Rico Monkeon
@monkeon.co.uk
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https://www.monkeon.co.uk/
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NEW REACTION TEST Skip The Ads
www.monkeon.co.uk/skip-the-ads/
"I lived on leaves when there weren't any shops / but I'd rather have a bowl of Coco Pops"
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Skip The Ads ⏭️
We all skip adverts the second the button pops up, but how quick on the click are you?
https://www.monkeon.co.uk/skip-the-ads/
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I know I should hate them, but Silent Running has made me find the Uber Eats robots quite cute as they toddle along the pavement getting in everyone's way.
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Molly White
4 days ago
checking out the crypto gaming magazine’s 2026 “most anticipated” list to see how blockchain gaming has been going
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Angus Main
5 days ago
Look, it clearly says the Peace Prize only applies to 2025.
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SwearSky Index
7 days ago
Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR SwearSky word for 2026.
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Rob Manuel
9 days ago
Been really enjoying picking up the randomiser stuff again - it's such a specific type of technology, carefully writing templates and word lists. It has a deliberateness you can't achieve in AI slop whilst also having the fun of mashing buttons and seeing what bullshit I can make it spit out.
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The New Yorker
11 days ago
A cartoon by Enrico Pinto.
#NewYorkerCartoons
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If anyone shares my interest in celebrities who code, I just discovered from this that Lloyd Cole built his own site in Flash.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ49...
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The Limmy Advent Calendar - Day 23
YouTube video by LimmyTwitchClipsPlus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ49sC5B4zg
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Andrew D Thaler
16 days ago
Southern Fried Science social media traffic, 2025: Bluesky is the clear winner, with 12,000 visitors. Facebook: 9300 LinkedIn: 3100 Pinterest: 1600 Instagram: 900 Reddit: 700 Twitter: 600 Is 2020, with roughly the same traffic, Twitter drove 6,000 visitors.
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Rob Manuel
16 days ago
I've stuck randomly generated conspiracies onto Matt from the Telegraph's cartoons to create "Tinfoil Matt" (Not AI, me writing templates, the good old fashioned way to do these things with a strong degree of authorship.) Follow
@tinfoil-matt.bsky.social
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One for b3ta's Rob Reiner challenge
b3ta.com/challenge/ro...
18 days ago
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Mr Benn
24 days ago
Have you seen this? It's the literary map of London. I think it's Fabulous!!
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The Onion
20 days ago
CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Year
theonion.com/cia-realizes...
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Fixed any broken videos on my 90s Festival Generator. All 972 bands now work (Must have had quite a bit of spare time to populate it in summer 2020 for some reason).
www.monkeon.co.uk/90sfestivalg...
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90s Festival Generator
A randomly generated line-up of bands who played a UK festival in the 1990s.
https://www.monkeon.co.uk/90sfestivalgenerator/
21 days ago
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The all-new 2026 Neil Miles
22 days ago
I'm bored so here once again is the greatest Christmas title sequence in TV history
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Fixed another broken old game. Can you guess what year the newspaper was published?
www.monkeon.co.uk/guessthepress/
Looking back, I probably have split this into two games and reskinned it for the music press one. Different audience.
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Guess The Press
Can you guess the year from the front pages of old newspapers or copies of the UK music press?
https://www.monkeon.co.uk/guessthepress/
22 days ago
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christhebarker
23 days ago
#sgtpepper2025
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Given John Peel Roulette a polish
www.monkeon.co.uk/johnpeelroul...
Removed any broken shows (when you make anything with a database of YouTube videos, you notice quite what a transient site it is) and added a load of ones that had been uploaded since I made it.
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John Peel Roulette
Listen to a random moment from a random John Peel show. What musical delights will you discover?
https://www.monkeon.co.uk/johnpeelroulette/
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Puck
25 days ago
I felt compelled
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Paul Whitelaw
26 days ago
I often think of this absolutely *perfect* description by
@rockingbob.bsky.social
: "Noddy Holder had a voice like John Lennon screaming down the chimney of the QE2."
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NEW REACTION TEST Skip The Ads
www.monkeon.co.uk/skip-the-ads/
"I lived on leaves when there weren't any shops / but I'd rather have a bowl of Coco Pops"
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Skip The Ads ⏭️
We all skip adverts the second the button pops up, but how quick on the click are you?
https://www.monkeon.co.uk/skip-the-ads/
26 days ago
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Richard Littler
27 days ago
🧵 It's almost a joke. Entshittification by
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
- I order the book, but it doesn't ship for weeks, despite being 'In Stock'. The expected delivery date is changed to May 26, even though the book is still allegedly 'In Stock'. - It suddenly arrives. The postman doesn't...
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Doing a bit of maintenance, so my Shuttleworth or Chiles quiz now has: * No links to Twitter or Facebook * 12 new Adrian Chiles questions My big discovery on making this one was the early Shuttleworth tapes, which are worth your time tracking down.
www.monkeon.co.uk/shuttleworth...
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Shuttleworth or Chiles?
With his bi-weekly ponderings on the minutiae of middle-aged domesticity, Adrian Chiles' Guardian columns often end up reading like things John Shuttleworth would say. But can you tell the difference?...
https://www.monkeon.co.uk/shuttleworth-or-chiles/
27 days ago
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Robert
27 days ago
It’s our Office Christmas Party today, so it’s
#XmasJumper
time! Design your own unique Yuletide Wooly Pully from the comfort of your ZX Spectrum! 💾
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Got this broken old game working again and removed the Twitter share whilst I was at it. Weird playing your old games and realising how tough they are to fresh eyes. Should have made more of the Hangman element or made it multi-choice, I reckon.
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Wiki in the Middle
Can you name the band/musician from the Wikipedia articles they appear on?
https://www.monkeon.co.uk/wikiinthemiddle/
28 days ago
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴🇪🇺🇮🇪
29 days ago
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The Dizzy Fansite
about 2 months ago
We have launched a new Play Online Centre. Not just the Dizzy games, but a lot of the classic Codemasters games to play online too. 🥚
thecodemastersarchive.co.uk/playonline/
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b3ta
about 1 month ago
🍺 Artist: monkeon
https://b3ta.com/board/11423387
From the 'Movie Poster Recycling' challenge
https://b3ta.com/challenge/movieposterrecycling/popular/
#MoviePosterRecycling
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Jimmy Martin
about 1 month ago
Spot Alan Moore in his 6th form Northampton Grammar School photo, taken two days before he was expelled
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You presumably have to like their music (which I do), but I found this far more captivating than I was expecting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow3j...
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Lush: A Far from Home Movie
YouTube video by 4AD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow3jEIV0s74
about 1 month ago
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Gaius (from Tribunate)
about 1 month ago
There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
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A few for the b3ta Fruit and Veg Replacements challenge.
b3ta.com/challenge/re...
about 2 months ago
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VOLE.wtf 🐹⁉️
about 2 months ago
🆒 NEW GAME! 🆒 Only the coolest people can draw a Cool S really fast
vole.wtf/cool-s/
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Draw a Cool S 🆒⚡️
How quickly can you doodle one?
https://vole.wtf/cool-s/
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray
about 2 months ago
Incredible archive of Byte magazine. The covers. THE COVERS.
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My copy has arrived. About 30 years since I last had anything published in a computer magazine. (Thanks
@mattround.com
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VOLE.wtf 🐹⁉️
about 2 months ago
🚀 NEW MAGAZINE ⌨️ Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages! 10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed
vole.wtf/doctype/
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DOCTYPE magazine 🚀⌨️
’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!
https://vole.wtf/doctype/
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Chris Webb
about 2 months ago
Too many massive overheads.
www.ibtimes.co.uk/funko-pop-fi...
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In Funko Pop! In Trouble? Company Behind It Admits It May Not Survive Another Year
Things are not looking good for the action figure company as they carry roughly $250 million in debt, and profits are shrinking fast.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/funko-pop-financial-ruins-company-behind-it-admits-it-may-not-survive-another-year-1753742
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jess m.
2 months ago
This is interesting drama to follow lol TLDR, the people who made the AI coke commercial are denying it and generating fake concept art, actual concept artists are ripping it all apart as fake because the guy has no idea how any of this works
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CRT ART Books
2 months ago
Beyond Nostalgia #16: Reporting from ZXGFXTOBER 2025 ZX Spectrum pixel art graphics competition
beyondnostalgia.substack.com/p/fifteen-co...
#pixelart
#ZXreposts
#photography
#CRT
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On the off-chance this one hasn't been done yet.
2 months ago
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra
2 months ago
Well, I’ve just seen this picture of Christopher Lee, and now you have too.
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Shazzoir
2 months ago
Pet peeve; anyone who uses the word 'snuck' - this is what I see in my head.
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Captain Howdy
2 months ago
🎶What a difference a day makes... 🎶
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Wikipedia seems to be attempting to create a list of Garth Marenghi's 400+ books.
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A few for b3ta's Two Authors One Book challenge
b3ta.com/challenge/tw...
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Michael M 👽
2 months ago
Sometimes I forget I own the best piece of music merch that ever existed.
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Jonathan Coe
3 months ago
My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.
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Peter Chilvers
3 months ago
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
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Moose Allain
3 months ago
You don't need to have read it to get the joke
www.worldofmoose.com/products/tri...
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Mark Savage
3 months ago
Reddit comment of the day.
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VOLE.wtf 🐹⁉️
3 months ago
🪫NEW THING🪫 Any riff-raff can join Bluesky, but it takes true dedication to apply for this club
vole.wtf/one-percent/
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The 1% Guild 🪫
An exclusive club for those who live life on the edge.
https://vole.wtf/one-percent/
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