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Post your from a different era
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I took that very early one morning in an unoccupied flat in Castlefields with a grim past. The builder got us in to replaster some walls (it was sorely neglected) and I saw that light over the shrouded fireplace and took the pic quick whilst everyone else had their coffee and talked about money.
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'Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not'

~ Douglas Hofstadter, 'Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid'
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Just listened to this. It's really lovely and I learned quite a lot more about him in it (I didn't know he and Douglas Adams were so friendly for a start). And @sihart.bsky.social 's tribute is fitting and very moving too. A great episode.
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I'm glad. It's the sort of story that's both the absolute best example and the absolute worst example of how good the classic era was. Deeply satisfying if you liked McCoy's era in particular, but it offers nothing for the casual viewer (but, you know, so what?)
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My kids definitely prefer Cenobite Um Bongo.
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Nessun Dorma?

Nessun Trauma, more like, seeing as we were knocked out in the semi finals.

#topical
#italia1990
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You've championed these books more than once on here (and on the Old Place back in the day), Simon. I may have to jump in. Feeling bereft since finishing Gormenghast and so I want to keep reading deep, immersive stuff.
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Oh ok, I'll get that then. Come to think of it I haven't read the novelisation either.
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What's the 2017 Shada? I know the old VHS one Tom did the linking for, and McGann's version. Not familiar with any others
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Lovely. I like seeing pictures of sites taken before the hand of commercial tidying-up has had any influence. Like ones of Stone Henge taken before it was partially restored in 1901, when it's all wonky and weedy and muddy. It makes it look more mysterious and chanced upon.
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Zelda Williams on AI and her father
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Magnolia

(Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
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Have you watched I Called Him Morgan? Incredible documentary.
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*cue end credit drums after the chestburster scene*
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I am a metalhead of 30-plus years, and I have never heard a single song by Megadeth.
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Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.