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One of my favorite photos of the aurora, ever!

We're adding free form rotate to Paint 😊

As always, thanks everyone that's shared feedback about this

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Order 9026 Complete!

Customer sent in a GameCube for a full recap service, new battery & socket and a full service cleaning including new thermal pads!

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A large, negative-polarity coronal hole has rotated onto the Earth-facing disk. This may provide us with some chances for mid-latitude aurora and active high-latitude displays starting around Feb 23-25. The polarity is favorable for the RM effect which is becoming more relevant.

Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing.

66 years old going 66 mph.

iconic profile .. Milvus milvus aka Red Kite perched high in an ash tree today calling for attention .. north Hampshire, England 17/02/2026

YouTube video by Rusty Shackles Dad post - Louisville Arcade Expo 2024 pre-show walk thru

Gonna keep the Louisville Arcade Expo 2026 hype rolling, here's a vid i took of the games before the show floor opened back in 2024

www.louisvillearcade.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLXG...

Solar eclipse happening today
New year Chinese and Fire Horse energy brings movement & activation , yet 🌑
Today's new moon asks for rest.

So some interesting cosmic energies today.
Take it easy
Mindfully
Take gentle care today
Big bless 🙂 🙏 🌚 💛

Your periodic reminder that many autistic people are sensitive to barometric pressure changes, and can be in real pain from sinus pressure when it starts to rain or snow. So if you are seeing or feeling dysregulation, look out the window! And treat accordingly. #neurodiversity #autism

Joust arcade video game

#arcade

Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

wccftech.com/western-digi...

Software Development on the Nintendo Famicom in Family BASIC Hackaday Article

Software Development on the Nintendo Famicom in Family BASIC

Pinball games

Skateboards and Zoltar Speaks - Make your wish

Pinball games and Zoltar Speaks

Wall art of skateboards @ Night Owl

Their skateboard wall is fun as well

Palantir klagt gegen die Republik Unsere Recherchen zum Unternehmen haben internationales Echo ausgelöst.

American surveillance giant Palantir has filed a lawsuit against Swiss magazine Republik over two articles that exposed vulnerabilities in its products.

The articles triggered a government investigation. The government eventually dropped the Palantir contract.

www.republik.ch/2026/02/14/p...

Night Owl pinball art wall

Pinball art wall @ Night Owl
Decoration idea

Russia has permanently blocked YouTube yesterday and WhatsApp today

www.kommersant.ru/doc/8421763

Accurate

Someone decided today is DDOS the Internet Archive Day, a holiday celebrated all too frequently. Work is being done to mitigate it.

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

A Secret Oil Cartel Might Have Killed Our Clean-Energy Future In a landmark antitrust case, Michigan alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle efforts.

Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠

M4.9 flare occuring now from AR 4366 which is directly facing Earth... Do you think there is a CME?

(Spoiler: There is not)

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

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First vaccine targeting SARS virus family enters human trials – Institute for Protein Design The computer-designed vaccine aims to protect against coronaviruses that haven't yet emerged, including pandemic threats

Very exciting to see this candidate vaccine enter phase 1/2 studies. A pan-coronavirus vaccine aims to protect against all viruses in the coronavirus family. Trial is enrolling in Australia. Results are expected in 2028.
www.ipd.uw.edu/2026/02/gbp5...

The Epstein files reveal what powerful people see in video games: profit, coercion, and control

aftermath.site/jeffrey-epstei...

Talks & Schedule — CactusCon CactusCon14February 6-7, 2026Mesa, AZ

Just three weeks away! We've got so many excellent talks, I wish I could be in more places at once:

www.cactuscon.com/schedule

And make sure to get your tickets:

cactuscon.com/tickets

We've got a really fun hardware badge this year... keep your eyes peeled for a preview soon!

#cc14

Dozens of ladybugs congregating on top of a garden post

Ladybug season at the Huckleberry Botanic Preserve in the Berkeley Hills
#nature #wildlife #photography

Close up of Japanese Sega Mega Drive with Burning Force cartridge inserted.

That's the problem with the PS5; it doesn't tell you how many bits it is on the front.

The last 24 hours of flaring activity has been nothing short of impressive, and it's not slowing down, yet! AR 4366 is still magnetically complex and active. Another X-flare could occur at any time. The real question is if any CMEs will be produced...