topic_title: FUCK ADOBE!

post:
 Has anyone here actually dropped Adobe completely?

I've never really thought about it, and I haven't minded the monthly expense, but when I do the math over a number of years, the appeal of alternatives to Lightroom, Photoshop, and illustrator suddenly become quite appealing if you can just buy those applications once.

Lightroom is the one thing I have the most significant amount of time invested in. Catalogs push 60,000 images. Lots of custom presets, all the VSCO Film presets. I mostly shoot with Fuji cameras these days so I know that there camera models and settings would be available.

comment: I'm considering a switch from Premiere to Resolve (free or one time $300 for more tools).Which will leave me wondering if I should get rid of Photoshop.

html_comment: I'm considering a switch from Premiere to Resolve (free or one time $300 for more tools).<br>Which will leave me wondering if I should get rid of Photoshop.

comment: Rawtherapee is a good free raw converter. More fully featured than Lightroom. Not as easy.

comment: Affinity photo, designer, publisher are roughly equivalent to photoshop, illustrator, indesign. Get all three for $165 USD for a perpetual license.

comment: Thanks. Was reading about Affinity products earlier. Related - started using Synology Photos on my NAS and wondering how I can leverage it in place of Lightroom

comment: You can do raw editing in Affinity photo as well, but it's less fully featured.

comment: One thing I've been using a lot in photoshop is the generative fill. This thing is a life saver and would be hard to let go of.

comment: Affinity Photo doesn't have the organizational features of LR though. I'd probably consider Capture One for heavy photo work.

comment: @spl33nidoruhttps://kritaaidiffu…This software extends Krita (PS-like painting software) with AI inpainting. Basicly Gen fill.

html_comment:
@spl33nidoru
https://kritaaidiffu…
This software extends Krita (PS-like painting software) with AI inpainting. Basicly Gen fill.

comment: Krita is quite good for a lot of PS stuff, and  it's FREEEEEEE

html_comment: Krita is quite good for a lot of PS stuff, and <br> it's FREEEEEEE

comment: Nice, will check it, thanks!

html_comment: Nice, will check it, thanks!

[User] MrT

comment: Nothing remotely close to AE yet but I probably would if I could.

comment: I don't use AE, would love to learn Premiere, but iMovie is fine for my needs.

[User] nb

comment: RIP Aperture

html_comment: RIP Aperture

comment: Blender has a great compositor and animation system (and video editor too). The workflow is different from AE, but you can do a lot in it.

comment: Very simple example using textures. You can do 3d or 2.5d in the viewport, and effects in the node compositior. https://www.youtube.…

[User] grafician

comment: For design I have Affinity and Figma, then I can code my specific scripts in Claude.

comment: I pay for Figma and it could definitely do a lot for me that illustrator and Photoshop do.

comment: $7500 and counting

html_comment: $7500 and counting

comment: I'm sure a combo of apps could get close but working in TV production pipelines, that would be a losing battle. Fuck Adobe.

comment: ^ this is the real issue. Network effects. If you can go your own way, there's a lot of great software out there.

comment: One of the things that starting to become possible is to have an LLM write a tool for you... if you have open-source tools, you might extend them with a prompt.

comment: Can't do that with proprietary software...


[User] CALLES

topic_title: Trailer Of The Day

[User] Akagiyama

comment: !!! LOL

html_comment: !!! LOL

[User] prophetone

comment: LOL can't wait, we need more movies that are intentionally stupid - I love my A24 - but this is true cinema


[User] utopian

topic_title: Artificial Intelligence

comment: I really want to click on this because I'm curious but for the life of me I can't because of his idiotic click-baity fucking dumb face


[User] neverscared

topic_title: Elon Musk

post:
Musk said Wisconsin would decide the fate of Western civilization. Now he says he ‘expected to lose.’

https://www.politico.com/news/20…


[User] jbasnight

topic_title: Donald Trump

post:
 As of Today. 04/03/205
* crosses fingers


topic_title: Lightening Type

[User] canoe

comment: Certainly thanks for trying...

html_comment: Certainly thanks for trying...


comment: That's kinda cool!

html_comment: That's kinda cool!


[User] PhanLo

topic_title: Drawing of the Day

post:
 Nicolas de Crécy
-

[User] OBBTKN

comment: I love his drawing style, but his comics... I have two out there that I haven't finished reading yet, buffff


comment: LLMs turning into AI? LOL

html_comment: LLMs turning into AI? <br>LOL


topic_title: QBN'r AI Slop of the day

[User] garbage

comment: oh god

html_comment: oh god

comment: Oh boy

html_comment: Oh boy

comment: so shit

html_comment: so shit

[User] robthelad

comment: ORLY

html_comment: ORLY


[User] BusterBoy

post: Trump has now presided over the 7 largest single day drops in the Dow Jones...EVER.

comment: Didn't he sank like 2 casinos?! Hoe bad you can be at business to bankrupt a fucking casino

comment: Inject your money with bleach!

html_comment: Inject your money with bleach!


[User] Horp

topic_title: blog

post:
 I have no desire to be trying to one-up on OBBTKN's post below (congrats OBBTKN) because we can't help our age and age related stats...

But reading his post reminded that this is my 40th year working in the industry.

My career started at 15, back in 1985, when I droppped out of school and went on a government training scheme.

I was taught draughting and got placed in the drawing room of a patent office called Forrester Ketley in Birmingham. I was taught to create the technical drawings for patent applications to VERY specific standards, using Rotring pens on Gateway trace.

I was terrible at it. Too messy, my lines were wobbly and shakey, and it would take me days to do one when the other two people in there could do four or five patents a day.

I'd make mistakes, scratch them out with a round ended scalpel blade and scratch a hle through the trace. The patent customers would complain about the appalling patent drawings, which were part of why they paid thousands to apply forn a patent. Like buying a Porsche and being handed a dog-chewed Toyota key.

I was eventually reassigned to a marketing company called Howle Chapman Raymer where I was treated badly but used all of their materials to create a portfolio that got me into art college about four years later.

At art college I started freelancing as a graphic designer for fashion designer Paul Smith.

Cue circa 12 years as a graphic designer, and then a wildly deviating career path through a bunch of roles.

Now, I feel like I've reached the end of my career. The job I have now is highly likely to be my last in the industry. At 55 I doubt I'd be hired anywhere else and I wouldn't want to be. I'm just doing this until for one reason or another it stops, and I wont be sad about that when it does.

Kind of done with it all really. It's not been a bad run though. I did some fun things along the way.


post: Seen that one on tumblr let me check


[User] Krassy

topic_title: Positive energy zones

comment: "The world is fucked, and you cannot un-fuck it."


topic_title: the gif animation thread

comment: Malika?

html_comment: Malika?

[User] monospaced

comment: Sora?

html_comment: Sora?

[User] thenohero

comment: Feras Sobh - Original - https://dribbble.com… | SorenWorks - Animation https://dribbble.com…


topic_title: Chair of the day

[User] AQUTE

comment: I can respect that.

html_comment: I can respect that.

comment: chillin'

html_comment: chillin'

[User] maquito

comment: Want

html_comment: Want

comment: Newspaper, a wine bottle and a cigar in a strategically placed chair that controls the entire bar. Good old days :)

comment: happy to sit there all day

html_comment: happy to sit there all day

[User] milfhunter

comment: friday chair

html_comment: friday chair

comment: "There I fixed it"

html_comment: "There I fixed it"

[User] palimpsest

comment: It's a feature.

html_comment: It's a feature.

[User] stoplying

comment: harsh but fair - that's the classic stair chair

[User] dbloc

comment: UI vs UX

html_comment: UI vs UX


topic_title: Pic of the Day

comment: it's taking too long

html_comment: it's taking too long


topic_title: I want to go to there

[User] toemaas

comment: BRYCE 3D!

html_comment: BRYCE 3D!


topic_title: WANT of the day

[User] fooler

comment: this pic gave me a virus.

html_comment: this pic gave me a virus.

comment: lol

html_comment: lol


topic_title: Guess Who...

[User] utopian

comment: Michael Jackson?

html_comment: Michael Jackson?


comment: v

html_comment: v


[User] Longcopylover

comment: I can hear that diagram.

html_comment: I can hear that diagram.


[User] sab

topic_title: InDesign Glitches

post: A few more from last week.

[User] Continuity

comment: Now do Design Chapel!

html_comment: Now do Design Chapel!

[User] ArchitectofFate

comment: any thoughts on what triggers it? crazy comps / shitty mounts? fonts or hardware issues? hell-vetica?

comment: Happens when connected to the external Apple display. Not all the time. Might be GPU. 2020 MacBook Pro that was top spec at the time. Great Glitchs!

comment: Seems to happen to you more often than others.


post:
 You can't make this shit up, LOLzzzz

Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins

[User] pango

comment: those penguins have been unfairly ripping off US for far too long!!


[User] neverscared

post:
Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s

ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude all recommend the same “nonsense” tariff calculation.

https://www.theverge.com/news/64…


topic_title: X

post:
 E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s X
European regulators are considering fining X more than $1 billion, after weighing the risks of further antagonizing Mr. Musk and President Trump.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/…


[User] Danish

comment: trumponomics?

html_comment: trumponomics?

[User] OBBTKN

comment: dumb but hot

html_comment: dumb but hot

[User] Krassy

comment: The confidence !

html_comment: The confidence !

comment: Can she do my tax returns?

html_comment: Can she do my tax returns?

[User] Nairn

comment: You'd end up paying more tax.

html_comment: You'd end up paying more tax.


topic_title: Where The Fun IS

[User] sarahfailin

comment: this made my hands sweat

html_comment: this made my hands sweat


topic_title: What are you listening to?

comment: just seen yuekit's already here with the new Barker


comment: Average QBN user on friday nights

html_comment: Average QBN user on friday nights

[User] palimpsest

comment: Getting ready for getting beers with the boys.

[User] Ianbolton

comment: Wind your neck in luv.

html_comment: Wind your neck in luv.

[User] Wolfboy

comment: When will these Ai reimaginings stop?<<<This one is targeting my childhood: https://thumbs.colek…

html_comment:
When will these Ai reimaginings stop?
<<<This one is targeting my childhood: https://thumbs.colek…


[User] BANKattack

topic_title: BankBeats

post:
 Springin'

https://soundcloud.com/sambank/b…

Break, Charli Brix - Lost (Break Remix)

Teej - Silencio (Original Mix)

Alix Perez, Visages - Reset (Original Mix)

Technimatic - From Within (Original Mix)

MiesFM - Ephemerality (Original Mix)

Hoax, Hugh Hardie, SOLAH - Wake Up (Extended Version)

Xeonz - Without You (Original Mix)

Surreal - Shift (Original Mix)

Pola & Bryson, Iyamah - Want It (Original Mix)

DJ Hybrid - Downbeat (Original Mix)

HLZ - Velvet Vice (Original Mix)

Leniz, Oneiroi - Bromantiek feat. Oneiroi (Original Mix)

Monty, Indira May - The Motion (Original Mix)

Surreal - Quitting Time (Original Mix)

Flobama - WYGnD (Original Mix)

Fracture, Flobama - Apocalypse (Original Mix)

Madcap - Sunrise In Her Eyes (VIP Mix)

Flobama - Danceeeuurs (Original Mix)

Flobama - Arclite (Original Mix)

Ink, Sin - Oakwood (Original Mix)

Dash - Spank (Original Mix)

En:vy - Selfish Act (Original Mix)

Halogenix - Tired (Original Mix)

Dustkey, Wolf Pax - Rhyme & Reason (Original Mix)

Skeptical, Tinashe, Machinedrum - ZOOM feat. Tinashe (SKEPTICAL REMIX)

Seathasky - In The Air (Original Mix)

Weynorx - Lullaby (Original Mix)

Philth, Aleuym, Geety - She's Down (Original Mix)

Alibi - With You (Original Mix)

Eidan - Distances (Original Mix)

Mitekiss, Counter Culture - Forgotten Fields (Original Mix)

Quartz, Pennygiles - Taking Me Down (Original Mix)

Surreal - Launching (Original Mix)

Cnof, Untrue - Lo-Fi Soulful (Original Mix)

Satl, Styke - 808 Bubbler (Original Mix)

Philth, Creatures - Love Song (Dub Mix)

Phil Tangent, Malaky - Rival (Original Mix)

DJ Hybrid - Going Back (Original Mix)

Kodan - Rockin You (Original Mix)

Mutt - Dublites (D Bridge Remix)

Saxxon - Blue Harbour (Command Strange Remix)

Nu:Tone - Shine In (featuring Natalie Williams)

Random Movement - Sabina

Sinistarr - 55555 (Philip D Kick Remix)

SpectraSoul, Terri Walker - Light In The Dark (Feat. Terri Walker) (Original Mix)

Sun People - Main Squeeze (Original Mix)

Sun People - Spirits (Original Mix)

Root For The Villain, Calculon - Collusion (A. Fruit Remix)

Fracture - one1one (Original Mix)

ASC - Cold Snap (Original Mix)

DJ Hype - The Chopper

Blocks & Escher - Your Ghost (Original Mix)

DJ Die & Roni Size - PhatBreaks


topic_title: Indie Film Shooting In N.M.

post:
 We did it btw:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.co…

Stay tuned!

[User] stoplying

comment: Nice! Congrats

html_comment: Nice! Congrats

[User] CyBrainX

comment: Great. You got Milty in the cast.

html_comment: Great. You got Milty in the cast.

[User] BonSeff

comment: Congrats! Where did you film? I grew up allover that state for the 1st half of my life.

[User] PonyBoy

comment: Cool! <3

html_comment: Cool! <3

[User] instrmntl

comment: Congrats!!!

html_comment: Congrats!!!

comment: Awesome!

html_comment: Awesome!

[User] Squiddy

comment: congratulations! movies by day, dnb by night?! :-)

[User] bezoar

comment: SWEET!

html_comment: SWEET!

[User] Horp

comment: Congratso!

html_comment: Congratso!


[User] zaq

comment: thanks biden

html_comment: thanks biden


[User] thenohero

post: Pambouk - Hidden Faces


[User] canoe

topic_title: Lightening Type

post: Kinda the idea, but not so much in the execution. I'm still on the hunt.

[User] utopian


[User] yuekit

topic_title: Donald Trump

[User] neverscared

comment: and all only because they ate their pets...

comment: Trump is doing more for alter-globalization than anyone ever could.

comment: All because Obama did that joke routine

html_comment: All because Obama did that joke routine

comment: Thanks, Obama!

html_comment: Thanks, Obama!


[User] palimpsest

post: Doesn't get lighter than this.


topic_title: Video Games...

post:
 Nintendo postpones Switch 2 preorders in US because of tariffs

https://edition.cnn.com/politics…

[User] ideaist

comment: WINNING!!!

html_comment: WINNING!!!


[User] Irafis

post:
 228'000 new jobs in march (expected 140'000).
What do you think?

comment: But how many federal employees are now unemployed?

comment: Yeah but this is just children replacing illegal immigrant workers


[User] maquito

topic_title: QBN stickers

post:
 Gracias noneck! Amazing, man
Standby for incoming air-mail ;)


post:
China retaliates against the USA

Additional 34% tariff on all U.S. goods

https://www.reuters.com/markets/…

[User] toemaas

comment: I suppose that explains why party city went out of business!!


post:
 Who here is an Xbox player? Feels like a century ago that some of us used to do group games, probably COD?

I play Skate 3 pretty regularly, was playing Forza Horizon 5 all the time for quite a while (my son is so into cars, sucked at racing but loved designing the cars), and started playing Motorsport a bit.

I love the games like Planet of Lana, Unraveled, Inside, Limbo.

Started playing the newest COD game recently but my brain just doesn't work for those games like it did in my 20s / 30s.


[User] bainbridge

post: Does anything think these Tariffs are a good idea?

[User] dbloc

comment: nosir

html_comment: nosir

[User] monospaced

comment: I need someone to explain how these are good, because obviously there is someone who has thought it through.

comment: If the goal is to curb spending and bring back manufacturing, it’s a painful long game guaranteed to cause a recession.

[User] Nairn

comment: ^ https://www.qbn.com/…

html_comment: ^ https://www.qbn.com/…

comment: But do we come out stronger as a nation in the end? I don’t want to be narrow minded and just write it all off as Trump nonsense like some clowns

comment: err nope

html_comment: err nope

comment: *answering the thread, not the comments, mono; JIC

comment: This is why https://youtu.be/svk…

html_comment: This is why https://youtu.be/svk…

[User] PhanLo

comment: bigrobot maybe? He seems pretty hyped on Trump.

comment: thank you all

html_comment: thank you all


topic_title: America is Fucked

post: Should have sold all my stocks last week.

comment: I'm selling my daughter so that I can buy stocks in a month's time.

comment: same

html_comment: same

[User] grafician

comment: Buffet sold at the top, like a legend

html_comment: Buffet sold at the top, like a legend

comment: Hedge funds selling short made around $100B+ this week

comment: AAPL lost $1T

html_comment: AAPL lost $1T

[User] OBBTKN

comment: Buy, buy, buy

html_comment: Buy, buy, buy


topic_title: Meme of the day

comment: the penguins will pay .. or get eaten like pets..

[User] formed

comment: Let's not forget Navarro's brilliant claim that tariffs are tax cuts!


comment: Because the mall and airports are precisely where everyone went to buy their meat.

comment: LOL just hit the part where this gets... different. :D


post:
 Dude still lives in the 1880's-1920's not realizing how different and intertwined the world is 100 years later.

I sure hope he doesn't have just yes sayers around him but it looks like it.


post: When he says this is a good time to get rich, he doesn't mean you. The majority of stocks are now owned by a single digit minority, and the concentration grows every time there's a shock to the markets.


[User] instrmntl

post: Got an email from Vanguard. Keep your money in the market so the rich can sell high.

[User] hotroddy

comment: sell all your money so the rich can buy low.

comment: Only the rich can afford to buy low once everyone else lost their money.

[User] sarahfailin

comment: if you cash out now, you can buy low later. this is not the bottom.

comment: Nobody will afford the bottom...

html_comment: Nobody will afford the bottom...

comment: do you have even a single penny in the US stock market Graf or you do you just like to pretend?


[User] Gardener

post:
The Dream Laboratory – a Skylarking mix for Tak Tent Radio

Pole : Fahren
Jan Jelinek : Moire (strings)
Keiron Phelan & David Sheppard : Sleep
Nobukazu Takemura : A Verdict Of Science
cLOUDDEAD : Apt. A
Echo Park : Eugenics
Twisted Science : Stripped & Stranded
Susumu Yokota : Fancy Flavour
Susumu Yokota : Morino Gakudan
Bill Wells vs Future Pilot AKA : Olympic Material
Christoph De Babalon : Opium
B-52’s : Harpapella

https://www.mixcloud.com/Tak_Ten…


post: The S2 will be my first console since the Gamecube.

comment: The gamecube is probably the fav console I've owned. Best design, best format, best startup screen, cell-shading zelda.

html_comment: The gamecube is probably the fav console I've owned. <br>Best design, best format, best startup screen, cell-shading zelda.

comment: Love Wind Waker.

html_comment: Love Wind Waker.

comment: On S2 you'll be able to play all the GameCube games too


post: "JUST IN: Donald Trump says 'only the weak will fail'"

comment: Is he trolling elmo?

html_comment: Is he trolling elmo?


topic_title: Stock of the Day

comment: Most of these happening under Republicans, makes you wonder...

comment: < -5.97% at close

html_comment: < -5.97% at close

comment: Money coming from tariffs: around $800BMoney lost in the markets: $4T and counting

html_comment: Money coming from tariffs: around $800B<br>Money lost in the markets: $4T and counting

[User] CyBrainX

comment: The Covid drop is largely Trump's fault. The tariffs is 100% him.

comment: The first 100% manufactured recession.  He'll certainly go down in the books this time.


post: LOL @all those tech companies donating $1M for inauguration thinking he will be good for business!

[User] utopian

comment: $1M is pocket change to them.

html_comment: $1M is pocket change to them.

comment: and just wait for the EU's retaliation.

html_comment: and just wait for the EU's retaliation.

[User] nb

comment: The drop in stock value isn’t chump change tho


topic_title: TESLA

post:
 Tesla market value

14 December, 2024: $1.4 trillion

4 Apr, 2025: $0.75 trillion

comment: 10% down for the dayElmo getting margin calls soon

html_comment:
10% down for the day

Elmo getting margin calls soon

comment: ^ article says $114/share will trigger margin callstoday $239 so still a long way down :(

html_comment:
^ article says $114/share will trigger margin calls

today $239 so still a long way down :(

comment: But the math doesn't add up, with him owning around 12% of TSLA and current market valueOh well

html_comment:
But the math doesn't add up, with him owning around 12% of TSLA and current market value

Oh well


[User] Krassy

topic_title: Sexual Harassment of the DAY

post:
 Russell Brand Charged With Rape And Sexual Assault ... by four women

https://deadline.com/2025/04/rus…

comment: Yet another right wing nut, conspiracy loon, preachy hypocrite and sexual predator.

[User] Gnash

comment: Right wing? I though he was all hippy dippy

comment: @Gnash he stopped doing drugs, found Jesus, and is now a Trump/Musk fanboy


[User] renderedred

topic_title: Elon Musk

post:
 Sanders: 67,000 Will Die Waiting for Social Security Benefits Under Musk Plan

This is an average of nearly 190 people dying per day while waiting for an initial determination on benefits.

https://truthout.org/articles/sa…

comment: What is the Musk Plan?

html_comment: What is the Musk Plan?

comment: Sorry disregard, read the article

html_comment: Sorry disregard, read the article


post: "US stock market has now lost $10 trillion in value since Trump's inauguration"

comment: He'll still get a third term.

html_comment: He'll still get a third term.

comment: Winning!

html_comment: Winning!


topic_title: Tiktok

post: "President Trump to sign executive order to keep TikTok running for another 75 days"

comment: Finally, some good news

html_comment: Finally, some good news

[User] prophetone

comment: Thankkkk... god(closes eyes, prayer hands, looks up, points to sky, kisses chain or something)

html_comment: Thankkkk... god<br>(closes eyes, prayer hands, looks up, points to sky, kisses chain or something)

comment: "Associated Press reports that deal to sell TikTok to American investors 'collapsed' after Trump's tariffs on China"


topic_title: The More You Know ★

comment: Also 30% of a F35 is made overseas

html_comment: Also 30% of a F35 is made overseas

comment: Boeing is the dodgiest part of the whole thing. Good luck with that. LOL

comment: How will they even make the next gen fighter? Costs will be astronomical lol


[User] yuekit

comment: L O L

html_comment: L O L

comment: Bro you are losing your country ding dong

[User] garbage

comment: This is maximum cope.

html_comment: This is maximum cope.


post:
https://i.haasie.com/fNp.webp

https://i.haasie.com/fQO.webp

comment: Ugh

html_comment: Ugh


post: - FT

[User] zaq

comment: better link https://archive.ph/X…

html_comment: better link https://archive.ph/X…


post: TF Teenage Rock Show


post: "If the Dow drops 1000 points in two days the President should be impeached immediately!" – Trump


[User] PhanLo

topic_title: Trailer Of The Day

post:
 Lame of Thrones
-


[User] toemaas

comment: Are they loosing wealth because stocks are down or are they the ones liquidating and taking all of the cash out of the stocks?

comment: For the top American billionaires it won’t matter, they’ll still be infinitely richer than the average citizen, magic money style


[User] bigrobot

post: LFG Baby!!! MAGA

comment: relax Yuri

html_comment: relax Yuri

comment: or Robo

html_comment: or Robo

comment: or Hayoth

html_comment: or Hayoth

comment: Pittsburgh Platter

html_comment: Pittsburgh Platter

comment: Jizzy JazX

html_comment: Jizzy JazX

[User] colab

comment: Just fuck off.

html_comment: Just fuck off.

comment: Just fuck off yourself, you fucking Canadian. We are going to own you.

[User] Horp

comment: As long as you always remember that the bald bloated dumbkopf looks absolutely nothing like this, you're safe from self delusion.

comment: @Horp - shut the fuck up, Frenchie.

html_comment: @Horp - shut the fuck up, Frenchie.

[User] theonlyengineerhere

comment: Poor WIDDLErobot (Tiny-dick Trump is his hero! LOL) I'M from Wisconsin - shove it straight up your worthless, idiotic uneducated ass. You don't own shit.

comment: Hey Wisconsin boy, conservatives own you pussy-ass, soy boy liberals. Go get fucked in the ass as per your usual Saturday afternoon.

comment: "Frenchie" LOL.

html_comment: "Frenchie" LOL.

comment: Li'lrobot; the conservatives don't own my ass..... they own *yours* - because you let them. Sad how you don't understand that most basic of point.

comment: ...but they sure are jones'n to own mine - good little fascists that they are.


post: Screenshots please!


topic_title: Signs your getting old?

post: When's the last time a Gen-Z'r signed up on QBN?

comment: you?

html_comment: you?

comment: literally no interest.

html_comment: literally no interest.

[User] jagara

comment: Can you? Isn't it Gen-X invite only?

html_comment: Can you? Isn't it Gen-X invite only?

comment: I'm a Millennial. But seems either only Gen-X'rs or Millenials here.

comment: It seems that the invite is optional. So expect gen-z and alphas any minute.


post: When you remember a time when QBN was more design-shit, not idiots posting their political opinions.

comment: Your last design related post was about 10 years ago, you’ve never posted your own topic, just a lurker

comment: And what? Who gives a fuck? 99% of people on any platform go there to enjoy the content. So piss off, Scottie.

comment: Post some design related content and stop crying

[User] kingsteven


[User] SimonFFM

topic_title: blog

post: I received 20 picture frames as a gift from a customer. They are 70x100cm, walnut wood frames with real glass. Unfortunately, they don't have backing boards. I would like to mount photos in them, but I don't have any idea how. A backing board in 70x100cm is quite expensive. Do you have any alternative ideas for what I could do?

[User] Nairn

comment: A sheet of MDF?

html_comment: A sheet of MDF?

comment: The groove is really only a few mm. I don't really know how to attach it.

[User] monospaced

comment: You might find a suitable material at a good art store and cut them yourself.

comment: Make friends with a local framer :) I did that and I get discounts on my projects.

[User] maquito

comment: foamboard?

html_comment: foamboard?

comment: In staples and those kind of places you get it in 3mm, 5mm.. etc. easy to cut, and cheap af!

[User] monNom

comment: Masonite/pressboard is probably the way to go. ~3mm, quite inexpensive from  hardware store.  Often you can get it cut down for free when you buy it.

comment: I need to show you a picture so you can understand why it’s so difficult.

comment: Order mounting board in bulk from China. Alibaba or whatever the other one is

comment: Are you perhaps referring to mattes?

html_comment: Are you perhaps referring to mattes?


[User] nb

post: QBN.com


[User] formed

comment: This is the shit that scares me.  He's going to be a whining baby with all the backlash.  I wouldn't doubt he wants to be 'tough' and hit some red buttons.


[User] neverscared

post:
 ‘California is not Washington’: Newsom asks countries to spare state from retaliation

The blue state governor says he is “not scared” to push back on Trump’s tariffs.

https://www.politico.com/news/20…

comment: Separate from the US and we'll stop boycotting California.


topic_title: Artificial Intelligence

post: Nearly everyone who is sexting with an OnlyFans sex worker is actually just sexting an LLM.

comment: Or some Philippino dude

html_comment: Or some Philippino dude


post: New DK looks fun


[User] bezoar

topic_title: Show some recent work

post:
 One door closes, another opens.

The final project I worked on as a Studio Assistant at Staab Studios has officially opened in New Jersey—and the building looks incredible. Staab Studios was responsible for many of the models throughout the space. For about two and a half years, I had the opportunity to contribute to the fabrication of the pieces—molding, casting, and building some of the larger elements. Unfortunately, progress was slowed by COVID, construction delays, and funding setbacks. As resources dwindled, the owner could no longer sustain a six-person team, and I had to step away. Saying goodbye was tough—it was a meaningful chapter, and walking away wasn’t easy. However, I did hear about another place...

In Kansas City, a Children’s Literature Museum called The Rabbit Hole was under construction—a whimsical world brought to life with playful forced perspective and a flat, 2D aesthetic inspired by classic book illustrations. I applied, and soon after, I was hired as a Sculptor and General Fabricator. Everything is built in-house, and one of the most rewarding parts of the job is hearing guests move through the space—laughing, talking, completely immersed. Fuel for the soul.

<a title="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/science/dinosaur-fossil-museum-new-jersey.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8E4.SVMO.f5vsC-sHESNB&smid=url-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawJd-HFleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHhpirKLDG9_bprTRPVireLo_sVZkXKuTSYZOGGaKYLUQuxWTwi3SY0dPWiLE_aem_fuTaMHi3OKleqBGOMfj5UQ" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/science/dinosaur-fossil-museum-new-jersey.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8E4.SVMO.f5vsC-sHESNB&smid=url-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawJd-HFleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHhpirKLDG9_bprTRPVireLo_sVZkXKuTSYZOGGaKYLUQuxWTwi3SY0dPWiLE_aem_fuTaMHi3OKleqBGOMfj5UQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/…

https://archive.is/2024042719514…

[User] palimpsest

comment: Congrats. You do amazing work!

html_comment: Congrats. You do amazing work!

[User] dopepope

comment: very cool!

html_comment: very cool!

comment: So great, I hope you are well compensated for doing such cool work

[User] garbage

comment: <Chathgpt. Ha. Yeah, I don't write like that. Many thanks! Not the most lucrative career, but I'm okay.

html_comment: <Chathgpt. Ha. Yeah, I don't write like that. <br>Many thanks! Not the most lucrative career, but I'm okay.


[User] PhanLo

topic_title: Moebius

[User] OBBTKN

comment: He was realy good at this...

html_comment: He was realy good at this...


topic_title: Drawing of the Day

post:
 Hiro from Paklis
-

comment: via https://www.tumblr.c…

html_comment: via https://www.tumblr.c…


topic_title: Donald Trump

post: "If Kamala wins, you are 3 days away from the start of a 1929-style economic depression. If I win, you are 3 days away from the best jobs, the biggest paychecks, and the brightest economic future the world has ever seen." — Donnie


[User] kaiyohtee

topic_title: RIP of the day

post:
 Minnesota lost another legend in Spring, Jim Brandenburg 1945-2025. One of the people who got me into photography.

https://www.instagram.com/jimbra…

comment: 2 puppies for extra effect

html_comment: 2 puppies for extra effect


[User] yuekit

post: She tried to warn you but Americans were too racist, sexist and transphobic to listen...now they gonna pay the price

comment: You could have had all the stuff in the first paragraph but care more about wokeness and the threat of transgender illegal immigrant prisoners

[User] AQUTE

comment: only fans? or porn hub realtor edition?

html_comment: only fans? or porn hub realtor edition?

comment: 1/3 of Americans area going to destroy this country.  Thankfully, this could be the end of the GOP for decades.  So a little silver lining.

[User] Gnash

comment: She had 4 years to do that stuff

html_comment: She had 4 years to do that stuff

comment: Her message was a bit wet. Plus Batshit Biden didn't help.Also don't think they addressed the growth in income inequality.

html_comment: Her message was a bit wet. Plus Batshit Biden didn't help.<br>Also don't think they addressed the growth in income inequality.

comment: Yeah but it would have been better than this is the point. It was deeply irrational to vote for Trump regardless of any weaknesses.


post: Damn


post:
 Trump was bragging on his Truth Social about bombing a gathering of Houthi terrorists. But more and more are pointing out it was a gathering of a tribal village meeting.

If true this is huge war crime:  https://x.com/jakeshieldsajj/sta…

[User] bigrobot

comment: Ah, more fake democrat-funded protests. LOL.


[User] milfhunter

topic_title: Pic of the Day

comment: None heal?

html_comment: None heal?

comment: none Heal

html_comment: none Heal

[User] pango

comment: did those 2 hurt you?

html_comment: did those 2 hurt you?

comment: one rewrote my promptm the other trained on my pain :,)


[User] Gabriel

comment: yeah

html_comment: yeah

[User] Akagiyama

comment: Ugh, hate Jared Leto, but this looks good, and a NIN soundtrack? Yup, I'm in.

[User] monospaced

comment: So awesome.

html_comment: So awesome.


[User] maquito

topic_title: Lightening Type

post:
https://www.fontspace.com/madhal…

Black metal ist krieg!


post:
 "He ain't built shit"

Elon Musk begins to turn on the Trump admin

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/05…

[User] nb

comment: lol Elon is the highest ego to brains in tech

comment: People can disagree with each other. It's the democrats that mindlessly fall in line. When someone disagrees, they're the enemy. Your post just proved that.


post: The answer is none. None more heal.


post: How much water does it take to heal?

[User] Krassy

comment: purple

html_comment: purple


[User] webazoot

post: Michael Hurley, the American singer-songwriter whose unique path through the US folk scene made him an inspiration to generations of alternative musicians, has died aged 83.


topic_title: Batman of the Day

post:
 Ted McKeever Batman Unpublished Cover (2003)
-


topic_title: canada

post:
 Ze Germans are coming: https://www.reisereporter.de/rei…

German tourist bookings for the US are down, rising for Canada in stead.

[User] neverscared

comment: guten tag...

html_comment: guten tag...


[User] PhanLo

topic_title: America is Fucked

comment: A clear line of sight, and yet not even an attempt


topic_title: Memorable Movie Scenes

post: Ken Marino nailed this role

comment: Here ya go shithead, simple data entry. Do they still use computers in New York City? Haaaaaa


post:
 Does anyone know what happened to

them-thangs.com

comment: An art director called Justin Blythe? Met him once. Nice chap. I used to love this site. He has a website but not much going on.

comment: Yeah that guy. Wonder why he took it down. Loved it.


post: "You don't have the cards"

[User] BonSeff

comment: But we're about to have another black monday. usa usa usa. woohoo consumer and production tax, more of that, genius leader

comment: Of course Garrison doesn't know how tariffs work either.

comment: The cards say "Pay Up" so why would Trump want to have more of them?

[User] hellrod

comment: Technically he doesn't hold all the cards. I count 6 card backs and if those ones with the "pay" as cards as well then there are 4 more. And Ben is a racist.

comment: trump has the farts

html_comment: trump has the farts


post:
 Eminem Is a Grandpa!

https://www.rollingstone.com/mus…


topic_title: Russia-Ukraine Invasion

post:
 Ukraine still holds land in Russia and is actually expanding, top US general says
Top commander Christopher Cavoli also says Kyiv’s forces have shored up defensive positions.

https://www.politico.eu/article/…


post: The funniest thing about the working-poor people defending import tariffs is that, if the tariffs actually work, everything will be more expensive. Thats the intended result of the tariffs. By design. To level the playing field by raising the price of things.

comment: No way

html_comment: No way

[User] grafician

comment: "Pay up!"

html_comment: "Pay up!"

comment: I know we know, but it’s just so hilarious that people don’t see the most basic aspect of it

comment: Not only that, they are celebrating it. So much shit about how we have to get bad before it gets great. Just wow.

[User] monNom

comment: I think the idea about getting rid of the income tax is the flip-side of the tariffs. Tariffs _should_ prevent offshoring profits to avoid income tax

comment: With no income tax, people and businesses _should_ have more money to offset rising input prices... pretty risky maneuver to pull off.

comment: and of course all the businesses are optimized for the old environment, so they are much less valuable in the new environment --hence stock market pain.


comment: This all?

html_comment: This all?


comment: s: https://x.com/AIatMe…Llama 4 models

html_comment:
s: https://x.com/AIatMe…

Llama 4 models


topic_title: TESLA

comment: I don't immediately hate this concept

html_comment: I don't immediately hate this concept


post:
 Took me years to realise Moebius did those suit designs
-


[User] zaq

topic_title: X

post:
 Here is a useful Grok prompt for you:

"Based on the user posts, replies, followers, and followings, tell me a percentage likelihood that it's a bot."


post:
 Trump’s answer to the reporter’s question about the massive protests

beautiful words

comment: How would you act if this was your grandpa?

[User] MrT

comment: I'd be telling everyone about my GILF

html_comment: I'd be telling everyone about my GILF


topic_title: Face of the day

post: HBD Acorinrin


comment: Just insane

html_comment: Just insane


topic_title: Street Art

post:
 V E S O D
https://www.instagram.com/vesod/…
-

[User] utopian


topic_title: Graffiti art

post:
 Zebster CES Loomit - 1990 Munich
-


[User] renderedred

topic_title: Joe Rogan of the Day

post:
 The Roganification of the Male Mystique

http://joanwestenberg.com/the-ro…


topic_title: Elon Musk

post:
 Inside Elon Musk’s Texas Compound
Significant mystery has cloaked a 14,400-square-foot Tuscan-style villa and a second, adjacent mansion purchased by the world’s richest man for himself and his extensive family. Here, The Onion uncovers what’s inside Elon Musk’s $35 million Texas compound.

https://theonion.com/inside-elon…


topic_title: Headline of the day

post:
 UK Navy Thought They Were Under Attack, But It Was Just a Farting Whale

https://www.vice.com/en/article/…

comment: Been there!

html_comment: Been there!

comment: Funny. Although also sad that Vice is sunk down to cribbing its stories from The Sun website.

comment: I don’t think anyone is working at Vice. It’s just auto-populated content

comment: u probably can die from a whale fart...

html_comment: u probably can die from a whale fart...


topic_title: Official SFW Thread

comment: Snatched.

html_comment: Snatched.


post:
 Sam Harris on Elon

They were best buddies once

comment: can't believe he's talking like that about a once in a 1000 year genius like Elon.

[User] Ianbolton

comment: ^ haha. harris is a crazy bastard

html_comment: ^ haha. harris is a crazy bastard


topic_title: Donald Trump

post:
 L O L
-


[User] yuekit

post:
 "We are in the process of destroying confidence in our country...we are heading for a self-induced economic nuclear winter"

Billionaire hedge fund manager who supported Trump begs for him to pause the tariffs

https://x.com/BillAckman/status/…

comment: buckle up for the Orange Monday

html_comment: buckle up for the Orange Monday

comment: Grifters levels down

html_comment: Grifters levels down


topic_title: blog

post:
 Upgraded my three point Google Wifi mesh network to the newest one, the Nest Pro Wifi 6e, repositioned one of the new points in my basement, and my speeds in the basement have gone from avg. 50MB/sec to 420MB.

Only got two points this time. My home macs and my work mac are all new enough to have 6e, and the lastest Apple TV 4k is also 6e.

The only thing that is annoying me is that my Synology NAS is plugged into the basement point, but the network connects it to the upstairs main point connected to my modem. You can't manage devices' default points on Google Home but I feel like I'm not seeing any slowness at least.

[User] monospaced

comment: 500mbs service?

html_comment: 500mbs service?


topic_title: draw something

post:
 Post sunshine doodle
-


[User] fooler

topic_title: RIP of the day

post:
We lost a man I was proud to call a friend. I was lucky enough to meet and work with Dave about 20 years ago. I was starstruck at first but he turned out to be one of the nicest, warmest, funniest people I ever had the pleasure of knowing. I got to know him, his amazing wife, kids and group of friends well after countless BBQ's and Dinner parties he loved to throw.
Thoughts and hugs to his family, he will be greatly missed.

[User] PonyBoy

comment: sorry for you loss, fooler :(

html_comment: sorry for you loss, fooler :(


[User] Akagiyama

topic_title: The Nope Thread.

comment: Oh fuck no mamma.

html_comment: Oh fuck no mamma.


[User] BusterBoy

topic_title: Tweet of the Day

comment: lol

html_comment: lol

comment: there is no gigafactory in brandenburg ?

[User] dmay

comment: Those european and japanese cars are probably built in the US.

[User] canoe

comment: called a free market you despot

html_comment: called a free market you despot


post:
Trump plans military parade in D.C.

According to a D.C. source with knowledge of the plan that’s still being developed, Trump has commandeered Saturday, June 14—the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army and, as it happens, Trump’s 79th birthday—for his military parade. It would stretch almost four miles from the Pentagon in Arlington to the White House, according to the source, who stressed that local officials are just learning of it.

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/…

comment: is this a thing? I don't recall the US ever doing this, seems pretty N. Korea-ish to me

[User] Luda

comment: Forcing kids to pledge allegiance every morning and military appreciation days in sports events always seemed a bit N. Korea-ish too.


[User] bainbridge

post: Is he crashing the economy so billionaires can buy stock on discount?

comment: what discount? they lost billion already

comment: unless they all pulled out weeks ago after being tipped off and then they'll start buying again? fuck if we know

comment: Sell Low. Buy High.

html_comment: Sell Low. Buy High.

[User] Beeswax

comment: It's not you or me who moved the market of course. They are always sitting on some cash. And once it goes brrrr they will get it first


[User] timeless

topic_title: InDesign Glitches

post:
 I thought I was the only one who liked/screengrabbed indesign glitches

glitched rendering the BD logo one day and would change when moving the artboard or changing zoom - crazy


post: He just wants love. He's too dumb and lazy to ruin the country. We can stop him.

comment: IHave ADream

html_comment:
I
Have
A
Dream


[User] theonlyengineerhere

post:
 You guys are probably a bit young for this show/actor. Hell, I am - and I'm pretty sure I'm older than most of you (61).
Jay North - Dennis the Menace

comment: I member

html_comment: I member


topic_title: Photoshop

post: I didn't even know about "Puppet Warp" until today...Signs your getting old?

comment: Definitely. The Puppet Warp tool was introduced in Adobe Photoshop CS5, which was released in 2010


topic_title: TESLA

post:
 Used Tesla Market Heats Up as Owners Sell to Protest Elon Musk.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/…

[User] palimpsest

comment: Can someone explain this image? Why does the Statue of Liberty have a Tesla tombstone? Has it transitioned? And has the transition made it rise from the dead?

html_comment: Can someone explain this image? <br>Why does the Statue of Liberty have a Tesla tombstone? Has it transitioned? And has the transition made it rise from the dead?

comment: Is it an allegory of how Elon's rebranding of America (freedom) as Tesla will revive it?

comment: it's ai slop and therefore meaningless

html_comment: it's ai slop and therefore meaningless

[User] grafician

comment: Stop the slop! Stop the slop!

html_comment: Stop the slop! Stop the slop!

comment: What was the prompt?

html_comment: What was the prompt?

[User] maquito

comment: ^"none heal"

html_comment: ^<br>"none heal"


topic_title: Million-Dollar Ideas

post:
 start a Church of AI.
Get a legal status to avoid taxes.
Let AI spurt out some wisdom everyday on the web and gather followers.
Slowly start collecting money for some AI generated reason.
Let AI do the work dammit!
And don't ever show your face.

[User] utopian

comment: Hallelujah.AI

comment: show your ai created face

html_comment: show your ai created face

comment: All you need is a nice curtain.

html_comment: All you need is a nice curtain.

[User] nb

comment: Halleluj.ai

comment: I like it, all of the wisdom and none of the rape!

comment: This is a great idea. Has this not been done yet?

[User] SlashPeckham

comment: If I could quit my job I would start doing this tomorrow

[User] neverscared

comment: synthetic reason superior

html_comment: synthetic reason superior

[User] webazoot


[User] monNom

topic_title: Politics

post: Singapore PM with a pretty dire assessment of where these tariffs lead.

[User] zaq

comment: why can't we have an articulate leader who is grounded in reality


[User] yuekit

post:
Trump tariffs based on massive error, conservative think tank says

The formula used by the Trump administration to levy reciprocal tariffs contains a serious math error that over-inflates the impact by about a factor of four, economists at the American Enterprise Institute said.

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/06…


post: Bitcoin collapses

comment: all my stock units are going down... fucking hell

[User] Longcopylover

comment: Buy the dip. But may not buy american stocks...


comment: eating pets and drinking bleach `?

html_comment: eating pets and drinking bleach `?

comment: thank god america has such a good healthcare system so everybody can get medicine...

comment: "I think your question is so stupid" how come that kind of answer became normalized to the point we don't even think about it anymore? Disgusting

comment: Europe takes US Tech and Software, because they are great. US cars and food is just crap compared. Maybe think about that.


topic_title: World War 3

post:
 China Will Launch an Invasion of Taiwan In Next Few Months: Intel Sources

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025…

Depression style market crash followed by world war. Seems history repeating itself.

comment: "...is increasingly being considered a question of “not if, but when."Dogshit clickbait.

html_comment:
"...is increasingly being considered a question of “not if, but when."

Dogshit clickbait.

[User] Khurram

comment: Hmmm. I mean, you Jews are not known to be warmongers, so this is very curious...

comment: You Jews who?

html_comment: You Jews who?


[User] AQUTE

topic_title: fight of the day

comment: (nice KO)

html_comment: (nice KO)


[User] bainbridge

post: Fun fact: he failed at all of his businesses, went bankrupt with the casinos and only became wealthy from licensing his name and being on "the apprentice". Turns out, Playing a successful businessman on TV is not the same as actually being a successful businessman!


post: He actually has less money than he would have if he took his inheritance and put it into a modest mutual fund then spent his career finger-painting.  He is a bad businessman who, because he was born rich, has had more opportunities to fail than most have to succeed.


post: Trump flunked out of Fordham and a Wharton Business School professor said he was "the dumbest GD student they ever had." He can barely read.

[User] Continuity

comment: 2015 called. They want their Trump facts back.

[User] scruffics

comment: what you're saying is that he's pretty relatable to about 50% of america

[User] canoe

comment: Or 21% which a majority of them having inadequate access to education. Do you walk around boasting false accusations to make yourself look stupid? Ironic.


topic_title: Quote someone

post:
 "Buckle up, fuckos."
— ChatGPT, last week.

I'm not even joking.

[User] palimpsest

comment: It's alive!

html_comment: It's alive!

comment: It speaks my language!

html_comment: It speaks my language!

comment: more like... "lets starve, sickos "

html_comment: more like... "lets starve, sickos "

[User] grafician

comment: Prices for nvidia GPUs going brrrrrr

html_comment: Prices for nvidia GPUs going brrrrrr

[User] Wolfboy

comment: So close. https://www.youtube.…

html_comment: So close. https://www.youtube.…


[User] PhanLo

post:
 P A R T Y - T I M E !
-


comment: Unreal.

html_comment: Unreal.

comment: some day  = that is so very specific fantasy land talk

comment: some day or not some day....whats its gonna be..


comment: do you think that's gonna save the brand from the Elon backlash?

[User] fooler

comment: Congratulations, you just invented the NSX DeLorean.

[User] utopian

comment: Stop the slop! Stop the slop!


topic_title: Elon Musk

comment: I hope all his businesses let him go and he's treated like a snake oil selling pariah.


topic_title: Stock of the Day

post: 2025 edition

comment: The signs wer here: Buffett holding as much cash as never before. https://finance.yaho…

comment: But yes, the rich becoming even richer and the poor can eat their MAGA-hats.


comment: Did you say thank you?

html_comment: Did you say thank you?

[User] neverscared

comment: no.. medicine is crap...

html_comment: no.. medicine is crap...


[User] BANKattack

topic_title: Indie Film Shooting In N.M.

post:
 I can only share what was shared on the press release but we have an amazing DP https://www.mikaaltskan.com/ so the footage is incredible. We are in post for the next few months but the performances were incredible. I have really high hopes for the film.

We filmed between Las Cruces and Ruidoso. Cruces def a change from London, lol. Not much going on there but Ruidoso was kinda a poor man's aspen. Great crews and locals in NM, however. Was a grind but we got 'er done.

[User] BonSeff

comment: LOL @ poor mans aspen. yup. and we love it.

comment: It was pretty cute - we were in a little woodsy cabin. You'll prob recognize a lot of the landscape/areas in the film

comment: Congrats on seeing a vision through, respect.

comment: thank you!

html_comment: thank you!


[User] Ianbolton

post: Anyone can do it Graf...


post: Anyone can do it Graf...

comment: I was just reposting :))Don't want to waste time or credits on this

html_comment: I was just reposting :))<br>Don't want to waste time or credits on this


[User] DaveO

post: I LOVE it when stocks are on sale – i just wish they weren't ones I already own.


topic_title: ALIEN

post: I signed up to this legacy cut of Alien 3. Could probably post a link to the full film if anyone's arsed about checking it out?

[User] dee-dubs

comment: Yes

html_comment: Yes


[User] Nairn

topic_title: Trailer Of The Day

comment: Bye, bye, Hackney.

html_comment: Bye, bye, Hackney.


post:
 Another good one gone today.

R.I.P Clem Burke, A.K.A Elvis Ramone from Blondie (and sometimes The Ramones).

[User] stoplying

comment: His rhythms were so solid. RIP

html_comment: His rhythms were so solid. RIP

[User] maquito

comment: Damnnn

html_comment: Damnnn


[User] thenohero

topic_title: What are you listening to?

post: Method Man, Redman - Da Rockwilder


[User] Krassy

post:
 This is wild!
Check out US politicians' portfolio volumes as high as 577 million!

Insider trading should be illegal. No?

https://www.capitoltrades.com/po…

comment: Yes. But if you switch to last 30 days, the volume is just almost $4M lol So they didn't knew beforehand the markets will crash

comment: OR we will find out for sure at the next filings

[User] instrmntl

comment: I am sure they all sold their portfolio to help cause the drop.


[User] jbasnight

[User] grafician

comment: YES!

html_comment: YES!

comment: It's like he became a bit too self aware and his style. I don't like his stuff so much anymore.


post: In case you wondered why there was a spike

comment: that account is copy pasting from the Bloomberg termit's updated almost to the minute

html_comment:
that account is copy pasting from the Bloomberg term

it's updated almost to the minute


[User] Continuity

topic_title: Donald Trump

post:
 Remember, once upon a time, when Liz Truss went and kicked the UK economy in the balls, and then someone started a webcam stream of a head of lettuce to see who would survive longer, her or the lettuce?

Oh, how we laughed.


post:
 "#BREAKING Trump threatens further 50% tariff on China from April 9 if Beijing does not withdraw retaliation plans"

Bruh

[User] prophetone

comment: RIP all 19,643 Dollar General stores?

html_comment: RIP all 19,643 Dollar General stores?

comment: flol trade wars, how do they work, Donald?

[User] Akagiyama

comment: Oh no, I hope TEMU will be OK! :(

html_comment: Oh no, I hope TEMU will be OK! :(


[User] yuekit

post:
 "Orange Monday"

https://thehill.com/homenews/med…

comment: Reds love trump until he fucks with their moneyz


[User] sarahfailin

post:
 Re: buying the dip. I'd wait for it. Consensus opinion is (suddenly) that we're headed into recession, and we likely won't hit bottom til we're well into it. In 2008, markets fell close to 50% before they bottomed out, and it took about two years to get there. The 2001 dot com crash also took 2+ years to hit bottom.

I heard it said recently that Trump's first term is "the dog chasing cars, caught the car," and now his second term is "the dog is driving the car."

Buckle up!


post: Make horse-like robot that can be ridd... oh wait!


[User] PhanLo

topic_title: Illustration of the Day

post:
 'Shelob', the giant spider from the Lord of the Rings, illustration by Ted Nasmith, 1987.
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topic_title: America is Fucked

comment: The golden age we all long for, working 8 gruelling hours a day at some Sisyphusian job to come home and have a TV dinner, a cold beer and to beat the wife.

comment: When everyone had a boat and a little cabin by the lake? Best of times

[User] Gnash

comment: you'll own nothing and like it

html_comment: you'll own nothing and like it

comment: Debt prisons for every home.

html_comment: Debt prisons for every home.

comment: aMeRUKAh g0lDEn AGe

html_comment: aMeRUKAh g0lDEn AGe

[User] monNom

comment: If 100 is the average IQ, that means 50% of people are below that point. They are not gonna learn to code and be ML engineers.

comment: A factory job might give somebody with otherwise poor prospects the ability to buy a stable and fulfilling life for themselves — the American dream.

comment: These guys shit on blue collar jobs as bad, but where are their solutions?

comment: Stupid people consider themselves the best, you got a great example as PresidentWill he accept a blue collar job in a postal office? Not quite

html_comment:
Stupid people consider themselves the best, you got a great example as President

Will he accept a blue collar job in a postal office? Not quite


[User] curiouscat

[User] AQUTE

comment: cyber cunts make cyber runts

html_comment: cyber cunts make cyber runts


[User] PonyBoy

topic_title: blog

post: 55% chance of snow tomorrow

comment: my 'middle finger' emoji didn't post :/

html_comment: my 'middle finger' emoji didn't post :/

[User] Nairn

comment: Weather's wild. Here in the UK we've had cloudless skies for days now. Global Whamming.

comment: (April SHOULD be wet and chilly)

html_comment: (April SHOULD be wet and chilly)

[User] OBBTKN

comment: Sunny days here in Baskeland too, but, ey! There is a prediction of heavy rain for next week...

[User] Salarrue

comment: FFS I've just changed my winter tires and in my area will be 20-30 centimeters of snow ...

html_comment: FFS I've just changed my winter tires and in my area will be 20-30 centimeters of snow <br>...

[User] utopian

comment: April showers bring AI flowers

html_comment: April showers bring AI flowers

[User] canoe

comment: Woke up with snow on the ground. 26 and fucking windy today. That's -3C

comment: *laughs in 14°C and sunny*

html_comment: *laughs in 14°C and sunny*


topic_title: Generative Art

post:
 I keep lucking into little accidents in one of my tools and managed to take it somewhere I wasn't expecting. I'm at 3,000 lines of JS now and it cracks me up when VS Code tells me "Complexity is 14 (or higher) you must be out of your mind."

I keep looking at the output and thinking "how would I even do this in PS or Illustrator?" Particularly where simply clicking the generate button executes the randomization, along with other aspects like the ability to randomize cell rotation. As I describe in my longer post, a lot of this has real-time updates, like colors, blend modes, and padding. Ability to use negative padding is what creates the overlaps when blend modes are used.

After incorporating the image inclusion feature, I realized I could use dozens or hundreds of images (single or multii-selected that are randomized), and find a nice balance between cells showing colors, and cells showing images.

All the shapes are either standard CSS shapes, or more complex SVGs from a multi-select list. I'm kind of limited by the shapes that work well, so I'm now realizing that the opportunities are endless when it comes to using images, textures, patterns, etc.

Thanks again for everyone's comments and enthusiasm in my previous posts, it's definitely motivated me to keep exploring new ideas. Claude is nearly flawless for writing this code. I don't know what I'm going to think of next.

comment: Love the first two.Wish there was a way to get drawings into code like that, like we were able to do 20 years ago in Flash.

html_comment: Love the first two.<br>Wish there was a way to get drawings into code like that, like we were able to do 20 years ago in Flash.

[User] microkorg

comment: Have a trawl of sites like fxhash, over the years Ive seen some great pencil and paint-like pieces. It is possible with code.

comment: +1 on the first 2, especially #1. These are a step up from your previous pieces IMO. Some of the others are a bit busy/contrasty for my taste.

comment: Great job, are you going make the code/app available for purchase?


[User] neverscared

post:
 Here’s one key thing you should know about Trump’s shock to the world economy: it could work
James Meadway

It’s hard to say if the president truly knows what he’s doing. But there is a precedent for the US causing short-term chaos and reaping long-term gain

https://www.theguardian.com/comm…

comment: I doubt a lot of Americans will survive the financial fuckery in the short term.And why will any country trust the US?

html_comment: I doubt a lot of Americans will survive the financial fuckery in the short term.<br>And why will any country trust the US?

comment: How's this going to work exactly. Everybody these days is replying on a side hustle, you think anyone's going to but your drop-shipped mug now that it's $500?

comment: or do they think opioid addicted MAGAS are going to turn into entrepreneurs overnight and open factories? AND work in them? lolz

[User] grafician

comment: LOL somebody mentioned a lady generating AI slop and printing in China as a sidehustle, she will get fucked up by all this

comment: And the rethoric "we will bring manufacturing back to the US" LOL no you totally won't fucking morans

comment: Don't bet against it. USA has some of the lowest energy cost in the world due to fracking/natural gas. Really cheap transport. Maybe robot labor in the future?

comment: " in the future" LOL

html_comment: " in the future" LOL

comment: Like maybe next year, maybe 5 years. Have you see all the robots being released? They're going to get used for something.

comment: The ones made in China, a country the US hates and put the biggest tariffs on top? Oh suuuuureee you will see those robots in "maybe 5 years" man...

comment: Actually Germany and Japan lead robot deployment, and there's plenty of humanoid dev in the states.

comment: I think Tesla is rolling out their robot on assembly lines now, or this year? Boston dynamics. Figure. ML models making these more feasible.

comment: Kuka and Yaskawa will probably still dominate industrial robot arms, but I don’t know if they’re doing anything with this new generation. Different use case.

comment: So no robots made in USA, all imported, got it


[User] Gabriel

topic_title: Moebius

comment: Nice!We'll make 600 posts soon :-)

html_comment: Nice!<br>We'll make 600 posts soon :-)


[User] Akagiyama

topic_title: Luigi Mangione = Hero

comment: Skip to 9:50

html_comment: Skip to 9:50

[User] hardhat

comment: Haha. Actually very funny from 9:50 (maybe earlier too)


post: "JUST IN: China says it will now bow to Trump's tariffs threats"

[User] yuekit

comment: now or not?

html_comment: now or not?

comment: probably notdropshipping will be dead

html_comment:
probably not

dropshipping will be dead

comment: Trump is a 4 year problem... i feel like Xi  can offset trade imbalances by trading around the US entirely...

comment: take the short term hit trade a bit more with Europe... It won't be great but it won't be disastrous... also he's a dictator he can quell public disatisfaction


post:
 It's really weird how so many people associate manufacturing jobs and working in a factory with job security and prosperity.

I think it's just because back in the 50s, 60s or whenever the American golden age was there were more jobs like that but those jobs didn't cause the overall economic conditions.

If you look at people who work in those factories in China they are exploited in a similar way the USA exploits illegal immigrants from Mexico. In order to compete with developing countries there would be pressure to lower wages and benefits not raise them.

comment: America never had a "golden age" but we all had the Cold War

comment: Manufacturing takes more people than resource extraction, finance, tech, other services. It just makes more jobs in general.

comment: Free trade made the US rich, but look at the morans now wanting to get rid of that

comment: Competition for a limited pool of workers will tend to raise wages/curtail poor working conditions. Maybe still dirty, dangerous work, but lots of it.

comment: The Orange clown trying to turn the US into Russia - with "made in USA" crap for local market and closing international trade.

comment: @yuekit he has 70M MAGA morans that will bite

html_comment: @yuekit he has 70M MAGA morans that will bite

[User] monospaced

comment: The USA didn’t have a golden age how so?

html_comment: The USA didn’t have a golden age how so?

comment: Felt like there was a pretty good run there for awhile, at least if you weren’t black. Ugh

comment: during the the "50's 60's or whatever" employee retirements were largely company pensions immune from stock volatility.

comment: that is unless the company that you were drawing a pension fund suddenly went bankrupt.

comment: on the surface a pension is more stable then a 401k retirement plan as you are drawing a monthly check equivalent to your monthly pay at the timeyou retire

comment: downside of a pension is unless u have some sort of life insurance the pay will stop upon your death leaving spouse somewhat hosed if they outlive you

comment: tariffs by default are anti capitalist... they subvert "private ownership of the means of production"

comment: they penalize companies solely based on their manufacturing process/location

comment: quite the gordian Knot... for the last 50 years peoples' retirements are tied to the stock market being in the green

[User] PhanLo

comment: Detroit has entered the chat

html_comment: Detroit has entered the chat

comment: Camden NJ grabs their popcorn

html_comment: Camden NJ grabs their popcorn

comment: Baltimore plugs in their 56k modem

html_comment: Baltimore plugs in their 56k modem

comment: @monNom "In CA, approximately 79.51% of total employment is in the services sector, while blue-collar jobs make up less than one-fifth of the workforce"

html_comment: @monNom <br>"In CA, approximately 79.51% of total employment is in the services sector, while blue-collar jobs make up less than one-fifth of the workforce"

comment: So HOW EXACTLY do manufacturing jobs AKA blue-collar jobs take more hands? You guys have no clue, but love to comment

comment: then just search for shit like "the american golden age myth" there was no golden age, the MAGA promise is fake, just like the clown's orange tan

comment: < so back on topic, I think they missed the services sector with the tariffs because that would totally tank the markets overnight

comment: And all this affects only US vs. World dynamics, for the rest of us everywhere else is business as usual - or it should've been

comment: It was funny today at the local coffee spot, the owner said he just got a stock of good coffee from Columbia through the US and paid like extra $60 taxes

comment: Because apparently a lot of coffee brands use the US to process and ship their stuff so we pay more now for coffee because you elected a moran

comment: Also funny Romania considered shipping very cheap eggs to the US, but not anymore, fuck that, we're sending more to the Dutch

[User] nb

comment: Nobody under 30 thinks manufacturing jobs are good jobs

comment: Clearly 70-80M MAGA morans think so

html_comment: Clearly 70-80M MAGA morans think so

comment: "America never had a golden age." Are you a flat earther?

comment: are you MAGA?

html_comment: are you MAGA?

comment: Thanks for reminding me how terrible the U.S. is — while using our internet, our platforms, and American-invented tech to complain about it in English.

comment: I can send you some eggs to balance it if you want?

comment: When you float around that MAGA number, you always moronically forget that more people voted for Biden.

comment: Eggs? Not surprised that's all you have to off after Ceaușescu.

comment: "offer"

html_comment: "offer"

comment: People see you all as Americans, either if you voted for the orange clown or not. This is what you don't get. Yet. You're becoming pariah

comment: I was offering eggs out of sympathy, maybe you missed that ;)

comment: lol what a fucking retard to think the USA actually needs eggs from anywhere, are you so small minded you think Romani could help us in any way? hilarious.

comment: Any dairy state here likely makes more eggs than Romania as a nation. Fucking lol bro. Is that a flex?


[User] prophetone

topic_title: canada

comment: Nasty Ass Muricans

html_comment: Nasty Ass Muricans

comment: lol website on laptop...fucking Hayoth

html_comment: lol website on laptop...fucking Hayoth

[User] cherub

comment: I like it.

html_comment: I like it.

[User] bigrobot

comment: We'll be welcoming you as your 51st state soon, you dumb Canucks ;). Snow Mexicans.


[User] dbloc

post:
 Elon Musk sets the stage for Tesla to bail out Twitter/xAI at an insane valuation

https://electrek.co/2025/04/07/e…

comment: With TSLA going down, no chance, but we'll see in June...


topic_title: Lightening Type

post:
 Still can't find it, but here's a bunch of cyberpunk-ish, punk rock, rebel yell, electro clash... call em what you want.

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comment: I actually think I'm going in the VHS direction... glitched screen fonts.


post:
 ^ they want to bring back manufacturing because they are too dumb to understand services - tech, finance, etc.

He pushes tariffs because he thinks he understands those and wants to punish the World to boost his image for his MAGA followers.

He doesn't understand "Tesler", EVs, AI, crypto, stocks, he likes to see the markets, hedge funds, banks all bleed because they turned their back on him and push him to bankrupcies

There is zero chance anybody will drill baby drill, or build any factories in the US in his lifetime, he is lucky if any new data centers will be finished in 4 years

With all this uncertainty in the markets, nobody will build anything, nobody will get to invest - just words and lies and passing the ball

But my coffee was a bit more expensive today because the US elected this clown, so fuck you :)

comment: Another provocative mess of exaggeration, flawed analogies, arrogance, poor logic, false claims, emotional overdrive and personal invective.


[User] Nairn

topic_title: TESLA

post: I'm uncomfortable with how good these AI cyberwank renditions are.

comment: Then get more uncomfortable soon because it will only get better :) - ChatGPT 4o image is superior right now


comment: Funny how manufacturing is suddenly dystopian to you, whose country used to literally assign people to a factory by state decree...

comment: usually right after they bulldozed your village and gave you a ration card. Does systematization ring a bell?

comment: Say what you want about America, at least we chose our jobs. God forbid we work with our hands for a pension. Not everyones wants to catfish their careers.

comment: LOL it's dystopian to YOU When everybody doing good on services, your President wants YOU to back to the fields

comment: This is YOUR crisis, the entire World could do without boys!

comment: More word salad from the pseudo intellectual Romanian. You’re just throwing words at the wall and hoping something sounds smart.


[User] bainbridge

post: My stock portfolio actually went up +1.42% today

comment: Good for you but a lot of people lost money so don’t forget to SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH


[User] maquito

comment: duuude

html_comment: duuude


topic_title: Drawing of the Day

post:
 "Matías, que opinás de Javier Milei?"
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[User] OBBTKN

comment: Jajaja!

html_comment: Jajaja!


[User] canoe

post:
 @grafician

You really logged onto American-built platforms, using American-invented tech, in a language you didn’t invent, to tell us we’re dumb for creating the world you operate in.

You rant about MAGA like it’s a full-time job.. meanwhile, your country’s biggest export flex is eggs?

At least America had a golden age. Romania had Ceaușescu rationing electricity and toilet paper calling it national pride.

Maybe sit this one out, you sound like a frustrated Leninist stuck in a Cold War fantasy, blaming capitalism for everything while tweeting from an iPhone.

comment: Lol America does not had a golden age. You are basically a MAGA person now. You might as well directly voted Trump

comment: Maybe you should sit this one out, if you can.

comment: You sound like JD Vance right now :)))

html_comment: You sound like JD Vance right now :)))

comment: Here, I'll even upvote you so you'll feel even more entitled lol

comment: But I'll get back to my work, it's pointless to discuss further

comment: You sound ignorant AF graf if you think THIS is MAGA. It’s totally spot on and he’s being incredibly generous with you.

comment: Ah, there it is, the intellectual eject button: 'You must be MAGA.' I'll let u go to ‘work’, is it graphic designer cosplay night at Constipated Barista again?

comment: I’m sure there’s an oat milk crisis that needs your unique blend of graphic design and geopolitical resentment.

[User] utopian

comment: The know-it-all wonders why he no friends and everyone hates him, LOLzzz.

comment: Nothing but a shitposting neckbeard troll.

comment: This is what happens when you give a third-world hillbilly internet access.

comment: stay classy, folks... no need to insult; each one with their truths, beliefs... it's ok, be kind to each other.

[User] renderedred

comment: + @maquito

html_comment: + @maquito


comment: He was actually criticizing how Democrats historically want to end free speech. Shouldn't post random crap you find on the internet without fact checking it.

comment: Have some self respect, not only is this misleading, it looks like it was designed by an InfoWars intern!

comment: https://x.com/RpsAga… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

html_comment: https://x.com/RpsAga… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[User] grafician

comment: PhanLo bro let's focus on our work, they don't get it :))

comment: What work? I've never seen anything you've done and got paid for...

comment: Some of us... well most of us... take design seriously

comment: Nah, Phanlo is right.

html_comment: Nah, Phanlo is right.

comment: How does grafican have time for actual work? All he does 24/7 is shitpost in every last thread, and every last post.

comment: Yeah because I need to post here for your approval? LOL


post: Markets Plunge 350+ Points....After Trump Holds His Ground on Tariff Plan

comment: I guess we'll know how fucked up we are when wall street opens tomorrow morning... lots of stuff happening today


topic_title: Artificial Intelligence

comment: I wish this slacker would stop whining.

html_comment: I wish this slacker would stop whining.

comment: Every last talentless creative is still whining about AI.

comment: If a client can do it with iPhone + Capcut it means the client doesn't need any better. If you can't getting better clients it means you're not good enough.

comment: This guy is blaming Capcut. And how easy it has become to make videos. When he should focus on the content instead and do better ideas.

comment: He's basically an elitist who wants only a specialised group of people to be able to cut videos. What a whiny ass.


topic_title: draw something

post:
 sketching in procreate
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comment: You mean to tell me that you didn't create this sketch with charcoal, ochre or blowing pigment through tubes. What's next AI?You're a sell out :)

comment: Hehehe.

html_comment: Hehehe.

[User] neverscared

[User] stoplying

comment: Awesome

html_comment: Awesome

[User] PonyBoy

comment: comparing sketching on screen vs AI literally 'doing it for you' via 40+ typed words... really 'topes? :)This is dope, phan <3

html_comment: comparing sketching on screen vs AI literally 'doing it for you' via 40+ typed words... really 'topes? :)<br>This is dope, phan <3


[User] mantrakid

topic_title: Browser game of the day

post: Heres a little something i cooked up with some vibe coding


post:
 uh...

https://playcrossbird.com/

comment: I have yet to run into an impossible puzzle. If you think you found one hit the "GET HELP" link and post it here and we can solve it togetha

comment: you did this? This is so good! I'm addicted to it after a few games.

comment: I can see you selling this to NYT and being the new world :) just genius.

comment: *wordle also, what is vibe coding?

html_comment: *wordle also, what is vibe coding?


[User] Salarrue

comment: lol

html_comment: lol


topic_title: Science Of The Day

post:
 Dire wolves! they brought back motherfucking Dire wolves!

extinct 13000 years.

those howls are haunting and heartbreaking, no one has been around for millennia  to respond

comment: LOL from the comments: The fact we got actual dire wolves before Martin finished Winds of Winter is crazy.

comment: They are mostly gray wolves, with just a bit of DNA changed, this is not Jurassic Park. Yet.

comment: how they did it: https://www.youtube.…

html_comment: how they did it: https://www.youtube.…

comment: graf, I think that's all it takes. We'll know for sure when we see woolly mammoths :)

comment: Soon probably https://www.cbc.ca/n…

html_comment:
Soon probably

https://www.cbc.ca/n…


post: so rad mg! awesome work

comment: Thank you! It's been fun and I keep lucking into little possibilities. My main realization is that good color combos and plentiful image assets are key.

comment: Spending a lot of time going through Lightroom and looking at huge albums of textures, water, etc.


post:
 "lol what a fucking retard to think the USA actually needs eggs from anywhere, are you so small minded you think Romani could help us in any way? hilarious."
- monospaced

"In recent months, the U.S. has increased its egg imports significantly, bringing in over 1.6 million dozen consumer-grade chicken eggs in January and February 2025, primarily from Turkey.
 This is a notable increase compared to previous years, where imports were much lower, averaging around 15 million dozen annually before the current supply issues."

comment: Easy to call somebody a "know it all" when you yourself know chicken shit

comment: ^Eggzactly.

html_comment: ^Eggzactly.

[User] kingsteven

comment: the million-dozen... new favourite quantitative expression

comment: He may not know much about chicken shit, but he does know about the avian flu outbreak that is stifling domestic and European production and increasing prices.

comment: We don't NEED eggs, they want to import them so prices are reasonable.

comment: You're a petty, petty, petty person to argue over eggs, especially when we don't LOOK to Romania to import eggs.

[User] monospaced

comment: To be clear, the US produces about 100 BILLION eggs per year, making this 20M statistically insignificant ... or "chickenshit" to use your term.

comment: Also, to be clear, the supply issues were and are temporary at best.

comment: So, calling me out with this stat only makes my point, and makes you look ignorant af to flex about egg imports.

comment: .02% of eggs is what this is, at BEST

html_comment: .02% of eggs is what this is, at BEST

comment: Easy to call somebody's knowledge "chicken shit" when you yourself are a know it all who is in fact still wrong.

comment: lol at the upvote

html_comment: lol at the upvote

comment: also, Turkey isn't Romania, which again probably can't produce what a single dairy state in the USA does each year


[User] autoflavour

comment: tru dat

html_comment: tru dat


[User] jagara

post: Simpsons March of 2000:


topic_title: Obama

comment: 51:38  1% of coders .. here to stay

html_comment: 51:38  1% of coders .. here to stay


[User] Gardener

topic_title: recent vinyl finds

post:
 Well, what a weekend down in Milton Keynes, digging in shops and selling/buying at a small record fair in a pub. I had all sorts of finds from 60's Afro-Beat to obscure early 80's synth 7"s. But blowing them all out of the water was this album I came across. I emailed a guy who runs a site specialising in David Bowie autographs after I picked up a copy of Ziggy Stardust. I was hanging around outside the venue where the record fair was and as I had got there 2 hours early got chatting to a bloke who was off loading loads of his own car boot finds and he let me dig into his boot before he unloaded his wares, which included half a dozen Bowie albums. Naturally I bought them all and the copy of Ziggy he had was very clean and also a first press - with the correct credits, no Mainman on the rear of the sleeve etc. I paid him £25 as that was what he wanted but upon closer inspection I noticed a signature on the rear which (to me) looks like it could actually be by the mainman himself. As a longtime fan ( since 1970) I was pretty much blown away by the possibility of having the good fortune to have found a first pressing of this that may have been signed - not something I would ever be able to buy on the open market. When I asked the seller if he knew about the signature he shrugged and said "I dunno mate, could be, I don't care to be honest". However... I thought it would be a good idea to contact Andy Peters who runs a site specializing in db autographs. He wrote to me today to say,

"Good to hear from you. I get hundreds of these requests a month and sadly, they are all either poor attempts or silly scribbles. I’m delighted to say, this is 100% authentic - an incredibly rare find indeed. Bowie signed the rear phone box often as it was the only decent area for a biro. I’d put this signature and LPs value at circa £1000. Always nice to have an Antique Roadshow moment - congratulations!!
Best wishes - Andy"

Which is pretty amazing and a once in a lifetime find, right place right time but I know when I go back to the record fair seller and tell him about that Bowie album he sold me he'll just just shrug and say good for you, he really didn't care less either way! I will still buy him a pint or two though.

comment: nice! not to mention early UK pressings of ziggy are so much better than the US and reissue versions they should be £1000 anyway :D


comment: Lol

html_comment: Lol


topic_title: Donald Trump

post:
 Chinese plan to BAN Hollywood movies as they vow to 'fight to the end' in trade war: Huge blow could cost films such as Jurassic World: Rebirth and new Mission Impossible sequel half a BILLION dollars

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news…

comment: maga hates hollywood...

html_comment: maga hates hollywood...

comment: haga hates mollywood

html_comment: haga hates mollywood


[User] nb

topic_title: News of the day...

post:
 Amid a market selloff, FoxNews.com this morning makes no mention of the stock market on its homepage. Undoubtedly, the movement in markets is the biggest news story in America this morning, so far. Foxnews is actively hiding the biggest story. The only mention of tariffs is the sixth story down. A status update about the “countries that have already folded.”

This is one of the clearest examples of media bias I’ve seen in recent times.

The thing about the market is, you can’t fool it. You can’t lie. It is merely an indicator of the sentiment of business.

I know that most of us here know very well that foxnews is fake news but it’s worth noting at this moment that there is, today, very obvious and unimpeachable proof that foxnews is bullshit.

The markets don’t lie. Fox does.

If you know someone who watches fox, this is a great week to show them how they’re being duped.

comment: 5 articles about how Biden is still ruining America and 3 about a high school trans swimmer somewhere.

[User] PhanLo

comment: Still attacking biden, even though he's dead.

[User] monNom

comment: market is up today (as of now, and since the open).

comment: The market is like a monkey stung by a bee. You can check in to see where it is going, but don't expect it to be rational at any given moment.


[User] milfhunter

comment: Looks fun that app, I tried an early version of it, but it looks like it's improved a lot.


topic_title: Video Games...

post: As a grown ass man I shouldn't be as excited for the Switch 2 as I am.


[User] lodef

post: this looks interesting for game designers


[User] microkorg

topic_title: blog

post:
 Job hunt update.

In 3 weeks, about 100 jobs applied for.

Had about 20 knock-backs with most of them being instant or within a day or so which I think many were robots doing keyword/cv checks.

But only now after the 3 weeks starting to see personalised replies coming through from real people.
Got an interview for a remote position tonight with NY company.
And got a call from a fintech company recruiter asking if he can put me forward.
And i've one take-home exercise that I started today for another fintech company close to home.

I think take home exercises are a good thing for someone new to the game or junior designers, maybe even middleweight if they need them to prove something. But for someone who's had a 25 year career in senior, CD and Team Lead positions all whilst still being a hands-on designer is a bit of a pisstake. I mean, if I've made it THIS far, then surely I've got the skills.

[User] Continuity

comment: Tell the fintech people to get fucked. You don't do free work, and it's insulting to the length and breadth of your career.

comment: Congrats! Thats a lot of action so you must be doing something right. :)

comment: It's ChatGPT I have to thank mono.My writing skills wouldn't have got me this far I don't think. haha.

html_comment: It's ChatGPT I have to thank mono.<br>My writing skills wouldn't have got me this far I don't think. haha.

[User] palimpsest

comment: I would send them a Let Me Google That For You link or a prompt link.


post:
 Two great questions from my kids this morning that AI gave us the extremely interesting answers to.

- Why are guns called guns?
- Which came first, the name for the colour orange or the name for the fruit orange?

comment: Why do birds suddenly appear everytime you are near?


[User] canoe

topic_title: Grafician Hate Why?

post:
 Grafician's response: "Lol America does not had a golden age. You are basically a MAGA person now. You might as well directly voted Trump."

I'm not MAGA. You just need me to be so you don’t have to deal with being wrong.

Not everyone who calls you out worships the sociopathic 8 year old president. Sometimes your arguments are simply straight up mxyzptlk.

comment: You hide your insecurity behind arrogance and fake intellectualism. You don’t actually want a conversation — you want to perform, to dominate, to feel smarter..

comment: than everyone else. Every time someone disagrees with you, you slap the MAGA label on them because it’s easier than admitting your arguments might be weak.

comment: What’s funny is you act like you’re the polar opposite of Trump, but you share a lot more in common than you think — the need to be right at all costs...

comment: the mockery, the inflated sense of self, the obsession with enemies. You just swapped the red hat for a superiority complex and some bitter coffee.

comment: It's so transparent, and so boring to me.

comment: Your deflection, rage at systems you doesn’t participate in, hyperfocus on America despite being European...

comment: is likely covering deep-seated frustration with your own country, career, or social status.

comment: Now, canoe, I just want to say that agree with you, and have absolutely no beef to speak of. However: "rage at systems you doesn’t participate in, hyperfocus

comment: ... on America despite being European"The fact is, what happens in the US more often than not have knock-on effects in the rest of the world. So, yeah, the

html_comment: ... on America despite being European"<br>The fact is, what happens in the US more often than not have knock-on effects in the rest of the world. So, yeah, the

comment: ... rest of us out here are pretty concerned about what goes on in your country. That said: most of us also have a life, and don't hyperfocus,

comment: ... as you rightly pointed out.That's all I've got to say about that, really. Carry on!

html_comment: ... as you rightly pointed out.<br>That's all I've got to say about that, really. Carry on!

comment: Also, alwayssca—oops, neverscared: get a hold of yourself, ffs. you're getting really tedious, too.

comment: Topical discussion is fine. He's over the top, obsessed, it's part of his being, unapologetically addicted.

comment: Hear, hear. Like I said, absolutely no beef with you or what you're saying.


[User] ideaist

post:
 Thought this was pretty great; learning the ins and outs of the system:

Playstation did this well with Astrobot PRE game of the year / full game. Learning controls and generally personifying a piece of technology strengthening a users bond to it IMO.

comment: But why are they charging for it, stupid.

comment: Money makes the world go 'round brother. I'll buy it / It's $10.

comment: Paying for an explainer tutorial of a console, lol

comment: Complaining about anything, lol

html_comment: Complaining about anything, lol


[User] yuekit

post: Elon Musk cracks and starts attacking the Trump administration

[User] OBBTKN

comment: popcorn.gif

comment: Did Elmo read the NYT? I thought he hated them: https://www.nytimes.…

[User] maquito

comment: How's that 'just in time' production going?

comment: * An important caveat: for parts content, Cars.com counts Canada as part of the U.S.  lol


post:
via NBQ00
https://www.qbn.com/reply/414239…

comment: Didn't he impose that he has more command of the English language than you do?

comment: Which was absurd. In my opinion, you're one of the wittiest and most eloquently spoken members on QBN.

comment: When it comes to English, you're like a specialized dental tool, as opposed to him: a jackhammer.

comment: Thank you! It's by no merit of my own. I grew up in Baltimore, that fact made me savor his judgment of my English skills even more.

html_comment: Thank you! <br>It's by no merit of my own. I grew up in Baltimore, that fact made me savor his judgment of my English skills even more.

comment: She's beautiful

html_comment: She's beautiful

[User] renderedred

comment: We, in the Balkans, have great English education. ;)

comment: They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

[User] AQUTE

comment: SHEIT she it

html_comment: SHEIT she it


topic_title: What are you listening to?

post: Skate punk buddies from UY


topic_title: Stock Market

post: I have all mine here:

comment: almost half the value they had 6mo ago

html_comment: almost half the value they had 6mo ago

[User] monospaced

comment: clearly it shows you only lost 25% and have 75% of what it was 6 months ago


topic_title: The Healthy Thread

comment: Unless you are asthmatic, and you die ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

comment: my hangovers lately just need water and rest. I'm becoming a ficus

[User] utopian

comment: dead?

html_comment: dead?


[User] garbage

comment: Oh man, I'm clicking the Starship Troopers "Would you like to know more?" prompt that just went off in my head.

comment: It's super nice eh? Wonder if there's any full magazines online somwhere.

comment: Found it https://archive.org/…

html_comment: Found it https://archive.org/…

comment: Whoa, excellent find man.

html_comment: Whoa, excellent find man.


[User] Salarrue

comment: Lol. MAGA hats are finally gonna be 'proudly made in the USA´

[User] zaq

comment: with audio https://i.imgur.com/…

html_comment:
with audio
https://i.imgur.com/…

[User] bigrobot

comment: What a dumbass. Your president in El Salvador is one of our allies. I guess brains don't entirely run in your country's bloodline.

comment: Ha fool. Blood entirely runs in your dumbass country’s schoolyards.


[User] PhanLo

post:
 Paul Pope
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topic_title: canada

post:
 We do at least one vacation in Canada every year... should make it a point to do 2-3 for the next few years under our freak show president...

https://apple.news/AQxRJUObsSAiq…

comment: This is the way.

html_comment: This is the way.

[User] nb

comment: Rocky mountains in Canada are dope AF for snowboarding

comment: Surfing pretty decent in Halifax and Tofino. Plus, fewer surfers.


[User] neverscared

topic_title: Coffee of the Day

post:
 Pouring water slowly, steadily and from height is key to achieving ‘avalanche’ mixing effect

https://www.theguardian.com/food…


[User] bainbridge

[User] monNom

comment: alpha move right there.

html_comment: alpha move right there.

comment: On second thought, the true alpha move would be to cite yourself as your source without the anagram.

comment: alpha douchebag

html_comment: alpha douchebag


comment: H O N K !

html_comment: H O N K !

comment: deals on wheels

html_comment: deals on wheels


topic_title: Elon Musk

post:
 The Tesla Collapse Domino Theory (a.k.a. The Musk Trap):

1.Tesla is Musk’s foundation.
Every empire he built—SpaceX, Neuralink, Starlink, X—leans on the cash flow, market hype, and illusion of growth from Tesla.
If Tesla goes, it all goes.

2.Musk tried to use MAGA to build his technocracy.
He thought he could ride the chaos, influence the cult, and still come out on top—not realizing that Trump was getting drunk on power, and once MAGA took control, they stopped listening to him.
Trump doesn’t care about innovation, tech, or Tesla—he only cares about ego, vengeance, and domination.

3.The world is turning against Tesla—not because of the car, but because of Musk’s associations.
•In Europe: sales are down 50–70%
•In the U.S.: people associate Teslas with Musk, and Musk with Trump
That emotional backlash? It’s devastating—and very hard to reverse.

4.Musk is now pushing against tariffs—while MAGA pushes harder for them.
That’s the Hyparadox:
He supported nationalist populism to accelerate his own vision, but now that populism is cannibalizing the globalism Tesla depends on.

He built a brand for the future—then tied himself to people who want to live in the past.

5.Trump doesn’t need him anymore.
He used Musk’s platform, his credibility, and his influence.
But now Trump is back, untouchable in his own eyes, and ignoring Musk’s signals.
That’s the real Musk Trap.
He wasn’t betrayed by MAGA.
He overestimated his ability to control them.

And China?

China is ready for a long game.

•They’ve prepared their economy to absorb pain.
•Their people are conditioned to endure sacrifice.
•They can lose five years of exports and still dominate.

America can’t handle five months of inflated Walmart prices without a cultural tantrum.

When Trump slaps full tariffs, even the MAGA crowd will be begging for deals with China again.

What are we left with?

•A tech billionaire who tried to manipulate the system
•A cult movement that now ignores him
•And a global market that’s rapidly shutting him out

Musk isn’t just facing a financial reckoning.
He’s facing a strategic backfire of his own design.

He tried to push technocracy through MAGA.
But now he’s watching technocracy get eaten by the very mob he empowered.

The trap wasn’t built by MAGA.
It was set by Putin, enabled by Trump, and walked into by Musk—
thinking he was the one pulling the strings.

Now the question is:
Can he wake up before it all crashes?
Or is it already too late?

comment: is this you? agree 100%

html_comment: is this you? agree 100%


topic_title: Iran

post: Timmy! lol


post: They're eating each other


topic_title: UK is Fucked

comment: lol so true.

html_comment: lol so true.

comment: if you go midweek in the winter, during term time, and take your own food and booze and bikes and oxygen, and don't do any of the activities

comment: it's still fucking expensive

html_comment: it's still fucking expensive


comment: too late matey boy

html_comment: too late matey boy


post:
"You don't have the cards...you're not even American"

"You are retarded! *@*&@!"

comment: smell my finger

html_comment: smell my finger

[User] canoe

comment: bad photoshopping

html_comment: bad photoshopping

comment: It's real, AFP photo

html_comment: It's real, AFP photo


[User] Gabriel

topic_title: Moebius

comment: Ah nice! Never seen this before

html_comment: Ah nice! Never seen this before


comment: ups! Shit!

html_comment: ups! Shit!


[User] yuekit

post:
 Apple races to fly shipments of iPhones into the USA before the deadline

https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/07/i…

comment: Steady on Timmy!Not very patriotic at all.

html_comment: Steady on Timmy!<br>Not very patriotic at all.


post:
 BREAKING: Trump announces record-breaking $1 trillion Pentagon budget.

"Nobody's seen anything like it. We have to build our military."

This snake proposed slashing US military expenditure by 50% and does this instead.

Ahh, the DOGE is of course not touching the Pentagon.

comment: Correction: The USA is putting our country first, instead of funding wars in other countries so corrupt politicians can launder and steal our tax dollars.

comment: Goodbye, Ukraine war, Zellensky, and any other leeches. Our money stays here. Fuck you.

comment: lol what Ukraine war? that thing ended on his first day in office, where've you been?

comment: $1T military budget to be spent on no wars. @bigrobot says that’s money well spent!

comment: Trump lied about the budget, he was probably lying about the wars too. Some people are so fucking gullible.


[User] DaveO

post:
 This administration treats the world like a reddit board.
Fucking hate it.


post:
Huge backlash on Chinese social media after Vance refers to "Chinese peasants" in a Fox News interview

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025…

comment: 100% tariffs on Chinese goods lol good luck with that. China's "peasants" can survive on a bowl of rice, they've known hardship. What are yanks going to

comment: do when their Big Macs cost $58 and their MAGA t-shirts cost $350?

comment: Anyone else get psychopath vibes from Vance? I feel like if this man ever becomes president there will be another Holocaust.