Students of the Bergholt Stuttley Johnson School of Organ Design never knew when to stop.
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Students of the Bergholt Stuttley Johnson School of Organ Design never knew when to stop.
This describes Donny to a T, doesn't it.
"Sleep well?" "No thanks to your driving, yes."
"That's a big brick." "Not as big as her captain, I'm thinkin'."
Oh, fsck off, Tim Cook - fsck right off. I've been buying Apple stuff since 1979 (and been an ACHT since 1981), but you just lost a customer. Steve's ghost is sorely regretting ever letting you take over the company. youtu.be/fmvD6LMhmxQ
Gorn Acres.
Techbros have turned me into a Luddite. I used to be excited by new stuff. I used to stay on the bleeding edge. Now most of my tech is a couple years old to several. I don’t hop on new software on release anymore. And with AI being forced into everything it has only made me avoid new stuff *more*.
My 1970s in one image:
That's no moon ...
Welcome to Bert's Abridged Bookstore.
Straya!!!
2.
Dbrand doesn't give a shit about embargos. "Sorry, Tim."
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the MOS 6502, Microsoft have just released the source for their 'Microsoft 6502 BASIC' with variants as-shipped in the ROMS of Commodores & the Apple II. opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09...
TFW your lightbulbs SWAT you because you were stumbling around to get a glass of water at 3am
Today's CEOs are the underpants gnomes of the 21st century. Step 1 - Utilise AI Step 2 - ???? Step 3 - Profit!
Say goodbye to Arc browser - the company's being bought up by Atlassian, and they're going to turn it into AI shovelware. “Together, we’ll create an AI-powered browser optimized for the many SaaS applications living in tabs." techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/a...
Former NASA chief says United States likely to lose second lunar space race - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
The Akira CGI Model used in Star Trek First Contact. If you like the content and want to help, Feel free to follow me and share my posts. #startrek #trek #tng #VOY #DS9.
The official @gerryanderson.bsky.social podcast has a great episode on music for Space 1999 youtu.be/4mPA-K7eN7k?...
If you’re in Copenhagen, please come!
*vroom*vroom!* BEEP! BEEP!
Work in IT for a big company. For security reasons everyone's company phone is backed up to our corporate cloud. We tell people this in their induction and send reminders. We have over 3000 images of colleagues dicks, vaginas, and other body parts. People are nasty.
Considering 90% of the apps on the App Store are *approved* inferior copies of ones developers have slaved over for months, I consider Apple's entire so-called approvals process nothing more than a cash-grab.
Ed Gale, whose first lead role was as 1986's "Howard The Duck", passed away last May age 61. He played Chucky the evil doll in the first two Chucky movies; his last on-screen appearance was as himself in the 2022 documentary "In Search Of Tomorrow". "If you move something, tell the duck."
What is it with these insaaanely huge rounded window corners everywhere in macOS Tahoe, Apple? 1992: Macintosh. It does more. It costs less. It's that simple. 2005: Mac OS X. It does more. It costs more. It's that simple. 2025: macOS. It does less. It costs more. It's simple.
Nice one, Eddie.
Choose Your Own (Star Trek) Adventure!
This looks *really* good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w6w...
From the "Didn't See That Coming" Newsdesk: After being reported that 30% of Windows 11 was written by "AI", adoption plummets and Windows 10 once again has the greater market share. www.pcworld.com/article/2897...
It's incredible how doing SFA about biosecurity leads to biosecurity disasters. Who could've predicted this?
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back in the blessed ages before the internet, i used to kill time by reading through piles of old computer magazines i would spend hours wondering at the pages of advertisements for software and games with fascinating artwork that i could never hope to buy
I think that interactivity thing is dependent a lot on who actually follows you. I know I get more responses when I use hashtags.
Overheard: "The second coming of Christ? Yeah nah, that's not going to happen. Remember, Jesus was a carpenter, once a tradie shoots through to their next gig, they're never coming back to finish off the job."
You know "The Stupiding" is upon you when your employees attempt to ask ChatGPT to do something they're capable of performing themselves, but then start complaining when it answers "Ask your IT department", demanding you un-block ChatGPT, despite having never blocked ChatGPT in the first place.
"More who-man than human is our motto."
Until a simple, nasal-delivered polyvalent vaccine against #COVID appears, azelastine - a common OTC respiratory-relief antihistamine spray - could well save lives. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
At a company using Zscaler? You might want to tell your powers-that-be that Zscaler is not only using 3 trillion logs full of proprietary data *per week* to train AI, but they sell that data on to 'ghost' providers, including the US govt. thestack.technology/zscaler-earn...
Meet Bear, the HR exec responsible for choosing who gets a waitressing job at Hooters:
(Improvement - getting rid of that 'rose coloured glasses' look - not perfection, is the aim.)
Aye, and once there's a sort-of-baseline, minimal tweaking of it for each image would be required to get a decent result. Sounds like a plan. Let's do this.
Nup. What you could do for me, though, is a screenshot of the colour curve settings you used, I can the see if I can get a good match with Acorn (Mac image editor) which has a good preset builder. P'raps between the two of us we can get a decently corrected set!
as I was saying
Rockhampton businessman sick of people illegally parking in his driveway installs a high-pressure sprinkler system to soak offenders once they step out of their vehicle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR5W...
An excellent short essay on just how wrong Apple's upcoming "Liquid Glass" UI design is, by Craig Hockenberry. furbo.org/2025/09/01/o...
I really hope that this doesn't go like Netflix, where people just roll over and accept this once they get cut off. For me, I'm probably just gonna throw on my best adblocker and roll on if they do this, because this moves Premium to unaffordable for me.
Mmm, I see what you mean. I wonder what one of the 'art' ones early in the sequence looks like with the same curves.
You did a good job, now it looks more like an Ektachrome print from the early 70s. Any tips? (I'm betting once you've got one right, you can apply the same filters/curves to all of them & be pretty close to their original appearances.)
See my reply to Russ. We both probably read the same nutty UK comics growing up.
It was all over British media & seems to have started during WW2, so yes, perhaps that, or Eagle, or Dan Dare, or even Wizzer & Chips or another of those delightfully barmy comic-mags that issued from Ol' Blighty back in the 70s/80s. I know I used to devour those back in the day.
A psychedelic memory trip: Koyaanisqatsi meets THX-1138 in LEAGUE OF CREDIT UNIONS garagesalin.blogspot.com/2015/03/in-l... hat tip @wohali.bsky.social
Double likes for your title! Where did you get the colour-corrected one from? Because this is what I see on that page:
Cobol the Barbarian.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The Register’s style guide insisting on the word “boffins” is pure joy.
One of my favourite words, that. 'Boffin' always makes me think of the Wallaces covered in soot-stained smocks creating the next Big Thing in their potting sheds in East Yorkshire.
"Roll up, roll up, come get your refurbished, one careful owner, GPU's"
Ensign's log, Stardate four one nine one point six. Got reprimanded ogling Commander T'Pol again, got a week's duty cleaning Cetacean Ops. Convinced the second medical officer that deep fried cheese rolls can be removed using the transporter, so that's a win.
'Course not, half the force was in attendance.
Now put a MacCharlie on the right. Go on.
Macintosh 128k tower and display.
"They're dead, Dave. They're all dead, Dave."
... I'm going to need a bigger jar.
Kadir beneath Mo Moteh ...
Imagine how much money could have been saved just by going with an actual human to begin with www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
IIRC, Fleming had pictured Bond on a young Roger Moore, but when it came to making the first movie he was signed on to a new TV spy series: The Saint. Old Roger as Bond was a huge mistake, he was barely tolerable in 'The Persuaders' with Curtis.
"It appears I am missing several memory engrams ... there they are." "You'd best wipe them before putting them back in, we loaned them to Elon Musk." "I am sure I will be fine, Geordie."
Oh, good catch - I posted as found. Sorry, Johnno!
This 'ere's the wattle, the emblem of our land! You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand. Australia Australia Australia we love you, amen! Now, I don't want to catch anyone not drinking. dayfinders.com/wattle-day/
Looks like one of Data's memory engrams was infected with ChatGPT. #StarTrek
Many gay men are going to be told suddenly by Insta they're 13. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
![Well says if you are talking about KPop Demon Hunters social media sites might infer that you are 13 Jumping back to Anika Wells on the Today show a bit earlier, she says a trial has found age assurance can be “private, efficient and effective” and means that social media platforms won’t have an excuse not to have age verification in place when the social media ban for under 16-year-olds comes into effect on 10 December this year. There are three different methods around age verification that exist, says Wells, from showing your drivers licence when you look under 25 at the bottle shop, using face ID to log on to a phone, or where social media companies can see your data and infer your age: If they’re [social media companies] seeing you talk to 65-year-olds about caravanning, they might infer that you are 65. If they see that you’re talking to 13-year[-olds] about KPop Demon Hunters, they might infer that you are 13 … There are many effective ways that platforms can use to assure themselves of age come December.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aa245ktw34fkioyycpf4lwnh/bafkreiavng6lgsve6xiff7fukgbqmu3f3mmnhwfa2ce2arye777qvywtca@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Anika Wells is living (I use that word loosely) proof that when you can't make a success out of your life in any normal field of endeavour, your only recourse is to go into politics.
It all started with Knowledge Navigator in 1987, Hayden.
It’s really hard to do insightful satire of right-wing weirdos because almost any ridiculous stance you can come up with, they’ll just express freely without a shred of irony.
Y'know, I've always like Lex Luthor's taste in ... well, everything. That time he wanted to get some "beach front property" and decided to annex Australia ...
If you can't ship it, make it How to make metals from Martian dirt: Swinburne and CSIRO researchers have successfully made iron under Mars-like conditions, opening to door to off-world metal production. www.csiro.au/en/news/All/... #Mars 🧪🔭
If you see this, quote post your cat art <33 I think this one is very silly and sweet, originally for a Tumblr ask #art #minicomic
Well, it was! I'd be pretty cross about it, too. #StarTrek
A bowl of mewsli.
When your elderly parents become paranoid enough to install a good security system, but have trouble remembering the code for the front gate so they make a sign ...
IYKYK.
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
Well, we know who we're casting for the live-action "Lower Decks" reboot.
Autistic meltdowns are NOT tantrums and NOT voluntary—they are INvoluntary and in many cases can be avoided. We hope that by highlighting issues that may not be obvious to a bystander, you can help the autistic people in your life thrive, as much as possible: thinkingautismguide.com/2022/01/auti...
We fucked up so bad when all the tech stopped looking like the little guys from Batteries Not Included
Alien:Earth has shown that even in the corporate-owned hellscape of a dystopia we might face in 2120, at least we get proper interface controls.
I'll find the genesis of that joke, yes I will so 'elp me.
RESISTANCE IS USELESS!!
Can you imagine floppy disks with a Radius Pivot label? It'd be worse than USB-A connectors trying to get it into the slot.
A fortuneteller says: “You will die on a national holiday.” The tyrant asks: “How do you know?”
There is no reason I would ever stop posting Jonathan.
We need more shop-owners with the gumption to hang this sign out.
How it started vs. How it's going:
