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Sad times. After several years, lots of conventions and DJ sets and two different laptops, my faithful @corsair.com M75 wireless mouse has developed a fault in the scroll wheel. Compressed air didn't help, so it is being retired. Shame, I gave it a very good review for work.
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ポムケーーーーン❗️🔥

Contemplating trying some Pokémon ROM hacks, but a disproportionate number of them are "Gen 1 but make it unfairly difficult"
I have zero nostalgia for Gen 1 and don't enjoy difficulty curves that are like a cliff face.
Any suggestions for a good place to start?

G. G. Santiago Obituary February 21, 2026 - Billing Funeral Home View G. G. Santiago's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

Sad to read that G.G. Santiago, creator of “Rainbow Brite,” has died. Her obit is quite moving. ♥️ www.billingsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/g...

I am from Yorkshire and I encourage all my fellows from God's Own County to embrace the grumpy Yorkshire grass bird

The name of the grumpy grass bird makes me feel it should be from Yorkshire.

Next Pokémon game revealed along with new starters. I absolutely adore the Fire puppy, but the grumpy grass bird is called "Browt" which is the most broad Yorkshire thing I have ever seen. I want to give it a flat cap and stick of black pudding.

It's an Arabian sand boa with wings.
The sand boa is that snake made last thing on a Friday with rejected parts.

This is so fabulous. Thanks, @eoinglackin.bsky.social ! ❤️

Hooray! I'm going to Eastercon!

..This is my first time hearing of 'Advance UK' despite considering myself fairly up-to-date on UK politics. Just googled them and.. yikes on bikes.

This is smegging sad news. RIP Rob Grant.

Some of them - like Sam Altman - appear to have managed the difficult task of being both grifter and grifted. It's almost impressive

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson says Bafta told him ‘any swearing would be edited out of the broadcast’ Davidson said he ‘can’t begin to explain how upset and distraught I have been’ over slurs he shouted during the award ceremony

So the BBC promised Davidson and StudioCanal (who made I Swear) that any swearing tics would be edited out from broadcast, and instead they left them in despite a two hour delay, and even put a fucking microphone right in front of him to ensure they picked it up - he was sat at the back of room.

Another year, another plea for help from someone whose work is the basis for a $200m blockbuster movie.

There is that, yeah.

ICYMI:

Our bandleader is organizing "Plug and Play", a gaming music festival in Cologne, Germany this April!

4 local VGM groups, different styles and genres, all performing your favorite video game tunes!

Hope to see y'all there! 🎮❤️🎶✨

A friend compared use of LLM chatbots like chatGPT to Renaissance-era Necromancers who summoned demons to ask questions. Much of the incantation involves specifying what the demon was not allowed to do - like guardrails on LLM bots.

Openverse Search over 800 million free and openly licensed images, photos, audio, and other media types for reuse and remixing.

Looking for public domain & open license images? “Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone... [searching] 800 million images and audio tracks from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset.“ Also, attribute authorship with one click 📸

This is ace

the politics jokes must have been on another level of hilarity.

A full scale #ManicStreetPreachers song ranking project is set to continue next month. Want to influence the outcome? Follow us as we head towards launch on Bluesky and contribute with comments, campaigning for your favourites or simply adding your vote when you have the chance!

yesterday was cat day 🐱

oh good. Because clearly NGE wasn't emotionally devastating enough, we have to add Yoko 'tear your heart out and stomp on it' Taro to the mix.
Yes, I will be watching. I will buy a big box of kleenex in advance

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.

This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."

"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"

abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

I, for one, did perfectly fine as a neurodivergent child at a mainstream comprehensive school with zero support! Pay no attention to the cPTSD diagnosis behind the curtain.

To all of the artists in the TTRPG space or any looking to do TTRPG art, we are looking to bring another artist on to help with some magic items.

If you're interested, please email us at CloaksandCapesDnD@gmail.com with any questions and where we can see your work!

This is a paid opportunity!

Am I the only person in the world who thinks the art style for Dragon Quest VII Reimagined is incredibly ugly? The characters have a hideous "super deformed" look that is just off-putting