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  Time to house some haunted hills! Don't watch any remakes of this. "Hi, we're white oblivious people. Do you know the host?" "No, nobody does!" "Well this is sure to be a haunted house." #monsterdon #houseOnHauntedHill1959

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  Two of the many things that piss me off with Mastodon-the-shit-software: 1. 512-char toot limit, plain text only. 2. Can't show fucking alt text while expanding an image; you *can* show alt & then expand, but then it just covers up the image, it's probably a bug that it has any usability features at all. 3. Fucking Gargamel. I gotta get off this shit-ass software, try another fedi host, but all my shit's here!

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  > Dr. Ian Malcolm: God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs. Dr. Ellie Sattler: Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth. < Except now every idiot has left the time ship, and is running around chasing dinosaurs, which is STUPID. How about you leave them alone, before they eat you? Also yes, dinosaurs are 100x further back than they went. Oh, good, there's a cave left over from Star Trek. #monsterdon #journeyToTheCenter...

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  You have a tool which can see 24 hours into the future. The financier isn't interested in being able to cheat at stocks, thinks weapons dev is more profitable. Computer = theremin noises & random parts bolted to a plywood wall. The excitement of fiddling with knobs until you get a signal! WOW! No other movie has this action! Yet again I hate any movie character named Mark, they're always chumps, or assholes who get everyone killed. #monsterdon #journeyToTheCenterOfTime1967

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  Waking up.

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  String of Death: Don't go in the pool, there's a creepy guy in swim fins! Yes, kids ("kids" being 20-40 year old very white people in K-Mart special outfits) stand by a pool & wave their arms up & down. This butt-cam shit is what people used to watch to get excited before porn was legally avaialble. THANK LARRY FLYNT EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIVES, you have been spared this. Does this fucking Jellyfish song ever end? #monsterdon #stingofdeath1966

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  I couldn't even mentally process this cover for a minute. Clothed John Carter? Frog Tars Tarkas? Deety wearing clothes is even more pervy. https://afieldguidetodoomsday.tumblr.com/post/827375218235441152/dellcomics-dellcomics-jesse-marshs-fantastic #johncarter #barsoom #comic

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  You know Ultraman's gettin' good when they start the jazzy number while Dan runs off to find a phone booth to change in. #monsterdon #ultraman

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  ♫ Locked in our room reliving old movies How she adores him, how she adores him Gone today and here tomorrow Killed his taste for switchblades Killed his taste for switchblades "Join the children of hell" "Join the children of hell" ♫ https://music.apple.com/us/song/delicate-terror/1385211074 #music

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  #coffee

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  Peak computing: An IMSAI, terminal, modem, & Ally Sheedy.

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  > "You're right, and I respect you for it. Here, take over the ship for a minute while I go get some coffee for us." Mr. Spock came onto the bridge. "What are you doing in the command seat, Lieutenant?" < https://real-evil-genius.tumblr.com/post/826318639414296576 #startrek

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  ♫ Here he comes, our Ultraman! ♫ #monsterdon

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  The Bridges of Castle Rock County The Children of the Crappy Main Street The Hotels of Hobb's End Corner #monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

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  #coffee

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  I got up late, haven't been commenting on Hawk the Slayer, but no joke this is one of my favorite fantasy movies. It has so little budget, but it's willing to do *anything* just like a D&D party. Hawk isn't the most emotional dude but he rides & fights OK. Giant & Dwarf are the *best*. I often had half-giants in my old D&D campaigns. The nuns, like all Clerics, are fucking useless. Synth soundtrack's kick-ass. Old Man Palance is miscast as "brother" but...

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  I admit I did not have "Boy George supports genocide and AI" in my apocalypse bingo. WTF.

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  Berti Gordon presents, The Beginning of the Ending of the Middle Part II-A: The Metal Years. NEW THRILLS! GRASSHOPPERS! KISSING! ♫ It's natural right baby. ♫ Oh, is this another Mr B Natural short from MST3K? Car 254, where are you? Reporting a 984-2. I just made that up! That's not a real police code! "You won't believe this! Send help!" Yeah, they'll send the loony squad for you. Boring, but also badly-paced & shot in the "dark". #monsterdon #begi...

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  Bring me the head of the 5.25" floppy disk! https://archive.org/details/compatibles-pc-magazine-2-mai-1987/mode/1up #retrocomputing #wtf #guillotine

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  FIXME https://mdhughes.tech/tools/fixme/ I keep most of my project planning in comments in the source files. TODO: Usually main file has a bunch at the top, then I put more where I should add things later. FIXME: Above or on the line where I know I need to keep working, this is broken/suboptimal. XXX: Incomplete, often just needs cleaning up. NOTE: Not a problem yet, but keep an eye on this. Often I just find these while browsing my code, but to get a proper task list, I type

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  Jughead tells you to reject slop: https://archiecomics.com/bite-sized-archie-293-sacred-vs-slop/ #ButlerianJihad

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  Having seen a reference to the Jargon File, I went & looked at it again. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/ Why can't we have anything nice? The ESR update was super useful, nobody cared about most of the MIT TMRC stuff now, LISP was obscure, Unix won. Anyone today using a Lisp, even Medley, runs it on Unix (or Windows? Is someone so debased?) Early Internet & Unix needed documenting, & ESR stepped up, seemed fine at the time. He made an Intercal compiler! Then he turned into a...

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  HEBOCON: The Robot Contest for Dummies [The Jury Selections, The 18th Japan Media Arts Festival] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ivFpsmEVQ It's Sumo AND Robots AND stupid art projects! It's like everything I love in one place! I could make a really crappy robot, I've got some motors & LEGO wheels here, put a 9-volt on 'em and they'll flail around. Plastic Terminator skull? Hellboy fist piggy bank? The tissue box with dildo legs was *perfect*. #sumo #robots

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  Out of Arizona Teas for breakfast, oh no. Dig in back of cupboard, I HAVE A SINGLE MR BROWN LEFT! #coffee

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  One positive thing of this LLM slop vibecoding bullshit. We can now see who ever coded because it's fun, inspiring, awesome. And who coded because it was a job less demanding than construction work. And then there's hackernewses, who were in it for a biz scam. Make more money! #butlerianJihad

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  ENTER THE CAVERN OF UNKNOWN HORRORS! Man, I'm in 2026. You gotta do more than a single 50 ton spider (really? I don't think it's more than 1/2 ton) to horror-fy me. #monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider1958

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  My darling. The enemy shelling continues. Morale is low. Tiny Dog will not cease barking, and why should she? The whole world is explosions and fire. If we live, send socks. That was a particularly loud one. I dare not stick my head out to see whose house was flattened. —if my neighborhood was narrated by Ken Burns

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  I really do worry about the mental health of GNU/Linux users. They're like FOX "News" viewers, so much completely anti-reality shit fed to them it starts backing out of their mouths. "We're the only free people! The UN/New World Order/Apple/Communists/Fluoridators are going to make you wear masks/use their app store/bottled water and take away mah guns/compilers/precious bodily fluids!" Dude. Chill the fuck out, it's not like that. #l...

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  This is the meme (original sense) that just baffles me the most: "Mac OS isn't open!" You can do anything to it you can to any other BSD Unix. You can compile & run anything. Most of the source is on https://opensource.apple.com If you think "there's no FOO", do a search for FOO mac, you'll probably find it. There's UI & UX (not the same thing) problems currently. Maybe 27 rolls back to something saner. But ev...

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  Faster Than Thought https://archive.org/details/fasterthanthough00bvbo/page/n9/mode/2up History of computing, circa 1953. #retrocomputing