they call ‘em in the day, Eff You Vees?”

“Ess, darling, Ess. Yeah nah, do you KNOW how many kids used to die of Passive Testosterone every year?”


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Advertising a windows 11 laptop with 4gb of ram as a “back to school deal” is straight out child abuse.

(Corollary: you don’t hate trackpads, you hate laggy under-resourced windows PCs)


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LOL look at Richy McRichface there in their double width car. Two whole metres for one person. You don't see those assholes much any more, what's the two-lane charge now, like ten grand per click? Holy shit, is that thing burning OIL? Call the British Museum, sib, tell 'em we need to borrow one of the Guillotines cos we missed one.


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@anathema_device what the half-chewed regurgitated fuck?


@Unixbigot what you said

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Rapid Offensive Unit “Drop and Run”


@Unixbigot GSV No Great Deed Is Commemorated Here

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Some folk infer from the fact that Earth had single-celled organisms for three billion years before multicellular life finally arrived, that the leap from single- to multi-cell is the “Hard Step” that explains why we do not see a universe teeming with intelligent life.

Those people were about half correct. The hard step is having all the supervisor drones installed on a farm planet to keep the biosphere generating fossil fuels (and not, say, evolving any life that would consume those fuels) break down.

We worked this out after we dug up a broken supervisor. But not, alas, before we repaired it.


@Unixbigot Your proof-reader says it should be "Those people are..." unless you change " infer" to " inferred".

by ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘 ;

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Kit Bashir

Happy NYE fam!

For the last (*checks notes*) 385 days without exception I have posted a daily (more recently also using the hashtag).

Some of these have been paid commissions, if you would like a custom story on a topic of your choosing, or if you wish to throw me a coin in recognition of your enjoyment, see ko-fi.com/unixbigot (link in bio also).

Here are the top ten most popular stories in the last year and a bit.

* 10 Mister Vortex (2024-11-09 163 boosts 324 likes)
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* 9 Secret Identity (2024-08-20 179 boosts 298 likes)
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* 8 Complex Emotions (2024-06-26 230 boosts 370 likes)
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* 7 Dead Letter (2023-11-21 279 boosts 451 likes)

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* 6 Renegotiation (2023-12-07 321 boosts 516 likes)
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* 5 Chosen One (2024-01-10 386 boosts 820 likes)
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* 4 Escape Clause (2023-12-11 483 boosts 910 likes)
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* 3 Pipe Cleaner (2024-02-04 536 boosts 890 likes)
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* 2 Time Club (2024-12-30 689 boosts 777 likes)
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* 1 Reply Unexpected (2023-12-17 1298 boosts 2240 likes)
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