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TFW2005 Mar 22

How “UNO” inspired Hasbro Europe to continue with Transformers in the early 1990s https://news.tfw2005.com/2026/03/21/how-uno-inspired-hasbro-europe-to-continue-with-transformers-in-the-early-1990s-560563 #tfw2005 #transformers

NikT Mar 6

Irenes (many)Mar 6

when we were kids

the internet was a place where leading experts in every field would hang out with penniless teenagers

we were the latter

it was pretty amazing

nostalgia should never be purely backwards-looking, but that seems like an important thing to try to build again, somewhere, somehow

NikT Feb 18

OG_zuul Feb 18

i asked them if they had speaker cables for "post apocalyptic sludgecore" and they just looked at me funny. #audiophile

NikT Feb 17

mhoye Feb 17

"I would love to give The Blood-Cooled PC to my children someday."

I sort of admire the fact that the Aftermath staff describes the 2023 period when Blizzard gave away a human-blood-cooled PC as a prize in a contest as "a more innocent time". They're not wrong, but damn when you put it like _that_...

https://aftermath.site/email/11604f47-4a3b-411f-ad62-fc61d4fa7f6b/?ref=aftermath-bonus-blog-newsletter

Aftermath Bonus Blog: Diablo IV PC Cooled With Real Human Blood Is Still Going Strong Two Years Later, Says Guy Who Won It

"This genuinely has been a life-changing experience"

Aftermath

NikT Feb 17

PastaThief Feb 13

Well, this is way too real.

NikT Feb 5

Adam Curtis bot Feb 5

NikT Jan 30

The Public Domain Review Jan 29

The Slant Book (1910) by Peter Newell — shaped like a rhomboid it tells the story of a runaway baby carriage's chaotic downhill ride: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-slant-book

NikT Jan 8

javi Jan 8

Scene: new year 's eve dinner at my parents in law place

Characters: my two kids who lately are absolutely obsessed with the "my little pony: make your mark" show and everything about it, my in-laws, my partner, me.

So, as I said, both my kids are absolutely obsessed with the ponies lately, so we took a couple of figurines to dinner with us. They were telling everyone who every pony was, and suddenly my brother-in-law was "oh wait a second", went to his old bedroom, and came back with a old pony to give to them.

Brother-in-law: here, you can keep it!

My kids, vibrating with excitement: iiiiiiiiiiii this one is not in our show! What's her name???

Brother-in-law: I don't know know anything about it, I got it with a MacDonald menu maybe 15 years ago and it had been in my room since.

Me, without really thinking: oh, that's Rainbow Dash.

Silence.

Everybody staring at me.

My partner: wh.. how do you know that??

Me, embarrassed: I'm from the internet??.

And, everypony, this was why I spent a chunk of new year's eve dinner explaining why I knew the name of a character of a early 2010s kids show I never watched, who the bronies are, what is 4chan, and how everything connects to the downfall of Western democracies to my extended family.

NikT Dec 20

Jules she/her Dec 20

In work on my own with unsupervised access to the paint pens we use for labelling plant pots, so I decided I was bored of having black headphones. I am only a professional in the presence of witnesses.

Design very loosely inspired by @welshpixie 's PDF on how to draw mandalas.

NikT Dec 11

evacide Dec 11

Some days, the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man is simply not achievable and I must settle for the messy raccoon eye that can probably hurt your feelings.