A trio of Robert Tinney illustrated magazine covers: Floppy Disk, Software Piracy, Smalltalk Balloon
I wrote a tribute for BYTE Magazine's amazing cover artist, Robert Tinney, who died Feb 1st
Tinney painted 80 vivid and surreal covers illustrating various concepts in early personal computing from 1978-1990, usually airbrushed with gouache. May he RIP β€οΈ
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11.02.2026 22:04 β
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Everyone with any sense can see there are critical shortages of basic things like housing, sanitation systems, healthcare, public transit, etc.
In reality, degrowth proceeds from the position that there is already more than enough *productive capacity*.
16.02.2026 15:47 β
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i see that post about managing your agents and think βthe promise of ai is that we can all be small business ownersβ
15.02.2026 18:57 β
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I'll be honest, this isn't about AI at all, it's about the increased expectations of productivity put on tech workers due to a declining rate of profit. all these new tech cos have sky high 9/9/6 expectations for workers; AI is, like all things, just a convenient proxy for exploitation.
15.02.2026 18:32 β
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the crowd is chanting "machine zone, machine zone, machine zone". there's a biplane flying overhead trailing a banner that says READ NATASHA DOW-SCHULL'S 'ADDICTION BY DESIGN'
15.02.2026 15:49 β
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> uk parliament pushes legal and extralegal exclusion of trans women from public life
> women's groups start closing en masse
masterful gambit keir and joanne. surely this will protect women
14.02.2026 15:20 β
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get fucked starmer. i hope something actually happens.
13.02.2026 11:08 β
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Let this be a reminder: do not date something a company can turn off at any time
13.02.2026 23:03 β
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progress has been made on the mice thing but me & my gf remain extremely broke and i'm anxious as fuck. plz help if you can, thankz
13.02.2026 21:05 β
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This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
13.02.2026 20:09 β
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You need to understand that for every store that gets out, there are easily 5 more. There are segments of la frontera that are known as death valleys because of the difficulty of maintaining hydration and CBPβs institutionalized culture of destroying water sources left behind by crossers & activists
13.02.2026 02:21 β
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I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
13.02.2026 17:09 β
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ok. i tried to be self-sufficient & put this off for as long as i could, but now, i DESPERATELY need help. i have not been paid since the beginning of the new year, & i need $200 to pay outstanding bills by Monday at the latest. any shares/any amount donated is appreciated!
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13.02.2026 15:16 β
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One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.
13.02.2026 15:50 β
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The No ICE in Minnesota bundle has launched, raising funds for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Over 1400 items for $10.00!
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12.02.2026 12:22 β
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bluesky screenshot reading β'but iron d-' do you or do you not care about the future of trans people in the Democratic partyβ
saw this in the replies of a post about AOC maybe running for president and. come on. there is a case to be made that we should vote for AOC despite her past decisions, but that case needs to be made honestly! it is more than reasonable for voting to fund the iron dome to be disqualifying!
12.02.2026 22:31 β
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Nuestra AmΓ©rica Flotilla
We are sailing to Cuba, bringing critical humanitarian aid for its people.
Fuck it, let's send Cuba aid ourselves.
Help establish the flotilla headed for Cuba and stock it full of supplies and much needed help!!
act.progressive.international/flotilla/
12.02.2026 18:40 β
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Last night I wrote out a full artist statement/essay to wrap this thread of exploration up, then slept for like 14 hours. Here you go: THIS ART ISN'T ABOUT AI
12.02.2026 16:30 β
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The US campaign to starve Cuba of fuel should be understood as genocidal. They are targeting a whole nation, deliberately destroying conditions necessary for life, in flagrant violation of international law. Pure barbarism, there is no other way to describe it.
11.02.2026 18:55 β
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Had a quest in dwarf fortress where I needed to go talk to this guy in a tavern so I get there, introduce my self, start to say what I need and he falls over dead because he had his head torn off years ago during world generation and never noticed until I made the game load his body into memory.
11.02.2026 07:26 β
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Guatemala to Phase Out Use of Cuban Doctors Amid
U.S. Pressure
The program, nearly 30 years old, had allowed Cuban medical workers to fill critical needs in Guatemala, while reaping income for Cuba.
Capitalist progress!
11.02.2026 17:10 β
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I'm something of a highguard gregory myself
11.02.2026 01:17 β
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10.02.2026 17:18 β
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10.02.2026 18:45 β
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To repeat.
--
And to repeat:
The political faction saying we must all have to log legal ID before speaking or accessing speech on the Internet,
and the political faction who believe transgenderism is a dangerous mental contagion that spreads by speech about transgenderism,
are the same faction.
09.02.2026 19:40 β
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getting a sharp reminder this is one of those topics where expressing any sort of sympathy towards children's right to like, Use The Internet will get you completely batshit fucking responses
10.02.2026 17:10 β
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graphic that says no ice in Minnesota itch.io charity bundle
The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED!
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09.02.2026 14:33 β
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The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.
09.02.2026 21:23 β
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