Sometimes you do just need twenty four liters of Kirkland Signature tiramisu

Forgotten platformer mascot and one-time political party: Alfred Chicken. I'd completely forgotten about this, but the product manager for the Amiga version ran as a candidate for a Dorset by-election in 1993 as promotion for the game as the Alfred Chicken Party.

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

If you wonder why the "Quiet Posters" feed doesn't work for you anymore, it is because the @why.bsky.team subscribed to an anti-anti-ai block list, rendering it useless for over 300 000 users. Good job bsky team!!

The extent to which social media platforms made the experience demonstrably worse over the period in question is a truly fascinating phenomenon. Only some of it was the Musk fash madness. Lots of it was just financial decisions dominating UX considerations.

Here is an insane piece of lore inside SQLite's source code I am researching VACUUM and I was studying their code. In VACUUM, SQLite creates a temp file prefixed with `etilqs_` Here is why:

Today's lunchtime NHK watch was a documentary on the history of gyoza, which made me hungry but also surprised me: I'd assumed gyoza came to Japan from China (as jiaozi) a thousand or so years ago, but they only they've only been around for about 70 years.

oh but wait I must tell you about the wonders and glory of the AT Protocol! In the future, the AT Protocol will -- (crushed by a mastodon)

EA3 is one of three offshore wind farms where turbines are being erected, totalling 4 GW of sovereign power generation. We're building the wind power equivalent of a Hinkley Point C or Sizewell C nuclear power station under every two years. Hinkley Point C is expected to take 14 years to build.

GREEK CAPTAIN OF A PANAMANIAN-FLAGGED MALAYSIAN OIL TANKER EN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA WITH IRAQI CRUDE: "So is the Strait open or not?" IRGC COMMANDER, REFRESHING TRUTH SOCIAL: "Look here man, I know just as much as you do, ok?"

I use Bodiean/Doylian because I'm a Professional

Coincidentally watched this a few weeks ago. Absolutely insane buddy cop/dinosaur premise.

ME: that was a good song i just listened to.... id love to listen to it, again APPLE MUSIC: impossible. its gone now. its like it never existed

New, original films that are under 90 mins and enjoyable.

traveling whaleburys

American Gundam? oh no

A massive advantage of enjoying ""bad"" media is freeing yourself from Discourse

Everything is terrible. So here is a NICE THING.

The issue with many "cozy" games is they're so vibes-focused, they lose sight of the CONTENT of the media they're emulating. Yes, "The Wind in the Willows" involves sitting around drinking tea, but it also includes such heartwarming episodes as "Mr. Toad steals a car" and "Rat and Mole meet God".

Hi this joke is for me

"Digital ID is mandatory including in schools where it is also forbidden" is a very.. Labour policy

Excuse my rant.

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

Literally translating the way the Japanese language uses quotation brackets makes everything sound sarcastic in English.

There's a tendency that definitely wants to keep women in the home and parenting unequal, by being paranoid about men around kids, even including their own.

Tomodachi life real

Work in progress: I'm making something for the Snooker Massive and I think I need to make custom glyphs to denote various combos of century breaks & 147s

Fun fact: this cruise liner is slightly larger and significantly heavier than KMS Bismarck, too

In favor of the kind of planning reform which would result in these people being taken out and shot www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202... (Seriously, how did this get approved?)

Another factor in this: is your success temporary or permanent? Lots of examples of people overspending on temporary success, footballers and pop stars. Now .. who thinks in 2026 that their success in employment is final and durable?

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

The best thing ive ever found in a garadge sale, a snail that is also a mesuring tape

Excellent name for a website

Whatever you do,

Ridden a horse at full gallop. Only once, riding schools don't generally let you do this on their horses. Terrific experience though

i did some coding in a black hoodie once

Last night’s late watch, an absolute classic ‘Theatre of Blood’ (1973, blu ray), a real advert for all the Brit acting talent of the day. Some of the one liners are just laugh out loud, and Vincent is as ever, just superb!

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Nice obvious joke you've get there, it would be a shame if someone deliberately misconstrued it so they can deliver a stern lecture

August 2021. I thought these would be my peak, once. :~)

Vector Interfaces

Oliver Pyle - Bluebell Season, Sussex. #Watercolour

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

We have a chance of removing the Online Safety Act! Any UK residents, PLEASE take the time to fill out the whole form. If we want to remove ID verification on websites that actually don't need it, we need to take action NOW!

what is the charge. what crime has been done

It's surprisngly rare to find cats in their original packaging.

eventually he was executed