@actualylt.bsky.social and the @sunrauniverse.bsky.social horns Night 1 of the 8 Nights of Hannahkuh at The Bowery Ballroom Dec 14, 2025

Very quick comic to thank you all for supporting my charity efforts this year, and in typical ZT fashion some thoughts to go along with it. There’s so much more to say but this’ll do for now :) thank you everyone (1/5)

Ugh, folks who have an email address insisting to only communicate via phone is very trying. Especially if they phone you but will only try once and never leave a message, so I have to call them again and leave a message to try again, as they never pick up.

Perfect example of the importance of alt text on pictures!

Finally getting round to listening to Implosion by @bugpressure.bsky.social and @ghostdubs.bsky.social on a real amp, not on a bluetooth speaker, and Damn, the bass is physical, even at low volume. Keep on having to turn it down, because neighbours thebugvsghostdubs.bandcamp.com/album/implos...

Sass machine! Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Every time I go to a gig of a German band here in Berlin I'm struck by how disorganised they are, even in venues, that are otherwise the BEST. No info on openers or running order (I wish), soundcheck in between bands, merch area unstaffed for extended periods. And maybe related, way more smokers

The combination of things like AI + fascism is how religions get started, isn't it? New gods are on the way.

Investigative journalism like this is fantastic. www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...

CRYING at how ChatGPT has interpreted the prompt for one of my finals. It was super low stakes, write about your feelings for 30min, don’t stop writing. But SOMEHOW I have MANY students whose roommates were SECRETLY WARLOCK CULT LEADERS & every one ends with, “I promise this really happened” ☠️

Very insightful description how real in-life spaces are radically different from virtual spaces, in particular those with algorithmic content moderation. berjon.com/fascintern-m...

Just read the words "Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, Colorado" and thought it might be some kind of a cartoon reference, but no, an actually existing stadium in an actual city. The US can be sooo weird.

a beautifully weird mckenna-ish mystery: chinese mushrooms that reliably bring the little people, but don't seem to contain any psychoactive elements (& yet obviously do)

Finally got round to catching up with some of my list of musicians to listen to, and damn, Rosa Damask is wonderful. Don't really know how to categorise this, laid back, danceable post punk with whispered singing? www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpS...

myshetland.co.uk/monster-on-a... I'm rarely on my own. Always someone trailing around after me! #myshetland #shetland #whitecat #monster #shetlandislands

“Tablet is a sort of crystalline fudge made from sugar, condensed milk, more milk, butter, more sugar and – that might be all, actually. It is an alchemical procedure, not a recipe.” —Don Paterson on tablet, in his memoir TOY FIGHTS (Faber, 2023) #memoir #tablet 💙📚 www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

This is incredible.

I don't understand this whole "Gen ?" stuff, but I'm going to try anyway. Gen X are today's Boomers Am I doing this right?

An easy way to explain luddites: Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand. And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before. That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

The kind of headline that makes me go "what now?"

I've had a rough day, and I think I've earned this. GOAT PAJAMA PARTY. Goats are from @sunflowerfarm.bsky.social in Cumberland, Maine (via their YT). Bless their chaotic little hearts and tiny pink noses.

Having reduced myself to now using slack for my youtube watch later list and general viewing, I am wondering if premium is worth it. Does anyone have experience with youtube premium? Does it really stop all ads from getting played? How does that interact with possible ad-blocker interference?

Interessante Ergänzung zu diesem (älteren) Text von @arimak.bsky.social ⬇️

Eine rbb-Recherche deckt kriminelle Strukturen und massive Verstöße gegen das Arbeitsrecht bei Subunternehmen von Essenslieferdiensten auf. Die Arbeitsministerin will die Branche jetzt stärker regulieren.

This has been floating through my timeline a LOT, and loathe to say it, it's starting to grow on me 🙃

Love these three books, they are properly mind bending in the best way.

Can recommend. Great view into Isreal and Palestine from a completely different and very illuminating perspective.

introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to: The Notwist Hanabie Jah Wobble Yawning Man Sudan Archives (currently at) (simply the last 5 I've been to)

Gen-X: 42 Millennials: 420 Gen-Z: 69 Gen-alpha: 6, 7 Solve for the next generation

I've been to enough Pop-Kultur festivals now to spot music industry types a mile away. Why are there so many at this Sudan Archives gig?!?

Been trying to figure out why I like some live music venues more than others. One of the reasons I got figured out. I prefer venues with ample opportunity to lean. I realise seating is tricky, but a sturdy long bar, ledges on walls, ideally vertical, but horizontal's ok, and columns are all good.

Kennt ihr developer, die Lust auf richtig sinnstiftende Arbeit haben? Aula sucht welche! www.aula.de/software-unt...

I am starting to think that doctors pushing nutrition as a medicine are being lazy. Fair enough, only eating crap is going to be bad. But a decent varied diet that still leads to recommendations by a doctor to change, that's surely pretty dodgy these days.

Always intriguing and a bit scary when researchers find the reasons for noticeable environmental changes. Article about fishermen noticing the warming from January: www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/norwegi...

The kind of thing that makes you do a double take. A portable machine with 3 Intel 8086s and 256KB of RAM in 1978! From "The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squeak" by Daniel Ingalls (open access available: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...)

This works for Spotify, too.

Kinda surprised no-one's made a Base67 encoding yet

I once live-tweeted our attempt to cancel a mis-sold Virgin Media contract. It went viral to such a level that eventually the CEO had to call me personally to apologize for how fucking awful they are. Just to give them some modicum of a PR save they could use to counter the massive negative press.

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? I think I might have a decent chance at getting saved

Interesting new piece about our old bar in Berlin. (The additional image quote about our old landlord tells you a lot about her. She was not our favourite person, couldn’t stand her. 👎) www.the-berliner.com/berlin/noise...

This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is. The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

I know YT's been a shit show for a long time. But their site has now generally deteriorated to the point of unusable, videos not loading for ages, meagre search results interspersed with crap, ad blockers breaking pages completely. Embedded links in Slack still play OK, so that's where I'm at now 🙃

if someone tells you to meet up inside Shinjuku station, please understand they are telling you to Go Fuck Yourself

over on the mastodons, there is a thread about half life 1, vr, and floating point precision and it is wilder than you might expect mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589...

PayPal has rolled out a new "feature" that prompts you to leave feedback about an artist that you've commissioned via invoice. Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you. (continue...)

I see bathroom bans are topic of discussion once again and that folks conclude no one can use them. That Is The Point! It is part of a wider attempt at restricting public space as much as possible. Only private spaces for select groups are to remain in the eyes of those fortunate enough.

Reading the Scottish football posts on here after the game is finished, in reverse time obvs, is quite a journey, seems a proper tragedy, starting from overall delight and happiness then descending into despair and head pounding agony 😅

was reminded about this cool article (+ more links/thoughts in the thread) about movie subtitle fonts and lettering in japanese and how cool the history of it is. one guy's idiosyncratic style and choices like 80 years ago became the standard. also kinda ahead-of-its-time-style accessibility subs

I'm wondering if people who post videos on YT are seeing less engagement these days? The combination of it being unusable with an ad blocker plus mandatory full ads makes me watch stuff there less and less. Or are most people not fazed by the ad onslaught?

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝟓𝟏 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: Cerys Hafana Full session includes a cover of Swci Boscawen's 'Adar y Nefoedd' youtu.be/OynxSi3h7xA