I put up an HDTV rip of the *American* cut of one of my guilty pleasures, Luc Besson's first attempt at making an International Film - The Big Blue (1988), on the Archive.
US cut is shorter than original by 14 minutes, & 50 min shorter than the Director's Cut. It also adds a happy ending. Then it replaces the memorable Eric Serra score with a new one by Bill Conti, who decided to copy Serra's homework.

This cut isn't available on any physical medium in HD.
Grab MP4 here: https://archive.org/details/the-big-blue-us-hdtv

@ednl @anna That's a cool page! It bugged the pedant in me when they kept talking about the compiler's font. Compilers don't have fonts. But graphical libraries and development tools, like Turbo Pascal and BGI, do.

Same.

The finish under yellow was a bit anticlimactic, but it was a pretty exciting #Indianapolis500

25 May 1933 | Dutch Jewish girl, Sara Knoop, was born in Amsterdam.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 27 January 1944 and was murdered in a gas chamber right after the selection made by SS doctors.

GIFT REQUESTS FOR WE WANT YOU TO HAVE THIS OPEN AT 10AM THIS MORNING!! If you're trans and based in the USA and you want to wear jewelry from me but can't afford it, my sponsors and I want to give you a present.

It's 7AM now. You can just go to this page at 10. https://nora.jewelry/pages/we-want-you-to-have-this-jewelry-gifts-for-trans-people

Today is, for those unaware, “Towel Day.” Celebrating not only “the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have” but remembering one Douglas Noel Adams who left us 24 years ago.

So long and thanks for all the fish you cool frood! 👍

#HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #TowelDay #H2G2

@alexlac51 Mike Oldfield’s birthday was last week. How do I know this esoteric fact? It falls on the same day as my wedding anniversary. And the only way we can remember our anniversary is when my friend @revmem reminds me it is Michael Oldfield’s birthday.

@anna Thanks for the pointer to this podcast (which I didn't know about at all). I guessed Turbo Pascal before they said it and knew they'd probably be getting in touch with Phillipe. Brought me back to my very beginnings as a programmer. Any old nerd programmer like me would know!

@Mrfunkedude so hard to make the call, buddy. Our previous dog was 17 and in great shape but went downhill in a hurry. Like you say, he had accidents and stopped moving his back legs. It was so sad. Still the hardest thing I've ever done in my life was hold him at end. Good luck and I wish you well.

I reckon I lost about 500 followers through my own mistake last week. I'm still missing about 100. I removed all followers, not just dormant accounts, from the servers:
Mastodon dot social
Kolektiva dot social
Mastodon dot sdf dot org
Fosstodon dot org
Toot dot community

Please follow me again if that was you!

@claudiom Looks fantastic! Cheers!

@toad I know right???

I guess I should thank the psycho tree swallows that chased me in 3 different locations while at the park. If not for those lunatics with anger issues, I may not have exceeded my target cardio load by more than 10 points today.

As more self-medication for my low-grade headache, I am going to try dosing it with a gin and sonic (half light tonic and half seltzer water) that has a splash of crème de cassis in it. Cheers!

@RSNStats you must have done a lot of typing for this game! I didn’t even know they were on