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If you see this, post a record cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
If you see this, post a record cover with a motor vehicle on it.
The Comcast board are going to be upset when they find out The Adventurer didn’t get a second series.
Comcast holds talks about acquiring ITV’s television business on.ft.com/4oUhmNs
Comcast holds talks about acquiring ITV’s television business
US media giant sees potential to create a leading streaming service in the UK
on.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The Comcast board are going to be upset when they find out The Adventurer didn’t get a second series.
If you’re looking for something to watch this Halloween, you could do worse than the psychological sci-fi horror Beyond The Black Rainbow. Slow, brooding, psychedelic, beautifully shot, wonderfully scored; it’s the aftermath - when 1960s mind expansion turns bad and becomes far more sinister.
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If you’re looking for something to watch this Halloween, you could do worse than the psychological sci-fi horror Beyond The Black Rainbow. Slow, brooding, psychedelic, beautifully shot, wonderfully scored; it’s the aftermath - when 1960s mind expansion turns bad and becomes far more sinister.
This shouldn’t work with Brian Donlevy as a Quatermass who seems to be on the verge of pulling a machine gun out of a violin case in every scene, but it does.
If you're stuck for a film this Halloween, Hammer's YouTube channel will be live streaming their 4K restoration of Quatermass 2 this evening.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOdy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOdy...
Quatermass 2 Halloween 4K Screening + Nigel Kneale Documentary
YouTube video by Hammer
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This shouldn’t work with Brian Donlevy as a Quatermass who seems to be on the verge of pulling a machine gun out of a violin case in every scene, but it does.
Absolutely this.
Recommendation algorithms turn creativity into a production line; an algorithm doesn’t have quality control or worry about burn-out. It exists only to recommend material to push more advertising.
A recommendation algorithm is middling servant and a terrible master!
Recommendation algorithms turn creativity into a production line; an algorithm doesn’t have quality control or worry about burn-out. It exists only to recommend material to push more advertising.
A recommendation algorithm is middling servant and a terrible master!
If you make any kind of art or "content" just to be popular, you are an egotist and are making your stuff for entirely the wrong reasons.
Do it for love. Craft something, don't just push out tons and tons of low effort crap. Show you care about it.
Do it for love. Craft something, don't just push out tons and tons of low effort crap. Show you care about it.
October 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Absolutely this.
Recommendation algorithms turn creativity into a production line; an algorithm doesn’t have quality control or worry about burn-out. It exists only to recommend material to push more advertising.
A recommendation algorithm is middling servant and a terrible master!
Recommendation algorithms turn creativity into a production line; an algorithm doesn’t have quality control or worry about burn-out. It exists only to recommend material to push more advertising.
A recommendation algorithm is middling servant and a terrible master!
Bet the 2026 Xmas special will start with Billie Piper walking up and walking into the console room. We’ll see Tennant turn round, towel in hand from just having a shower and say “Morning”, then we’re into the credits, forgetting that anything after the 2005 Christmas special ever happened…
BBC confirms future of Doctor Who and a new Christmas Special in 2026.
www.gallifreyannewsroom.com/bbc-confirms...
#doctorwho #drwho
www.gallifreyannewsroom.com/bbc-confirms...
#doctorwho #drwho
October 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Bet the 2026 Xmas special will start with Billie Piper walking up and walking into the console room. We’ll see Tennant turn round, towel in hand from just having a shower and say “Morning”, then we’re into the credits, forgetting that anything after the 2005 Christmas special ever happened…
They think that’s Michael Elphick? MICHEL ELPHICK?
October 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
They think that’s Michael Elphick? MICHEL ELPHICK?
September 30th / October 1st
September 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
September 30th / October 1st
"James Bond will return in 'In Her Majesty's Secret Tea Set' oh no hold on that's not it 'On His Majesty's Flying Carpet', oh hold on that's not right either. Who writes these titles?"
September 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"James Bond will return in 'In Her Majesty's Secret Tea Set' oh no hold on that's not it 'On His Majesty's Flying Carpet', oh hold on that's not right either. Who writes these titles?"
Vardy’s on fire. Defence? Terrified.
“Did somebody say ‘Just Eat’?”
September 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Vardy’s on fire. Defence? Terrified.
Reposted by Antiques For Geeks
A new episode of World of Telly is available now wherever you get your podcasts. This week we travel back to 1960 as we explore The Strange World of Gurney Slade. The video version of this podcast will be released later this weekend.
September 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A new episode of World of Telly is available now wherever you get your podcasts. This week we travel back to 1960 as we explore The Strange World of Gurney Slade. The video version of this podcast will be released later this weekend.
Any list without The Adventurer on it should not be taken seriously.
Hard to believe it happened! 70 unforgettable (and unforgivable) shows from 70 years of ITV
Hard to believe it happened! 70 unforgettable (and unforgivable) shows from 70 years of ITV
From TV so controversial the Foreign Office tried to ban it … to Emmerdale Farm. As the broadcaster hits 70, we look back on the highlights – and lowlights
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Any list without The Adventurer on it should not be taken seriously.
As an exercise in nostalgia for Gen-X with spare cash? Fair enough & good luck!
After the comments re:New Commodore reintroducing Amiga as a viable mainstream alternative, this demonstrates clearly the uphill battle that a modern Amiga would have gaining critical mass in today’s computing landscape
After the comments re:New Commodore reintroducing Amiga as a viable mainstream alternative, this demonstrates clearly the uphill battle that a modern Amiga would have gaining critical mass in today’s computing landscape
"Amiga Lives!" - Apollo A6000 Promises To Pick Up Where Commodore Left Off
"True greatness doesn't need to be big. It just needs to be bold"
www.timeextension.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
As an exercise in nostalgia for Gen-X with spare cash? Fair enough & good luck!
After the comments re:New Commodore reintroducing Amiga as a viable mainstream alternative, this demonstrates clearly the uphill battle that a modern Amiga would have gaining critical mass in today’s computing landscape
After the comments re:New Commodore reintroducing Amiga as a viable mainstream alternative, this demonstrates clearly the uphill battle that a modern Amiga would have gaining critical mass in today’s computing landscape
I’m looking forwards to mine.
My phone is full of videos of my cat, including our magnum opus: him running up and down the garden like a lunatic after butterflies (spoiler, they fly too high and he never catches them).
Just a matter of time before I get the call, isn’t it?
My phone is full of videos of my cat, including our magnum opus: him running up and down the garden like a lunatic after butterflies (spoiler, they fly too high and he never catches them).
Just a matter of time before I get the call, isn’t it?
"The Academy Museum will mount a first-ever Spielberg career retrospective for 2028."
What a shame that I won't be able to go to the US for a long time. 😔
What a shame that I won't be able to go to the US for a long time. 😔
Steven Spielberg Recalls ‘Jaws’ Drama at Academy Museum Unveiling: “Thought My Career Was Over”
The legendary filmmaker turned up at the press preview of Jaws: The Exhibition, the Academy Museum’s largest installation to date for any single film. It opens to the public on Sunday, Sept. 14.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I’m looking forwards to mine.
My phone is full of videos of my cat, including our magnum opus: him running up and down the garden like a lunatic after butterflies (spoiler, they fly too high and he never catches them).
Just a matter of time before I get the call, isn’t it?
My phone is full of videos of my cat, including our magnum opus: him running up and down the garden like a lunatic after butterflies (spoiler, they fly too high and he never catches them).
Just a matter of time before I get the call, isn’t it?
Running AfG on Gopher for the last week has been quite a surprise. Slowly getting the articles we already have ready migrated over there. Must say I find exploring Gopher space to be quite lovely; the lo-fi-ness of that world is a respite from the web as we have today.
September 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Running AfG on Gopher for the last week has been quite a surprise. Slowly getting the articles we already have ready migrated over there. Must say I find exploring Gopher space to be quite lovely; the lo-fi-ness of that world is a respite from the web as we have today.
Literally lived off these a few years ago when I was working abroad.
No, I will not be taking questions.
No, I will not be taking questions.
August 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Literally lived off these a few years ago when I was working abroad.
No, I will not be taking questions.
No, I will not be taking questions.
No. You spent your holiday building a Gopher server (at last) and converting articles to a readable format so you can put something live before the end of August.
August 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
No. You spent your holiday building a Gopher server (at last) and converting articles to a readable format so you can put something live before the end of August.
Run program: Sentionauts, from Beyond The Black Rainbow.
August 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Run program: Sentionauts, from Beyond The Black Rainbow.
My first laptop, a TI Extensa 600CD, expected me to write 28 floppies on first boot to create reinstall media.
A TI Extensa 600 *CD*. Yes, it had a built in CD drive - a major selling point. Why TI didn’t put a Win 95CD in the box like everyone else, I don’t know.
Yeah I do. Cost. It’s always cost
A TI Extensa 600 *CD*. Yes, it had a built in CD drive - a major selling point. Why TI didn’t put a Win 95CD in the box like everyone else, I don’t know.
Yeah I do. Cost. It’s always cost
Conor ❤️ #Madonna ❤️ ConfessionsOnADancefloor20 ♥️ #COADF #Music ❤️
@conormcl2025.bsky.social
· Aug 18
Imagine getting to disk number 26 and messing up somehow and having to start over. There was a CD-ROM version too of course but floppies were still widely in use 😂🤣 #Windows95
August 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
My first laptop, a TI Extensa 600CD, expected me to write 28 floppies on first boot to create reinstall media.
A TI Extensa 600 *CD*. Yes, it had a built in CD drive - a major selling point. Why TI didn’t put a Win 95CD in the box like everyone else, I don’t know.
Yeah I do. Cost. It’s always cost
A TI Extensa 600 *CD*. Yes, it had a built in CD drive - a major selling point. Why TI didn’t put a Win 95CD in the box like everyone else, I don’t know.
Yeah I do. Cost. It’s always cost
Two movies nobody would believe are by the same director:
August 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Two movies nobody would believe are by the same director:
I was going to do something with Powder as I found a CD of theirs recently. Had forgotten they existed and only twigged today the band’s name was probably an “edgy” 90s drug reference.
Went completely over my head as at the time I assumed it was to do with washing powder. Can’t diminish it further.
Went completely over my head as at the time I assumed it was to do with washing powder. Can’t diminish it further.
Slightly diminish a band:
Five Inch Nails
Five Inch Nails
Slightly diminish a band:
BUMPTANKARD
BUMPTANKARD
August 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I was going to do something with Powder as I found a CD of theirs recently. Had forgotten they existed and only twigged today the band’s name was probably an “edgy” 90s drug reference.
Went completely over my head as at the time I assumed it was to do with washing powder. Can’t diminish it further.
Went completely over my head as at the time I assumed it was to do with washing powder. Can’t diminish it further.
Leatherette.
Brett Anderson and Mat Osman, please forgive me.
Brett Anderson and Mat Osman, please forgive me.
Slightly diminish a band:
Five Inch Nails
Five Inch Nails
Slightly diminish a band:
BUMPTANKARD
BUMPTANKARD
August 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Leatherette.
Brett Anderson and Mat Osman, please forgive me.
Brett Anderson and Mat Osman, please forgive me.
Seeing odd responses to the Commodore news. Thing is, it was a forward looking company. That's why people loved it. You just need to look at Jack Tramiel's history to know why he said he lived in the future.
Definitely love your Amiga, VIC20 or C64; but Commodore itself was never about nostalgia.
Definitely love your Amiga, VIC20 or C64; but Commodore itself was never about nostalgia.
August 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Seeing odd responses to the Commodore news. Thing is, it was a forward looking company. That's why people loved it. You just need to look at Jack Tramiel's history to know why he said he lived in the future.
Definitely love your Amiga, VIC20 or C64; but Commodore itself was never about nostalgia.
Definitely love your Amiga, VIC20 or C64; but Commodore itself was never about nostalgia.
Excellent point!
“Wasn’t it wonderful when we were kids and all you had to worry about was eating crisps and playing your Commodore 64?”
Well no. I had a bedtime. I couldn’t afford games. We didn’t have a VCR or CD.
I love retro, but hate when it becomes a fetishisation of a past that never was.
“Wasn’t it wonderful when we were kids and all you had to worry about was eating crisps and playing your Commodore 64?”
Well no. I had a bedtime. I couldn’t afford games. We didn’t have a VCR or CD.
I love retro, but hate when it becomes a fetishisation of a past that never was.
I think a lot of time, people involved with any type of retro nostalgia forget that it’s ok to accept that it was a bit shit sometimes, and what we have now is better.
The past is a foreign country and you can’t go back.
The past is a foreign country and you can’t go back.
August 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Excellent point!
“Wasn’t it wonderful when we were kids and all you had to worry about was eating crisps and playing your Commodore 64?”
Well no. I had a bedtime. I couldn’t afford games. We didn’t have a VCR or CD.
I love retro, but hate when it becomes a fetishisation of a past that never was.
“Wasn’t it wonderful when we were kids and all you had to worry about was eating crisps and playing your Commodore 64?”
Well no. I had a bedtime. I couldn’t afford games. We didn’t have a VCR or CD.
I love retro, but hate when it becomes a fetishisation of a past that never was.
“I had to go to the cellar to find it”
“That’s the PR dept.”
“With a torch”
“The lights had probably gone”
“So had the stairs”
“But you found the press release?”
“Yes, it was in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard!”
“That’s the PR dept.”
“With a torch”
“The lights had probably gone”
“So had the stairs”
“But you found the press release?”
“Yes, it was in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard!”
Oh, there is a press release. Just not in Commodore’s website? That’s odd.
The new #Commodore's acquisition of Commodore Corporation B.V. is complete, it seems. Got the official press release email yesterday. #WeAreCommodore #AreWeCommodore
August 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“I had to go to the cellar to find it”
“That’s the PR dept.”
“With a torch”
“The lights had probably gone”
“So had the stairs”
“But you found the press release?”
“Yes, it was in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard!”
“That’s the PR dept.”
“With a torch”
“The lights had probably gone”
“So had the stairs”
“But you found the press release?”
“Yes, it was in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard!”