⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

The Disney encode is terrible but despite that, if I may be so crude, I think the kids say

Tron: Ares | Official Trailer | In Cinemas 10.10 | Disney UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlBD45duK-Y

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

"I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/i-was-a-british-tourist-trying-to-leave-america-then-i-was-detained-shackled-and-sent-to-an-immigration-detention-centre
"She is advising anyone planning to travel to the US not to go. ‘First, because of the danger of what could happen to you. And, secondly, do you really want to give your money to this country right now?’"

If Israel can stop paramedics & fire fighters, execute them one by one, throw them in a mass grave, bury their vehicles & later lie that the vehicles were unmarked, unlit & driving suspiciously towards them in an evacuation zone, you should assume they're lying about everything

Out there, in the worrying world of today is a little #Zilog #Z80 computer with a mere 64KB of #RAM and running the #1970s CP/M operating system.

This little machine is connected to the #intertubes and it's serving a #singleuser #bulletinboardsystem for you, the worrying souls of #yesteryears to visit.

Take a break from today, connect like it's 1985 - here on RC-BOX BBS, the world's first and (currently) only #rc2014 based bulletin board system in the world!

Check out the #alttext or my #profile info for information on how to connect.

#bbs
#rc2014bbs
#rcbox

Just in case you need another reason to quit using LinkedIn.
#grindcore #linkedin

Welcome to the world where retro meets the future Pre-order 'Home Arcade' now and get some exclusive .sid and .mod tracks on the release day:
https://lukhash.bandcamp.com/album/home-arcade

1930:
1. Herbert Hoover raised average import tariffs to 40%
2. In response, US trade partners immediately imposed retaliatory tariffs
3. Major businesses announce severe price hikes to compensate
4. This caused Wall Street to tank
5. Then banks started to fail
6. The Great Depression
7. War

2025:
1. Donnie Trump imposes the highest single tariff tax in US history
2. In response, US trade partners immediately imposed retaliatory tariffs
3. Major businesses have now announced severe price hikes to compensate
4. This has caused Wall Street to lose trillions of dollars in a single day
5.
6.
7.

Can you guess what's coming?

Ok. I'm a teacher. So let me break this down for you into very very simple ideas and numbers.

Let's say you run a sandwich shop. You sell $10 sandwiches. It's a very good sandwich shop. You sell a lot of sandwiches. In fact, I buy a sandwich from you every single day. In a week, I have spent $70 buying sandwiches from you.

Now let's say I am selling my car. You, the owner of the sandwich shop, need a car. I decide to sell you my car for the very very reasonable price of $700.

So here's the situation at the end of a week. You have sold me $70 worth of goods. I have received $70 worth of sandwiches. In return, I have sold you $700 worth of goods, and you have received $700 worth of car.

Any reasonable, rational person would look at that situation and say "that's a fair exchange". Both parties paid an amount of money equal to the value of the goods they now own.

But Trump is not a rational person. What he has decided this means is that you have somehow cheated me out of $630, because $700-$70=$630. Does this make sense? Fuck no. If anything, I got the better part of that deal. I now have $630, plus a belly full of sandwiches.

But it gets even worse. Then, because Trump's a-brain is filled with maggots, he further declares that since $630 divided by $700 is .9, that MUST mean you, the owner of the sandwich shop, have been imposing 90% "sandwich shop tariffs" on me the whole time. Does THIS make a lick of sense either? Also fuck no.

But wait, you're going to love this. Trump's "solution" to this is to decree that going forward, all sandwiches you sell me will be marked up a "reciprocal' 90%, making the total cost for a sandwich $19 instead of $10. He says this will be good for sandwich sales. Does THIS make any goddamn sense either? Jesus fucking Christ on a pogo stick no it fucking does not.

This entire idea is complete horseshit for what I hope you can now see are a whole raft of very very obvious reasons. Among them:

1. There never was a "sandwich shop tariff" to reciprocate
2. There is no rational reason for you to buy a car from me ever again
3. This will not make sandwiches cheaper
4. That's not how numbers work
5. That's not how any of this works

Now replace the car seller with America, and the sandwich shop with an island inhabited only by penguins. I wish I was joking.

You just know that this is true, don't you.

#Politics #Economics #tariffs #Trump

Apparently Automattic are laying off around one in six of their workforce. And I'm one of the unlucky ones.

Anybody remote hiring for a UK-based full-stack web developer (in a world that doesn't seem to believe that full-stack developers exist anymore) with 25+ years professional experience, specialising in PHP, Ruby, JS, HTML, CSS, devops, and about 50% of CMSes you've ever heard of (and probably some you haven't)... with a flair for security, accessibility, standards-compliance, performance, and DexEx?

CV at: https://danq.me/cv/index.html

#note #work #automattic #job #memorable #employment

Via: https://danq.me/2025/04/02/redundant/

Grrr! There's no #FOSS app for annotating PDFs on #Android.

Plenty of readers, but no open source app for filling in forms and drawing a signature.

(I am actively begging you to prove me wrong.)

About 10% of Apple's $3T market cap got wiped out today.

That $1M inauguration investment currently has a return of -$300B.

#StarTrek

The US stock market suffers the biggest one day loss since the other minor thing you may remember called the global pandemic lockdown. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1dr7vy39eet?post=asset%3Ad65c9f06-07db-4fc2-875f-3aa07ec08ea6#post

As a follow up to my previous toot about Alien³: The Legacy Cut, a fan made 4K upscale combining the best of both the theatrical and assembly cut editions, you should really check out the guys website.

He talks about why he has made certain editorial choices and discuses, with numerous examples, the 4K upscale, improved VFX and all the other work he has been doing in the last four years.

I'm really looking forward to seeing this.

https://www.a34k.net/home

I've been posting some of that 'nuance and complexity' over on my Patreon feed: https://www.patreon.com/posts/parallax-debate-125282192

I considered charging my neighbors a fee for tomatoes this year to make more money but then I realized that they could respond by charging me a fee for their eggs, plums, and lemons. This is because I paid attention in 5th grade social studies, and also I’m not a blithering dumbfuck.

A comic about Artax