It’s Gauda Prime Day, the anniversary of the finale of #Blakes7 44 years ago. Here is the report I wrote about visiting BBC Television Centre in 1981 to watch that episode, “Blake”, being recorded in studio. It’s in three blog entries: tinyurl.com/gauda1 tinyurl.com/gauda2 tinyurl.com/gauda3

Oops missed last post day for Xmas. Soz relatives

Genuinely just learned that Andor finished on S2

Mike Wozniak is on Sunday Brunch with Ben Partridge but weirdly not THAT Ben Partridge

too unstable. Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables In a restaurant in a New England town

“IT'S NOVEMBER I0TH NOW. THERE IS A PARTIAL BLOBBY SYSTEM WALKING ACROSS A PELICAN CROSSING...”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_... on Talking Pics rn

Brighton mural that resembles Mongrol from the ABC Warriors

Thinking of some of the crazier cables that Apple made in the iPod days:

To the memory of Gil and disco Buck Rogers

RIP Gil Gerard scifibulletin.com/2025/12/17/r...

Post a black and white panel and tell us who drew it.

bought tix to go to the thee-a-turr. pricey innit 😅

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Sometimes the old technology is the best technology.

The new Telefantasy Time Jump is out now and free to everyone to listen to. Join me and @lizbethmyles.bsky.social as watch 1964's Nigel Kneale play The Crunch and a bit of Bleep and Booster! www.patreon.com/posts/telefa...

Fab! Knives Out III is literally using JDC’s “The Hollow Man” “locked room lecture” as a guide cc @carrieog.bsky.social

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if something “lovecraftian” tried to happen to me I would just bail. ooouuuuhhh there is a horror beyond my comprehension? not gonna comprehend it then I guess. Later

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Eddie Reader’s bio is a trip. Gang of Four, Fairground Attraction and a song on the Help! I’m a Fish OST #totp

Play Sham Rock you cowards #totp

First Lady of mime, more like #morelike #totp

Right. Better get the fucking Xmas decs and lights out of storage i guess

Damp cat curled up in the grass. Weird little gal

I’ve updated iOS and Liquid Glass is immediately irritating and distracting. Reminds me of the worst bits of the Aqua UI back at the start of OSX

Bend my arm Krankies, Boardman, Prince C and Dandini. And me and my mate Simon. I’m the tiny on the left. Would’ve been 9

It's still a work in progress, but seems stable enough for "public beta", so by popular demand here's a standalone version of the parametric clock generator I recently added to my online teletext viewer: zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...

When a book has been on the shelf at your office for 30 years and it’s forgotten who it’s for (Writers and Editors). Might need an update, but then I’ve not been a W or E in most of that time

The golden hare from the Masquerade treasure hunt puzzle book by Kit Williams ended up selling for £82,550 (over four times the initial estimate)! news.justcollecting.com/masquerade-h...

Small update to the Visible Zorker: the “Map” tab! Highlights your location (and the room definition in the source) as you move around. Map is full of spoilers, like the rest of the thing. eblong.com/infocom/visi...

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Unpopular opinion. RadMac celebrated Rubber Soul @ 60 by playing Norwegian Wood and Michelle. Lovely sounds and singing. Terrible lyrics. I like Beatles Band in general but come on guys it’s not all gold. (And this is the album with Run for your life on it) Do not in any way come at me, bro

The Clangers make the edit 😅

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I set today’s Guardian prize cryptic: www.theguardian.com/crosswords/p... Clues include: Judge adult getting into cartoon bird (4,3) Seat for obevartistebessentially jamming on a musical instrument (7) Also covered by Ian Dury (3) Tin church, Laragh’s source for scrap (6) No spoilers, ta!

Montero

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

cloud dancer is #F1F0EC - dunno why I couldn't find this anywhere. a decline in me and google

And this is how I learn this great news

Just crashed into this issue

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Watching Control and Craig Parkinson’s impression of Alan Partridge is pretty good

With these two, it’s lways about the coats and who will be chillier when popping to the shops

Solo the SW film was ultimately disappointing because with all the character tokens collected between plot they should also have got his nickname because he was named after the pet dog

This was a little disappointing - I remember the 1st episode well, but it very much drops off quickly and by the last 2 episodes any 'thesis' seems to have wandered off and the visuals equally start to pall. Enjoying the other shows more