FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

SHOCKING: Local YouTuber Makes Big Announcement, Writes 10,500 Words To Explain Why

here it is: an exhaustive discussion of what i've been up to this year, the art i've made, the things i've endured, the hope i've lost and gained, and what it all means for the future of my video work.

it's been a shit year, but i'm not dead yet.

https://www.patreon.com/ltas/posts/shocking-local-166161680

if OS/2 got a version called OS/2 Warp, why didn't the PS/2 get a version called PS/2 Weft?

ohh, 迷う [まよう] is both “to lose one's way; to get lost” and “to linger (of a departed soul); to be restless in one's grave; to be unable to rest in peace”…

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Math is hard.

#gamedev #railways #trains

I've owned this old, beat-up Callaway Big Bertha golf club for months. Only today did I get around to doing what I actually meant to do with it when I bought it.

Only about 7 days until Clacton is given the chance to make the funniest thing in politics anywhere happen. (Well, this USA American thinks it'd be funny.)

Farage losing to a bin (excuse me, "the establishment") would be the funniest outcome ever. Funnier even than that time Scotland's winds tested if Trump's comb-over was a toupee.

(I know Binface likely won't win, but really Farage lost 3 weeks ago.)

Man in my 50s here. Have started telling the important people in my life that I love them every time I see them. The embaressment, especially with the men, might shave a year or two off my life but I'm not stopping now. If I drop dead tomorrow they'll at least know how I felt.

In a job interview I was asked what I'd like to be remembered for. I responded that I had no desire to be remembered. My main takeaway from a BA and MA in history is that people in history books are villains or victims and I didn't want to be either. Didn't get the job.

#WindowFriday #Fensterfreitag

I just recalled the interesting tidbit that the idea of writing "(he/him)" and "(she/her)" was invented many thousands of years ago by the Sumerians, who often used written symbols you weren't meant to pronounce out loud to help you visually parse the structure of cuneiform, and this included he/she markers for personal names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinative

A weird thing about living in #Massachusetts is constantly having other Americans tell you the life you live every day is impossible.

"You can't tax billionaires, they'll leave."

We have been, and they didn't.

"You can't legalize weed, it will increase crime."

We did, and it didn't.

"You can't make public transit free, it will cost too much."

We did, and it didn't.

And on and on, and the lesson to learn is don't listen to the billionaire media professional whiners and just do what's right for your community AND IT WORKS! But I still have to listen to this stupid shit every day.

i did it. i bolted InstallShield-style background to an MSI installer. you have no idea how difficult this was

Time for a new thread.

I've made a short blog post outlining the basic techniques of executable emoji, which I have dubbed emojissembly.

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2026/08/executable-emoji.html

I started working on a general COM2EMOJI utility that I might post at some point, but let's face it the chances of me being distracted by some shiny thing in the next 48 hours is quite high.