It's been around 25 years since I first heard The Darkness and just had to grab their first EP, I Believe In A Thing Called Love. Great song, great band and OMG I feel old now.

It seems the Band-Maid show in London later this year has had to be moved to increase capacity. From the O2 Academy in Islington to Electric Brixton. That's nearly doubling the capacity after tickets sold out in the first few days. www.electricbrixton.uk.com/events/band-...

This is an awesome club to be part of. I find myself looking forward to the next months artwork with anticipation. Well worth joining if this is your kind of thing.

In The Other Place, NEK! have posted a photo of them posing with Band-Maid. This gives me hope for a show in the future where NEK! is followed by Band-Maid.

Frankly, I wouldn't waste my precious time reading something that an author wouldn't spend time writing. Using LLMs for creative work is fast becoming the scourge of our civilisation.

Due to popular demand, my Blep and Floop cats are now on tees. I’m also producing hoodies for the first time, so please bear with me. Get yours with 15% OFF using VAL15 here: www.infinitebacon.com/tshirts

As a Yorkshireman I couldn't resist picking up these two drinks today. A Yorkshire pudding beer feels like it might be the best thing ever. And some Filey Bay whisky that is finished in IPA barrels sounds like a right treat.

I love puzzles and this new set of mind benders from The Royal Mint looks to be good fun. My coin has arrived and I'm cracking on with The Great British Treasure Hunt. www.royalmint.com/shop/limited...

I think I need to sell all my masterpiece transformers. Gonna miss them cos they are all great, especially Rodimus Convoy.

Where's the best place to sell Transformers these days? I want to be able to offer some of my collection to fellow fans, ideally local and not abroad, who want to add to their collection and not just flip them.

If you happen to be free on 8th March 2026 and can be in the middle of England (roughly) I can highly recommend joining CJ Wildheart to sing gang vocals on his new album. I've done this a few times and it's great. cjdevilspit.com/products/gan...

Sadly it appears that Band-Maid are taking 2027 off to rest and recharge. Hopefully back again in 2028 for their 15th anniversary. bandmaid.tokyo/contents/104...

Band-Maid just released the live version of Present Perfect for us all to enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U9A...

It looks like Band-Maid will be in London this year and I am defo up for that.

One of my favourite songs, Scrap Book, from the latest NEK! album got a video and I love it. Full of frenetic pop punk energy. youtu.be/PRszdbt0wdg

Got my childhood Menasor out to protect the office room. I love how I put a faction symbol on the crotch of the big daddy pants.

I grew up in a poor family but I had a thirst for knowledge. My mum bought me a series of Disney encyclopedia called The Wonderful World of Knowledge and I devoured them. Without them, I probably wouldn't have been as curious about the world as I am or pursued a career in science. *Not my photo*

HW News is up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ2G...

You have until Wednesday to get a ‘blep!’ cat print. I think there’s around 60 members now, which is lovely! bsky.app/profile/toky...

Count the purple dots

Been scanning in old documents and stuff before I recycle them. Found this awesome information sheet that Transformers fans from the 80s will probably recognise.

I used to love The Wildhearts back in the 90s. Sometimes I wish the original line up was still putting out great music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgRH...

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I have been recycling some of my old Japanese Transformers Generations books and have discovered some neat things. Like in the 2017 volume 1 book, if you take off the outer cover to reveal the actual printed cover inside, you find an uncoloured version of the comic inside the book.

New Event: www.retrocollective.co.uk/view-event.p... Jan 25th at @retrocollective.co.uk The @bitmapbureau.com team are giving us the inside story on their wonderful retro game development. Join the team and enjoy everything the Retro Collective has to offer with like minded friends.

I had a bunch of games to play, books to read and DIY to do during this festive break. Today I finished one of the books on my list, Four Seasons in Japan by Nick Bradley. The kind of book that you don't want to finish because you enjoy being in that world so much.

Looks like I'm back in Japan in 2026... Hoping to see some good bands playing whilst I'm there 🤘

Holy cow the latest Windows update for my gaming PC has completely ruined it. The lag is everywhere. Previously smooth operation is now no longer the case. Can't play a single game on it. Is this my punishment for using Linux most of the time?

I heard some people say that modern music isn't as good as the music they used to listen to. My opinion is that if you stopped listening to music at a given age, then you stopped yourself enjoying any new music. Some of my fav music is super new and exciting. youtube.com/shorts/Exy1-...

Tech mega-corporations are post-consumer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUrJ...

Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced. Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.

My body naturally wakes up at 05:30 every day, including weekends. It's great in summer when the sun is up early and I can enjoy a bright start to the day. It's not so great in winter when it's cold and dark until lunchtime. The upside of this is that I finish my working day at 14:00 💪

Anybody else enjoy wasabi? I love the stuff. Every time I visit the family back in Shizuoka I pop into the wasabi factory shop and buy enough to lastb me the next year or two.

I lost one of my best friends in the world today. I love you Scott Sorry. Hug your friends whenever you can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yyY...

Awful news to wake up to this morning. RIP Scott Sorry 💔 youtube.com/watch?v=pmHz...

In sad news it seems we have lost a member of the extended Wildhearts family. Scott Sorry, who played bass in the band for several years, died yesterday. He's been ill for a few years now but it's still a shock. The poor guy was younger than me FFS. www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...

I've had the new Band-Maid EP, Scooooop, since release but not had time to open it... Until now 🤘

I am going LIVE on the internet RIGHT NOW playing sad songs to make you feel better. FREE online gig, join me here:

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I just changed all of these. For ease of copying & pasting: about:config browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userenabled

The Channel 4 dispatches show about AI taking jobs was so blatantly AI generated. Not only was it obvious but it was offensive.

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

Had another dive into storage crates at the weekend and found more cracking games. I am a huge fan of the Mario & Luigi games, ever since the original GBA version, so it's no surprise to see the sequels in my collection.

After rummaging through my games storage boxes I realise that I may need to take a few months off of work to actually play some of them. Best not to look at my Steam backlog for a while.

More games that I found in storage. Can you believe that I haven't even opened some of these? I think it's time for me to dust off my 3DS and play some awesome games.

Some more games that I have dragged out of storage. As you can tell I rather like games developed and/or published by Atlus. These are yet more games I need to replay because of their awesomeness.

Been digging though my video game storage to find stuff to sell and came across some proper bangers. I think I need to play these games once again because they're all brilliant.

Well this should keep me busy for a while.