Brian Smith
@brianditb.bsky.social
Anime Podcaster and Convention Event Runner.
Oxford Mail's news stories come in three main flavours
+ Stories that make you never want to drive in Oxfordshire.
+ Stories about people complaining about the council's attempts to discourage driving.
+ Anything that allows them to mention Jeremy Clarkson.
+ Stories that make you never want to drive in Oxfordshire.
+ Stories about people complaining about the council's attempts to discourage driving.
+ Anything that allows them to mention Jeremy Clarkson.
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Oxford Mail's news stories come in three main flavours
+ Stories that make you never want to drive in Oxfordshire.
+ Stories about people complaining about the council's attempts to discourage driving.
+ Anything that allows them to mention Jeremy Clarkson.
+ Stories that make you never want to drive in Oxfordshire.
+ Stories about people complaining about the council's attempts to discourage driving.
+ Anything that allows them to mention Jeremy Clarkson.
Left a long enough gap since playing Octopath Traveller 2 that playing the original doesn't feel like a downgrade now. Unfortunately also a long enough gap that I forgot how mean some the bosses in this series can be.
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Left a long enough gap since playing Octopath Traveller 2 that playing the original doesn't feel like a downgrade now. Unfortunately also a long enough gap that I forgot how mean some the bosses in this series can be.
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Study Finds Exercise May Help Alzheimer’s Patients Look Hot https://theonion.com/study-finds-exercise-may-help-alzheimer-s-patients-look-1850616422/
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Study Finds Exercise May Help Alzheimer’s Patients Look Hot https://theonion.com/study-finds-exercise-may-help-alzheimer-s-patients-look-1850616422/
After spending half a day looking for my glasses only to eventually find them in the very first spot I looked, I'm dangerously tipping towards becoming "guy who buys eccentrically colourful frames" just so they'll show up when sat on top of a black laptop bag.
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
After spending half a day looking for my glasses only to eventually find them in the very first spot I looked, I'm dangerously tipping towards becoming "guy who buys eccentrically colourful frames" just so they'll show up when sat on top of a black laptop bag.
Time to let Takeshi Koike make a Bond film.
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Time to let Takeshi Koike make a Bond film.
If Kitacon wants to put out a special super VIP ticket that lets me pick a new font for them, I'll consider buying it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
If Kitacon wants to put out a special super VIP ticket that lets me pick a new font for them, I'll consider buying it.
Strikeout Pitch continues its highly accurate portrayal of PE teachers.
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Strikeout Pitch continues its highly accurate portrayal of PE teachers.
Experiencing Serial Experiments Lain as it was intended, as a collage of Winamp skins skins.webamp.org?query=lain
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Experiencing Serial Experiments Lain as it was intended, as a collage of Winamp skins skins.webamp.org?query=lain
Bat-Fam is yet another one of these shows made by people nostalgic for the Sonnenfeld Addams Family films.
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Bat-Fam is yet another one of these shows made by people nostalgic for the Sonnenfeld Addams Family films.
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oh man I can't wait to see Bison vs Kids in the Hall
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
oh man I can't wait to see Bison vs Kids in the Hall
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
There’s extremophile life in the caustic volcanic goo
Violets are blue
There’s extremophile life in the caustic volcanic goo
Scientists Discover Mysterious Signs of Life in Bizarre Blue Volcanic Goo
Unexpected biosignatures found in a startlingly blue volcanic goo beneath the Pacific Ocean may offer clues to life's origins.
www.sciencealert.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Roses are red
Violets are blue
There’s extremophile life in the caustic volcanic goo
Violets are blue
There’s extremophile life in the caustic volcanic goo
Wish I'd remembered what variety of apple I was sent by accident in a grocery delivery, as it was much nicer than than this Pink Lady apple I'm currently eating.
This is just giving me flashbacks to working at Redbridge in 1999. Half expecting to wake up at 5AM and sleepily drive to Hinckley.
This is just giving me flashbacks to working at Redbridge in 1999. Half expecting to wake up at 5AM and sleepily drive to Hinckley.
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Wish I'd remembered what variety of apple I was sent by accident in a grocery delivery, as it was much nicer than than this Pink Lady apple I'm currently eating.
This is just giving me flashbacks to working at Redbridge in 1999. Half expecting to wake up at 5AM and sleepily drive to Hinckley.
This is just giving me flashbacks to working at Redbridge in 1999. Half expecting to wake up at 5AM and sleepily drive to Hinckley.
After eating something that upset my stomach yesterday, I decided the best course of action today was to eat the same thing but in a different flavour...
November 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
After eating something that upset my stomach yesterday, I decided the best course of action today was to eat the same thing but in a different flavour...
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This how I find out I have a son??
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This how I find out I have a son??
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Worlds of Wonder boss: hey, you come up with that tv show tie-in for Teddy Ruxpin yet?
DIC animator: sure did, real 65-episode quest saga with in-depth fantasy ecology, themes of the sins of the fathers, multiple evil organisations and entirely serialised storytelling, just like you asked
DIC animator: sure did, real 65-episode quest saga with in-depth fantasy ecology, themes of the sins of the fathers, multiple evil organisations and entirely serialised storytelling, just like you asked
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Worlds of Wonder boss: hey, you come up with that tv show tie-in for Teddy Ruxpin yet?
DIC animator: sure did, real 65-episode quest saga with in-depth fantasy ecology, themes of the sins of the fathers, multiple evil organisations and entirely serialised storytelling, just like you asked
DIC animator: sure did, real 65-episode quest saga with in-depth fantasy ecology, themes of the sins of the fathers, multiple evil organisations and entirely serialised storytelling, just like you asked
All my favourite anime, and such reasonable prices!
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
All my favourite anime, and such reasonable prices!
Spinal Tap sequel scraped a 3 based on some Michael McKean wordplay at the end of the movie that greatly improved the impression it left on me. #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday
November 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Spinal Tap sequel scraped a 3 based on some Michael McKean wordplay at the end of the movie that greatly improved the impression it left on me. #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday
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Can't be a Humble Bundle comic bundle without some sort of fuck up.
The Image in the 90s one currently has the old 4 issue collections from Comixology of Mage for Vol 1 and 2, rather than the current Image volumes. And even that vol 2 is missing most its pages.
The Image in the 90s one currently has the old 4 issue collections from Comixology of Mage for Vol 1 and 2, rather than the current Image volumes. And even that vol 2 is missing most its pages.
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Can't be a Humble Bundle comic bundle without some sort of fuck up.
The Image in the 90s one currently has the old 4 issue collections from Comixology of Mage for Vol 1 and 2, rather than the current Image volumes. And even that vol 2 is missing most its pages.
The Image in the 90s one currently has the old 4 issue collections from Comixology of Mage for Vol 1 and 2, rather than the current Image volumes. And even that vol 2 is missing most its pages.
Due to my previous life at Videolog, my sweet spot on Daily Burgle are movies whose DVDs came out 2003-2006 and I have NEVER actually watched.
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Due to my previous life at Videolog, my sweet spot on Daily Burgle are movies whose DVDs came out 2003-2006 and I have NEVER actually watched.
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POP CRAZED PATREON PEOPLE, COME AND SUCKLE AT OUR BONUSY TEATS: Hit The Fucking Play Button is BACK, and we're tucking into the Crop Of The Flops segment on The Two Ronnies from Jan '82. TUCK IN, POP-CRAZED YOUNGSTERS!
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November 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
POP CRAZED PATREON PEOPLE, COME AND SUCKLE AT OUR BONUSY TEATS: Hit The Fucking Play Button is BACK, and we're tucking into the Crop Of The Flops segment on The Two Ronnies from Jan '82. TUCK IN, POP-CRAZED YOUNGSTERS!
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Liquid metal slime flees.
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Liquid metal slime flees.
Watching the latest batch of Conan on NF and I had forgotten how demented "The Conan Edogawa Abduction Case" is.
Nothing with Ai Haibara in it this time round, so it's not fully formed Conan yet.
Nothing with Ai Haibara in it this time round, so it's not fully formed Conan yet.
November 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Watching the latest batch of Conan on NF and I had forgotten how demented "The Conan Edogawa Abduction Case" is.
Nothing with Ai Haibara in it this time round, so it's not fully formed Conan yet.
Nothing with Ai Haibara in it this time round, so it's not fully formed Conan yet.
Filing a missed bin collection report, and complain about the contractor collecting on different days to the ones listed on the site, only to discover my report is not going to the council, but the contractor...
November 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Filing a missed bin collection report, and complain about the contractor collecting on different days to the ones listed on the site, only to discover my report is not going to the council, but the contractor...