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Cake day: October 24th, 2026

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  • For me it’s being able to pick and choose the resistance to button presses, I go with heavy (60-70g) springs because I have a habit of hammering on keys and that resistance reduces the time I spend bottoming out the keys.

    I use tactile switches (no audible click but a noticeable feel of when the switch actuates) instead of the ‘blue’ or clicky keyswitches because I prefer my keyboard not announce itself.

    Linear switches are also an option, with some of them you can have an entirely silent action, often with softer springs so that typing on it feels like brushing your fingers across a cloud (for me softer springs means pressing random keys all the time because I am a ham fisted gorilla in a human suit.)


  • In 1961, 18-year-old Ross enlisted in the United States Air Force and was put into service as a medical records technician.  He rose to the rank of master sergeant and served as the first sergeant of the clinic at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, where he first saw the snow and mountains that later appear as recurring themes in his paintings. He developed his quick painting technique during brief daily work breaks.

    From this wiki page, his style was built out of necessity, where he could only paint on a break, in effect he was one of the first speedpainters to become widely known (pulling that out of my ass because art history is something I know <1 about(slightly more than nothing).)


  • “There’s evidence of organic matter that has decayed over the years, we traced back through our archives of which microorganisms broke down biological matter and their waste products, to determine the origins, but the results were unsettling.”

    “It was semen wasn’t it?”

    “…it was.”

    “And the sculpture inside?”

    “…These ancient people had rather niche tastes”




  • No, their options were capitulate or be replaced by someone more willing to bend the knee.

    I’m not giving them a free pass, I’m being realistic.

    If you were the boss of the news corp would you rather be responsible for the unemployment and potential death or harassment of your staff, or wait for the fall of a dictatorship and make sure the people you employ can survive?

    Once again, hate that I have to clarify, but I am NOT giving them a pass for spreading propaganda, I am glad that they now have both the ability and integrity to say “We were used by the government to spread propaganda, and we apologise”

    Which isn’t something I could ever imagine the news corps of the western world doing.

    It’s a step in the right direction, much like the first step to sobriety, it doesn’t make the harm an addict committed while abusing substances right, but it shows a willingness to become better.




  • True. In my eyes it’s a step in the right direction. One that I haven’t seen from any other news corp worldwide.

    At the very least it’s an admission that the previous government had such tight control over them that they couldn’t fight against it without being entirely shut down, much in the same way news corps with professional standards on reporting are shut down and drowned out in other countries.