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Luca Pavone
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Luca Pavone @lpavone.bsky.social · Feb 6
Headless Chicken's 🐔 11th Release Candidate (don't ask what happened to 10) is now up on the DOOM + DOOM II KEX Engine Port!
Currently in the process of getting the IDGames archive version updated too.
A screenshot from DOOM + DOOM II, the KEX-Engine port of Doom. The megawad Headless Chicken is loaded into it, on the title screen.
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orinoxide.bsky.social
I think about this post a lot.
Post by @jroberts.bsky.social‬: You look at every culture that's ever existed and the running theme is everyone pretty much just wants to play/dance to music, make art, eat stewed meat wrapped in flat bread, and tell stories about the shapes we find in the stars. Somehow we turned that into wars and overtime and profit margins.
January 25, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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leighalexander.bsky.social
GTA as a series forgot how to be transgressive. like yawn more sad dad feelings? bring me a PTA mom on valium mowing down the husband's mistress in the rolls SUV. bring me an unhinged TV anchor botox-grinning thru her meltdown. bring me a fed up stripper shooting up the VIP room with elon musk in it
January 27, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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keroberrycola.bsky.social
jinjo’s bizarre adventure
January 27, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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buffaloser.com
Dudes Rock
January 28, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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aaronlong.bsky.social
god damn I love this movie
January 28, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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taffywabbit.bsky.social
ah, where are my manners! almost forgot to share pics of the jackrabbits in question. please enjoy their quiet winter softness
December 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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jfg.land
another reminder that this industry doesn't deserve its workers, its journalists, or its critics
May 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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birmo.bsky.social
...What’s turned me off isn’t the increasingly shitty software or the endless price hikes. It’s Apple’s gross collaboration with the Trump regime.

I thought the worst so far was their public donation to build the Orange Czar’s new ballroom.

But it wasn't...
I might be done paying Tim Apple.
I know they don't need my money, but I need my self-respect.
open.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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dylanwignall.bsky.social
Doodle of The Tarkus, from the album The Tarkus, by Emerson Lake and Palmer
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"You talk of freedom! Starving children fall! Are you deaf when you hear the season's call?"
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#art #prog
The Tarkus - an armadillo with tank treads instead of feet. Two cannons stuck out from its sides, and it has two cannons for nostrils. It mounts over a hill, all cannons blasting.
January 28, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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usili.bsky.social
Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.
January 28, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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neocities.org
Bing has blocked neocities and all user subdomains from its search index.

We’ve spent months trying to resolve this through official channels and gotten nowhere.

Until this gets resolved, we are recommending that people do not use Bing.

Blog post with details: blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01...
Neocities Is Blocked by Bing
Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
blog.neocities.org
January 28, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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maotenno.bsky.social
I do think there one key difference here: the console wars of the 90s didn't have whole ass cottage industry tied up in independent social media shitheads incentivized to turn the whole thing into a mini day time talk going show.
trog.bsky.social tro @trog.bsky.social · 1d
The console wars... So easily forgotten... Pretending like the rise of haters is some new invention and the entirety of late 2000s early 2010s video game discourse wasn't coming up with new compound slurs to describe the people who bought a different toy than you is revisionism at its finest
January 28, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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jamellebouie.net
it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”
ayoub.bsky.social elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be… The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
January 28, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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haniwasoft.bsky.social
Introducing the first 15 units of my game, each with their own tiny 24x24 pixel mugshot. It was a challenge, but I’m pretty happy with how they turned out! 😅
October 25, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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eff.org
This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who
www.eff.org
January 27, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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duknuk.bsky.social
Blade
January 27, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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darlingthresher.bsky.social
FEED-class symbiote from SOPHONT
January 27, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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rally.luckyraven.cc
Geoff Keighley attaching himself to the side of a project uninvited, like a giant barnacle, & bringing grief to the project's devs has been real sad to see. Just a guy who invented his own significance & swings it around an industry like a big stick, knocking over whatever happens to be in the way.
January 27, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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dosgames.com
Random game of the day:
Redhook's Revenge (Traditional (Board Games): ImagiSOFT Inc, 1993)

Download/play: https://dosgames.com/game/redhooks-revenge/

#dosgaming #retrogaming #traditional #boardgame #pirates #trivia #sailing
Screenshot of Redhook's Revenge
January 27, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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olifranklinwallis.bsky.social
I think a lot about Parmy Olson's observation that AI companies actively push everyone to talk about existential risk, because it distracts from more prosaic current day concerns like copyright theft, conditions for data workers, energy & water use, and their financial situation
January 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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ruleo.bsky.social
when a freedomcel says something so surveillancephobic you gotta hit them with the palantir stare
January 27, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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doougle.net
It’s so revealing how the attempted bombing isn’t bigger news in the Australian media cycle. It’s so clear how it matters less if the attacker is white and the intended victims primarily Aboriginal. The hierarchy of racism in Australia is so transparent
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Invasion Day 'explosive' device hidden inside Disney Frozen sock, witness says
A homemade "fragment bomb" thrown into a crowd at a Perth Invasion Day rally yesterday was hidden in a child's sock with a Disney character on it, a woman who picked it up tells the ABC.
www.abc.net.au
January 27, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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goodtrailcams.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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precioso.design
Did a small rant today on the @wasp.sh Discord wrt. to what impact are the AI assistants and agents are actually having in the software industry right now.
I have two main opinions here: It seems AI usage shifts the bulk of dev time from writing code to reviewing it. For one-man projects this is fine because you sometimes don't feel the need to review your code, or spend the same amount of time working on it, but with something "working" way earlier, and more iteration (incidentally, this is how designing a solution always should be, iteratively). For bigger companies with established processes, you're involving more people earlier in the process. So maybe the individual gains in dev time are offset by the collective losses in review time. (This is basically the same effect a Jr. Dev has in a team, but without the ROI of them becoming a Sr. Dev sometime in the future.) IMO big gains of productivity from AI come from the LLMs bridging or bypassing tech debt. It says so in the article you linked it: "You probably wouldn't even know where to go, but we're going to ignore all that.". Not knowing where to go is a synonym for architectural tech debt. And they're doing the equivalent of paying for a loan by taking out another, bigger loan. It's getting you out of the immediate problem but giving you more debt to work with in the future (as the code that's being created is just being put on top of the old debt and getting it more interlinked). Meanwhile, leaner codebases are seeing way more modest productivity gains from agents, but nonetheless going faster and not putting more messy code on their shoulders. So all in all, we're looking at a Senior Developer shortage in a few years, because companies are not investing in the Junior-to-Senior pipelines anymore. And for those Senior developers, they're gonna be left with byzantinian codebases that will be extremely difficult to work with. So let's all get ready for the software quality crisis coming in about 10years. (Long enough for the OpenAIs and Googles of the world to have made their money though, which is the only important thing)
August 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
Can THREE Stooges save ONE orphange from FOREclosure?
An ad in a faux movie poster style, reading "Cinemaware Presents: The TREE STOOGES" Moe, Larry, and Curly appear right (They can save the day by making ASSETS of themselves!"; the Evil Banker appears stage left ("He took their NEST EGG and told them to BEAT IT!"); and the Widow and her Three Beautiful Daughters appear below ("They're about to be thrown out on their ARREARS!"). On the bottom, Amiga screenshots depict the handdrawn cartoons plus the realistically colorized screenshots of the old black-and-white films.
January 27, 2026 at 12:05 PM