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  • They spoke in codes. A lot of those hokey greeting cards from the Victorian era, with specific flowers and chaste, maudlin sentiments, were probably widely understood as codes for the most torrid of passions.

  • Listening to sad playlists is a good sign: it shows that at least you feel something.

  • “encompassed all of Poland” except for the half or so taken by Prussia/Germany and the Habsburg/Austro-Hungarian Empire.

  • I once caught a cab in Belfast and, in the 15 or so minutes, the driver revealed he was a former paramilitary fighter, and recounted a conspiracy theory about the sinking of the Titanic having been faked as an insurance scam.

  • Means of cisport include swings, rocking chairs and smaller amusement park rides.

  • CBS settled because a corrupt Trump administration could have cost them far more through acts of revenge. Settling was the cost of doing business. AOC doesn’t have any business interests a hostile, weaponised government could harm, so unless the legal system has been corrupted to the point where the government could charge her with libel (or treason or terrorism or anything else; at this point, there is no longer meaning, only power) because they say so, she has a solid defence.

  • They built something like this for an exhibition of Andy Warhol’s 1980s computer paintings some years ago. They wanted to show the art on Amiga 1000s like the one he used, but both the computers and their CRT monitors were too flaky to manage, so they put a Raspberry Pi running an emulator in an Amiga case. For the display, they took the case of an Amiga monitor and mounted a OLED panel behind an acrylic sheet.

  • They built something like this for an exhibition of Andy Warhol’s 1980s computer paintings some years ago. They wanted to show the art on Amiga 1000s like the one he used, but both the computers and their CRT monitors were too flaky to manage, so they put a Raspberry Pi running an emulator in an Amiga case. For the display, they took the case of an Amiga monitor and mounted a OLED panel behind an acrylic sheet.

  • This is what unmedicated mental illness looks like.

  • If your kick is performative contrarianism/“owning the libs”/gleefully being an asshole these days, wrapping yourself in a big ol’ Israeli flag is going to look mighty tempting.

  • I went to Hooters the other day, and it was full of dudebros with goatees and MAGA hats holding bibles and loudly going on about how Christian and un-woke they were. Some of them were even holding their bibles the right way up.

    Sucks to be one of the waitresses that night, though, as your tips are going to be those fake dollar bills with a bible verse printed on them.

  • Or like an alpha particle, having low penetration power.

  • Of course, the idea that the President’s head can just explode for no reason in view of the public, and by implication, so can anyone else’s at any time, is far more existentially terrifying than any assassination plot, so, to avert mass panic and social collapse, the FBI hurriedly framed some local weirdo, and then killed him before anyone could flag that he probably had nothing to do with it, which is the only reason why everyone’s life savings still had any value afterwards.

  • …or would it be more cost-effective to just learn Russian?

  • If the 6th-century plague was called the Justinian Plague, after the ruler of the empire whose end it marked, this would be the Trumpian Plague.

  • It appears to be a FPGA-backed device with a C64 core. I wonder if it’d be capable of running cores simulating more powerful systems as well, though if the keyboard layout is just the old-school C64 one, it may be awkward to use.

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