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Moheeb Zara

@virgilvox

Twitter xpats might know from my hardware hacking / open-source days. Now I’m mostly focused on cooking, scifi, and liberation/abolition/decolonization. Hackerspace - HeatSync Labs

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If there was one robot that could defeat the dreaded wedge, it would have to be the grater bot. 🥁

11.01.2026 21:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

if I hire an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he instead presents me with a list of reasons he is incapable of doing so while asking for more money so that he can maybe handle it later, I am not angrier at the roaches, I am in the market for a better exterminator

03.01.2026 21:25 👍 3218 🔁 570 💬 21 📌 27
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Other notable insights. TinkerSpace ins Kerala, India has more members than anyone in the world. Could me misreported data since it’s a self reported wiki but it makes sense given population density.

Brazil has a budding hackerspace scene.

Also most spaces started around 09-2010

04.01.2026 19:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
hackerspace.sh

I created an interactive map showcasing all the #hackerspaces worldwide. The data was sourced from wiki.hackerspaces.org using wikiteam for scraping.

- 1214 active hackerspaces
- Presence in 113 countries
- Average years open: 13
- Average members: 103

Explore the map here: hackerspace.sh

04.01.2026 19:27 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A "Longer" brand desktop laser engraver

A "Longer" brand desktop laser engraver

Multiple modes
For easy engraving
Android
ios
Windows
Mac OS
Selectphoto engraving from phone gallery
Engrave directly aftertaking thephoto
EVERYTHING'S BETTER WITH
TACOS
Drawing graphicengraving
Enter custom text for engraving

Multiple modes For easy engraving Android ios Windows Mac OS Selectphoto engraving from phone gallery Engrave directly aftertaking thephoto EVERYTHING'S BETTER WITH TACOS Drawing graphicengraving Enter custom text for engraving

Members eligible to WIN THIS DESKTOP LASER AT HACK YOUR HACKERSPACE at 7pm Thursday Dec 11 (tomorrow)! @virgilvox.bsky.social will be giving it away randomly to members in attendance. HYH is our meeting to discuss proposals to improve HeatSync Labs.

See our calendar at www.heatsynclabs.org !

10.12.2025 22:17 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Ok but seriously, what am I going to do with a nearly 4-foot-tall (114 cm) Cool S, I've run out of wall space for such a thing.

Do I let it into the blank wall space I keep for professional video calls? Do I mount it on the ceiling over my bed??

17.11.2025 05:16 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 6 📌 2

If you apply the dynamics of a subculture scene to the billionaire/ruling class scene, then a lot will make more sense.

It’s a small community, the doesn’t do anything about known abusers and their actions have consequences for the rest of us.

But they’re all buddies, even supposed enemies.

17.11.2025 20:06 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Maricopa County attorney Rachel Mitchell confirmed that her office will not bring charges against Proud Boy Charles Brandon Recor after he punched a man who was being restrained and killed him:

14.11.2025 17:55 👍 62 🔁 38 💬 4 📌 0

The most honorable use of a new fabrication tool (see previous post in thread)

14.11.2025 18:37 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Breaking: Shooting at a South Carolina Planned Parenthood An anti-abortion protester has been detained

Here's what we know about the shooting outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in South Carolina today involving anti-abortion protesters. We spoke to volunteers + reviewed footage of the incident. Anti-abortion violence is sharply on the rise—essentially encouraged by the Trump admin:

14.11.2025 22:19 👍 151 🔁 56 💬 0 📌 5

Nazi rally in phx coming up. Act accordingly

15.11.2025 09:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can’t believe the reason we have fascism in America is essentially the queer subplot of beserk.

15.11.2025 09:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
title card saying sharing berries and tools. creating gift economies with inspiration from open source movements and Robin Wall Kimmerer

title card saying sharing berries and tools. creating gift economies with inspiration from open source movements and Robin Wall Kimmerer

I wrote a little comic about #opensource hardware and serviceberry foraging!

I'll post all the panels here, but you can also read the whole thing on @archive.org :
dinalab.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?...

20.10.2025 20:56 👍 36 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 3

Television killed the radio star.

The internet killed the movie star.

Fascism killed the social media star.

28.10.2025 10:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The special election is in 2 weeks and Turning Point Action shifted most of their GOTV team to this little known recall and after Kirk died the volunteers significantly increased. Their goal is to shift Mesa to an even more far-right stronghold, TPUSA folks encouraged Mark Lamb to run in CD5 too.

22.10.2025 15:53 👍 39 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1
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CactusCon 14: Call for Speakers Welcome to the CactusCon CFP!It's that time again - the CactusCon CFP is now open! We're looking for unique talks, workshops, and villages about hacki...

Our CFP is closing this Sunday, let's see that awesome talk you've been stewing on!

sessionize.com/cactuscon-14/

#cc14

15.10.2025 23:55 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Awhile back I made a simple URL shortener weird.link

Have fun!

15.10.2025 06:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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16 year old Jason: Will you still like BBSes?
23 year old Jason: Will you still like zines?
55 year old Jason: I just used a program to write a program that writes a program to scan old zines for BBS numbers for my global BBS list.

80 year old Jason: Touch grass, jesus

12.10.2025 14:47 👍 91 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 1
archive.org webamp player showing a playlist of songs by slowdive, an equalizer, and a Milkdrop visualizer with trippy colors.

archive.org webamp player showing a playlist of songs by slowdive, an equalizer, and a Milkdrop visualizer with trippy colors.

WHO UP STARING AT INTERNET ARCHIVE WINAMP MILKDROP VISUALIZER

12.10.2025 14:38 👍 49 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

Great: You can do text searches inside of all printed documents uploaded to the Internet Archive

Not so Great: Found myself severely misquoted inside a book I'd have never otherwise found

13.10.2025 00:26 👍 53 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The incompetence of ICE agents has helped me understand why stormtroopers have terrible aim in Star Wars.

13.10.2025 00:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm on in ~2.5 hours (2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern)!

Excited to check out some other talks, hang out with #OpenHardware nerds in the chat, and dig into details on the new #ArchimedesBot – plus Halloween!

Also publishing Archie's v3 tutorial on @hacksterio.bsky.social & will add that here afterwards~

06.10.2025 18:24 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Arguing online is a waste of time. I would rather do something productive, like procrastinate for weeks at a time.

05.10.2025 11:04 👍 39 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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Donate to Supporting the Shea Family in Loving Memory of Caspian, organized by Debra Kavaler Wysopal On behalf of the Shea family, we have created this page of su… Debra Kavaler Wysopal needs your support for Supporting the Shea Family in Loving Memory of Caspian

It is painful enough that one of the most awesome people I know, a member of Cult of the Dead Cow, lost his youngest son. But the medical bills from the trauma center coming will cause very deep hardship. If you loved the best textfiles, send some monetary love to this family.

gofund.me/7c09530e9

25.09.2025 20:38 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
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expzine's profile | Backloggd Keep a virtual backlog of your video game collection, then rate and review the ones you've played to share with your friends!

Did you know I have a @backloggd.com? Well, now you do. backloggd.com/u/expzine/

25.09.2025 21:30 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

further update about the specific mechanisms they want to use to attack anti-fascists (not just "antifa" but anti-fascists more broadly)

25.09.2025 23:03 👍 241 🔁 54 💬 5 📌 0
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to YouTube video by Internet Archive

🎧 lo-fi microfiche digitization (to study/relax/preserve gov docs to)
Back online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxUj...

25.09.2025 23:43 👍 234 🔁 35 💬 0 📌 4

Shariah bans charging interest and requires charity (zakat). Project 2025 supports deregulation and protecting the wealthy.

25.09.2025 23:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fascists fight immigration, asylum seekers, black or indigenous people of color, Jewish people, Muslim people, the lgbtqia+ community, visa holders, higher education, and non-English speakers.

Anti-fascists fight fascists.

25.09.2025 21:54 👍 166 🔁 49 💬 5 📌 2

The Tylenol in my brain is screaming we’re moments away from a flashpoint event.

25.09.2025 22:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0