I think about this article about mcbee quick sort cards a lot
I think about this article about mcbee quick sort cards a lot
liberation toolbox is YK Hong’s (subscription based) resource for liberating your life from google and other big tech companies

You're here! We're here. Heya, my name is YK Hong. This resource site delves into my life's work around Liberatory Strategy + Tech Justice. I have spent the past couple of decades working with organizations and communities around how we dismantle systems of oppression, strategize for liberatory pathways, and because I
enjoy this game i made
(reskinned someone else’s existing code and made into a self contained html)
Pick colours, pick blending modes and patterns, download a smooth gradient image

the #thirstyLinkSluts manifesto
1. search engines in 2026 suck, and not in the good way. We’re all thirsty for useful and relevant links
2. If you have a useful link, share it you slut
3. Rack up your <body> count
4. keep a “little black book” of your finest booty calls
When someone says
“does anyone have a good link for this?”
You open the book. Be a human search engine.
list of vintage japanese dot art (pixel art) software
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/10/21/list-of-vintage-japanese-pixel-dot-art-software/
Links about russian computers from the earlly GUI era, courtesy this thread (most from @nina_kali_nina ) :
https://furry.engineer/@patcharcana/116194382032516507
https://www.robotrontechnik.de/
>>> is a charmingly retro website about computing in the GDR, unfortunately mostly in German. The link section, it has some links to sites about soviet computing
home computers and micros, e.g. DVK
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81
>>> a good Wiki article on school computers from the 80s, too: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82_%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8
Many are Western clones, but not all of them.
>>> here are some screenshots of soft for one Soviet PDP-11-on-a-chip home computer:
https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/113676143680346758
>>> a windowed operating shell for PC-compatibles from 1986:
https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/111670752278950938
>>> here's an overview of SM models - https://www.computer-museum.ru/articles/sm-evm/1026/
It barely talks about the software, though. It mentions that they often ran RAFOS (RT11 clone) and DEMOS (UNIX)
I should know enough trans people, autists, and retrocomp geeks to get useful information out of this question. Tragically, with the current state of web search, this is less a matter of "lazy google" and more of an example of "We have unjustly slain the librarian." Does anyone have any good resources on computing in the soviet union in the 70s and 80s that *isn't* just Skala? I'm getting way too obsessive about a writing problem. I am especially interested in anything where a user interface becomes relevant: ICS workstations, desktop computers, the whole bit.
the quest to ressurect the three most important cd rom games for girls (2014)
theresa duncan cd rom preservation (2015)
https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/17/8436439/theresa-duncan-chop-suey-cd-rom-preservation
the theresa duncan cd roms