Ugh! What a Day!

@mediocre_mik
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This is my first social media account in about fifteen years. Please be gentle! Expect lots of typos and other mistakes.

Attention span of a plank of wood.

The Earth is not flat, vaccines are ace and hooray for Pride!

Doesn't like Mondays.

DOOM Eternal is now available on GOG

Time to rip and tear again, as DOOM Eternal has arrived on the DRM-free store GOG from id Software / Bethesda Softworks LLC.

GamingOnLinux

Hello, World

#NASA astronaut and #Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of #Earth from the #Orion spacecraft's window on April 2, 2026, after completing the translunar injection burn.

Image Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Tucked away in the woodlands of Pennsylvania lies a unique fleet of streamlined 1930s and 1950s streetcars. These St Louis and Pullman-Standard carriages have glorious vintage Americana vibes.

Many of these date to the height of the Streamline Moderne era. At this time, streamlined aerodynamic forms replaced the geometric shapes and excessive ornamentation of the earlier Art Deco style.

#Streetcar #ArtDeco #Pennsylvania #Transportation #Moderne #Photography #Trams #Rust

"I had sex with a piglet I stole. People *must* accept that this is the future of interpersonal relationships... Right?"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/02/artificial-intelligence-writers-powerful-language?CMP=share_btn_url

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever

Mastery of banal style is losing its usefulness – but language is more powerful than ever. It’s up to the writer to do what machines can’t

The Guardian
Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time

After rubbing away the sleep from my eyes in disbelief, Valve have updated the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for March 2026 showing explosive Linux growth.

GamingOnLinux
the "upside" to AI
It's weird how a significant proportion of British people despise people on benefits who are apparently sponging off the state, but love millionaires who live offshore to avoid contributing to the economy.

With the price of hardware everywhere going up, we've had a long hard think about the future.

So, we're going to rebrand and refocus to enable us to continue to exist past the end of 2026.

Announcing our new name: GamingOnPenAndPaper

About trans rights:

They're a wedge issue. If you think it's okay to deprive trans people of the right to exist in the public sphere then you're saying human rights are conditional and/or can be withdrawn. Which puts you on a slippery slope to no human rights for anyone.

When you trace the roots of the modern anti-trans movement they boil down to some combination of bigotry and billionaire bullshit— the oligarchs think rights are for the rich.

So: trans-rights are human rights. No exceptions.