I haven't seen this film in decades. Will give it a watch once this 4K restoration hits streaming. youtu.be/Z7OzKVHzfiI?...

Finally after 20 years of being into photography I'm culling years and years of RAW files. I just don't need them. I've a handy terminal script to delete RAW files when a JPG exists, and then I'll convert the remaining ones. I do have backups. But my working disk will be a lot lighter.

Alien. First time it was on British TV, in 1982. I was nine. I've had dreams of Xenomorphs ever since.

In short: as I keep saying - the Judge is the friend of the protester and of free speech. The image would only make sense if a Judge was standing between a copper and a protester the copper was trying to beat (or between Starmer and a protester). Banksy has always been a div but that's a new low.

To all the dickheads who applauded Banksy's misguided "artwork" where a Judge beats a protester (and I pointed out it's the GOVT not the JUDGES to blame for the Palestine Action ban): See here: Senior Judges in that very building ruled against the government. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Why are we even allowing football teams from nations that commit genocide in the competition in the first place?

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

EHRC anti-trans campaign loses its momentum - a week of absolute scenes has left the organisation in limbo. Here's what happened, why it happened, and what it all means iandunt.substack.com/p/frightened...

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

I've just finished le Carré's The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. Damn it's good writing. And makes me want to read more espionage novels. Yet I feel it might be to spy novels what Patrick O'Brian is to Naval History - in that I've started at the top and no other authors are this good.

All these new laptops with AI cores are going seem really stupid once the AI bubble bursts.

Upgrading my M1 Macbook to the new M5 version is sort of tempting, merely simple techlust. But bloody hell Apple, still only two USB?

All the fuss about whether it's an Xbox or not (it isn't) aside the ROG Ally X actually looks like a rather nice bit of kit. They could do worse than shove the internals into a nice little box as a mini-console/PC.

Given my entire feed has turned into ROG Xbox Ally X reviews I guess the NDA has just timed out.

INCREDIBLE clip. <Richard Holden MP shouts like an angry man in a pub> Lisa Nandy: "Can you calm down a bit, mate? You're shouting like an angry man in a pub." Richard Holden: "That's not fair." <continues to shout like an angry man in a pub>

Charlie Bigham has got a bloody nerve hasn't he? Anyway, we used to really like his Chilli. But then he changed the recipe and it was not as nice and we stopped buying it. And anyway bit of a ripoff for a small chilli in a silly wooden canoe.

My kids are getting official Xbox emails to old addresses I set up when they were little, despite them having newer Gmail accounts now (and getting the Xbox emails there too). And we can't see anywhere on their accounts where these old email addresses exist. It's very odd.

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

It took me too many years to learn this, not just with books, but TV, videogames, and movies.

Our nearby village was totally banjoed by telecoms today. Not only was there the Vodafone outage, a car crashed into a telegraph pole and burst into flames, knocking out a main telephone line.

Quick Tip: Don’t want people getting pinged when you post or reply? You can turn that off by heading to: Settings → Privacy and Security → Allow others to be notified of your posts and toggling it off.

Local Newspaper website has a story about the internet being down locally (thankfully not here) and is clearly confusing internet, mobile, broadband, and wifi.

It's so cold in our house today while I'm working from home that I'm going to have to wear something other than the fat middle-aged bloke uniform of long shorts and t-shirt.

RFK Jr descibed a pregnant woman as having ‘a baby in her placenta’, so it’s a good job he’s not in charge of America’s healthcare or anything www.thepoke.com/2025/10/10/r...

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Agree. We are human beings, not human doings.

One of the main benefits of vinyl - on the whole - is the album ends, and there's no sudden lurch into a bunch of bonus tracks. The album running order and track list is set in stone, or at least plastic.

Am I the only one that hates bonus tracks being lumped in with the rest of an album on streaming services? A good well-sequenced album has a natural end, and then "hey here's four tracks that weren't good enough, and some rough live stuff to spoil the vibe."

It seemed terribly modern at the time that I met both my wives online. Now it seems ancient history. That was back in the days of dating websites, and long emails back and forth. I'm so glad I haven't dated in the app era. Not sure I could cope.

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment. An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action. A disinformation machine as our journalism fails. A bias machine as fascism takes root. A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Oh look it's my gaming setup from the very early 1990s. An Atari 520STFM. I loved that thing. I mostly played Microprose military games, Falcon, Elite, and Midwinter.

It's that time of year when garden birds start practising their morse code skills in the roof gutter closest to my bedroom window.

Well I guess they are both made from pig.

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Oh look it's my gaming setup from the very early 1990s. An Atari 520STFM. I loved that thing. I mostly played Microprose military games, Falcon, Elite, and Midwinter.

One of my most hated TV tropes is reality TV shows where you watch stuff happen, but then there are insert interviews with the people just telling you again what you just watched them do. Yeah my wife is watching Celebrity Traitors.

Oh well. Never mind.

I used to be young, me circa 1994. Interesting guitar though. An Epiphone superstrat? They don't make those anymore, just Les Paul and SG models and similar. This is a 435i, a 1989 HSS superstrat with a locking trem. It even says Gibson on the truss rod cover. #guitars #superstrat #gibson

Apparently I've been unable to tell that my wife is bored of me keeping on talking about neurodiversity. I don't think this is at all significant.

I've heard some archeologists suggest we don't know Indy is bad at archeology because we've never actually seen him attempt to do any.

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

An afternoon well spent. #Lego

My favourite daughter is on her way home for a weekend visit for the first time she started uni a month ago. I'm likely to hug her so tight she might pop. I've missed her a lot.

Nightwish covered Pink Floyd's High Hopes. It's Marko on vocals rather than Tarja. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-83b...

As many followers will be bored of me saying, The Gathering is my favourite band. They did a nice version of Talk Talk's Life's What You Make It. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC5c...

Within Tempation covering Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE1z...

I love Paradise Lost. One of my favourite bands. But the cover of How Soon Is Now is a bit mid.

I've not heard this cover before. Moonspell doing Love Will Tear Us Apart. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bD...

Cradle of Filth covering Heaven 17's Temptation. Probably their oddest track until we finally get the Ed Sheeran colab they have recorded. youtu.be/MfMa2lrFxhY...

Youngest son a bit miffed about queuing to play Battlefield 6 on Xbox.