Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

I really need to talk about Demoscene more. I'm not much of a creator, but I love Demoparties and Compos.

Starting a thread about my two favorite categories: 4k and 64k.

These are computer programs that are restricted to a maximum file size (in kilobytes!), but must also remain graphically impressive.

Let's start with a crowd pleaser: the timeless by Mercury.

https://youtu.be/ie4u2i_5OdE

There's lots of Twitter users that have migrated here recently, and a good chunk of them have discovered the Mastodon Twitter Crossposter, which means your timeline is probably littered with sloppy looking retweets.

And you can rid yourself of them with this one simple filter:

I absolutely love this MODERNS music video animated by Peter Corina. It blows my mind that an artist that pumps out so many bangers remains relatively unknown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7HFOtoqPNg

Not giving them the exposure by linking to the article or posting a screenshot, but I will note that the person who wrote the article looks like this:

Newsweek published an absolutely indefensible article about the "politicization" of the Club Q shooting, that basically pretends that right-wing homophobia and transphobia is a myth, and that a mass shooting at a gay club during a drag show was just a coincidence.

Complete trash written by someone who doesn't appear to meet the definition of a journalist in any capacity.

STL for anyone interested: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3924308

After lots of hard work, I finally have my own haus.

PAK CHOOIE UNF

@nekoewen When the new logo first started showing up on cars, I thought it was some new make of car abbreviated ᴋᴎ

I'm honestly proud of myself for such an unhinged looking selfie. I hope this becomes the first picture people see when they Google my name.

@halcy Thanks for letting me know.

I guess I would revise that to:

<instance name> inurl:/about mastodon

If you want to find out where a Mastodon instance is silenced/suspended, you can use this useful Google search string:

<instance domain> inurl:/about/more

where <instance domain> is the root domain of the instance you are checking.

You will get results from instances that have silenced/suspended the instance you are searching for, minus those with strict robot.txt or obfuscated domain names in the block list.

An informal measure of instance quality.

"Happy Holidays"

@fluffy I moved here 9 years ago, and aside from the awful cost of housing, I'd never want to live anywhere else!

The city has an incredible cultural scene, and we're surrounded by natural beauty!