Peacocks are the closest thing we have to eldritch gods

Peacock Fanning Tail

Alt: Peacock Fanning Tail, which is like a shaky eyeballs demon

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obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo

That thing where you think of a simple solution to a problem after spending weeks getting the complex solution working 🫠

I just accidentally coined the word "transdressed" because I forgot how to say "get changed" 😅

Apple only took 24 hours to approve my iOS app update that crashed instantly on launch. Such a blessing to have that extra level of reliability and security that only a manual review process can provide 🙏

The future of creativity on the internet in a world with AI: https://marcel.io/posts/the-future-of-creativity-on-the-internet-in-a-world-with-ai

movement in non-euclidean quaternionic space

Does anybody know how to intercept click-drag in a QuickLook extension? By default it just moves the window around, but it works in Apple's own extensions (e.g. when previewing a 3D model you can drag to rotate) and apparently the Peek extension figured out a way to enable it (for text selection)

"Civilization was a mistake" — me when I stay up too late playing Civilization

I released a new open source library! ContextMenu gives you a macOS-style contextual drop-down menu on iOS that you can display anywhere with a long press (which is not provided out of the box for some reason, and is not entirely trivial to implement): https://github.com/nicklockwood/ContextMenu

“Celebrating the death of anyone is sick” I will celebrate the death of every person responsible for Trump’s administrations and for the Tory/Reform parties. In fact any right-wing fascist. Stop trying to make us feel guilty for some of the only joy left available to us because of you.

the problem with the games industry is that it makes money in a sustainable way by creating stuff that people want to pay for this is in contrast to how big capital would prefer to make money, by trying to scale fake numbers to infinity using gambler brained investors lured in by impossible claims

I've been working through some thoughts on Dario Amodei's essays about the risks and rewards of AI, on and off, for months now. This is at least a start. (I have added a few warnings in the intro, as there is some dark and possibly disturbing topics inside) www.massicotte.org/blog/beachfr...

I installed Bitdefender this week, an anti-malware tool. As a product, this is full of flags that in fact *teach users to trust malware*. Let's say you're told to install Bitdefender—this happens… I know people think stuff like this is just marketing, but it's UI. It enables other scams to thrive.

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

🫣 bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/

Super impressive work here... Long-time HATETRIS researchers David & Felipe have shared a new record shortest loop for HATETRIS Mild, at just 10 + 10 = 20 lines to reach a repeat well:

Loops in HATETRIS

The HATETRIS algorithm has always been perfectly deterministic, with no "RNG". When I originally created it in April 2010, the way it worked was to examine the current well state only and use this to ...

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Don’t be disheartened America, it’s actually fine having a system that gives effectively unlimited executive power to the head of government. You just have to make sure you only ever elect good chaps to head your government! You did remember to only ever elect good chaps, right

In awe of this attempted spelling of “aficionado”

Getting laid off 5 days before Christmas

Atari@atari.com · last mo.

54 years of Atari! 🎉 What are some of your favorite memories with us?

Once again feeling enraged at Apple's decision to put comically large rounded corners on UI components that are only ever used to display inherently rectangular data 🙄

The car probably has a computer! Computerized engine controls date back to the late ‘80s. It just doesn’t warn you when you’re about to run over a toddler because your suburban house has a driveway that crosses the sidewalk.

Jake Anbinder@jakeanbinder.bsky.social · last mo.

Lots of legit criticisms of new cars but these are literally all safety features

Never did I think I would see a cure for sickle cell in my lifetime. A friend of mine in fifth grade died from this disease. My parents kept me home from the funeral because they thought I was too young to handle it. Modern science is a miracle. www.wafb.com/2026/06/23/n...

New Orleans man becomes first in Louisiana functionally cured of sickle cell disease

Daniel Cressy, 23, underwent gene therapy at Manning Family Children’s Hospital.

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I’ve always wanted to be able to quickly generate gradients from color palettes, so I built Tintly, a macOS tool for creating mesh gradients. It accepts palettes in any format and instantly converts them into beautiful gradients. apps.apple.com/us/app/tintl... #macOSDev #IndieDev

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

As a writer I can only aspire to create a single sentence this dense with implied horror

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Therapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK’s largest children’s prison

It's amazing listening to Starmer listing his achievements and they're either: 1. Things that are bad 2. Things that he's not done 3. Things he initially opposed upon taking office Truly a generational talent in being a delusional prick.

As we see the end of the Starmer years, I am reflecting on my favourite things about him. Personally, it was when he told a newspaper that he didn’t dream or have any internal thoughts