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vimlena.com they/she bassist/guitarist (@celebrityduis.com) I love computers and typography. I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this.

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Vim ❦@vimlena· 27d

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Vim standing in front of their messy desk making a sign with their hand. They have with bedhead hair and are wearing a hand-cropped Boris tank top and most of their tattoos are visible.

Mack truck from the movie Cars. Meme font that says “It’s nothing some ibuprofen and a blunt and five beers and a head injury and jacking off and killing myself can’t fix”

Disheveled basement with cables strewn about and 12 CRT computer monitors, 4 of which are turned on showing terminal screens.

Screenshot from new Ghost in the Shell show with Major Kusanagi saying “No go. He’s running in autism mode.” to Batou who is smoking a cigarette.

Vim ❦@vimlena· 27d

one of the threads of all time. ty @mlyp.bsky.social this rocked

Picture of a Mac OS browser screen showing a bonus Patreon video from M L Y P called “That Time Something Awful Reverse-Engineered Elf Genitals From Tolkien’s Own Notes (N S F W)”

Vim ❦@vimlena· 28d

Shout out to Pixies I usually only take selfies when I am dressed up and doing something but this is what I look like 90% of the time and it’s why I regularly get mistaken for being transmasc lol

Vim wearing a Pixies shirt and gray cargo pants taking a mirror selfie in their bathroom. Their hair is up and they’re wearing a chain necklace and turquoise plugs in their stretched ears with transparent glasses.

Vim ❦@vimlena· 29d

This is almost certainly a troll, but, holy shit dawg

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jul 10

What do you guys think of this

Badges from YouTube Music for the top 0.75% of Sufjan Stevens listeners and the top 0.5% of Neil Young and Talking Heads listeners

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jul 9

the IBM Selectric is such a cool typewriter, their whole mechanism with the ball for how to handle mechanically printing proportional fonts without a complex linotype/monotype machine is clever. My coworker was using a Selectric II he brought from home, it was in v good shape and we chatted abt it.

Several different balls the IBM Selectric used for printing with different fonts and different languages.

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jul 9

His head looks like this inside

Hollowed out pumpkin like the kind you use to carve for Halloween.

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jul 8

We’dnesady

Vim doing a peace sign and wearing makeup and a dress shirt in the evening golden light with a tapestry of Tony Soprano and his horse hanging behind them.

Lux the gray tabby hiding under a table and looking at the outside world with a stupid, animal emptiness in his green eyes.

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jul 5

Psycho Patrol R looking great so far. And by that I mean strange as fuck (positive). I loved Cruelty Squad and bought it almost as soon as it came out so I jumped on the early release of one too, really looking forward to see how it plays when complete. I love the mechs and the orgone.

Screenshot of Psycho Patrol R where a red flag with yellow text hangs over an archway from the perspective of a mech. The flag is for some kind of militant Marxist-Leninist incel group called “Brigate Incel ML.” The environment is lit with the red glow of sunrise and everything looks like an oddly textured PS2 graphic. In the corner, we see that the player has picked up several extremely dangerous sounding weapons, got a ton of euros for it, and someone named Thierry Lopez has said “You will perish like the rest of your Pan-European pig friends!” with a euro symbol where the E is.

Screenshot from Psycho Patrol R of a dark room lit with a flashlight. The room has huge guard rails and an attendant standing nearby with a computer that has the EU flag with a skull in it and a green glowing box with the earth in it displaying “EXTRACTION.” In the corner of the screen, we see Oscar Fernandez has said “Wife Creator 2000 just came out and I can’t stop playing.”

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jul 2

Yeah it’s literally just this exact photo I’m sharing but instead of “you’re just 21” it’s “you’ve just been out for under 5 years” ad infinitum. The more things change, the more they stay the same with internet discourse. I rarely talk about the topic du jour bc I already talked about it 15 yrs ago

Tweet from Gnoc (@Gnoc290438) on June 30th, 2026 at 8:31 PM.
“This has been talked about extensively you’re just 21”

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jul 1

you’re all good lol they did absolutely do some fuck shit with DRM on CDs so I absolutely could see somebody saying something to that effect. There was also a boom in shovelware font and stock images/clipart CDs back then and I wouldn’t put it past those sketchy companies to bundle malware.

CD of fonts from Expert Software for Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and the Macintosh.

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 30

I know better than you ever idolize a famous male musician, but I do find J Mascis’ whole vibe fascinating. In every interview I've seen, he is extremely shy and quiet with very short responses. His singing is generally timid and indifferent, while also being one of the loudest guitarists around.

J Mascis with a stroller that has two dogs in it taken outside in the evening with a flash camera.

J Mascis sitting on a rusty tractor on an overcast day.

J Mascis holding a customized Fender Telecaster but with a thousand-yard stare.

J Mascis taking a selfie with a sunset in the background but he looks vaguely confused.

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 28

Screenshot of a Tumblr post that says “two of them” and has a picture of two small cute gray cats resting on a blue blanket.

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 27

The Sun Microsystems logo is so cool dawg, I really love the 90s-00s design with the italic serif wordmark in particular. Have always wanted to get ahold of one of their SPARC workstations running Solaris. I love their wacky optical mouse with their weird aluminum mousepads.

A square Sun Workstations mouse with three long, thin clickable buttons on a reflective thin aluminum mousepad.

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 27

ohhhhhhhh

Wikipedia screenshot of “HRT” with possible meanings.

HRT most commonly refers to:

1. Gender-affirming hormone therapy, also known as hormone replacement therapy. See: masculinizing hormone therapy and feminizing hormone therapy.

2. Hormone replacement therapy, a treatment used to reduce symptoms associated with menopause.

3. Hostage Rescue Team, the FBI's elite tactical unit.

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 23

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 21

Meme of Leonardo DiCaprio pointing in a chair with a beer and cigarette in his hand.

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 20

Literally every single day of my life I think about Clarus the Dogcow, which is a bizarre shitpost cryptid Apple made up in the 80s about a silly glyph they had in their dingbat font on the original Macintosh.

Clarus the Dogcow, a creature that has spots like a cow but is more dog-like in its form.

“Developer
“Macintosh Technical Notes
“#31: The Dogcow
“Written by: Mark ‘The Red’ Harlan April 1989

“Recently we’ve been getting a lot of questions about the dogcow in DTS. The purpose of this Technical Note is to clear up any confusion that you may have, and more importantly, to get you to quit bugging me about it.

“What is a Dogcow?

“I wish I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard this question—by now I’d have enough money to buy a ‘Changing the world, one person at a time’ bumper sticker. Dogcows, by their nature, are not all dog, nor are they all cow, but they are a special genetic hybrid. They are rarely seen in the wild. Since dogcows are two dimensional, they will stand facing a viewer ‘on edge’ to avoid being seen.
“The dogcow has no natural enemies, but the meager population manages to keep itself in check through its own stupidity. They have a nasty tendency to graze off cliffs (in fact, there are no known ‘cliff-dwelling dogcows’ left in existence) and to get lost in the weeds. You’ve probably noticed that when you cut very high grass, you tend to get a lot of ‘paper’ in the grass clippings; closer examination would show that much of it is actually dogcow. When a mower approaches, dogcows often actually change their hide to resemble newspaper as a final line of defense—hence the famous expression, ‘black and white and read all over.’”

“But What Does This Have to do With the Macintosh?

“There is a life-size picture of a dogcow conveniently located in the Finder. Look under ‘Page Setup…’ Now look under ‘Options.’ Walla [sic], there is the dogcow in all it’s raging glory. Like any talented dog, it can do flips. Like any talented cow, it can do precision bitmap alignment. The reason that the dogcow can invert has to do with the fact that it’s genes have about as much order as the crowd at a Sex Pistols concert.

“The dogcow has a name, and it’s not Myria. The dogcow’s name is Clarus. Several people have said to me, ‘Mark, you handsome devil, I think I’ve heard that name, or something similar, somewhere before.’ I always tell them, ‘No, you’re hallucinating again. You never remember anything.’ The dogcow’s name is Clarus for the same reason you call a table a ‘table.’ Make sure to note that Miss Manners says:

“Gentle Reader: you should only address a dogcow by name, and then only after it has spoken to you. Miss Manners would not consider ‘Moof!’ a term of affection.

“Whether or not the animal in the Macintosh dialog is just a picture of a dogcow or an actual dogcow has been widely debated, mostly by people who were procrastinating getting their real work done. I personally would argue that it is just a picture, but I’m sure a large sum of money could change my mind.”

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 20

Some very cool stuff here omg

Patrick Stewart holding a copy of the complete works of Shakespeare and smiling with the text “Discover the feeling. Learn to read.”

John Goodman smiling with the hand-written text “When I was young we couldn’t afford much. But my library card was my key to the world. Have fun, read!” with his signature.

Melissa Etheridge holding a copy of “Written on the Body” by Jeanette Winterson and smiling in front of a picture of an acoustic guitar with the text “READ.”

Tony Hawk doing a manual on his skateboard while holding a copy of “High Fidelity” by Nick Hornby over the text “READ” and a cool 90s background.

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 19

Astronauts meme where one looks at earth, seeing the logos for Slack, MS Teams, Discord, and Zoom, and asks “It’s all just Voice over IP and an Electron interface?” and the other says “Always has been” while brandishing a gun.

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 18

While I understand why people don't care for labels like these, I think they are so funny even if they are stupid lmaooooo

A series of labels on a bluesky post.

“Label Hater,” “Alt-text Scolds,” “Elder Watch,” and “Replids over 20 times per day on average.”

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 17

Yeah (I made this in 2 minutes with my phone lol forgive the quality but I was inspired)

Image of Nick Cave staring at Blixa Bargeld in a gay way as they recline on front stairs of a building smoking cigarettes but Blixa the Cat’s stupid, wide-eyed animal stare is edited over Blixa Bargeld the human’s face.

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 17

That’s Blixa

Blixa the cat curled up in a blanket pile he constructed then crawled into. He is on a brown couch and behind him is a painting of 6 different clowns with a variety of expressions (it is a cute painting and if you are scared of clowns you are a coward).

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 17

I have never really connected with Eva even after many rewatches because I just don’t really have feelings like any of the main characters (minus Rei, sort of). Like Kaworu exists for one episode iirc. Test link: www.idrlabs.com/neon-genesis...

Neon Genesis Evangelion Test results:

95% Kaworu,
55% Rei,
35% Misato,
30% Ritsuko,
15% Gendo,
10% Asuka, and
10% Shinji.

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 17

👍

Screenshot of a review section of a good delivery app. The restaurant has 4.8 stars with over 10,000 reviews. The featured 5-star review from Diana A. says “I want to thank the guy who made my sandwiches juicy.”

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 15

Damn it’s gone back like 10 years in terms of value if I zoom out a bit lmaoo

Same as previous post in this thread but it is showing the rise and fall of stock over the entirety of Adobe’s existence. Around 2000 it starts going up, then it skyrockets in 2018, dramatically dips around 2021, goes back up around 2023, then even more dramatically dips in 2026.

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 15

Ha ha nice

Picture of a graph of Adobe Inc’s stock on the NASDAQ over the past 5 years (ADBE). It looks like the humps of a camel, with this dip the past year at an all time low. Currently at $210.39 USD/share whereas it peaked at around $700 USD/share about 4.5 years ago in this graph.

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 14

This can really come down to the minutiae as well, like how to give somebody an option to go light/dark mode on their OS. Windows has light/dark and a custom mix of the two, GNOME has default and dark mode, and macOS has light/dark and auto-switching between them. Which is right? Which is expected?

Windows 11 screenshot of personalization color settings displaying options for Light, Dark, and Custom.

GNOME screenshot of appearance setting with the option to select Default/Light and Dark mode.

Mac OS screenshot of Appearance setting with the option to select Light and Dark Mode and automatically switching between the two (based on location and sunset/sunrise? Unclear.)

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 14

Yeah! How exactly you do it will vary based on the platform/terminal you use, and very basic ones may not support changing it, but most modern ones do. I use the terminal Ghostty across Linux and macOS and I change it to the vertical bar by default.

Screenshot of Vim’s Ghostty terminal on macOS with a vertical bar as the cursor instead of a block like is typically shown with terminals.

Vim ❦@vimlena· Jun 12

So it seems like with the tint fully turned up on macOS 27 Golden Gate, it still reflects light in the background in areas that are not currently selected but is otherwise opaque. Look at the header bar of Preview here or the way that light moves when I move around the items in the Control Center.