Siim Teller
@teller.bsky.social
I invest in and help startups, raise 3 boys and a dog and get progressively worse writing these short blurbs as I get older. Lemonadestand.ee
SUUR TÕLL!!!! Nightmare stuff from my childhood. A horror gore animation served as a children's cartoon to kids in Estonia in the 80's.
kottke.org@kottke.org · 20h agoEternal Family is a media service that shows “a hand-picked collection of unique & rare films across Vintage Animation, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Action, Documentaries, Found Tapes & Much More”. KDO readers might like the Early Technology section. [eternal.tv]
Minu sõnavarast ja bluesky emojidest jääb väheks, Telia, et saaksin väljendada oma hetketundeid. Ei, see 💩 ei ole pärit duo Star veebilehelt.
Did not expect to see a rainbow when I took Pikachu for his morning walk. 7:16am, Kadriorg, Tallinn
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
Uruguay may have produced one of the fastest #EV adoption curves ever recorded. #BEVs went from ~5% of new vehicle sales to 51% in roughly 2½ years, while plug-ins reached 56% in August. Substantially faster through this part of the S-curve than Norway.
Uruguay EV Sales Report: Sales Soar in August as Market Share Reaches 56%! - CleanTechnica
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Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Space and the Universe (1996). Apps had so much character in the 90s. If this screen were created today, it would just display the planet's names as a list.
Lode Runner! I had completely forgotten about it, yes! What a game.
kottke.org@kottke.org · last wk.What’s your “origin” video game? “I’m talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer.” Mine is Lode Runner. Reflexes + puzzles + constraints + make-your-own levels = hooked for life. You? [bsky.app]
I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.
Dave Willner@dwillner.bsky.social · 2w agoCertain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.
All the Christopher Walke jokes in the replies :D
Mike Noble@mikenoble.bsky.social · 2w agoUltimate Man shook my hand and then told me exactly how I was going to die.
Hey Claude, "Pick a problem or mystery that obsesses you and solve it as best you can & make a movie we can share on social media about it" So it took a crack at the Voynich Manuscript & failed. Then it made this movie, which is pretty interesting to watch and a good explainer.
www.skypeoriginals.com Built a thing. Treat yourself with something nice from the good old era of internet talking.
Skype Originals
The emoticons you loved. Now as wearables.
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I was surprised how fewer people than I expected were wearing smartwatches or fitness bands in the London Underground when I visited in June this summer. More real watches, more empty wrists. technode.com/2026/09/09/i...
IDC: Global wrist-worn device shipments fall 4.3% in the second quarter · TechNode
Global shipments of wrist-worn devices fell 4.3% year on year to 48.01 million units in the second quarter of 2026, according to IDC. Smartwatch shipments
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Let me tell you a story about how top-end menswear retail transformed over the last hundred years. 🧵
Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (1999). And it still runs on Windows 11.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Measles: “I Think I’ve Done My Best.”
As football coach Bill Parcells famously said, “you are what your record says you are”.
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Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 3w agoMeasles Cases in the US Reach Highest Number in More Than 3 Decades jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Insane tornado footage from France. The camera eventually gets sucked into the tornado and you can experience it from the inside.
Pomas, France EF3 Tornado August 24, 2026 CCTV
YouTube video by Tornado Footage Library
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The persistent rogue AI agent cases remind me of Isaac Asimov's "Reason" – robot QT-1 starts believing that an energy converter is a god it serves as a priest, it's job is an act of worship, not obedience to humans. Doing a great job for all the wrong reasons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_...
Reason (short story) - Wikipedia
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Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
