Apple's got a lot of announcements this week, but one huge risk might get overshadowed amidst the noise — the way they're adding support for video podcasts threatens to enshittify the last truly open online media. It's not too late to push them to keep it open. www.anildash.com/2026/02/28/a...

Bodybuilder Houston Jones took 64 minutes to hop a mile (1.6 km) with his thighs and knees stuck together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m00Y...

TheChiptide tested a dozen video games and found they got ice surprisingly right 🧊️ Friction is μ times "normal force" (usually equal to gravity). Calculate μ=V/gt based on time to slow to a stop. Ice in games from Minecraft to Mario Kart had 0.05 < μ < 0.1. youtu.be/o8814LcNaaU?...

The Norwegian Consumer Council made a 4-minute PSA about companies worsening their services over time. When a government-funded organization repeats the catchphrase "make it shitty", it shows the time has come to strike "shitty" from the list of "bad" words. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

I made an NES emulator called Family Size VM in December and January. To kick off a video series about it, I made a 4-minute explainer video about how an emulator can improve the player's experience. youtu.be/qaCEY67VosU #RetroGaming #Emulation #NESdev

Respecting maintainer time should be in security policies. Even better: you don't even have to mention the elephant in the room! sethmlarson.dev/respecting-m... #opensource #oss #security

Why use a real-time clock (RTC) in a #GameBoy game? - Resource replenishment over real time deters binge play and beat-then-refund - Cosmetic changes for time of day or holidays - Spaced repetition in language learning games - For non-game applications such as a personal organizer

Pre-2000s video games didn't need long tutorials. They had printed manuals, for one. And because each player owned only a few games, the player had to spend more time exploring each game. Ease of switching games since then ruined the incentive to persist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwcK...

Chill Dude Explains... ...what Tibby from Weebles might have looked like with legs. (At 7:15) youtu.be/YL2Z_kBN81I?...

breeches #Lackadaisy #Lackadaisycats

Lent and Ramadan begin on the same day this year. So whether you're Catholic or Muslim, GOTTA GO FAST 🦔️

Do you remember this candy from the 90s?

So true. We literally had weeble wobbles ( and they dont fall down) for toys as children

A great injustice has been fixed! Many years ago, I discovered that Seuss' I Can Read With My Eyes Shut was not available in Braille. Some Seuss books were, but not that one. It felt so wrong. I just checked, and it now exists in Braille!

I've concluded that people in Britain pick up the habit of eating ultraprocessed food in part because children and teens in that country are prohibited from owning kitchen knives. www.gov.uk/buying-carry...

Adobe has reversed its decision. Adobe Animate will continue to be available for everyone. An official email will go out soon with this news. www.reddit.com/r/adobeanima...

Happy Hedgehog Day! Over the past 2 months, I've spent 72 hours developing an NES emulator called Family Size VM. I'm showing off two hedgehog-related NES games. youtu.be/FuDCfX_Oxjw #nesdev #emulation #NES #HedgehogDay #GroundhogDay

This is the only day you're legally allowed to post this

There's a division of labor among people with a round bottom. Some wobble; others fall down. Legless stunt actor Matthew DeMeritt played the alien in the 1982 film E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL in scenes where the other performers (both little people) could have broken their bones. Interviewed in 2024

(DeviantArt Repost) With that winter storm rollin' along, it never gets old to chace the icy blues away with board games! Just don't waste batteries on the electronic features in case of power outages.

Based on current events in the United States, personal injury and wrongful death lawyers familiar with the Federal Tort Claims Act 1946 will see increased demand for services. If you or a loved one has been hurt by ICE, ask your lawyer if a tort claim is right for you.

It’s my 19th Birthday today! ^w^ #furry #furryart #weeble #weebles #legless #nolegs #birthday

Happy Birthday, @juliancastillo138.bsky.social & @blueskunkguy.bsky.social

Birthday gift for @juliancastillo138.bsky.social featuring his Weeble wolf OC, Julian Wolfster. Happy Birthday, mate! Hope you like it. #birthday #giftart #wolf #Weeble

reject artificial #AISlop embrace authentic #pig #slop #asmr #NoAI www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vf7...

Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish have a word for "toe". Most other languages of Europe and North Africa periphrastically use "fingers of the feet". Yet Danish, Dutch, and German call gloves "hand shoes".

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"Separate the art from the artist"? That's hard while the artist still earns a royalty and spends it on harassing critics in court or promoting intolerance. "The Death of the Author"? The author's heirs aren't dead and can keep a biography from being published. Copyright encourages intentionalism.

why are so many people okay with outsourcing coding efforts to what is a pretty expensive (and despite that, a loss leader) subscription to a remote machine. it feels like the entire ideal of self-hosting/computing sovereignty has been completely forgotten in the sea of LLM technology discourse

this is genuinely incredible

DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.” (H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )

USA bans flammable fabrics in children's #sleepwear (16 CFR 1615-1616). Polyester is the common substitute. Yet washing synthetic fabric produces 35% of all #microplastics. Choi et al. found in 2021 that washing and drying knit polyester released 4 to 5 times as much as woven. Rock vs. hard place.

Do your part and tell discord to pound sand No AI, ever

How Hiro's soundtrack for the arcade game AFTER BURNER could have sounded on the 3 1/2-voice Digital Complex Sound Generator in the Sega Master System, if ROM size weren't as tight as it was back in 1987. ("Before Burner" is a blank CD.) #VGM #MasterSystem #SN76489 youtu.be/GyO7EaJFKLA

I'm an adult convert Catholic and I just assumed that the Pope being "infallible" meant he couldn't fall down, like a Weeble Wobble

ANIMAL CRACKERS (1930) just entered the public domain and it's already on Tubi (and elsewhere). I remember its 1979 TV premiere on CBS, after decades of unavailability due to rights issues. I hope a new generation discovers the Marx Bros. now, just like I did then. #FilmSky #PublicDomain

I am an ex-user. From 2014 through 2022, I was a Twitter user. Over three years under Elon Musk, I tapered down my use of the platform. Grok's deepfake of a 14-year-old with her clothes off was the last straw. I do not see a point in continuing to interact there. Mr. Musk, you're fired.

They say you're supposed to say "rabbit rabbit" at the start of a new month. 🐇️🐇️ Swift Heart, Nethil, and Pawlette say hi #RabbitRabbit #plushies #BuildABear

Happy New Year 2026 Ya’ll! Wish 2026 the best of luck! #furry #furryart #weeble #weebles #legless #nolegs #newyear2026

In December, I set out to write an NES emulator from scratch, working on it an hour a day every day, recording every minute. I've built the CPU, PPU, and a handful of mappers. I added MMC3 without IRQ yesterday, and the end of the session's time lapse shows the first area of Full Quiet. #emudev

Outdoor recess reduces anxiety... IN MICE 🐁 www.sciencealert.com/scientists-r...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 27, 1947

One good thing may come out of this AI-driven RAM crunch. It might be the kick in the behind that gets developers to give up complacency about library and framework bloat (*cough* Electron), reverse Wirth's law, and start caring about their applications' memory footprint.

I've noticed confusion after #CSM224. "Legs" were a vestigial limb found in fossils of prehistoric people, homologous to the hindlimbs of four-limbed animals. They were lost when apes evolved into modern people and began scooting on their hands and bottom. Comparison with reconstructed ancestors:

Cancel your Disney Plus, your Paramount Plus, your Netfux, all that shit. Use Fawesome TV. It's free! Like entertainment was meant to be. No, I don't work for them. I just love them!

They're the funniest thing ever and I love them so much (as tax for saying they're funny, please accept this artist's rendition of a moment from my personal life that I sent my friends a couple months back)

his greed sickens me #pokemon #pokemonart #eevee #furry #cat #cats #art #painting

Progress! Finally chose a body design and got the tail, head and body connected. Still working through options for the arms and legs, but happy with how well it sits up, even without legs. 🧶

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