Blake Patterson

Closeup of CRT displaying the game Crash Bandicoot on a Playstation

Nothing like playing on a CRT.

#Playstation #PSX #PS1 #CRT #reteogames #retrogaming #retro #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #photo #macro #CrashBandicoot #games #gaming #gamers

A new update is being teased by Sean Murray !

SPECULATION TIME !

I am watching Dreamscape (1984)

#movies #movie #film

Raging against Spanberger's win, the administration aims to turn VA into the next Minneapolis

Take a look around Virginia right now - things are PEACEFUL and CALM. But, here it seems the admin is about to bring violence and conflict to our beloved state.

They rage at Spanberger's win, so here come the troops.

#Virginia #VA #NoVA #FairfaxCo #Richmond #RVA #news #DC #ArlingtonVA

Flying out of DCA to New Orleans right now on a Bombardier CRJ900A. They just told us it's so cold out that the plane's water pipes are frozen and they can't serve coffee or tea and there's no bathroom sink water.

That's a first. It's cold. ❄️✈️

#flying #flights #American #planes #cold #DC #winter

Bottom happiness vs cleanliness - YOU CHOOSE (Cottonelle toilet paper variants)

CHOOSE

#hygiene #vs #cleanliness #photo #decisions #cottonelle

Apple IIe acting as a terminal to a Mac Studio connected wirelessly

"Dialed" into the Mac Studio across the room (via WiFi232) for some IRCing on old hardware, here as the snow falls. ❄️

#Mac #macOS #terminal #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #AppleII #MacStudio #BBSing #IRCing #BBS #IRC #WiFi232 #telnet #computers #ByteCellar #photo

A group of American traitors / Nazis demonstrating in Washington DC

A little far-right demonstration in the nation's capital today.

(It seems curious to me as to why _their_ flags are upside down. Maybe they just got a little confused.)

#DC #traitors #WashingtonDC #America #protest #morons #hate #NoVA #DC #DMV #demonstration #flag #photo #news #worldnews #DCnews

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.

How about ASCII?

alexharri.com/blog/ascii-r...

This guidance addresses only the use of administrative warrants to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal issued by an Immigration judge, the BIA, or a U.S. district court judge or magistrate judge in their place of residence. This scoping is not intended to concede that an administrative warrant would be insufficient to arrest an alien in his or her place of residence prior to a final order of removal or where there is a final order of removal issued by an immigration officer.

This is the Trump administration trashing the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution in pursuit of its mass deportation agenda.

Worse, a footnote to this memo suggest they won't even rule out authorizing home invasions with no judicial warrant for people not even ordered removed!

NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year

NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups

The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year

www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

How many bowls of Strawberry Awake would I need to eat to equal one bowl of Colon Blow?

A horizon at twilight

Dusk

#photograph #sunset #dusk #nature #trees #winter #NoVA #photo #photography #outdoors

Chris Leibig for Delegate

There is a 'Firehouse' Democratic Primary in Alexandria, VA on Tuesday, Jan 20th

I am working in support of long-time Alexandria criminal defense attorney Chris Leibig. Vote, District 5 voters!

www.leibigfordelegate.com

#NoVA #AlexandriaVA #Alexandria #Virginia #Primary #Election #Democrats

"Who still remembers mIRC and IRC?" [reddit]

www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/...

#InternetRelayChat #IRC #IRCing #chat #network #internet #computing #computinghistory #reddit #chatroom #IRCserver

Ah. Sounded like you were wondering why. A modified version would explain it.

A browsable collection of Amiga mouse pointers.

heckmeck.de/amigastyle/a...

#Amiga #AmigaOS #AmigaDOS #CommodoreAmiga #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #mouse #WIMP #OS #GUI #nostalgia #tech #vintagetech #pixelart #UI

Doesn't "jibe" (not "jive").

#language #lexicon #syntax #diction

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

#Apple #Google #fail #X #musk #socialmedia #complicit #accountability #tech #technews #techtrends #news #iOS #macOS

Why can ICE wear fucking masks???

Donald Trump poses a threat to civilization | Robert Reich The moral purpose of civilized society is to prevent the stronger from attacking the weaker. The US was founded on that principle

Donald Trump poses a threat to civilization
- Robert Reich

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#worldorder #worldnews #news #DC #washingtonDC #geopolitics #war #civilization #politics #trump #destroyingamerica #worldwar3 #criminal #injustice

Maclock sitting alongside a Mac Studio desktop setup

Maclock just unboxed, sitting on a TI-99/4A computer

Mac Studio and Maclock

#Mac #Macintosh #desk #macStudio #Maclock #displays #cubes #bricabrac #desktoy #toys #IRC #irssi #macOS #Apple #photo #mydesk #tungstencube #AppleIIwrench #TI99 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #figurines #ByteCellar

Odd. It looks like the 4-line text area is turned on/visible on yours, but not mine. I wonder if you have a different version (somehow) or if it's due to the emulator. Would be an odd thing for an emulator to do something unintended like that, though.

I didn't notice your post to me was a comment trailing off of the Let It Snow vid. Without the context, I didn't remember the name.

There was a lot of talk about him in early 2024 when we were trying to locate a copy of that Christmas demo.

Sorry to hear there may be health issues with them. :-(

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After 58 Years Due to Trump Eliminating Funding The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's board voted to close the organization after 58 years after the Trump Administration ended funding.

Everyone who voted for the current President should be ashamed:

variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Actually - you should be deeply ashamed for a long list of things, but this is the latest, and one of the least surprising, really. (Can you imagine a maga sheep listening to Public Radio?)

#PBS #news

YouTube video by verified privacy Virginia’s SB854 Puts Social Media Under a Digital Straightjacket

Virginia's new law SB854 is an egregious online privacy / data security nightmare, and it will get worse from here.

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

#Virginia #VA #NoVA #SB854 #stategovernment #privacy #laws #outofbounds #leavemychildalone #fail #overreach #VPN #getaVPN

I am not sure I know Roby.

Work and life have been very busy this year - I've got 3 partially written posts that have been just sitting undone, sadly.

And, Roby?

BlueSCSI Ultra & Ultra Wide Announcement Announcing BlueSCSI Ultra and Ultra Wide - 68-pin 16-bit Ultra Wide support, integrated RP2350B, Front Panel support, and more.

Announcing BlueSCSI Ultra, Ultra Wide and (coming soon) SCA.

bluescsi.com/ultra

NASA's Largest Library To Permanently Close On Jan 2, Books Will Be 'Tossed Away' under the Trump administration's reorg plans.

www.ndtv.com/world-news/n...

#NASA #space #science #archive #history #spacehistory #techhistory #trump #reorg #waste #federalgovernment #fedgov #trumpadministration