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spu

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creator of products of questionable value.

learning to code, one broughlike at a time.

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Let’s go #Eggjam!

A screenshot of the PICO-8 fantasy console boot screen on top of the itch.io Eggjam #28 page

October 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM

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The Apple Glass(forgot what it’s actually called)-ified Chrome logo makes me think I need glasses

I don’t know how to describe it, it’s just some blurry shit, while actually not actually being blurry.

September 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM

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Had some sticks for lunch

They’re actually broken down, dry hiyamugi noodles, sitting in a bowl, waiting for the water to boil.

September 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM

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Me: let’s put on some Bowie on shuffle while I take a shower.

The second song:

David Bowie
Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed
Space Oddity (1969)

September 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM

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“Human beings are terrible at accepting uncertainty, so when we're ignorant, we make assumptions based on how we imagine the world.”
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Hank Green

September 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM

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45 years ago today David Bowie released Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

Today they rule our countries.

The cover of Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

September 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM

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Wait… what changed?

Change log of the license:

1 file changed
+2 -2 lines changed

- MIT License
+ MIT License

- SOFTWARE
+ SOFTWARE

September 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM

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Oh look, they got an app, let’s check it out!

Womp womp.

Download der Warn-App NINA
Die Warn-App NINA ist hier kostenlos verfügbar für Android- und iOS-Betriebssysteme.

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September 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM

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Who thought 9-11 was a good day for this?

Emergency Alarm
9m ago
TEST ALERT, NATIONWIDE ALERT DAY
2025 Thu 2025/09/11 - 11:00 am - Test alert
- for Germany - There is no danger. - Further information: https:// warnung.bund.de/m/rXPGpOdP3tGW -
Published by: Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe
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September 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM

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Most random double feature ever.

Got this cause Speed Racer has been out of print for years & while this 2-pack is also out of print, it was only a 3rd of the price of Speed Racer alone. Dunno what this says about License to Wed but it has Robin Williams, you can always do w/ more RW in your life.

A German Blu-ray 2-pack of Speed Racer (2008) and License to Wed (2007)

September 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM

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Nintendo really trying to ride those Silksong tails

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September 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM

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“pop band Chumbawamba” tho

One of the surprising legacies of the short-lived Diggers is their protest anthem, composed by Winstanley, called "Diggers' Song." This anthem was carried by Quakers into the New World, where it was adopted by the Amish, Mennonites, and other agrarian religious groups, and later, labor movements in the U.S., the U.K., and the Soviet Union. English folksinger Leon Rosselson recorded the anthem under the title "You Noble Diggers All," while pop band Chumbawamba included it in their 1988 release English Rebel Songs 1381-1914.

August 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM

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In 1649, the Diggers began vegetable gardens in common land in Surrey and posted announcements in the area announcing free meat, drink, and clothes to anyone who would join their commune and help work the common land. Their intent was to get enough citizens to join the Diggers and contribute their small parcels of land to the cause that the whole area would become privately owned communal property. Because property ownership equaled power, this would make the Diggers a powerful political influencer, so the local authorities stepped in and chased the Diggers out of Surrey. For the next couple of years, smaller Digger communities appeared in other parts of England, but by 1651, the movement was over, largely due to government interference. Gone, but not forgotten - more than 300 years later, an offshoot of the San Francisco Mime Troupe calling themselves Diggers set up camp in Golden Gate Park and gave out free food, free clothes, and preached to passersby about socialism, anarchy, and the joys of living an agrarian lifestyle.

August 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM

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Music Theory for Dummies is a comrade?
Gotta say I kinda dig it.

1649 - England, the Diggers
The Diggers started out as a group of 15 Protestant farmers and landowners who decided to form their own commune and isolate themselves from the rest of England, specifically from the power of the monarchy and the Church of England. Founded by Quaker activist Gerrard Winstanley, the Diggers (or True Levellers, as they're also sometimes called) believed in economic equality and a strict leveling of the social order. They are considered to be the first post-Roman Empire European socialist/ anarchist communi-ty, and while they were a relatively small community of group-owned farms scattered across England, the impact of their ideas, and especially their music, lasted centuries longer than they did.

August 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM

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Are YouTube comments actually decent now?

It’s the YouTube comment section on the iPad app, but it’s threaded. Like you can actually tell who’s replying to who now.

August 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM

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See, I can already tell that this isn’t a faithful recreation of the Noita experience. For someone who doesn’t play Noita Noita isn’t 33 minutes long. It’s not even 26 seconds.