looks like a storm's coming 🤞🤞 samsung gx-1l, which we finally revived!

i think about this all the time. it's up to us to teach them. i learned most of my craft initially online in the late 90s and early 00s. this means reaching the next generation where they are… and that means video, if you can stomach it.

Samsung GL-1L (6MP CCD, 2006) edited in Lightroom

Canon EOS D30 3MP, 2000 #ShittyCameraChallenge

blueee skyyyyyyyyyy canon eos d30 (3 megapixel) plays nice with a velvia look, surprisingly!

well

This really reminds me of the 1920s and 1930s in the country I'm from. You know when "good Germans" told Jewish people to "just not stick out so much".

1. no 2. fuck you and the horse you rode in on

My main takeaway from those slides.

The mobile air-conditioning unit cometh

Thousands of people in Europe already died during this June heatwave. In some places (e.g. in France) the water supply is starting to fail. But please go on and enlighten me how air conditioning to save lives is evil.

Also technically the eggs should come out of the Goose's ass

So are there golden geese hatching from the eggs? And will those geese than just lay normal eggs? So many questions

A/C discourse, which I will otherwise be avoiding please and thank you, has reminded me of this passage from Norman Malcolm’s memoir of Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein visited Malcom in Ithaca, NY, in the Summer of 1949 (his only visit to the US).

Fwiw I really would not recommend buying a MacBook Neo if you plan on doing any serious work; I’d rather recommend that you buy a used MacBook Air or a used MacBook Pro (M-series). (This is because of lack of memory, inferior screen and vastly worse connectivity options.)

All of the discourse I’ve seen has been Americans being like hey these are ways to actually survive a heatwave from our experiences living in a hotter place and Europeans going “fuck you.”

Just had a replyguy going “not a problem with Linux” on me about hardware costs and software stagnation He must have confused Bluesky with Mastodon

Super Mario 64 is when video games peaked

To summarize, AI will cause personal computers to cost $10,000, all applications are frozen to about 2025 design and implementation, power to run the computer will be twice the price and also you need to sign in with your passport to start your computer. Explain to me again how this is progress?

Name a movie that flopped at the box office but is actually great. #FilmSky The Hudsucker Proxy

You’ve banana’d your last rama

It’s really fascinating that Tim Cook made the biggest across-the-board price increase in the company history his legacy, just before he retires

This is very, very good buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

Thanks, AI www.macrumors.com/2026/06/25/a...

Yes, the German for “fuel tank” translates as “power stuff holder”.

Name your fav henchman or second-in-command.

Remember this from [checks notes] a week ago? www.politico.eu/article/euro...

I was raised on these streets

“Nobody in Europe could have seen this coming!” British guy in 1989: [makes a whole TV show about it] www.imdb.com/title/tt0334...

Canon EOS D30 (3MP, 2000) #ShittyCameraChallenge

"our society can't afford it" totally sympathetic position "air conditioning is decadence and bad for the planet, smug smug smug" ecofascist position

No, really, cold-related deaths outnumber heat-related deaths 8-to-1. Cold kills literally hundreds of thousands every year across Europe. Y'know, cold, the thing our buildings and infrastructure are supposedly designed to handle better than heat joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

Americans often miss important context to the European tendency to let the sick and the elderly roast to death with no AC during a heatwave Which is that Europeans are also fine with letting them freeze to death with no heating Less an infrastructure thing and more a "fuck you, I don't care" thing

NO AC IN HOSPITALS?? my god

one of the fundamental differences between some european cultures and american culture, is when our lack of infrastructure kills people, we get mad about it, and when their lack of infrastructure kills people, they get snobby and arrogant about it

Johnson has also not yet made the logical leap toward all these Mamdanis (mini or otherwise) teaming up together to form some sort of Katamamdani Damacy and rolling up the entire country!!!!

It smells amazing

Also, not that anyone this ire is directed towards can see it because I blocked them all: generational change is coming whether you like it or not, get on board or get consigned to the dustbin of history like you deserve

This deafening whining from establishment politicians is exactly how they stamped out any meaningful generational change for the last 30 years at least, don't fall for it again

Technically, they’re Remains now.

turns out that that’s a thing that exists (cooling astronauts in spacesuits works like this as well)

[Professor Farnsworth voice] Good news everyone! I’m making chicken soup!

Maybe we should invest less in cooling computers and more into cooling people idk

Btw I lived in a good British house in Philadelphia (it was built in the 1740s, long before the colonies seceded) which was retrofitted with central air conditioning and it was working fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Europeans when asked about air conditioning

Arizonan here, you absolutely can. It's like saying "the UK can't heat its way out of winter"

France gives in to antibiotics, despite concerns” “France gives in to seatbelts, despite concerns” “France gives in to vaccines, despite concerns” “France gives in to the right of women to vote, despite concerns”

It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)