Vernon L. Vincent

Happy Thanksgiving @thurrott.bsky.social !!

Goodbye, Tucows Downloads: Software Download Site Finally Retires In a way, Tucows Downloads was an early app store for the internet in the 1990s and early 2000s to help people find freeware and shareware Windows software.

Someone must have never used TUCOWS back in the 90s and it shows.

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Judge In Apple / Epic Case Is Spitting Mad At Apple’s Willful Contempt Back in 2021, Apple mostly won the antitrust case that Epic brought against it, and the Ninth Circuit largely agreed. The court rejected most claims about Apple’s App Store being an illegal m…

@mmasnick.bsky.social 's take on the Apple injunction is topshelf!

www.techdirt.com/2025/05/01/j...

A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store The judge called Apple’s insubordination a “gross miscalculation.“

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July is going to be incredible.

Outstanding article!

Congratulations Adam! What an exciting endeavor!

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Cool! New minions for Zuggtomy. Maybe some collaboration with Lolth.

We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests This is "We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests" by MediaTank on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

@govpritzker.illinois.gov - please look at this.

Possibly one of the best episode thumbnails ever.

I completely agree with this.

I also believe that prices for many things, like this, are exceeding the take-home salary of many people in this current age. I don't know how to reconcile the stagnation of wages with the cost of many things - like RPG books.

Such a gentle and forgiving soul, Colonel Faustina is.

You were incredible. I really appreciated your perspective on everything - especially the drone situation in New Jersey. Hope to hear you again on there!

That's damn funny.

'I’m a Propagandist': Palmer Luckey on the Future of Warfare In an hour long interview with Pepperdine University, the weapons merchant outlined his vision of the world.

it would be a nice change of pace if U.S. culture could produce an authoritarian techno shitweasel who didn't also feel compelled to cosplay as a philosopher or sociologist

Hear my voice as the narrator for this incredible new series from @typhonmediapro.bsky.social !

Holy crap! I really like how you articulated this - especially that last sentence. It applies to every form of discourse we have today.

Dennis Hastert (among others) is not exactly a ringing endorsement. That's a bit like a set of steak knives endorsed by Michael Myers.

I would offer one suggestion:

If, while suffering a penalty due to bring frightened or panicked you succeed in a check, the penalty is reduced by one (to a maximum of -1).

Bravery is also a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it becomes.

Indeed. It is only possible to be brave when one is afraid. Bravery without fear is madness.

"Slowing the long eons turn. The Elder Ones sleep, until the time foretold of their awakening. In the distance reaches of time and space, the note...the note that contains all notes and none. The note that portends their return. The note sounds..."

I think that cat is your new spirit totem.

As a trophy husband, let me say: yup

Wow! I don't know any employment lawyers myself. I'll look around, but the only advice I have is to check with the Attorney General's Office on what your options might be.

Thank you @jlselby.bsky.social for the invite! Much appreciated!