Our Lost Arcade: arcade history threads on Bluesky pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2026/07/our-... A list of wonderful @ourlostarcade.bsky.social arcade history threads! #retroarcade #pinball #videogames #gamehistory #coinop

Date yourself with a snap of your first computer.

Power retained on the condition you don’t use it is not power at all, and complicity at the point of a gun, out of a rationalization that if you didn’t do it you’d be replaced with someone who did, is complicity with one half extra step.

The World Cup and, more broadly, just going outside and having fun, is an existential threat to MAGA. www.garbageday.email/p/going-outs...

Monopoly Pinball design team easter egg: 2R-7L-1R-4L-1R-4L-1R (GDD)

Power is for using.

“I deserve a union”

Alright we're gonna finish Monopoly Pinball design with the team photo. This was the PLD team on August 30th 2001 with Monopoly #1. We made it to the finish line, and we didn't murder each other. We were kind of proud of that. Now we had to go out and sell it to the world.

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

"Compacting our conversation" is the new "Compiling"

@koziarz.com rare to see this old friend out in the wild

The Zit Remedy

the rise of the web turned a microgeneration of people who’d grown up anticipating a soul-crushing grind of ever-cycling clerical temp work into people who could make a living Making Stuff. today, the vc fueled generative ai push promises… the chance to flip that calculation upside-down.

This Saturday at 12:00pm Eastern, join the fight for everlasting peace. I’m playing through ONE-HIT KO Mega Man 2, and donating $10 to @translifeline.org for every time I get so much as grazed by a hitbox — going up $1 for every $100 you all donate (up to $20 per). tiltify.com/@wilto/megam...

Monopoly Pinball: July 26th 2001 and we're finally on test. Production will start in about a month.

I don't see how Bluesky can promote composable, decentralized moderation while banning users who use the features.

I was really excited when I saw "The Archers" as a trending topic, then was bummed I realized it had nothing to do with Powell / Pressburger.

@koziarz.com I had a question from @zvrabes.bsky.social that I couldn't answer. Is there any meaning or reason behind why the Soda mode in NBA Fastbreak is specifically Egyptian Soda? I thought it might have something to do with Bulls games but I don't actually know.

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

Some days I am really grateful to @panicworld.com for keeping me at least somewhat up to date about what's going on with the online world. The tradeoff is that now I know who fucking Asmongold is.

Someday I will get around to writing that piece about how the central motif for our modern economy is the Skinner box.

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

[Titicut Follies] brought viewers into a previously closed-off place and established an important truth that Wiseman would return to in the 43 documentaries that followed: You can’t separate people from the institutions they’re part of, and their actions are shaped by them in powerful ways.

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Saddened to hear of the passing of Frederick Wiseman. I took a documentary film class in college, and the screenings of High School, Hospital, and Titicut Follies are burned into my brain. Incredible body of work, so influential. RIP.

also, when you are terribly mid at something, you enjoy it for its own sake instead of immediately trying to figure out how to monetize an otherwise fulfilling and enjoyable hobby. Normalize doing things simply because you enjoy them, regardless of how good (or not) you are at them.

Remember in Chicago, the REAL SUPER BOWL was beating the Packers last month. Relive that feeling every day with this shirt: www.dangrzca.com

Shame on me for assuming “Democracy dies in darkness” was a warning instead of a playbook

My friend @koziarz.com is telling stories about Pat Lawlor Design, the company where we worked together designing pinball machines. Good reading and not just for the photos of when I had hair that wasn’t grey.

Can #AI really make it easier to work with a #content management system? You betcha. And Greg Dunlap (@heyrocker.com) tells us how in our next free virtual event: 📅 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST February 18 ✍️ RSVP: www.meetup.com/content-stra...

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

Oh hey friends, if you’re a Verizon customer and they are trying to give you the $20 desire for the outage the other day, DO NOT TAKE IT. You don’t have to even call them. Get onto the web chat, type in “agent”, tell them the outage affected your work, and say you’ve been a customer for X years.

Clockwork Orange for sure.

the only thing that keeps me sane is the idea that my entire life is just a save state on a 17-year-old's galactic computer, and now he's just mashing the buttons because he's bored. any other explanation falls apart.

One of my most memorable filmgoing experiences was a screening of Sátántangó at Northwest Film Forum some years back. An enthralling experience. I've never been so glad I spent seven hours in a movie theatre. RIP Béla Tarr.

For the next two weeks you can save £60 (about $80) on any Piccalilli course, and you'll get a coupon code that gives you 50% off future courses. If you've been waiting to grab a copy of JavaScript for Everyone, this is the time to do it: piccalil.li/javascript-f...

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

@amikebloomtype.bsky.social @jessliese.bsky.social I just finally caught up with TAR and my god ... that chicken. It is going to haunt my nightmares. Did they get David Lynch's ghost to come back from the dead and direct this segment? Easily the creepiest and most bizarre thing in series history.

this is also a good policy for technology products as well.

Like so many others in the fed space, I'm currently looking for new opportunities. My goal is to find a place to land full time, but until then I'm open to short term contracts. Got a CMS project you need architected? A gnarly multi-site content inventory and analysis gig? Give a holler.

Look I hate but the manfred runner as much as anyone but I’m also old and tired.

@jessliese.bsky.social I noticed we didn’t have departure times in this week’s episode. Do you have any idea why they would do that?

I’d never tell anyone they MUST* understand JavaScript to work on the web, but I will make the case that one SHOULD*. To understand JavaScript is to know the boundaries of how users can interact with your medium — any role is improved by that. wil.to/newsletters/... * www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119

Is it cool that I think you shouldn’t be murdered by the state even if you’re a drug dealer???

Y’all think you’re old, there were no video games the year I was born. Like the entire concept of a video game was still ten years away.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

A presidential address about political violence would have made sense in June following the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman, the former Minnesota House speaker. But, she wasn't a Republican. Instead, tonight, we got this. It's all so horrifying, and I don't really know what else to say.