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The Bayeux goes back to Britain

Photoshop of a Bayeux Tapestry panel.
Top text: "Behold: Spinale Tapestrie"
Below a guy is pointing out something on a rectangular cabinet of some sort to another bloke.
He says: "Verily, it goeth even unto XI"

(From Alexis Taylor, @lexistwit.bsky.social)

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Of course, on the artist's Facebook post for this comic, there is a reply guy saying "Well actually, the term gaslighting wasn't about gas lighters..."

A four panel cartoon featuring two Victorian workers lighting gas street lamps. Only Allen is named, so I've assigned the name 'Guy' to the other guy.

Guy: We're gas lighters, Allen. One day, our profession will be held in the highest esteem.

Allen: I dunno. I just have a bad feeling.

Guy: No, you don't.

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It is done. I finished making the CNC machine. It draws circuits on a copper plate, just how i wanted. It is rare for me to finish a project. I'm so incredibly happy about it :blob_melt_sob_love:
The machine is still in kind of a rough shape. I will make proper power circuit and maybe a bluetooth for serial. Other then that, it is ready to be used :bowsette_blonde:

(Part 7: Finished)

#diy #cnc #arduino #electronics

@Richard_Littler Evidently Chickentown, rather than Greenwich Village.

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Watched the John Cooper Clarke biopic at the weekend. God knows why they felt the need to transfer the whole thing to an American setting. Why not just set it in Manchester?

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A non-political post for a change! These are the original concept sketches for the 1978 Space Invaders by Toshihiro Nishikado.

One of my first jobs was cleaning cleaning the floors and loos in a transport cafe. My boss used to give me time, after my shift to play! 10p a game! For comparision Benson & Hedges cigarettes were 60p a pack in the vending machine.

I would have been about 14 at the time and this was one of my gateways into programming and smoking!

Simpler times.

#RetroGaming

The original concept drawings of the ubiquitous space invader monsters drawn in pencil on graph paper.

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Viele meiner #Lieblingsbilder sind beim Instanzenwechsel auf der alten Instanz verblieben und nun poste ich nach und nach einige/etliche von denen und hoffe, dass die Freude daran auch hier geteilt werden kann...

Diese Süße hier hat als besuchte und gefütterte "Friedhofskatze" angefangen. Dann kam der Winter und es wurde immer sichtbarer, dass sie nicht gesund war.
So geht das ja nicht ;)
Seit Jahren nun schon geschätztes Familienmitglied und die sozialkompetenteste von allen :D
Genießen kann sie jedenfalls.

#Photography #Caturday #CatsOfFediverse

Gestreifte Katze auf einem gestreiften Läufer. Das GEsicht von einem Sonnenstrahl beschienen, Augen geschlossen und die Zungenspitze ist zu sehen. In den Hintergrund verschwindet ein Arm, die Hand, die sie streichelt ist nicht zu sehen.

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Brace yourself, Summer is coming.

#sun #retrocomputing #meme #imadethis

The Kombucha Girl meme, where she reacts with a disgust on the picture of a person "enjoying the sun" while sunbathing, but she reacts with curiosity about the idea of "enjoying the Sun", while using a Sun computer system.

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Man checks his e-mail over a public pay telephone using a panasonic Rl-P4001 acoustic coupler dial-up modem attached to a Panasonic Rl-H1400 Hhc hand-held computer in the early 1980s.

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*** The conversation from their viewpoint ***
Linux User: I finally got my tiling window manager perfectly configured.
Friend: sees a black screen with tiny white text
Linux User: It’s so efficient, no wasted space!
Friend: struggles to find the mouse cursor
Linux User: The learning curve is steep, but the rewards are immense!
Friend: thinks about their pretty icons and taskbar
Linux User: You wouldn't understand the elegance of pure CLI productivity.

(2/2)

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I guess you've heard some bad jokes about Fibonacci sequences?

Well, this one is as bad as the last two you heard put together.

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Snakes On A Plane

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Why slack when you can plan?

#plan9 #unix #retrocomputing #vintage #floppydisk

A repurposed Slackware Linux disk as a plan 9 install disk

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I can't believe we're still having to say this in 2025, but would people *please* scroll back to the top of a website when they're finished reading, so it's ready for the next person. We've even got buttons at the bottom to do it all in one go, it's not 1994 any more.

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