Tao Neuendorffer

A crt TV screen photo of a pixel artwork apartment window overlooking a modern city at night. A globular lamp on a tall metal pole casts a warm yellow light, with a chair by the window mostly in a shadow

Turn the lights down low as the city comes alive at night...

Another of the PC-98 game artwork conversions to Mega Drive I've been sharing on and off, this one appropriate for the lateness of the hour.

♥️And that's why Alysa Liu is Oakland royalty. In 2026 in the face of rising racism, fascism, and misogyny, a woman that speaks comfortably about Black Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate, and Abolish ICE

Gold medal is cool and all, but do you have your own stank face mural of you flexing that gold medal?

We must demand that our Members of Congress oppose ANY and ALL funding for Trump’s illegal war, including voting against any supplemental funding package.

It felt so futuristic at the time! A whole encyclopedia set on a single CD! #RetroTech #90sComputing #DigitalNostalgia #OldSchoolTech #TechThrowback #1990sTech

It felt so futuristic at the time! A whole encyclopedia set on a single CD!

#RetroTech #90sComputing #DigitalNostalgia #OldSchoolTech #TechThrowback #1990sTech

It reads: I always wondered about the first part of this song. I just read this today- it's brilliant really. Stewart Copeland's own words in 1981-12 Musician: "| recorded the demo for that at home. I had a little home studio at the time with wires going everywhere - I think I was running the guitar through the toaster, that sort of thing - and I was playing the piano part while I sang the song, or at least what was supposed to be the lyrics of the song. And just as I finished singing, all the wires in the room acted like a radio and picked up a signal of this opera. It was perfectly in time and perfectly in tune, even the mood and sentiment of the thing were absolutely perfect. So it went straight on tape, exactly in the place that it should have gone. It had to be a message from above that this was the way the song had to go. So we actually used that, my home demo, at the beginning of the studio recording."

The story of the opening part of that song, the radio opera rising in the background, could not be more perfectly 80s.

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A color photograph of Barbara Liskov, the pioneering American computer scientist, Turing Award winner, and MIT Institute Professor, standing in front of a large black chalkboard filled with dense handwritten mathematical and computer science notations. She is an older woman with short, curly hair, warm smile, and a friendly, engaging expression as she looks directly at the camera. She wears a light mint-green shirt or sweater with a collar. Behind her, the chalkboard is covered in complex equations, diagrams, symbols (including Greek letters like π, arrows, brackets, subscripts, superscripts, terms like "DB", "30sec", "Lop", "D", "T", "eichn", "P", "Joe", "Page", "aps", "uige", and various parentheses, integrals, and code-like fragments), suggesting an active lecture or research discussion on programming languages, data abstraction, or algorithms. The setting appears to be an academic classroom or office at MIT, conveying her enduring role as a mentor and innovator in computer science, particularly for contributions like abstract data types, the Liskov substitution principle, and object-oriented programming foundations. The overall mood is intellectual, approachable, and inspiring.

Computer scientist Barbara Liskov's work forms the foundation of modern software engineering.

She is best known for inventing data abstraction & the Liskov Substitution Principle, concepts that are now fundamental to how almost all modern software is written. #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth (1/2)

Barbara Liskov:

+ One of the first women (US) to earn a PhD from a dedicated computer science department (Stanford, 1968)
+ Awarded the Turing Award ("Nobel Prize of computing"), 2008
+ Institute Professor & Ford Professor of Engineering, MIT

#WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth (2/2)

The At-Home Test That Could Catch Cancer Earlier Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing ways to catch cancer earlier than ever before. The project showed such promise that it was awarded up to $26.7 million in federal funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).

CMU researchers are developing ways to catch cancer earlier.

They’re building a screening test, which is able to detect more than 30 types of Stage 1 cancer from the comfort of your home.

Learn more about the #research from @cmumeche.bsky.social professors Rebecca Taylor and Burak Ozdoganlar.

Dorothy B. Porter is standing in front of window.

8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day

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Obras Selectas de la Celebre Monja de Mejico, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz" at PG:

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#womenhistoryMonth #librarians #libraries

Dorothy B. Porter

This ad for early retro Activision x Atari 2600 compilation arrived (in 1995!) with a hilariously sinister 'Activision Centre for Addictive Entertainment' logo.

This, for the love of Pete

23 year old Ruben Ray Martinez’s last words? “I’m sorry sir”.

ICE shot him 3 times and killed him.

Renee Good’s last words? “It’s ok I’m not mad”.

Alex Pretti’s last words? “Are you ok?”

These are the people DHS calls domestic terrorists. Threats. Aggressors.

Abolish ICE

Ellen Powell Thompson: How Women’s Suffrage Benefitted from the Work of a Botanist in the Nineteenth-Century American West Ellen Powell Thompson’s life illustrates how environmental exploration and women’s reform were deeply interconnected.

📖 🔊We have your weekend reading (and listening)!

The new season of our podcast is accompanied by a series of pieces published in partnership with KCET.

Today's is by Erika Bsumek at UT Austin about the work of botanist and suffragist Ellen Powell Thompson.

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Their guy said he'd pardon the J6 insurrectionists--and then shockingly did it.

I haven't heard any potential Democratic candidate promise to pardon everybody arrested for protesting ICE.

That'd go a long way toward showing me they're opposition and not just controlled.

This bat in that tree is a thing of beauty! 🦇🌸💜

A personal stereo cassette player from the 1980s that is shaped like a pizza wedge

A landline phone (first introduced in the 1980s) that's shaped like a McDonalds cheeseburger

who did it better

YouTube video by The Muppets Kermit the Frog Sing Along | Rainbow Connection | The Muppets

I was 10, and saved money from babysitting and mowing neighbors' yards so I could buy my first vinyl. I have no regrets.
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SimCity 2000 running on a Mac Color Classic, a city called “Bluesky” is open

#Marchintosh

Pittsburgh 'Stand Up for Science' rally to bring attention to impacts of immigration crackdowns The National “Stand Up for Science” day of action returns to Pittsburgh tomorrow for the second year in a row to protest government actions and policies affecting scientific institutions, research and...

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Join us March 7th at 1pm
Allegheny Landing
Rain or shine!

scythe fawn holding a spiked mace in a black dress with overlaid spiked armor pieces

it’s 𝔣𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔶 ⛓️ & @bandcamp.com friday so support artists directly!

Arüspex - The Death Instinct (cs)
Hoarspire - Labyrinthine Realm (cs)
NIMF - Sirenoscape (cs)
@transgressivemetal.bsky.social - Extreme Transgression (cs)
Transgressive - The Year of 2025 (cs/cd)

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Today's #Muppet GIF of the Day is...

This Saturday. Time to Stand Up For Science👇

The Who’s from Whoville all on their elaborate noise making contraptions from How the grinch stole Christmas Horns, drums, trains, cymbals, you name it

Tom Waits recording Bone Machine
(1992)

wake up, babe—a new kind of music reply guy just dropped

Camp is spittin’ fire on this.

We have given up so much of our privacy and we have to take it back.

In a scene from Starfleet Academy, we see some of the cadets as they sit in theater class. In the foreground, we have SAM and Gonzo sitting behind a table. SAM is paying attention to the teacher while Gonzo appears to be riding his stool like a bronco, legs out and gripping the seat with his hands. Behind them, Tarima can be seen looking sulky.

Day 135 of inserting a Muppet into a Star Trek screenshot

#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy
#TheMuppets

YouTube video by Alan Eichler Kitty Kallen--Little Things Mean a Lot, 1955 Perry Como TV

Here's Kitty Kallen performing "Little Things Mean a Lot" from 1955. While most of the women Big Band singers had disappeared by the 1950s, Kallen kept on scoring hits. This song went to #1 in '54.

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#WHM #MusicSky #WomensHistoryMonth