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📯PREMIUM ANNOUNCEMENT TIME 📯 Deathbulge is coming to consoles. June 30th. It's finally happening. YEP.

I finally got a method to transfer files too big for an ADF to my Amiga 1200. It's a microSD in an SD adaptor, in a CF adaptor, in a PCMCIA adaptor. So naturally I gave the card a relevant name.

I went out to walk the dog and saw the rainbow. It only last for a few minutes, but it was spectacular. #sunsets #rainbow #photography #nature

Nation Sets Off Fireworks To Commemorate Surviving Another Day

I don't usually do much on the 4th because I'm a lazy bum, but this year in particular it's hard to even feel pleased about the holiday. Fireworks are pretty, though.

welcome to 2025

“For electronics, at least, we’re now putting much higher tariffs on intermediate goods used in manufacturing than on final goods. This actually discourages manufacturing in the United States.”

you're gonna wanna see this

So we’re 75 days into trumps second term, people are protesting everywhere. Markets have had two days of absolutely apocalyptic losses. There are grad students being disappeared and a man with an autism awareness tattoo was sent to a super scary prison in El Salvador. They’ve cut cancer research..

Warning: Fascists believe a very wide array of First Amendment activity is “anti-American.” This will not stop here.

it’s literally just this

Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

When these inaccuracies were first found, they could be called "mistakes." When DOGE took efforts to cover them up, they can no longer be considered "mistakes."

> DeJoy warned that the post office, which has lost more than $100bn since 2007, must continue to cut costs or will remain on the path to either a “government bailout or the end of this great organization as we know it” THE POST OFFICE IS A PUBLIC SERVICE AND SHOULD NOT BE TREATED LIKE A FOR PROFIT

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

Worth reading.

Honestly, I knew things would move fast (they proudly yelled it to the world - so no "I didn't know he was gonna do THAT" doesn't count, people) but it's still insane to watch, and not in a good way. Canada is doing what they /should/ and the only thing a bully understands is being punched back. :(

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

Dear Canada and Mexico, We’re so, so sorry. — Sane America

Canada and Mexico are our friends and the mad king of our nation has turned on them and is hurting them in our name. We should be furious not just for what he’s doing to us but also to what he’s doing to them.

#caturday She's a tad grumpy with me since she didn't get my dinner plate. 😅

Elon just filed his proposed second amended complaint, asking for "treble damages" for companies illegally [checks notes] not advertising on X... The level of entitlement is insane. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

feel the burn

It disgusts me every time somebody asks me to be civil and calm. To kumbaya with people. When I am being completely rational. I AM being completely calm in the face of ALL my rights and my safety are being threatened

“Libertarian” tech bros cheering on the abolition of work from home tells you a lot. These people aren’t for innovation, results, responsibility, and personal choice. They are authoritarians. They worship control and hierarchy.

I don't /know/ what the future will bring, but right now my outlook isn't very good. I hope for the best, but that's all I've got.

We got a few inches of snow this morning. It's beautiful and I'm also glad that today is the day I work from home (I do a hybrid setup) and don't actually have to go anywhere. 😅

Characters designed from the scenery in Sonic 2's Chemical Plant Zone. Anyone who didn't see a face in that moving platform is lying.

Welcome to the public domain, THE KARNIVAL KID (1929), where #MickeyMouse speaks his first dialog—though not in Walt Disney's iconic falsetto! 🐭 🎞️ Learn more: blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...

Origami Black Hole xkcd.com/3033

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

Cyanide & happiness inspired gingerbread house for the family contest. 🎄 It got a bit smudged but we’re happy with it! @kriswilson.bsky.social

Holy crap, one of these finally turned up, and just in time. I'd seen the online arguments over whether they were ever actually /sold/ a while back. The article is a good summary, but the video has a lot more detail and history. arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/... #crttv #gaming #retrotech

you get one shot

Going to finish my new main PC rig tomorrow, I think. I've been dealing with a cold for the last week and it's just been ... something I haven't wanted to deal with. x.x After I get it booted up and the main system looking good, I'll move some hardware (GPU, 2nd SSD) from the last main in.

Advent Calendar Advent Calendar xkcd.com/3019

It's almost like there was never actual belief in what they claim to champion. 🤔

Wrote a bit more about the Substackerati's sudden lack of concern (quite the opposite really) about the open collaboration between the White House and the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. www.techdirt.com/2024/11/21/s...

this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...