I ported Super Monkey Ball to a website. You can access it in the replies. (or just type what you see in the video, I'm not your boss.)

This photo, passed on by a friend, was taken in Denmark. It prompts me to resurrect the #extremecivilisation hashtag, used to describe the manufacture of things no one needs. What are these? Snowball makers.

It might be just me, but the ability to flash an old router with Open WRT and hook up my NAS wirelessly – *as if it were physically plugged into the main switch* – just feels like magic.

In Tokyo, the traditional January sumo basho just concluded with an explosive finale. I don't want to spoiler too much but let's just say that high level sumo's no longer an Asian-only affair! Herbert Wimberger has all the details:

I finally finished this Enterprise D LCARS cross stitch! Was supposed to take about a year, but longcovid had other plans for my brain and ability to count. So it's been over four years instead. It has a bazillion-jillion stitches in it.

Macron should keep the shades in his repertoire. It's nearly impossible to score more Internet points than that:

I'm moved to see Mark Carney take his inspiration from Václav Havel in his superb speech at Davos. Well worth reading the entire speech: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I KNEW IT! PINGU HAS AN ITALIAN ACCENT!

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

Brave new world. Gemini just created a 'Training - *No* Excuses!' appointment for me all by its own. #reversecentaurlife

YOU - (Look at your wrist.) “It's apocalypse o' clock. Time to commence the Gloaming.”

I'd wager this is the angriest statement ever issued by the Nobel Peace Prize people...

As I've long said, global warming is like a French movie: The beginning's not so bad.

Random video I just found in my temp folder

All releases should have a ranting section at least as good as the one GlueTun introduced recently:

OUT NOW: 8BP141 sm0hm: pointe sm0hm’s debut release on 8bitpeoples pushes the Game Boy into the territory of heavier club sounds, leveraging its raw lo-fi character to great effect, in stark contrast to the hyper-glossy production prevalent today. www.8bitpeoples.com/products/872...

🤷🏽‍♂️

I have been seeing a new trend on social media of neurodivergent/depressed people motivating themselves to clean by putting on Celtic or medieval music and pretending they're an innkeeper cleaning up their tavern. I just...I love neuroweird people, man. I love us.

Took some time to watch Elem Klimov’s deeply impressive Soviet-Belarusian anti-war film "Come And See" (1985). It’s a difficult film for sure, but also one I’d hate to have missed. The film’s production history is fascinating too — this video essay touches on it:

OTD in 1991 the soviet union collapsed. Its creation was a great catastrophe as millions of citizens suddenly found themselves involuntarily living in Russia.

I loved this one so much. I’m usually turned off by "wrong" and romanticized retro aesthetics, but Ruin isn't quite a retro game. It feels closer to the blurred memory of playing games as a child. ~15 min - Browser

Same warning as every year:

The @8bitpeoples.bsky.social christmas album, originally released way back in 2003, getting a little shoutout from one of the best places on the net. Thanks @archive.org ❤️

Since you're here, you probably want to:

Gotta give it to DPD, they can still surprise me after all these years. Today they placed a random package in front of my door, mailed me that I accepted the package and called it a day.

Health checkups with ads, we did it everybody

Turns out: all you need is one bit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyv-...

Vienna, Obelix tower - nomen est omen

Don’t say Mr. Spock doesn’t do anything for you. I’m sharing this at the correct time of the year. You are welcome. 🖖 Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Another great talk by Cory Doctorow, this time about his upcoming book 'The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to Criticizing AI'. Warmly recommended.

Not gonna lie: this year's presents are all cheaply pimped by AI (And ofc. the receiver is not here on Blue Sky)

Any old Amiga devs from back in the day out there? What did you work on?

this is mesmerizing

Fuck.

This still pops into my head all the time

You got to be kidding me.

So, just the normal stuff your carmaker knows about you. 🤯 (From Byron Tau’s Means of Control, which you should read) #talkaboutSurveillanceCapitalism

New blog post! Behind the scenes of some of the techniques involved in making our last PC demo 💫 gboisse.github.io/posts/this-i...

So, this is 30

actual communism

Super late to the party but I'm really impressed with Quantic Dream's Detroit : Become Human. The game plays in a world where Androids are fully realized and human-like. They're also exploited as consumer objects. Many moral questions ensue! At its best an absolute experience.

Show me your getaway vehicle

Halloween approaches🧙‍♀️, so that must mean my C64 games are on sale!🙂🧹🎃 itch.io/s/165702/sja...

I've reported the issue, but as of Blender 4.5.1 it has not been fixed :/

AI Weiwei never fails to inspire. Even if you disagree you’ll find a lot to work with (or against) in his thinking: hyperallergic.com/1050197/what...

Added a bunch of my old vic-20 demoscene sourcecode onto itch. 4mat.itch.io/music-drivers

Wish this was much more reflected in media reporting. @phillipspobrien.bsky.social does a great job working out the dynamics that were pretty much always on display, even before Trump's return to the White House.

Remember the first few months of this year, when all we talked about was DOGE and spending cuts and waste, and this administration gutted USAID? And now they’re giving $40 billion (!) to Argentina. Insane the amount of amnesia in this country and in our politics and media.

Among Graves🪦 ( #pixelart by Octavi❤️) #spooktober

Asking for regime change after having just received a Nobel peace price is quite a statement. I wonder if the Nobel committee has already developed buyer's remorse.