gregorum

Everything is only for him. The whooooole world and everything in it….

“Austerity” it’s just politician-speak for fucking over poor people with tax cuts for the rich.

I’m one of the few people I know who truly loved Lynch’s version of Dune, especially because it was so fucking weird. I would really like to have seen this. 

Well, fuck you very much, Handel

Trump does

at this point, it’s genuinely unclear whether Trump will even be allowed on the ballot in enough states to win— or possibly on any ballots at all. there’s a legitimate possibility that Trump may, if fact, be disqualified from running for president at all.

The lead-up to WWIII is way more bitchy than last time. At least the aliens who come across our radioactive remains 10,000 years from now will think of us as entertaining dumbasses when they sift through the historical records of our stupid civilization.

oldie but a goodie

For the crime of continuing to exist, no doubt

The New York Times podcast podcast The Daily from yesterday

apropos of nothing, the game Operation was stolen from a Victorian Era game called Jack the Ripper.

they were super-cool, and, yeah, it was very short-lived. i had a net-MD player, a small, portable MD player that ran on a single AA battery and lasted ages. it could also record on-device and also played mp3s. i loved that fucking thing!

MDs were better than CD-RWs because they were 1/2 the size and came in a case while being almost skip-proof.

miniDisc FTW

The only consideration for USB sticks is that they’re usually quite crap, so running a system off it tends to use up the flash pretty quickly.

not to mention that, due to the crap flash, they also tend to be quite slow and unreliable.

if you’re wondering who this charity is supporting like I was, they, apparently, haven’t decided yet. but here’s their short list of nominees:

• Privacy International
• EPIC
• Human Rights Foundation
• Access Now
• Fight for the Future
• Tor Project
• Women Who Code
• Ranking Digital Rights
• Qubes OS
• GrapheneOS

source

the sheer longevity of some xkcd comic in-jokes is really impressive.

edit: this one is over 15 years old (xkcd 327 - ‘Exploits of a Mom’ - 10/10/2007)