As is customary, I’m indulging in comfort movie watching for my birthday.
First up, Speed (1994).
“We’re at the airport.”
“Yeah, so?”
“I’ve already seen the airport.”
First up, Speed (1994).
“We’re at the airport.”
“Yeah, so?”
“I’ve already seen the airport.”
December 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
As is customary, I’m indulging in comfort movie watching for my birthday.
First up, Speed (1994).
“We’re at the airport.”
“Yeah, so?”
“I’ve already seen the airport.”
First up, Speed (1994).
“We’re at the airport.”
“Yeah, so?”
“I’ve already seen the airport.”
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Doubly offensive because the architects are never the ones sitting out on the beam
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Doubly offensive because the architects are never the ones sitting out on the beam
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Doing some stuff with Americans and having to explain to them why "it's my work Xmas Party" means I will be unavailable both all day today AND tomorrow. #britishness
December 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Doing some stuff with Americans and having to explain to them why "it's my work Xmas Party" means I will be unavailable both all day today AND tomorrow. #britishness
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This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
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Trans people = Bad
Nonces = Good
Nonces = Good
They invited Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to the Harry Potter set THIS SEPTEMBER?!?
December 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Trans people = Bad
Nonces = Good
Nonces = Good
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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There's a real, actual, definable reason why nobody ever runs the Tarrasque in D&D. It's because the lore is *bad.* But what makes lore bad? What makes it good? youtu.be/KqTNeiefmPQ
Why You've Never Run the Tarrasque
YouTube video by Mystic Arts
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
There's a real, actual, definable reason why nobody ever runs the Tarrasque in D&D. It's because the lore is *bad.* But what makes lore bad? What makes it good? youtu.be/KqTNeiefmPQ
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🎅 We’d like to give away a FREE magazine to Bluesky to say thanks for helping make this project a success
🎁 To enter, just QUOTE this with a description of your first ever computer, we’ll randomly pick a winner at the end of the week
vole.wtf/doctype/
🎁 To enter, just QUOTE this with a description of your first ever computer, we’ll randomly pick a winner at the end of the week
vole.wtf/doctype/
DOCTYPE magazine 🚀⌨️
’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!
vole.wtf
December 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
🎅 We’d like to give away a FREE magazine to Bluesky to say thanks for helping make this project a success
🎁 To enter, just QUOTE this with a description of your first ever computer, we’ll randomly pick a winner at the end of the week
vole.wtf/doctype/
🎁 To enter, just QUOTE this with a description of your first ever computer, we’ll randomly pick a winner at the end of the week
vole.wtf/doctype/
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This pic of Vultan might be one of my favourite things I’ve ever drawn.
December 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This pic of Vultan might be one of my favourite things I’ve ever drawn.
Is … is it a bomb? A nuclear bomb? Have I somehow triggered Judgement Day?
December 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Is … is it a bomb? A nuclear bomb? Have I somehow triggered Judgement Day?
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Hey all!
I know from personal experience the holidays can suck.
Until Jan 10th, if you sign up to the Quinns Quest Patreon with the code 239CE, you get 90% off, which is the most I can discount. I make $0, the final 10% is Patreon's cut 🎄🎁❄️
www.patreon.com/qquest
I know from personal experience the holidays can suck.
Until Jan 10th, if you sign up to the Quinns Quest Patreon with the code 239CE, you get 90% off, which is the most I can discount. I make $0, the final 10% is Patreon's cut 🎄🎁❄️
www.patreon.com/qquest
Get more from Quinns Quest on Patreon
Covering tabletop roleplaying games
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December 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Hey all!
I know from personal experience the holidays can suck.
Until Jan 10th, if you sign up to the Quinns Quest Patreon with the code 239CE, you get 90% off, which is the most I can discount. I make $0, the final 10% is Patreon's cut 🎄🎁❄️
www.patreon.com/qquest
I know from personal experience the holidays can suck.
Until Jan 10th, if you sign up to the Quinns Quest Patreon with the code 239CE, you get 90% off, which is the most I can discount. I make $0, the final 10% is Patreon's cut 🎄🎁❄️
www.patreon.com/qquest
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Great #TTRPG 🧵
There’s this core contradiction in RPG design where the medium is scrappy as hell, and requires little more than some scribbles and a dream, but the commercial products are pricey and tremendously polished.
It’s easy to see, and upon seeing it, the first instinct is usually that Something Is Wrong.
It’s easy to see, and upon seeing it, the first instinct is usually that Something Is Wrong.
December 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Great #TTRPG 🧵
@bsky.app version 1.111.0 ❌
Every new version I try pasting a GIF into the app and am disappointed. Don’t know why I thought this one would be different.
And this lack is about 80% of the reason I’ve not started making GIFs again. The inability to share them on the only social network I use.
And this lack is about 80% of the reason I’ve not started making GIFs again. The inability to share them on the only social network I use.
December 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
@bsky.app version 1.111.0 ❌
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Cannot imagine what would be so attractive about technology made in an era before everything was so aggressively abusive and predatory and pre-broken to people who have never known anything else
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Cannot imagine what would be so attractive about technology made in an era before everything was so aggressively abusive and predatory and pre-broken to people who have never known anything else
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
Ultra-hard mode: you made the GIF — gifs.cackhanded.net/wargames/the...
Ultra-hard mode: you made the GIF — gifs.cackhanded.net/wargames/the...
December 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
Ultra-hard mode: you made the GIF — gifs.cackhanded.net/wargames/the...
Ultra-hard mode: you made the GIF — gifs.cackhanded.net/wargames/the...
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 AM
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori
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In an alternative universe, Netfix would have bought Warner several years ago, and being Netflix, would have cancelled Game of Thrones at the end of series seven.
So we'd all spend decades being furious not knowing what we just dodged.
So we'd all spend decades being furious not knowing what we just dodged.
December 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
In an alternative universe, Netfix would have bought Warner several years ago, and being Netflix, would have cancelled Game of Thrones at the end of series seven.
So we'd all spend decades being furious not knowing what we just dodged.
So we'd all spend decades being furious not knowing what we just dodged.
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Zuckerberg has spent more than 70 Billion since 2021 trying to create a Metaverse, a virtual world for work & play. He doesn't talk about it anymore and is cutting the program by 30% next year.
Imagine if he'd used that 70 billion to create a better world?
These men dream too small and too selfish.
Imagine if he'd used that 70 billion to create a better world?
These men dream too small and too selfish.
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Zuckerberg has spent more than 70 Billion since 2021 trying to create a Metaverse, a virtual world for work & play. He doesn't talk about it anymore and is cutting the program by 30% next year.
Imagine if he'd used that 70 billion to create a better world?
These men dream too small and too selfish.
Imagine if he'd used that 70 billion to create a better world?
These men dream too small and too selfish.
I have one fan and he is great.
And as I still regularly make space to do whenever I talk about my career and how I got here with people on and offline - an eternal shout out to @cackhanded.net who gave me a deep foundational knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS and ways of working that I still lean on today.
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I have one fan and he is great.
First camera app I’ve tried that actually lets me select individual lenses from the seventy bajillion* my iPhone has.
🥔🥔🥔 NEW APP 🥔🥔🥔
Everything’s now got 4K 60fps HDR video, booooring. Embrace the low-res glitchy look instead
vole.wtf/potatocam/
Everything’s now got 4K 60fps HDR video, booooring. Embrace the low-res glitchy look instead
vole.wtf/potatocam/
PotatoCam 🥔📹
The worst video camera you’ve used in a LONG time.
vole.wtf
December 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
First camera app I’ve tried that actually lets me select individual lenses from the seventy bajillion* my iPhone has.
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If the BBC boycott, drink everything in your house.
1 shot for every country that pulls out?
December 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If the BBC boycott, drink everything in your house.
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Like MAGA, transphobes have gotten everything they wanted in 2025. And, like MAGA, they've never been more vitriolic toward the institutions they've captured, more disgusted by their wounded victims, more ready to plough forth into realms of cruelty that even they would have balked at a year ago.
December 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Like MAGA, transphobes have gotten everything they wanted in 2025. And, like MAGA, they've never been more vitriolic toward the institutions they've captured, more disgusted by their wounded victims, more ready to plough forth into realms of cruelty that even they would have balked at a year ago.
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Accenture claim that tech debt costs $2.4T in the US alone. Which they should know, because they caused most of it.
December 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Accenture claim that tech debt costs $2.4T in the US alone. Which they should know, because they caused most of it.
Firefox, now: AI all the things
Firefox, then:
Firefox, then:
December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Firefox, now: AI all the things
Firefox, then:
Firefox, then: