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Thanks to our newest sponsor @rjstar.bsky.social we’ve kicked off the restoration of Galaxy Game just in time for @RetroGamingExpo Was Galaxy Game really the first coin operated video game? icm.museum/blog/?p=698 #vintagecomputer #retrogaming #gaming #history

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RE∙PC Recycled Computers and Electronics @repcwa.bsky.social · 17h

RE∙PC is hiring a part time recycler! Two (2) days a week, Saturday is a must, second day preferably Monday. Must be able to lift 50 lbs. minimum. Walk-ins are highly encouraged, please bring resume. You may also e-mail to inquire (gene@repc.com)

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 29/09/2026

I can’t fathom why anyone would use Meta Muse, but if you needed another reason not to here you go.

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 28/09/2026

I really want to pick up Ace Combat 8 on PC with an eye towards playing it in VR eventually… but it installs Denuvo *and* Easy Anti-Cheat?! I guess I’ll be flying on PS5 instead.

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Carson + Poe + Finn #CorgiCrew @carsonpemcorgi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy first day of fall term, University of Oregon! Go Ducks! 💚💛 #CarsonTheCorgi #CorgiCrew

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 27/09/2026

I definitely need this in my home office. What a great idea!

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 27/09/2026

You should be embarrassed of your cheap shot BS, USC. Celebrating while a player lies motionless? You have ZERO CLASS to go with your fifth straight loss to us. #GoDucks

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 27/09/2026

Celebrating after injuring a sliding QB with a cheap shot to the head? Classic USC. This is why we hate you. #GoDucks

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 26/09/2026

it has been brought to my attention that not all of my followers know that i wrote the (imo) definitive guide on preserving floppy disks. it's the main thing i'm promoting here (even though i almost never post the link, haha) so do me a solid and share it with your loved ones 😹 krugman.net/dumping/

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Krugman's Dumping Guide for Japanese Computers

An illustrated guide to preserving floppy disk media

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 26/09/2026

If you have a college football fan in your life you shouldn’t expect to see them today. 9AM/Noon: Texas @ Tennessee 12:30/3:30: Ole Miss @ Florida, Iowa @ Michigan 4:30/7:30: Texas A&M @ LSU, Oregon @ USC

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 26/09/2026

This is a seriously cool partnership!

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 26/09/2026

I hope you didn’t bring an iced coffee to the interview.

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 25/09/2026

I love when the grass doggos come to visit!

Two deer (male on the left, female on the right) standing ten feet away in a neighbor’s front yard with a wooden fence between us

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 25/09/2026

Interviewing an internal-to-MS candidate while at Xbox and he told me he had invented Microsoft Points. The interview after me was with the PM who had invented Microsoft Points.

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SDF @sdforg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The saga of KICKI continues as we work to improve the power efficiency of its main core memories. icm.museum/blog/?p=207 #vintagecomputer #retrocomputing

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Advice for my younger friends: if you want to encourage yourself to stay healthy and functional, to exercise and eat well... ...pick a couple of motherfuckers you really want to outlive.

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 24/09/2026

Step 1: Find an interesting video on Youtube. Step 2: Start playing it and go "that sounds weird". Step 3: Discover that it's AI-generated slop. Step 4: Burn it all down.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 05/09/2025

Semiotic Standard icons designed by Ron Cobb for the USCSS Nostromo in Alien (1979). They're everywhere in the USCSS Maginot from Alien Earth (2025).

A chart titled "Semiotic Standard" showing a collection of futuristic safety and system symbols designed for spacecraft. Each symbol is inside a square with red, black, white, gray, yellow, blue, or green coloring, and labeled with meanings such as “Pressurized Area,” “Cryogenic Vault,” “Airlock,” “Hazard/Warning,” “Exhaust,” “Radiation Hazard,” “High Radioactivity,” “Refrigeration,” “Direction,” and “Life Support System.” A legend at the bottom explains the color codes: red for visible/solid/alive/abnormal, white and grey for life-supporting conditions, black for vacuum and danger, yellow for harmful atomic/chemical processes, blue for lowered thermal condition, and green for biological substances. The chart is signed “R. Cobb.”

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 24/09/2026

This, for people who don't follow US soccer, is the coach of the Seattle Sounders donating to the GoFundMe of the fields director at Starfire Sports (where the Sounders used to train), who was just abducted by ICE.

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 23/09/2026

First Person Hitler is a new one on me.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 22/09/2026

Seattle area people! Anybody got room to foster a mom and some wee little puppies?

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 22/09/2026

I wish more developers worked this way!

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 22/09/2026

Such an incredibly unhealthy industry right now. You can’t succeed when there’s no connection between results and your future.

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy Sea Otter Awareness Week!

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 20/09/2026

You take the points and if you’re going for it you don’t run up the middle again. Ugh.

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 20/09/2026

Revenge is a dish best served in the final minute of the 4th quarter.

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 20/09/2026

I didn’t get an iPhone 18 Pro Max just because it would take better dog pictures but I didn’t not get it for better dog pictures.

Z the tri-color chiweenie asleep on her back with her paws in the air, lying on a blanket that's a green gradient

Morrigan the black lab pit mix lying on a gray couch, with one back leg kicked out showing the underside of the paw to the camera

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 19/09/2026

Once again Charlie hits the nail on the head.

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 19/09/2026

If AI is going to kill us it seems like this would be an easy way to start.

UPS
Hi Eric,
Your package is arriving tomorrow.
From AI

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 18/09/2026

They use “commercial shipping providers” for highly classified components?! WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 18/09/2026

A deluxe edition of Lords of Vegas?!

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 18/09/2026

"officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. "

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 18/09/2026

I wrote recently about some keyboard symbols that were lost to time! The first part has the PC side, and the absolutely beautiful, proofreading-inspired symbols for Insert, Delete, and other things: unsung.aresluna.org/key-symbols-...

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 18/09/2026

Tonight @oceanbound.bsky.social and I attended the pie making class that Ana gifted me for my birthday. HUGE SUCCESS. www.alamodeseattle.com/pie-making-w...

Two petite spiced apple pies and two petite blueberry pies in a box

Two petite cookies and cream pies in a brown box

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 17/09/2026

If you haven’t read Kameron’s The Light Brigade you’re really missing out.

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 17/09/2026

@jeffgerstmann.com I checked this morning and unfortunately this is what ZenMarket has to say about Hori:

"This item is blocked by our system because we had negative experience (refusal to work with us as a proxy, fraud etc.) dealing with the seller."

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 17/09/2026

The Head of Trust and Safety at @bsky.app says "send trans folks to concentration camps" is not a threat. What does he think happens at a concentration camp? Aaron, this is wrong, and you do not understand the basics of Trust and Safety.

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 16/09/2026

This would look great on a tshirt!

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026

This Flock camera is running obsolete, end-of-life software. - It's on Android 8.1, released in 2017, support ended in 2021 - It's on Android patch level 2018-06-5 - It's running Linux 3.18, released in 2017 This shit is like 8 or 9 years old, and full of vulnerabilities.

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 16/09/2026

This is how the War Against the Chtorr begins.

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