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Witchy

@f0p.uk

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Geordie exiled to the Flatlands. Old b3ta photoshopper of yore. Chief 8-bit wrangler at binarydinosaurs.co.uk.

Please don’t be offended if I don’t follow back when your profile is empty or your timeline is overtly political.

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Isabel Zaw-Tun

@izzyzaw.bsky.social

I keep explaining the difference between venom & poison to my boyfriend and he just isn't GETTING it. Venom is a type of poison delivered via a bite or sting, the difference has nothing to do with what it DOES to your body. He keeps yelling "take me to the hospital" god men just don't want to learn

November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM

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Tautology

@tautology.uk

My usual experiment to find out how bad LLMs are at technical instructions (wiring a UK plug) as applied to grok. It's just as bad as any other LLM out there:

November 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM

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mintimperial

@mintimperial.com

Right! Two new liquid instrumental drum and bass tracks by me out now, links to all the streamers and stores as they update here: tr.ee/UywQ8lC4j-

Cover art for Parallel Sevens by mintimperial, a skyline silhouetted against a pink and purple sunset sky

November 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM

Witchy

@f0p.uk

Faked my way through Glastonbury
By acting all asexually
And then in the acoustic tent
She stood there as if heaven sent
Well if that’s not Enya
That’s not Enya
That’s not Enya
That’s not Enya

Iiiiiii’m a sensitive outsider

Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 4d

🎵 If you eat me now, you'll transubstantiate a part of me 🎵

November 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM

Witchy

@f0p.uk

@marina-purkiss.bsky.social @jemmaforte.bsky.social two train rides and long walks to/from Cambridge today with The Trawl in my ears and laughing like an idiot (to anyone watching) despite all the shite news. Absolutely splendid as ever 😁

November 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM

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Stephen Collins

@stephencollins.bsky.social

Every ad now

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]

JANET:
Ugh...

LIZ:
What's up?

JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!

LIZ:
Have you tried...

AI peas?

JANET:
AI peas?

LIZ:
They're peas with AI!

[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].

LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas

JANET:
What

LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]

Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?

[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]

LIZ:

Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine

[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]

LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!

JANET:
What

LIZ:
Shut up

LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow

From opening the bag of peas

to boiling the peas

to eating the peas

To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.

JANET:
Is it really necessary to-

LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET

[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:

AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.

[Ends]

November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM

Witchy

@f0p.uk

Happy ‘exploding whale’ day to all who celebrate.

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15d

It’s 12 November, so it’s time to mark the 55th anniversary of the exploding whale of Oregon, an attempt to clear a cetacean carcass from a beach which prompted one reporter to say “The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds”

Still from news coverage of the exploding whale, showing an enormous explosion on a beach

November 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM

Witchy

@f0p.uk

I must watch this later while I’m slipping a petri dish under a squirrel.

Andy @alreadytaken74.bsky.social · 17d

Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...

Vic Reeves Big Night Out - 30 April 1989

YouTube video by Peter Brooke Turner

www.youtube.com

November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM

Witchy

@f0p.uk

I have a hand held cooling device made from the small skeletal parts of hands and feet. I’ll show pictures of it and others like it on my new website - bonyfans.com

November 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM

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Moose Allain

@mooseallain.bsky.social

I have cartoonified an old tweet of mine.

Cartoon of a gondola being steered by a gondolier who is looking backwards and saying "Oops". A couple are in the boat and looking shocked. Caption: Sorry to hear your undle was run over by a boat in Venice. My gondolences".

November 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM

Witchy

@f0p.uk

Some days I just instamatically add old brand names to skeets.

November 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM

Witchy

@f0p.uk

I wonder if Quakers would enjoy a game of Quake.

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 28d

Anyone who has ever wondered why people in the Society of Friends are known as Quakers can finally put their mind at rest. It’s 375 years to the day since the founder of the Society was up in court for interrupting a sermon... www.shipoffools.com/time-travel-...

George Fox, the founder of the Quakers, interrupted a sermon in Derby today in 1650, and was imprisoned for a year for the new crime of blasphemy, which had been introduced two years earlier. The sermon was being delivered by a Colonel in Cromwell’s army, and when Fox was arrested and put before the local magistrates, he told them that they should ‘tremble at the word of the Lord’. Justice Bennet replied that with all his trembling, Fox was a quaker, and the name stuck. Fox was against the whole apparatus of the established Church, with its sacraments, tithes, buildings, and even bell-ringing, saying it was all pointless, as God is everywhere.

October 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM

Witchy

@f0p.uk

This must’ve taken DAYS to do. Awesome.

ScottBatemanArt @scottbatemanart.bsky.social · Oct 28

"RetroSpectrum - Reloaded"

Digital collage made in Photoshop based on the glorious games of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 😍

#zxspectrum #retrogaming #pixelart #8bitart

October 29, 2025 at 7:31 AM

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Frovo

@frovo.bsky.social

ME: time to sleep

BRAIN: if ghosts can say boo that means they have lips

October 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM

Witchy

@f0p.uk

New Strictly host you say?

Screenshot of the time Bounce the dog featured on the BBC news for reasons. Bounce is a Labrador.

October 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM

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cow tools daily

@cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social

the plan lacked something in sophistication, you say?

Edited far side cartoon. A cow wearing a jeweled crown and necklaces stands behind a table with an angle grinder and 3 other crude lumpy tools. In the background is a corner of The Louvre with a vehicle-mounted ladder extended up to a second floor balcony. Caption reads, "Louvre tools."

October 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM

Witchy

@f0p.uk

*snort* 😆

Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · Oct 22

Oh no, someone’s torn the cover off my dictionary. And they’ve ripped all the pages out of either end.. It just goes from bad to worse!

October 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM

Witchy

@f0p.uk

@goonpod.bsky.social hey Tyler, I’m listening to ‘…London’s Monuments’ and Roger says he’s sure that ‘you get a receipt’ line was used again. It was, but in There’s A Lot Of It About in the Come In Chummy sketch. ‘What do they get?’ ‘They get a receipt’.

October 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM