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just posted 2 more "chapters" of my folk-horror 007 spoof
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John Barleycorn
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The Man With The Thousandth Face
...for upcoming #70YearsOfBond. So: would anyone publish this - parody-protected? - Fleming re-telling for a modern media-literate audience?
London Vectrex Mini event here, Sat 21 Nov, 10am, £15
dice.fm/partner/tickets/even…
broadcast: Alex Fitch talks to UV Overlay creator Laurence Bennion & @VectrexOn's David Oghia re: #Vectrex Mini, & to retro game creator James Watt, re: making new video and electro-mechanical games. 8pm, Thurs 29th Oct, 104.4 @ResonanceFM / DAB. Info at panelborders.wordpress.com/2…
belatedly - the headline is semi-ingenious low-key trolling, as it prompted existing Pratchett fans to respond "Lost to history? Not round here!" rather than an outpouring of rival enthusiasm for comedy-fantasy contemporaries eg Tom Holt or Robert Rankin (/now: Yahtzee Croshaw?)
techbros have reinvented Lars von Trier's Dogville - for estate agents!
"...I'm going to remove two of these fixtures and fittings, and if you can demonstrate your knowledge of the Doctrine of Stoicism by holding back your tears, I'll stop"
fwiw, I mostly enjoyed "Digger", though not to the degree where I needed to spend £19.99 on a commemorative tin to accompany a soft drink & medium popcorn...
fwiw, I'm still on Twitter to recalibrate a (small) number of my opinions which are too *impractically* left-wing for the current climate. I'll definitely leave if: the search function gets any worse, or if the in-browser BSkyB gets a direct "likes" link?
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.@edjeff I hold you directly responsible for not telling me The Newsroom is basically Press Gang with American Jeremy Paxman? /@JonnElledge
don't know why this is streaming free here (without ads?) but all your favourite Sorkin backstage-drama setups, relocated to the 1950s!
rakuten.tv/uk/player/movies/…
some good (ad-free?) films on Rakuten, though you have to dig around & they don't stay for very long - 2018's The Hummingbird Project is a fibre-optic tunneling drama loosely based around Michael Lewis's book Flash Boys from 2014?
rakuten.tv/uk?content_type=m…
"explore this year’s theme, Defying Expectations" - £36 tickets still available for this afternoon's... TEDx Bromley!
tedxbromley.co.uk/
thanks to a new PC case from @simesgreen, I no longer have to type these updates into a live motherboard resting on an antistatic bag
tip for all you Macbookers annoyed by noisy fans - I'm typing this on a 2010-era Thinkpad T410 which is SO QUIET I've just had to google whether it even has a fan at all!
"Microsoft provided an extra year of [Win 10] security patches through its Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. That was supposed to end on Oct. 13, 2026, but a note on Microsoft's support page now says the program will end on Oct. 12, 2027" - phew!
uk.pcmag.com/migrated-3765-w…
furthermore, Space Ships From The Beyond MAY Be On Their Way To Destroy Our Planet but, a full 2 months later, that hasn't happened either?
So there is a very real possibility that, due to net zero buggering the grid, Britain could experience total power blackouts.
The IMF could soon sweep in to cut up our national credit card because we are so in debt no one will lend us any more money.
And our Prime Minister is debating pub snacks like a student in Freshers Week.
Can we have a serious leader, please?
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The Hibbett & Christopher tour comes to BALHAM, gateway to the South, in a couple of weeks! Do come along if you're roughly in the environs, it should be a great night!
ALT Poster for a HIbbett & Christopher gig in Balham on 7 October, showing our two heroes standing together looking dignified and handsome.
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If you were sent a diary for next year, already filled in, would you do the things you were "meant to do"?
Come see a work-in-progress revival of my show from 2008, Not Everything is Significant.
⏰ 14.00
📅 2026.10.10
📌 Hen & Chickens, N1
🎟️ bit.ly/479DqNl
ahead of tonight's #AmigaPower reunion, a 1992 coding triumph for @DeepMindAI's AI Go pioneer @demishassabis
...amazingly, this incident is described in The Maniac, Benjamin Labatut's life of Manhattan Project computing pioneer John von Neumann (actual text on the right) - not to be confused with Google AI's deeply confused hallucination (left): @simesgreen @benmoor
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Remember (and have forgotten!!) many great nights in this place, but sadly Dublin doesn't look after its cultural institutions
a late map release for this Sat AND SUN's #JumbleTrail 11am-4pm around Brockley, St Johns & Ladywell surrounding SE14 - lots of stalls but pace yourself as this is a huge & hilly area: @THfest @Broc_Soc
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Brockley, St Johns & Ladywell #JumbleTrail 2026 back again 11am-4pm both days this weekend, perhaps with more of a probably advisable focus between eg Breakspears Rd & Lewisham Way
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@DulwichRaider @hattydaze
.@steishere getting somewhere/need help with Dune 2 New York New Y; editable here docs.google.com/document/d/1… @bspine2098
recent neologisms that didn't make it: "twittersphere" peaks in early 2009, brief revival of "twitterverse" in 2011?
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you look at the UK pop charts for some random month in 1981 and at the top is "When Words Cut (Kastrationsangst)" by The Montagnards, who met in the Rhyming Poetry Department of Sheffield Polytechnic and sold 3 million copies of their only single.
weird name + scary eye logo - treat yourself to a bowl of PROTIOATS (tm), Britain's most dystopian breakfast cereal
seems a bit early to nominate 2026's true TASTE ABOMINATIONS but can confirm that Hot Honey Jaffa Cakes are, if anything, even worse than you imagined - click below for similar evidence of Kellogg Crunchy Nut Limited Edition Hot Honey Flavour Crunchies?
xitter.cf/kennixonette/status/20…
admittedly these were fine but weird concept - "Penguin biscuits, but the chocolate's replaced with cheese"?
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NEW 🐧 Snacks
McVitie’s to launch new savoury snacks
Penguin Bites crackers in cheese, salt & vinegar, and lightly salted flavours available from 8 June for rsp: £2/125g
🔗 Read the full story here: thegrocer.co.uk/news/mcvitie…
