Retro PC games:

✅ Download quickly
✅ Can be played with a D-pad or a joystick and a couple of buttons
✅ Are incredibly well-documented now
✅ Had their DRM stripped out decades ago, or... see point above
✅ Will run on 0.03% of your PC's capabilities
✅ Are cheap to acquire in digital form
✅ Are interesting historical artefacts
✅ Are celebrated by inclusive and collaborative online communities

Save a classic gamepad from ewaste and start playing retro games today! 🎮

#retrogaming #retrocomputing

#Celebrity news is mostly stupid because, like us, most #celebrities are stupid. But a few, like us, are awesome

#DuaLipa you're fucking awesome

"Dua Lipa Opening Physical #Library for #Banned and #Censored #Books"

“Here you will find one hundred books that ask questions, or have been questioned. Some have been banned by #school districts for themes of #race or #sexuality. Others, written for #LGBTQIA+ readers, have been restricted from display"

https://consequence.net/2026/06/dua-lipa-manifesto-library/

#Portugal #Music

amazing, no notes

Well this is fun, dude sets up a smart bulb as a wifi server full of banned epubs, https://www.richardosgood.com/posts/banned-book-library/

Nexus Prime actually might suit the Menosaur frame better then the Superion frame. Even if the connection isn't as solid it's certainly not just falling out #transformers

Traps

:neocat_woozy:
🚲

Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at a scale the industry spent 4 years trying to make people forget about.

#AIEthics #WeDontNeedNoAIEthics #WeAintGotNoStinkeenAIEthics

https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from?source=share

You gave a stranger with no soul and no skin in the game the keys to everything you own.

Writerdeck: my tty-only laptop for maximum focus

https://tinkerbetter.tube/w/fH9CJGepAbZWN646ChbJ44

meow!

RGB
#transformers

Kickstarter bans adult content.
Who saw this one coming?

Edit: the video was ad restricted by youtube, so I've removed the monetization, making this work also Unpaid because you can't even talk about sex openly anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7KdoLfkwMM

#1585; In which a Complaint is made

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://wondermark.com/c/1585/

hahaa! Successfully removed all IR and UV filters from my old Canon EOS 600D, I can do full spectrum, UV and IR photography now!

All of the following photos have been taken with a ~550nm+ lpf, meaning cutting everything under 550nm (blue, purple and uv) off. I love the vibrant pink foliage and dramatic turquoise skies #photography

This is perfect!
(By Amadeo Capelli)
#mechanical #craft #art

💗 Schengen

“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”

https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/borders-are-a-construct-but-this-swing-isnt

Found it

The clangers have upped their game

extremely mad because my relative in American prison has let me know that from now on, instead of being charged once per book or per song and having the files added permanently to his account, he's going to ALSO be charged by the minute to read or listen to music on the tablets that are the only things they're allowed to use.

reminder that paying prisoners (vastly) less than minimum wage is legal in the US because they're defined as an exception to anti-slavery laws.