A brief history of why we have car fuel economy standards: - In 1973-1974 we had the Arab Oil Embargo. Oil and gas prices tripled overnight, if you could get gas at all. Gas stations had lines around the block or "no gas"signs out front. American struggled to keep their V8 gas guzzlers fueled up.

The first time I went to a Disney park, I realised: i am an amateur cynic, and they are professional entertainers. They know you’re coming, and that you’ll try to look under the thick layer of wonder. They have more layers underneath.

It’s Black Friday, or as it’s known since it went solo, Frankday Black.

My favorite Markdown editor for macOS, MacDown, has been abandoned by its maintainer for years. I decided to reboot the project. The result? ## MacDown 3000 ## Mostly bug fixes and minor upgrades so far, but I like it, you might too, and I need beta testers! Please try it out: macdown.app

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen Lyrics Born + Chali 2na + Jazz Mafia (The Independent) New Order + Underworld + The Chemical Brothers (Ally Pally) The Definite Articles + Sea Of Bees + Tornado Rider serpentwithfeet + Katie Gately MC Hammer + Snap! + Joey B. Ellis (Wembley Arena)

pluribus is an entire show about having a category five white woman moment

As spatchcocking enters hour three, I'm switching to my trademarked technique known as Hitting It With The Knife A Lot

I swear I am not one of those capsicum chasers but I just ate half a bag of Takis Fuego Duos (the watermelon ones) and now my mouth is Not A Place Of Honor* * honour

After something like a decade I have only just realised that @grapefrukt.com , the creator of one of my favourite games (Rymdkapsel) is ALSO the co-creator of one of my favourite game dev videos, "Juice it or lose it" (15 mins) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0a...

The singer out of Slipknot went to Rome to see the Pope The singer out of Slipknot went to Rome to see the Pope The singer out of Slipknot went to Rome to see the Pope And the Pope said to his aide WHO THE FUCKING HELL ARE SLIPKNOT IN RELATION TO ME GETTING OUT OF BED

I'm willing to bet this is the most spectacular game trailer you'll see today www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCN7...

a second republican has been rizzed up by livvy

"If I could live in literary devices and also eat them," Olivia had written, "then I would feast on your house, like a simile." Unfortunately, as looked out at the garden of our Georgetown house, all I could see was a big ugly metaphor.

found one of my old business cards

From my friend Kyle. This is essential reading for all Americans. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Also y’all actually like each other. SF is an HOA that thinks it’s a city

remember when ICE stood for Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics and that actually seemed cool

The zoelope, a deer that’s only visible when rapidly rotating

BAYBEHHH I would like from you a FISH ON THE NOSE in the Haight

Yesterday @danhon.com posted about “the Microsoft Office of videogames” and I somewhat fell in a hole with this thread So if you want Windows/Office-themed games, you’ve come to the right place!

time-traveled back 20 years to show PAX attendees what video games look like in the future i barely escaped with my life. shouldn't have started with vampire survivors

I'm half an hour into this (browser, free) mystery game and I can already recommend it. Read transcribed recordings, work out who people are, find missing files on a hard drive - lots of fun.

The standard Icelandic musician bio is “weekend supervisor at fish processing plant / experimental synth composer / deputy foreign minister”

Responsive web design: you h ave t wo co ws Data oriented design: you have an array of eight cow legs Text adventure design: > DROP COW drop which cow? the cow, or the cow?

Video games industry, 1998: Valve's Half-Life sold one million copies in about nine months Video games industry, 2025: "99 Nights In The Forest" on Roblox has one million people playing RIGHT NOW

Mostly disagree with this, but only because so many factors have changed in the video games industry that doing a straight inflation adjustment is meaningless. Things that have changed so HUGELY in the past 20-30 years that the market is almost unrecognisable, just off the top of my head:

happy 10th birthday to a minimalist masterpiece (though the original is considerably older) www.metanetsoftware.com/2025/celebra...

This is not a joke. This is a serious introduction to a wonderful opportunity for artists of all stripes, the city of San Francisco, and visitors from around the world. Check it out, read the article, and maybe throw a fiver in the donation bucket!

Special shout out to fantastic artist @brandonbird.bsky.social. Twenty years ago I sent him a last minute order for a set of his amazing Law & Order: SVU Valentine Cards ( brandonbird.com/svutines.html ) even though he’d marked them as sold out, and he sent me some anyway ‘cos he’s a MENSCH.

Worried about pineapple falling off your pizza? Use bubblegum

I went to old person comedy tonight! Half the gags were nostalgia references and half the audience responded with a loud "ah! yes."

Stay tuned after the credits for a look inside the episode! we'll spend ten minutes just rotating through cast members summarising what you already saw, and nothing else

I've been bedridden for the last 10 months, unable to work as I try to get a surgeon and insurance lined up for my operation to let me work again. If you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Time isn't on my side here, and waiting is very expensive. ko-fi.com/fooneturing

What’s your sign?

"The whole reason I got security clearance was so I could visit every intelligence agency and buy something from their gift shop. They all have gift shops. Even [$AGENCY] whose existence was classified until the 1960s - they have a gift shop." -- @procuremancer.bsky.social

I feel sick. I'm sure all my trans friends feel a hell of a lot worse, though.

I distinctly remember my “THIS IS REAL!” amazement at a cheque for £5 arriving a week after I participated in an online quiz contest. This was late 1996. Thanks to university, I’d already been on the internet for three years. I got a free t-shirt from the MSIE 3.0 launch months earlier. EVEN SO.

for the rest of life you can only eat food from one of these regons. which do u choose

for the rest of life you can only eat food from one of these regons. which do u choose

hugely entertained by the thought of skinning Figma’s UI into a 2000-era mess shaped like a melted frisbee and textured with a 256-colour image of Jennifer Love Hewitt

By far my favourite Bake Off fact

Saw Claude today. He turns 30 this month!

Not sure I want these, but hoping that a bite of one will prompt seven volumes of memoirs yes, i have recourse to chomp Perdue

This is 100% deserved. @erie.bsky.social bloody RULES. At 18F I was lucky enough to work on College Scorecard ( collegescorecard.ed.gov ), an amazing DoE project to help kids choose colleges, and it wouldn’t have happened without her.

Ken Loach’s AUSTIN POWERS

"The kittens are starting small though; at the moment, prey consists of the acorns that fall from the nearby oak tree, or sneaking up on an unsuspecting sibling." am now searching for more Fiona Callow writing to lull me into a bucolic torpor

I love random game tips almost as much as game bugs