Tom Hannen
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If you have a few 11 year-olds handy, 'Heave Ho' for the Nintendo Switch is £9 and will cause *so much yelling*
www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...
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Heave Ho
Swing your pals to safety in a wobbly, dangly mass of limbs.
https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/Heave-Ho-1619877.html
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The great thing about a privatised rail system is that you can easily claim when your train is delayed... Be right back, uploading 16 PDF files...
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Person on the train reading “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” while taking up three seats with suitcases is something
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Never ever ever use
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to book any flights. They appear to be a flight operator, but act more like an arbitrage scheme. They take your money, fail to book a flight, then if you request a cancellation, you can only be refunded in 'Kiwi credits'.
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Kiwi.com | Find Cheap Flights & Discover New Destinations
Cheap flights, hotels, and car hire with 24/7 customer support & Disruption protection. Discover a new way of traveling with our interactive map, airport, and destination guides in your pocket.
https://Kiwi.com
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Bruno Dias
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
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Phil Norman
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Watching the best Christmas sitcom special - Yes, Minister: Party Games - and I've only just noticed this subtle gag in the papers on Hacker's desk.
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Boy playing “Return of the Obra Dinn”: “Daddy, does decapitated mean head chopped off or body chopped off” I blame myself, should have let him carry playing Boomerang Fu in one player mode
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“Laura” is on iPlayer. The ultimate film noir, amazing music, twisty plot etc etc
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Laura
A police detective becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman believed killed by a shotgun blast to the face in this classic mystery.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0077y7h
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Richard Wells
about 1 year ago
Last night BBCFour repeated Mark Gatiss's adaptation of the M.R. James Ghost Story for Christmas 'The Mezzotint', so that'll be back on the iPlayer. Here's that thread I threatened recounting the bits n' bobs I made for it...
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'Hey Broadband' - really not terrible broadband provider. £24.50 for 1Gb up and download speeds. Cheaper than Sky, can't complain. If you sign up, you get £50 off and I get an amazon voucher...
heybroadband.co.uk
Use code HeyThomasH69
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https://heybroadband.co.uk/refer-a-friend
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Not now internet time servers (or perhaps now internet time servers)
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This has much more in common with that ‘Elbows Out’ Mike Myers video than Led By Donkeys projecting yet another thing on a wall.
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Saxa salt graphic design is my passion hire me
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My only hobby is making sure all the rechargeable devices in the house are plugged in overnight, so it must be that
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Overheard son a while back: “The tooth fairy must be real because my parents never have any cash” If only they knew how many times their piggy banks have been raided. QE for parents or something
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Henry Morris
12 days ago
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Robin Wigglesworth
14 days ago
Here's a roundup of FT journalists' favourite non-FT stories of 2025. The winner features snail orgies in the lede.
www.ft.com/content/72d0...
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FT journalists pick their favourite non-FT articles of the year
Everything you should read that we didn’t write
https://www.ft.com/content/72d0c559-3d04-44b9-8acc-86d858aab4c6
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ændra.
12 days ago
Spot-on.
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Please learn how to use your computer
"The number of professionals in journalism, media, communications, and academia who still don't understand how to use the very tools they depend on for their livelihood is, frankly, staggering."
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/please-learn-how-to-use-your-computer/
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V Martín
13 days ago
Superb video included in today's JPL update for
#PerseveranceRover
(
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-p...
). With synthetic frames and obviously, the rover doesn't move that fast, but the final result is impressive. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Dare Obasanjo
15 days ago
It's quite a sign of the times that Ford is pivoting away from EVs and will focus its battery tech on AI data centers instead. There's a growing list from memory manufacturers to construction companies all pivoting from their primary focus areas to feed at the AI datacenter trough.
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Ford is starting a battery storage business to power data centers and the grid | TechCrunch
Ford will invest about $2 billion into the new business over the next two years.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/ford-is-starting-a-battery-storage-business-to-power-data-centers-and-the-grid/
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Can’t get no satisfaction?
subs.ft.com/viewsubscrip...
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Steven Poole
18 days ago
kids these days would simply not believe that, once upon a time, you could see John Carey, Tom Paulin, and Germaine Greer seriously discussing books on BBC television. RIP 🖤🤘🏻
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Press Gazette
19 days ago
The winners of the Online Video Journalism category are
@joesinft.ft.com
and
@christopherjm.ft.com
@financialtimes.com
for ‘Film me!’: Russia’s executions of Ukrainian POWs point to a policy
#BJA2025
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I will not repurpose this video into a rickroll... I will not repurpose this video into a rickroll...
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Vintage BBC clock generator. I want this as a Mac screensaver.
zxnet.co.uk/clock/
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James Ball
21 days ago
Absolutely amazing chart from
@peterkellner.bsky.social
's piece in
@thenewworldmag.bsky.social
today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
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There are many irritations about the iPlayer Apple TV app, but this cursed squircle design is right up there at the top.
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Calibrating one of these every morning at 10am because the band promised they were going to have an early start, after going to bed at 2am
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Brendan Keogh
22 days ago
tfw your means of production are no longer brought into contact with living labour power
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Dave Lee
23 days ago
After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X. Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Andrew R
23 days ago
I haven't blogged for ages, so I wrote far too many words about something that happened 40 years ago, and which nobody outside of America cares about.
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New Coke: A Warning from History
If, like me, you’re British then your knowledge of New Coke is likely to be (a) it was a massive failure, (b) everyone hated it, (c) it was a terrible business decision, and, if your go-to re…
https://excelpope.net/2025/12/07/new-coke-a-warning-from-history/
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Seann William Thought
23 days ago
Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair
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‘Clark’ the Herald Angels Sing
24 days ago
Return, MY WUV……. Jesus. It’s just fucking brilliant
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What's Opera Doc
This is "What's Opera Doc" by 2K HistoryClips on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
https://vimeo.com/444002896?share=copy
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Colin Spacetwinks
25 days ago
no one has ever gotten the spirit of our country as right as paul verhoeven making robocop
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Jim Pickard
25 days ago
this story isn’t going away
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Alejandra Caraballo
27 days ago
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
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Where's my bus pass? Two kids constantly hijacking the account surely means my true age is even higher...
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Joe Quinones
28 days ago
Did y'all realize my Bat-emblem cover for issue 6 of Batman '89: Echoes is in fact an original painting? It is! Crafted on illustration board and airbrushed in acrylic and gouache. Here's some process pics. Now for sale via my art dealer Mark at Splash Page Art
www.splashpageart.com/ArtistGaller...
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#BruceSterling
29 days ago
*I always like vanished high-tech sublimity of this kind, like "giant electrical windmills, oh come on, in your dreams"
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Aric Toler
29 days ago
Alasdair kept digging and identified most of the photographs at the ending that are shown in montage before the ballroom photo is zoomed in on. Turns out that Ronald Regan is in multiple photos.
www.reddit.com/r/StanleyKub...
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”
about 1 month ago
Autolabelling service that tells you if a poster needs a wellness check or if they are watching sport
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Andy Blip
about 1 month ago
Ooh, this is some lovely BOC content.
youtu.be/wubkrBd3-gg?...
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Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer
YouTube video by Joe Lynch
https://youtu.be/wubkrBd3-gg?si=7RdNrSCbOaAZMWJl
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Matt Biddulph
about 1 month ago
beautiful video looping, love every one of these videos so much
www.instagram.com/p/DRm1vdNjL6a/
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matt sephton
about 1 month ago
OK!😎 The story goes... a guy called Bill saw this screensaver & thought "I want to play that" so made a game called TranQuility (tq)
www.megarat.com/indigo/
I played in 2001 on Mac, still today on Win, & dream about it. My current side-project is this for browser. I'd like to see/play the original
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BBC you’re encoding your dashes all wrong, and you’re optimistic if you think I’m going to watch all 33 years of that, it was bad enough the first time round… Also, it wasn’t me watching it was my son and god knows why he’s watching Colin Baker episodes instead of the Dalek eps I suggested
#kids
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🧡🐀 venus 🐀❤️
about 1 month ago
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
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“The largest user-generated database of rap crime on the planet” and now Spotify owns it…
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Jude Rogers
about 1 month ago
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for
@thequietus.com
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/edge-of-darkness-review/
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Every minute, each of the major AI models is asked to build an analogue clock face in HTML. Results are mixed…
clocks.brianmoore.com
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AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
https://clocks.brianmoore.com/
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Holly Brewer
about 1 month ago
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students_n_69178150e4b0781acfd62540
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