Tag: links
The Making Of Boiling Point (Jank)
Jank have a small Making Of Boiling Point up, which is a bit of a treat. Players flew in helicopters and planes, it's true - but they marvelled, too, at the flying jaguars. These airborne cats became a running joke after Deep Shadows published the patch notes of its first update, which included the line:...
Brazilian volleyball star Douglas Souza has married his long-term boyfriend, Gabriel Campos
Outside hitter Douglas was part of the national team squad that claimed Olympic gold at their home Games in Rio in 2016. He went on to win World Championships silver with Brazil in 2018, and in the same year, he started posting pictures of himself with his boyfriend on social media, coming out as gay...
if you really loved me, you’d buy me this for 95 bucks
This Figurine Statues & Sculptures item by NieboArte has 45 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Spain. Listed on May 26, 2026 Source: Hamster Meme Figure - Etsy
#BB28, i don’t know, surrounded by dinosaurs?
"‘Oh, they haven’t done that forever!’ And then with the time travel theme, maybe we’ll do a new twist, which is, ‘You loved that competition in Season 4. But they have to be, I don’t know, surrounded by dinosaurs.'" we, the #BB28 fans Demand a dinosaur pressure cooker! Source: Julie Chen Moonves Teases BB28 Premiere...
oh, rocky!
While 24 of the 35 productions reported at least some box office downturn – some more significantly than others – one show bucked the trend with a best-ever number: The Rocky Horror Show grossed $1,215,225, filling 97% of seats at Studio 54 and setting a new house record at the venue. Source: 'The Rocky Horror...
TIL: why it’s ctrl+V
Larry Tesler, the creator of copy/paste, explains: The Lisa was the first system to assign XCVZ to cut, copy, paste and undo (shifted with the “apple” key). I chose them myself. X was a standard symbol of deletion. C was the first letter of Copy. V was an upside down caret and apparently meant Insert...
how many months of centrist think pieces must we endure?
On the organizational front, a group of House Democrats aligned with a new centrist initiative, launched in the immediate aftermath of the democratic socialist victories, framed the wins as a reputational liability. “They should not be the face of our party,” the group declared, positioning the effort explicitly as a corrective to the party’s direction....
wake me up when they bring back fried chicken
Taco Bell moves away from in-restaurant fajita flair and reimagines those flavors on the go with its new Fajita Street Chalupas and Chicken Fajita Nacho Fries. Source: Fajita Street Chalupas & Chicken Fajita Nacho Fries | Taco Bell® Newsroom
lions, and tigers, and lenin, OH MY
OH NO, whatever shall we do?! 🙄 [Avila Chevalier] maintained a since-deleted Twitter account with repeated sympathetic references to communism, Marxist ideology and Soviet figures, including Vladimir Lenin. Source: Deleted tweets on Darializa Avila Chevalier’s account...
oh to be in 1936… or something
not me over here, yearning for the constraint of the 1930s... smdh The ruling overturned the Supreme Court's 1935 precedent that had recognized the authority of Congress to protect leaders of certain regulatory agencies from presidential removal at will. Source: US Supreme Court vastly expands Trump's presidential power
bulshit new student loan rules start in 2 days?
If you are behind on payments, you may qualify for an Unemployment Deferment or an Economic Hardship Deferment, but be warned: These programs are being eliminated for loans initiated on or after July 1, 2027. Forbearance will be limited to a maximum of nine months every two years for loans funded on or after July...
it’s the end of US science, and we know it
Source: The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it | The Verge The rule change would require political oversight of more than $1 trillion of federal grants across 42 different agencies. Federal grants are what pay for most of the scientific research, and the researchers, at universities across the country, from...
breaking: ai slop infects additional ai slop
Remember that WKNA site that DuckDuckGo was citing to claim that Trump had died from rabies? It appears to be a pink slime publication masquerading as a real local outlet, filled with fake news content that itself strongly appears to be generated by AI — and it very much seems to be cribbing from the...
links und likes 22.06.2026
links und likes vom 22.06.2026 und auch ein bisschen ki-tagebuch.
Beyond the Link: Why Your Naturist Business Needs a Profile, Not Just a List
Introducing Business User Profiles You may have seen sites that offer to be your digital business card, by providing a QR. Ask yourself when was the last time you used a business card? How easy is it for a potential customer to you make QR code connection? Are there too many hoops before it can...
Thoughts on Bookmarking the Web
Yesterday I shared some atmospheric thoughts. One of the ideas was seeing which services do I use now that could be replaced. One of those is bookmarking. There's two main contenders: Margin and Semble.
January Update/Links/Screenshots
After averaging 9 posts a month last year, I have gotten off to a slow start this year. Mostly this is because, at least for right now, I have no daily project to write about. One of my takeaways from writing at such a frenetic pace last year was that it would be nice to actually take my time drafting and editing things. I have been doing this, but it's a bit of a monkey's paw: when I don't just immediately hit "publish" after writing something I often end up either deciding it was a bad idea or