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Seeing all the LucasArts remastered titles for 75% off on @steampowered.com makes we sad that @doublefine.com was never able to give "Sam & Max: Hit the Road" the same treatment.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/388210/Day_of_the_Tentacle_Remastered/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/316790/Grim_Fandango_Remastered/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/228360/Full_Throttle_Remastered/
Roe vs Wade reversed, birthright citizenship on the way out, at this rate I wouldn’t be surprised if the Supreme Court ruled the Emancipation Proclamation was executive overreach and it should be left to the states.
Yo anyone need some hyper media when I'm here?
New lappie day! As I'm nomadic these days, I'm decommissioning a tower PC and an old Razer 15 gaming laptop and replacing them with a Framework 16. It is neither the most performant nor cost effective device but I dig repairability and upgradeability in a laptop designed to work with Linux.
I have only a few hours on it but the Fedora 42 + sway install was smooth and the display is 😻.
#vanLAN
How many flying machines can lose two lift+control surfaces and still perform a controlled landing?
The Centriflüg 2 can!
https://youtu.be/r7u2lAqH6EQ
Spent some time this week revamping https://bluescsi.com - let me know if you see any typos or broken links!
adafruit: we want to confirm the opt-out settings on our slack workspace are all set so there is no ai in our workspace.
slack/salesforce account exec: "AI is all around us..."
THEY SAID THAT, COOL. so - they will not answer :( we're 10 emails in, a promised call, here's our settings, we'll do a guide on learn.adafruit.com ... "slack declares war" https://www.gettheleverage.com/p/slack-declares-war
Blueberry beer is fantastic! 🫐
and so I wake in the morning and I step outside,
but it’s not over yet; it’s still 2025,
and I scream at the top of my lungs,
FUUUUUUUUUUUCK
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An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. It's the single best explanation I've ever heard on the future of #Iran 👇
As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions.
Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed.
But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan.
Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation. So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East.
Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse. A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree.
We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to "help." In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more.
If you're wondering why you are separating the lids from yoghurt cups to recycle them properly, while in a parallel universe nearly 100 private jets arrive for the Bezos wedding, here's why:
Because you are better person than each and every one of these massive cunts.
In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"
Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas.
Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!
✨Our cat Abby has grokked that socks are important to us humans, and now we have to hide them because she’ll sneak one and try to use it as currency for food and favors.
Let me repeat: My cat has invented her own form of currency based on her observations of human needs
Abby, you’re a genius and no you may not have another Churu tube
I interrupt my regular programme to bring you the best thing I read this year: a blog post about a museum of nuclear jet engines. I'm a huge fan of geek trips, I visit science exhibits, technology museums, spaceflight sites etc. But I've never seen anything as nerdy and as awesome as this.
https://www.sevarg.net/2025/06/23/ebr-i-tour-and-automation/
Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Mastodon can do it.
Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments
Freelancers/contractors: get in the comments
Everyone else: boosts appreciated.
The market is *dead* for freelancers and a big part of that (in my opinion) is fragmentation. Let's get that network effect *back*.
“Zohran! What is best in life?”
“To crush the fascists, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their donors!”
