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Les Orchard

@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
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he / him; semi-hermit in PDX, USA; tinkerer; old adhd cat dad; serial enthusiast; editor-at-large for http://lmorchard.com; astra mortemque superare gradatim

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Joined April 12, 2025
Home:
https://lmorchard.com
Blog:
https://blog.lmorchard.com
Links:
https://gts.lmorchard.com/@links
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 1d ago
Boosted by @trending@homestead.social
I kind of wish that, after big in-person work travel events, they'd do a survey like "did you get sick? how many days were you sick? did you take PTO to recover?" and then figure those health impact and work-loss metrics into the cost of the next event.
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 2w ago
TIL the term "butt rock" - and, not having heard it before, it meant exactly what I guessed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4QeCs7uygk

The 7 Songs To Blame For Butt Rock

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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 2mo ago
So, I saw this commercial where this woman said "my mother died of heart disease at 69" and my immediate response was "nice"
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 2mo ago
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/116927732095763924 My therapist noted that my anxiety & grief scores were up, after an assessment check-in this week. This sounds a lot like our discussion
Open quoted post
Quoting
DB 🌱💦
@dbattistella@mstdn.ca
This sums it up nicely.
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mstdn.ca
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 5mo ago
Boosted by @ferrix@mastodon.online
I need to get lunch before my next meeting. Then, Minna requested lap time for the second time ever. I guess I will just starve. 🤷‍♂️ #cats
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 2mo ago
Printed a little charging dock for my Anbernic RG35XXSP, pretty neat. Also has a micro-HDMI to HDMI adapter built-in, in case I ever feel masochistic enough to try using it as a console. #3dprinting #anbernic #retro #gamedad https://www.printables.com/model/1412822-anbernic-rg35xxsp-dock-usb-c-hdmi/
printables.com
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 3mo ago
I practically can't with these #cats
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 4mo ago

I am having lunch on my deck. I am not alone.

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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 4mo ago

It's like Neko Atsume up in here #cats

masto.hackers.town
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 5mo ago
Replying to
Less talk more rocks #gardening
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 4mo ago
Replying to
So, last week, we put some plants in the pond, but woke up the next day to find them all shredded and the fountain pump stuff pulled out of the water. I put up a camera and caught the pond bandit last night 🦝
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 4mo ago

me: "Huh, I'm getting very cranky."
my office: *is 90ºF / 32ºC*
me: "I wonder what's up?"
my water bottle: *is full of undrunk ice water*
me: "I guess I'll never know. Grr."

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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 5mo ago
It bothers me that they're not in order of shade, but this is the closest they've eaten together yet #cats
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 3mo ago
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Raccoon's back for a pond party
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 2mo ago
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Also, there were TWO #raccoons in our pond, last Sunday night. For some reason they just really love demolishing our lily pad plant!
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 3mo ago
Replying to
@geekysteven@beige.party clawing MINERALS from the EARTH to harvest POWER from the ANCIENT ATOMIC FIREBALL IN THE SKY - how that's not widely understood as absolutely frikkin' METAL is beyond me
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 2mo ago
Replying to
Like, "Tim Leatherman" sounds like "John Mastodon" to me
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 2mo ago
Replying to
Guess who's back, back again?
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 5mo ago
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Trimmed up the edges, I think this lil bathtub is shaping up nicely
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 3mo ago
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Been almost a month, thought we were forsaken by the raccoon. But no, they're back and hungry for lily pad and electrical cords
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 4mo ago

A thing I'm working at work got posted to Product Hunt. Now my inbox is filling up with emails with subject line "Quick thought on {product name}" from randos - and usually the quick thought is "have you thought about using my product?" :blobsweats:

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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 5mo ago
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Still need to debug the waterfall, woke up to all the water emptied out. But other than that, this pleases me. I can come out here and touch grass and rocks and water
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 5mo ago
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Oh no more rocks
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 2mo ago
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cognitohazard, do not open; nicolas cage; hot dogs; butts
if it makes anyone feel any better, i also texted this to my wife
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 5mo ago
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Soon, I'm going to do things with rocks that will make things hurt even more. I know this because I already did things with rocks and then undid those things
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 4mo ago
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One of the things that the bandit really like messing with is the floating skimmer I threw in there. I could imagine that thing collects a bunch of edible tasty goodies, must be like a buffet bucket
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 5mo ago
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I almost wish I'd taken a photo before I started digging. But just imagine there wasn't a hole there, just a patch of dirt. After digging down only about 2 feet, it really makes me wonder how those Winchester boys on Supernatural can dig up a grave so fast
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 4mo ago
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Like, part of me wants to be mad - those plants weren't free and they keep pulling up the cords & hoses to the waterworks - but it looks like they're having a lot of fun?
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 4mo ago

Ugh. We adopted Minnaloushe about 2 1/2 months ago. He's been settling well, though we can tell he's had some trauma at some point. Not aggressive, but hair trigger to throw paws if he gets his boundaries disrespected. Miss Biscuits and Cosmo have mostly respected this, though they both keep making overtures to be friendly.

Then, yesterday, he rather abruptly decided that Cosmo needed his ass kicked. Claws out, blood drawn, won't stop stalking him. Cosmo's terrified

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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 4mo ago
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Also, I think I need to point a trail camera or something at this new pond. I couldn't attract crows to the backyard with peanuts, but they're digging the water. And, every morning, I get up to find something's been messed with - fountain knocked over, power cords dragged around. Once, something had pulled the filter pump entirely out of the water. I suspect raccoons and I suspect they're cute as heck
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 2mo ago
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Oh wait, another mention on livejournal :blobSmileSweating: https://gymrats.livejournal.com/320250.html
gymrats.livejournal.com
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 5mo ago
Replying to

@benbrown@masto.hackers.town fwiw, if you need an even faster way to get max, say because your friend left their laptop unlocked:

npx @benbrown@masto.hackers.town/headroom

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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 2mo ago
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I need to move that camera a bit, I think - there's a waterfall and a rock pile behind that tree and the raccoons fully dismantled that too.
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 5mo ago
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@mathowie@xoxo.zone This makes me think I need to make more Plex friends, which but probably need to make more IRL friends first :blobSmileSweating:
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 2mo ago
Had a dream that I took apart some gadget and then forgot what screws went where when I tried to reassemble it 😱
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 3mo ago
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt just as long as soup doesn't microwave fish
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 5mo ago
Replying to
Also, home assistant tells me the fountain and debris skimmer only run at about 80 watts. So that's not bad
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 4mo ago
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@maddy@thegayagenda.fans ugh, i've been there
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 5mo ago
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@bnys@lasersword.club the funny thing is a raccoon tried to run off with one of the fountain pumps, last night
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 2mo ago
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So far, this one reddit comment is the sole reference I can find to this station's existence besides my own recollection - and it doesn't even show up in Reddit search :blobSmileSweating: https://www.reddit.com/r/synthpop/comments/1kdbd1w/comment/mqb0pa7/
reddit.com
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 5mo ago
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@benbrown You know, I am honestly surprised that no one's named an AI product "Skynet" yet. I bet there was a meeting where someone had to talk Elon down from using that name for Starlink
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 5mo ago
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@sil I think I saw her back in... 1991. oof :blobdead:
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 5mo ago
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@sil FWIW, my first concert ever was Paula Abdul and I am shamelessly fond of her music. Even if I did later sell all her CDs in college in trade for Skinny Puppy albums :blobSmileSweating:
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 3mo ago
Saw someone blog that they really dislike grab-bag or "weeknotes" style blog posts, which kinda makes me want to throw together a public feed aggregator just for weeknotes posts from folks :thinkspin:
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Les Orchard @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
· 2mo ago
The tiger He destroyed his cage Yes YES The tiger is out #cats
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