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Richard Troupe

@richardtroupe.bsky.social

Firefighter and teacher. Retro gaming, old computers, reading and weightlifting. Does console and computer stuff for Base Arcade. Belfast, Ireland. He/him.

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Internet Archive@archive.org · 10h ago

Vintage matchbox labels and other everyday ephemera offer a window into the styles, products, and aspirations of bygone eras. These Soviet matchbox covers promotes nuclear technology's promise. Find more fascinating items in the Matchbox Posters Archive ⤵️ archive.org/details/matc...

Two Soviet matchbox labels from the "Мирный Атом" (Peaceful Atom) series, printed on red textured cardstock. The top label features the Bowl of Hygieia — a snake coiled around a chalice, the symbol of pharmacy and medicine — alongside the atomic orbital symbol and the text "Мирный Атом." The bottom label depicts a round-bottomed flask, a test tube, and an industrial plant silhouette, again with the atomic orbital symbol and the text "Мирный Атом." Both labels use a bold two-color graphic style in navy blue and white on red.
Andrew Elmore 💽@elmore.zone · 15h ago

Fascists are culturally illiterate nostalgia fetishists, so naturally the market of new hardware for old video games is lousy with them. It was only a matter of time before "tee-hee I love mario the hedgehog" youtube became a cheap PR platform for the military industrial complex's death merchants.

Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is the same old "you can't solve weightlifting with a forklift" thing that happens again and again with current consumer uses of AI: the point of reading a book is not to finish the book easily, it's to READ the book, especially if the book asks you to do something that feels difficult

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d ago

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose. Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over. 📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked: "I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?" The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
Barry Pierre@jorgpierre.bsky.social · 2d ago

In a apropos of nothing, Exxon mobile did research as far back as the 1970's which confirmed that their business would have a direct and consequential effect on climate change and not only did they do "nothing about it" they also denied that climate change was happening.

Andy Brown@andybrown1951.bsky.social · 2d ago

If the new government is genuinely interested in dealing with the latest evidence that we are in the early stages of a climate emergency they could start by cancelling plans to lock Britain into oil and gas for 20 years by opening new fields in the North Sea. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

Iron Spike@ironspike.bsky.social · 3d ago

I am begging y'all to stop putting genAI slop in my timeline "Ha ha look at this dumb Facebook Boomer meme with Charlie Brown arguing property taxes are un-American" DON'T CARE, NOT EVEN IRONICALLY FUNNY Just gonna start blocking, I post here specifically because I don't want to see that shit.

Ben Johnson 🏺👻@gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 4d ago

Thing about getting laid off is you start going through all your previous work, and it turns out I have done some cool things. In 2015 I brought a recreation of Tennis For Two I was working on to a playtest at NYU and Famicom-architect Masayuki Uemura saw it and lit up like a kid on Christmas.

Masayuki Uemura and his translator playing a version of Tennis For Two on a Mac laptop with old-fashioned potentiometer-and-button controllers.Masayuki Uemura and his translator playing a version of Tennis For Two on a Mac laptop with old-fashioned potentiometer-and-button controllers.
Davenant 📸@marcdavenant.bsky.social · 5d ago

I’ve posted a lot on social media about Akihiko Okamura and his remarkable photography of Ireland during the Troubles. Now there’s a fascinating documentary which is well worth watching vimeo.com/1197413135

The Memories of Others: Akihiko Okamura's Ireland

A short documentary film uncovering Japanese photographer Akihiko Okamura’s extraordinary work in Ireland during the Troubles, and the artistic and emotional impact of its recent rediscovery. After a ...

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