I’m sorry, but the #PS5 Pro just feels like a silly cash grab. From what I understand, the non-Pro model barely has any exclusive games so, like Zack, I’m also not sure who this is for. Professionals? The most recent #Playstation devices I have are a PS2 and a Vita. Just so weird. kotaku.com/ps5-pro-w…
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I started watching Adult Swim’s new 2D animated series, Invincible Fight Girl, and I’m in love. Catch it on Toonami or Max and you’ll see what I mean! If you love #animation, you’ll get it right away. #CartoonNetwork #AdultSwim #Toonami www.awn.com/animation…
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If you haven’t already heard, #Nintendo has made an official announcement regarding the “successor to the #Switch”, and it’s a fruit of the low hanging variety. Switch games will be backwards compatible with the Switch 2, or whatever it ends up being called (New Switch? SwitchU?), which is good news for someone like me who has invested a great deal into my games library. That and their online service will be supported. Sadly, there are no other details. #videogames www.engadget.com/general/t…
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I’ve decided that I’m going to mostly excising #uspol from my online discourse. As a humanist who actually cares about other people and knows evil from good, I’m simply exhausted with it all, cannot and will not tolerate #TFG, and already have enough issues to deal with in daily life as it is. I will continue to vote and participate in civics in my personal life, at least as much as our new monarch allows, but I’m done commenting on it all now. #sotired
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I thought I’d offer a few final thoughts before we move into the Era of Trump.
If you think #TFG is just going to deport millions of illegal immigrants you are missing one terrible point; who’s going to do all the jobs Americans won’t? Where do you think all the food is going to come from? I don’t believe slavery is off the table.
If you think he’s going to only deport illegals, be prepared. If you aren’t white and loyal to #TFG, your number will come up. #FascistAmerica
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Goodnight, America. It was nice knowing you. #FuckAllFascists
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I feel like I’m going to be sick. While the #election isn’t done yet and there are still more votes to count, it’s looking more and more likely that #TFG will win. He’s a #liar, a #fraud, a #rapist, a #conman, a #racist, and possibly a #pedophile, and he and millions of Americans know it, but they do not care. All he and they care about is the win and control.
Be prepared for the end of the great experiment. It will come. We warned you. He wins, we’re fucked.
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I’ve been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Invincible Fight Girl on #CartoonNetwork ever since I first heard about it earlier this year, and now the first episode of available on #YouTube! Check it out!! #animation #InvincibleFightGirl www.youtube.com/watch
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Watchmen Chapter I, a review
What can I say about Watchmen that hasn’t already been said… is what I would say if DC hadn’t just released the first part of an animated two part adaptation of what is considered one of the finest comic books of all time. But let’s talk about the comic book first.
Released as a 12-issue limited series in 1986 and rendered into a trade paperback combining all twelve issues in 1987, the creation of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colored by John Higgins, Watchmen was a critical and commercial success and has remained so since its release. It would win a Hugo Award in 1988 and be added to Time Magazine’s 100 All-Time Best Novels list.
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Orange County California Supervisor allegedly funneled millions to daughter's non-profit
We spend a lot of time focusing on the National elections. There’s nothing wrong with this, but this singular gaze has, for years now, been shifting our attention from local issues to the National stage, and we do so to our civic peril. Over and over again we see so-called politicians leveraging public office for personal gain, regardless of party affiliation. Stay awake. Keep your head on a swivel. #uspol #localpolitics #california #corruption
“Orange County Supervisors Katrina Foley and Vicente Sarmiento are calling for Supervisor Andrew Do to resign Wednesday as authorities investigate allegations of fraudulent spending of COVID-19 relief funds by a nonprofit that employed Do’s daughter.”
“Earlier this month, the …
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Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter deemed among worst deals of all time
“Seven banks loaned Elon Musk money totaling $13 billion in 2022 to help him buy Twitter, now known by the obnoxiously generic name X … the [Wall Street] Journal explains that this wasn’t just one of the worst deals since 2008, it’s one of the worst deals of all time.”
Over the years I have offered many examples of why he’s an idiot. This one takes the cake. #elonmusk #tesla #twitter #xitter #finance gizmodo.com/bankers-h…
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Ancient Roman sarcophagus discovered being used as a bar in Black Sea resort
Apparently it’s illegal to own historical artifacts in Bulgaria. Not a bad idea, to be honest. Such artifacts are snapshots of the rich history of humanity on our lone planet thriving with life in the solar system. It sucks that certain peeps are allowed to develop their own private collections. While I believe that in this case it was likely inadvertent, there are many more who selfishly or for investment purposes collect these items. Additionally, there is now more talk about presevation of cultural heritage going on now in Bulgaria. #history [SOURCE]
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America's legal system at work... for Billionaires
You know what’s great about #sarcasm? It’s hilarious and it allows us to laugh at terrible things being done by terrible people for terribly stupid reasons. The Legal Eagle seems to agree… or concur or however lawyers prefer to say it. In that spirit, isn’t it also great that America lets geniuses like #ElonMusk take steps to force silly advertisers unwilling to be associated with Hitler and Nazis to pay #Xitter to advertise again? This is, after all, the AmeriKKKan way!
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Russia's insane revisionist pulp fiction industry
If you question why the general population of #Russia supports the #war in #Ukraine there’s likely one fact you are unaware of. I certainly knew nothing about this, because it is one of the single most insane methods of #propaganda sponsored by any sovereign state I have ever seen. This is bat shit crazy on steroids, crossed with Cthulhu, and cloned into oblivion. If you know of something more ludicrous and insidious, do let me know. #youtube #video #culture #putin #insane youtu.be/iCI6es9G0…
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Mark my words, #TFG’s numbers will keep dropping and #HarrisWalz will keep going up. Not at the same rate, mind you. Slowly for The Dumpster Fire in Chief and the plateau as his base is just that weird, but steadily for the NKOTB. And The Bestest Florida Man is spiraling, badly. I can’t say there won’t be violence, but we need to be prepared for anything. #uspol #harriswalz2024 #voteblue boingboing.net/2024/08/0…
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The amount of free space in the Mini is a rather egregious waste of case materials and I can easily see #Apple being unwilling to continue to waste resources on manufacturing an unnecessarily large part. #tech #rumor www.macrumors.com/2024/08/0…
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This bizarre trend of taking successful #TV and #film properties and creating #stage and #musical versions is annoying. #Japan is on a huge binge of this very thing, putting all manner of #manga and #anime on stage. I guess I’d have to see it, or is this the death of creativity? #media www.engadget.com/entertain…
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I think it’s really, really important to understand one thing about #TFG; #Trump projects. He’s clearly unstable and he explains to everyone how unstable he is by projecting his faults and fears and issues onto others, in this instance, #Biden, #Harris, and #Walz. If he’s not projecting, he just makes up shit about them, like Harris being the “Border Czar”, a role she has never held. I’m sure he just like’s using a Russian term for her since he’s so deep into #Putin’s pocket he can’t see daylight.
The only reason you would vote for this guy at this point is if you want to destroy American democracy and see a terrifying number of people harmed, jailed. and/or killed. #harriswalz2024 …
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Well, well, well. Here we are. Another platform, and not for lack of trying to stick one out for a long time. I started with PHPsomething-or-other, migrated to WordPress for years, latched onto PostHaven, then Medium, and now back to PostHaven. Now I’m here because PostHaven feels stagnant. Whee.
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A list of things that pair well with McDonald's Szechuan Sauce
Whilst having a conversation with a friend he wanted to give me a list of foods that would probably taste good with Szechuan sauce. Considering the list itself, I have a feeling that it's not as tasty as he might recall. These are compiled from our talk on the matter over one of the popular (but not too popular) messaging apps:
• Giraffe
• Mitochondrial DNA
• Rejected chicken nuggets
• Some species of bat
• Wallet chains
• Cowboys, either the individuals or the football team
• Melancholy
• Grubs
• Piston linkages
• Peat moss
• Waffles you found on the bus
• Stephen Hawking
• Misplaced dentures
• Reading glasses that are too strong
• …
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I'm done with Microsoft Windows
As of May 31st, 2024 when Microsoft announced Windows Recall, I have a single physical machine, and no virtual machines, with any version of Windows installed and that will not be changing as long as Microsoft remains on the path they're forged for themselves. The one machine which has Windows 10 is a Dell Venue 8 Pro which needs a dongle to install another operating system, and I need to find the dongle. Once I find the dongle, Windows is gone, gone, gone. Why would I go through so much trouble getting rid of Windows?
In short, mostly Windows 11 and that I'll have to pay to get support for Windows 10 in October of 2025, but also everything Microsoft is doing now that is clearly anti-consumer. Let's dig into the demonstrable reasons: …
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Mastering the macOS Menu Bar
I came across the following article on Apple Insider a few days ago and was initially enthused. I'd recently written a quick guide to a freeware tool for the Mac called Spaced and was hoping to find some more gems to get my menu bar under even more control. It turned out to be little more than an advertisement for Bartender, a paid app.
So, I've decided to write my own guide instead and this post has no paid anything. It's all freeware.
Using the basic menu bar
The macOS menu bar already has some in-built functionality for management of the icons added by the system, and many apps add icons to the menu bar upon installation. Let's run through the basics first, then we'll get into adding freeware to help you add some additional functions. …
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Spaced | macOS Freeware
I was a Bartender user for a few years. It was quite nice to get a handle on my Mac’s menubar. But I was paying $10 a month for SetApp and access to their library of around 240 applications and utilities. I could have purchased Bartender for $16 instead, but I didn’t. I paid SetApp $240 for two years to end up using about six apps.
That's not a value in my book.
So, I cancelled my subscription and started looking for an alternative, and I found it in the form of Spaced, an entirely free utility available on the App Store. Now, truth be told, Bartender is really nothing more than a menubar management tool that makes it easier to put your icons where you want them (mostly, as there are some restrictions imposed by macOS itself), …
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Save The Web: Advanced Dollarnomics
In the first part of this series I started last year, I spoke about the idea of Dollarnomics, describing it in some detail. If you want to get the basics of the concept, then you should go read that first. It’s not a long piece and I’ve linked it below. I do outline a few ideas there, but there needs to be some additional context so that you might fully understand the power that I believe resides both in the $1 bill and in the people who are tired of always being on the bottom of the economy, even if you only have a few million dollars in the bank, an amount that is nowhere near as comforting as it was a decade or two ago.
Saving the Internet for Humanity: Dollarnomics 101
Here in this second part, I will be outlining how certain groups …
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A writer's prayer
They always do the same thing, words. They hide away under the folds of my mind, deep in the shadows, keeping as silent as death. My ability to search for them is limited, so I try my best to shine light into those darkened box canyons of brain tissue, but words are not bound by the laws of physics and my feeble light is obscured by a thick fog. The multi-verse is popular these days, so I imagine that words exist in their own pocket universe and they can control when and where the two realities intersect, allowing me to access them again, but only for a short time.
I try to force myself to create new words when the ones I seek refuse my peace offerings and woeful cries for respite. This piece was born of that method. Here, now, I sit …