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Eddie Cochrane
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Science Fiction fan, SF con-runner, CAMRA member, gaffer-taping new code onto obsolescent platforms for a living.
Cis (he/him), Human (DBDG)
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Matt Hancock 24/08/2020 Just want you to know directly that we have had lots of feedback that Eat our to help out is causing problems in our jntervention areas. I've kept it out of the news but it's serious. So please please lets not allow the economic success of the scheme lead to its extension 17:33 Matt Hancock Simon Case Have you told Rishi? 19:49 I don't think he can afford to extend it! 19:49 Yes we've told treasury - we've been protecting them in the comms & thankfully it hasn't bubbles up 20:30
November 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
Some of the cast of the film Carry On Screaming. Front row, Kenneth Williams as Dr. Orlando Watt, Fennella Fielding as Valeria Watt, Harry H. Corbett as D.S. Sidney Bung, Back row, Billy Cornelius as Oddbod Jr., Tom Clegg as Oddbod.
October 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Could have replaced all that with a simple roundabout.
The Swindon Magic Roundabout seen from above. 5 mini roundabouts circling a central roundabout. The Swindon Magic Roundabout road sign. 5 mini roundabouts circling a central roundabout.
October 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Looks very good! Came out well ❤
"Caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent" with a blood spray covered scene
October 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Paul Sand, Ron Leibman, Robert Redford, and George Segal in New York City for THE HOT ROCK (Peter Yates, 1972)
October 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Share a cartoon from the past that the kids today probably never heard of.
Cover of the DVD for Monkey Dust. A balding man on a space hopper holds a bloody axe, while lit by the pink searchlight from a helicopter above. He is probably saying "I'm Ivan Dobsky. I used to be The Meat Safe Murderer, but I never done it." The space hopper is called Mr. Hoppy.
October 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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RIP John Woodvine. I was lucky enough to see him on stage with the RSC playing Julius Caesar, and Malvolio in Twelfth Night. Same year as he was in Doctor Who, as the Marshal in The Armageddon Factor, and I'll never forget him as Prior Mordrin in Knights of God.
The imposing John Woodvine as Prior Mordrin, wearing a red and black cloak and holding two crossed short swords.
October 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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AI at it's peak.
In the foreground a rectangular black box with multicolour buttons sits on a table in front of a decanter and wine glasses. In the background a man in a white shirt sits at a desk. The man is Nathan Spring played by David Calder in the British TV show Star Cops.
October 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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The view from this pub's terrace is pretty good.
A view from a pub terrace, with tables, chairs, and a few customers in the foreground, and green fields, trees and hills in the background.
August 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist... Who is it?
Not sure this is going well.
A slightly worried platinum blonde Janet Leigh looks at a clearly untrustworthy Stewart Granger.
August 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Keyboard in each hand?
#TwoFistedTales
Cover of the comic Two Fisted Tales. A two seater World War One aircraft is being attacked from behind by a pair of brightly painted German fighter planes.
July 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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The sources of value for today’s tech titans—especially the Magnificent 7—can be classified into four interwoven categories: (i) genuine productivity gains, as these firms deploy cutting-edge technology to automate, optimize, and scale operations; (ii) rent collection from their platform ecosystems, whereby network effects and user lock-in allow them to extract ongoing economic value from expanding value created by platform participants; (iii) rent collection by “tightening the screws,” or leveraging their dominant market positions to squeeze suppliers, partners, or customers locked into their platforms—often through pricing power, restrictive contracts, or data control; and (iv) the “gonzo meme stock” phenomenon, in which valuations are propelled less by underlying fundamentals and more by narrative, speculation, and the collective enthusiasm (or mania) of retail investors.
July 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Image shows a Twitter post by Spencer Hakimian → @SpencerHakimian Text in post says, Somebody front ran the Brazil tariff news. Somebody bought a HUGE amount of USD and shorted BRL (Brazil's currency) at 1:32 PM. The 50% tariff announcement came at 4:19 PM, at which point, it looks like the big trader exited his trade instantly. Making 2.5% on a currency trade (which are usually 10-20x leveraged) so really 25% to 50% in less than 3hours. The most openly corrupt administration of all time. The post includes a graph tracking the trade described with the rises circled in red.
July 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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They got removed, then very slowly replaced after the IRA train station bombing campaign. The old bins shattered and sent shrapnel flying when the bombs went off. The eventual replacements are just a clear rubbish sack holder.
Rubbish sack holder on a station platform.
July 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Trekkies, if you see this, post your first experience with Star Trek.

Mine: July 12th, 1969.
A scene from the second Star Trek pilot episode, Where No Man Has Gone Before, picturing Sally Kellerman as Dr. Elizabeth Dehner, Leonard Nimoy as Science Officer Spock, and William Shatner as Captain James Kirk.
July 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Stewart Granger disagrees
Janet Leigh and Stewart Granger in Scaramouche (1952)
July 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Oh, Eno, not E.N.O. Took me a moment there. Sounds interesting then.
English National Opera poster for La bohème. A purple-pink twilight sky behind a silhouetted cityscape of questionable authenticity if it is meant to be nineteeth century Paris.
July 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I had a double take earlier today when I saw a photo of Harlan Coben, who apparently is such a successful author, he can pay Stanley Tucci to portray him in public.
Author Harlan Coben taking a selfie in front of Althorp House. Bald, white man in a grey suit with black framed glasses. Actor Stanley Tucci. Bald, white man in a grey suit with black framed glasses.
June 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Steam rises from a cup of tea stood next to an open book.
June 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Fusilli Bucati would be better. You could screw it part way into one end of the banana, then screw the other end onto that.
Fusilli Bucati pasta. A pile of short, helical screw-shaped pasta.
June 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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The Wicked Lady (1945) with Margaret Lockwood and James Mason.
A highwaywoman on a horse, wearing a wide-brimmed black hat and brandishing a flintlock pistol. Margaret Lockwood in a scene from The Wicked Lady, 1945 movie.
May 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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The Jem'Hadar, the fearsome alien warriors of the Gamma Quadrant Dominion, say no.
Grey-skinned alien with a spiny chin and jaw ridge. A white tube feeds directly into its neck from its black and dark grey uniform.
May 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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This could be an opportunity to do something really funny.
The Republic XF-84H, nicknamed the Thunderscreech, the world's loudest place.
May 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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It's a shame the Giant Military Cats account never made it over here from Twitter.
Giant cat pushing a fighter plane off an aircraft carrier. The plane is an F35, not an F/A 18, so might not be to blame for recent incidents.
May 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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It might really be that simplistic. I saw this graphic posted today by @doctorsinunite.com from a poll question reported in the Guardian predicting Labour switchers at the next GE.
Graph from the Guardian predicting where Labour switchers at the next GE still go. Green 43% Lib Dem 40% Reform 9% Con 5%
May 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM