Mark GJ
@brokentv.uk
IN COLOUR - Current project: Auntie's Favourites - The stories behind the BBC's 200, um, 250 Most-Broadcast Programmes. Current progress: 248 down, 2 to go https://brokentv.uk/
Wednesday on Noisebox Radio... 7pm - I Couldn’t Speak a Word of English Want more Welsh language music? Yes, you do. Let Rhys Jones guide you through the foothills & peaks of Cymrupop. www.noiseboxradio.com
"America can, should, must and will blow up the moon. And we'll be doing it during a full moon, so we make sure we get it all." youtu.be/GTJ3LIA5LmA
Mr. Show - Blow Up the Moon
YouTube video by Laser Time
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Jon Dear@accordingtojond.bsky.social · 16h agoEvery day is like shit Quatermass now.
Annoying that I can't boycott them because they've long stopped making anything I give a toss about. Maybe they should do Deluxe Paint VI, so I can boycott that.
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · yesterdayEA is officially a privately owned company Main investors include Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners Deal was worth $55B
I'm old enough to remember when HTV tried it in 1978. youtu.be/rFGk44P2YYM?...
Shane speaks Welsh
YouTube video by Archif ITV Cymru/Wales @ LlGC | ITV Cymru/Wales Archive @ NLW
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SUBTEXT: We're assuming you all missed our original message about group chats, and that's why nobody is using them.
Bluesky@bsky.app · yesterdayUpdate: group chats can now host up to 100 members.
If there are any scenes with just Han and C-3PO*, I'm saying this counts as a long-awaited sequel to Twin Town. (*Don't know if there are, I've never seen the whole film.)
Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra@fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · yesterdayMAY S4C BE WITH YOU
I like how MTV felt the need to censor the balls off Mr E's Beautiful Blues, but BBC One at 7pm were (and are) fine to leave the lyrics as they goddamn are. #TOTP
Hope the buyer has to fill in one of those little forms with one of those little pens.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 6d agoSainsbury's to sell Argos for £120m
They'll have to stop calling it the "World" Cup. The Aramco-Coca-Cola-Haliburton Invitational Trophy has a good ring to it.
MORE! Lode Runner (early WinZip prototype) (A Mavis Beacon-style keyboard tutorial) Exolon (an incredibly dull database too with an uncharacteristically cool name) Leaderboard (Staff management tool)
Mark GJ@brokentv.uk · 6d agoVideogames That Sound Like They Could've Been Dull Business Software Packages: Lotus III (Second division spreadsheet) Power Drive (Data compression tool) Overwatch (Employee monitoring tool) Portal 2 (expensive software to move data from tape backups to network drives, only works with Windows XP)
Driller (DIY tool) Hard Drivin' (defrag tool or tool to track hours for lorry drivers) Gauntlet (anti theft tool) The New Zealand Story (educational CD-rom) Atic Atac (Marie Kondo style decluttering app) Dark Star (astronomy app) Elite (tax management app) Turbo Esprit (ditto)
Firewatch (connected to the office surveillance system and automates the sprinklers) Doki Doki Literature Club (an early version of an RSS for Mac) Gone Home (an automated out of office system) Papers please (an early PDF converter)
Videogames That Sound Like They Could've Been Dull Business Software Packages: Lotus III (Second division spreadsheet) Power Drive (Data compression tool) Overwatch (Employee monitoring tool) Portal 2 (expensive software to move data from tape backups to network drives, only works with Windows XP)
Fan of 1990s double act Lee and Herring may enjoy this youtu.be/WgkO_aJy3jk?...
Festival of Fun but it's just Lee and Herring
YouTube video by Airwave
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Boost licence fee income by adding a box at the bottom of the TV licence: "Archive programme I'd like added to iPlayer" if you pay an extra £20 + they *have* to add it. If they no longer have the rights they just do it in secret. If it's wiped, they get spare Casualty cast members to re-enact it.
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk."The BBC has confirmed Blankety Blank, Celebrity Mastermind and Live at the Apollo will not be returning." "These difficult decisions form part of the BBC’s previously announced first phase of its proposals to make £500m of savings over the next three years." www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
ROBIN ASKWITH IN: MY FRIEND BILLY - THE MUSICAL
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
See, now I NEED some YouTuber to make a video where they engineer this exact scenario in their own home*. *One person from each profession, not cloning several Stilgoes, that actually yes also do that
Why Don't YouTube?@whydontyoutube.bsky.social · last wk.HOW HAS THIS BEEN ON YOUTUBE FOR THREE MONTHS AND NOBODY THOUGHT TO TELL US, IT'S BEEN WDYT?'S HOLY GRAIL FOR YEARS www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGPA...
HOW HAS THIS BEEN ON YOUTUBE FOR THREE MONTHS AND NOBODY THOUGHT TO TELL US, IT'S BEEN WDYT?'S HOLY GRAIL FOR YEARS www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGPA...
Statutory Right of Entry - Richard Stilgoe
YouTube video by Matt Poole
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That reminds me, I've not had this month's cheque from Nancy Pelosi.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Javier Milei accuses US Democrats of financing ‘anti-Argentina campaign’ at World Cup
The Goodies: so good people browsing Wikipedia for The Winter Olympics need to pick between and the games and the Goodies' episode. #RIPBillOddie
Me: Good on them, it should be blocked. Also me: If I made a GIF of Errol from 15 Storeys High saying "Is there such a thing as... a non-merger?" would anyone get the reference?
UK Media News@ukmedianews.bsky.social · last wk.Benedict Cumberbatch Says Paramount-Warner Deal Is A “Calamity” That Must Be Blocked deadline.com/2026/07/bene...
a) Lovely stuff b) There's no way 'Erbert would be able to read a calculator c) Adjusted for inflation, that Sinclair calculator would cost £90 today. Yikes.
ZXVintage@zxvintage.bsky.social · 2w agoAdvert Lucky Dip: Aug 1978: Sinclair Cambridge Programmable Compact programmable calculator ad from W.H. Smith (more at @OldUKPrintAds.bsky.social) (+Calculators; Casio FX39 High precision electronic calculator, and more) «Very good news»
Was the SAM Coupe the last product of this type to inject a bit of fun into the user manual? I don't recall a cartoon chap from the Society Against PlayStation waving funny placards all over the PS1 user booklet. Or a Chibi Alan Sugar scampering through the guide for the CPC Plus.
ZXVintage@zxvintage.bsky.social · 2w agoSAM Coupe User Guide READ: https://archive.org/stream/NH2021_SamCoupe_UsersGuide.pdf/page/n115/mode/2up
