TFW: That’s Falk’s Wife U UP: Undercover? Uhhh… Pass MRSA: Murderous Rip’s Southern Accent CDSIIOESWHLTRSWHSHDODTWJF: Columbo Definitely Spoke Italian In Other Episodes, So Was He Lying To Rod Steiger When He Said He Didn’t Or Did The Writers Just Forget?
Paul [Atreides] Wood
@retroid.bsky.social
Tech tinkerer, nerd talker, cat liker, lefty, 70s kid, former Eurogamer forum Mod if anyone remembers those Bad things are bad things no matter who does them. Morality is not a team sport.
Is YOUR Child Secretly Texting About the Second Run of Columbo Episodes (89-03)? Look For These Acronyms: LOL: Looking Old, Lieutenant OMG: Oh…McGoohan’s Geriatric FFS: Featuring Fisher Stevens NSA: No!! Shatner Again?!
I continue to be baffled by anyone who hand waves using Meta services
NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more
im getting sick and fucking tired of all queer and non-cishet normie stuff being banned left and right off platforms because payment processors get all up in their feelings, but AI can just do this and theres literally no consequences. No, fines arent consequences IF they even happen
NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more
Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope is being translated into the Welsh language. https://bit.ly/3TZcE73
If you were the secretary of transportation, you might also get to go on vacations funded by the corporations you regulate that are supposed to be for a television show that for some reason never airs
What the Hell Happened to Sean Duffy’s Road-Trip TV Show?
Three months after it was announced, the secretary of transportation’s summer show—funded by companies he regulates—hasn’t aired a single episode.
lnk.thebulwark.com
it is an interesting thing that trump wasn't aware of the state of the US military. you'd think the people who turned it into a welfare program for arms companies incapable of a protracted engagement would also have the influence to prevent the president putting it in a protracted engagement
Yeah we’re definitely out of missiles
This movie is the source of Princess Leia's Shadows of the Empire look.
The Time Guardian (1987) TMDB score 48% In the distant future, the human race nears extinction and a new race of beast-like creatures rule the earth. The few surviving people live in the City, a huge protected construction with the ability to travel in both space and time. The City travels back to
In case you missed it, there are new miniature libraries in the shop! www.whimsystation.com/category/min...
the Army spent $500 million building a factory for 155mm shells in Mesquite, Texas. It got shut down last year without producing a single usable thing.
Yeah we’re definitely out of missiles
what happens when you barely step on your pets tail?
A non-binary (afab) person used the women’s restroom while their trans partner waited outside. A group of ppl started to harrass the partner and then jumped them both when the nb partner exited the restroom.
This woman was beaten by a mob for *standing outside of a woman's bathroom* in Louisiana, not even going in, and they've literally just fabricated several charges against her and her partner anyway to justify abusing them further. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/a-mo... On the up side...
"The US military came under pressure to buy into just-in-time supply chains of the sort used by companies like Amazon. This worked great, right up until the moment you’re fighting a war, when it turns out you suddenly run out of bullets."
Drought conditions
This week: southern Britain has too little water; this map projection has far too much. But first: in praise of inefficiency.
jonn.substack.com
In Tucker’s recent interview with his favorite Holocaust-denying “historian,” TC is shocked to learn that the Bolsheviks erected a statue to Judas in Moscow. The only problem is, there is no evidence that this ever happened. But who cares about evidence when you have a fascist narrative to push?
The ZX Spectrum Just Got A Colourful Pac-Man Style Game That You Can Play Right Now For Free. (Repost)
The ZX Spectrum Just Got A Colourful Pac-Man Style Game That You Can Play Right Now For Free
A donation to a charity of your choosing is encouraged, though
timeextension.com
To continue down the path you must answer her three riddles. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
New video! I'm attempting to repair a C64 ASSY 250407 that displays random colors on startup. YouTube: youtu.be/K8ZXU2zvcGc PeerTube: makertube.net/w/ufJ7eNjdxf... #Commodore #Commodore64 #C64 #Repair #Troubleshooting #BlankScreen #ColorfulScreen #PLA #CIA #VIC #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
C64 ASSY 250407 shows random Colors on Startup
YouTube video by Jan Beta
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Mass Destruction of the environment, life changing injuries or needless landfill How many reasons do you want?
This cat has done a wonderful job training their human to do what they want.
Morning Kitten
when I say "built a gizmo" what I actually mean is "horifically abused the DMA engine of an ESP32 to run its onboard audio DACs at a 1MHz+ sample rate." No external components were involved! That was a fun project.
GitHub - rhalkyard/VectorGFX: Simple library for oscilloscope vector graphics on ESP32
Simple library for oscilloscope vector graphics on ESP32 - rhalkyard/VectorGFX
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since oscilloscope graphics are doing the rounds again, here's some photos from that time a few years ago when I built a gizmo to show dril tweets (and assorted other nonsense) on my ancient Tek 466
no thank you, but good reminder that I should finally delete that unused dropbox account
So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.
Discovered a cursed photo subgenre: "grift hands"
Hello? Cuteness police? Yes, it's an emergency. I'm texting you a photo of the crime in progress.
It’s too much!