William Blasko

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My friend once said, “You see! William _is_ secretly cool!”
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This isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating. Substack hosts, profits from, and promotes explicitly Nazi content, and if you are adding value to that network, you are helping them to do so. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

The Guardian
@hotdogsladies this sequence brought me so much joy.
Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.

At 13, I joined a Wolfenstein 3d modding forum. 22 years later, my posts are still there - and still searchable.

The discussion I had in Discord 2 years ago?

Not so much.

We chose this. We can choose better.

https://blog.discourse.org/2025/11/the-death-of-community-memory/

The Death of Community Memory

I recently spent forty minutes searching through Slack trying to find a technical decision — made eight months ago — about an app that 60% of my creative life depends on...I eventually gave up and just asked someone to explain it again, which they did, poorly, because they didn’t quite remember either.

Discourse
@viticci wow I’m surprised how many people are replying saying it’s bad. I use it on my personal computer (forced to use chrome at work), it’s absolutely great for me. I use the Sidebery extension. Tree style tabs are so amazing, try it out!

@overcastfm Nice! Glad you can relax into bug fix mode.

I hope that fixing the suggested speeds for > 2x is on the list, that's the big one for me. I noticed a few other people discussing it. https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/comments/1o4qntn/bug_playback_speed_recent_speed_shortcuts/

@ismh86 I seriously appreciate 512 version! Video was fun, too. :-D

a reminder that the language you use matters and "sideloading" is a term made up by the enemy

it's called installing software

A shitpost that's been brewing in my head for a while now