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ArjinFerman  Tinfoil Gigachad  1mo ago (text post)   622 thread views

Tinker Tuesday for June 03, 2025

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service

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Charity drive for @AlexanderTurok ! Upvote all his comments!

Through a cruel twist of fate (or the r.drama code copypaste fairy), this innocent member of our community is constantly being censored! Only you can solve this terrible software issue forever.

Do you feel that posting a flag isn’t enough philanthropic effort anymore?

Spare an upvote or two for a poor silenced soul, every bit helps!

Tired of celebrities always helping you, but YOU never being allowed to help THEM?

That’s right, he’s a VIP, world famous in the fourth degree, karlin just name-dropped him. Go to his user page now, and give an arrow to a star!

Unless you're coding a way to whitelist him, I don't feel like this is an appropriate thread for this post.

I tried to sprinkle some tinker flavour out of respect for the dignity of this thread. But really I feel all the non-culture war megathreads should be merged.

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