minus9
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Old games, electronics and nonsense. Doom scrolling my way to insanity.
Also @minus9@hachyderm.io
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Old games, electronics and nonsense. Doom scrolling my way to insanity.
Also @minus9@hachyderm.io
xxx
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Wanted:
Schroedinger
Dead and alive
Schroedinger
Dead and alive
January 23, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Wanted:
Schroedinger
Dead and alive
Schroedinger
Dead and alive
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just had to chase a grinch off my lawn in fucking january. it was picking pinecones off my tree to eat. that's not a christmas decoration, dumbass. you're eating a normal january tree
January 22, 2026 at 10:32 PM
just had to chase a grinch off my lawn in fucking january. it was picking pinecones off my tree to eat. that's not a christmas decoration, dumbass. you're eating a normal january tree
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A new free episode! Nate fights Tim Cain, Alice gets into crystals and Brendy's illicit Lego. Find it here or wherever you get your podcasts.
www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
Episode 27: The Legendary Milk Egg | Total Playtime Podcast
Get more from Total Playtime Podcast on Patreon
www.patreon.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:08 PM
A new free episode! Nate fights Tim Cain, Alice gets into crystals and Brendy's illicit Lego. Find it here or wherever you get your podcasts.
www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
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Success!
Not without some small issues, but filmed the first "Playing Train Sim on a Train"
Didn't inconvenience passengers, and large portions are 1:1 game vs real journey in real time.
Not without some small issues, but filmed the first "Playing Train Sim on a Train"
Didn't inconvenience passengers, and large portions are 1:1 game vs real journey in real time.
Okay, if all goes well, tomorrow I record "Playing Train Simulator on the matching real world Train Class / Route, in real time, with autistic train facts commentary".
Wish me luck, this is an oddly elaborate video to try and make, given it involves recording in public, with "train gear" lol
Wish me luck, this is an oddly elaborate video to try and make, given it involves recording in public, with "train gear" lol
January 22, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Success!
Not without some small issues, but filmed the first "Playing Train Sim on a Train"
Didn't inconvenience passengers, and large portions are 1:1 game vs real journey in real time.
Not without some small issues, but filmed the first "Playing Train Sim on a Train"
Didn't inconvenience passengers, and large portions are 1:1 game vs real journey in real time.
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Love this article by Corey Doctorow on the AI bubble. He describes AI as hi-tech asbestos in our walls. Some very compelling insights.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Love this article by Corey Doctorow on the AI bubble. He describes AI as hi-tech asbestos in our walls. Some very compelling insights.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Back in the 00s I was friends with a polish guy living in the US who admitted that seeing American flags everywhere made him nervous. Any european, he said, knows that excessive patriotism rarely leads anywhere good. I didn’t understand it then. I understand it now.
January 22, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Back in the 00s I was friends with a polish guy living in the US who admitted that seeing American flags everywhere made him nervous. Any european, he said, knows that excessive patriotism rarely leads anywhere good. I didn’t understand it then. I understand it now.
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It’s called shepherd’s pie because shepherds herd sheep and it’s called cottage pie because cows live in a cottage
January 21, 2026 at 6:19 PM
It’s called shepherd’s pie because shepherds herd sheep and it’s called cottage pie because cows live in a cottage
😨 Hope Geocities is ok.
Yahoo and AOL are down
Yahoo and AOL are down
www.independent.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 6:32 PM
😨 Hope Geocities is ok.
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I have updated my privacy policy. Pray I don't update it any further.
January 21, 2026 at 6:09 PM
I have updated my privacy policy. Pray I don't update it any further.
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Please enjoy this video about me buying... Compact Discs?!?! youtu.be/l-q0PHDvKwY?...
I bought some CDs?! In 2026?! - 365 in '26
YouTube video by CoKami
youtu.be
January 21, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Please enjoy this video about me buying... Compact Discs?!?! youtu.be/l-q0PHDvKwY?...
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With TR-49 by @inkle.co out later today, here's a nice non-spoilery review of it. ☺️
NOTE! Some reviews have a LOT of spoilers in, so be aware before clicking on them!
This game really needs to be played ‘blind’.
somanygames.co.uk/review/tr-49/
NOTE! Some reviews have a LOT of spoilers in, so be aware before clicking on them!
This game really needs to be played ‘blind’.
somanygames.co.uk/review/tr-49/
TR-49 | So Many Games
A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama.
somanygames.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 12:12 PM
With TR-49 by @inkle.co out later today, here's a nice non-spoilery review of it. ☺️
NOTE! Some reviews have a LOT of spoilers in, so be aware before clicking on them!
This game really needs to be played ‘blind’.
somanygames.co.uk/review/tr-49/
NOTE! Some reviews have a LOT of spoilers in, so be aware before clicking on them!
This game really needs to be played ‘blind’.
somanygames.co.uk/review/tr-49/
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Anyway, enough about the state of the world. Just taking a moment to soak up some of the most beautiful background art ever committed to celluloid.
One Hundred and One Dalmatians is a gorgeous film. After 65 years, its design is still fresh.
Disney's artists went for a new, adventurous look -- one that Walt Disney himself opposed. We explore how they did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/designing-...
Disney's artists went for a new, adventurous look -- one that Walt Disney himself opposed. We explore how they did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/designing-...
January 20, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Anyway, enough about the state of the world. Just taking a moment to soak up some of the most beautiful background art ever committed to celluloid.
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This is really not much less than some authors would get from someone buying their book on a discount from The Evil Bookshop. Never feel bad about getting that book from the library! We want you to do it! Most of use use/have used a library a lot! We still get paid!
Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.
For context: I published my 15th book last year. The advance I received for it was considerably less than £6,600.
For context: I published my 15th book last year. The advance I received for it was considerably less than £6,600.
Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
January 20, 2026 at 5:34 PM
This is really not much less than some authors would get from someone buying their book on a discount from The Evil Bookshop. Never feel bad about getting that book from the library! We want you to do it! Most of use use/have used a library a lot! We still get paid!
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Of all the terrible things Mark Zuckerberg has done, making VR incredibly lame is somewhere in the middle.
The division has lost over $77 billion since its inception in 2020.
Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg's Vision Fails
The company has laid off some 1,500 virtual reality developers as part of a broader shift toward AI wearable devices.
trib.al
January 19, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Of all the terrible things Mark Zuckerberg has done, making VR incredibly lame is somewhere in the middle.
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"Everything is interesting if you know enough about it."
-Trebor Noah
-Trebor Noah
January 18, 2026 at 6:14 AM
"Everything is interesting if you know enough about it."
-Trebor Noah
-Trebor Noah
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yeah but the most unrealistic thing in video games is all the jumping characters do.
ppl just don't jump in real life. thas not something we generally do.
ppl just don't jump in real life. thas not something we generally do.
Video game protagonists must have such totally fucked knees after all that crouch walking
January 17, 2026 at 2:48 PM
yeah but the most unrealistic thing in video games is all the jumping characters do.
ppl just don't jump in real life. thas not something we generally do.
ppl just don't jump in real life. thas not something we generally do.
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move over hemingway
January 17, 2026 at 4:05 PM
move over hemingway
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Last night I met a guy who said everyone in his office uses ChatGPT "because you just type in two lines and it generates a whole email for you!"
And I *very correctly* replied that "no one wants that 'whole email' they just want the two lines - and they all hate you"
And I *very correctly* replied that "no one wants that 'whole email' they just want the two lines - and they all hate you"
January 17, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Last night I met a guy who said everyone in his office uses ChatGPT "because you just type in two lines and it generates a whole email for you!"
And I *very correctly* replied that "no one wants that 'whole email' they just want the two lines - and they all hate you"
And I *very correctly* replied that "no one wants that 'whole email' they just want the two lines - and they all hate you"
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Absolutely A++++ content, no notes
If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
January 17, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Absolutely A++++ content, no notes
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There’s a guy on Facebook who hates the queer romance in Old Skies so much that he’s hopping on every recent thread related to the game to rant about it. Lesson learned. More queer stuff.
January 17, 2026 at 1:19 PM
There’s a guy on Facebook who hates the queer romance in Old Skies so much that he’s hopping on every recent thread related to the game to rant about it. Lesson learned. More queer stuff.