taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

wisdom from the park

idk if the reference is even that well known but it's this https://legendsoflocalization.com/articles/hana-no-star-kaido/

bit of now-redundant JS that i'm slightly sad to get rid of because of the comment

this thing i saw on aliexpress is really hitting my weak point for really stupid video game consoles. check out the fucking gamer king. kingof jighter37 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005012109252041.html

beer lion

one thing i've noticed reading the hansard transcripts of the debates over online restrictions for under 16s is this great emphasis and panic over "stranger pairing" which i believe is what we used to call "making friends"
https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-04-28/debates/10561CF6-2D3B-4460-BE8A-0194D12E146C/Children%E2%80%99SWellbeingAndSchoolsBill

hmm

i've now made it display thumbnails & it shows the filenames & markup for the image when you click on it. made it like 100x more useful. progress is being made

the bulk of this was done in 2012 when i launched hhug with a few improvements over the years. the bit that handles image uploads somehow dates back to the website i had before that & it looks like this. i just embedded it in an iframe in the current interface & was like fuck it that'll do for now

i've been working on my blogging software (the one that powers handheld underground & 12bit blog) adding support for replies to comments among other things. wanted to improve it a bit if i'm going to start a personal blog

was looking on wikimedia commons for public domain lion pictures i could use for a thing & i found this good one https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Druidofthejungle%27s_lion_drawing.jpg

went on some website to look for good examples of the body type i want him to have & it's literally number 1 on trending. good

hey does anyone want to buy a brand new sealed Miniloong Pocket 1 emulator handheld for 50 quid
it's the "retro" colour scheme, no memory card

i like this bear. the game is just sokoban but the bear is good

charging my headphones off my famiclone. bet that's not a sentence anyone has ever said before

i also ordered a bunch of Interesting Beers for my birthday
(disclaimer: i will not be drinking all of these today) (i'll probably have like two)

The good stuff is on here