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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 1d

My girlfriend just phoned her sister, who answered by singing the Pink and the Brain theme tune in German. Amazing.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 1d

LCP is one of the best C64 titles ever written, an excellent early take on virtual pets, and a game I still think would work really nicely as a standalone smartphone app.

I wrote about it some years back for Stuff: www.stuff.tv/features/stu...

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Dan @danofthewibble.bsky.social · 1d

I hear Bluesky’s user base is decreasing. They need some advertising.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, the main difference I’ve noticed with wood types is 1.) how heavy it makes the guitar 2.) how easily the guitar body dents if you drop it.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 4d

The worst fashions always seem to return in a cyclical, err, fashion.

Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 4d

Over 75s, not over 65s. So that’s a significant amount of people who are no longer able to access the vaccine on the NHS.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 4d

The NHS has largely retreated from offering so many forms of healthcare; it’s an ongoing national scandal, yet the media are largely silent on the matter.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 4d

Ideally we should bar emigres to Dubai from even re-entering the country.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 5d

Someone at workplace just converted a PNG to a JPG by printing out the PNG image and putting the resulting printout in a flatbed scanner, whereby the resulting scan was automatically saved as a JPG. 🫤

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Pete Prodge @peteprodge.com · 5d

I see the 'ID keeps everyone safe on the internet' campaign continues to not keep everyone safe on the internet.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 6d

Worst reactions: Flu vaccine in 2021 made me delirious and sweating like I was in sauna. For an hour. Covid booster in 2023 made me feel oddly actually ill for a week. As in bedridden.

(Thanks for the reminder BTW; now looking into where I can get a private covid vaccine locally.)

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 6d

And this, class, is why aiming at agricultural self-sufficiency rather than spreading risk across different countries through international trade is a *really stupid idea*.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 6d

I mean, back when I was at university the openly Tory lot* were always oddballs which you’d run a mile from, so looking at this lot, not much has changed…

* party members etc, not just “I always vote Tory because my parents do”, which was depressingly most of the people on my course.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 7d

You’re thinking of the Blue Dog Democrats there, I think.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Do...

Blue Dog Coalition - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 7d

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 7d

I find it very telling that politicians of all parties tell us plebs to go and do dead-end apprenticeships (basically working in a menial job for well below NMW), yet these Oxbridge elites are happy enough sending their own offspring into higher education…

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 7d

Box of Strider II, US Gold’s fake sequel to Strider, released November 1990. (Not to be confused with Capcom’s own official Strider 2.)

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 8d

Typical NHS, washes its hands of its patients and expects you to go private or get nothing.

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 8d

Pay me to go for a walk next year. Well, pay MNDA, but I'll still do the walking www.justgiving.com/page/mw-wind...

Walking the Windsor 50 for Motor Neurone Disease Association

Help Mark Williamson raise money to support Motor Neurone Disease Association

www.justgiving.com

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 8d

(I mean, I hope not. I have positive memories of Charles Kennedy’s soft centre-left era LibDems.)

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 8d

Sign that the LDs will soon follow the other parties and shift sharply right in order to compete for the Reformative vote? 🤔

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 11d

True… noticed in Moldova last weekend their Labour analogue PSDE (formerly PDM) has basically vanished, despite (again) being a leading party just a few elections ago.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 11d

ČSSD (Czech Labour) absolutely obliterated there. Wasn’t too long ago it was one of the “big two” major parties…

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you for doing the right thing.

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 11d

Your favourite Youtube channel has a new video out. But since he's now pulling cars apart (Technology Connections) watch some throbber review Friday The 13th on the C64, Speccy and CPC instead. You'll shit your pants with fright or your money back.*

youtu.be/7a6N3ZyTWvM

* No refunds.

ChinnyVision - Ep 568 - Friday The 13th - C64, Amstrad CPC, Spectrum

YouTube video by ChinnyVision - The Retro Game Review Channel

youtu.be

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