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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

This new release from Four Stars Miniatures is one of the most realistic and harrowing model kits ever assembled. fourstarsminiatures.com #Plamo #Miniatures

Something Lost, a new miniature model kit, showing a man crouched under his desk searching for the little model piece he just dropped.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Hell of a tech support team you've got there, Cloudways.

Me:
Is there a self serve official migration
service via ShuttleCloud or was | sent
hallucinated slop from the support agent?

Supposedly Human Agent:
Please let me check and get back to you in
a moment, in the meantime please stay
connected.

Me:
thank you

<10 minutes pass>

Me:
hello?

Supposedly Human Agent:
| sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
The previous engineer provided you with
incorrect information. Unfortunately, this
tool is not currently available on our
platform.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@MonaApp Mona added a hundred or more drafts of the same thing, is there a way to bulk delete them all without going through each one by one?

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I have an old pigeon, and this is how he sleeps. It’s never not startling. #birds

Nik the pigeon lying face down in his cage, taking a nap.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Life Magazine, in 1916, warning us about what might happen if the USA didn't join the Entente in WWI and help defeat Germany.

1916 map of North America, showing the USA replaced by New Prussia, among other things.

Also, B A R B A R I A N S

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Someday I will learn to fill a fountain pen without staining my hands in the process. Today is not that day. (@brody there are many of us.)

A hand stained with fountain pen ink, hovering over a few TWSBIs. Gotta say Polar Glow even looks good on flesh.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Shortwave with cat. Spending the weekend visiting my mom in Colorado means bringing the radio along. (Hello World Radio on 9455 kHz is the best thing I’ve heard so far tonight)

DSP2 in the foreground, nature and cat in background.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

@chris Oh no! We are lucky that there a bunch of theaters playing it here in Las Vegas. Speaking of dinobots, I never noticed that Snarl is basically missing from the entire movie. Also, seeing some of the Toei easter eggs on the big screen was fun!

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

All I've done is take it out of the box, but the packaging and overall production value of the Superstation One is impressive. #MiSTerFPGA #SuperStationOne

A transparent blue Superstation One with dock.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Okay this Rucking Fotten Transformers the Movie shirt is pretty good but why is Wheeljack on there twice, he doesn't even die onscreen. ruckingfotten.com/products/transfor…

Transformers the Movie BATTLE TO THE DEATH tshirt from Rucking Fotten.

Oh and why is he half transformed, that's weird.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Martha, the last known Passenger pigeon, died 110 years ago today. It was 1pm, and she was 29 years old. From Christopher Tin's album The Lost Birds, here’s Flocks a Mile Wide: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lYhND404bk #Birds #OnThisDay

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

And because all of our AIs were trained on internet memes, this is exactly what's gonna happen.

The scene from Terminator 2.

T-800: Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14am Eastern time, August 29.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

A+ packaging, ebay seller. Perfect, thanks.

A Magnavox prison CRT, haphazardly tossed into an oversized box with a few fragments of styrofoam sheet.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

It even has a place to hide your weed.

A rendering of the Unico Traveller monitor with the back opening, revealing a compartment designed to store illicit goods.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

From @katewillaert, on designing the fantastic logo for the newly published NES game XCavator 2025: katewillaert.com/xcavator-2025

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

“I Had Started Writing the Book I Wanted to Read” — Tasker Smith on Pinball: A Quest for Mastery www.kineticist.com/news/tasker-smit… Get a copy here: pinballmastery.beehiiv.com #Pinball #Books

A pile of Pinball: A Quest of Mastery books!

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Ordered a cooler that was delivered today. Arrived like this. Came down to three options: Stealth. Scrape the cable, add a wire to maintain continuity, and then clip it, Violence. Put the alarm tag in a vice and crush it with a cheater bar, or Chaos. Snip […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

An legitimately purchased RTIC cooler with an security alarm tag still attached.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Ahh, time for a delicious cup of raktajino.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

Total Nuclear Annihilation, one of the best pinball machines to come out in the last decade, is on deck for SGDQ, with Scott Danesi on the couch! Thursday, 4:45pm pdt. Here's a tutorial by McSquidification, who will be playing the game at GDQ: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGrMCqsJtog #Pinball

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

You too can have a little Kojima to judge your every decision. www.goodsmile.com/en/product/114069…

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

If you're up right now and want to listen, I recommend checking out Underworld, they just started their set at Cosmic Meadow. www.youtube.com/insomniac #EDCLV #EDCLV2026 (2/2)

Basspod streaming schedule for EDC 2026.

Bionic Jungle streaming schedule for EDC 2026.

Quantum Valley streaming schedule for EDC 2026.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

And to fill the empty #EDCLV and #EDCLV2026 void, here's the stream schedule for the weekend: www.youtube.com/insomniac

Kinetic Field streaming schedule for EDC 2026.

Cosmic Meadow streaming schedule for EDC 2026.

Circuit Grounds streaming schedule for EDC 2026.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

Rest in peace, Lou Zocchi. 91 years! Back in the day, I used to think of the unfilled Gamescience dice as cheating dice, not that they didn't roll true, but because one had to get really close to see the results, especially in a dim room. Image via […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

An uninked set of 1976 Game Science polyhedral dice, via
https://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2020/02/identifying-dice-of-1970s.html

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

New Neo Geo hardware and multiple AES cartridge announcements was not something I was expecting Plaion to announce this week, They've done fine work with the Atari+ releases, I'd be in for one if I was an AES collector. Think we'll see an MVS adapter for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

Because you never know when there's going to be a Dreamcast Emergency. (via angelarcade.net/comic/6-old ) #Comics

From Angel's Arcade: "Why does he have a tub full of twenty dreamcasts?"

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

It’s been so long since I’d seen The Killer, I forgot how many tropes originated from this single film!

The Killer back in theaters.. final showing on the 8th!

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

Krytor has announced the RetroTap, an all-in-one power station for retro game consoles. The unit is capable of powering up to 11 consoles from one supply, and is compatible with 45+ machines across Sega, Nintendo, NEC, Atari, Neo-Geo, and MiSTer hardware […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

Just in case any of ya'll were thinking about building yourself a piece of Corporate Art.

A Facebook Marketplace add for a 9 foot aluminum sphere. Also, see https://fightclub.fandom.com/wiki/Operation_Latte_Thunder

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

Hobonichi delivery day, just in the nick of time. This is the year I organize /everything/. This plan is infallible! #Hobonichi #HappyNewYear

A hobonichi day-free cousin, a Mother weeks, and a Junji Ito cousin cover.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

Our Treasure has announced a 1/100 AUGE-Ha MORPHO resin kit, currently available for preorder. FSS Gothicmade models are beautiful (if occasionally a little samey in the silhouettes), but ho boy does that thing look fragile […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A Five Star Stories Gothicmade AUGE-Ha MORPHO built resin kit, shiny and chrome.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

Just in time for the collapse of Gainax, a new version of Diacon III (1981), scanned from the 8mm release, has been uploaded to archive.org: archive.org/details/zgfpy29uigxsba And to complete the set, here's a laserdisc Domesday Duplicator remaster […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The front cover of a battered Daicon III OAV reference book

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2025

Vallejo's preliminary cover design for the release, via www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.a… While Corwin is still ridiculous, I prefer the composition with the knight. It tells a story that the final version lacks. #Books

From the site:
Not only was this the prelim for the 2 volume Science Fiction Book Club edition of Roger Zelazny's "The Chronicles of Amber", but it was also published as the cover to their monthly flyer Things to Come for January 1979. The book itself with the finished Boris painting was published by Nelson Doubleday in January 1979.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2025

The Chronicles of Amber, 1978 Doubleday Book Club edition. Check out that sweet (and inaccurate) Vallejo cover! #Books

Corwin faces off against a couple big cat things from the black road.

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Chris Ainsworth @driph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025

Filament cataloging day! Found a temp place for everything to live until the workshop area is set up. (broom closet in the apocalypse pantry, because this house is weird) #3DPrinting

A big pile of filament boxes shoved into a broom closet.

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