topic_title: Ambient track loops

post:
http://music.youtube.com/playlis…

I'm sure this link is going to fail.

comment: I knew it

html_comment: I knew it

[User] Salarrue

comment: Awesome

html_comment: Awesome

[User] cherub

comment: it didn't fail for me, worked

html_comment: it didn't fail for me, worked


[User] PhanLo

topic_title: Illustration of the Day

post:
https://bsky.app/profile/themroc…
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[User] yuekit

topic_title: America is Fucked

post:
American schools begin teaching pro-Trump conspiracy theories

https://popular.info/p/new-oklah…

Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud. The lesson will not be part of a course on conspiracy theories, but an official component of the new social studies curriculum.

[User] Nutter

comment: ugh

html_comment: ugh

comment: It will get worse

html_comment: It will get worse

[User] grafician

comment: Everybody warned you fuckers, we out here having beers watching the impire fall


topic_title: capitalism

post:
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-i…
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comment: getting console just to play the latest Doom, capitalism must go on


[User] rzu-rzu

topic_title: quote of the day

post:
 For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

- Kahlil Gibran


[User] OBBTKN

topic_title: blog

post: Happy May 1st, plebs ;)

[User] pango

comment: Work work work https://www.youtube.…

html_comment:
Work work work

https://www.youtube.…


[User] stoplying

post:
 New game show

Blind typing. You are given a phrase to type out, eyes covered, and if you don't type it perfectly - you. dead.

comment: oh, so it's like social media comments with a twist!

comment: i'd paly that game

html_comment: i'd paly that game

comment: I stopped looking at the keys ages ago...I will take those odds

html_comment: I stopped looking at the keys ages ago...<br>I will take those odds

[User] sted

comment: why does always has to be some self-polishing information that interests no one?

[User] jagara

comment: I proudly look at the keyboard.

html_comment: I proudly look at the keyboard.

comment: i proudly not looking at keuboard and not care about typi

comment: tjst a goof attirude pff

html_comment: tjst a goof attirude pff

[User] palimpsest

comment: Laughs in 60%.#youthinkthatsbad

html_comment: Laughs in 60%.<br>#youthinkthatsbad

[User] neverscared

comment: it could work... with a high enough reward...

comment: Higher than life?

html_comment: Higher than life?

[User] prophetone

comment: Show title: BLOOD TYPE

html_comment: Show title: BLOOD TYPE


topic_title: Picture Association

comment: lol I think I was on a wrong page, there was Paul McCartney there

comment: this one https://www.qbn.com/…

html_comment: this one https://www.qbn.com/…

comment: I dont want to be the new pope, fuck off


[User] moogchild

comment: those faces lol

html_comment: those faces lol


post:
 Techno

All of it


comment: Nah let them boil

html_comment: Nah let them boil

comment: a wall to keep them in doesn't sound like a bad idea now.

[User] canoe

comment: a 3 year vacation sounds nice. stuck here for at least another year. left during the Bush years, lost total attachment, it was nice, #daddingnow

comment: "If I were American I would start planning to get out."And this why you're not American.

html_comment: "If I were American I would start planning to get out."<br>And this why you're not American.

comment: k

html_comment: k

[User] monospaced

comment: Get out? Why? It won’t be like this forever.

comment: We need to start by acknowledging that America has always been America.

comment: not before Vespucci though :)

html_comment: not before Vespucci though :)

comment: Exactly, it was not America.

html_comment: Exactly, it was not America.

comment: Saying 'not all Americans' can be equated to saying 'all lives matter' or 'not all men'. It is the refusal to acknowledge the underlying problem.

comment: not at all

html_comment: not at all

[User] brothernoah

comment: Its easy  to f*ck up a masterpiece with some orange paints.


topic_title: Punches For:

post: "Empowering"


[User] webazoot

topic_title: Where The Fun ISN'T

post:
 Mummy mystery solved: ‘air-dried’ priest was embalmed via rectum

https://www.theguardian.com/worl…


topic_title: Comic Books ...

post:
 Miller may be a wingnut but damn if he wasn't spot on with this. Swap the Nixon analogue, Rexall, for Trump and you're half way there.

Look forward to RFK announcing the Health Police and cloned Aryan replicants guarding giant space lasers.

comment: fingers crossed Netflix doesn't get a hold of it and uttely fuck it like they've done with Electric State and The Eternaut.

comment: Oh no, I was looking forward to The Eternaut.

comment: El Eternauta is not bad, I'm on E2. And it has the huge merit of being made in Argentina.


topic_title: Pic of the Day

[User] milfhunter

comment: a fat pink

html_comment: a fat pink


[User] utopian

topic_title: Guess Who...

comment: mad hater²

html_comment: mad hater²


[User] Ianbolton

post: I make ambient music. Here’s my most ambient of all tracks! https://on.soundcloud.com/pbBdtN…


[User] BANKattack

topic_title: BankBeats

post:
 Very solid mix to kick off early summa

https://soundcloud.com/sambank/b…

Synkro – SK1 Dub (Original Mix)

Etherwood, Hugh Hardie – TANGARA (Original Mix)

Warno – Losing Control (Original Mix)

Anile – Fine (Original Mix)

Motiv, Sl8r – Lady Blue (Original Mix)

Speaker Louis – Circular (Original Mix)

Intelligent Manners, Command Strange – When I Get Home (Original Mix)

Changer – On My Mind (Original Mix)

ALB – Falling 4 U (Original Mix)

Steo, Styke, switch/case – Let You Know (Original Mix)

Styke – Find A Way (Original Mix)

Linx – Waves (Original Mix)

Tokyo Prose – Teenage Jazz (Original Mix)

Intelligent Manners, Command Strange – In My Mind (Original Mix)

Satl, Revan – Warble Music (Original Mix)

Styke – Verona (Original Mix)

DuoScience – Rain on the Window (Original Mix)

LSB – 175 (Original Mix)

Qant – One Day The Sadness Will End (Original Mix)

Skuff – Sweeter (Original Mix)

Styke – Clustered (Original Mix)

Mitekiss – Blur Mistake (Original Mix)

Noppo – Hurt You (Original Mix)

Cnof – Sparkle Eyes (Original Mix)

Need For Mirrors – Water Bending (Original Mix)

Tweakz – Always Tomorrow (Original Mix)

Linx – Hold You Again (Original Mix)

Noppo – Reciprocate (Original Mix)

Beta 2 – White Dahlia (Original Mix)

Atlantic Connection – Unconventional (Original Mix)

Dub Head – Badboysound (Original Mix)

Facing Jinx – Memory (Original Mix)

Frederic Robinson – Skip (Original Mix)

Harmony – Transit (Original Mix)

Housty – Stella (High Contrast Remix)

Naibu – Silent Communication (Original Mix)

Pawn, Calculon – Larchmont (Om Unit Remix)

Qant – Amnesie (Original Mix)

Runout – Skazka (Original Mix)

Shodan – Take Me Back To '93 (Original Mix)

Silence Groove – All You Need (Original Mix)

Coco Bryce – Dial M For Myor (Original Mix)

Deft – NEW YORKS FINEST VIP (Original Mix)

DLR – One More Record (Original Mix)

Droeloe, IMANU – CATALYST (Original Mix)

Gremlinz, Jesta – The Scarlet Gospels (Original Mix)

Machinedrum – H0N3Y (Original Mix)

Unglued – Total XTC (Original Mix)

TMSV – Aquatic Rock (Original Mix)

Nectax – Gold Soul (Original Mix)

Marcus Visionary – HEY HEY HEY (Original Mix)

Kabuki, BSN Posse – Orange Sunset (Original Mix)


topic_title: News of the day...

post:
Germany’s far-right AfD formally designated as ‘extremist’

Germany's Alternative für Deutschland formally designated as extremist
Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the country’s domestic intelligence agency, has just issued an update on its investigation into the far-right Alternative für Deutschland, classifying it as “confirmed right-wing extremist organisation.”

As German media noted, previously only the AfD’s state associations in certain parts of Germany were classified as such, but the national party was given a lower, “suspected” status.

Der Spiegel explains that the change in classification – underpinned by a 1,100-page report on the party – lowers the threshold for monitoring the party through intelligence means.

“The ethnicity- and ancestry-based conception of the people that predominates within the party is not compatible with the free democratic order,” the domestic intelligence agency said in a statement, quoted by Reuters.

“It aims to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society, to subject them to treatment that violates the constitution, and thereby assign them a legally subordinate status,” Reuters quoted the statement.

The AfD does not consider German citizens of immigrant background from predominantly Muslim countries as equal members of the German people, it added.


[User] Gardener

topic_title: What are you listening to?

post:
Ghoul Detail : a Skylarking mix for Tak Tent Radio

Shit Storm From The East
Blitz / 2nd Wave
Put My Girl In The Graveyard
Monolithic Drone
Fallout
Synapse Firestorm
Shallow Grave In The Woods
Primitive
Take The Pain Away
Slab
Frozen Moment
A Drone Amongst Men
Monkey Fists
12 Bong Challenge

https://www.mixcloud.com/Tak_Ten…


topic_title: Vid of the Day

post: Great flick, Cyberpunk done right:


[User] antimotion

post:
I started making some mixes to relax after losing my job a couple of months ago.

On a freelance gig now and pitching for more - in the meantime, here are a few I had a good time doing:

AM 06
https://www.mixcloud.com/lasergu…

AM 05
https://www.mixcloud.com/lasergu…

AM 03
https://www.mixcloud.com/lasergu…


[User] grafician

topic_title: Wikipedia of the Day

comment: International Workers' Day

html_comment: International Workers' Day


comment: chuck berry

html_comment: chuck berry

comment: I'm going to hell.Shakin' Stephens.

html_comment: I'm going to hell.<br>Shakin' Stephens.

comment: *Stevens

html_comment: *Stevens


[User] Nutter

topic_title: Video Games...

post:
 GTA 6  release date is now May 2026

https://www.bbc.com/news/article…

[User] dee-dubs

comment: FFS... take my monies already...

html_comment: FFS... take my monies already...


topic_title: Ambient track loops

comment: Such Great Art!

html_comment: Such Great Art!


[User] palimpsest

comment: would

html_comment: would


[User] bainbridge

topic_title: America is Fucked

comment: 4th's the charm.

html_comment: 4th's the charm.

[User] sted

comment: Thank you for your service, sted.

html_comment: Thank you for your service, sted.


comment: 4th's the charm.https://www.qbn.com/…

html_comment:
4th's the charm.
https://www.qbn.com/…


[User] neverscared

[User] PhanLo

comment: Strange fairground ride that

html_comment: Strange fairground ride that

[User] pango

comment: wouldnt that make them targets with no cover?


[User] PonyBoy

topic_title: RIP of the day

comment: Ruth Buzzi - comedienne from Rowan & Martin's Laugh In - 88


topic_title: State of QBN 2025

comment: meh thanks obama got in first

html_comment: meh thanks obama got in first


[User] elahon

post: This is one of my favorite Christmas songs. =( RIP

comment: died in a house fire :( horrifying

html_comment: died in a house fire :( horrifying

comment: So sad.

html_comment: So sad.


topic_title: UK is Fucked

post:
 'This is Reform-quake!' Farage hails seizing swathe of councils from collapsing Tories and Labour in huge local elections surge - saying it shows he CAN become PM
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comment: idiots will idiot, i guess.mind you, there's no other useful alternative

html_comment: idiots will idiot, i guess.<br>mind you, there's no other useful alternative


topic_title: Billionaires

[User] prophetone

comment: lol

html_comment: lol

comment: hehe

html_comment: hehe

comment: Seattle nerd needs to toss a QBN sticker on it, hack to play Newstoday chime, post’r

[User] garbage

comment: There were a couple of these done, in SLU and the U District. Sadly fixed by the end of the day.


[User] rzu-rzu

topic_title: Picture Association

comment: I'll get my coat...

html_comment: I'll get my coat...


post: #NeverForget

comment: Though you may not drive a great big CadillacGangsta whitewalls, TV antennas in the backYou may not have a car at all

html_comment:
Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac
Gangsta whitewalls, TV antennas in the back
You may not have a car at all

comment: But remember brothers and sistersYou can still stand tallJust be thankful for what you've got

html_comment:
But remember brothers and sisters
You can still stand tall
Just be thankful for what you've got

comment: Wonder what wars Hillary would have got involved in?We'll never know now :-(

html_comment: Wonder what wars Hillary would have got involved in?<br>We'll never know now :-(


post: associating the icon


[User] Nairn

comment: I didn't know you was on our side.

html_comment: I didn't know you was on our side.


[User] mantrakid

topic_title: making beats

post: Is this the correct way to email a record label?

comment: hahahah /\

html_comment: hahahah /\

[User] BabySnakes

comment: if it doesn't work with them, my buddy runs https://blackmarblec… he's very open to all sorts of music.

comment: @babysnakes oh snap that label is rad, i checked a bunch of the releases and theyre all awesome!

[User] pseud

comment: I think you should send them a fax.

html_comment: I think you should send them a fax.


topic_title: 360 of the day

post:
 good ad
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[User] microkorg

comment: Amazing bit of kit too. 360 cams have come a long way. i was an early adopter of the Samsung Gear 360 (mk1 and 2) around 2016.

comment: X5 best feature is prob its simplest, the replaceable lens. usually 360 and action cams would have to be scrapped if you scratched the lens.

comment: I've still managed to get by with my old Ricoh Theta, but would love to get a Insta360 one day. Replaceable lenses is a real bonus.

comment: Insta360 workflow is so much better than the Theta one too

comment: The first Theta's were the OG of 360s ;)

comment: I showed the 360 images to someone on my phone the other night at a gallery and it still blew folks minds moving around the 360 scene.

comment: Still find it so futuristic, compared with having to stitch so many photos together manually.


topic_title: Donald Trump

post:
 ugh he's so fucking insufferable.

Captain Shinsplints over here

comment: didnt he say they were losers and suckers ?

[User] fooler

comment: Ok, Capt Bone Spurs.

html_comment: Ok, Capt Bone Spurs.


[User] Akagiyama

topic_title: baking meats

post:
 Harissa Roasted Leg of Lamb

INGREDIENTS

UNITS USM
5 1/2 – 6 1/2 lb leg of lamb, bone-in.
8–10 fat garlic cloves
2 shallots, quartered
3–4 tablespoons Harissa Paste
2 tablespoons preserved lemons(or 1 tablespoon lemon zest)
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon caraway seeds, optional
1 teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons fresh thyme (or one tablespoon dried)
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cup thick whole milk yogurt, plain
Optional: roasting vegetables- potatoes, carrots, parsnips, onions, etc.

INSTRUCTIONS
Prep the Lamb: Trim the fat off the leg if you prefer a leaner version -or leave some on for extra flavor. See notes. Score all sides of leg 1/2 inch deep, 1 1/2 to 2 inches apart (crosshatch if you like), sprinkle generously with salt and bring to room temp for at least 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 350F

Make the Marinade: Place garlic, shallot, Harissa paste,  preserved lemon, salt, cumin, pepper, caraway seeds, thyme and olive oil in a food processer and pulse until uniformly chopped. Add the yogurt, pulse a few times (don’t blend or it will get runny).  Taste for heat, adding more harissa paste to taste.

Assemble: Place the lamb over a rack in a roasting pan. Lift the bone end of the leg straight up and brush the underside of the leg with the Harissa Yogurt getting into the slits and cuts as best you can. Lay it down over the rack, brush the remaining marinade over the top, getting into slits and lathering it up generously. Nestle in any roasting veggies you like (toss with olive oil and season with salt and pepper first.) You could brush any remaining marinade on the veggies if you like.

BAKE: AT 350F, plan on 20 minutes per pound for rare to medium-rare so plan on roughly 2 hours.  Place lamb on the lower third of the oven, loosely covered with a foil “tent” for one hour. Remove foil and check temp. Because every oven is different, keep an eye on the roast after the first hour, checking every 20 minutes or so for over-browning. You can always re-tent with foil if getting too dark. A little color is good here, but you don’t want it to burn. (If you leave the fat on, you can always carefully brown using the broiler, at the end to help crisp up that fat.)

Once the roast reaches 125-130F at the thickest end, pull it out, tent it again and let it rest 15-20 minutes before cutting into it, allowing the juices to remain in the meat, which will help keep the meat tender.


[User] jbasnight

post: add to _niko's point. This is the WhiteHouse's IG account:

comment: thanks pet eaters

html_comment: thanks pet eaters


topic_title: Illustration of the Day

post:
https://bsky.app/profile/strange…
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topic_title: Art of the Day Thread

post:
https://bsky.app/profile/slimysw…
the boys in question from thin lizzy's 1976 hit song The Boys Are Back In Town
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[User] moogchild

[User] canoe

comment: RIP

html_comment: RIP


[User] bainbridge

topic_title: blog

post:
 A close friend's marketing materials and website are seriously the worst I've seen.

The website is a basic template but then he changed the font and added a background and the navigation doesn't make sense, and it doesn't work on mobile. I don't know how that's even possible in this time.

And then the marketing materials are mostly Arial or a random Script, and the line breaks are bad and each one has a different alignment, even though he's trying to be consistent.

It annoys me so much because I want the business to succeed.

I've tried to help, I've even offered to do things for free.

But he's terrible at taking feedback and always just does it.

[User] jagara

comment: We all know them.

html_comment: We all know them.

comment: It's not your problem. Let it go. You're free.


[User] yuekit

topic_title: What are you listening to?

[User] kingsteven

comment: elaine <3

html_comment: elaine <3


[User] neverscared

topic_title: Favorite Words?

post:
 detrumpify

A practice now widely used to detoxify oneself from the potentially poisonous energy of this repugnant human repository of hate speech.


post:
 Watching good movies at home instead of with the the dumbest people humanity has to offer is far is a superior experience to going to a theater.

We have the technology now. Good screens, good sound, at home.

Goodbye, idiots. I won't miss your phones, your loud and smelly eating, and most of all, your out-loud comments showcasing your retardation.

[User] monospaced

comment: Couldn’t agree more. It’s also amazing how many people STILL downplay the HUGE importance of good sound these days.

comment: Putting in a legit surround system and getting the biggest screen I could for my space was the best decision a few years back.

comment: Escaping the crowd is the main advantage, imho.

comment: If you're only watching on a basic tv, then you're missing 90% of what you paid for in the theater.

comment: You're right, we do "have the technology" to get theater quality A/V at home, which is why it makes sense to implement it if you're gonna avoid the theater.

comment: 55 inch TV, good headphones, I'm happy.

html_comment: 55 inch TV, good headphones, I'm happy.

comment: lol

[User] grafician

comment: IMAX at home? Doubtful.

html_comment:
IMAX at home?

Doubtful.

comment: Again. I'm happy. *blows kiss*

html_comment: Again. I'm happy. *blows kiss*


topic_title: The More You Know ★

post:
 Why scientists are blaming influencers for rise in shark attacks
A new study claims social media is responsible for encouraging people to interact with sharks

Social media influencers encouraging travellers to “stroke” sharks are behind a rise in shark attacks, according to a new study

https://www.independent.co.uk/tr…

comment: jack ass for everyone...

html_comment: jack ass for everyone...

comment: Natural selection...

html_comment: Natural selection...


topic_title: Grafician Hate Why?

post: QBN's very own extremist dehumanizing American people on a weekly basis.

comment: ... and failing miserably

html_comment: ... and failing miserably

comment: His affection towards hate and authoritarianism while bashing MAGA is like an oxymoron personified.

comment: you calling him out on it is so tedious

html_comment: you calling him out on it is so tedious


topic_title: Australia votes

post: Well, Peter Dutton is out for good. Didn't see it coming tbh. Neither did he.

[User] Fennero

comment: Not a good time to be aligning yourself with trump style politics. Trumpet Of Patriots hasn’t done too well either.


[User] PhanLo

topic_title: Skull of the day

[User] bezoar

comment: coool

html_comment: coool


post: Pulled a Pierre


post: ^ you are very bipolar


topic_title: Car of The Day

comment: Is this AI?

html_comment: Is this AI?

comment: saab logo is missing from the back and wheels

comment: beautiful shape. always loved the 900.

html_comment: beautiful shape. always loved the 900.

[User] OBBTKN

[User] formed

comment: Fond memories for my SPG, way back when.


topic_title: The Useful Thread

post:
https://www.lightpollutionmap.in…

Where to find places to see the night sky better

[User] utopian

comment: good find.

html_comment: good find.

[User] hardhat

comment: My place is in the black

html_comment: My place is in the black


topic_title: _Randomize Me

[User] Continuity

comment: "peanut butter by the splat" made me laugh entirely more than it should have.I'm still giggling like a fool.

html_comment: "peanut butter by the splat" made me laugh entirely more than it should have.<br>I'm still giggling like a fool.

comment: haha, same.

html_comment: haha, same.

comment: Welcome to Donny Tarrif’s America?

html_comment: Welcome to Donny Tarrif’s America?

[User] Akagiyama

comment: So, no one's flabbergasted that a tray of peanut butter costs $12.25??

comment: It's by the splat, of course it's more expensive!

[User] prophetone

comment: I’lll take two splats of peanut butter and a tub of Brawndo my good sir

[User] AQUTE

comment: fuckables to go?

html_comment: fuckables to go?


topic_title: Pic of the Day

comment: Some kinky shit goes on in that house.

html_comment: Some kinky shit goes on in that house.

comment: Molly shop.

html_comment: Molly shop.


topic_title: Politics

post:
 Donald Trump’s approval ratings may be at rock bottom but the far-right frontrunner for Romania’s presidency reckons alignment with the U.S. president is still a winning ticket ahead of Sunday’s election.

George Simion, who proudly wears Trump baseball caps, spoke to POLITICO fresh from a visit to Washington, where he gave interviews to podcast host and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and far-right activist Jack Posobiec.

comment: It’s Saturday. Good luck.

html_comment: It’s Saturday. Good luck.


post:
 Three out of four Romanians have a positive perception of Donald Trump's election as US president, according to a study by the Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategy that was conducted at the end of January.

While 62% of respondents believe that Trump's election is beneficial for all people worldwide, 64% see it as a positive outcome for Romanians. Seven out of ten Romanians believe that Trump's election is a good thing for American citizens.

comment: Romanian goat herders and MAGA voters—both loyal to their herd, suspicious of facts, and convinced they know best. Just different kinds of grazing.

comment: I don’t think even the USA can boast these percentages. Romania out MAGAing even MAGA.

[User] garbage

comment: @utopian Both are easy targets for Russian social media manipulation. Also the last of the Decree 770 are hitting 40 now, correct?

[User] monNom

comment: If Russia is so adept at social media brainwashing as mere users, imagine how much power the owners of those media must wield.

[User] pseud

comment: We need an expert's opinion here...and we all know who he is. The one and only.

comment: He probably just voted.

html_comment: He probably just voted.

html_comment:
Oops!
https://www.theguard…

[User] palimpsest

comment: Still partying with the boys!

html_comment: Still partying with the boys!


post:
https://breezepdf.com/

"Breeze PDF is a powerful, free PDF editor that works entirely offline in your browser. No uploads, 100% privacy guaranteed."


topic_title: Meme of the day

comment: you look up swampy in the dictionary...

html_comment: you look up swampy in the dictionary...

comment: he looks like every corrupt detective in bad 80's action movies

comment: Fredo

html_comment: Fredo

comment: Oh yeah total fredo vibes

html_comment: Oh yeah total fredo vibes


[User] sted

post: retro cortex


[User] neverscared

topic_title: America is Fucked

post:
These judges ruled against Trump. Then their families came under attack.

https://www.reuters.com/investig…


[User] Danish

topic_title: the gif animation thread

comment: Now let's see how you hhandle it

html_comment: Now let's see how you hhandle it


[User] Gardener

comment: she makes him rock hard

html_comment: she makes him rock hard


topic_title: canada

post:
https://www.thecanadalist.ca/

The Canada List has added "All but USA" to its filters.


[User] bainbridge

topic_title: Donald Trump

[User] PhanLo

comment: Shaggerz Inc

html_comment: Shaggerz Inc


[User] renderedred

comment: hell yes!

html_comment: hell yes!

comment: and now i'm listening to this :)

html_comment: and now i'm listening to this :)


[User] yuekit

topic_title: Proper techno

[User] canoe

comment: Sonic Groove as in the label from NYC? Cool post!

comment: Plastic City was a cool label too, thought that was from NYC too

comment: Not to mention sinewave

html_comment: Not to mention sinewave


[User] utopian

comment: no more pornstar fucking....

html_comment: no more pornstar fucking....

comment: for the celibacy dony dork

html_comment: for the celibacy dony dork

comment: Come on guys I don’t think the catholic church has any objection with rapists, child molesters, criminals, grifters, cheaters, liars it’s the fact that he’s...

comment: ...Presbyterian that’s the real issue!

html_comment: ...Presbyterian that’s the real issue!

comment: the real issue that the outfit fits him good... thats enuf...

comment: good point though niko, there's very low expectations for religion in a capitalism forward country


topic_title: Elon Musk

post:
 Elon Musk’s Grok AI Has a Problem: It’s Too Accurate for Conservatives
MAGA folks can't believe their preferred chatbot won't reaffirm all their beliefs.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-g…

[User] maquito

comment: Fox News needs to train an LLM to keep them misinformed, feeding them lies and bullshit non-stop


[User] elahon

topic_title: Picture Association

[User] slappy

comment: Oh no, we're going to get stuck in a loop.


[User] prophetone

topic_title: UFO of the day

comment: Is it a non-human scout uap or a giant jawbreaker in excalibur cosplay

comment: All I know is FIFA lawyers are on standby

[User] futurefood

comment: Lol excalibur

html_comment: Lol excalibur

comment: Wow! Really dig the detail shots

html_comment: Wow! Really dig the detail shots


[User] zaq

topic_title: Anyone at Config in San Fran this year?

post: attending virtually

comment: Curious about Figma to Code announcements

comment: big time...thats likely to be the big one this year..


topic_title: Generative Art

post:
 I'm still working away on my projects, and, with a goal of making prints soon, spent some time researching AI image upscaling this weekend since the output size of my PNG images is 2,000px on the long edge.

Got curious about how to simply make bigger images, and working with Claude, devised a feature that keeps the on-screen canvas constrained to 2,000px wide to keep things efficient and speedy, but now my Save PNG feature has the option for normal resolution (screen display), and a high resolution output mode that is rendered off screen at 300dpi to a max of 40 inches wide. I need to iron out some bugs, but pretty happy with how that random idea turned out. Kind of makes me want to upgrade my Synology NAS to have more memory since it's all running on a server on it. I'm ecstatic that I can run it there because this would all suck to host on my website; my assets folders are growing constantly as I scan stuff, make new sets of images to use in these tools, etc.

Here are some images that I made a few weeks ago, probably the one style that I've been the happiest about so far. Someone online said they looked like tangrams and LOL it kind of makes me want to have these made out of wood.

[User] cherub

comment: very nice

html_comment: very nice

[User] ayport

comment: Really enjoying following your process and the results.

comment: Thank you both!

html_comment: Thank you both!


[User] neverscared

post:
Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’“

The retaliation will kill our industry. We have a lot more to lose than to gain,” he said, adding that it would be difficult to make a national security or national emergency case for movies.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-n…

[User] Continuity

comment: It's funny ... he looks almost human, there. Like any other old man.

comment: we have to admit that he has an overwhelming creativity when it comes to inventing monumental crap


comment: too scary and dangerous ..

html_comment: too scary and dangerous ..

comment: USA 2025.. and too fat and lazy to publicly stand up .


[User] grafician

topic_title: quote of the day

post:
 "A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact."

- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast & Slow

[User] CyBrainX

comment: If you're not an idiot, familiarity is easy to distinguish from truth.

[User] dbloc

comment: The problem is, there are a lot of idiots.


post: MMGA!!!!!!!!

comment: they can do all nazi movies in the usa now.. it has the same vibe now...

comment: yah because exterminating millions of jewish people is EXACTLY where we're at. otherwise cute joke

comment: thanks...

html_comment: thanks...

comment: i meant 1933 though = no extermination.. ..the trajectory . seeing the deportations ..fuckin the supreme court decision... u might wind up where ?

comment: illiberal democracy or sth even more morbid ...

comment: thank god he is not chilling with neo fascist  proud boys ex leader  today ... that would be telling...

[User] monNom

comment: Bit of a startling admission here that movies are just messaging and propaganda, and a national security threat as a result.

comment: gettin into a fight with newsom too... just preparing for 2028 elections


[User] palimpsest

topic_title: Romania calling

comment: A iu ca iu a iu ca iu

html_comment: A iu ca iu a iu ca iu

comment: Interesting thread... strange how graf gets upset about the gypsy stereotype, but happily generalizes about Americans, all 340M of us

[User] monospaced

comment: Strange how he claims we “let” Trump become president, and shouldn’t have, and this is happening there.

comment: steve bannon must be so proud,,,

html_comment: steve bannon must be so proud,,,

[User] yuekit

comment: Romania has fallen under the malign influence of American style politics.

comment: Long Live The Sheepherder Voting Block!

html_comment: Long Live The Sheepherder Voting Block!

comment: @yuekit - he also name drops Meloni.

html_comment: @yuekit - he also name drops Meloni.

comment: Rising nationalism, distrust in traditional political elites, anti-globalization sentiments, & backlash against immigration.

comment: All parallel movements, not causal. Trump just amplified all of that.


topic_title: The More You Know ★

post:
 Eight Charts Show Men Are Falling Behind, From Classrooms to Careers
The data on how men and boys have fallen behind and on the work opportunities they’re missing.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/f…


[User] Gardener

topic_title: recent vinyl finds

post: Celebrating 80th VE Day with this set of 2 x 12" 78rpm discs on heavy shellac - not dated but would imagine they are from circa 1940 going by the subject matter! They explain the preparation and protection with Incendiary bombs.


[User] maquito

topic_title: Trailer Of The Day

post: Finished it yesterday. Based in an Argentinian 50's comic.

comment: Fue un verdadero gusto verlo pero también me dejó un poco de sabor amargo. He escrito al respecto en Discord.

[User] Gabriel

comment: Esta buena?

html_comment: Esta buena?

comment: Es lo que es.

html_comment: Es lo que es.

[User] OBBTKN

comment: Yo he oido de todo Gabriel, de que está muy bien para el presupuesto con el que contaba, como que es insufrible... Yo la veré la semana que viene, sin falta ;)


topic_title: What are you listening to?

post: "Many Bothans died to bring us this banger"


topic_title: Official SFW Thread

post:
 I found something quite strange yesterday while zapping through my tv apps: a Spanish season / version of "Naked and Afraid" was released, and it's called "AVENTURA EN PELOTAS" XD

And, the best part: it's not censored. Yup, no blur. Balls.

comment: Wife walks in: "I thought it was fúlbol".

comment: Lol, “wait, let me explain”

html_comment: Lol, “wait, let me explain”


[User] canoe

comment: Rather have him a cameo than a real political actor

[User] PhanLo

comment: Jobbie the Hut

html_comment: Jobbie the Hut

[User] utopian

comment: May The 4th Big Mac Be With U

html_comment: May The 4th Big Mac Be With U


post: "Simion often dons a red "Make Romania Great Again" hat... [he] recently secured approximately 41% of the vote in the first round of Romania's presidential election rerun, positioning him as the frontrunner for the upcoming runoff on May 18, 2025."


[User] DaveO

post:
 Romania has a significantly influential house & techno scene that I've wanted to experience for years.

Petre Inspirescu (Pedro) is a legend.

comment: I can recommend glady https://cosmintrg.ba…

comment: [a:rpia:r] the label also highly influencial https://ra.co/labels…

comment: this weekend we had also Marco Carola for 16 hours set at Sunwaves 2025 https://www.youtube.…


topic_title: Drawing of the Day

post: Thomas Theodor Heine, Simplicissimus, 1929

[User] nuggler

comment: I would have guessed Edward Sorel

html_comment: I would have guessed Edward Sorel

comment: I would have guessed a Prompt

html_comment: I would have guessed a Prompt


comment: W I N N I N G !

html_comment: W I N N I N G !

[User] renderedred

[User] neverscared

comment: doge über alles

html_comment: doge über alles

comment: Julia must have missed the Edward Snowden thing.

comment: mon must have missed - what aboutism -

html_comment: mon must have missed - what aboutism -


[User] elahon

comment: The Turdman of Alcatraz.

html_comment: The Turdman of Alcatraz.

[User] colab

comment: Emperor Poo-patine

html_comment: Emperor Poo-patine

[User] sted

comment: Already walked back

html_comment: Already walked back


post: no 35 dolls.... 2,3,4 no problem


topic_title: UK is Fucked

[User] Ianbolton

comment: It’s fucking annoying how much media space those reform cunts get. Same with Trump. What are they actually offering? Nothing.


post: I'll be there!

comment: awesome! you going to any of the after-parties?


[User] Nairn

topic_title: 3D Printing of the Day

post:
 Design for 3D-Printing

https://blog.rahix.de/design-for…

"I have been collecting the little tricks and rules for designing well-printable parts. And of course I am always on the hunt for more. In this blog post I want to share all that I have learned."


topic_title: Quote someone

post: the bigger the sum... the easier the crime


post: „Đurđev danak – hajdučki sastanak, Mitrov danak – hajdučki rastanak“


topic_title: Car of The Day

post:
Francis’s popemobile to become a mobile clinic for children in Gaza
Catholic charity says the late pontiff endorsed the idea of creating a ‘vehicle of hope’ to deliver medical aid


topic_title: the gif animation thread

post: The Breakfast Club


[User] cherub

post: Looks like they've cornered the market on cups and bowls.


[User] Gardener

post:
 Albums I have picked up in the last few weeks, most from one seller at a car boot who was knocking them out at £2 each.

An old Man album might not normally be something I might get excited about, but I LOVE the fold-out poster sleeve of Wales inside the gate-fold, I just need to find a nice frame now.

Pleased to find this US copy of the 4th KC album, I have a few albums by him and this one turned out to be really good, it also features guitars by soon to be a Police man Andy Summers.

I have to admit I knew very little about this guy until I dug deeper into his story and like, WOW... If you don't know it, please search it out.

A tenner seemed reasonable for this original UK Vertigo, it was in VG+ nick and is an odd one fersure.

An Bollywood soundtrack for the 1979 movie Sweet Memories festooned in stickers.

1970 compilation of East African music put together by ethnomusicologist Jean Jenkins.

I rarely come across any albums by Alton Ellis but this one from 1984 appears to be signed, twice!

Another album I picked up with no knowledge of, but it wasn't until I got home I realised it had a different record inside. I got quite chatty with the guy who sold it, about radio and African music and we've since been in touch so fingers x I'll be able to pair them up properly sometime in the future.

Sweet mid 60's Brazilian Jazz.


[User] palimpsest

topic_title: AI in the workplace?

post: Yes.

[User] Continuity


topic_title: RIP of the day

post: Mulder - a great Bearded Dragon, 2016 - 2025

comment: aww. sorry for your loss. he's magnificent looking.

[User] prophetone

comment: RIP

html_comment: RIP

[User] garbage

comment: Handsome chap, RIP

html_comment: Handsome chap, RIP

comment: Love

html_comment: Love

[User] OBBTKN

comment: Ha! The cat's looking...Rip Mulder

html_comment:
Ha! The cat's looking...

Rip Mulder

comment: On a side note; have you got a snake called scully?

comment: My 12 yr old named him as he was an X files fan then, we never got a Scully...


[User] microkorg

post:
 Yes, when working was using it daily.
Legal will just be worried about you putting in sensitive information.
Dont include company names, people names, email addresses etc.
Make sure you edit these out BEFORE pasting in.


[User] yuekit

post: Doesn't this actually show what grafician was warning about? The bad influence of America is so great it finally reached his own country.

[User] monospaced

comment: He acts like he was warning us the whole and that we as an entire nation were too stupid see it coming or listen to him and that’s why Trump is president.

comment: But we did see it coming, and we are seeing this coming too.

[User] canoe

comment: Trump is responsible for right wingers in Europe. HA! They invented that shit.

[User] pango

comment: it's a loop. they feed each other.

html_comment: it's a loop. they feed each other.


topic_title: Where The Fun IS

comment: boys at the sugar factory having a fun christmas

comment: I think it’s moustache growing powder

html_comment: I think it’s moustache growing powder


post: A little.


[User] utopian

post:
 We’re integrating Generative AI across nearly every facet of the creative process. By our best estimate, it supports about 50% of our workflow in areas such as:
• Ideation validation
• Proof of concept
• Deep Research
• Campaign development
• Moodboards and stylescapes
• Design sketches
• User experience analysis
• Strategic planning
• Copywriting
• Blog writing
• Video content
• Image libraries
• Audio and sound
• Storytelling
• Email marketing


topic_title: Anyone at Config in San Fran this year?

post: I'll be there in spirit!

comment: cheers!

html_comment: cheers!


[User] wagshaft

post: AI tools crush for comping ideas for pitches and the like. The amount of photoshop hours I used to spend on trying to visualize a concept (tactics and activations) would make RFPs Pitches a bit of a time suck. No longer!!! Hail AI overlords.


post: So, we can use it to speed up workflow without “using” it for final work. For example, it’s great for making internal work more efficient when working on presentations, admin stuff, etc. even writing briefs and everything related. But obviously were told not too use it for external facing final work, because that isn’t covered legally. There’s a divide for now.

comment: We use AI in adobe products obviously to edit photos, and so on. That is approved.

comment: Largely this except client facing final work has to be rebuilt and if Ai is in the piece it has to be a generic textures or the like similar to shutterstock...

comment: Clients want indemnity and be able to retain copyright... largely behind the curtain stuff when it comes to large IP's

comment: Exactly

html_comment: Exactly


post:
https://futurism.com/professors-…

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14161…


topic_title: Picture Association

comment: oh effing hell skwiotsmith just barged in...


[User] PhanLo

topic_title: America is Fucked

comment: #Winning!

html_comment: #Winning!

comment: "Wrong family, right address" was their excuse. Just wait til some Gen Z streamer starts swatting people with ICE.

[User] sted

comment: in the nu murrica family values means we take your family if you don't give us all your valuables.  #fam-o-val

comment: It's a common tactic from normal cops too, robbing folk in traffic stops. Impounding cars, etc

[User] grafician

comment: Great country to visit...

html_comment: Great country to visit...

[User] neverscared

comment: let them eat gestapo

html_comment: let them eat gestapo

comment: They also wouldn’t let them change out of their night clothes, so the kids were in their underwear the whole time.


topic_title: TESLA

comment: all over Europe tesla is down

html_comment: all over Europe tesla is down


comment: And those were just from accounts he follows


[User] bainbridge

topic_title: Donald Trump

[User] fooler

comment: Already walked back

comment: He's now a Movie Maker, LOLz

html_comment: He's now a Movie Maker, LOLz

comment: Escape from Alcatrax played on PBS in Florida like 2 days before he announced this. Some says he saw the movie and decided to reopen it. Just like that.

comment: And in another story, he hate PBS and want to close it.  loll

[User] BK

comment: I was super high on edibles once and had the same idea when I visited. Like Arkham Asylum for todays super crims. Later realized it was stupid.


comment: Already walked back

comment: MakeHannibal LecterGreat Again,Again!

html_comment:
Make
Hannibal Lecter
Great Again,
Again!


[User] Krassy

topic_title: Guess Who...

comment: oO

html_comment: oO

[User] Wolfboy

comment: Ann Perkins and Councilman Jeremy Jamm

html_comment: Ann Perkins and Councilman Jeremy Jamm


topic_title: Browser game of the day

post:
 One Million Chessboards
https://onemillionchessboards.co…


[User] Gardener

topic_title: What are you listening to?

post: Have you heard this? I said HAVE YOU HEARD THIS?? oh never mind...


topic_title: Sexual Harassment of the DAY

post: trial begins

comment: Will it be on TV like the OJ one?

html_comment: Will it be on TV like the OJ one?


topic_title: blog

post: I only usually put my £1 bet on LFC but the odds on all 3 English teams losing tomorrow was too good to not take a punt, it's a slippery slope if this comes off!

comment: actually on Thursday

html_comment: actually on Thursday

[User] OBBTKN

comment: Aupa Athletic!!

html_comment: Aupa Athletic!!


[User] akiersky

topic_title: Typography

post: "FR A NCISC VS"


topic_title: Scary Cool Tech Thread

post: Bad thumbnail; didn't watch: a microscope that can get crisp, drone-like orbital footage of tiny things.


topic_title: Artificial Intelligence

post:
 Runway is making some amazing progress. Here's some VFX workflow with 3D assets.

I would love to see the exact break down and making of to see the exact steps.

If I'm correct they're just using 3D models to quickly layout a shot but it's all just still images that then get animated. Not actual moving live-action footage.


post:
 Who is watching season 2 of The Rehearsal, and if so, have you ever seen anything on TV, ever, as diabolically twisted and insane as episode 3?

Be careful with spoilers, seriously. I don't want to spoil this for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.

[User] monospaced

comment: Adds to queue

html_comment: Adds to queue

comment: It's so outrageous. Truly a "rewind multiple times" episode.


topic_title: War

comment: Israel just gets a pass it seems. genocide, war crimes, no bother.

comment: ICC wants to arrest netanyahu... no one gives a shit about the justice system though...


[User] jbasnight

topic_title: Show some recent work

post:
 Made this to celebrate my 20th year since leaving my last full-time agency job to pursue a dream.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/D…

[User] canoe

comment: Great song, and congratualtions!

html_comment: Great song, and congratualtions!

[User] CyBrainX

comment: Very cool. You have a new follower now. You also have an awesome doggy.

comment: Cool, and congrats!

html_comment: Cool, and congrats!


post:
 L O L
-

comment: Fake

html_comment: Fake

[User] kingsteven

comment: Thanks for confirming it is not real.

html_comment: Thanks for confirming it is not real.

comment: They did try to pass it though?https://www.jewishpr…

html_comment:
They did try to pass it though?
https://www.jewishpr…

comment: It didn’t pass.

html_comment: It didn’t pass.

comment: In no way is boycotting or peacefully protesting illegal or punishable in the context of the US constitution. Thats why it won’t pass and can’t be.


[User] utopian

comment: Mrs. Potato

html_comment: Mrs. Potato


topic_title: Outdoorsmanship

post:
 Spent some time out there with my sister and nuclear fam...  7 mile beach walk on the outside of the dunes national park... kinda otherworldly with this huge oppressive dune looking down on you... and on the other side nothing but freshwater until Wisconsin.

Sorry had to...

comment: Oops, sorry for the double post

html_comment: Oops, sorry for the double post


topic_title: Where The Fun IS

[User] theonlyengineerhere

comment: Painfully AI: Carousels rotate counter-clockwise...

comment: in europe they go clockwise

html_comment: in europe they go clockwise


post: Want to lose 30 lbs

[User] ideaist

comment: Health is wealth.You can do it!: )

html_comment:
Health is wealth.

You can do it!

: )

comment: I've lost 17kg in 2 years, no exercise, only a bit of "discipline" with salt, fats and alcohol... You can do it!

comment: Whole30 diet.

html_comment: Whole30 diet.

[User] jagara

comment: My go-to is the slow carb diet, works very well for me: https://tim.blog/wp-…

[User] prophetone

comment: No alcohol, sugar only if necessary like fruit,  minimal breads, do not eat breakfast to create a fast situation, lunch/dinner is eggs, meat, veg

[User] dmay

comment: Cut a leg off  :D

html_comment: Cut a leg off  :D

comment: Joking aside, calorie deficit is the only way.

comment: JUST make sure "want" to lose doesn't become "NEED" to lose, because at that point it's too late bro.Start now.XO

html_comment:
JUST make sure "want" to lose doesn't become "NEED" to lose, because at that point it's too late bro.

Start now.

XO

comment: Lolz @dmay; my father-in-law (now dead) lost a lot of weight each time he lost an appendage / diabetes!!!

[User] PonyBoy

comment: I have dumped 18kg in 8 months just by changing habits... no exercise routine has been added to my routine


topic_title: Meme of the day

[User] Continuity

comment: lol ... even Half-Life 3 has a greater chance of getting made before a new SoM album.


comment: wowy

html_comment: wowy


topic_title: dad jokes

post:
 Did you guys hear the Zamboni driver is missing?

We’re all praying for him to resurface.


post: Mark Carney does not approve.

[User] dbloc

comment: Canadian leader says his country isn’t for sale, Trump says ‘Time will tell'

[User] Nairn

comment: I want someone to turn around and tap those gaudy additions to the fireplace, grimace and enquire "are these just spray-painted foam decorations?"

[User] neverscared

comment: its the golden age signifier  .golden age of fascism


topic_title: Space is the place

comment: Great channel

html_comment: Great channel


comment: Mix with Burnt Friedman

html_comment: Mix with Burnt Friedman


topic_title: Vid of the Day

[User] cherub

comment: he's pretty good

html_comment: he's pretty good


[User] zaq

topic_title: Romania calling

post: Enderlezi is a spring festival of special significance to the Roma gypsies This festival celebrates the return of spring, this year on 6 May.

[User] grafician

comment: What's this gotta do with Romania?

html_comment: What's this gotta do with Romania?

comment: "Ederlezi is the Romani name for the Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian Feast of Saint George."


[User] inteliboy

topic_title: Video Games...

post:
I'm blown away.

https://www.rockstargames.com/VI…

[User] cruddlebub

comment: Looks absolutely insane.

html_comment: Looks absolutely insane.

[User] elahon

comment: It's going to be worth the extra wait. Looks so good!

[User] robthelad

comment: I'm actually, genuinely, underwhelmed. Looks like a trailer for a bad tv show.

comment: Apparently there's a minimum hardware requirement.


topic_title: Hiphop like this.

comment: straight bonfire

html_comment: straight bonfire


post: The lumberjack to the tree: you may be a talking tree, but you you will dialogue.


[User] utopian

post: Smokey Robinson was accused of sexual misconduct and false imprisonment Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by four former employees.


topic_title: Picture Association

comment: For the hard of hearing, It's a picture of Francis Bacons Screaming Pope.

[User] palimpsest

comment: Innovation never sleeps.

html_comment: Innovation never sleeps.


[User] Gardener

topic_title: Guess Who...

[User] OBBTKN

comment: Poopooorooopopopoooo...

html_comment: Poopooorooopopopoooo...

[User] canoe

comment: He thinks he's running a media company

html_comment: He thinks he's running a media company

comment: Two people come to mind.

html_comment: Two people come to mind.

comment: Don the Conical

html_comment: Don the Conical


topic_title: Donald Trump

post:
 “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
― Benito Mussolini

comment: From the horses mouf.

html_comment: From the horses mouf.

comment: from the horses ass...

html_comment: from the horses ass...


[User] PhanLo

topic_title: America is Fucked

comment: Anything but improve the terrible roads.


topic_title: Meta

comment: The punchline behind the idea of him becoming MAGAfied was believing he was on the left in the first place.

comment: The average Human has 3 friends, but the EVIAC Super Computer dictates it must be 15.

comment: Still hoping he dies by being torn apart by 15 human beings pulling all his limbs off.

comment: I'm sure your personalized AI friends will keep all your secrets and identifying information, never ever sharing any of it with Meta or its partners.

comment: The guy actively works to profit by making peoples lives worse and then wonders why they have so few real life friends.

[User] ideaist

comment: Still has party at own house.STILL isn't invited.

html_comment:
Still has party at own house.

STILL isn't invited.

comment: Oh my... Typical ideas coming from antisocial psychopaths. Mark, with today's overpopulation, you can have infinite friends! ;)

comment: That, or does nobody like you?

html_comment: That, or does nobody like you?

comment: Working two jobs to pay for 12 imaginary friends while Zuck eats brisket in his cum dungeon

[User] sted

comment: i don't think there is a cum dungeon. Zuck looks like the one who humiliates himself after every wank and apologizes before fucking the missus.


topic_title: Car of The Day

post: New Yugo

comment: as dreary and derivative as the old yugo


topic_title: Climate Change

post:
We link emissions inequality over the period 1990–2020 to regional climate extremes using an emulator-based framework. We find that two-thirds (one-fifth) of warming is attributable to the wealthiest 10% (1%), meaning that individual contributions are 6.5 (20) times the average per capita contribution. For extreme events, the top 10% (1%) contributed 7 (26) times the average to increases in monthly 1-in-100-year heat extremes globally and 6 (17) times more to Amazon droughts. Emissions from the wealthiest 10% in the United States and China led to a two- to threefold increase in heat extremes across vulnerable regions. Quantifying the link between wealth disparities and climate impacts can assist in the discourse on climate equity and justice

https://www.nature.com/articles/….

comment: let them eat emissions...

html_comment: let them eat emissions...

comment: #vegan

html_comment: #vegan


topic_title: Nicholas Cage

post:
 Nicolas Cage 'could have died' getting 'pounded to smithereens' while filming latest movie

"The goal is to retire, surf, drink red wine and eat spaghetti," he told EW.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertai…

comment: "drink red wine and eat spaghetti" I'm with you, old man... but instead of pasta, it will be paella ;)


comment: Andrew; If your goal in life is to belong to a family like that... go ahead.

comment: thanks DEI

html_comment: thanks DEI

[User] maquito

comment: 1/2b goes directly into Jr's nose

html_comment: 1/2b goes directly into Jr's nose

[User] monospaced

comment: A lot goes into paying court ordered fines and fraud and legal settlements

comment: Fair play to the shagger, he knows how to ruin things in his favour.

[User] bainbridge

comment: Imagine being born rich and spending your time swindling people and befriending other terrible people.


topic_title: What are you listening to?

post: Just found a rare pub ticket from 1979, you usually just paid on the door as you went in, so I must have got this in advance. Spizz was riding high with Where's Capt. Kirk? and The Rezistors were about to change their name to UK Decay.


topic_title: quote of the day

post:
 "Most people do not see their beliefs; instead, their beliefs tell them what to see. This is the difference between clarity and confusion."

-Matt Kahn


post:
 "good morning, got any records?"

Gardener


topic_title: Art of the Day Thread

post: Riccardo Gatti - Italian 1886-1972


topic_title: Anyone at Config in San Fran this year?

post: Watching the Keynote today. Really interested in this Sites feature they're talking about now.


topic_title: Comic Books ...

post:
https://malachiward.tumblr.com/
-


comment: fantastic four

html_comment: fantastic four

comment: Nickelback

html_comment: Nickelback


[User] jerk

topic_title: Logo of the Day

comment: Dig it, like the mammoth mountain combo

html_comment: Dig it, like the mammoth mountain combo


[User] prophetone

topic_title: WHOOP

post: I was all like 'what's whoop?' but then I clicked on the website link above and 'there it is!'

comment: TAG TEAM: We? re kickin the floorand we gonna do it sumthin like thisWhoomp! There It Is!

html_comment:
TAG TEAM: We? re kickin the floor
and we gonna do it sumthin like this
Whoomp! There It Is!


[User] ArchitectofFate

topic_title: Artificial Intelligence

post: anyone tried lovable.dev yet?


[User] duckseason

post: Adobe acquisition falls through, so now they're just turning into Adobe.


[User] grafician

topic_title: Figma

post:
 Tremendous updates to Figma at Config!

From Sites to Grids in Autolayout to actually useful AI features.

They are coming after everybody!

https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/…

comment: Framer needs to worry, Figma Sites looks way more useful and powerful.

[User] zaq

comment: we reached the full cycle from Flash

html_comment: we reached the full cycle from Flash

comment: Yep, all in one from figmaAdobe might also be in trouble

html_comment:
Yep, all in one from figma

Adobe might also be in trouble

comment: Figma Draw pretty much killed Illustrator for a lot of peopleI am blown away by their releases!

html_comment:
Figma Draw pretty much killed Illustrator for a lot of people

I am blown away by their releases!

comment: More here https://www.figma.co…

html_comment: More here https://www.figma.co…

[User] slappy

comment: Game changer! In the website view, there is a cheeky little DB icon with 'CMS coming soon' as a hover state.


post:
https://developers.googleblog.co…

"Based on the enthusiasm from developers, we are excited to announce that Image Generation capabilities are now available in preview with Gemini 2.0 Flash."

comment: Looks like better quality than OpenAI's image model


[User] utopian

comment: Some context?

html_comment: Some context?

[User] dbloc


[User] yuekit

post:
GǼG - Anarcho Disco Volume 1

https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com…


[User] fooler

topic_title: Dating after a certain age

post:
 I'm slightly over 50, I've been separated for over 3 years, I just signed the divorce papers yesterday.
I've been serial dating since my wife moved out. I've dated all sorts of women... Short, Tall, Skinny, Curvy, Older, Younger, Anti-Vaxxers, Trumpers, Radical Feminists, Sound Healers, Buddists, Country Music listeners... I've really enjoyed meeting new and interesting people but never found any deep connection with any of them.
I met a woman 2 months ago and we have so much in common, so many life experiences in common. She's beautiful, smart, funny. She's about my age with 2 sons like me. Finalizing her long marriage soon like me. We've talked on the phone everyday, texted countless times during the day.
I haven't felt like this about anyone in decades.
We've spent 4 weekends together already and can't wait to spend more time with her.
The only catch is she lives 2 hours away and The Dave Mathews Band is her favorite artist. I've broken up with women for less, I think I can handle the distance and will have to tolerate her music taste.

comment: Also she was a designer/AD but is getting another degree to become an art therapist. I never dated another designer, we're a peculiar group.

[User] OBBTKN

comment: Go with her, TDMB is a decent band, you can't imagine what I've endured in 25 years of marriage ;) Good luck, life is short!

html_comment: Go with her, TDMB is a decent band, you can't imagine what I've endured in 25 years of marriage ;) <br>Good luck, life is short!

[User] monNom

comment: you won’t always live 2hrs away. maybe someday you’ll find a band you both like.  Those are little things. If your values align, you like her and she likes you.

comment: That’s what really matters. You can flex on the other stuff.

comment: this is nice

html_comment: this is nice

comment: I've made her playlists and slowly introducing her to safe alt bands like The National, Spoon, Elliot Smith, Band of Horses...

comment: and I've actually like some of her suggestions. I never thought I'd be listening to Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran but the things we do for love.

comment: ahahahah

html_comment: ahahahah

comment: Taylor Swift duuud how old is she? :)))

html_comment: Taylor Swift duuud how old is she? :)))

comment: 2 sons and 16 lol

html_comment: 2 sons and 16 lol

comment: "she's about my age" yeah just reversed :F you are 51 she is 15 lol

comment: I'll have to check the legal age limit in our states.

[User] pango

comment: ewww sound healers

html_comment: ewww sound healers

comment: its funny because one of her sons is into bands like Cradle of Filth, Maggot Stompers Corpse Pile, Vomit Forth & Dying Fetus!!!!!!!!

comment: LOL @pango! That was a strange short relationship.

comment: That Dave Matthews Band turn at the end!!! Lolz.OUCH!

html_comment:
That Dave Matthews Band turn at the end!!! Lolz.

O
U
C
H
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comment: Naw... enjoy it man!  Dating at our age is wild. I’m in a similar situation. One woman I really enjoyed hanging out with hated live music. I though that was a....

comment: ...deal breaker but not having all the same interests worked really well

[User] cotton

comment: Baffled at dating antivaxxers and trumpers but DMB is the deal-breaker. Yikes.

comment: They were hot. The crazier the hotter sometimes. I only really know that one DMB song from 30 years ago. Crash. Its not terrible.

[User] stoplying

comment: Great post - enjoy and good luck! PIITB

html_comment: Great post - enjoy and good luck! PIITB

comment: 2 hours away ain't a big deal, but DMB might be the deal breaker, haha!! My wife is a DMB fan, btw (I am not), it was high on my shit list too, but all good.

comment: Lol you dated anti-vaxxer Maga women but Dave Matthews Band bothers you.

comment: have you met DMB fans???? they're the worst!ugggh

html_comment: have you met DMB fans???? they're the worst!<br>ugggh

[User] milfhunter

comment: sounds fun

html_comment: sounds fun


[User] sted

topic_title: Punches For:

post:
 two separated punches:
Random fucker who uses the words metacognition and superego in the wrong context. I mean you could just shut the fuck off so I didn't had to pull up the Wikipedia page to prove that I'm right, right?

Also fuck off, calling me at 1.5-5-7am and days after pretending it never happened in one of the most awkward convos ever, what the fuck is wrong with you?

[User] Nairn

comment: What about metaego and supercognition? I'll call you about this, at 7.30.

comment: Whoomp! There It Is!

html_comment: Whoomp! There It Is!


topic_title: ♥Things we do for Love♥

post: I get up every morning, before I am ready, to make a decent breakfast for my kid and then I wake her gently, despite her very much not returning the favour when it's her turn.

[User] Ianbolton

comment: Why do you even bother? Haha!

html_comment: Why do you even bother? Haha!

[User] monospaced

comment: You have to wake HER up?

html_comment: You have to wake HER up?


[User] ideaist

post:
 I recently got an Apple Watch Ultra AND man it's athletic watch perfection (I've had Garmins, etc.)

I get the "less distractions" of things like this "WHOOP" and their is validity to that, BUT IF you're going to go all in, why not get something that integrates into your digital life a bit better (If Apple / Mac I guess).

IF anything, I find the Watch keeps me OFF my phone, computer, etc. as it sort of filters out "nice to know" AND "need to know" and let's me engage those things accordingly.

I run/ride/walk with JUST the Watch and sometimes AirPods Pro and that's it.

I guess whatever works for you / your individual wants/needs, eh?

Enjoy / looks cool!

[User] curiouscat

comment: Not really an apples-to-apples comparison.


post:
 Ok so here is two:

- Almost drowned while saving my first girlfriend, nobody knew she can't swim.
We were with my brother and my dad at a local lake, when my bro decided to pull a prank on our air mat in the middle of the place. When there was no more air in it she started to panic. I did the most stupidest thing ever what you can do in a situation like this. Went under her and tried to push her up, at some point she was standing on my head while I was pushing mud with my legs. My dad saved us both.

- For an entire year every day I went to the flower market at 4-5am to buy fresh Freesia. It was a bit tricky to get them in the winter :)
In a with you nor without you situation I had to drive by her place to work every morning so I decided to give her(and mine :) favorite flower every day. I had to make a deal with one of the dealers at the market  since the flower market in budapest is wholesale only. One day the lady said that she is going to give me the flowers for free because she likes the commitment.

[User] sausages

comment: I did similar when 4 kids and a friend were drowning. Went under and bounced them all in from the lake bottom. Nearly died.

[User] cherub

comment: how did they all simultaneously almost drown? did they all jump in at once, suicidal like?


post: I pretended to like Dave Mathews Band, Ed Sheeran & Taylor Swift.

comment: XD

html_comment: XD

[User] CyBrainX

comment: Ed Sheeran. That's devotion.

html_comment: Ed Sheeran. That's devotion.


[User] Horp

post:
 I loved reading your post Fooler. So much to relate to.

I'm 55.
My ex and I seperated very amicably, getting on for six years ago now.

We're lucky. We just recognised it had reached the end and we made a change that worked for all of us, and we're good friends. Great friends even.

I've dated all sorts since, then I had a 3 year relationship that revived a brief thing from way back when I was 27.

That ended and I dated a few more women, exploring dating apps for the first time.

It became alarming to me how many really strange people there are on dating apps.

I have 3 really alarming (but also quite entertaining) anecdotes about 3 different people I went all the way to date#6 or so with.

And then just as I was about to delete the apps and write it off as a dud avenue with genuinely dangerous risks, I matched with a really amazing woman, and we've been a thing ever since.

But...

She loves Maroon5

Maroon fucking 5

comment: Hahaha! It could be worse (DMB!)

html_comment: Hahaha! It could be worse (DMB!)

comment: "she willllllllll be looooooved~~~"i bet you can hear that in your head now.

html_comment: "she willllllllll be looooooved~~~"<br>i bet you can hear that in your head now.

comment: but i thought it was the law that ladies must have terrible music taste...*ducks from incoming brickbats from all the women on this site*

html_comment:
but i thought it was the law that ladies must have terrible music taste...

*ducks from incoming brickbats from all the women on this site*


[User] Krassy

topic_title: blog

post: Is it time for another roll call? who's still on QBN?

comment: Not me, left years ago.

html_comment: Not me, left years ago.

[User] renderedred

comment: here

html_comment: here

comment: so it's three of us with 40 users each? :)

comment: Here, by the pool!

html_comment: Here, by the pool!


topic_title: QBN stickers

post: I got an envelope back today of the stickers I sent to Felix. It says I have an incomplete address.

[User] OBBTKN

comment: It's me! Write me to my username @ gmail.com


[User] dbloc

topic_title: Donald Trump

[User] bainbridge

comment: If he becomes pope, can he no longer be president?


topic_title: Meta

post:
 Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads

https://futurism.com/facebook-be…

[User] PhanLo

comment: Mind when they would push videos of people cutting deep into their arms to teenagers who had shown signs of self harm?


[User] prophetone

comment: FIGMA Sites is a big deal if it actually outputs clean and logical code packages... and a CMS backend feature is coming soon with shirts fired at WP

comment: I imagine the CMS is a subscription cloud offering only and you're locked in exclusively with them if that's the route you take

comment: I really like how I FEEL this is the first time I'm seeing web get back to Flash era with creative motion and it's going to be relatively easy to build

[User] slappy

comment: CMS option says coming soon in the app view. https://imgur.com/gA…


topic_title: draw something

post:
 Drawing I did for my mates, they kind of look like a cyberpunk couple so I put them in some tech alley.
-


[User] ephix

topic_title: making beats

post:
 Finally had it mastered!

https://soundcloud.com/melunoise…


[User] timeless

post:
 There is a 12-foot-wide, long-arm sewing machine in our basement that makes sounds like a transformer when you power it on.

After it was used for three days on a tradeshow floor, the company couldn't sell it as a new machine anymore. So, we negotiated a 50% discount as long as we: went to the tradeshow exhibit, a three-hour drive from home, on a Sunday afternoon, disassembled it with the exhibit booth staff's help post-show, removed it from the exhibit hall, and toted it back home.

I then spent the next 2 weeks assembling it in our basement.

comment: and?

html_comment: and?

comment: I'm not feeling the love in this story.

html_comment: I'm not feeling the love in this story.

[User] fooler

comment: I once help carry an industrial sized sewing/embroidery machine up a flight of stairs for a friend who wanted his wife to start her own business.

comment: She didn't start one and they divorced shortly after.


post:
 I try and make as many opportunities to surprise or delight my wife and kids as often as possible.

When my son was feeling the grind at school and getting the ground hog day feeling, I randomly pulled him out of school on a Friday afternoon and took him go-karting. He still talks about it.

My daughter has been attending raves (doofs) and has shown an interest in DJing so I have ordered her a Pioneer FX4 DJ controller for her school laptop. (I also have put $100 a fortnight into each kids hidden bank account in case she needs to go Tomorrowland when she's 18).

I have made my wife a coffee every morning for the last 24 years. She doesn't like surprises but I manage sometimes.

There is nothing I could buy myself that would bring me more joy than I get from facilitating their passions.

comment: * $100 a fortnight each since they were born

comment: Does she like coffee? :) You da man. Inspiring post!


[User] AQUTE

post: sometimes i wake up grumpy, sometimes i let her sleep


post:
 Chuffed with all the updates but just looking at the generated markup from some of the Figma sites templates and it's far from semantic. Everything is a div.

view-source:https://insert-quilt...

[User] sted

comment: class="css-654654 css-2352467 css-3463css-346345 css-8424" empty divs are the best

html_comment: class="css-654654 css-2352467 css-3463<br>css-346345 css-8424" empty divs are the best

[User] grafician

comment: Do we still need semantic?

html_comment: Do we still need semantic?

[User] monospaced

comment: I’ve never cared about code for a site when visiting. Nor should I.

comment: Semantic markup must be important for AI chatbots search suggestion right?

[User] neverscared

comment: exactly.. why should u care how sth.  works... useless..

html_comment: exactly.. why should u care how sth. <br> works... useless..

[User] Nairn

comment: Semantic is important if the content's worthwhile and to be shared, redistributed direct from HTML or needs to be parsed by some sort of screen-reader.

comment: But sure, fuck blind and deaf people.

html_comment: But sure, fuck blind and deaf people.

comment: this type of source code: takes more time to load, makes more traffic, and that costs money. lol the entire text is in aria label, this stuff generates junk

comment: Ooooof div div div div div div div

html_comment: Ooooof div div div div div div div

comment: nested af

html_comment: nested af

comment: The templates are fairly sluggish alright.

comment: It's weird because the have all the semantic elements for dev mode in Figma. Maybe just a beta thing and they'll improve it.

[User] evilpeacock

comment: "Div soup" was common with Web 1.0 WYSIWYG editors — and extremely problematic with SEO, load time (esp. then), etc.; This won't be good.

[User] PonyBoy

comment: oof... ugly :/

html_comment: oof... ugly :/

comment: DESIGN TO HTML only works, worth using daily if html/css follows expected semantic structure/logic, frontend devs can’t output, unspagetti traffic accident html

comment: I have to assume this is beta output logic and they’re going to incorporate a step in render that beautifies the code, it’s the base requirement here

comment: Or maybe they are more focused on the code never leaving their ecosystem as the cms will no doubt be a subscription, cannot be localized

comment: Just found an "accessibility" panel in the right menu when you select an element in sites. It allows you to assign a tag to the element.

comment: Pretty tedious way to go about it.

html_comment: Pretty tedious way to go about it.

comment: LOL go open a Facebook or Instagram page and check out the source code < this is acceptable compared to spaghetti code from Meta

comment: Facebook and Instagram are walled gardens, not part of the open hyperlinked web so you're comparing apples and oranges

comment: uhm Meta must have even MORE accesibile websites and apps than most...But sure, visit google, cnn, any other major website and look at code for a huge mess

html_comment:
uhm Meta must have even MORE accesibile websites and apps than most...

But sure, visit google, cnn, any other major website and look at code for a huge mess

comment: Semantic web sounds like a good idea, but nobody codes websites in Notepad for decades...

comment: I guess you mean you haven't, I use Zed which is basically Notepad

comment: If the point is to 'take over' the dev stage here, which it is, clean and semantic is only way to share efficiently across devs, teams, the planet

comment: Let's get real they are intending to make this a one stop shop, designer to output  useable code product, it has to be useable and open, not proprietary garbage

comment: I don't have 45 META dev's hunched over their laptops sobbing and praying for the end in a dark basement because their job is to de-bug their insane code 24/7

[User] Continuity

comment: @sted: you must _adore_ Tailwind, eh?

html_comment: @sted: you must _adore_ Tailwind, eh?


topic_title: Elon Musk

[User] renderedred

comment: geezer knows whats up

html_comment: geezer knows whats up

comment: the old geezer is fantastic!

html_comment: the old geezer is fantastic!


post:
 it just continues...

Trump appoints ‘Real Housewives’ star to Holocaust Museum board

https://pagesix.com/2025/05/07/c…

[User] canoe

comment: "We are being systematically dumbed down as a nation and made into the laughing stock of the world.Please like and share!"

html_comment: "We are being systematically dumbed down as a nation and made into the laughing stock of the world.<br>Please like and share!"


[User] Gardener

post: I keep seeing that fancy new chocolate from Dubai that is cropping up in garages and supermarkets now but at £12 a bar (!!!?!!) I'm too tight to buy and try it, have you?

comment: yeah it's the new thing, it's everywhere. vapid influencers unwrap it on tik tok, world loses its mind.me neither.

html_comment: yeah it's the new thing, it's everywhere. vapid influencers unwrap it on tik tok, world loses its mind.<br>me neither.

comment: I live 5min from the open market in JLM. I can get any Middle Eastern sweet variation. It is a bit expensive but not 12 pounds :)

[User] Ianbolton

comment: Is it just chocolate with pistachio paste? I saw some in the local ‘world’ supermarket last week for £9.99

comment: Garages?

html_comment: Garages?

comment: haha, yeah it's only £10 on the counter at Shell in Arbroath

comment: Oh, I thought you meant someone's car hole.

comment: Not sure what <that is (tourist tat?), but the 'Dubai chocolate' has a very specific filling. It's ok, but it's not great and it's not eight months ago.

comment: lol bit late on that trend aren't we? its trashhttps://www.foodandw…

html_comment:
lol bit late on that trend aren't we? its trash
https://www.foodandw…


topic_title: UK is Fucked

post:
 I’ve been in London for a week and haven’t been stabbed, heard any Islamic call to prayers, have yet to be abducted by grooming gangs or yelled at in Arabic can anyone make some recommendations?

It’s all very white with a touch of multiculturalism, people are polite.
very disappointed.

[User] dee-dubs

comment: Go to East Ham

html_comment: Go to East Ham

comment: The best person to speak to would be NBQ. He’s well versed on grooming gangs, ethnic and religious matters and negative cultural issues - especially in the UK.

comment: I’m back from Sicily tomorrow. Happy to come stab you if that’s what you visited for buddy ;-) Enjoy your stay

comment: That's the spirit, Ian, QBNers helping QBNers!

comment: Kinda like NYC is still packed with tourists from all over the world.

[User] Chimp

comment: Go to Whitechapel High Street

html_comment: Go to Whitechapel High Street

comment: Or Ridley Road Market

html_comment: Or Ridley Road Market

comment: its a beautiful city...

html_comment: its a beautiful city...

comment: Well go get yourself raped and stabbed then!

comment: Or beers with the boys!

html_comment: Or beers with the boys!

comment: And girls. They drink beer in London too

[User] cherub

comment: Go to manchester, the greatest of all chesters.  It'll make a MAN out of ya.  Or the vikings will stomp yer grave


topic_title: Suggest a good movie…

comment: if you've not seen it you are in for such a harrowing ride

comment: Watched this last year and was thoroughly disturbed. The cold, mundane, matter of fact-ness of Raymonde is chilling. Damn good film +1


topic_title: UFO of the day

post:
 Scientists studying spherical UFO say they've discovered alien technology

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/scie…

comment: LOL I bet some of them believe this shit

comment: It's that same ball they found in Colombia I think.


[User] prophetone

comment: “not using tags like <section>, <p>, <ul> or <dl>, <li>, and each image is wrapped in 9 layers of <div> elements. The DOM structure it generates is horrendaz”


post: I’ve never had a reason through work to get into figma, even though I’ve wanted to. But now with Sites, I can’t wait. What a perfect solution to my problem of wanting a website creation software for designers who don’t know shit about coding a good website. I’m giving myself a website project to teach myself.

comment: Framer and Webflow are already fine for this case, but Figma Sites might be even easier.

comment: Asking again... why would anyone downvote this?

comment: lol, bitter neckbeards I guess

html_comment: lol, bitter neckbeards I guess

comment: Graf, for me it’s about using a tool that will be the better use of time, and the most potential for use in my career. Framer and webflow aren’t that for me.

comment: mg33, did I get downvoted somewhere else?

comment: Butbut there are like a gazillion sitebuilder solutions, this isn't anything new or groundbreaking.

comment: I upvoted, you have a point dumbass

html_comment: I upvoted, you have a point dumbass

comment: Webflow let's you export code, I doubt Figma will let us export code.But I am pretty sure Figma will buy Adobe soon enough, they will own the full stack

html_comment:
Webflow let's you export code, I doubt Figma will let us export code.

But I am pretty sure Figma will buy Adobe soon enough, they will own the full stack

comment: Webflow and Framer are platform lockin Avoid platform lockins for clientsSure, way easier to build a folio on Framer, but don't involve clients

html_comment:
Webflow and Framer are platform lockin

Avoid platform lockins for clients

Sure, way easier to build a folio on Framer, but don't involve clients

comment: Plenty of "Framer experts" on X and ContraNext we will see "Figma Sites expert" badges everywhere

html_comment: Plenty of "Framer experts" on X and Contra<br>Next we will see "Figma Sites expert" badges everywhere

comment: @sted name anything besides Framer and Webflow? WP? Kirby? Headless anything? Name designers willing to go headless anything?

html_comment: @sted name anything besides Framer and Webflow? <br>WP? Kirby? Headless anything? Name designers willing to go headless anything?

comment: When you can sell $5k-10k Framer websites for startups no coding experience needed ...Common

html_comment:
When you can sell $5k-10k Framer websites for startups no coding experience needed ...

Common

comment: My last websites coded for clients were using WP and WebflowPain in the ass maintenance afterWP is not secure, Webflow is shit for ecommerce

html_comment:
My last websites coded for clients were using WP and Webflow

Pain in the ass maintenance after

WP is not secure, Webflow is shit for ecommerce

comment: Figma will deliver presentation websites and folios like no other - 1 day websites possible no matter how spaghetti code you get

comment: @mono was thinking to update folio on Figma Sites vs. WPAre you up to it too?

html_comment:
@mono was thinking to update folio on Figma Sites vs. WP

Are you up to it too?


[User] microkorg

post:
 Found this an interesting video, its a nice jam that starts coming together as a track. What's most interesting is the Mastering Chain that he has.

He's not EQing or adding any effects (other than a sidechain to a synth) just adding the Master chain at the end which pulls everything together and glues it beautifully.

Some of these plugins are not too expensive (on sale) but others are a pretty penny. I was wondering if a similar chain could be built with just Ableton plugins.


topic_title: America is Fucked

post: Bessent have no idea how does tarrifs work


[User] cruddlebub

post: 1010 coming in hawt...


topic_title: Ganja Thread 3.0

comment: bongclave

html_comment: bongclave


[User] PhanLo

topic_title: HP Lovecraft

[User] grafician

comment: Shoggoths?

html_comment: Shoggoths?


topic_title: The More You Know ★

comment: nobody I know uses these terms, it's media bollocks


topic_title: Client of the Day

post:
 I gave a "million dollar IT firm" a discount on a strategy project, and at the end she tried to say the brief wasn't tied up... and asked for more money off. This was the response that got them to pay.

"If you need the money, that’s one thing, if you’re going to play like it’s because of me, then that’s another thing. My deliverable is strong, please see my email."

KICK 'EM IN THE EGO!

Cheap of pocket, cheap of mind!

comment: Cheaper the client, more the work, makes Johnny a dull boy


[User] jagara

topic_title: What are you listening to?

post: The master of electro.


[User] ideaist

topic_title: Video Games...

post:
 Dude(s),

I've been playing with my 6 year old AND:

I. Holy s**t this is a fun, arcade-based racer; fast, engaging, LOUD and i'm smiling the whole time.
II. I got the offroad / trail addon AND the hot wheels addon AND this game is insanely large.
III. I LOVE the idea of XBOX and PS5 (and Switch I guess?!) opening up to having cross platform games; it feels like the hay day of gaming (once again!!!)

Game on brother(s) (AND @shellie).

: )

comment: I know it's not a new game, BUT it JUST came out on PS5.Doesn't make me miss Gran Turismo...

html_comment:
I know it's not a new game, BUT it JUST came out on PS5.

Doesn't make me miss Gran Turismo...


topic_title: blog

post: what? no graf? ;(

comment: No time for drama, sorry Chill guy

html_comment:
No time for drama, sorry

Chill guy


topic_title: Work Blog

post:
 They said ‘cricket club.’ I showed up with a net and a terrarium.

Off to a great start.


[User] duckseason

comment: New Mafia trailer, if you're seeing the age restriction screen


topic_title: Figma

post:
 I'm interested in seeing what their CMS feature is. I'm a long time WordPress user now only building sites in WordPress with oxygen builder.

I have not had time to look deep into it, but I do indeed wonder if that sites feature is an alternative, where it hosts, how it could integrate with WordPress, same with the CMS, etc.

comment: @mg33, look at https://uichemy.com/…I too am curious...

html_comment:
@mg33, look at https://uichemy.com/…

I too am curious...

comment: Nice. I looked up Figma to Oxygen conversion and found this:https://levels.dev/d…

html_comment:
Nice. I looked up Figma to Oxygen conversion and found this:

https://levels.dev/d…

comment: Why would anyone downvote this?

html_comment: Why would anyone downvote this?

comment: (weird downvoting lately)

html_comment: (weird downvoting lately)


[User] elahon

topic_title: Donald Trump

[User] maquito

comment: "Created by"... looks more like "prompted by"


[User] PonyBoy

post:
 white smoke, bitches!!

*puff *puff... *pass <3

[User] OBBTKN

comment: Yes, I just saw it... Fumata bianca!

html_comment: Yes, I just saw it... Fumata bianca!

comment: Bets? Me, a Spaniard, or the Filipino.

html_comment: Bets? Me, a Spaniard, or the Filipino.

comment: my gut says it's an Italian...

html_comment: my gut says it's an Italian...

[User] neverscared

comment: jude law

html_comment: jude law

comment: monsignor trump has prevailed!!!!

html_comment: monsignor trump has prevailed!!!!

comment: Prevost. Gringo pope!

html_comment: Prevost. Gringo pope!

[User] ArmandoEstrada

comment: Puff Puff Pass

html_comment: Puff Puff Pass

[User] zaq

comment: I was expecting orange smoke

html_comment: I was expecting orange smoke

comment: If it wasn't rigged how come it took like 1 day whereas before it took longer?

comment: whoopdie-freakin' doo.

html_comment: whoopdie-freakin' doo.


[User] fooler

topic_title: ♥Things we do for Love♥

post:
 I bought a more efficient 2nd car since starting to see someone that lives 2 hours away.

I just ironed my nicest Burton flannel to meet her for brunch on her way through town today.

The ironing a shirt part is is far more out of character for me than buying another car.


post: I thought the Antikythera mechanism was still a mystery, with the general idea that it was a calculator of some kind, but I guess they solved it a few years ago.


post: Leon XIV, the first American pope.

comment: from Chicago!

html_comment: from Chicago!

comment: Shout out to the Big Guy upstairs, man!

html_comment: Shout out to the Big Guy upstairs, man!


comment: deep dish pope

html_comment: deep dish pope


[User] renderedred

post:
 Meet Trump’s memecoin dinner guests

https://www.citationneeded.news/…


[User] BusterBoy

comment: A woke Pope who is pro LGBTQIA, anti gun control, pro marginalised groups and immigrants, and hates Trump and Vance.Good choice.

html_comment:
A woke Pope who is pro LGBTQIA, anti gun control, pro marginalised groups and immigrants, and hates Trump and Vance.

Good choice.


post: Almost had a Russian wife last year...

comment: Not even kidding

html_comment: Not even kidding


topic_title: CyberPunk

post:
Syd Mead – Future Pastime Exhibition

https://www.muddycolors.com/2025…


[User] stoplying

post:
 I was in the city (Manhattan) yesterday for a shoot and I surprised my boys (and wife) with their favorite Chicken Shwarma from Omar's. I think I got a hug from my 12 year old.

I told Omar I was bringing it home to Jersey and he was impressed.

[User] Nairn

comment: Shwarma is Life.I want to try Omar's Shwarma.

html_comment:
Shwarma is Life.

I want to try Omar's Shwarma.

comment: ^ Let me know when you're in town. First round is on mehttps://omars.nyc/

html_comment:
^ Let me know when you're in town. First round is on me
https://omars.nyc/


topic_title: religion

post:
 "World leaders welcomed the choice of American Robert Francis Prevost as the next leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, including President Donald Trump who called it a  "great honor" for the United States."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/great…


topic_title: The Useful Thread

post:
https://voideditor.com/

"Void is an open source Cursor alternative. Write code with the best AI tools, use any model, and retain full control over your data."


[User] PhanLo

topic_title: Trailer Of The Day

post:
 why?
-

comment: can't wait!

html_comment: can't wait!


[User] Longcopylover

topic_title: Graffiti art

post: It starts slow but ends with a bang.


[User] prophetone

topic_title: making beats

comment: 5:40 mark woohoo

html_comment: 5:40 mark woohoo

comment: 6:45 mark woohoo

html_comment: 6:45 mark woohoo

comment: 11:30 hot dang this thing is a nasty

html_comment: 11:30 hot dang this thing is a nasty

comment: Kinda like a Bass Station II + a PWM Malevolent ramen with a Moog pork stock

comment: Oz session at 20:00 mark is nasty af

html_comment: Oz session at 20:00 mark is nasty af

comment: Man... do I need another mono synth? No. Do I want this thing? Yes.


post:
 A woke Pope who is pro LGBTQIA, anti gun control, pro marginalised groups and immigrants, and hates Trump and Vance.

Seems like a pretty good choice.

[User] grafician

comment: Don't let Vance near the new Pope /s

html_comment: Don't let Vance near the new Pope /s

[User] ApeRobot

comment: How can he "hate" someone, isn't Catholicism about loving everybody?

[User] pango

comment: he's using the word "hate" loosely."Against" is more appropriate.

html_comment: he's using the word "hate" loosely.<br>"Against" is more appropriate.

comment: grab em by the pussy....

html_comment: grab em by the pussy....

comment: lol... or anti - lol ..right wing american media is upset he didn´t spoke a word in english ..but spanish and latin when showed up on the balcony...

comment: how dare he not speak murican!

html_comment: how dare he not speak murican!

[User] palimpsest

comment: 'murican by birth Peruvian by choice.

html_comment: 'murican by birth Peruvian by choice.


topic_title: The Guitar Thread

post:
 Epiphone Riviera Noel Gallagher semi-hollow body
My low E and A strings have a splat/pop sound - almost like funk slap. I'm not experienced with tweaking truss rods or other adjustments. Is there something I should be looking at - raising the bridge screws? Change the strings maybe? Any help is appreciated!

[User] futurefood

comment: Sounds like it needs a set up for the type of strings you are using. Find a good tech in your area and have your guitar setup how you prefer it. I would avoid..

comment: I would avoid making truss adjustments or intonation bridge tweaks.

comment: either your action is too low or you need a refret.


[User] slappy

post:
 I think the code criticisms are valid, as no-one wants to head down a pathway where they can only edit a site or try to fix bugs by revisiting the source design and republishing it. You will end up feeding the source into a LLM and pulling your hair out when it starts changing things that are not required.

If they don't get it right it, will be stuck in the budget category with squarespace where its sold to a client as a cheaper option if they don't want to pay for a full custom site, but that it will come with compromises.

I think they will probably get there though, given enough time. They are pulling ahead and and are probably already the industry standard for digital UI.

comment: Yes indeed - you know, I know, they def know they can't claim to be a design-to-html solution tool for designer devs if the code is branded rubbish

comment: I truly hope it gets sorted b/c could be a cool thing to have that as main tool to get a site rolling

comment: They are targeting Wix and Squarespace and that's all well and good but design-to-code for a dev is a stretch until it's done right

comment: I think they probably released it now as just having this level of control over responsive prototypes is really useful.

comment: I'm kind of surprised they didn't go headless  with a react style front end and a figma hosted CMS back end. Would make more sense and be more futureproof?

comment: "Designer Engineer"

html_comment: "Designer Engineer"


[User] Krassy

topic_title: State of QBN 2025

comment: I can create some drama right awayBut too chill for that these daysCheers all

html_comment:
I can create some drama right away
But too chill for that these days

Cheers all


[User] sted

topic_title: Vid of the Day - DESIGN

comment: I upvoted for the fucking editing, but the guy is cookedwas that the point, editing?

html_comment:
I upvoted for the fucking editing, but the guy is cooked

was that the point, editing?


topic_title: Wikipedia of the Day

comment: Shoggoth(Cthulhu mythos)

html_comment: Shoggoth<br>(Cthulhu mythos)


topic_title: Food

post:
 Burger:

- meat pattie
- cheddar cheese slice
- fried egg
- fresh salad

Wedges with sweet chili sauce

Fresh white and red onions salted on the side

Shelled peanuts

Normal beer in a chilled glass

*chef kiss*


topic_title: Apple

post:
 M1 Pro battery still good easy 8 hours a day after 3 years

Best laptop ever!

Will upgrade to M5 soon, but then again I can still probably squeeze 20 mins out of the old MBP late 2008...

Apple are legendary

comment: You can still open some 2009 MBP unibody running Freehand and make a living just designing logos and posters!Unreal endurance...

html_comment:
You can still open some 2009 MBP unibody running Freehand and make a living just designing logos and posters!

Unreal endurance...


topic_title: Bitcoin

post:
 “If you told me you own all of the bitcoin in the world & you offered it to me for $25, I would not take it because what would I do with it? I'd have to sell it back to you one way or another. It isn't going to do anything”

- Warren Buffett

comment: Warren Buffet will retire with over $300B in cash at Berkshire after 60 years in the game. And idiots still own crypto...

comment: BTC went at $100k again today, because idiots bought at $100k lol

[User] inteliboy

comment: 100k? don't sound like idiots to me

html_comment: 100k? don't sound like idiots to me


post: "BREAKING: Trump will name Fox News host and former judge Jeanine Pirro to interim post as top federal prosecutor in Washington, DC."


topic_title: Space is the place

post:
"A black hole revealed itself from 600 million light-years away when it ripped apart and swallowed a star. The resulting burst of radiation is the bright dot just off-center captured in this
@NASAHubble image."

comment: Then again no clue why we don't point all our telescopes at 4-100lys away from our system to find out everything around our cosmic neighbourgood?!


topic_title: Cryptocurrency

post:
 "CELSIUS FOUNDER ALEX MASHINSKY GETS 12 YEARS FOR CRYPTO FRAUD"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/…

[User] AQUTE

comment: Dirty Dozen

html_comment: Dirty Dozen


topic_title: Hiphop like this.

comment: gets cook'n at 30 secs, lp art is gold

html_comment: gets cook'n at 30 secs, lp art is gold

comment: sorta Cannibal Ox'ish?

html_comment: sorta Cannibal Ox'ish?


topic_title: Star Wars: Andor

post: Boring af. It had 2 ok episodes its talks talks and more bullshit talks between some really lame and cool looking cuts.

comment: i'm 100% sure that AI was involved writing this crap.


[User] neverscared

topic_title: Artificial Intelligence

post:
 After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/g…

comment: oopsi its already posted

html_comment: oopsi its already posted


topic_title: Dis or Dat?

[User] maquito

comment: Dis, and thin crust.

html_comment: Dis, and thin crust.

comment: (a side of yukita frita would be a plus)

comment: You just want to make me cry. Yuka frita with salsa a la huancaina.

[User] milfhunter

comment: how is this even related?

html_comment: how is this even related?

comment: If you know, you know.

html_comment: If you know, you know.

[User] sab

comment: What’s the stuff in the top one? Spam?

html_comment: What’s the stuff in the top one? Spam?

comment: I you don't know, you don't know.

html_comment: I you don't know, you don't know.

comment: i don't know, but what i know is that both are disgusting . Top image looks like dog meat and deep dish pizza is for fat Americans.

comment: And Aussie and a Dutch walk into a carretilla.

comment: The joke writes itself.

html_comment: The joke writes itself.

[User] OBBTKN

comment: lol @milfhunter

html_comment: lol @milfhunter

comment: hehe

html_comment: hehe

comment: I actually got kudos for referencing this split from someone I bumped into this morning who brought the subject up :)

comment: lol

html_comment: lol

[User] Continuity

comment: if dis is cevice, I'll have it, but made with sea bass, please!

comment: Dat is just an insult to life itself.

html_comment: Dat is just an insult to life itself.

[User] HijoDMaite

comment: Oh it’s pope reference. Peruvian ceviche or Chicago pizza?


[User] Gardener

topic_title: Guess Who...

comment: what's he holding?

html_comment: what's he holding?

comment: Saturn chomping on his infant child.

html_comment: Saturn chomping on his infant child.


topic_title: religion

comment: Ha! Osom

html_comment: Ha! Osom

comment: that piss yellow

html_comment: that piss yellow


topic_title: Pic of the Day

comment: We know potatoes, we have the best potatoes.

comment: Not all potatoes are created equal.

html_comment: Not all potatoes are created equal.


[User] jagara

comment: ahahaha

html_comment: ahahaha

comment: fuck them.

html_comment: fuck them.

comment: fuck who? google?

html_comment: fuck who? google?

comment: It refused my demand for a coprophilia deep dive, though.

comment: podcasters

html_comment: podcasters

comment: Fecal sexual fetishes aside, this is very, very impressive.


topic_title: Comic Books ...

post: Reading it now. I bought it for the action sequences and panel composition... looks good!


post: Tessa Hulls’ Feeding Ghosts has won the Pulitzer Prize in the Memoir or Autobiography category.


post: Just now in Barcelona

comment: BCN is wild.Did you take it home?

html_comment: BCN is wild.<br>Did you take it home?

comment: Waaaaaaant!

html_comment: Waaaaaaant!

comment: @pali I've been taking home furniture and shit and my wife vetoed further entries of garbage relates stuff..

comment: ..believe me, the moral strain of having seen that and not being able to take it with me was immense

comment: ahahhaha

html_comment: ahahhaha

comment: Friday's 10pm is the best time... people throw gold in the trash

comment: the motorcycle slammed into it and made the rectangular frame thingy fall off.

comment: I love everything about this.

html_comment: I love everything about this.

comment: Take care of it, I can be there in 6 hours ;)


topic_title: The More You Know ★

post: Saturn's rings are younger than trees.

[User] grafician

comment: "Earth is believed to have had rings approximately 466 million years ago, formed from debris after a large asteroid broke apart near the planet."

comment: "This ring system may have influenced Earth's climate during the Ordovician period by blocking sunlight and contributing to global cooling."


topic_title: quote of the day

post:
 "Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."

-Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents


post: Milky Way over the Temple of Karnak, Egypt.

[User] utopian

comment: beautiful shot

html_comment: beautiful shot

[User] canoe

comment: You really think this is real? Look at the moon! smh at the stupidity! You'll do anything for QBN attention. So weird!


topic_title: Painting of the day

post:
Edouard Kasparides (1858-1926, Austrian)
- Evening Landscape, 1899


topic_title: Art of the Day Thread

post:
Brauer
The Rainmaker of Carmel