Breaking.Impossible

@BreakingImpossible
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Lifetime of living and working abroad, mostly in #VideoGames. Right now? Horsham, Total War. Previously? Hong Kong, Beijing, Kaohsiung, Seattle. Too many games to mention. ;-)

Also: #running, #KungFu, #HungKuen, #OptOutside, #History, #MartialArts, #travel, #China, #HongKong, #UK, #PNW, #photography

Breaking Impossiblehttps://www.breakingimpossible.com/
ChinaGamerGuyhttps://www.chinagamerguy.com/

Such an impressive #sundial! Indeed, it's almost...o-pressive.

#BreakingImpossible #hiking #running #OptOutside #Stockholm

A little more recent, but no less amazing is the Mariefred narrow gauge Östra Södermanlands Järnväg, ÖSlJ, railway museum.

Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AfxVX

#BreakingImpossible #Running #Hiking

This is exactly what the internet is for.
Snoqualmie River Middle Fork rock's eye view

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SDOT needs a goddamn intervention

#seattle #sdot #BikeMap #maps #BikeTooter #design

ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 has just released its shortlist of remarkable images for this year’s competition. See them now:

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/07/zwo-astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2025/

#nature #photography #science #space #landscape #astronomy #astrophotography #comets #moon #plants #stars #sun

It's 5 years since I released my first peripherals for the #RC2014 ecosystem, so have £5 off each of my first releases from June/July 2020!

🟢 SID Soundchip Interface
- Use the legendary Commodore 64 soundchip in your setup (or modern replacement SwinSID or ARMSID). Also incorporates 50/60/100Hz Interrupt Controller (useful too when using other soundchips for timing playback code.)

🟢 Graphic OLED Interface
- Add an easy to use 128x32 pixel graphic display to your setup.

All the info / order / see what else I've released: https://2014.samcoupe.com

Other RC2014 peripherals...

- *New for June 2025* SAA1099P Soundchip Interface.
- ZX True Tone (ZXTT), add-on module for Ed Brindley's YM/AY soundcard so it's clocked at the exact same frequency of the 128K ZX Spectrum so speccy tunes are pitch perfect.
- ZX-RC Bus Interface, to use RC2014 I/O peripherals with the #zxspectrum
- SAM-RC Bus Interface, as above but on the #SAMCoupe

#retrocomputing #z80 #electronics #c64 #chiptune #computing

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Somehow a 2h walk with almost no cars around, plus Turkish dance music, has really lifted my spirits

https://youtu.be/PPWl1FK2BRQ

Çağla - Saz mı Caz mı?

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I feel compelled to prove that he likes me. I just like funny pics of him
Sometimes I’m in a meeting and I look down and see this funny face
@skinnylatte What a heartwarming smile
@skinnylatte OMG what an adorable puppy

@skinnylatte

...and then "lose signal," drop the call and spend 2 minutes mushing up on that beautiful dog?

@skinnylatte when I saw the first pic I yelled KISS HIM at my phone and now
@skinnylatte this image made me laugh in the best way :)
@skinnylatte let the dog madness begin!
@skinnylatte That’s a very wary look.
@skinnylatte sorry you had a bad day, that walk sounds amazing!
@skinnylatte I’m so sorry you had a bad day. But I’m so glad you had Monterrey to lift you.
@minmi well Monterey caused it (small town politics are weird) but it also fixed it I guess

@skinnylatte

Ugh.

Monterrey people: 0
Monterrey fauna: 1000

@skinnylatte OMG I AM ON MY WAY!!!!!
@skinnylatte whale isn't that something
@skinnylatte I love that Monterey and Santa Cruz both have whale statues.
I used to suspect that the whale statue in front of the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, aka "Sandy the Gray Whale" was cast from the same moldings as the whale statue in front of the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History.

Having investigated such things again now (despite having been local to the areas in my youth), it appears as if the Santa Cruz equivalent in Tyrrell Park has apparently been updated in 2025 and now has a baby whale companion! Whoa!

https://santacruzmuseum.org/exhibit/the-gray-whales-revised/

So I have no idea about their potential relation anymore!

The whale statue @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io shared is also new to me, but to my eyes? The barnacles do not appear as if they are to a consistent scale. ;)
The Gray Whales - Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History