I think I'm going to stop following world events, it's too depressing.

New Batman

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command".

Uh oh.

My toes are toasty.

Me: "What would you like from Monty's?" Wife: "Sausage and tinned tomato bap" Me: "What if they don't do tinned tomatoes?" Wife: "Nothing." Fine. Got there, ordered mine, they don't do tinned tomatoes, so nothing for Wifey. [cont'd]

Google Docs show words left until AI replaces you

Noticed a BT engineer up the pole at the end of the drive, so naturally I quizzed him! Nice chap, he explained the whole FTTP process with an install date of around March! TBH that was later than expected, but it appears the exchange isn't fibre-ready yet, so they've got their work cut out.

Found myself looking forward to the delivery of some nice warm comfy socks. My rock star days are over, aren't they.

"Microslop". Such a beautiful encapsulation of everything wrong at Microsoft. I wonder if they'll recover from such a spot-on brand battering.

This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.

#retrogaming #retro

Having a bit of a subscription clearout. ITV-X, Ch4+, NowTV, Paramount+, all cancelled. Wish I hadn't renewed that Disney+ sub now.

I am delighted to announce the release of my latest project: Fully documented source code for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond’s 1986 masterpiece. Here’s the repository; deep dives coming soon. See thread for details. 1/9 github.com/markmoxon/th... #retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit

Hmm. LED on the usb cable powering my laptop is flashing. It shouldn't do that. "Battery isn't charging". Uh oh. Now, this is a 2019 MBP, so it's had a good innings, but before I drop three grand on a new one, let's plug it into something else....

Happy tenth anniversary to photographer Joel Goodman’s classic image which by rights should be hanging in the Louvre.

Diving into old backups for this desktop toy video, I found a pile of toys I'd forgotten about - I had no idea I'd done so many of the blummin' things. One was "Mandy" - a character from a cartoon strip for the Daily Mirror. She delivered news headlines direct to your desktop.

Me: "Shall we watch the next episode of Stranger Things?" Wife: "Nah. It's boring" Me: "Yeah, I can't be bothered with it either" So that's the end of that.

Last night I dreamt I was walking around town with a human lung in a carrier bag. What could that possibly mean? I didn't even have any cheese before bed, either.

What's Jesus doing in prison?

If you're a bit weird, like me, you may enjoy the MIT lectures on quantum physics. They're quite long, so I recommend watching at 1.25x, as long as your brain doesn't turn to mush. ocw.mit.edu/courses/8-04...

Prepping for my first YT video, where I talk about the Desktop Toys/Screen Mates I made in the 90s, I thought I'd revisit the code and rebuild them. This means taking a Visual Studio 6 project and trying to open it in VS2026. Oh my word. Intellisense has had a stroke.

Paypal account hacked for Christmas! Some fecker bought 3 Disney+ subscriptions, £150.

Bit of a longer gameplay video that shows progress so far on Melkhior's for Playdate. Merry Christmas.🎄 #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart www.bitglint.co.uk

Walking down the high street, whistling a tune. What tune is that? Kids' TV theme tune? No! It's a game! Rainbow Islands? No. Rodland? No. James Pond II: Robocod. I doubt anyone hearing it recognised it.

Dogs barking unusually persistently. Flashing yellow lights by the telegraph pole at the end of the drive. Later on I have a nosey - ooh look - a little black box and a coil of cable - FTTP ahoy! Hopefully soon I can tell Elon to shove his starlink right up his tube!

Every coup d'état in Latin America got the dirty hands of the USA government behind it. They recently tried the 2nd time in Brazil by supporting Bolsonaro and failed (the 1st was in the 60s when João Goulart was overthrow, resulted in dictatorship). They are trying it in real time in Venezuela.

Pondering on a thought. Steam, App Store etc - £1,000 per-app registration fee, but only 5% sales fee. That should stop the slop?

"Hey, we've not shot ourselves in the bollocks for ages now!" "Oh." www.gamesindustry.biz/unity-report...

Oof. That can't be good. 19,000 new games released on Steam this year.

Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

Ooooh this is such a good bit of news for comics artists and writers. Good in the negotiation process, Good reason to demand better terms

When I'm PM I'm going to bring in Hibernation. All your bills, direct debits etc are suspended during Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb and you just go to sleep for four months.

I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.

I know this is the least nerdy of the social media networks but I can't deny you this gem.

That headline couldn't be more British. news.sky.com/story/tower-...

Well it seems the Gov has killed Motability. 20% VAT on the up-front payment. That means the top-spec Renault 5 (for example) will cost you nearly 9 grand up front, which you don't get back, for a 3 year lease. That's a third of the car's value.

Ron Gilbert can't even get funding?!? RON GILBERT!?!

Christmas music in the corner shop. Time for the noise-cancelling headphones!

Just watched a video where Zed's CEO described AI as a "genius golden retriever on acid". Sounds about right! :D

As if the world isn't topsy-turvy enough, there's now sheep in the cow field! Quite an assortment of white, brown and spotted sheeps!

If you're looking forward to starting your advent calendar tomorrow, perhaps you'd like this one to try! How many squares have you got left?

You glorious, brave lot, sticking your oar in to remind the billionaire bastard companies that Australians want the government to stop fannying about, start taxing giant fossil fuel companies and make the country run on renewables as much as possible.

As if recruitment couldn't get any worse.