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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Feeling a little lonely when you’re using your vintage computer? Been feeling a little moody but don’t have a place to put a cryptic away message? Well, do we have you covered! The NEVCG AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) server is up and waiting for you! Info: forums.nevcg.org/t/the-nevcg-... #retro
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The NEVCG AIM Server!
Did you finally get that vintage computer up and running but it’s feeling a little lonely when you’re using it? Been feeling a little moody but don’t have a place to put a cryptic away message? Look...
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I don't give a fuck about brain-dead Mitch McConnell. let him rot. but I do care that our press can't be bothered to do anything but repeat the obvious lies they're being fed. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I go ballistic on our cowardly journos. link is here: bit.ly/4xwRTyh
listen, I don’t give one rancid shit about the Esteemed Senator Turtlehump, or the condition of his health. let his handlers play infantile games and keep him hidden away in his terrarium forever, if they want to. Senate Republicans are down one crucial vote while Mitch stays away, making it that much harder for them to inflict their fuckery on us. good.

but I do give a shit about having a robust press in this country — one that’s willing to do its job, and hold our elected leaders to account, because if we don’t have a functional press, we can’t have a functioning democracy.

do better, assholes.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 06/08/2026
No one will notice.
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Happy 40th birthday, Metroid! The OG released on Famicom Disk System ran, jumped, and spun into Japanese homes on 06/08/1986! The foundation of a genre-blending franchise that remains one of my favourite Nintendo ones to this day. 💜 Have you played the OG, peeps? Or its Zero Mission remake?
A very cool Japanese ad for Metroid with Samus stood in her power suit in the centre and almost wireframe smaller samuses in trails of mid-run and jump all across the screen as if they're slow-mo frames of movement.
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LGR @lgr-yt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Wednesday Blerb! youtu.be/_1N1hLiOOIo This Windows 3.1 Gumby disk wasn't archived... now it is
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This Windows 3.1 Gumby disk wasn't archived... now it is
YouTube video by LGR Blerbs
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...
I am not joking: this is AOL era software. It's got clip art. IDK how it even works on modern computers
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Melissa Lewis @melissa.news · 17/06/2026
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association received >$7 million 2017–2022 (when Dobbs was decided) from funders we tracked. From the amicus brief it filed in that case: "Like a seven-year-old, the unborn person has *life*, and that is what is expressly protected by [the Constitution]."
Obviously, context dictates that almost all of the Constitution’s references to persons refer to those already born, because only an adult can, for example, run for office or commit a crime. But no one has ever suggested that, because a seven-year-old girl may not be President, she is not covered by the Constitution’s protection of her life or cannot insist upon the equal protection of the law. Like a seven-year-old, the unborn person has life, and that is what is expressly protected by the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
ok water calm down
A diagram of two hydrogen and one oxygen molecule that looks like a but in revealing black bottoms
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/05/2026
OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Luke Miani absolutely crushed it on this. I wish this would go viral. We need to talk about Big Tech's role in Fascism: youtu.be/CzHaChKlYq4?...
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We need to talk about Big Tech's role in Fascism.
YouTube video by Luke Miani
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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
New art for my home office!
Stylized water color painting for an original Apple mouse and an Apple IIGS monitor.
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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Fifty dollar find.. will it power up?
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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Finally done! Added MMU3 too!
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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 17/09/2025
Happy birthday to the MOS 6502! It was 50 years ago today that people were able to buy their first samples of the chip from a jar in a hotel room at WESCON. Here's my oldest 6502 from the 52nd week of 1975. Still works perfectly!
Ceramic white 6502 CPU from 1975
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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A few more old gems of mine that my dad found in the basement..
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Unofficial Hackaday Feed @hackaday-feed.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Reverse-Engineering Aleratec CD Changers for Archival Use
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Reverse-Engineering Aleratec CD Changers for Archival Use
Handling large volumes of physical media can be a bit of a chore, whether it’s about duplication or archiving. Fortunately this is a perfect excuse for building robotic contraptions, with …read more
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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 06/09/2025
Whatever changed with YouTube back between August 10 to August 17 has resulted in every video I've released since to get the same message and a massive drop in views .... * SIGH * When YouTube decides your subscribers aren't interested, it buries the video and stops recommend it. Demoralizing....
YouTube and their assessment of why a video is doing badly (or doing well)
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8-Bit Boyz @8bitboyzretro.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The delivery that arrived Thursday has been opened, a #Commodore COLT PC-10/PC-20!! They packed it very well & it is safe to say it arrived perfectly, plus the machine is clean inside & out in great condition!! Next to do is boot it up, just need more free time for that.
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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 30/08/2025
Tonight, I spent several hours just trying to write three 8" double sided floppies using a Greaseweazle. It turned out to be a huge ordeal due to having multiple bad disks which clogged the drive's heads. In the end, it worked out! The good old Qume DT/8 drive is a real workhorse.
My Qume DT/8 used for archiving and imagine 8" floppies After writing a disk, I imagine it again to make sure I got a good write. This is what a BAD disk looks like. After cleaning the heads and then using another floppy, this is what a good write looks like. It took a while and I had to throw away seven bad disks, but I was able to finally write three good 8" floppies.
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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
So many parts.. MK4s -> Core1
Messy workbench with 3d printer parts strewn about
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Trump: "They call me the president of Europe. Which is an honor." Europe:
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/08/2025
Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future. www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...
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How To Argue With An AI Booster
Editor's Note: For those of you reading via email, I recommend opening this in a browser so you can use the Table of Contents. This is my longest newsletter - a 16,000-word-long opus - and if you like...
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Unofficial Hackaday Feed @hackaday-feed.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
How Intel’s 386 Protects Itself From ESD, Latch-up and Metastability
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How Intel’s 386 Protects Itself From ESD, Latch-up and Metastability
To connect the miniature world of integrated circuits like a CPU with the outside world, a number of physical connections have to be made. Although this may seem straightforward, these …read more
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good
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MacintoshGarden Feed @macgarden.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025
Sleep (NSCoding) macintoshgarden.org/apps/sleep-nsco… Sleep is a tiny open source Mac OS X application to put your computer to sleep directly from Spotlight. Just type "Sleep" on your spotlight window and hit the return key. #macgarden #utilities #2014 #nscoding #patrickchamelo
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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 21/07/2025
We have just created the Only Human feed™! This is a feed of Verified Humans: accounts which we have verified as belonging to real people. Truly the only feed that is free of bots and alt accounts. bsky.app/profile/only...
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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Saved this hot mess from the MIT swap fest this weekend.. it doesn’t power on because what looks like a dead short on the 12v rail. #newenglandretrocomputers #macclone #macintosh
Mac clone power computing computer case missing drives and looking sadPower computing Mac clone badge
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/07/2025
New tools from OpenAI and Perplexity can browse the web for you. If the idea takes off, these generative AI agents could turn the internet into a ghost town where only bots roam. www.wired.com/story/browse...
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent Is Haunting My Browser
New tools from OpenAI and Perplexity can browse the web for you. If the idea takes off, these generative AI agents could turn the internet into a ghost town where only bots roam.
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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Found some of my operating system purchases in the early to mid nineties in my Dad’s basement. They are complete inside
Windows 3.1 for DOS box.Original Windows 95 boxOS/2 for Windows boxNextstep operating system original box
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.
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Tara 🐢 @4jinxremoving.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This Police Academy reboot sounds hilarious.
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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
@npr.org you guys have to do better. They already cut your funding (I am a monthly supporter). Miasma was a theory in ancient times. This playing both sides like they are equal when one is batshit insane is doing us all a disservice. Stand up for what is right. Be the press we deserve.
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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 07/06/2025
RIP. Something deceivingly simple like overlapping windows on a display was not so simple back when Bill Atkinson programmed it on the Macintosh. Wish we had that feature on the iPad!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they
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God @thegodshow.com · 25/05/2025
It’s strange to watch Americans memorialize soldiers who died for democracy whilst they giddily embrace fascism.
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Garth Beagle @garthbeagle.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I have that case too! ❤️
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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 22/05/2025
I'm surprised it took so long for this case to become a reality. I might need to replace my boring glass sided black monolith case with this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNa6...
Gamer's Nexus showing off a new Silverstone case with a retro look
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Unofficial Hackaday Feed @hackaday-feed.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
A New Mac Plus Motherboard, No Special Chips Required
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A New Mac Plus Motherboard, No Special Chips Required
The Macintosh Plus was Apple’s third version on the all-in-one Mac, and for its time it was a veritable powerhouse. If you don’t have one here in 2025 there are …read more
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1Bit Fever Dreams @1bit.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Love this and I hope the bigger MSDOS gaming/PC people pick up on this (ie Phil's Computer Labs, LGR, Adrian) You can (and should!) get a PicoGUS 8-bit ISA sound card at jcm-1.com
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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Microsoft Defrag for MS-DOS. With real HDD sounds! 🔊
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f4mi ‼️ @f4mi.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
NEW VIDEO OUT - Making music on a DS, playing it on a Floppy Disk boombox www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ptN...
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Making music on a DS, playing it on a Floppy Disk boombox
YouTube video by f4mi
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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
First fault movement ever filmed. Watch the ground beyond the gate.
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First fault rupture ever filmed: M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive
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FunHouse Radio @funhouseradio.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
► FunHouseRadio.com <-- TUNE IN Like this #meme? Try the stream!
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nonijoni3.bsky.social @nonijoni3.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
“These are two of the ICE agents who participated in that absolutely heinous arrest in Worcester this week. If you know their names please amplify. If you don't please share so someone can identify them.” www.instagram.com/p/DJfhWNGS4r...
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Mill City Weather @millcityweather.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Taking a LIVE view out of MCW-Dracut this evening!
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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I saw this video on Phil's Computer Lab (youtube.com/@philscomputerlab) about turning your Pi Zero W 2 into a virtual USB CD-ROM drive. This usbode (github.com/danifunker/usbode) project looks like a fantastic alternative.
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PhilsComputerLab
Reviving old computers, classic games and happy memories!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Trump has ordered criminal investigations into more than 50 federal employees so far, including former intelligence officials, political rivals, and even members of his own administration. He has declared some “guilty of treason,”
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Jason Merrill @gutbomb.net · 02/05/2025
Here's the download. Enjoy! www.printables.com/model/128272...
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Pico Micro Mac Quadra 650 Case by GutBomb | Download free STL model | Printables.com
This is a case for the Pico Micro Mac v3 designed to look like a Macintosh Quadra 650 | Download free 3D printable STL models
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Senate Republicans are blaming today’s dismal economic report on former President Joe Biden’s policies. Lol 😂 give it another year, and it’ll still be Biden’s fault.
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