We’re a couple weeks late to this one, but it deserves more attention than it received. As the Washington Post first reported, a federal judge has found that the IRS violated federal law 42,6…
Time for dinner surprise. What's the surprise? Well, I bought a couple two packs of stuffed chicken breasts on clearance at the local grocers, separated and froze them without marking them. And I forgot what flavors I bought, so…
After spending time gaming on Windows, Mac, and Linux, one thing became obvious: each OS now dominates a different part of gaming. There is no single default anymore. Each platform brings its own strengths.
Windows - the best for multiplayer due to anticheat largely being Windows-only. The other advantage is that most new games are made for Windows. Finally, Xbox PC Games Pass is good if you want access to AAA titles but don’t want to buy them outright. On top, backwards compatibility for previous generations of Xbox are coming to Windows.
Mac – the best platform for casual gaming. Apple Arcade offers unbeatable value for $5/month, which gives you access to 250 titles—mostly indie and casual. Titles often also work across Apple’s ecosystem, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. Finally, you can play games made for iPhone and iPad.
Linux – the best platform for emulation, legacy, and handheld gaming. Custom gaming OSes like Batocera, ArkOS, and OnionOS don’t just play console games, they create a console-like experience. Proton and Wine allow you go play Windows games that are no longer playable on Windows. SteamOS and Bazzite have better optimization for handhelds than Windows, with features like auto-resume when pressing the power button.
So the question is no longer “Which OS is best for gaming?” The real question is “Best for what?” Windows still dominates multiplayer and new releases. Mac excels at affordable casual gaming across devices. Linux has become the home of preservation, emulation, and handheld PCs. Instead of one platform replacing the others, the modern PC gaming ecosystem is starting to specialize.
Right, my #phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.
After spending time gaming on Windows, Mac, and Linux, one thing became obvious: each OS now dominates a different part of gaming. There is no single default anymore. Each platform brings its own strengths.
Windows - the best for multiplayer due to anticheat largely being Windows-only. The other advantage is that most new games are made for Windows. Finally, Xbox PC Games Pass is good if you want access to AAA titles but don’t want to buy them outright. On top, backwards compatibility for previous generations of Xbox are coming to Windows.
Mac – the best platform for casual gaming. Apple Arcade offers unbeatable value for $5/month, which gives you access to 250 titles—mostly indie and casual. Titles often also work across Apple’s ecosystem, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. Finally, you can play games made for iPhone and iPad.
Linux – the best platform for emulation, legacy, and handheld gaming. Custom gaming OSes like Batocera, ArkOS, and OnionOS don’t just play console games, they create a console-like experience. Proton and Wine allow you go play Windows games that are no longer playable on Windows. SteamOS and Bazzite have better optimization for handhelds than Windows, with features like auto-resume when pressing the power button.
So the question is no longer “Which OS is best for gaming?” The real question is “Best for what?” Windows still dominates multiplayer and new releases. Mac excels at affordable casual gaming across devices. Linux has become the home of preservation, emulation, and handheld PCs. Instead of one platform replacing the others, the modern PC gaming ecosystem is starting to specialize.
As a guy who spent over a year negotiating / cajoling / fighting with MA utilities to create standard interconnection rules for non-utility power - this is a really big deal. canarymedia.com/articles/solar…
Time for more music, right? Cause the March never ends. Not much to say about this one, ska bands will cover just about anything, so how about Come on Eileen? Yeah, who had that on their bingo card?
paypal just deadnamed my friend to my dad who has never done business with them and therefore making my dad think he got hacked. because they saw that i sent my friend money and thought he might want to too. hello?
Ok, here we are, day 11 and another cover for y'all. Everyone knows Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O'Connor, right? Actually hers is a cover, in fact its the third version, Prince wrote it for a band he backed, The Family, and it was on their debut album, plus naturally he recorded it. But here's a different take on it from Chris Cornell.
Dirty van art might be the most unlikely street art medium of all. Nikita Golubev (aka ProBoyNick) and a handful of grime magicians turn winter salt, soot, and road dust into crowned riders, fossil skeletons, anti-war messages, exhausted warriors, and even gorillas staring out of rear windows. The best part is how temporary it all is — one rainstorm and the whole gallery disappears.
Here are 13 unforgettable dirty van art photos, including a few alternate angles that were simply too good to skip, proving that a filthy vehicle can become a masterpiece on wheels.
Dirty van art might be the most unlikely street art medium of all. Nikita Golubev (aka ProBoyNick) and a handful of grime magicians turn winter salt, soot, and road dust into crowned riders, fossil skeletons, anti-war messages, exhausted warriors, and even gorillas staring out of rear windows. The best part is how temporary it all is — one rainstorm and the whole gallery disappears.
Here are 13 unforgettable dirty van art photos, including a few alternate angles that were simply too good to skip, proving that a filthy vehicle can become a masterpiece on wheels.
Golubev makes the truck doors feel like they have opened into a beam from another world. The dirt is not just the canvas here, it becomes the atmosphere, the glow, and the whole emotional weather of the scene.
🦍 Gorilla Window
There is something incredibly satisfying about seeing a silverback emerge from the back glass of an ordinary car. The rear window shape and wiper make this one feel extra site-specific, like the vehicle was always waiting for a gorilla to appear.
💡 Fun Fact: The technique of drawing in vehicle dirt is sometimes called “reverse graffiti” or “subtractive street art,” because the artist isn’t adding paint to the truck—they are just selectively cleaning it.
☮️ I Pray for Peace
This is one of the quietest and hardest-hitting pieces in the whole dirty van art universe. The dangling flower and the toy-like tanks make the message feel heartbreakingly simple, which is exactly why it lingers.
🦴 City Skeleton
This one turns a truck into a rolling fossil bed. The long rib cage slides beautifully across the metal panel, while the misty skyline behind it makes the whole thing feel half museum exhibit, half winter ghost story.
💡 Fun Fact: Because reverse graffiti is technically just “cleaning” part of a dirty car rather than adding paint or damaging property, it exists in a legal gray area. It’s incredibly hard for police to charge the artist with vandalism when all they’re doing is wiping away dust with their fingers.
👑 The Head, Close View
The tighter crop makes the severed crown and the horse’s face feel even more theatrical. It looks like a medieval legend dragged straight through slush, darkness, and city traffic.
👁️ Cyklops
This is such a simple composition, but that is exactly why it works. The lonely curled figure feels fragile, exhausted, and completely at home in the blank gray emptiness of the van doors.
⚔️ Tired
A warrior sitting beside his fallen sword is already a powerful idea, but the snowfall and dark truck surface take it somewhere poetic. It feels like the exact moment after the battle, when the noise is gone and only fatigue remains.
🚫 Stop the Dark Side
Blunt message, perfect medium. The stormtrooper gesture and the huge hand-scratched text give this piece the energy of a protest sign that just happened to hijack a truck.
💀 Snow on the Screen, Wide View
From a distance it reads like a stain or a shadow, then the skulls begin revealing themselves one by one. That slow realization is what makes this anti-war image so unsettling and so memorable.
🐴 The Head, Daylight View
Seen wider and in daylight, the whole truck becomes part of the composition. The road grime, snowbanks, and quiet street give the rider an even stronger folklore mood.
❄️ Tired, Angled View
This second angle shows exactly why placement matters so much in dirty van art. The slanted truck body makes the warrior look even more isolated, like he is guarding the last little patch of silence on the street.
🕯️ Snow on the Screen, Close Detail
Up close, the piece stops being symbolic and turns almost unbearable. The repeated skulls feel like static, graves, and faces all at once, which is exactly what makes this detail impossible to forget.
🚚 A Masterpiece on Wheels
This isn’t just someone doodling “Wash Me” with a finger. It’s a full-blown portrait rolling down the highway. The fact that one heavy rainstorm will wash the whole gallery away just makes it better.
I suspect most people outside of the UK won't have heard about the post office scandal, but it seems highly relevant to learn about now (given *waves* this):
For over 15 years, the software post offices in the UK had to use contained severe bugs, particular in accounting, that everyone at Fujitsu/horizon and the post blissfully ignored. Over 900 (!!!) postmasters were sentenced for alleged theft and fraud, some went to jail, some committed suicide. All because the software was shit and everyone who could do something about it didn't care and swept it under the rug.
Everything, including how it was uncovered, about this seems bizarre and Kafkaesque, but we better prepare for it to happen more often.
People seem to have learned NOTHING from the Post Office Horizon Scandal.
The AI bubble is PREDICATED on software productivity being prioritised over anything being any good.
PEOPLE WILL DIE.
Why did the #Epstein Estate provide hush money to Trump victim after Epstein's death? Could it be that Trump was campaigning for re-election in 2020 and was unable to pay the hush money directly, leading the estate of his deceased friend to step in to silence the claims? The FBI report show both Trump and Epstein were involved in the abuse of girls.
A Trump accuser received a payout from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein! Today, Richard Kahn, Epstein's former accountant, testified under oath before Congress that a Trump accuser 'was given a settlement' by Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. This suggests that Epstein assisted Trump in concealing his crimes.
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) dropped a bomb, telling reporters that a President Donald Trump accuser "was given a settlement" by Jeffrey Epstein's estate.
I generate maintainable code which does exactly what it's supposed to do and can explain every single line and what it does with great accuracy.
I can also use my bio-mechanical thinking machine to predict future challenges and incorporate pro-active solutions, extrapolating from historical data commonly referred to as "experience".
And I come at the price of being only slightly slower than generative AI and costing significantly less electrical energy to operate.
Also, I can actually be reasonably expected to put some effort into my work as long as you treat me appropriately, because I'm a social living thing.
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