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philpem.bsky.social
Software preservation, electronics, software and ham radio, maker of things. The kid who liked to take things apart and never grew out of it. Occasional SFF and comics fan. Not a furry, kinda adjacent. Mostly active on https://digipres.club/@philpem
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I've decided to turn any hate towards this into a positive. Every time I get flipped off or thumbs down for this flag I'm gonna make a 3$ donation to www.thetrevorproject.org at the end of the month. #Pride #QueerTrucker #TheTrevorProject #LGBTQ

Long live Pride 🏳️‍🌈🫶 [ #cuteart #pridemonth #pride ]

I have one of the cards that pairs with these floppies, so I just dumped the ROM along with the 3 PALs. (Not 100% sure those dumps are good, but something was read from them.) This Appletalk ISA card sports a 6502 + SRAM + ROM + 8530. archive.org/details/am-2...

This is a National Semiconductor transistor data book Circa May 1974. When you look up a transistor, like the 2N2907, it gives you a page number, but... infosec.exchange/@RueNahcMohr...

learn your history, besties

POV: After murdering my literary agent for sleeping with my wife I return home to find that I am completely fully fucked

"Mr. Coyote, oh, just one more thing... I'm sorry, this is crazy, you see my wife, she's a big fan..."

When they run out of non-whites, they'll start targeting "the wrong kind of white" people.

You remember James Frey as the confabulator who faked a memoir and got humiliated by Oprah for it; I remember him as the book packager who egregiously exploited young writers with an outrageously bad ghost writing contract. He's always been fucking terrible. whatever.scalzi.com/2010/11/13/t...

free-to-download poster for printing sajan.itch.io/wizard-poster

Really interesting new research paper just came out “Are Wasps Just Evil Bees” and I got to say it captured my attention from the first sentence “Wasps, it turns out, are just evil bees.” Amazing

Sir Ian McKellen to open historic all-trans and non-binary production of Shakespeare classic

Looks like the worst episode of Dr Who ever. The quality of staffing at UNIT has really gone down the pan, but the reaction of the woman in the background almost saves it. I cant see these two surviving.

So, this Unbound/Boundless fiasco. I was going to be polite about it, but after this morning’s email: no

tired

It's the weekend, baby

Catch all #OHS2025 talks on the livestream link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ais...

Target is really out there with their lorem ipsum Pride collection 🫠

Ringing the new Yesterzine episode bell as I line it up for a cosy watch a little later on. 💜 Been watching Dudley's Literal Magazine Show for years now, and they never disappoint.

This is one of the best mainstream pieces of A.I. criticism I've ever read, and it is somehow on CNN. @amorrow.bsky.social is far ahead

www.wired.com/story/ea-tri... The bigot grifters abandoned comics like it was nothing. They were never true fans. Of anything.

The not posting on the internet part is VERY vital. And I know in recent years a culture of "if you're not posting you're not doing anything" has bubbled up, but for real guys. You need to be thinking. And planning. And never putting it in writing on the internet. Protect people. No matter what.

Bully branded pork scratchings Rather confused branding there

Just flicking through an old Argos catalogue to remind me of cherished playthings from my childh...WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS THAT?

"I've got a brand new content harvester"

Discworld QOTD, from Unseen Academicals “But, it was a funny thing: every day something happened that was important enough to be on the front page of the newspaper. She’d never bought it and seen a little sign that said ‘Not much happened yesterday, sorry about that’.”

PBS finally learning from its content:

Supply chain disruptions, parts shortages, and BABY RACCOONS plague a Canadian Airbus factory. A raccoon momma and her 5 babies found making themselves at home on an A220 in mid-production. uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/rampagi...

I know I said I was going to stop campaigning, and I was, buuuuuut... Suddenly we're only $32 away from $7,000 and I just wanna see if we can hit that with 36 hours. Can we? C: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pro...

My new project is an all-singing, all-dancing version of #Elite on the #Acorn #Electron. It's early days, but I'm really enjoying it. So here’s a thread about the wonderful community hardware and software I'm using to port #BBCMicro Elite to the Elk. (1/7) #retrocomputing #retrogaming #8bit

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/24/disabled-campaigners-trans-people-toilet-segregation. Did the UK Supreme Court, the EHRC & the "Labour" Government really imagine this WOULDN'T happen, @transworld, @transactualuk, @stonewalluk, @PinkNews, @christineburns? It was INTENDED to happen!

My new @effinbirds.com shirt arrived in the mail today. I be wearing it tomorrow. 😜

Something a little older, from 2022, that I haven't posted on its own here (might've included it in some portfolio day posts or some such) I'm still very proud of it! 🌻 made in #inkscape #FantasyArt #DigitalArt

This is fairly good advice.

Cheap digital calipers are notriously quirky and its hard to trust them. So I've been looking for something thats good to recommend where a Mitutoyo is out of budget I landed on this "Shane" brand and did some tests tldr; its good, worth the 20$ More details below s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_EzbLWvs

animation RAFFLE!! haven't animated in a while so I'm hosting a giveaway for a short loop! to enter: follow me! 👋 repost this ❤️ optionally, comment animations you'd like to see! any species welcome, ends may 31st! thanks so much for looking!! 🌸