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I took the plunge here to block mastodon.social. I'm planning on doing it on my other accounts but thought I'd start here. As a test


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🛑🇺🇸Zelensky’s Peace Plan Says Ukrainians Do Not Dispute Putin Rewarded With All Currently Occupied Territories (PBS NewsHour VIDEO) #Ukraine #Poland #Warsaw #Netherlands #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #ICC #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #US #UK #EU #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Czechia #Romania #SaveUkraine
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Just finished "The Outer Wilds" which is a beautiful little video game with an unexpectedly moving ending. Highly recommend if you like quiet, quirky, thinky puzzlers. There's a few maddening puzzles that I needed hints for but overall it's a well balanced game. If you do decide to try it don't read much beforehand, it's built on slow discovery.



Make Someone Happy 🆑
#JimmyDurante
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in reply to 50+ Music

I am of a age to remember a lot of these songs I wasn't around when they were released but I grew up listening to them I love your content it cool I know a lot of the songs they are very familiar keep up the good work it brings back a lot of memories for people kind regards and a very Happy New Year Brian Knight at Brian Knight records





'Something just snapped': New court docs detail Jan 6 pipe bomber's stunning confession
rawstory.com/january-6-2674833…

#TrumpMustGo #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #AmericanFascistParty #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

in reply to Democracy Matters

Yet, he did initially support Trump. Meh, these people are weak minded fools.


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After loss, Panthers take solace in facing Bucs for NFC South
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47438913/after-loss-seahawks-panthers-look-ahead-showdown-vs-bucs-nfc-south-division-title?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into NFL @nfl-espn

@NFL


My in-laws planned to stay at their cabin last night so I went to make sure they had power. Storming pretty good, or at least very windy. Walked through a big drift to our cabin and 15 mins later my tracks had blown in. Video doesn’t really convey it.

#CabinLife #nunavut




3,000 Discord members! 🎉 Huge thank you to every single one of you! 3k was my original target and we smashed it! ❤️ discord.gg/rH7BcFWBpW

#Commodore #Commodore64 #C64 #VIC20 #C64U #Commodore64Ultimate #RetroComputing #RetroGaming

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End of year current projects list (for my own info as much as everyone else's):

1. Portable Floppy Imager. This is a hardware/software project to build a battery-powered floppy disk imaging solution, using a Raspi, Greaseweazle, and 3.5" Floppy drive.

Current status: A hardware prototype is in working condition, well enough to let me work on software. Haven't worked on much software yet.

Thread: digipres.club/@foone/115699574…


the annoying thing about doing the hardware and software of a project is that sometimes you want to work on the software part but the hardware part isn't there yet

and you don't want to work on the hardware right now


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in reply to Foone🏳️‍⚧️

8. Unannounced software preservation project
This one has been on hold a LONG time because of my illness, but now that I'm recovering I'm hoping to pick it up soon.

The work that needs to be done is mainly in writing code to dump a bunch of databases, which need to be manually cleaned of PII. This is a lot of work but I have a clear path forward

in reply to Foone🏳️‍⚧️

9. Floppy Disk Video Player
This is a project to encode an episode of Star Trek onto floppy disks.
I've encoded the movie onto 12 disks, and I've got a movie player, but I need to write some GUI code to interact with the user, telling them when they need to swap disks and to handle streaming across multiple disks.
in reply to Foone🏳️‍⚧️

10. mov2gif
My long-lived project that wraps ffmpeg to turn video files into GIFs (and recently, WebPs!).
It's recently gained a lot more functionality involving the "narrow" mode, but needs a little more work. I want to clean up the interface (half the CLI options are backwards) and also release a packaged EXE version so that others can use it
in reply to Foone🏳️‍⚧️

11. DeathGeneratorTS
This is a software project to rewrite the (horrible) Death Generator codebase into a typescript version that agrees with any kind of modern JS/TS packaging technologies.
This'll let me deploy it in a better form, as well as build a server-side version that can have an API.
I did the initial work, a proof of concept that can render some simple generators, but a ton of features were commented out as "too hard to get working for now".
I gotta go back and implement those
in reply to Foone🏳️‍⚧️

12. VGAPride
I did a bunch of work of rewriting it to use a completely different system for flag definitions, then did it again, then used someone else's code and did it again... the current situation of it is a mess, and I need to throw a couple days at cleaning it up and pushing out a new version and pipeline for flag designing.

github.com/foone/VGAPride

in reply to Foone🏳️‍⚧️

13. Keymageddon
A video game that's also a keyboard, primarily designed as an excuse to learn Godot.

Game is "done", waiting on the Wondertools Cruiser video to mark it as complete

bsky.app/profile/foone.bsky.so…

in reply to Foone🏳️‍⚧️

I think those are all the projects currently in some kind of "ongoing" status.

I'm trying hard to not start new projects, but obviously that's not something I'm any good at

in reply to Foone🏳️‍⚧️

There's a few video game reverse engineering projects on extended life support that I might go back to at any time
1. Solar Winds
2. Railroad Tycoon
3. Wheel of Fortune (all & every version)
4. Super Solvers Gizmos & Gadgets
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in reply to Foone🏳️‍⚧️

and I'm always looking for games to put into the Death Generator, but usually those are mini-projects rather than full on capital P projects.

RAD is a game that escaped containment, as did Clash at Demonhead. Those are both way too complicated for a single-session generator, which is the ideal amount of time to spend on a generator

in reply to Foone🏳️‍⚧️

Do you take recommendations? Because a part of me wants an easier way to make fake Mega Man X4 Maverick screens than fucking around with MyFonts.
in reply to Video_Game_King

@Video_Game_King it's been asked before! It's not directly possible (I don't think this is stored as a font in the game), so it'd have to be done as an ad-hoc thing using fan-completed fonts.

so.... maybe. someday.

in reply to Foone🏳️‍⚧️

I could point you to the font the game uses - this one, in case you're curious myfonts.com/products/ef-bold-o… - and I want to say the fan translations figured out how to translate those specific screens.
in reply to Foone🏳️‍⚧️

what!? no auto changer that leapfrogs drives?

THIS PROJECT NEEDS MORE ROBOTS.

in reply to Rue Mohr

@RueNahcMohr I have autochangers but that's outside the scope of this project.
for now.
if I get my office back I'll think about it




Alabama not intimidated by Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza heading into Rose Bowl
https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2025-12-28/rose-bowl-2026-alabama-not-intimidated-by-fernando-mendoza?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Korean won ends week stronger but 2025 average nears record upi.com/Top_News/World-News/20…


The Bachelor's Jade Roper Says Late Son, Whom She Lost in a Miscarriage, Showed Up in AI-Generated Family Christmas Portrait
https://people.com/jade-roper-tolbert-says-late-son-beau-showed-up-in-ai-generated-family-christmas-portrait-11876747?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Meet Brigitte Bardot's estranged son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier
https://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/875052/meet-brigitte-bardot-estranged-son-nicolas-jacques-charrier/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Celebrity News @celebrity-news-thenewsdesk








OK now here is a BIG question ??? How much does jello of ANY KIND COST where you live ?? 🚨

Here it is almost 2-3 dollars and fancier is about 6.00

JELLO IS LOSSING market to something called STARBURST which is more expensive both from USA

in reply to Lstn2urmama 🇨🇦

Never eat it. Haven't since I was maybe 10?
Besides, I don't think it's vegan, so I wouldn't.
It appears to be $1.79 a pack at Superstore.





Since BoP & I are watching the #PercyJackson show & the kids are discussing using the strategy of Odysseus in their adventures, it seems only reasonable to remind them:

📷 :reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comm…

#DisneyPlus #PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians #RickRiordan #Disney #DisneyPlus #TVShow #GreekMythology #meme #humor #Mythology #myth #GreekMyth #homer

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idIAta, substantivo comum-de-dois: pessoa que acredita que LLMs possuam inteligência


Even though I have a few strong job leads, I’m doing a #GetFediHired post even though I’m not a programmer.
- BSBA, Management w/minor in Research
- MBA, Data Analytics/MIS
- 5 years teaching business & math
- 5 years of event planning management
- 2+ years of inventory management
Certified in: bookkeeping, tax preparing, Microsoft Office Suite, project management
Looking for management roles: operations, inventory, customer service, center store

#JobSearch #JobHunt #Business #HireMe



iPod Nano has FM radio needed to listen to daily Hydro press conferences. Charged and synced.


frickity frick ​:neocat_angry:​ ​:neocat_this_is_fine:
(if any entities know how to fix this, wine just freezes after this, please do let this one know ​:neocat_floof_angel:​)


It is 1, 345 miles between Bellingham, WA, and San Diego, CA.

Let's aim for a Pacifica High-speed rail that goes end to end in 10-12 hours.

(We probably have to plan and fund it ourselves as the federal government is broken for the indefinite future and they won't even give us the federal disaster relief we already paid taxes for.)

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in reply to Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈

there was a time when we’d have said, “cool, let’s bring it into Vancouver too”…