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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

the prime minister of my country name-dropped my activist party in parliament. i am so happy. all press is good press! socialist-alliance.org #activism #funny #auspol #socialism #australia #communism #marxism

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

www.gammon.com.au/forum/threads/116… www.gammon.com.au/forum/threads/116… it seems some good capacitors are necessary on the breadboard. i ordered five bucks of stuff from aliexpress: 10 x 20pF ceramic […] [Original post on anticapitalist.party]

an ATmega1284 on a breadboard, plugged into an arduino uno. the uno is being used as an ISP to program the 1284. it looks very fiddly.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@permacomputer here is a video i promised of the text editor working on the VIC-20 inside an emulator.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Indigenous activists Gary Foley and Bruce McGuinness at Marx's Grave in London, 1979. The original caption from the magazine 'Identity' reads: "Gary and Bruce with a hero from the past." From "Identity," vol. 3, issue 11, Nov 1979 (p. 19) #auspol #indigenous #blacklivesmatter #landback

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Chairman Mao Has Come to Our Factory, oil painting by the Workers' Art Group of Shanghai No. 1 Electrical Machinery Bureau, 1976

gratuitous cultural revolution-era socialist realist painting of chairman mao inside an industrial factory. there's a green machine in the bottom right hand corner.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Been thinking about retro computing platforms again. I ripped this video from the Facebook BASIC Programming group, which, if you have a Facebook account, you ought to join. In this video, the screen draws very slowly. This is obviously not ideal in […] [Original post on anticapitalist.party]

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

photo #1 - the first high school student strike. photo #2 - the second one. "if you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine." ~ che guevara "socialist alliance? i have no idea who they are." ~ overheard from a […] [Original post on anticapitalist.party]

vidak wearing a beret, holding a copy of greenleft.org.au, it says UNITE AGAINST RACISM.

vidak wearing a beret, looking to the left of the frame.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

tryna work behind the scenes a bit more these days, sorry i haven't been on here as much as i am at other times. this was ecosocialism 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaOKjS718S8 ecosocialism.org.au/speakers/nerell… […] [Original post on anticapitalist.party]

a big group of people all smiling at the end of the ecosocialism 2026 conference.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

my photo on the front of the paper here in perth... big fuck you to whoever did this.

https://heyzine.com/flip-book/d7f3a2b0da.html

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Me at an anti war protest today outside the Western Australian parliament. The Land Forces military conference is coming to town. No to warmongers! #auspol #aukus #trump #antiwar #gaza #palestine #genocide #israel

Main banner says no warmongers in boorloo. The next banner says independent and peaceful network Australia. About 30 people assembled on the steps of WA parliament.

Same again, but from the front, the other photo was from the side.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

me at the thousand-strong rally of students today against pauline hanson. always was, always will be, aboriginal land. #auspol #racism #solidarity #protest #socialism cc @sam_wainwright

a photo of vidak in rally regalia (a jacket and a tie), standing in front of a socialist alliance stall.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

the perfected display routine... this is reading information out of DATA statements, so we can make maps now.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

okay, managing to learn how TAB positions the cursor in BBC BASIC... for the lack of alt-text, the images below are of rows and columns of map data printed to the screen in their raw form. so you're seeing a border of 1s around 0s in these images.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

working on the video game i am collaborating on with my girlfriend, this evening <3 #gamedev #retrocomputing #bbcmicro #basic #tinybasic

a screenshot of a BBC Micro emulator. it contains a grid and some BASIC code.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

still streaming here: www.twitch.tv/comrade_vidak gave up on typing it all out by hand, and then debugging. bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=3073 got a disk image from the link above and dumped the code, currently looking through it. i am […] [Original post on anticapitalist.party]

a screenshot of dungeon of doom running on the BBC Micro B.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

www.twitch.tv/comrade_vidak join me IRL while i do some soldering on a discrete transistor computer!

a NAND gate made from 1N4148 diodes, resistors, and a 2N3904 transistor.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

have a fun little electronics project intended for children. a sound effects generator.

https://archive.org/details/funway_into_electronics/funway_into_electronics_vol_1_22nd_printing/page/36/mode/2up

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Discrete transistor computer devlog. Photo dump. In progress. First line of transistors soldered in. #retrocomputing #permacomputing

An artsy shot of a line of soldered transistors.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Discrete transistor computer devlog Here I am setting up the next most complex flip flop in diode transistor logic. #retrocomputing #Permacomputing

Bottom view. All the tracks and leads for the resistors and diodes.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

discrete transistor computer devlog did some recording of things i had been working on from off the top of my head for years. also logging a lot of this stuff on the hackaday project profile: hackaday.io/project/159892-the-peop…

diode transistor logic. on the left a NOT gate, on the right a NAND gate with two inputs.

a JK flip flop with PRESET and CLEAR pins.

a ring counter made out of JK flip flops.

a three (3) input NAND gate made out of diode transistor logic.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

discrete transistor computer devlog something of a small breakthrough, i got a D flip flop running i am going to have to update the hackaday project profile. #permacomputing #retrocomputing

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Not quite sure, but I think I have stumbled on perhaps the next phase of the people's permacomputer project. Consider: a modular discrete transistor computer system/platform. Diode transistor logic. This I am making out of 2N3904 bipolar junction […] [Original post on anticapitalist.party]

Pieces of copper lined fibre glass project board/ veroboard. Lined up on the bottom board is are NANDs made out of diode transistor logic.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Been tinkering this afternoon with my long term project of a discrete transistor computer. I got a NAND up and going again, and I am wondering if I will ever be able to make that positive edge triggered D flip flop that I so covet. I wanted to tackle […] [Original post on anticapitalist.party]

A solderless breadboard. There is a red LED that is turned on while plugged in.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

okay i did some more digital archeology. i was pointed to nibble magazine by someone on matrix, and i found: - quickwriter - nibblewriter and a few others, all written in BASIC. so expect some cool blog posts in the future. #tinybasic #retrocomputing #basic

a screenshot of quickwriter, a word processor written in apple ii BASIC.

nibblewriter. another apple ii BASIC word processor.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

this thing cost me ~AUD$200 and it plays everything i want. hat tip to @izzy for the suggestion of the FirePro W4300 workstation graphics card. i got that off aliexpress, lmao

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