#techromancy

[pitchburgh]

I'm doing hot girl shit

This number is close enough to 33 that I don't have to start killing 👍

[studio-enoptik]

okay, yeah, i did stay outside during the storm. i'm Sorry. okay, sure, it tore you from reality (without any possibility of recovery)—denying you even the finality of death. i said, i'm sorry! look, you and i both know it only did that because of how much i care about you! *pats the useless symbolic gravestone over an undisturbed patch of grass that your grieving family paid for* i knew you'd understand. look, i got brought you your favorite—double cheeseburger combo with a chocolate shake. you'll always be my realest one. *places it in front of the gravestone*

[rabidhiss]

My weird rotation from last nights shift.

<PIG> (Raymond Watts) “The Gospel”. Released in 2016, The Gospel came after a long absence from Raymond. The album sounds nothing like previous material, nor does it sound like any subsequent releases. The Gospel’s themes seem incredibly personal and possibly from the perspective of one battling addiction. It was a hard won masterpiece for me. Unsure at first, but hooked after. Favorite track “Fly Upon The Pin” -Chrome "Techromancy” is the last release (to my knowledge) by Helios Creed, back in 2017. A wonderfully abrasive slice of noisy space rock. I recall a few years back, Chrome was working on a followup. It’s been tumbleweeds since, and I hope everything is good with Helios. My favorite track on this album is “Death is a Pusher”. -Cro-Mags “In The Beginning” (2020). After internal physical altercations with former members, Harley takes back control of the Cro-Mags and puts out the first full-length in fuck if I know how long. Harley, taking bass and vocal duties see’s Cro-Mags having a savage new luster. What’s crazy to me is what a great voice Harley has! Favorite track "PTSD."

[smirnoffpasta]

Can anyone explain to me exactly how my Samsung Galaxy J3 (2017) is still functioning in any way? The battery is completely shagged, babeyy, it cannot survive more than 10 mins max outside of the charger, the screen has a gorgeous array of spiderweb cracks and rorschach inkblot dead pixel splots, none of which have bothered the actual touchscreen sensitivity, occasionally it forgets what it was doing and restarts any app that is unlucky enough to be actuve at the time, and it will gleefully murder any charging cable I plug into it within 2 weeks. I can SMELL the battery when I bring it anywhere near my face, which is not a new state of affairs. And yet it will still run this app??? My phone is a sadomasochistic fuck that wishes nothing but suffering in the most general and inclusive terms possible (I love it).

[smokeyloki]

Techromancy

A word I saw for the first time on tumblr today.

All those creepy sci-fi books I had to read a year or so ago are starting to come true thanks to Hollywood and other areas of media and pop culture taking dead peoples' likenesses and using them in films, shows, etc.

[pitchburgh]

Girls don't want boys girls want the Osborne 1, the first commercially viable portable computer, released in April of 1981.

twenty-four-point-five pounds.

20"x13" when closed.

five inch monochrome CRT screen.

64kb of RAM (4kb of which is dedicated to the screen.)

dual 5 1/4 floppy drives (plus onboard storage for another 24 disks).

CP/M 2.2 operating system with included software bundle of word processor, spreadsheet tools, and multiple programming languages.

optional battery pack sold separately.

look at her. look.

so jealous of 1980s career woman in this advertisement. that should be me

[pitchburgh]

"ooh tonight seems like a lovely evening to crack open that cool old Sony Tapecorder I picked up at an auction last month and clean it out 😊🪛📻"

WRONG.

because sometime between 1966 and July of this year, some DUMB MOTHERFUCKER decided they were gonna make themselves my MORTAL GODDAMN ENEMY by stripping a bunch of these screws worse than I've ever seen:

grab your torches. grab your pitchforks. we're inventing time travel tonight specifically to whoop the ass of some moron with a screwdriver and no sense whatsoever

[pitchburgh]

as you all know by now, I love to tinker with old audio equipment. new favorite psy-op is adding some cheerful gendered hand-waving to the end of my description of what this hobby entails.

"oh, yeah, I'll take apart a tape deck, replace the belt, clean the tape path, demagnetize the head, etc etc. might do some light soldering if there's a bad connection. you know, girlie stuff."

most of the people I talk to are already like "hell yeah" but sometimes I get to watch men chuckle at this at first, and then stop as the gears turn and they realize wait... perhaps I WAS pointlessly gendering this concept