Another mayfly of British humour comics is pinned and mounted to the wall. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/07/buzz...

Fuck it, I’ll listen to as much Tatsuro Yamashita as I can today.

Someone really needs to invent some sort of mass-market cryogenic sleep pod machine so we can hibernate the three months of summer. If summers keep on being so unenjoyably hot.

Every bloody indie takeaway, cafe, small business (etc) locally seems to use these bloody things now. They don’t get my custom if they do.

These ‘strongman’ far-right politicians really are just self-pitying whiny bitches at heart, aren’t they?

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Your regular reminder that cryptocurrency does in fact have a use case and that use case is crime

Show me a cool physical game

Show me a cool physical game

Me with my Bluesky mutuals

Imagine a world without AI…

Gather round children, and let me tell you a tale of a time when this was a whole game that required no patches, loaded instantly, worked when the internet was off and couldn't be stolen away from you by a company, whenever they felt like it.

Nice to be outside at lunchtime earlier and not simultaneously burn and sweat to death. Haven’t experienced that in a while.

Oh FFS, it’s still Heatwave Lite(tm) weather outside. I wouldn’t mind some ‘normal’ summer weather, or at least could pretend to tolerate it for a bit. This is just unliveable in.

You can tell it’s still a heatwave because the Boomer pensioners are closing any open windows on a bus... Great…

Hydration break!

Still working on stuff. My fingers are so sweaty, that I feel I can only risk typing in relatively short bursts, as I don’t want to short out my Mac’s keyboard. Honestly, I think the weather situation was marginally less bad yesterday. At least where I am.

Spent £8 on a taxi journey to avoid taking a ~10 minute bus ride in this furnace weather. Because, well, yeah.

If the weather isn’t bad enough, the Boomer takes about younger people not understanding the concept of summer make the whole ordeal much shittier.

Thinking about Star Trek VI, when Kirk and Bones get exiled to a lethally cold, desolate, frozen wasteland of a prison planet. Lucky bastards.

FFS, sunblock’s sliding off my face mere seconds after application, and it’s not even 8am yet.

A history of a comic strip published by D. C. Thomson, about a pair of postman-hunting hounds. But perhaps not the one you were expecting. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/06/hot-...

The Bournemouth BIC International Centre where it's the law you have to dance up the steps and escalator while singing Bodyrock.

This evening, I am inside the Bournemouth BIC International Centre!

If you want to position yourself as a "digital detox" brand, maybe don’t use genAI and corporate social media quite so excessively in your marketing. It might come across as a bit phoney (pun intended).

“Australia Plus” sounds like it should be streaming service showing old episodes of Prisoner Cell Block H and The Young Doctors. And not, say, a set of draconian surveillance laws on internet access that will be a massive pain in the arse for law-abiding adults.

My girlfriend’s just told me an anecdote about how her home village only had one house with a telephone (in the landline sense, obv), and the owner of the house had to be persuaded to allow access to the telephone. Which was the case up until the mid 1990s. Err, blimey.

Managed to escape with just my planned purchase of plectrums and a lead, without accidentally buying another guitar. Success!

Looking up some old photos of the Hampshire Centre that used to exist in Bomo. It looks far worse than I remembered. Either the online photos available are all from the doldrums not long before it was demolished, or, yeah. It was crap.

The Doctor, along with two of his companions, now lives in a mystery-filled Gothic castle in Transylvania. In between attacks from his mortal enemies he uses the Tardis, in the castle basement and connected to the walls to take the entire castle to exciting times and places. And he's a vampire duck.

GAME IDEA: A Paperboy sequel called EvriBoy, where you sneak up to peoples' houses, leave their parcel on the doorstep then pedal away frantically to leave someone else's parcel in a bin on bin day.

I reviewed the computer game (arcade) of the 1987 mess of a He Man movie. Which was a mess of a game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=77CW...

Apple’s new child safety features are what I’ve been waiting for – but here’s what you should be worried about www.stuff.tv/features/app...

🎉 To celebrate 60 issues of The TFUK Guide, I am giving away this brand new Transformers Missing Link Cordon! 🎉 To enter: - Follow this account - Share this post The winner will be randomly picked on 21 June 2026. Open worldwide. Good luck!

It's Day 1. You have a new console. What's Game 1? Well, take a look: youtu.be/MPmJwK1gUSg

Make a Doctor Who title less scary.

Who had Bournemouth pegged for the Fourth Reich? Lebensraum for dogs apparently. (H/t @garydalkin.bsky.social )

Best photo I could take of the Big Bomo Beachfront Wheel without someone walking in front of it…

I really hope in my lifetime we can go back to making racism something to be ashamed of again, rather than something that’ll get you a regular slot on rolling news.

So, the guy my gf’s place of work who was caught drinking flavoured vodka from a sports flask a few weeks ago… Got made employee of the month for May. Amazing.

NEW VIDEO: It's Ramparts, a game I stumbled across when looking for a CPC version of Rampart. Came out the same month as Rampage which it rips off. I wonder if US Gold thought they'd get the licence and Activision got it instead. youtu.be/HiYn1GZOvVQ

I hope that being in Bournemouth will make it slightly more bearable today, due to the inherent coastalness and everything. (Actually, the humidity here is going to be a killer, isn’t it?)

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I mean, if I still had a working Mega Drive, I can think of about thirty platform games for the thing which I’d rather play than Zool. And I say that as someone who doesn’t generally enjoy Sonic the Hedgehog games (sorry, Sonic fans).

Imagine explaining to the under-35s that the internet was once mostly hobbyist and filled with homemade personal websites. Rather than websites run by sinister global megacorps as far as the eye can see.

Worth noting this terminally online weirdo got elected by 20 votes in a ward that had a 23% turnout so your vote kind does matter if you care to use it.