Watched Network for 1st time. A lot of shouting, idiosyncratic vocabulary and craggy faced old men. As well as the blunt satire I was given to expect. The 70s, eh?

TLC weeks away from taking that record company guy hostage #totp

Not a great Electronic era this #totp

Do Murder on the Dancefloor #totp

#totp #majorasmask content

Screen name for sale: Ruth Bader Ginsters. US$4.80 or GB£6.20, ono. no timewasters

Is this what big stretches fend off?!

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Gene’s legendary misunderstanding of the rules of water polo

It was the best of shires, it was the Worcestershires

Fans being rapt over a good quality version of an absolute dog shit TV movie that clings on to canon through the force of one actor

Most of these look like they check out ok

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Graeme Garden's birthday today. A man whose uncanny, almost eldritch ability to sit doing seemingly almost nothing in a group of fellow comedians and then walk off with the entire show in his pocket thanks to single killer line is unrivalled. Man's a genuine genius. Happy Birthday, Graybags.

PB of ELO 343 at Catan (on BGA). Every now and then I get a strong winning streak but I think it's mostly down to luck as often I can sink down to 200 and mostly bump around there for ages

Just realised in this episode of Fringe that they refilmed a line in the “previously on” to reflect that we saw that scene in the original timeline. Cute

Brew Dog story in full

Tomorrow's World (17th February 1993). Kate Bellingham looks into the brave new world of widescreen television.

Top telly rec: Waiting for the out, all on iPlayer. Don’t understand why Ive not heard people talking this up

Now reading “Smoke and Whispers” Mick Herron. I somehow didn’t notice the cover was the Tyne quayside until I started reading, and that set me off remembering visiting it in the early 80s market years. Lots of crumbling wood and brick rooms

Just Like Heaven Virginia Plain Made of Stone Up the Junction Manhattan Skyline

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I've seen a bunch of this online, mostly from people less credible than Stancil. I've been a union organizer for almost 30 years and worked on every election in that time period. (I also voted for Harris and protested the genocide.) Posts like this fail to grasp 3 universal truths about elections.

A couple of spreads earlier… it ME! Spelled my name wrong a 2nd time (because of my bad handwriting probs) and my game was easily the worst in the competition. Fame, fatal fame

Half-term and a happy spicy Tommy mezcalita to you all

Do cats get pins and needles?

Lovely to see the subtitles on #totp w Eminem/Dre “My Name Is” honouring the audio-reversal of censored words. Like SSA and STIT and EPOD

Have a look at some owls

Absolutely matted doofus of a cat just marched in demanding to be dried off

Some dodgy/not quite right constructions in yesterday’s g xword

Google failing me. It seems this track is from ‘68. The novel was 66 and the film adaptation of it sort of came out 1970. Is the song properly inspired by the novel or just a swiped title?

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Here’s the last one in the list to savour in all its crazed “how can we end this” context

Wretched wretched episodes of #totp

Just sub in a different presenter doing the links and we go down the pub early yeah? #totp production meeting

Just finishing "Strange Pictures" by Uketsu. NOT GOOD, not recommended. Cover and premise over promised. I get the feeling the translator was actually doing a good job in the circumstances – a feeling I can't justify. But I'm inferring from the actual mechanics/'mystery' being quite ropey

I missed that this was a) happening and b) somehow is a straight play written by J Finnemore! (And directed by the Op Mincemeat dude)

I don’t actually want UBI for artists. I want either - UBI for everybody Or - Artists to be paid properly for our work and property again. It’s weird to think that *both* these options are now seen as naive, impractical and romantic.

> The preferred way of wrapping long lines is by using Python’s implied line continuation inside parentheses… long lines can be broken over multiple lines by wrapping expressions in parentheses. …used in preference to using a backslash for line continuation. who knew

deleting 12TB from AWS S3, brb…

1980: Smash Hits Volume 39, page 16 Full mag --> https://archive.org/stream/smash-hits-1980-05-29#page/n15

Chappell Roan is leaving her talent agency led by Casey Wasserman after he appeared in the Epstein files.

Don’t think it will make any difference if Sir Keith stays or goes

How do I get rid of these pesky libdems spoiling my view of uk music ppl

1985: smash hits 18 31 december 1985, page 12 Full mag --> https://archive.org/stream/smash-hits-18-31-december-1985#page/n11

McSweeney goes. Will it save Starmer?

New a-ha singles? No. Who are these guys?!