One of the neat things about the IBM Selectric typewriter is that it has interchangeable "typeballs" for different fonts/languages. And now someone figured out how to 3D print custom ones, so now you can type on a Selectric in Comic Sans. https://www.printables.com/model/441233-comic-sans-typeball-for-the-ibm-selectric-typewrit

"Xenia vs Tux" you are a fool Tux is the little plush Xenia keeps around that comes to life when shes sleeping

If you have *any* love for #FPS games, you must, must, must play Ashes 2063, easily one of the best FPSes ever made, and yet it's a #DOOM mod. It's just been added to #GoG so it's easier than ever to install and run! https://www.gog.com/en/game/ashes_2063

#retrogaming #gaming

oh god programming in java

why the fuck is my tv making 20 - 30 network requests a minute while it’s OFF?

I kinda want to figure out what percentage of fedi peeps have a Niko Oneshot profile picture
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For those of us with ADHD, if you are thinking about a task every second you’re not doing it and desperately want to do the task more than anything else and are devastated that you can’t do it so much that you use all your energy just on trying to make yourself do the thing that you want to do but can’t, that is NOT procrastination. That is executive dysfunction. It only seems like procrastination to people who have never experienced executive dysfunction and those who have only ever experienced executive dysfunction.

Procrastination is when you fully have the ability to do something and choose not to do it but to do the thing you prefer doing instead. I hadn’t experienced this until very recently, after a lot of therapy and medication.

“Where’s your autopilot?”

“You’re looking at it”

“All I see is a bunch of cogs and shafts. Where’s the computer?”

“That’s the computer”

“You have a *clockwork* jumpdrive. For the love of Eris, why?”

“The best human takes forty seconds to recover from jumpshock. There isn’t a digital computer that can tell a one from a zero in under a minute postjump. Belinda here will have us into the next wormhole before those customs cutters chasing us stop drooling.”

“You *named* this abomination”

“Hey, no cause to be mean to her! You can get out and walk anytime, friend.”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

“what are your preferred pronouns?”

my pronouns are it/its, she/her, they/them, ze/zir but my preferred pronouns are whichever of those makes you most uncomfortable

someone painted cute flowers on the tracks

@desea omg I had never heard the term birch sugar before! apparently xylitol is called birch sugar because it was found in birch bark, which is where it gets the name

although these days it looks like xylitol is mostly made from xylose which can be extracted from a ton of different plant parts of various plants https://www.celignis.com/bioprocess-xylitol.php

omg y’all know how sugar alcohols cause that minty/cooling feeling in your mouth when you eat them?

apparently they are literally cooling your mouth down. when sugar alcohols are in crystal form and they dissolve in a liquid, the process is endothermic so it literally sucks the heat from your mouth a little bit

also: sugar alcohols are a little less sweet than regular sugar, but they still have a drastically higher sweetness-to-calorie ratio than sugar, and that’s because your intestines have a much harder time absorbing them into your bloodstream than regular sugar

physical reality is too limiting tbh

@rowan oohh this is amazing art! 💙 also I had to look up the silent fox gesture - I had never heard of it before

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🎨 @yorozu1217

first impressions of Stalker 2 are Very Bad but I’m hoping the game will get better once I get out of the scripted tutorial(?) section at the beginning and get into the open-ended part of the game