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Childless cat lad. Also opines about music at @acb

Happy Summer Solstice.
Here's a re-imagined #WickerMan poster I knocked out recently.

#FolkHorror

@strutsulf In Gothenburg you can now ride by tapping on a payment card without buying a Västtrafik ticket. I’m guessing it’s not capped either, though.
@lardmotel Ugh, it’s vibe coded. Pass.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ptua/116784624776058679

If public transport in Naarm has daily fare caps on card payments, it’s one step ahead of Stockholm.

@timrichards I remember seeing things like electric desktop calculators (that printed onto rolls of paper), 4-track tapes and TV tennis games at flea markets in the 90s, to name two classes of not particularly rare/valuable obsolete technology.

Today you see portable CD players, though some people have apparently gone back to them due to discontent with streaming. And then there’s arguably vinyl.

@rostiger surely there must be people rapping in Latin.
@nasser You’ve heard of Hindley-Milner type systems? Well, Lua has a Fisher-Price type system, designed to be suitable for small children who have not learned the concept of zero yet.
Design Ah! (デザインあ) · learning the fun of design
https://arun.is/blog/design-ah/
Design Ah! (デザインあ) · learning the fun of design

A gem of an educational show from Japan about design.

Little Free DataCenter: take what you need, leave what you can
@quitthebiz and the Californian Ideology is being replaced by the Texan Ideology: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-texan-ideology-turner
The Texan Ideology | Fred Turner

CEOs like Musk who are moving their company headquarters from California to Texas are doing so in part to flee the inequality that their industries have produced.

The Baffler