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[EoghanKidney.cs @eoghans]

Another game on its way from Ueda San! (Ico, Shadow of the Collosus, The Last Guardian) https://t.co/LBkKYMEjXV

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

It's 31 years ago to the day that this was broadcast - for my money one of the most joyous bits of TV ever committed to celluloid.

It is, of course, Mr Sting's appearence on The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer.

Chitter chatter chit

[EoghanKidney.cs @eoghans]

@mrkocnnll OK so SOPHIE's last album, I agree with their lackluster review.... but this piece... lookit it's just a shame that less people will give a beautiful record a go because of this frankly weird-ass review.

[EoghanKidney.cs @eoghans]

@MaxTundra @spinal_bap I am pretty sure I saw him in Dublin airport on Thursday

[EoghanKidney.cs @eoghans]

This guy made THX, American Graffiti, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Lucas Arts, ILM, sold it all to Disney for a bill then spent the money building a ultra bonks museum which I need to visit. He is a living legend.

[Lucas Museum of Narrative Art @lucasmuseum]

A vision decades in the making. @VogueMagazine profiled Lucas Museum co-founders George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, photographed by the renowned Annie Leibovitz, for an exclusive first look inside the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Read the article here: https://t.co/FdunMsnsfD

[EoghanKidney.cs @eoghans]

That is some Serious Stabilization.

[Starlink @Starlink]

Starlink-equipped buoys provided real-time video streaming in the Indian Ocean during Starship's twelfth flight test

[EoghanKidney.cs @eoghans]

@MaxTundra how is he so good

[EoghanKidney.cs @eoghans]

@PalmerLuckey in VR industry since DK1, I see we are going through a bit of a VR winter right now.. I would love to know your thoughts on VR adoption, for instance, do you think we will get a bump in use with new form factors?

[EoghanKidney.cs @eoghans]

Worked with Sharon Stone once - she was wearing a nightgown for the scene. Crew was nervous - she suddenly did the thing from Basic Instinct before the take, and then said "I just did the thing from Basic Instinct!" - it totally broke the ice. What a pro. Actual true story.

[Scott Snyder @Ssnyder1835]

I was in the green room at a con last year and I let Peter Weller go ahead of me on the coffee line and he turned and said, “thank you for your cooperation” and i was made whole

[Gerry 🔻 @TheAulRed]

Just 30 years away from being Europe’s heroin ground zero. Unmarried mothers being sent to laundries. Babies sold to rich yanks. Crumbling tenements. Rampant clerical abuse. Thousands of Irish emigrants every year. Take your good old days and fuck off.

[EoghanKidney.cs @eoghans]

@doctorow finally this worked and i've rediscovered your lovely blog

[Warp Records @WarpRecords]

‘Introit & Prophecy At 1420 MHz’
@boardsofcanada

Out now
→ https://t.co/MIvj5x2dZh

[EoghanKidney.cs @eoghans]

This deadly mix was doin the napster/limewire rounds back in 99/2000.. just thought of it today. DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Brainfreeze :: https://t.co/eiNESe0dHj

[BOARDS OF CANADA @boardsofcanada]

INFERNO.
18 TRACKS.
70 MINUTES.
2xLP, CD, DIGITAL.
29 MAY 2026.

https://t.co/5ltEXOPIOR

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

This a computer, and you likely own one. It's a hydraulic analog computer.

It’s essentially a machined analog computer that computes with fluid instead of electronics: pump pressure is routed through passages that act like wires, while spool valves, springs, orifices, and check balls perform the equivalents of comparators, logic gates, delays, and one-way elements.

What it “calculates” is the machine’s current operating state, whether conditions have crossed a threshold to justify changing state, how strongly to apply each output, and how quickly to make that transition without instability or shock.

It does this by continuously balancing forces—pressure on different valve areas against spring preload and feedback pressure—so each valve shifts only when one hydraulic condition outweighs another, while restrictions and chambers add timing and smoothing.

In plain English, it is a real-time fluidic state machine that solves “if this pressure is greater than that one, route flow here; otherwise hold, delay, soften, or override” entirely through geometry and oil.

They're used in every car with an automatic transmission, where it makes choices like what gear to be in and how hard to apply clutches, etc....

And some dude worked it all out on paper back in the 1960s.

[EoghanKidney.cs @eoghans]

Yes!!!

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

Whoah. Falcon Heavy to launch major European Mars mission.

https://t.co/slHBUyV632

[EoghanKidney.cs @eoghans]

BoC have gone full Enya. Full circle.

[EoghanKidney.cs @eoghans]

Boards of Canada fact: I worked with a Sandison brother in @IFI_Dub. His GF also worked there, and when she saw me listening to Geogaddi on my 2003 discman she said "that's his brother's band!". I asked him to tell them I wanted to make a video for them. He quit shortly after!

[EoghanKidney.cs @eoghans]

THEY ANSWERED MY CALL

[EoghanKidney.cs @eoghans]

The world needs a new Boards of Canada.