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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 27/09/2026

The wife and I both still call it Kinko's and will always call it Kinko's. Like Twitter, rebranding something so entrenched is a dumb idea.

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 27/09/2026

Wife: Unlike SOME PEOPLE, I'm going to wind down and go to bed. Me: What, you don't find System of a Down calming after midnight? (Incidentally, SoaD totally holds up after all these years. I remain grateful that we got 5 amazing albums from this amazing band, even if I've always wished for more.)

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Peter Fletcher @rectapete.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

With the A.I. companies buying up all of the computer storage these days, I'd like to offer up the solution we used in the 1980's to double our storage for free. You are welcome. #old

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The film Meta removed from Instagram… bsky.app/profile/roel...

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Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️📼 @ronscompvids.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There's nothing happening on Twitter in 2026 that is the lynchpin of your brand. You might have started there, but the audience you're playing to is one you can survive without. Don't let sunk-cost fallacy trick you. The numbers are gamed anyway. Stop giving that joyless loser money. Leave. Now.

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 20/09/2026

LOL saw this randomly and it reminded me that I used to love this song as a kid and even owned the 12". Did not realize at the time that the included remix was by Art of Noise! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFsF...

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Paul McCartney x The Art of Noise - Spies Like Us

YouTube video by Art Of Noise

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 20/09/2026

Back in the day I wrote a little program that generated a shuffled list of CDs to play, since my collection was so huge. These days all those discs are ripped, but I still prefer playing full albums. So I just did a 'dir /s/b' on my collection and pasted it into an online shuffler and voilà!

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Low End Mac @lowendmac.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@ronscompvids.bsky.social showing off DREAMM, a bespoke emulator for LucasArts/LucasFilm and Lucas Learning games, on a Macintosh TV! dreamm.aarongiles.com

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carlfnelson.bsky.social @carlfnelson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One of the best pieces of writing about being in your 20s in Seattle I’ve ever read: This is essentially a version of my origin story too; Drop whatever you’re doing and read this now.

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Ken Shirriff @righto.com · 12/09/2026

In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip. Plugging this chip into your IBM PC made math 100 times faster, good for CAD and spreadsheets. I opened up the chip to reverse-engineer exactly how it does complicated calculations. Let's take a look inside...

The integrated circuit is a black ceramic rectangle with 40 metal pins sticking out, in two rows. (This is known as a DIP, a Dual Inline Package.) It has three rows of text: "D8087-1", a cryptic version label, and then the copyright line with a big lower-case I, INTEL m c 1980 1984. The m and c are in circles for the mask-work symbol and the copyright symbol. The chip has a small semicircular notch on the left side, indicating its orientation. The package consists of two thin ceramic layers, bonded together with a gray substance; the metal pins stick out from this gray substance. The ceramic package is important to me because tapping the gray layer with a chisel will cause the two layers to separate, revealing the silicon die inside. In contrast, most chips are in epoxy packages, which are very difficult to open, usually requiring strong acids.

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

if you won’t listen to me, maybe you’ll listen to @lillywachowski.bsky.social because if you actually care about trans people you gotta drop Harry Potter

There is a big "Harry Potter" series coming out on HBO soon and there are many people opposed to it because of J.K.
Rowling's transphobia.
She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support "Harry Potter," you're supporting trans genocide. The money that goes into you enjoying these products, a portion of that money goes to J.K. Rowling and that money goes into her funding anti-trans legislation all over the world. In the same way that if you are against Elon Musk, you boycott or don't buy Tesla; and if you're against global warming/climate change, you try not to buy as much gas, you try to mitigate your use of these products. It's simple math. So, your enjoyment of these shows, and continued support of these shows, is supporting my eradication.

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Computer Chronicles Revisited @deviledeggpress.com · 11/09/2026

Lockard's story is incredible. He appeared on a 1987 "Computer Chronicles" to discuss turning his Mahjong Solitaire game into Activision's "Shanghai." www.computerchronicles.blog/computer-chr...

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Computer Chronicles Revisited 99 — Shanghai, Tower of Myraglen, Earl Weaver Baseball, and Ferrari Formula One

The Computer Chronicles discusses computer games

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 10/09/2026

This is pretty slick, though I'm surprised there were really so few issues. I suppose it was monthly, so I guess 277 make sense. Thanks to the search was able to find the two issues where I was namedropped. :)

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 08/09/2026

Trey Parker & Matt Stone announce that ‘SOUTH PARK’ will be renamed to ‘SOUTH AMERICA’. “Inspired by the bravery & patriotism of Apple & Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA. We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount -- a Skydance Capitulation.”

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Chuck Jordan @sasquatchers.wtf · 06/09/2026

Bad Vibes Coding Taking a short break from being spitting mad about AI, to just being sad about how it never needed to be like this

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Bad Vibes Coding

Taking a short break from being spitting mad about AI, to just being sad about how it never needed to be like this

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am going to watch the HP series as god intended: via a six hour long video essay dunking on it and Joanne's entire career

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Battle of Olympus remake is so cute!!! I didn't realize that it was basically made by two people who ended up marrying each other! It looks like this remaster is meant to also be their last game development project, ending where they began.

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【開発者本人が語る】『オリュンポスの戦い』38年越しの完全リメイク

YouTube video by The Battle Of Olympus™

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 31/08/2026

When I upload a video of a choral performance of a Renaissance work, I occasionally get a copyright claim, which is obviously bogus. Of course YT says it won't affect my (non-existent) earnings or channel, but I still dispute it on principal just cause it annoys me someone is claiming this stuff.

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Gavin Shoebridge @kiwiev.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Well, this is the weirdest thing I've seen all year. This was a race against bipedal robots but someone used a video filter to make them resemble humans. As you do. 😂 That's enough internet for today.

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Losing my mind at the "CRT filter" for this new release of Manic Miner that was just announced

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 24/08/2026

Nothing tops the euphoria of a great concert like sitting in your car for 90 minutes inching through traffic because the venue's surrounding infrastructure is completely incapable of handling it. And then driving 50 minutes to your house since it's in the boonies to begin with. 🙄

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 24/08/2026

This was kind of fun to figure out. I feel like I must have at least passed through Minnesota and/or Virginia but can't prove it, so they stay "never been". Everything else is pretty solid in my recollection.

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Fando Fonts @fandofonts.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

OLD and GOOG thread: A few months ago Lucile Gomez contacted me because she was interested in a typeface based on her handwriting. She has no twitter but you can follow at Instagram (lucilegomez). And in this image you can see in black its handwriting and in red the font I made. So, a thread 1/X

In black Luciles Gomez's handwritting, in red my typography

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you go beer drinking in Nigeria, particularly in the west, you'll sometimes encounter people assidiously placing bottles on their side once empty. Once upon a time the god/orisha Ogun was thirsty and he came upon some humans with bottles in front of them. He asked them for water.

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Xénomorphe @xenomorphe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Celui-ci m’a bien fait rire ⬇️

Échange de messages entre deux gars. Le second est sérieux.

richthetruth
Autism:
1 in 10,000 (1990)
1 in 30(2026)
Vaccines cause autism.

spacehabs
Near Earth Asteroids:
20 (1960)
40,000+ (2026)
Telescopes cause asteroids

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gloriouscow.bsky.social @gloriouscow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

An absolutely massive update to martypc.net Now you can choose to emulate four different systems, from the IBM 5150 to the Tandy 1000. On the PC you can now can choose from a number of video cards all the way up to VGA. And oh yeah, Adlib (OPL2) syntheis. #retrocomputing #emulation #martypc

MartyPC's carousel/turntable interface for selecting machines, showing a purple turntable/carousel with various pixel art machines represented. Below that is a system card showing the system name and configurable options. At the bottom is a cyan "Start" button.

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 19/08/2026

Heard about the Brewers' 22-0 drubbing of the Mariners and had to look at the box score. It's probably happened before but it's the first time I remember seeing a box where every single player on a team scored at least 1 run. Even the dude with no hits walked twice and scored twice.

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 15/08/2026

As a Pornography stan I thought this video was pretty good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uAc... For me it's always been Pornography -> Disintegration -> Hot Hot Hot -> everything else.

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Why Pornography Nearly Destroyed The Cure

YouTube video by Pigeon Row

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 14/08/2026

Finally broke down and made a spreadsheet of all my potential choir commitments so I can figure out what's realistic to participate in. (As opposed to last year where I tried to sing all the things, which was way too much!)

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Now, everyone do this.

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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 10/08/2026

[back in the day] Low level programmers: "It's all about optimizing every byte and every cycle, use as little RAM as you can" Other devs: "Nonsense. We have plenty of RAM" [today] Low level programmers: "Well well well"

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

not to be confused with quesadilla

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 10/08/2026

After enjoying the Amazon series, i embarked on reading through the whole of Wheel of Time. Been enjoying it up until book 8, and it looks like 8-10 are the sloggiest parts. Honestly am struggling with all the bickering and Nynaeave in particular. But the completest in me won't let me give up, LOL.

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 07/08/2026

Happy Electric Callboy album release date. All but 2 of the tracks have been released as singles over the past couple of years with their usual amazing videos, which makes listening to the album as just music kind of an oddly different experience! centurymedia.bandcamp.com/album/tanzne...

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TANZNEID (24-bit HD audio), by Electric Callboy

14 track album

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 04/08/2026

Heh, kudos to Black Mirror S7E4 for actually sourcing a Connectix QuickCam. I'm sure it would have been easier to find a later Logitech-branded one, but that wouldn't have been accurate to the timeframe (1994).

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026

"Why can't you just appreciate how revolutionary the job-taking, environment-degrading, information-shredding, technology-hoarding, economy-swamping machine is?" My brother in Christ, there may indeed be a revolution in part because of "AI," but it might not be the one you wanted.

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 03/08/2026

JMS just created an official Babylon 5 channel and... they are uploading full episodes? 😮 The pilot looks to be cleaned/uprezzed in some fashion (I didn't follow the B5 situation but expect it's similar to the DS9 situation, all VFX in SD and expensive to redo). www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLba...

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Midnight On The Firing Line / Season 1 Episode 1 | Babylon 5

YouTube video by Babylon 5

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 02/08/2026

I hadn't played the card game Guillotine in a while and had forgotten what a great game it was. However, I think the time is nigh for a new edition with modern billionaires instead of old French nobles. The possibilities are quite ripe for the moment!

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 01/08/2026

The switch from my LG TV to an external Roku Ultra box was pretty smooth overall, but surprisingly the YouTube app on the Roku is awful at audio when speed is set above 1.0x, whereas my LG's YouTube handled it well. 👎 Still, better than LG's aggressive invasion of privacy, so I'll take it. Fuck LG.

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 01/08/2026

I resisted for years claiming that my progressive lenses were good enough for all-day computer work. But I finally decided to try a pair of fixed focus lenses. And now I have to admit that yes, when I'm tired or first thing in the morning, the fixed focus glasses are way better. I'm offically old. 😞

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Donner Party Planner @dklie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Same Dems, same

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Aaron Giles @aarongiles.com · 01/08/2026

Finally getting around to watching the latest season of Black Mirror and holy hell that first episode ("Common People") was devastating. Just enshittification on steroids in the most depressing way imaginable. I loved and hated it so much. Bravo.

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