Ben Bleything

@bleything

pacific northwestern computerist. you may know me from such as he/him

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Ben Bleything@bleything· 16d

nbd just another european rails developer posting vile, racist shit in support of DHH’s vile, racist shit

Screenshot of two bsky posts from Greg Molnar (@greg.molnar.io):

Where did he mention extermination of people? He asked for deportation of the scum and they happen to be mostly from the same ethnic group. I can move you into a few villages where scum roma people live, we will see if that changes your opinion

But not all of them for sure, I have some friends from that ethnic group, but they got away from the group and have a completely different mentality.

Ben Bleything@bleything· 16d

happy caturday (observed)

a large black cat sleeping on a green blanket. He’s twimsted around a bit so his front legs are in the air with his little wrists bent 90 degrees and his fuzzy lil belly exposed

a large black cat sleeping on a green blanket. he has been tucked in so only his head and shoulder are visible

Ben Bleything@bleything· 20d

moon looks enshrouded in clouds tonight

a photograph of the waxing gibbous moon against a dark grey sky with even darker grey clouds in front of and around it. thin clouds and haze make the moon seem to have a bit of a corona

Ben Bleything@bleything· 21d

nailed it

a hole cut into a piece of plywood so you can fit your fingies in there to pick up the box. The hole is … misshapen

Ben Bleything@bleything· 22d

current box status

a plywood box on top of dry grass, being stood on by someone wearing bright yellow crocs

Ben Bleything@bleything· Jul 10

this is another cat who lives at the same house and has similar markings. check out the mackerel on the limbs and face but the mostly ticked body. they're gorgeous cats this one has been more hesitant with me but I got a head bonk on the shin the other day so I think it's going well

a different brown tabby standing in front of some bushes and looking toward the camera. this one has a smaller, whiter face and less pronounced mackerel markings

Ben Bleything@bleything· Jul 10

I have a new cat friend in the neighborhood

a brown tabby walking toward the camera. their eyes are a lil bit squinty and their pouch is a lil bit swingin'

Ben Bleything@bleything· Jul 3

Screenshot of the bluesky muting UI showing that I am muting “USMNT” forever

Ben Bleything@bleything· Jul 2

bc-250 showed up today! I had to hack the case I picked to fit it onto my printer and also I didn't have the right screws so it's not exactly uhh. secure? but it should be good enough for testing

a circuit board mostly covered by a shiny heatsink. there's an io shield on the left edge, an m2 ssd just inside that, and then it's heatsink all the way to the other edge where you'll find a cmos battery and some power headers

it's basically a gpu with a hard drive

the same card mounted inside a black 3d printed case with a large fan. the case is held together by clamps because SOMEONE forgot to buy screws

Ben Bleything@bleything· Jun 30

works every time

a raspberry pi 4 model b sitting on top of a cork trivet. There is a micro hdmi cable attached

Ben Bleything@bleything· Jun 28

pov: it’s 4:59am and you’ve just been startled awake by a noise you can’t immediately identify

a dark and blurry photo showing the silhouette of a cat’s head peeking above the edge of a mattress. You can’t make out any details but you’re sure the cat is staring at you

Ben Bleything@bleything· Jun 22

it’s a fastcap flatback story pole sorry, I don’t make up the product names

a rubber banana labeled “(for scale)” sits next to a white tape measure blade that is sitting flat. On the bottom edge of the tape is a blank space for writing. I have written “BANANA” and drawn lines to indicate a length of ~6-7/8 inches

Ben Bleything@bleything· Jun 13

this is the cat from outside, pictured here on a different gate. you can see why small cat has a crush

a tortoiseshell cat on a wooden gate, standing on her hind legs, front legs dangling t-rex style, staring intently at a hole in the arborvitae that she believes contains a bird (it does not)

Ben Bleything@bleything· Jun 12

Close selfie of a man with a black cat draped over his shoulder

Ben Bleything@bleything· Jun 7

checks out

a hand holding a silicone banana in front of OP’s banana art showing that they are the same size. The silicone banana has “(for scale)” printed on the side

Ben Bleything@bleything· Jun 5

guess who’s up and ready for wet food

a large black cat walking towards the camera but not looking at the camera

Ben Bleything@bleything· Jun 5

update: they have migrated to the sauna and are awake but not necessarily alert

two black cats laying in rectangular beds on the seat of a bay window. The small one on the left is looking at the floor. The large one on the right is licking his nose

Ben Bleything@bleything· Jun 4

cats are almost ripe, harvest will be early this year

a three-tier cat tree with a sort of organic shape made of wicker in the corner of a room. The top two baskets contain curled up black cats. The lowest basket contains a handmade plush of a grey and white tuxedo cat

Ben Bleything@bleything· Jun 4

they call me Johnny Pizzathumbs

A slice of cold pizza resting on top of a man’s hand, obscuring the thumb

Ben Bleything@bleything· Jun 3

fun fact about mt baker station for the folks who are not familiar: it's elevated above a major thoroughfare. I have subtly annotated this image from wikipedia to indicate approximately where this car was located to be fair, it might've been the other end of the station?

a photo of Mt Baker Station with the upper deck circled and many arrows pointing at it

Ben Bleything@bleything· May 31

everybody look at small cat. she’s a good cat. and small.

A black cat curled up against the side of a bay window as though trying to get as much sun exposure as possible. She is looking at the camera, skeptically. Her fur is brown from sun exposure and thin in places from overgrooming. We’re working on it.

Ben Bleything@bleything· May 25

post dinner nap in the cat sauna

Two black cats sleeping next to a window. They are both laying on their sides with their heads near to each other but not quite touching. The large cat on the left is resting his front legs on the edge of the bed. The small cat on the right is all tucked in and cozy.

Ben Bleything@bleything· May 22

a can of Waterloo sparkling water in Root Beer Float flavor, a special collaboration with Guy Fieri’s Flavortown. It’s pretty alright.

Ben Bleything@bleything· May 21

here's one channel. see alt text for a complete description but the core of it is using a comparator to test whether the incoming signal is above a certain level and then passing that through the Gate Length module and on to the Note Out module

a screenshot of the Bitwig Grid showing a label that says "Prime" and two node setups for input and output

above the label is a three node setup that allows you to send cv to the module. a value knob set to 23.5% feeds into a value scaler set at 0% and 56%. from there it goes to a cv out module

below the label is a more complex setup. a CV in module and a level module set to -26db are fed into a `>` comparator module. the logic output of the comparator goes into an AND gate along with a button, creating a mute circuit. the logic out of the AND gate goes into a gate length module set to 100ms. the gate length module's output goes the gate of a Note Out module with the note set to C1

Ben Bleything@bleything· May 15

at long last, after a small amount of effort and a large amount of waiting around and procrastinating, I present to you the complete graph of starter packs, who created them, and who they include, current as of ~3 days ago this one goes out to @kevinr.free-dissociation.com in particular

a large square image with a white background. most of the image is a large black blob. you can see bits of emojis scattered throughout it, and on the edges you can see that it's made up of words

it is completely useless as a chart

Ben Bleything@bleything· May 13

you wouldn't download a graph

screenshot of a rudimentary dashboard showing various statistics. text follows:

starter packs
in database: 10314
in queue: 0
last created: 0.135026 seconds ago
lists
in database: 2030
in queue: 8488
last created: 0.027527 seconds ago
list items
in database: 74254
last created: 0.012027 seconds ago

Ben Bleything@bleything· Apr 28

I get it, bsky, people like this post

screen shot of the same post showing up twice consecutively in my timeline after being retweeted by two people I follow

post is not relevant but it's from @pbump.com saying "what if we made the whole country out of ballroom"

Ben Bleything@bleything· Apr 24

moon looks crisp tonight

a photograph of the moon. the left half is in shadow. the terminator is tilted about 10 degrees to the right of vertical

Ben Bleything@bleything· Apr 23

it worked

a large black cat lays facing away from the camera on top of a green blanket. His hips are between my knees and his head near my feet, because large cat is large

In the upper right you can barely see small cat peeking out of her heated bed in the corner of the room

Ben Bleything@bleything· Apr 22

colors~