This is appalling and totally unsurprising. All populists attack the press and rely on their own personal media to spread their propaganda. It should be resisted at every turn.

The difference is, the UK’s king only has a ceremonial role in its democracy. Whereas the US now only has a ceremonial democracy.

Holy-Chuck-Knuckles! I've finally managed to get round to trying @snuggsy187.bsky.social AMAZING Chuckulus and I've such a big grin on my face - astounding achivement, really fun to play, great Chuckie Egg feel and looks amazing, bravo! (and my ElkULA replacement is happy with it too, phew!)

Yeah this article www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... seems to get at what I think is a major issue in UK at the mo "those on top have discovered an even easier formula for building wealth: buy up the basic tenets of our lives, heap them with debt, and push the consequences on to the little people."

from 2019

Do you like retro games ? And do you like lists ? And do you like 80s music ? Then you might like this itv chart show type rip off but games with a hint of music …..thanks youtube.com/watch?v=Koa8...

"Iran, which is completely defeated, is disrupting the Strait with the navy and missiles we've completely destroyed and that is unacceptable because it is making the oil price go up, which is good actually, and NATO which I do not support needs to come rescue us immediately. Thank you for your a..."

CHUCKULUS - for the Acorn Electron Version 1.0 now available ! 🥳 github.com/Snuggsy187/C... Download and play on an Emulator or real hardware ! ....or play online in Electroniq - an emulator by @0xc0de.bsky.social

This phenomenal bit of 8-bit music is wasted on an Amstrad game from 1987 that no one remembers. youtu.be/Y8CMScjD82o?...

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

Spotted these in an Italian deli out and about and had to pick them up after @adriansdigitalbasement.com featured them in a turbo mail call and they looked so good!

When I worked in hotels, calling our local phone number - get this - made the phone ring at the front desk and it was MY JOB to answer that phone and help people. I want us to return to that world. It was more fun when we just helped each other and didn't try to avoid each other.

It takes a village. Lee is also there.

A rare early rehearsal shot from Star Wars of Chewbacca and Han Solo before they settled on the final costumes we all love today

If you’ve enjoyed my videos over the last few years I’d love to see you at my live shows. My tour starts in a month and sales have been slower than last year - probably partly because I’m not on X anymore. But it’s a fun show and I’d love more people to see it! www.livenation.co.uk/matt-green-t...

View from my studio. I know because of all the immigrants coming here and erasing our culture it's hard to tell - but this is actually in England.

i reverse-engineered the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5! check it out at github.com/schlae/cm5-r...

In case you're wondering why racists are scrawling the George cross everywhere instead of the Union Jack, it's because it's much easier to draw and they're all very thick

Oops. Forgot to mention the *minimum* age. You ALSO have to be OLD enough to be a university student. So no children or babies please.

Currently on Caledonian Sleeper train to Aberdeen, love it... Night night 😴

Had a fantastic time at The Woodcraft Folk #camp100 celebrations, many thanks to the organisers for all their hard work. It had a great festival feel. Loved meeting people of all ages and I even remembered some names too!

It's done! I have just released the Compendium version of #Elite for the #Acorn #Electron. This massively enhanced version of the original game contains pretty much every feature of #BBCMicro Elite, but on the Electron. Just add 16K of sideways RAM. Links in thread. #retrocomputing #retrogaming

Oof feeling gloomy today. Really feel post WWII folks tried to setup things to stop that kind of thing happening again and it's just been slowly demolished in the decades since as just wasteful red-tape and all that, so here we are again...

This Man Is Buying Commodore.

The Museum of Computing would like to thank @shortcircuit.org.uk for organising the amazing RetroFest event in our home town of Swindon. It was a pleasure to collaborate with them and we met so many wonderful visitors and exhibitors. We look forward to supporting next year's event!

I went down a rabbit hole. Looking at Google's search results, the individual film review of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning that it's given the most prominence to isn't from a big outlet. It's from someone who appears to have written two movie reviews in their life. #filmsky #ai

Most of my posts here are about DOS. But about a decade ago I wrote a trio of games for the Sinclair #zxspectrum 16k. You can find the collection on Itch: itch.io/c/1083708/th...

Remastering Star Wars: A New Hope, but the only change is adding a HP Sauce bottle to all the tables.

If you are going to report how "reciprocal" these tariffs are or how they quantify trade barriers and economic injustices... ... please keep in mind they're not, becuase that would have required work. Instead just did: COUNTRY'S US SURPLUS --------------------------- = Rate% ITS EXPORTS TO US

FB reminds me of a 13 year old letter to the Daily Mail which rendered all subsequent letters to the Daily Mail redundant. This was the pinnacle.

Finally! A versioning system I understand without getting tied up in knots about which digit I should bump in my stupid projects!

Made my own little trace finding, continuity testing brush probe out of some old multi core electrical cable. Just soldered the ends together and attached to a banana jack lead, works quite well, happy with that.

Somewhere in China a terrified nerd is trying to explain to a panel of interrogators that the huge USD transfers he's received are just fees for helping the world's richest man, who has the direct ear of the US President-elect, fake being really good at the early-access version of niche video game.

Last chance to get Moustachios Midnight Moonshine, an amazing ZX Speccy compilation for a good cause! ko-fi.com/s/1bbc65e2e2 I've just snapped up my copy after family members failing to take the hints for Xmas!

Chuckulus > Christmasulus Just wanted to say Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year ! Looking forward to more retro shenanigans in 2025 ! 🥰 .....Still haven't fixed that sound ! 🙄

youtu.be/mZ9GT_OwsR4 Look how lovely and blue that sky is! It must be CHRISTMAS!

This just looks incredible, I am just in love with it, and on an Elk too!

WIP ! Slow progress due to pre-xmas chaos, but getting some extra features in like bouncing off walls, jumping off / grabbing ladders ! A few alignment issues to sort out, but it's getting there ! 🤯 The sound has gone a bit weird - must fix that ! 🙄

If you're going to be alone or too not alone any time over this period, we're running Sub5000TV again on the 25th, and forever on demand. A feel good youtube gaming/retro TV channel that never mentions any specific holiday. To give you an idea, here's last year's. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Ah cool, maybe in recognition of @adriansdigitalbasement.com highlighting his copyright issues with the #retrocomputing crowd has put out a nice ZX Spectrum +2 repair video, cool www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocpD...

Had a quick peek myself... [shudder]

Acorn Electron 'Chuckulus' WIP That darn DUCK got out again ! Thought I'd stress test level 17, where you get DUCK and geese/hens ! It's ok - which I'm quite surprised about ! Half-way through re-doing the geese logic - it was getting way too complicated !

The #Multisystem2 prototype boards are now assembled with components. A few quick snaps to show how nice they look. Note the Full sized SD card slot because no one really likes using microSD. Starting the testing stage next to see what works? Stay tuned for more new product development updates.

Just recently discovered (or re-discovered) Camera Obscura's Lloyd I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken and I just seem to be unable to get over it, I think it's a just about the most perfectly written tunes...

Just found out about Youtube closing the RZX Archive channel; thousands of ZX Spectrum game walkthrough videos gone. From what I've read, the archive owner sadly passed away a while ago & either his family closed the account, or YT closed it due to inactivity. Either way, it's a genuine shame.

First main channel episode in a while... Amiga Meanwell power supply conversion! I did a few of these in the charity event but didnt document the process. So this is putting that right!