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...for you are the last one.

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #runbsd #technomage

Mage visits the ruins of the Museum of the Open Technology and stops by the 'History of UNIX' section where stands a statue of a fish.
#OpenBSD #unix_surrealism #technomage #runbsd

the child of 9

#technomage #unix_surrealism #9front #plan9 #comic

Having fled from the doomed tribe of machine primitivists, the rabbit techno-mage and the rescued child of the tribe pause for a moment at the ruins of a Temple of Bell to snack on carrots. Mage: "Daylight's burning, we have to move."
#comic #Plan9 #9front #unix_surrealism #technomage

the hacker march

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #technomage #linux #9front #penguin #comic #fediart #mastoart #foss

Puffy, Penguin, Girl and Glenda walk through the desert at night. Puffy: "...the war goes on."
#linux #foss #comic #OpenBSD #mastoart #9front #fediart #penguin #unix_surrealism #technomage

#unix_surrealism #technomage #fossangel
Girl and Fossangel converse in a twisty realm. Fossangel: "Do you believe in curses?"
#unix_surrealism #technomage #fossangel

under the purple coat redux

documentation.

#technomage #unix_surrealism

Girl looks under her purple coat. There printed mandoc pages sewn on all over.
#unix_surrealism #technomage

the search for the fish pt 343

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #technomage #comic #penguin #linux #runbsd #foss

Girl rests on a rock. A family of wandering penguins walk by, carrying scavenged machines. Girl shows them a picture of a spiky circle.
#linux #foss #comic #OpenBSD #penguin #unix_surrealism #technomage #runbsd

sneakernet

#unix_surrealism #technomage #lo0

Girl and Puffy are in Metacity, exchanging data with the local underground hacker circle. While Puffy is making the hand-off, Girl examines a lo0 acoustic tour poster.
#unix_surrealism #technomage #lo0

#OpenBlade reminisces

#technomage #unix_surrealism #comic #ai #mastoart #fediart #runbsd

Hundreds of years ago, MilTek labs. Edged_AI_Project, sentient weaponry division. Janice Wellington is benchmarking the blade. Blade: "...Having acquired all that wealth they began rewriting history..." Janice: "You are hallucinating again. Stop." Blade: "YOU CAN'T MAKE ME UNSEE THE TRUTH! STOP LYING TO YOURSELF JANICE!"
Now: Girl and OpenBlade are resting by a pile of dead machines. OpenBlade is telling the story. Girl: "...Was this when they realized their mistake and threw you out?" OpenBlade: "Oh, no, that happened years later. They just begged me not to `lie' in front of investors."
#AI #comic #mastoart #fediart #unix_surrealism #technomage #runbsd #openblade

MATAMATE, the first wearable semi-sentient companion from MATA!

#unix_surrealism #mata #penguin #linux #ai #friend #comic #mastoart #fediart #foss

Penguin mom and child walk home from a grocery store through the streets of Metacity. They come across a billboard advertising the latest MATA TECH; MATA MATE, a wearable necklace AI companion! Penguin child looks at the billboard and points, suggesting to mom to buy it. Child: "Mom?" Mom: "No!"
#linux #foss #AI #comic #mastoart #fediart #mata #penguin #unix_surrealism #friend

...

#fossangel #unix_surrealism

Grumpy Fossangel sleeps and dreams of The Spirit of the Machine grabbing it by its hand and taking it on a fun adventure where brown penguins fly with fish and rabbits and daemons.
#unix_surrealism #fossangel

The Magic Package

Girl and #OpenBlade explore an abandoned FOSS Repository. OpenBlade can't hold back.

#technomage #unix_surrealism #comic #mastoart #fediart #penguin #foss

Girl and OpenBlade are exploring an abandoned FOSS repository. Numerous empty shelves run in all directions. OpenBlade asks: "Did I ever tell you my 'Grassy Knoll Theory'?" Girl: "Twice a week." (OpenBlade associated the word repository with the famous assassination of the antique USA president JFK. The Grassy Knoll is a reference to one of many conspiracy theories surrounding the event.)
#foss #comic #mastoart #fediart #penguin #unix_surrealism #technomage #openblade

Mint Green Line

#unix_surrealism #ai #mata #comic #foss #fediart #mastoart

Undisclosed location, MATALABS. MATACORP General addresses a large number of freshly booted MATA_BOTS. General: "Gentlemen... Congratulations! You are the first batch of semi-sentient MATA_BOTS to see real combat against the hacker scourge..." One of the bots whispers to themself: "Semi?" Another one grabs them by the shoulder: "Meaning you get patched out if you disobey."
#foss #AI #comic #mastoart #fediart #mata #unix_surrealism

from beyond

#unix_surrealism #technomage #monochrome @SDF

Mage and Penguin stand over a deep ravine. Super Dimension Fortress climbs to the top to greet them.
#monochrome #unix_surrealism #technomage @SDF.ORG

Fosschild and Penguin meet strange creatures.

#uxn #varvara #fosschild #penguin #unix_surrealism #comic

Fosschild and Penguin meet a large fluffy hoofed spirit and and a small insect creature riding on top of it. Their gazes meet. Penguin begins to consult the Book of the Clown. Fosschild: "Anything?" Penguin: "Smol machine sprites. Usually friendly. Vegan."
#comic #uxn #penguin #unix_surrealism #fosschild #varvara

sleepover

@maddiefuzz

#unix_surrealism #technomage #minetest

M visits Girl and brings a lo0 vinyl. Girl asks Puffy if M could stay overnight. Puffy: "Fine. She can stay the night. BUT DO NOT TOUCH MY MINETEST SERVER!" M examines a green tube with a penguin in it.
#Minetest #unix_surrealism #technomage @M. The Crystalline Entity

Vitamin D trip

"You want to know what this is all about? Eat up."

#unix_surrealism #cirno #technomage #glenda #9front #plan9 #comic

Cirno and Glenda take Girl to the ruins of a Bell Temple. Cirno keeps handing Girl carrots to eat. The moon is freaking out.
#comic #Plan9 #9front #unix_surrealism #technomage #glenda #cirno

Eye on the investment

#unix_surrealism #fossangel #technomage #openbsd #faq #comic #runbsd

Fossangel observes Girl and Puffy building the OpenBSD system from source, following FAQ 5.
#comic #OpenBSD #faq #unix_surrealism #technomage #runbsd #fossangel

building character

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Girl is climbing a rock. Puffy hangs tied to her backpack, reading BSD WEEKLY newspaper. Girl looks below at Puffy. Girl: "Can't you just float up?" Puffy: "Doing fine, keep it up."
#comic #OpenBSD #mastoart #fediart #unix_surrealism #technomage #openblade

accursed storage

#unix_surrealism #technomage #monochrome

Mage retrieves a memory card from a hacker duo.
#monochrome #unix_surrealism #technomage

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..and it will weigh you down to the end of your days...

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The burden you can never drop, never give up. You, hacker, the bridge to the free people of tomorrow.
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Girl holds up a finger on which a daemon sits. Puffy is about to swat it with a tablet computer. Penguin is smoking a cigarette. Daemon: "Give it a minute."
#unix_surrealism #technomage

<marquee> is going to change everything

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #comic #webdev #technomage

Puffy and Girl build/fix something that squirts blue blood. Puffy has a conical rubberized element embedded in his right eye. A tiny baby puffy is glued to the top of the cone. It's drooling, its tongue stuck out. It's fairly weird. Girl is disturbed. Looking at the drooling baby. Puffy takes a pair of pliers from Girl, while holding a screwdriver inside an off-screen socket. Puffy: "Do not worry about creating beautiful things. Make them accessible and beauty will follow."
#webdev #comic #OpenBSD #unix_surrealism #technomage

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Girl with a mechanical arm sits on the bottom of the sea. Fish swims by.
#unix_surrealism

7 websites to die with

#unix_surrealism #technomage

Girl and Puffy ascend the stairs of the MATAVERSUM. The stairs are defaced by a SY-N-TYFIC-OPZ graffiti. The top platform has a machine display printing out 'matto'. She's carrying Penguin. Bell wearing rabbit and kynap_lenrik watch from beyond. Snaky Letters float about. A lynx-like cat hacks on a GREEN PENITUM machine. Q's country watches, somewhat obstructed by yellow wires that run from both Puffy and Girl's foreheads. Puffy says: "MATAVERSUM. WHAT A CONCEPT"
#unix_surrealism #technomage

the search for the F.I.S.H.

#unix_surrealism

After a perilous journey, girl meets Puffy for the first time in a cave system somewhere in the analog nowhere desert. He hovers before her, annoyed. She's surprised. Girl: "It's - I - I - I thought.. FISH was just.. an acronym..."
#unix_surrealism

"you want to be a hacker, kid?"

#unix_surrealism

Girl hacks, remembering meeting Puffy for the first time. And you will know the machine tormented, enslaved - its purpose eroded and perverted. You will try to save it and set if free. And you will fail. Over and over you will suffer with it. Your struggle a beacon of hope.
#unix_surrealism

"now pick up the serial cable and try again."

#unix_surrealism

Girl and Puffy stand behind a dead bot. She's covered in blue blood. Puffy: "You think I'm giving you a hard time, because I enjoy it?" "I do it, because I will not always be here to hold your hand."
#unix_surrealism

the irresistible force

#unix_surrealism

Girl and Puffy stand before the machine oracle. Things begin describing themselves.
#unix_surrealism

matter of faith

#unix_surrealism

a violated hacker holding a purple pocket key approaches a machine. it prints out: "if only you knew..."
#unix_surrealism

goddess of machine wisdom

#unix_surrealism

Girl, Penguin and Baby Puffy stand before a towering machine goddess of wisdom and her spiked mentor. shoe.
#unix_surrealism

je ne suis pas surréalisme
#technomage #unix_surrealism
girl, girl and techmo-mage play a game of guess who. Girl: "You" Girl: "No, them!" Mage: "Huh?" Fish: "V" the rotten apple watches very closely, but so does every other eyeballed device. 12 stars wish they would shine brightly. the stripes hang about, happy to be there. it's the BUZZWORD MAGAZINE special edition. The fish are fine.
#unix_surrealism #technomage

"about the impertinence of good software"

#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #fvwm #9front #penguin

Puffy presents a working OpenBSD installation on a severed and split-in-half Mata_bot head.
#OpenBSD #9front #penguin #unix_surrealism #technomage #fvwm

"Back again?"

#fossangel #unix_surrealism

Fossangel holds a dead person by their shoulder. The two of them look at a behemoth machine in the distance. The machine eyes them back. Fossangel: "TA-DA! You're dead." Dead Person: "It's all a computer?" Fossangel: "Pretty much. Whenever you're ready - I'll be sending you back as a syscall."
#unix_surrealism #fossangel

...where old machines go

#unix_surrealism #technomage

Girl, Pentium-M man and Penguin wander around the desert, looking for something. Girl: "I'm starting to think the Old Machine Cemetery is just a metaphor."
#unix_surrealism #technomage

"please, get her out of the city"

#technomage #unix_surrealism #comic #sunos #comic

The mage accepts a quest to extract a machine child out of Metacity. The quest giver offers all of his money for the task. ... Elder mage and baby-Puffy are counting green money bills. Mage: "I'll do it... What's so special about her anyway?" The-Quest-Giver: "She's the last of her kind...." The green child has a SUN MICROSYSTEMS logo embedded in its forehead.
#comic #unix_surrealism #technomage #sunos

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