Super Star Wars is diabolically difficult (so are the sequels) - its been said that there's no shame in playing it on easy mode! I gave it a go previously and soon gave up. Anyway, I've revisited it and I'm very proud that I've managed to at least finish a stage on "Brave" mode. Progress, right? 😁

In 1952, 22-yr-old WAC Sarah Louise Keys Evans of NC bravely refused to give up her seat for a white man on bus from NJ to NC. She was arrested, filed suit (w/ lawyer Dovey J. Roundtree), & won. Now Army removed her story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sa...

#MorningAwnings May your Tuesday today be a Tuesday of Yo, instead of the usual Tuesday of Woe. Make yourself smile today, please. At least once. 💃 #Yo!

PSA: You can love video games, support game developers, and also be critical of the industry.

Sega's 1980s active-shutter 3D glasses ran off a card-slot adapter on the Master System / Mark III. Recapped it, five aged electrolytics out, and tested with Space Harrier 3D running through the shutter glasses. hitmanmcc.com/entry/sega-3... #retrogaming #Sega #MasterSystem

Vizio and Walmart are still scanning the HDMI port and collecting data on what you’re watching. But by making certain decisions during the setup process, you can keep the OS from even being active (and presumably gathering your viewing information), which I’ve never seen on other televisions.

"The game should be free if it's shorter than 2 hours" No, devs deserve to earn money for their work still. If a short time means free, then the movie industry is screwed. "There's no point in releasing a game if it's under 2 hours" There's plenty of reasons, and they can still be fun to play.

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Microbiologist & stem-cell researcher Dr. Ann Tsukamoto co-patented a process to isolate human hematopoietic stem cells, 1991. Her work laid the literal groundwork for modern regenerative medicine and cancer treatment. She was born #OTD in 1952. #WomenInSTEM #medsky

I've been having a really good time this afternoon with 1943 on the NES.

The Bit79 was a Famicom clone that took the “Family Computer” Name Seriously

Remembering the delightful Sebastian Cabot, born OTD in 1918. He graced the big screen with roles in KISMET & THE TIME MACHINE, but TV was his true home: CHECKMATE, GHOST STORY, and to 60s kids he'll always be Mr. French of FAMILY AFFAIR & Winnie the Pooh's narrator. He died of a stroke at only 59.

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Frida Kahlo born 6th July 1907: "They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."

If you like WEIRD FICTION / ODD HORROR / LEFT-FIELD VICTORIANA / POST-WAR SF / stuff that's a little Eastwards of the mainstream, you might like my most recent book, UNNATURAL SCIENCE: A Compendium of Weird. And if you don't, then you might still like it. ;-) kekw.bandcamp.com/merch/unnatu...

I’m aiming for eleventy zillion visitors to this page within a year.

He would have been 79 today. He died tragically young at the age of just 31. Richard Beckinsale's roles - Lennie Godber in Porridge and Going Straight, Alan in Rising Damp, showcased his easy style and natural timing. Today, his daughters Kate and Samantha continue his legacy. Rest Easy, Richard.

TIL about the 5,000 Solar panels added to the Lake Muttsee dam to form the largest alpine solar plant in Switzerland at 2500m above sea level. The plant has been fully operational since the end of August 2022. The AlpinSolar project produces around 3 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year.

Not the first time I've connected an old PC to my own dialup ISP, but the first time the PC and ISP haven't been in the same room, let alone on the same table! The theoretical maximum speed is 33.6 kbps (two modems alone can't hit 56k something something), so 26.4 to the attic and back ain't bad!

QTP with a game that made you a gamer in your childhood!

Meanwhile, in a world without prerendered graphics and Claude generated code, I spent litterally hours and hours doing the 'simple' task of moving my disk/ram based midi program onto a cartridge rom. 🙄

Any fans of the Konami arcade game Green Beret? The homebrew scene put together an extremely faithful version for the #Sega Master System - which is helped by the SMS and the arcade machine sharing the same CPU and PSG. It runs at a decent pace on my PAL machine. ☺️🎮 www.smspower.org/Homebrew/Gre...

The great Hollywood photographer George Hurrell worked until the very end of his life. He died in 1992 at 87, but photographed a new generation of stars before the end. Sherilyn Fenn, looking very Old Hollywood. Hurrell's light is like a halo.

There is no such thing as a starter job. Who is making your whopper at 11am on a school day? Pay people enough to thrive.

Atari 2600s are bastard hard. I composite modded this and tested it. Works perfectly.

Oh damn I forgot Alt text & descriptors! 🙄 Apologies Name of the work & Artist Hard Life for Heroes — By Johann’s Art in Normandy, France 🇫🇷 Batman looks done. The cape, the symbol, the myth, it ends in a slumped body on the pavement. Johann’s art makes him look painfully human, bottle included.🦇

Reminder, America is not the greatest country in the world.

Dad’s Home, by Wakefield-based artist Seanna Doonan.

Switzerland mandated in 2023 that all new buildings exceeding 300 square metres of roof area must install solar panels covering a minimum percentage of that surface — the most aggressive building-integrated solar mandate in continental Europe #ActOnClimate #SolarPower #Renewables

Wow, I've found the instruction manual ! No disks, no box.... doesn't bode well ! 🙄

Children should have body cams so that their parents and the school inspectors can see how teachers really behave. If I'd been able to film the awful things that were said and done to myself and my schoolmates, there would've been repercussions for the school and the teachers concerned.

Going to tell my kids I was playing Pokémon Go this morning.

The way Messi was talking about Cabo Verde after the match, praising them, saying he never assumed Argentina would win etc. Vs Harry Kane talking about Ghana saying "nations like these... We should win." Says a lot :)

"Hey, guys, one more thing. This summer, when you're being inundated with all this American [Semiquincentennial] Fourth of July brouhaha, don't forget what you're celebrating: and that's the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn't want to pay their taxes." #FilmSky🎥

In light of Sony’s dumb decisions, we stopped by our go to retro game store today. An hour into opening & they were slammed. Made sure to do my part like everyone else.

We're aware it's not #Ps2sday this #SEGAsaturday afternoon, instead, we're sharing this #SEGA Arcade classics compilation, featuring some SEGA's iconic arcade hits, but somewhat graphically enhanced for #PlayStation 2. However, not all worked this way... Have a favourite? #GamersUnite #RetroGaming

🌄 Showing #Sega Dreamcast some well earned love this #SEGAsaturday Morning ❤️ So many well made classics were produced & with a blink of an eye, this forward thinking console was gone, but, not anymore! What do you love about the Dreamcast, it's hardware, design or games? #GamersUnite #RetroGaming

When the Super Nintendo reached UK shores in 1992 it (inadvertently) changed the magazine publishing business. I spoke to world renowned composer Daniel Pemberton about his time at Game Zone magazine in the early 90s… 👉 www.forgottenworlds.net/gamezone-mag... #VideoGames #RetroGaming #Nintendo☀️🌴

Farewell to groundbreaking broadcaster Tony Brown (1933-2026). For more than 30 years he was the host and producer of TONY BROWN’S JOURNAL, a public affairs television show aimed at Black audiences. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/a... #TVSky #BlackSky

#LogLoads64 Track & Field I mean... I was always a #C64 Hypersports kinda guy, BITD, but I always saw & played T&F in the arcades too. Both. So why does this feel so much... crapper? I really am not sure, but - it does. It's still fun, it's still super nostalgic, but it's just..? Not very good.

Afro-futurism exhibit at SFO. Very cool.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released in theaters on this day 35 years ago. This is one of the best sequel ever made thanks to James Cameron. "Hasta la vista, baby." #Filmsky #Moviesky #July

Did some Sega Dreamcast programming using PVR API directly. :) After 3 days of programming, I have model loading done and vertex colors work. The platform is extremely easy to program, especially relatively to PS1. :D #segadreamcast #dreamcast #gamedev

The Sega Saturn I bought on my first trip to Japan back in 2010… #Sega #SegaSaturn #SegaRally #90s #RetroGaming 🚗☀️🌴

And the same for authors and books

Reduced to watching tv with our antenna since the internet is out today. But that’s okay, because the Twilight Zone marathon is on.

Hi! I want to say it again... Because I guess some people don't trust it. 😅 jasy.dev - It's a real PDF creater library. Create PDFs with your node backend, or VUE frontend. Full Nuxt support. It is not a viewer, it's really a writer for real PDFs. Written in pure TS, nothing else.