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Phil Nelson

@philnelson.bsky.social
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The co-host with the co-most. Your +1 and only. I do computer vision, electronics, old gear and vintage media. Founder RetroStrange.com & SetSideB.com biz: hello@extrafuture.com SF, CA

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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Needful Things (1993) Pretty excellent performances all around, competent direction, meandering story but once it starts popping off it’s a whole lot of fun. Warning: There’s a bit with Achy Breaky Heart on a jukebox. Those of you who lived thru those dark times may be triggered.
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🐈‍⬛🎃🔪 Adam Jay 🍁💀👻 @bullgooseparty.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
To stave off early Christmas, we need a more robust Thanksgiving mythology. And I don’t mean Pilgrims and Indians bullshit. I’m talking about, like, a gravy witch.
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Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️📼 @ronscompvids.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Um, $4.99? And it only helps cement @doublefine.com relaunch as an independent studio? Hmm....
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"My Feminist AI Framework (FAIF) is that women ought to be swindling a lot more of those vast torrents of VC money since it's all just a grift and a bubble anyhow"
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Hackster.io @hacksterio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Two years after discontinuing the venerable Zilog Z80, Littelfuse has announced that it is exiting the microcontroller market altogether — issuing an end-of-life notification for its entire microcontroller product range.
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Two Years After Discontinuing the Classic Zilog Z80, Littelfuse Kills Off Its Remaining MCUs
Company exits the microcontroller market altogether with an end-of-life notification covering "all remaining active MCU product families."
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Folks said the same thing about the last 2.
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lost Boys (1987) Where do we even start with this? Seminal (pun intended I guess) modern vamp flick, oozing (again) atmosphere, gayer than a San Francisco Fleet Week. Gotta watch it every October. And of course, Saxophone Man. IYKYK.
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Arachnophobia (1990) I remember when my mom saw this on VHS and it grossed her out so hard she still talks about it. A Nelson family fave. John Goodman steals the scene in every second of his small role. A great early 90s time capsule.
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Log of this year’s Halloween viewings. Scars of Dracula (1970) One of the lesser Lee-As-Drac flix. Some fun effects with the one bat prop they made. Patrick Troughton as a greasy-ass ersatz Renfield saves it.
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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This could be you after certifying your project as open source hardware! Open Hardware Month is the perfect time to add your work to the database 🎃 and don't forget join us during our 24hr livestream 🧑‍💻 on October 10th-11th~ certification.oshwa.org
picture of a frog in mud with caption unbothered.wet.happy.in my goop. slipped up. squelching.show and tell livestream promo pic with we have 24hrs of hand crafter slop for you on top on groopy green eyeball graphics
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Born to be a suspicious innkeeper in a 1960s Hammer Horror movie, forced to Create Content
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That gross Palmer Luckey guy looks like Meth Jimmy Buffett
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This year we're running a little fundraiser for the channel, as well. We're trying to get $500 by the end of the month to help pay the server fees for the next 12 months. ko-fi.com/retrostrange... Thanks to everyone who has already become a Patron or sent us a tip. You're the best.
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As we have for each of the last FIVE YEARS (!!) we've switched @retrostrange.com TV over to nothing but horror and sci-fi content for the rest of October. You can watch, ad-free, tracker-free, no logins needed at live.retrostrange.com #Owncast #Streaming #Halloween
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
oh god, Pant Alert
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RetroStrange @retrostrange.com · 05/10/2026
We'll be taking RetroStrange TV down at noon PST to change over to Halloween content only, baby! We're bringing Bela Lugosi's Phantom Creeps out of the Vault, as well as a few other odds and ends just for this special time of year.
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 05/10/2026
sorry claudette, everyone just likes you better this way just accept it
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thinking a lot about Steve Jobs' 2007 writing, Thoughts on Music. At the time, most people had no idea what he was even talking about. It was a rare thing- Jobs almost never did this type of stuff in public, but it was important to him, and that's interesting. web.archive.org/web/20080107...
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Apple - Thoughts on Music
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy. there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.
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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
welcome to cocksucker junction. we're mostly known for our corn exports. it used to be the cocksucking but those corn subsidies aren't fucking around, man
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The guy from Geese sounds like he has never cleared his throat a single time in his entire life
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026
Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
What’s up with right wingers and whipping up pogroms against their own families
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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ultimate evolution of the sitcom husband
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 03/10/2026
Mark Zuckerberg tells investors that his AI push is a huge success. But when it files its taxes, Meta tells the IRS its giant data centers are an experiment that might fail. Why? Because calling them an experiment lets Meta claim a tax credit meant for real research.
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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's that time of year again... Time for me to laugh as I remember that Pinhead is the biggest loser of all the horror movie slasher guys. ACTUAL DIALOGUE FROM THE FIRST MOVIE:
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s kinda funny how if you drill down a bit the entire world is basically run by a bunch of sometimes overlapping sex cults
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One of the most exciting things to me about the iPhone Duo is the ability to actually read a fucking spreadsheet. I know what I’m about
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
you and me both, ma'am
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Apple seems to not want to be in the business of selling AI romantic partners, or porn generators, or weapons of war, and this is a very significant part of what these companies are doing.
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My feeling is that Apple appears behind in "AI" because Apple actually cares about the output of these models. Apple sells products they want you to depend on. OpenAI and Anthropic etc _started_ by saying "don't trust what our products tell you." and that makes a big difference.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My man looks like Poochie the Rockin' Tech Support
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Exclusive: Major Republican fundraiser winning contracts from Trump administration, emails reveal
Palmer Luckey has donated $5.9m to Republicans and bundled more, while reaping billions in Pentagon contracts
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1992-2001 Billy Corgan was on another level and I will die on this hill
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Morning night music music.apple.com/us/album/cou...
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Couldn't Get It Right by Climax Blues Band on Apple Music
Song · 1976 · Duration 3:18
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I always forget exactly how to set up sane log file rotation on linux no matter how many times I do it
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Random numbers power every system on earth. Worth remembering.
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh you know, just sitting in a state of cat-like readiness in case something happens instead of focusing on the many simple and obvious tasks I have before me
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
tired of winning yet?
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m very interested to see what happens with the iPhone Duo. There are going to be so so so many new weird UI and UX issues. Especially after 20 years of iPhone industrial design barely changing. So many apps out there who need a very different UI for this form factor, screens, etc.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The action-packed GOUT COP! paperback is now available on Amazon. The nonstop thrill-ride that is the GOUT COP! ebook can still be easily obtained at dumb-industries.com/goutcop. Either way, all of your GOUT COP! needs are being met. GOUT COP!
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Life finds a way
WaPo headline: “Ukraine weighs legalizing pornography to raise tax revenue and buy drones”
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Phil Nelson @philnelson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In a just world we woulda gotten at least one Roger Corman adaptation of a Discworld novel.
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