Francesco 🍁 @fra@qoto.org

A playable version of #DOOM on an #LEGO brick using a @Raspberry_Pi #RP2040 by @ancientjames. Uses an accelerometer and tilt for movement, and a capacitance touch sensor to shoot. Subframe sampling to make the tiny monochrome LCD give 3 gray levels. This is miraculous stuff. 😮 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76U0JPrMFk

A List of Things People Blamed on Bicycles

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stasera ho messo su il dvd di "Alba fatale", film che non riguardavo da anni. Uno dei western del periodo classico più affilati che abbia mai visto: appena 75 minuti di b/n - assai nero come l'animo umano quando decide di far prevalere le leggi di natura (dei più forti e idonei: l'istinto della maggioranza) rispetto ai necessari compromessi di cultura.
Un film che sbatte in faccia al pubblico western quello che spesso ancora oggi, non soltanto nel 1943, in fondo in fondo non vuole sentirsi dire

Shamelessly reposting this because it is hilarious, but the toot making the rounds didn't bother with adding alt text.

Via https://mastodon.world/@bkm/110047181266402602

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Oggi ricorre il secondo anniversario della data "dell'eroica vittoria" dell'esercito italiano contro le galline, in provincia di Pordenone.
#esercitoitaliano #nowar #pagliacci

I was a bartender for many yrs before I started working in advertising. I still hate St. Patrick's Day. I think I always will. This yr, it falls on Friday, which is exponentially worse. Let's have a moment of silence for all the #bartenders across the land (& across the water, too). The rest of you, tip well, tip often, keep your stomach contents to yourself, & pls try to restrain yourself from asking strangers if they have any Irish in them. #AMEN #StPatricksDay #DailyGiggle

La Corte penale internazionale ha emesso un mandato d’arresto per Putin https://www.ilpost.it/2023/03/17/corte-penale-internazionale-mandato-arresto-putin/

«Che differenza c’è tra danzare per far piovere, e schiacciare un tasto per illuminare uno schermo?» https://www.ilpost.it/2023/03/15/tecnologia-religione-chiara-valerio/

Un podcast dalla Geo Barents https://www.ilpost.it/2023/03/15/la-nave-podcast-ong/

Il governo Meloni boccia il riconoscimento della genitorialità delle coppie omosessuali a livello europeo. La Commissione Politiche europee ha votato, con 11 voti su 18, una risoluzione della maggioranza presentata dall'ex ministro degli Esteri Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, contraria all'estensione anche in Italia di eventuali diritti riconosciuti dall'Unione Europea.
https://www.ilriformista.it/no-ai-diritti-dei-figli-di-coppie-gay-schiaffo-del-governo-patriota-alleuropa-no-allinvasione-dei-diritti-ue-348098/

In Utrecht, NL people have been falling into a pond because duckweed has been stressed by the cold and turned it red an looks exactly like a cycle path.

RIP

Johns Hopkins has stopped collecting COVID data.

So the next post will be my last in this series.

#SarsCoV2 #Covid

If you sell #milkshakes, please include straws with rigidity commensurate with the static pressure conveyed by the thickness of the shake. So so so tired of straws collapsing just trying to drink through them... 😭

I mean, doesn't every ice cream shop owner study #FluidDynamics??? 👀😂

BBC è nei guai per avere sospeso il suo più famoso commentatore sportivo https://www.ilpost.it/2023/03/11/gary-lineker-sospeso-bbc/

1️⃣ Most importantly: what Gary Lineker said about the UK government’s anti-asylum policy is true.

2️⃣ Even if it weren’t, he shouldn’t be punished for it. You don’t lose your right to speak your conscience because you present a sports show.

3️⃣ Everyone should speak out against the increasing attacks on this vulnerable minority, or the attacks will only get worse. Those with greater influence have an even greater moral obligation to do so.

OK, so the Alt-Right regime at the BBC has cancelled a 96 year old national treasure. THE national treasure. Lifelong naturalist and broadcaster, who introduced most of the country to a love for the natural world in their childhoods. For the capital crime of a nature program covering damage to ecosystems. In the final series of his lifetime of service

Remind me, which side of the political spectrum does cancel culture? 🤬

#IStandWithDavidAttenborough

in hindsight the plot of The Great Gatsby makes infinitely more sense when you remember that the author and all of the characters have been driven to the brink of stark-raving, shoelace-eating madness by three years of a global flu pandemic