Ewan Spence
@ewanspence.co.uk
Scottish storyteller in online, media and tech; podcasting, smartphones, music, retro gaming, Scotland's baseball scorer, (he/him), #freelance #cats #podcaster #smartphones #forbes #music #EliteDangerous ewanspence.co.uk/blog
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Ewan Spence
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Blog: ewanspence.co.uk/blog
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About Me: ewanspence.co.uk/blog/about-ewan-spence/
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About Me: ewanspence.co.uk/blog/about-ewan-spence/
Still amazes me they can get so much TV out of a single card game .. and you stretch it out over *how many hours*? #traitors vs a #werewolf next, please. www.looneylabs.com/games/werewolf
January 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Still amazes me they can get so much TV out of a single card game .. and you stretch it out over *how many hours*? #traitors vs a #werewolf next, please. www.looneylabs.com/games/werewolf
What are your Emotional Support Movie Scores?
The Black Hole (John Barry 1979), Rango (Hans Zimmer 2011), Big War Theme (Geoff Love and his Orchestra 1971), and Songs of Distant Earth (Mike Oldfield 1994)... It's a score for a book; that's like a movie, but more, so it definitely counts.
The Black Hole (John Barry 1979), Rango (Hans Zimmer 2011), Big War Theme (Geoff Love and his Orchestra 1971), and Songs of Distant Earth (Mike Oldfield 1994)... It's a score for a book; that's like a movie, but more, so it definitely counts.
January 1, 2026 at 2:25 PM
What are your Emotional Support Movie Scores?
The Black Hole (John Barry 1979), Rango (Hans Zimmer 2011), Big War Theme (Geoff Love and his Orchestra 1971), and Songs of Distant Earth (Mike Oldfield 1994)... It's a score for a book; that's like a movie, but more, so it definitely counts.
The Black Hole (John Barry 1979), Rango (Hans Zimmer 2011), Big War Theme (Geoff Love and his Orchestra 1971), and Songs of Distant Earth (Mike Oldfield 1994)... It's a score for a book; that's like a movie, but more, so it definitely counts.
Quote with a gif that depicts the energy you're going into 2026 with.
January 1, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Quote with a gif that depicts the energy you're going into 2026 with.
It's time for your Hogmanay reminder that the real Scottish action for The Bells is over on BBC Alba with Cèilidh na Bliadhn' Ùire, and it's geo-unlocked for a worldwide audience! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live...
December 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
It's time for your Hogmanay reminder that the real Scottish action for The Bells is over on BBC Alba with Cèilidh na Bliadhn' Ùire, and it's geo-unlocked for a worldwide audience! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live...
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The new year starts off on a high note for me. I'll be the announcer for the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor of the City of New York.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The new year starts off on a high note for me. I'll be the announcer for the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor of the City of New York.
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New #KeepWatchingPodcast is here with your festive #Gladiators takes! Featuring a furry STD public health announcement, Viper's bedtime story and an exclusive report from Gladiators Live <3
KWP Xmas Gladiators: Leaning Into The Shtick
AJ is joined by Asha, Mark and Martin to pick apart the festive celeb version of our favourite lycra-clad athletics-based show!
Featuring:
Viper’s Bedtime Story
A furry STD public information announ
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December 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
New #KeepWatchingPodcast is here with your festive #Gladiators takes! Featuring a furry STD public health announcement, Viper's bedtime story and an exclusive report from Gladiators Live <3
It's Hogmanay here in Scotland, and that means another year without Scotch and Wry or Rikki Fulton. A retrospective is in order, so here's a look back at The Last Television Show Of The Year, links to the classic sketches, and the power of a sad "hullo..." to make a country laugh.
Rikki Fulton, Mr Hogmanay
“Hullo… I’ve had a helluva year” Every Scot who stayed up for the bells in their youth knew Rikki Fulton. For everyone else, this is Scotland’s Hogmanay legend.
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December 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
It's Hogmanay here in Scotland, and that means another year without Scotch and Wry or Rikki Fulton. A retrospective is in order, so here's a look back at The Last Television Show Of The Year, links to the classic sketches, and the power of a sad "hullo..." to make a country laugh.
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Life Online Flashback to 2003: "MP3 Blogs Shake Up Music Media"
2003: MP3 Blogs and Pitchfork Shake Up Music Media
Online music and blogging were two key trends in the first decade of digital culture. In 2003, they combine in the form of MP3 blogs. Together with Pitchfork, they revolutionize music journalism.
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December 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Life Online Flashback to 2003: "MP3 Blogs Shake Up Music Media"
A quick highlight from my new Baseball Radio podcast project, recreating the games as a "could have been" radio broadcast with me commentating from the sidelines. Baseball fans can come for the games, ASMR fans can listen in for the background fuzz and words in glorious AM/MW sound.
Here's a highlight from one of our recent radio recreations: the Detroit Tigers visit the Boston Red Sox on Sept 17, 1953. No score as we go into the second, and former Rookie of the Year Walt Dropo leads off against Boston pitcher Sid Hudson.
#redsox #tigers #fenway #baseball #radio #history
#redsox #tigers #fenway #baseball #radio #history
Detroit's Walt Dropo looking to start a rally against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway #history #mlb
YouTube video by Classic Baseball Radio
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December 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A quick highlight from my new Baseball Radio podcast project, recreating the games as a "could have been" radio broadcast with me commentating from the sidelines. Baseball fans can come for the games, ASMR fans can listen in for the background fuzz and words in glorious AM/MW sound.
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Yesterday @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social and I saw some techbro giving “30 pieces of advice for people under 30” over on Twitter and it was all grind culture bullshit. As adults of 38 and 43 respectively, we compiled 30 pieces of advice that people under 30 won’t have heard before:
December 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Yesterday @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social and I saw some techbro giving “30 pieces of advice for people under 30” over on Twitter and it was all grind culture bullshit. As adults of 38 and 43 respectively, we compiled 30 pieces of advice that people under 30 won’t have heard before:
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You can’t see the Woodward for Dotrice.
December 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
You can’t see the Woodward for Dotrice.
Today I have mostly been playing Sektori on Steam Deck... I think Sektori is Finnish for Geometry Super Wars Stardust? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1xb...
Sektori - Launch Trailer
YouTube video by ID@Xbox
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December 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Today I have mostly been playing Sektori on Steam Deck... I think Sektori is Finnish for Geometry Super Wars Stardust? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1xb...
Cheers! (settles in with a coffee).
A century years ago production was underway on what is, undoubtedly, one of the most important and influential films ever made.
Built, lost, rebuilt and remixed - this is the story of Metropolis 100 years on, and how it shaped a century of cinema.
By me for @thespoilist.bsky.social.
Built, lost, rebuilt and remixed - this is the story of Metropolis 100 years on, and how it shaped a century of cinema.
By me for @thespoilist.bsky.social.
Building and rebuilding Metropolis - The Spoilist
Metropolis began production in 1925. We look back at a century of changing reception, edits and reassembly.
www.thespoilist.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Cheers! (settles in with a coffee).
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A century years ago production was underway on what is, undoubtedly, one of the most important and influential films ever made.
Built, lost, rebuilt and remixed - this is the story of Metropolis 100 years on, and how it shaped a century of cinema.
By me for @thespoilist.bsky.social.
Built, lost, rebuilt and remixed - this is the story of Metropolis 100 years on, and how it shaped a century of cinema.
By me for @thespoilist.bsky.social.
Building and rebuilding Metropolis - The Spoilist
Metropolis began production in 1925. We look back at a century of changing reception, edits and reassembly.
www.thespoilist.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
A century years ago production was underway on what is, undoubtedly, one of the most important and influential films ever made.
Built, lost, rebuilt and remixed - this is the story of Metropolis 100 years on, and how it shaped a century of cinema.
By me for @thespoilist.bsky.social.
Built, lost, rebuilt and remixed - this is the story of Metropolis 100 years on, and how it shaped a century of cinema.
By me for @thespoilist.bsky.social.
Make a Bond movie casual.
From Renfrew With Love
From Renfrew With Love
Make a Bond movie casual
Lawnraker
Lawnraker
make a bond movie casual
A Man With a Regular Gun
A Man With a Regular Gun
December 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Make a Bond movie casual.
From Renfrew With Love
From Renfrew With Love
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It's Boxing Day. It's Boxing Day. It's B- B- B- B- B- B- B- B- Boxing Day!
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
It's Boxing Day. It's Boxing Day. It's B- B- B- B- B- B- B- B- Boxing Day!
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Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing.
What is it?
Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025
www.gofundme.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
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2025: Web pages vanished. Links broke. Public data disappeared. But the Internet Archive kept the receipts.
From investigative reports to video features, these stories show why preserving the web became one of the year’s defining information battles.
➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/t...
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From investigative reports to video features, these stories show why preserving the web became one of the year’s defining information battles.
➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/t...
🧵
December 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
2025: Web pages vanished. Links broke. Public data disappeared. But the Internet Archive kept the receipts.
From investigative reports to video features, these stories show why preserving the web became one of the year’s defining information battles.
➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/t...
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From investigative reports to video features, these stories show why preserving the web became one of the year’s defining information battles.
➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/t...
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As Christmas draws near, the short run of "We Three Things" comes to an end. A month of the Keep Watching/Keep Dancing team sharing their three favourite things about Christmas has been a blast (and helped my Christmas spirit no end). But all good things end with "A Final Thought."
The final #KeepWatchingPodcast We Three Things is here from @ewanspence.co.uk! Featuring walking around on a rug making fists with your toes, our rule of thumb, and the story on TV and the story on the podcast <3
We Three Things Epilogue: Ewan’s Final Thoughts.
Ewan sits down to think about why we have been sharing our stories, our memories, and our creativity as we prepare for Christmas Day.
Featuring:
Our rule of thumb.
There's only one more pod 'til Chri
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December 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
As Christmas draws near, the short run of "We Three Things" comes to an end. A month of the Keep Watching/Keep Dancing team sharing their three favourite things about Christmas has been a blast (and helped my Christmas spirit no end). But all good things end with "A Final Thought."
For 51 weeks of the year, Eurovision is all about its community. Is that changing? A listen that challenges your thoughts, well done James!
This week on Eurovision Uncovered, James Stephenson analyses ⤵️
💝 How Eurovision's values have evolved
👥 How important those values are to its fanbase
⛓️💥 And what happens when those fans begin to feel disconnected from what the Song Contest stands for
escinsight.com/2025/12/23/e...
💝 How Eurovision's values have evolved
👥 How important those values are to its fanbase
⛓️💥 And what happens when those fans begin to feel disconnected from what the Song Contest stands for
escinsight.com/2025/12/23/e...
Eurovision Insight Presents... Eurovision Uncovered: A Show Shaped by Us
Eurovision Uncovered explores the community connection to the Eurovision Song Contest (EBU / Sarah Louise Bennett)
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December 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
For 51 weeks of the year, Eurovision is all about its community. Is that changing? A listen that challenges your thoughts, well done James!
To my ASMR-loving or baseball-inclined followers, the latest @classicbaseball.bsky.social podcast is a recreation of the Detroit Tigers visiting the Boston Red Sox in 1953; aiming for period-correct audio, 1950s radio advertising, and, of course, calling the game. No spoilers on the final result!
It is Thursday, September 17, 1953 and the Boston Red Sox are in a jam. Three games are left at Fenway, the home record is 36-37. Can Ted Williams help them avoid a losing record as they face the Detroit Tigers? This is our recreated broadcast, as if we were in the radio booth in '53 #redsox #tigers
Can Ted Williams Save The Day? Detroit Tigers at Boston Red Sox, Sept 17 1953 (Full game recreation)
YouTube video by Classic Baseball Radio
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December 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
To my ASMR-loving or baseball-inclined followers, the latest @classicbaseball.bsky.social podcast is a recreation of the Detroit Tigers visiting the Boston Red Sox in 1953; aiming for period-correct audio, 1950s radio advertising, and, of course, calling the game. No spoilers on the final result!
One final pod-spin around the dancefloor from the Keep Dancing team!
The final #KeepDancingPodcast is here! Featuring Amber's LinkedIn profile, Alexis's core muscles and release the numbers, cowards!
Also, a big thank you to everyone who's listened to our ramblings this year, you're brill <3
#Strictly #SCD
Also, a big thank you to everyone who's listened to our ramblings this year, you're brill <3
#Strictly #SCD
KDP S10 E14: Be Cringe Live Free
It’s the Grand Finale, time to review the winners and the people who won without winning. Ellie is joined by a bumper crop of pod friends - AJ, Asha, Ewan, Elliot, Jo and Mark. Do *you* remember Icons
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December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
One final pod-spin around the dancefloor from the Keep Dancing team!
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Looking through the nearly 5,000 questions I wrote in 2025, and I have to admit the round about name the cracker given its hole arrangement will be a tough cracker to crack.
December 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Looking through the nearly 5,000 questions I wrote in 2025, and I have to admit the round about name the cracker given its hole arrangement will be a tough cracker to crack.
Yep
I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
December 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Yep
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10 years ago today. Powerful and poignant. #DavidBowie, genius to the very end.
David Bowie - Lazarus (Official Video) [HD]
YouTube video by David Bowie
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December 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
10 years ago today. Powerful and poignant. #DavidBowie, genius to the very end.