Happy Easter Sunday from Glasgow in Scotland!

QP a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.

Anyone done a search for Nigel Farage in the (currently available but redacted) Epstein Files yet?

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Meanwhile on Mastodon…. Original post: frames.social/@2001/status...

S.O.S. Band - Just Be Good To Me. The 12-inch is the Hey Jude of electro. I jumped when I heard it in 23rd Precinct on import in '83. A year later it hit. I was twenty when this chart was new. Those really were the times.

I’m fine with Radio Jammor, but can you please stop using obviously AI-generated uncanny valley images when there’s perfectly good real images from the era that you can just put through a red white and black filter?

Never expected to say this, but here’s a really interesting interview with Will Young! He’s quite clearly got his head screwed on the right way.

Extremely good article about setting up your own website, and why you should do it. https://nora.zone/manifesto.html

The C/68k source code for FASTER on Atari STE is now available! Please note: ❌ The code is not representative of best practice, clean, maintainable, or for beginners. 😀 ✅The code does show a high-performance STE game using modern paradigms. That said, please enjoy! github.com/jonathanopal...

Following from Number 5, eleven years later Miller released this great satirical track which, in its full 16 minute version, is a thing of wonder and was a favourite of David Mancuso at The Loft (it’s on one of the comps) www.youtube.com/watch?v=geml...

FASTER for Atari STE is finally here! A brand new, 100% oldskool, super-fast-and-smooth racer. 1st place in SillyVenture 2024 WE ST game compo! Please RT and spread the word by any means possible! Download FREE from retroracing.itch.io/faster-atari.... Plays on real hardware and emulators.

Repost with a cool song that’s under 2 minutes youtu.be/iaHdPBbjAAw?...

Thank goodness for rules 2-3. I was in shopping centre yesterday afternoon (Nov 30) in Glasgow (Scotland), and a school kids Xmas choir (!) nearby immediately started on you-know-what…

RIP Janey Godley

The source code for WinAmp has been released! (Albeit under a “custom” license.) github.com/WinampDeskto...

Didn’t know I was that early to Bluesky! Anyway, hello from user no. 1,128,573!

This is a lovely obit for Steve Silberman www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/s...

Hay!!!!! Apparently BlueSky has a BRAZILLION users now!!!!! Blimmey!!!!!

Something else you could do RIGHT NOW to honor the memory of Steve Silberman! 1. Go to "Settings" 2. Click on "Accessibility" 3. Click on the toggle switch to "Require Alt Text Before Posting" 4. Include alt-text when you post pictures. It's a gesture of inclusion, and helps some folks a lot.

A wonderful tribute. Thank you. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

We are bereft: Steve Silberman has died. He was our dear friend, and a tireless and enthusiastic ally to our entire community. His book NeuroTribes enlightened, empowered, and educated millions about autism and autistic people. May his memory be a blessing. www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/249...

One of dominoes falls? The MacOS app for Twitter appears to have been de-listed from the App Store. 9to5mac.com/2024/08/01/t...

Happy #WorldDonkeyDay !!!!!! www.thequint.com/lifestyle/wo...

BLIMMEY!!! They’re doing a super-deluxe version of the Reliant Robin now!!!! Truly we are living in a Gelded Age!!!! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliant...

Just kidding!!!!! Here’s wot we can see from our vantage point of West Milton, Scotland!!! Isn’t the power of nature wonderful??!??!! Bet Bonny Tiler would approve!!!! #PartialEclipseOfTheHeart

HERE WE FOUR FRUIT MARMALADING GO!!!!

Hay!!! That #SolarEclipse is going to reach Scotland at 1955h todday!!! It won’t be a “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, but a partial eclipse!!! So we hope to get you a photograph of the event from our vantage point of West Milton!!!! Stay chunned!!!!!

HAPPY MARCH 32ND!!!!!!

The Senior Dads are celebrating #WorldPoetryDay!!

Hay!!! Guess wot!!!!!!! It’s WORLD FROG DAY!!!!!!! Yippy!!!!! #WorldFrogDay #WorldFrogDay2024

BLIMMEY!!! Danish politics must be reely complex!!!! (We thought “Borgen” was fiction, but you can totally see this happening in one of their episodes!!!! Person: “And the future of our party depends on… URGH!” Everyone else: “ONO!!! HE DEAD!!!!” CREDITS!!!!!)

Meanwhile on Mastodon:

No wonder there complaining!!!! It was obviously ripped off the West Milton Museum of Childhood!!!!! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

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If you’ve got a Mastodon, you aught to check us out there!!! (At @[email protected]!!!) Otherwise you’ll miss out on stuffs like this!!!!! glasgow.social/@seniordads/...

This wasn't unheard of at the time, the first public trans surgery in America was done as "Former GI now smoking hot!"

Fascinated by the sheer matter-of-factness of this story buried on page 8 of The Liverpool Daily Post, 29 March 1937 – “Ellen the barmaid is now Alan the barman.” Please update your address books. Now, what’ll you have?

If you’re able to be in Glasgow before 25th Feb, check out this out! In the Huntarian Art Gallery: “STAGE AND SCREEN: DESIGNS FROM THE JAMES L GORDON COLLECTION”: STAGE AND SCREEN: DESIGNS FROM THE JAMES L GORDON COLLECTION”: www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/vi... (1/N)

Textbook enshittification reaches the UK. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshitt...

Hello, new followers, thanks for joining us. This is indeed TheRegister.com team on BlueSky. We've got a domain-verified handle and everything now.

Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter. Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪 www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...

Bluesky is opening to the public and we all know the far right will immediately try to turn it into another shitsite. It’s more important than ever to report and block bad humans. Do not argue or engage with them in any way. Freeze them out. Stay strong and don’t play their ugly game.

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To mark the occasion, we teamed up with @davis.social to create a comic illustrating what Bluesky is all about. See if you can spot the easter eggs! 👀 [1/3]

Some graphs from this morning so far Gonna be an exciting day keeping things running Welcome, Everyone!

I helped the Bluesky team write a paper explaining the underlying architecture and the reasons why it works the way it does. Releasing the paper today to celebrate that you no longer need an invite code to sign up for a Bluesky account: arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239