YouTube video by Rod Hull Rod Hull Replays: Pumpkid - Commodore VIC20 +16k - Wow, I think I did good! - 🕹️ - #Halloween 🎃🦇👻

Rod Hull Replays: Pumpkid - Commodore VIC20 +16k - Wow, I think I did good! - 🕹️ - #Halloween 🎃🦇👻
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#RetroGaming #RetroComputing #8bit #HiScore #VIC20

They’re here!

Now this is ridiculously catchy.

And yes, I bow to my socialist vampire overlords 🙇‍♂️

Forever charmed by Monkey Island II's iMUSE implementation, Lucasfilm/Arts' sound engine for smoothly and naturally transitioning from the musical beats and moods of one screen to another.

It's something you lose out on in the CD audio based re-releases of this, Dark Forces, and X-Wing/Tie Fighter.

Barnaby Edwards | Wendy Carlos Wendy Carlos (born 1939) is an American composer and musician known for her film scores and experimental albums. Born Walter Carlos, she transitioned in the early 1970s and has the distinction of be...

Wendy Carlos (1939-present)

Today's LGBTQ+ History Month icon is the pioneering composer responsible for A Clockwork Orange's score. Here's my portrait of her, done in ink on paper. I'll put some interesting facts in a thread below.

@LGBTHM #LGBTplusHM 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Infinite Possibilities Robotics Institute alum Lalitesh Katragadda has spent his career using technology to make a world that works for everyone. On Thursday, Oct. 30, he'll share his experience with the CMU community during the Bruce Nelson Memorial Lecture.

@cmurobotics.bsky.social alum Lalitesh Katragadda has spent his career using technology to make a world that works for everyone. On Thursday, Oct. 30, he'll share his experience with the CMU community during the Bruce Nelson Memorial Lecture.

www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2025/in...

Say Less, Repeat More: The Science of Winning the Message War by @DigitalWarfare1 For too long, progressives have treated communication as a contest of facts, as if the most accurate argument wins the day.

Repetition isn’t manipulation. It’s memory. It’s how humans learn, how trust forms, & how movements are built.

We don’t need to say more things.
We need to say fewer things more often.

Read DigitalWarfare1’s piece, Say Less, Repeat Often.

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The end of US support for the CMB-S4 telescope is devastating The US government's decision to stop supporting a telescope facility that would have given us unprecedented insight into the early universe is calamitous, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

For this month's @newscientist.com column, I reflected on the poetry of Robert Frost and the cancellation of CMB-S4, a high priority next generation particle cosmology telescope. 🔭⚛️

If you're not a subscriber, your local library probably is. 🥳

When Institutions Fold, Local LGBTQ+ Communities Exemplify Courage In the first nine months of the second Trump administration, the crackdown on transgender people has been relentless. But there is a spot of hope: local communities are resisting these policies and sh...

In the first 9 months of this year, I have tracked many anti-LGBTQ+ laws. I've also wrote about the people fighting back against them.

Read my latest post at the Kettering Foundation, and hold onto hope.

kettering.org/when-institu...

this looks like it'll probably be extremely sick to play on a CRT with crtemudriver

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

“We should have banned government use of face recognition when we had the chance because it is dangerous, invasive, and an inherent threat to civil liberties,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @404Media.co. www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp...

Shark Data Suggests Animals Scale Like Geometric Objects | Quanta Magazine Despite their wide variety of sizes, niches and shapes, sharks scale geometrically, pointing to possible fundamental constraints on evolution.

Shark biologists recently undertook the biggest study of geometric scaling in large animals to date. Despite their diversity of size, shape, lifestyle and metabolism, they found that sharks’ surface area to volume scales almost perfectly.

A Windows 98 screenie with the PDF of issue 46 open. The cover has Lina and Naga cheekily posing together on the front.

"Hier war eine anzeige!" declares a cheeky tomboy as she holds up a sign with that written on it. "Here was an advertisement." There are quite a few pages with this on ;o;

News Station Deutschland! Sakura Wars and X OVA films, Bebop, Lodoss War and Wedding Peach and Metropolis!

A feature on Gunsmith cats with the premise and lots of nice screenshots.

A fresh peek into German anime magazine fandom of the early 2000s: AnimaniA. Digging in via one of the CD-ROM PDF issue compilations the publishers put out.

Slayers on the cover, a cheeky "Well, an ad used to be here!" bit of cuteness, and the latest hot news. Plus, Gunsmith Cats!

The Summit is a day of workshops, panels, visiting community group tables, sharing lunch, and meeting people from across Pittsburgh who are involved in making the world a better place in so many ways. I've learned a lot at previous Summits, and highly recommend it!

Hilarious! I love “Pretty Hate Machine” but I never thought of eating it. 🤣

Why Did These Authors Have Their School Visit Canceled? They Were Talking About Their Book About Book Bans. Country Club Elementary School in California's Bay Area canceled an author visit moments before it began. Why? It covered book bans.

If you and your children are not ready for a particular book, that is okay. It is not okay to limit the access to books, stories, and experiences for other families. Every book is not for everyone, but every book is for someone.

bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/

Planning on hollowing out some pumpkin for Halloween?

HA!

Once more our ancestors did something better.
May I introduce; a (model) of an Edwardian Hallowe’en ‘ghost turnip’ lantern from the Irish Folklife Collection at the @nmireland.bsky.social

He lives under your bed, he mumbles.

YouTube video by National Museum of Ireland Samhain - the traditions of Halloween at National Museum of Ireland - Country Life

The original came in to the Museum in the 1940s with the warning “I have a turnip for you, but you can't eat it”...

More here:
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Friendly reminder, if you see someone this Halloween wearing the plague doctor with the bird beak mask costume, you have to ask them what they are supposed to be and if they then say they're a medieval plague doctor... it's your duty to correct them ;)

Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

In the quest for "biological truth," the Trump admin discounts the very real biological truth that some men do get breast cancer

Now it'll be harder for male veterans diagnosed w/the rare but deadly cancer to get VA coverage

always read @ericumansky.bsky.social
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NIOSH has respirator recommendations for naphthalene www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/np...

Our Queerness is on the Line (Again) in November This November, Pennsylvanians find themselves in yet another historic, unprecedented election. Pennsylvania is just one of seven states to elect every single one of its judges from the magisterial …

Our Queerness is on the Line (Again) in November qburgh.com/our-queernes...

photo of a large banner. the top reads "dykes only space for all dykes" and the rest of the banner is filled with examples of dykes: black & brown, trans, bi, indigenous, genderqueer, poor, etc.

photo of a banner being held up during a march. the top reads " all dykes celebrated here" and the rest of the banner is filled with examples of dykes: queer, black & brown, fat, trans, bi, indigenous, gnc, closeted, poor, etc.

regular PSA: "lesbian" always historically referred to women attracted to women (when it wasn't just referring to ppl from lesbos). it only ever turns into "women ONLY attracted to women" when exclusionary & segregationist sentiments dominate queer discourse spaces.

and the same goes for dyke

Pure Foolishness Parsifal , Act 2 Photo: Cory Weaver / courtesy of San Francisco Opera I've got many thoughts that aren't in my review, but I also have a col...

The start of a media round-up for the magnificent @sfopera.bsky.social "Parsifal." I've got more to say, but I've got a cold and an article due this week, so it might have to wait.

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It is a badge of honor, mark of courage and sign of effectiveness to be so brazenly targeted by this regime. Kat walks her talk and the regime knows it. Regardless of who you back in this race, if you back the *idea* of voters choosing their leaders, you must back her fight to be a public servant.

Call Your Reps: The Senate is working

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Let Jack Smith have his say, in public, under oath, before Congress for the record.

You can send a @resist.bot email or fax direct to Congress -write your own or sign and send below by texting ‘sign PUWETY’ to 50409

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A scanned photo of a cramped office with boxy CRTs, computers, and printers all clustered on a table, around which sits Japanese guys in their late teens/early 20s, several of which are looking at the camera and giving V signs.

A time-capsule glimpse of one of the most fascinating companies of the Japanese computer game scene of the 80s: Bothtec.

Crammed into the upper floor of a former café, and founded off the back of Enix game design contest wins and sales of those games.

📖: MSX Magazine, March 1986,

Two shots from LA Belle et la Bête, of the beast saying It doesn't repulse you to let me drink from your hands? Belle replies No, beast I like it.

They were roommates.

Political persecution of candidates and elected officials have begun in earnest. Among other things, this is also very clearly the path the Trump administration is using for voter suppression.