Completely forgot that it was #NationalTeletextDay today! *presses REVEAL on the duvet cover*

Don't forget, if you have a blog/twitch channel/craft club/pygmy hippo trampolining centre that you'd like to plug on ChunkyText at #ChunkyFringe there's only a few days left. I can make you a single screen advert, or give you space for a short article. No teletext editing experience necessary.

Bubblegun's very special 20th episode is available... TONIGHT! Featuring a few old friends... Available everywhere. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Come and see us do silly stuff in a couple of weeks. It's freeeeeee!

2 weeks until Chunky Fringe comes roaring back into our lives. 100% free, no tickets. Just turn up @ Harrow Arts Centre from 2pm on 4 Oct. Lineup includes pod recordings of Teletext Sofa Club & @mrbiffo.bsky.social & Sanja’s Bubblegun + me & Mr B’s best of Digi www.arbitraryfiles.com/events/cf25/...

Now at number 8! Let’s get Team Rose up the leaderboard - in the YT app, swipe left on the like button to show the other options and click hype. You need to do it on a Google account without any YT uploads of your own, or the hype option won’t show.

RIP Robert Ratford

Now at number 8! Let’s get Team Rose up the leaderboard - in the YT app, swipe left on the like button to show the other options and click hype. You need to do it on a Google account without any YT uploads of your own, or the hype option won’t show.

We're at #11 in the UK Hype Leaderboard! A few more Hype points and we'll have overtaken the Rate My Takeaway bloke! Hype! Hype! Hype!

There's a new YouTube feature where you can “hype” vids from small creators in the app — if they get enough hype, they hit the homepage leaderboard. Let's see act happens if you all hype the new ghost hunting vid 👻👇 (We're already at #15 in the UK...) youtu.be/aFAgBSlmfWA?...

QUESTION: What was Prince's favourite vegetable? ANSWER: Little red zucchini (he was American)!

Chunky Fringe happens 3 weeks today. Come and join the retro tech fun for precisely no money.

Three weeks? 😱 A reminder that I'm preparing to update my teletext service ChunkyText ready for Chunky Fringe. If you have a YouTube channel/Video game/Pop group/Pelican snooker hall you want to promote via a teletext advert or article, drop me an email at [email protected]

Barely a month old, and our new channel has hit 2k subs. It's not about the big numbers - we just needed a fresh start, and we're grateful to everyone who followed us over. You can see in what we've put out so far that the lightness and silliness is back. New video up now: youtu.be/aFAgBSlmfWA?...

I’m prawny! Prawny, prawny, prawny! #totp

This also means you could be seeing Spray, aka The Cuban Boys, 3 weeks TONIGHT. They would’ve joined us at CF, were it not for the small matter of them playing in Lisbon that night. Should their tour manager be fired? We’ll have to wait until the day after to find out. wegottickets.com/event/668688/

Chunky Fringe is just 3 weeks TOMORROW! Me! Biffo! Bubblegun! An inflatable sofa! What could you possibly be doing on the 4th October that’s better than that? Also: 100% free! www.arbitraryfiles.com/events/cf25/...

Halloween comes early! In our latest video, we're joined by a bunch of our friends from Patreon... and visit a haunted school - to re-home a ghost. youtu.be/aFAgBSlmfWA?...

Waiting for a Radiohead unlock code like...

Alas, we won't have a video for you this week. We were meant to film but... long story short, Sanja's hurt her leg. She's been resting up because this weekend we're filming one of our most ambitious videos ever - something that has never been attempted before by any ghost hunting show or podcast...

NEW UPDATE ALERT Another lovely batch of Digi has been added to the site, thanks to superheroes of teletext recovery Tom Pitt and the anonymous gent. Thanks to them, and to @andrewisaround.bsky.social and @zxguesser.bsky.social for fixing 'em up. @mrbiffo.bsky.social www.superpage58.com/update.htm

It's a little over a month to go until #ChunkyFringe2025 at Harrow Arts Centre, which means it's time to think about refreshing the content on ChunkyText again. If you have a podcast/twitch channel/internet radio show/used owl showroom you'd like to promote via the medium of teletext get in touch!

Last week we went to the Hellfire Caves in West Wycombe. It's a bizarre place, and only gets weirder the further you dig into its history (and not for any of the reasons they claim). youtu.be/VXkFU7c5U4A?...

A reminder that there’s Digi-related live shenanigans a-happenin’ in Harrow on the 4th October. Come see Biffo and Sanja record Bubblegun live, followed by Biffo and I poring over some of the best of Digi’s teletext life in an entirely unprofessional and self indulgent way.

I’ve paid another visit to the storage unit to sort through more of the Tape Mountain. Next box of ~50 is ready to go to whichever recovery hero wants it first, every tape with a recording that should have Digi. Lots of ‘00, ‘99, a good few ‘98 - and one from ‘95. The oldest in the collection so far

The threat of imminent teletext events does have a way of spurring me on to dust off cobwebs and add new TrekkieText pages! There aren't any original BBC listings for Star Trek: Enterprise, since it was broadcast on Sky One then Channel 4 here in the UK, so this is from IMDb. #StarTrek #Teletext

There may be no Digi Live this year, but Chunky Fringe just will not stop, ever. On Sat 4 Oct you can get your teletext on back in the fine, familiar surrounds of Harrow Arts Centre. “Mad” “props” to David Walford for organising another free retro tech feast. www.arbitraryfiles.com/events/cf25/...

Me and Sanja are recording a live episode of Bubblegun on October 4th, followed by 90 minutes of old school Digi. And best of all: it's entirely free to come along! Full details here: www.arbitraryfiles.com/events/cf25/...

There may be no Digi Live this year, but Chunky Fringe just will not stop, ever. On Sat 4 Oct you can get your teletext on back in the fine, familiar surrounds of Harrow Arts Centre. “Mad” “props” to David Walford for organising another free retro tech feast. www.arbitraryfiles.com/events/cf25/...

ICYMI - a veritable treasure trove of recovered Digi went up on the site last night.

Look, you should know about this. In the 90s we read this. It was updated every day, no it wasn't on the internet this was a button you had on your normal telly, and each day when it updated, the previous pages were deleted forever. Only now do we have the tech to drag the data from VHS tapes

IT HAS BEEN FOUND!! I'm so very sorry for the deluge this prompted. But also, not THAT sorry 🤣🤣

NEW UPDATE ALERT Your Digi Summer Special is here: over a dozen recovered editions of glorious 90s weirdness. Thanks to Tom Pitt & the anonymous gent for finding them, and to @andrewisaround.bsky.social & @zxguesser.bsky.social for fixin' 'em up. @mrbiffo.bsky.social www.superpage58.com/update.htm

New channel alert! And a new era starts here. Go subscribe.

Episode 2 of Digi Level is now up on the main channel! Contains one of my favourite segments of the entire series... but which one is it!?

@mrbiffo.bsky.social Hard to believe that it was six years ago tonight we all gathered at Harrow Arts Centre in remembrance of Bronk.

We're steadily moving all of Digi Level 2 over to the main Digitiser Channel. Beginning today, you can relive the madness all over again, starting with the terrifying prequel and the first episode. Features Ashens, Dan Does and Sooz Kempner! www.youtube.com/@Digitiser

NEW UPDATE ALERT The 1993 fun continues, with another big update entirely drawn from Digi's bizarre first year on air. Huge thanks to Tom Pitt & the anon gent for the finds, & @andrewisaround.bsky.social & @zxguesser.bsky.social for fixing 'em up. @mrbiffo.bsky.social www.superpage58.com/update.htm

NEW UPDATE ALERT The 1993 fun continues, with another big update entirely drawn from Digi's bizarre first year on air. Huge thanks to Tom Pitt & the anon gent for the finds, & @andrewisaround.bsky.social & @zxguesser.bsky.social for fixing 'em up. @mrbiffo.bsky.social www.superpage58.com/update.htm

The face I'm submitting to Bluesky for verification

Please read! The links you want are: www.youtube.com/@MrBiffoAndS... and www.patreon.com/c/MrBiffo

We're doing a signed postcard giveaway from our recent adventures. For a chance to win one - complete with a bespoke ORIGINAL joke by me! - sign up to our Patreon and leave a comment. www.patreon.com/mrbiffo

Brand new Digi video - and the start of a new series as we begin our search for Britain's most boring city! We kick things off in Lincoln and immediately end up in prison. youtu.be/E6wRS7pcrE4?...

New Digi soon... www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOGm...

I’m wearing a Digi t-shirt today and was just on a work video call where someone recognised it. “Oh, another @mrbiffo.bsky.social fan!” We then proceeded to confuse the third person on the call with all the Digi talk. He’s going to show the other guy “Sniff Sonic’s Rings” by way of an introduction…

Great to meet @superpage58.bsky.social (albeit briefly!) who's provided me with something that should keep me busy for a little while

Just handed over another batch of tapes to the most excellent @miles-online.co.uk for him to extract their delights. Good luck, Neil! Looking forward to seeing what’s hidden within…

ICYMI - 12 gloriously strange editions from Digi’s very earliest days went live on the site yesterday

@fruitbatusm.bsky.social what time do you call this

NEW UPDATE ALERT There's 12 editions of 1993 weirdness on the site now. Tom Pitt and the anonymous gent found these glimpses from Digi's first 6 months, and were fixed up by @andrewisaround.bsky.social & @zxguesser.bsky.social. Big thanks to all! @mrbiffo.bsky.social www.superpage58.com/update.htm