#80sTop30 #MusicChallenge Day 5. #26 The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five This is the song that got me started on my hip hop journey, just before the golden age of hip hop. Don't push me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRcU...

#80sTop30 #MusicChallenge Day 4. #27 Always Something There To Remind Me - Naked Eyes www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEoI... Classic cover of this great song and a synthpop classic. Always loved the drum sound on this version.

#80sTop30 #MusicChallenge Day 3. #28 The Lady Don't Mind - Talking Heads www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Ne... So many great Talking Heads songs to choose from. I have always felt this one has been underrated all these years. It's no trouble at all.

#80sTop30 #MusicChallenge The Metro - Berlin www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJZ8... Day 2. #29 I bought their Sex (I'm a…) 12" because, you know, and quickly found out the AA side song was the superior song (www.discogs.com/release/2359...). I remember hating you for loving me.

#80sTop30 #MusicChallenge Day 1. #30 Ghost Town - The Specials The early 80s had some great British Ska. This is my fav from that time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2o...

This is fantastic and another great Animagraffs video.

Beautiful world?

Good night of pinball last night. Came second at the monthly #pinball comp at The Lanes, in Wellington.

Some very photogenic nectar-eaters at either end of my walk this morning. Stoked to get the tieke with wings spread in the first shot; don't think I've ever really seen that before, let alone got a decent shot of it.

We're at the Wellington Home & Garden Show this weekend! Multimorphic's Princess Bride and Barrels of Fun's Labyrinth are on freeplay, so come and enjoy some pinball at the show! (Plus we're next to puppies!)

*DOG: “You're finally back! I missed you so much!!”

I *long ago* formed the view that Facebook/Meta is so unethical/untrustworthy as to be fairly thought of as a criminal enterprise. John Gruber put it well: "Meta is an empty husk of a company with no values, no beliefs, other than growth and dominance for the sake of growth and dominance."

Fuck you, “Jeffrey”. (And also you Meta.) Thanks for your help @dylanreeve.com

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 20: Split Enz - My Mistake www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjUo...

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 19: Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYMk...

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 18: Goodshirt - Sophie www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txd1...

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 17: Madonna - Papa Don't Preach www.youtube.com/watch?v=G333...

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 16: Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCBN...

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 15: Weezer - Buddy Holly www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemi...

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 14: Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring youtu.be/NVC-jusXGno

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 13: Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMF...

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 12: Daft Punk - Around The World www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0HS...

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 11: Public Enemy - Fight The Power youtu.be/U35MvblI4og

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 10: New Order - The Perfect Kiss www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3XW...

Continuous refilling of the Tūī feeder required on this very wet day. Every time I go into the kitchen I am faced with trees filled with Tūī staring at me

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 9: The Swingers - Counting The Beat www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJqx...

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 8: Don Henley - The Boys Of Summer www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RUI...

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 7: Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhJw...

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 6: The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu...

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 5: Queen - We Are The Champions youtu.be/epXWfVU34dI

Hi, Sarah! Have you tried the THINGS ARE TERRIBLE BUT feed?

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 4: Beastie Boys - Three MC's & One DJ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xflf...

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 3: David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyMm...

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 2: Ultravox - Vienna youtu.be/xJeWySiuq1I

Choose 20 music videos that have stayed with you or influenced you. One video per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just videos. #videochallenge #musicsky Day 1: Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere youtu.be/LQiOA7euaYA

My local pinball spots - YOPS and Lanes.

The singularity is awesome

The tūī that lives in my garden is in his tree this morning, holding on dear life in the gale blowing him around, but he REFUSING to let it ruin his morning songs. Got admire that tenacity.

Mōrena e te whānau - Winter has arrived. Winter Solstice Southern Hemisphere Shortest day Sat, 21 Jun 2025, 2:41 pm · New Zealand Time

So I see an ad for a guy named Mason Porter who has a leather goods shop and it’s going out of business. I’m a sucker for leather bags and I like a deal so I start poking around.

Moe Tkacik has traced the Air India plane to a terrible-quality run of Boeings that have started failing all over the place, but that managers under the new low-quality Boeing era pushed through production anyway because "none of these planes are staying in America, they’re all going overseas".

No shit, Sherlock.

This is what I was getting at on the Apple Fitness Buddy thing yesterday: you do not need AI to figure out if you did your 5km faster today than yesterday, the "less than" operator has been present in CPUs going back to the 1970s and they could do it quite well

Remembering the late, great Rik Mayall, who sadly died 11 years ago today

Facebook/Instagram apps on Android secretly tracking anonymous browsing. 1. Apps listen on a UDP localhost port 2. Meta Pixel tracking (on 5.8M websites) sends the site cookie to the apps port 3. Meta can now link the website usage to a Facebook user, even in incognito mode! #infosec #dataprivacy

How the famous tracking shot in Wings (1927) was filmed

So, this summer we'll be publishing a 3-part deep dive into Sega's pinball history. It's an area not well documented. Part 1 (Sega Japan in the '70s) is done and is 4500 words, and I'm working on part 2 (Spain) now. Part 3 (Sega Pinball 1994-1999) should be done this month. I hope you all enjoy it!

Movie you've seen more than 6 times using gifs.

We were having problems with our Star Wars game, so we called in the expert. Thanks @the501stlegion.bsky.social for dropping in.