alisdair
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post a game you remember playing that no one else remembers
January 14, 2026 at 11:33 PM
post a game you remember playing that no one else remembers
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Actually the solution for mass homelessness is social housing everywhere
January 14, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Actually the solution for mass homelessness is social housing everywhere
This essay gives me hope mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the...
Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up
78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.
mikelovesrobots.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:33 AM
This essay gives me hope mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the...
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Acorn Electron / BBC Micro - Chuckulus - WIP
Maybe I'll try a thread instead of quote posting stuff !.....
Fixed the flashing egg and bouncing off ladders bugs - thankfully quite simple stuff....
Time for some proper level design, as some are just too damn hard/impossible (even without the DUCK !) 🙄
Maybe I'll try a thread instead of quote posting stuff !.....
Fixed the flashing egg and bouncing off ladders bugs - thankfully quite simple stuff....
Time for some proper level design, as some are just too damn hard/impossible (even without the DUCK !) 🙄
September 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Acorn Electron / BBC Micro - Chuckulus - WIP
Maybe I'll try a thread instead of quote posting stuff !.....
Fixed the flashing egg and bouncing off ladders bugs - thankfully quite simple stuff....
Time for some proper level design, as some are just too damn hard/impossible (even without the DUCK !) 🙄
Maybe I'll try a thread instead of quote posting stuff !.....
Fixed the flashing egg and bouncing off ladders bugs - thankfully quite simple stuff....
Time for some proper level design, as some are just too damn hard/impossible (even without the DUCK !) 🙄
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Why Would Women Like Naked Gorgeous Men Talking About Their Emotions. Why Would Women Like Beautiful Sexy Men Yearning Sexily. Why Would Women Like Sculpted Butts And True Love. The Female Mind Is An Enigma.
January 7, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Why Would Women Like Naked Gorgeous Men Talking About Their Emotions. Why Would Women Like Beautiful Sexy Men Yearning Sexily. Why Would Women Like Sculpted Butts And True Love. The Female Mind Is An Enigma.
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The City of Vancouver continues to provide real-time text updates about council meetings exclusively on a website that produces mass amounts of deepfake non-consensual sexualized images of minors
This is harm. Time for serious people to get serious about it.
"Grok Is Generating About ‘One Nonconsensual Sexualized Image Per Minute’. Regulators around the world are looking into Elon Musk’s xAI after its chatbot began ‘undressing’ celebrities and underage children at the request of users." www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
January 7, 2026 at 1:00 AM
The City of Vancouver continues to provide real-time text updates about council meetings exclusively on a website that produces mass amounts of deepfake non-consensual sexualized images of minors
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scotland must reintroduce lynx to inspire the new generation of furry artists on which our economy depends
January 6, 2026 at 10:38 AM
scotland must reintroduce lynx to inspire the new generation of furry artists on which our economy depends
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New in Small Wars & Insurgencies: “Killing Like a State: Explaining Rebel-Perpetration of Wartime Genocidal Violence.”
Using ISIS as a case study, I show how rebels can behave like states, and when four high-threshold conditions align, genocide can follow.
Link to article in comments
Using ISIS as a case study, I show how rebels can behave like states, and when four high-threshold conditions align, genocide can follow.
Link to article in comments
January 5, 2026 at 3:23 PM
New in Small Wars & Insurgencies: “Killing Like a State: Explaining Rebel-Perpetration of Wartime Genocidal Violence.”
Using ISIS as a case study, I show how rebels can behave like states, and when four high-threshold conditions align, genocide can follow.
Link to article in comments
Using ISIS as a case study, I show how rebels can behave like states, and when four high-threshold conditions align, genocide can follow.
Link to article in comments
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I am delighted to announce the release of my latest project:
Fully documented source code for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond’s 1986 masterpiece.
Here’s the repository; deep dives coming soon.
See thread for details.
1/9
github.com/markmoxon/th...
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit
Fully documented source code for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond’s 1986 masterpiece.
Here’s the repository; deep dives coming soon.
See thread for details.
1/9
github.com/markmoxon/th...
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit
GitHub - markmoxon/the-sentinel-source-code-bbc-micro: Fully documented and annotated source code for The Sentinel on the BBC Micro
Fully documented and annotated source code for The Sentinel on the BBC Micro - markmoxon/the-sentinel-source-code-bbc-micro
github.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I am delighted to announce the release of my latest project:
Fully documented source code for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond’s 1986 masterpiece.
Here’s the repository; deep dives coming soon.
See thread for details.
1/9
github.com/markmoxon/th...
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit
Fully documented source code for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond’s 1986 masterpiece.
Here’s the repository; deep dives coming soon.
See thread for details.
1/9
github.com/markmoxon/th...
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit
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Fear of the Trans Child www.otherstrangeness.com/2025/12/29/t...
The Fear of a Trans Child - Other Strangeness — merritt k
From one perspective, early transition is the ideal outcome of gender dysphoria for cissexual society. A child who avoids natal puberty will, on average, blend in better with others of their gender, a...
www.otherstrangeness.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Fear of the Trans Child www.otherstrangeness.com/2025/12/29/t...
Grouse Mountain is pretty
December 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Grouse Mountain is pretty
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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who calls the shots where you get your news? defector.com/products
December 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
who calls the shots where you get your news? defector.com/products
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One day you're going to be having a conversation and someone will say "hey, remember when everyone went crazy over LLMs?" and everyone will laugh and you'll say "wow, I haven't thought about those in a decade." Some Generation Gamma kid will ask what you're talking about but they won't believe you
December 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
One day you're going to be having a conversation and someone will say "hey, remember when everyone went crazy over LLMs?" and everyone will laugh and you'll say "wow, I haven't thought about those in a decade." Some Generation Gamma kid will ask what you're talking about but they won't believe you
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Those new to Bsky need to be made aware of one of the greatest skeets ever, deleted long before its time.
September 1, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Those new to Bsky need to be made aware of one of the greatest skeets ever, deleted long before its time.
Coordination dynos are fun. Just controlled falling your way up the wall
October 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Coordination dynos are fun. Just controlled falling your way up the wall
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no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s
June 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s
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I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario
April 13, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario
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Orkney Library & Archive is a library AND an archive but did you know about the miniature library that is stored IN the archive?
Read on to find out more about the incredible Minervian Library, created by a group of young children in #Orkney more than 160 years ago.
Read on to find out more about the incredible Minervian Library, created by a group of young children in #Orkney more than 160 years ago.
March 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Orkney Library & Archive is a library AND an archive but did you know about the miniature library that is stored IN the archive?
Read on to find out more about the incredible Minervian Library, created by a group of young children in #Orkney more than 160 years ago.
Read on to find out more about the incredible Minervian Library, created by a group of young children in #Orkney more than 160 years ago.
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In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊
February 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊