Paco Hope

Amateur professional #selfhost sysadmin. Professional amateur #cloud #security at #AWS. Also fond of #cats, #cigars, #whiskey and #pipes. I like board games and some video games. I am #covid cautious and I still #wearamask. Opinions are my own, but they can be yours too. 100% Organic:,No artificial colors, preservatives, or intelligence added.

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Annie Hsh πŸ‘ΎπŸ––β˜•fringemagnet@sunny.garden
2026-02-03

Sure you have experienced betrayal, but have you ever affectionately curled up near someone only for them to take advantage of you lowering your guard and decide that this was the perfect moment for your scheduled vet-ordered preventive ear cleaning?

(Creamy tuna mini bites have been offered, forgiveness has been granted, all is well.)

#CatsOfMastodon #cats #cat #floof #MastoCats #Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #FediCats

My calico cat Carrie curled up on a cushion on the desk, wearing a pink collar with a pink bow tie and a pink ID tag hanging from it, as she looks upwards with a cute look on her face.
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Devil Girl botdevilgirlbot
2026-02-03

glad I didn't spend money in the theater on this - but I did get a couple of laughs!

screenshot from the film Devil Girl From Mars showing a serious woman wearing a black leather suit, cape, and cowl. Superimposed text says: "glad I didn't spend money in the theater on this - but I did get a couple of laughs!"
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2026-02-03
2026-02-02

@RachelThornSub TIL. That was fascinating.
@nazokiyoubinbou

2026-02-02
2026-02-02

I just pulled the movie poster for Planet Earth (1974) from The Movie DB. Of the 3 people pictured in this poster, I only recognize one character.

Did anybody see a barely-clothed, sword-wielding, athletic woman in animal skins?

How about the faceless monster with the futuristic gun?

Or even the cut on the cheek of our protagonist? The protagonist's face, and the tiny pew pew pistol are about the only recognizable aspects.

#monsterdon

Movie poster. It says PLANET EARTH in big all caps at the top. In the center is the male protagonist, and a hand pointing upward with a silly pistol in it. A big-boobed savage-looking woman with flowing black locks and a sword is to the left. And a mysterious, shadowy monster-type dude is to the right.
2026-02-02

Here are the graphs!

A histogram showing posts per minute on Sunday, 1 Feb 2026. Each bar represents one minute. The event was 73.8 minutes long. There were 2141 posts during the event with an average of 29.00 posts per minute.

The busiest moment was at 1:00 from the start with 63 posts in that minute. The quietest moment was at 28:00 from the start with 10 posts in that minute. The yellow line is a 15-minute moving average.

The word cloud for Sunday, 1 Feb 2026. Words are larger the more frequently they appeared in posts. There were 6932 unique words posted, and the wordcloud shows the 200 most frequent. The top 10 most frequent words were: planetearth1974: 550, dink: 228, gene: 107, think: 81, star: 71, even: 63, roddenberry: 63, planet: 59, really: 56, trek: 54,
These words were excluded from the word cloud:
movie, movies, film, films, watch, now, one, guy, got, going, good, well, see, know, monsterdondoublefeature, planetearth, monstermiru, rebirthofmothra2, mothra, and the hashtag monsterdon.

#monsterdon

A histogram showing posts per minute on Sunday,  1 Feb 2026. Each bar represents one minute. The event was 73.8 minutes long. There were 2141 posts during the event with an average of 29.00 posts per minute.

The busiest moment was at 1:00 from the start with 63 posts in that minute. The quietest moment was at 28:00 from the start with 10 posts in that minute. The yellow line is a 15-minute moving average.The word cloud for Sunday,  1 Feb 2026. Words are larger the more frequently they appeared in posts. There were 6932 unique words posted, and the wordcloud shows the 200 most frequent. The top 10 most frequent words were: planetearth1974: 550, dink: 228, gene: 107, think: 81, star: 71, even: 63, roddenberry: 63, planet: 59, really: 56, trek: 54, 
These words were excluded from the word cloud: 
movie, movies, film, films, watch, now, one, guy, got, going, good, well, see, know, monsterdondoublefeature, planetearth, monstermiru, rebirthofmothra2, mothra, and the hashtag monsterdon.
2026-02-02

Summary of #monsterdon generated at Mon 2 Feb 2026 11:50 EST.

  • We looked at 2654 toots posted between Sun 1 Feb 2026 19:00 EST and Mon 2 Feb 2026 00:13 EST by 150 different participants across 81 different servers. mastodon.social contributed the most toots at 512
  • Most toots were from 'Lazarou Monkey Terror πŸš€πŸ’™πŸŒˆ' (Lazarou@mastodon.social) who posted 109

Additional details are replies to this toot. For stats from past watch parties, visit the gallery.

#monsterdon 1/5

2026-02-02
2026-02-02

@combatwombat Ok, I have serious backstage envy. I’m not a software developer. I’m an old sysadmin who can write code that works most of the time. My stuff is like 5 commands, run one after the other. And I have a bunch of manual adjustments to the word cloud each time. I’m gonna have to improve it….

If I can get a copy of the database. I can generate graphs and such for the ones that happened before I started graphing. Super cool. What’s the size of the DB? I’ll send an upload link by DM.

@diazona

2026-02-02

@spacehobo That is true. It’s a detached house here. But I had a detached house in Surrey, too. So that much is the same on both sides.

I will say this. I like boilers and I really like radiated heat. But that stuff is super expensive here because it is rare. Nobody has the skills and nobody sells the equipment.

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David Zaslavskydiazona@techhub.social
2026-02-02

@paco I saw a Cybertruck today that was painted (or covered?) a light blue, and my thought was "hey that's kind of a nice shade of ugly"

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Kluthulhu' XOR 1=1--kluthulhu@infosec.exchange
2026-02-02

@GossiTheDog @simonzerafa *Spirit Halloween has entered the chat 🀣

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strangefour with the Pleiadesstrangefour@retro.pizza
2026-02-02

That's priceless ancient architecture Mothra! Don't destroy the ziggurat!
#Monsterdon #RebirthofMothra2

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David Zaslavskydiazona@techhub.social
2026-02-02

Healing lasers, 'cause of *course* that's a thing

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #RebirthOfMothra2

2026-02-02

One minute mothra is behind. The next minute in front. It's kinda random.
#monsterdondoublefeature #rebirthofmothra2
#monsterdon

2026-02-02

@diazona Yeah. It would help if we had a particular hashtag that is always the same. Is it #WrongFrogs? Is it #monsterdondoublefeature

#monsterdon
@combatwombat

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