Blake Patterson

Trump Administration Opens the Door for ICE to Target Anyone Suspected of Being Trans Under a new rule, the State Department will be able to revoke trans people's visas over "misrepresentation." It'll give ICE grounds to suspect all trans people of being in the US illegally.

Trump Opens the Door for ICE to Target Anyone Suspected of Being Trans
Under a new rule, the State Dept will be able to revoke trans people's visas over "misrepresentation." It'll give ICE grounds to suspect all trans people of being in the US illegally. transitics.substack.com/p/trump-admi...

A sad Mac icon with error code 01001C overlayed on an image of a Macintosh Plus setup with keyboard, mouse, external hard drive and FloppyEmu. The Mac has a smiley face. Off to the sides you see soldering gear and an EPROM programmer.

Reviving a sad Macintosh Plus for #MARCHintosh and its 40th. Playing games, exploring drives, letting it moonlight as a big Maclock, and hopping online with a BlueSCSI.

Watch - youtu.be/qFYbTqF4pmM

Creepy

Today is the final day to make your voice heard about the "ugliest" Macintosh that Apple produced. Thank you!
forms.gle/4BZSRYBNQcYa...
#MARCHintosh

Snow today in northern VA.

#snow #weather #NoVA #AlexandriaVA #video #slowmo #snowfall #winter #northernVirginia

The Right Stuff OST album cover

Right now

ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’ Juanita Avila later helped expose ICE’s ‘arrest first, justify later’ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrants’ rights

NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket.

When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.”

Video + interview with her and her daughter:

No Man's Sky screenshot showing a starship docked on a desert planet

No Man's Sky screenshot showing a starship docked on a desert planet

No Man's Sky screenshot showing a starship docked on a desert planet

Caution: Mind the gap as you board or disembark.

#NoMansSky

#NMS #SciFi #ProcGen #games #gaming #gamers #spacegames #starship #screenshot #gametography #virtualphotography #PCgaming #PS4 #PS5 #Xbox #macGaming #Switch #Steam #HelloGames

I don't want to login with a code sent to my email.

I HAVE A FUCKING PASSWORD.

HOW ABOUT WE USE THAT????

#authenticantion #WTF #whatthefuck #password #login #twotier #codes #internet #staggeringlyshitty #fail #auth #infosec

Uncovered Georgia O’Keeffe Letters Confirm Paintings Were Veiled Depictions Of Basset Hounds SANTA FE, NM—Putting to rest a debate that had stirred in the art world for decades, newly uncovered letters from Georgia O’Keeffe made public this week confirmed long-running speculation that the pai...

“I want to tell you about the paintings—those flowers, Alfred—and all of the hearsay over what they supposedly represent, when the truth could not be more plain: They are basset hound dogs,” O’Keeffe wrote in a 1941 letter to her husband

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

ABBA fit "in your arms" into one syllable.

#ABBA #SuperTrouper #music

Photo of a 3.5-inch microfloppy disk

A floppy disk reader. Damn, I feel old.

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #floppy #floppydisk #nostalgia #saveicon #photo #reddit #storage #diskdrive #ifeelold

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

I am sorry you've been sick. No one died from this error and I look forward to your future articles, just as I've enjoyed your insightful and always highly topically educated pieces for many years.

Thanks for explaining.

No Man's Sky Travaller Plush figure sitting on a desk in front of a computer setup with termial windows open

Look what was just dropped off on the front porch! It's the No Man's Sky Traveller Plush from YouTooz (linked by Sean a few months back)!

#NoMansSky #NMS #SciFi #procgen #spacegames #games #gaming #gamers #PCgaming #Steam #macGaming #Switch #PS5 #XBox #HelloGames #plush #plushie #merch #photo

It pisses me off that Elon Shitstain used Arthur C. Clarke speaking about the communications satellite, which he proposed in his writings, for a Starlink ad.

#superbowl #Spacex #shit #ArthurCClarke #superbowlads #TV #superbowl60

Closeup of CRT displaying the game Crash Bandicoot on a Playstation

Nothing like playing on a CRT.

#Playstation #PSX #PS1 #CRT #reteogames #retrogaming #retro #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #photo #macro #CrashBandicoot #games #gaming #gamers

A new update is being teased by Sean Murray !

SPECULATION TIME !

I am watching Dreamscape (1984)

#movies #movie #film

Raging against Spanberger's win, the administration aims to turn VA into the next Minneapolis

Take a look around Virginia right now - things are PEACEFUL and CALM. But, here it seems the admin is about to bring violence and conflict to our beloved state.

They rage at Spanberger's win, so here come the troops.

#Virginia #VA #NoVA #FairfaxCo #Richmond #RVA #news #DC #ArlingtonVA

Flying out of DCA to New Orleans right now on a Bombardier CRJ900A. They just told us it's so cold out that the plane's water pipes are frozen and they can't serve coffee or tea and there's no bathroom sink water.

That's a first. It's cold. ❄️✈️

#flying #flights #American #planes #cold #DC #winter

Bottom happiness vs cleanliness - YOU CHOOSE (Cottonelle toilet paper variants)

CHOOSE

#hygiene #vs #cleanliness #photo #decisions #cottonelle

Apple IIe acting as a terminal to a Mac Studio connected wirelessly

"Dialed" into the Mac Studio across the room (via WiFi232) for some IRCing on old hardware, here as the snow falls. ❄️

#Mac #macOS #terminal #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #AppleII #MacStudio #BBSing #IRCing #BBS #IRC #WiFi232 #telnet #computers #ByteCellar #photo

A group of American traitors / Nazis demonstrating in Washington DC

A little far-right demonstration in the nation's capital today.

(It seems curious to me as to why _their_ flags are upside down. Maybe they just got a little confused.)

#DC #traitors #WashingtonDC #America #protest #morons #hate #NoVA #DC #DMV #demonstration #flag #photo #news #worldnews #DCnews

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.

How about ASCII?

alexharri.com/blog/ascii-r...

This guidance addresses only the use of administrative warrants to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal issued by an Immigration judge, the BIA, or a U.S. district court judge or magistrate judge in their place of residence. This scoping is not intended to concede that an administrative warrant would be insufficient to arrest an alien in his or her place of residence prior to a final order of removal or where there is a final order of removal issued by an immigration officer.

This is the Trump administration trashing the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution in pursuit of its mass deportation agenda.

Worse, a footnote to this memo suggest they won't even rule out authorizing home invasions with no judicial warrant for people not even ordered removed!

NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year

NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups

The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year

www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

How many bowls of Strawberry Awake would I need to eat to equal one bowl of Colon Blow?

A horizon at twilight

Dusk

#photograph #sunset #dusk #nature #trees #winter #NoVA #photo #photography #outdoors