April 2025

06-Apr-2025 – Celebrating 30 Years of Windows 95 at VCF

Brief Summary: “It’s been 30 years since Windows 95 launched. [Ms-Dos5] and [Commodore Z] are celebrating with an ep”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Windows 95 wasn’t my favorite or the best Windows, but it was definitely the start of when Windows started to get really interesting. I think it may be the first I ever bought, my college sold copies for like $5.”

05-Apr-2025 – Anti-Trump Protesters All Over the World Are Flooding the Streets

Brief Summary: ”

As protesters gathered in hundreds of cities and towns across America on Saturday, “Hands Off” r”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “People are angry, deservidly so.”

04-Apr-2025 – All the Democrats are moving to Bluesky

Brief Summary: “Premium ContentThis content is reserved for premium subscribers of Premium Membership. To Access thi”

Personal Notes and Commentary: ” like Twitter is a shithole full of shitty people. Frankly everyone should move to Bluesky.”

04-Apr-2025 – 3D Print (and Play!) The Super Mario Tune as a Fidget Toy

Brief Summary: “[kida] has a highly innovative set of 3D-printable, musical fidget toys that play classic video game”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “These are neat. Maybe one day I will have a 3D printer to use them with. Until them, they can go int he pile of things to 3D print one day.”

04-Apr-2025 – HAIM have dropped another fab new song, ‘Everybody’s trying to figure me out’

Brief Summary: “HAIM have released a new track titled ‘Everybody’s trying to figure me out’, taken from their forthc”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “I enjoy HAIM, but somehow everytime I hear a HAIM song, I think, I know this, but I can’t remeber who does it.”

04-Apr-2025 – Trump voters got exactly what they wanted — so why are people complaining?

Brief Summary: “This week, Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs that the Associated Press called “a historic “

Personal Notes and Commentary: “It’s hard to have sympathy for people who were told repeatedly for ten plus years about how the conman asshole is a conman asshole.”

04-Apr-2025 – ‘We’ve made a mistake’: Trump’s policies send Republicans into a tailspin

Brief Summary: “WASHINGTON — Fear, trepidation and loathing are now, seemingly, America’s top exports. Just ask Sena”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Womp womp.”

02-Apr-2025 – What you should think about before sharing your next meme

Brief Summary: ““I am become meme,” declared Elon Musk at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference, just af”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Reminder that many memes are just exaggerated misinformation. “

01-Apr-2025 – Cory Booker wipes away a racist’s record, fires up lost Democrats, and eyes a presidential run in 2028

Brief Summary: “A few years back, I spent some time speaking with U.S. Sen. Cory Booker on a train ride from Washing”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “I don’t know if it did any good for support, but at the bery least the ‘black dude’ wiping out the racist Strom Thurman’s record is some nice pottery.”

30-Mar-2025 – Trump wants to ‘eliminate’ FEMA. Could the states fill the gap?

Brief Summary: “President Donald Trump appears to be serious about getting the federal government out of disaster re”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “X – Doubt”

30-Mar-2025 – The $20 billion question hanging over America’s struggling farmers

Brief Summary: “As Earth heats up, the growing frequency and intensity of disasters like catastrophic storms and hea”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Once again, womp womp.”

30-Mar-2025 – Trump’s tariffs won’t just hit your wallet

Brief Summary: “Spring has sprung, and you can tell by looking at Dig’s online menu. The fast-casual chain known for”

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30-Mar-2025 – Too Bad the Pro-Life Right Is So Violently Anti-Life

Brief Summary: ”

Republishe”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Save the babies but fuck everyone else after birth ammiright?”

30-Mar-2025 – What the past week also reveals about the Trump team’s utter incompetence

Brief Summary: “The past week has been another horror show, and I share your anxiety and sleeplessness. But the past”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Nothing was revealed to anyone paying any attention.”

30-Mar-2025 – Do Billionaires Think They Can Dodge the Effects of Climate Change?

Brief Summary: ”

Republishe”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Yeah, it’s funny how rich assholes think being rich will mean anything when money becomes worthless after society collapses.”

29-Mar-2025 – The Normalization of Autocracy

Brief Summary: “The White House Correspondents Association has just capitulated to pressure from the Trump administr”

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29-Mar-2025 – Here’s why Trump is really targeting big DC law firms

Brief Summary: “Two months into his second presidency, Donald Trump is aggressively attacking both judges and law fi”

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