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Frederic Heath-Renn
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Bad jokes & bad opinions about music & gaming. Consider muting #TOTP. He/him.
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Reading this list in order greatly amused me when I hit #10.
Best House/Rap/Dance Music Act 1. Salt 'n' Pepa 2. Yazz and The Plastic Population 3. Bomb the Bass 4. S-Express 5. Derek B 6. BVSMP 7. The Fat Boys 8. Morris Minor And the Majors 9. Wee Papa Girl Rappers 10. Eric B And Rakim
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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hang it it in the Lo— Nintendo Museum
Miyamoto's vision (artist's conception) {A digital artwork showing Mario grasping MIPS the rabbit by both ears and throwing him in a manner akin to overarm bowling} by Supper Mario Broth
October 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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No, fair play to them, they've gone beyond my expectations here.
Spoiled votes the story of the day However, what many people, from politicians, to advisers, to canvassers and supporters, have told me today is that the big story of this election is the number of spoiled votes.
October 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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It's a week of second-place finishers being touted as the real winners by a sympathetic BBC News, so I expect the day to end with the news that Heather Humphreys has won "the moral Presidency"
The party leadership will be relieved with Powell's underwhelming margin of victory, it shows there isn't an out and out rejection of how Labour is being run, writes our political correspondent
October 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Sad to announce that I have not had a callback for the position of UNESCO's Director of Social Media.
An edited comic strip by Sarah Andersen. Title: How UNESCO designates World Heritage Sites Nigeria: Just the basics {Sarah buys food carefully} Egypt: An occasional splurge, but mostly necessities {Sarah considers clothing on a rack} Germany: {Sarah, wearing sunglasses, furs, and a gold chain, approaches a counter} {Sarah throws lots of money into the air, the notes all marked with the World Heritage symbol} Three Spider-Men all pointing at each other, marked "Frontiers of the Roman Empire", "Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Lower German Limes", and "Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube Limes (Western segment)" Stop Using Anti-World Heritage Site Language Instead of: unremarkable European cityscape Say: Historic Centre Instead of: unremarkable European countryside Say: Cultural Landscape Instead of: everything of interest no longer there Say: Archaeological Site Instead of: rebuilt inaccurately Say: reconstructed by anastylosis {A concerned-looking parent looking at a mobile phone} Is your child texting about Italian World Heritage Sites? LOL = Lots Of Longobards WTF = Water's Threatening Florence! BRB = Best Ravennate Basilica? NSFW = Naples, Siena, Ferrara: Wow! IMO = Ivrea's Modernism's Outstanding PMSL = Pisa's Mid, Sorry Leonardo
October 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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I know being amused by typos is the lowest brow activity known to man but still, I enjoyed the image of Chloé Zhao so emotionally overcome that she had to alley-oop dunk on Paul Mescal for the best part of half an hour. www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
The project was an emotional one for Zhao, who was overwhelmed as she arrived at the premiere. “If you see your DP (director of photography), your production designer, your costume designer and just start balling on the red carpet for like 20 minutes, I can’t keep it together, I think it speaks for itself,” she said.
October 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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"Viva Forever" never going to be the best song with "hasta mañana" in the lyrics of course #TOTP
Sparks/Kimono My House (album cover)
October 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Sneak preview of Trump's next social media post
Ecchan and Matsuri from City: the Animation, with the subtitle "we'd get the Had the Nobel Peace Prize Stolen Prize"
October 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Thinking of making a neural network that can classify images of black ravens, using this great free training dataset
Wikimedia Commons: Media in category "Green apples" (a dozen photographs of green apples)
September 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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And yet.
Boxed "Puck Monster" electronic game
September 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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There's only three films in the Knives Out series but the Guardian is already talking about them in the Late-Career R.E.M. voice
Toronto film festival: after Glass Onion underwhelmed, Rian Johnson’s self-aware, star-packed Benoit Blanc series makes a barnstorming return to form
September 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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I enjoyed the (free!) retrocomputing exhibition currently on at Kingston University, even if I continue to be unable to make it past the first screen of Manic Miner www.arcatku.org/index.html
Two Oric microcomputers, running Manic Miner and Hunch Back Two Dragon microcomputers, one running Chuckie Egg Two Amstrad microcomputers, running Gravity and Rainbow Island
August 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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A lot of answers to this and somehow none of them are Raiders of the Pop Charts (1982)
Ronco presents: Raiders of the Pop Charts 15 Blockbusting Tracks! Starring Madness Culture Club Japan Haircut 100 Modern Romance Pretenders and many more! (A man in an unconvincing Indiana Jones-esque getup holds a whip in front of a lacklustre 'jungle' background)
August 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Just overtaken an ImberBus #ImberBus
A vintage London bus on the motorway, photographed from the passenger side window of an overtaking car. It is a 23A to Warminster Station
August 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Obviously the fact Ms Swift's upcoming album has a track called "CANCELLED!" as if it were a gurning head-scratching comedian's Edinburgh show fills me with fear, but at least it's not called "CANCELED!". Taylor Swift: Honorary Brit
Cropped image of the tracklisting of The Life of a Showgirl: 7. Actually Romantic 8. Wi$h Li$t 9. Wood 10. CANCELLED! 11. Honey 12. The Life of a Showgirl
August 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Idly practicing my infamous Marlon Brando impression in the living room and the cat walked in and looked at me with an expression of genuine concern
A black cat looking straight at the camera, with ears forward and pupils fairly dilated
August 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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"Triumph of the Will, _again_?"
Seating for 250 people is available in the Tesla Diner's first and open-air second floor (sorry - that's the "Skypad"); those opting to sit up top will be subjected to [struck through] get to experience "movies, content and special features" broadcast on two 66-foot LED screens set up outside the diner.
July 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Yes I'm reading this, what gave it away
A book titled 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10. The cover depicts a network of white lines on a blue background.
July 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Is it too much to hope for that the loading screen played a tinny instrumental version of the theme song?

I like the MobyGames list of "related games":
Related Games Super Gran, Gran Vitreous, Gran Saga, Gran Turismo, Gran Turismo, Gran Premio, Gran Turismo 6, Gran Turismo: Sport, Gran Trak 10
July 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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thanks wikipedia
Those players who do routinely employ scheduled naps have been noted to become irritable when their naps are interrupted.
June 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Haters will call it "coincidence"
Timeline showing: 1988: Depeche Mode plays a concert in Prague 1989: The fall of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia
June 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Christ me, at least with Iraq and Afghanistan they had the decency to lie to us that there was a plan beyond "bomb the fuck out of them".
In a separate interview with Germany's Welt TV news channel, he says Iran's leadership had been "weakened" by Israel's attacks, and "will probably not return to its former strength, making the future of the country uncertain".
June 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Reading this www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress... about Hadrian's Wall and learning that Roman engineers, in some deep sense, lived the lives of software developers
"This first plan for Hadrian’s Wall was not completed before a major change was made. At intervals of about 11.2 km (7 miles) a fort was placed on the Wall." "This decision was not taken lightly for it involved the demolition of sectors of the Wall, turrents [sic] and even a milecastle already constructed and the in-filling of lengths of ditch" "Hadrian died on 10 July 138. Within a few months of his accession, the new emperor, Antoninus Pius, had decided to abandon Hadrian’s Wall and build a new frontier 120 km (80 miles) to the north."
June 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Melia seeing Martin Scorsese's daughter's TikToks #XenobladeChronicles #FutureConnected
Melia Xenoblade saying "Kino... You do your family honour."
May 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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I appreciate the shameless "Bedd & Breakfast: Jake Bedd decides to quit his City job to run a B&B... with hilarious results!" vibes of Rob Brydon's upcoming sitcom's title www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/ro...
Titled Bill's Included, the sitcom follows divorcee Bill Beam (Brydon), who survives by renting his spare rooms to students.
May 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM