Simon
@hungryhatter.bsky.social
I was born at a very early age and now I'm here. Some things happened in between, but they're probably not important.
I've got some paperbacks from the seventies that are falling to bits - the fact that this book is 540 years old and looks near mint is pretty bloody impressive.
British Library@britishlibrary.bsky.social · 3h agoWhat’s one of the oldest objects you’ve seen that genuinely made you stop and stare? We’ll go first: a copy of Homer’s Odyssey in Ancient Greek, printed in Venice in 1488 that we got to take a look at today 📚
"They're from Earth. They're from the PDS Fleet. They want you, Dave."
Bluesky Server Status@status.bsky.app · 4h agoWe are investigating various alerts coming from our PDS fleet status.bsky.app
If I want to hear virtually any song at all I either fire up my iTunes library or look it up on YouTube, I don't have to rely on The Chart Show (great, but only one hour a week) or Radio 1. 12-year-old me would've LOVED looking up all the stuff Smash Hits was parping on about that fortnight.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
All those brilliant barmy uncles. I learned an awful lot and it never felt like school.
Graham Ward@grahamward.bsky.social · 5h agoI just want to thank my old teachers. Particularly Mr Ball (maths), Mr Hart (art), Mr Wolff (physics), Mr Bellamy (biology), Mr Pyke (chemistry) and Mr Lunn (metalwork)
This is worse than when I was a kid and on the first day of my six-week summer holiday all the shops would be putting up BACK TO SCHOOL posters.
Lord Liberty 💚@l0rdliberty.bsky.social · 11h ago@festivevibes.bsky.social The Range is now starting to put out their Christmas stock!
I wish they'd take mine off! Disability humour is often very dry and very dark. There's also a big 'No, *you* can't say that' factor when able bodied people say "You can't say that". I'm a cripple, I am medically crippled. I can say it, you can't. This is my favourite disability humour.
My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
Just got a refund of £2.65 from Avanti West Coast after the train I was on got delayed at Euston for 27 minutes while they literally turned it off and on again to reboot it.
Picsou Swimming in Gold Coins
ALT: Picsou Swimming in Gold Coins
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Singles collections - *all* the singles to that point, even the flops and double A-sides, all in chronological order. Best Of / Greatest Hits - see below, but I've never liked those titles because a) they're lazy options and b) basically inaccurate (Blur's Best Of omits Popscene, FFS).
j-e-l@jelbugle.bsky.social · 4d agoA musical hot take: A Best Of or Greatest Hits should not be more than 12 songs. Double discs, an absolute no, unless you are honest and call it a collection or folio or something
Iggy Pop's Lust For Life at the start of Trainspotting. That film knew how to use its soundtrack.
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 17h agoName your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.
Quite impressive to completely undermine your own defence and insult most of your party's elected officials in the same sentence.
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 8h agoIt's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI
I propose we send Elon Musk to the Moon with a hoover and a dustpan and brush to clear up his mess. I am not necessarily proposing we bring him back, though.
The Independent@the-independent.com · 9h agoBREAKING | An out-of-control SpaceX rocket has collided with the Moon READ MORE: trib.al/mGkWuJh
Cinema operators must be weeping when they see these videos, knowing how much money they're losing on food and drink sales because so many people are going fully in character as Spider-Man.
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 18h agoFan dresses as The Hulk to watch 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' 😂 🎥 Samsational31 | TikTok
again, if i had a calculator that gave me the wrong answer one (1) time, i would throw it out and never use it again and could probably bankrupt the company by simply telling people what happened
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · yesterdayGotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.
This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.
Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · 4d agoMassive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...
I'd rather play Lil Louis's French Kiss instead of the Wedding March and believe me, I NEVER want to do that.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdayThe hill I will die on: You should be legally obliged to play Mr Brightside at your wedding | Amelia Tait
Let's see if I remember my HMV price sticker decoding skills... Long number relates to the bar code. Artist & song - easy. Sing = single. LS = 12". C = new release / chart. V3 = date code (V- August, 3- 2003). 309 = the specific HMV branch. Number = item catalogue number. 106 = supplier code (BMG).
WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 2d ago23
Shep Pettibone, the remixers' equivalent of the bus in Speed - if he ever dropped below 50 remixes a day he'd explode.
Old UK Fashion@oldukfashion.bsky.social · yesterdayJul 1986: Point Of No Return ad from Nu Shooz (+Poolside and Love of a Lifetime) «NU SHOOZ NU SINGLE POINT OF NO RETURN CHAKA KHAN Her Latest Hit LOVE OF A LIFETIME»
One fateful day, Mr Stay-Puft went into Seth Brundle's teleportation chamber with Wizbit...
Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · yesterdayBorden Cremora Whip (1965-1970): Powdered mix for making a whipped cream-adjacent topping and pie filling. Released to directly compete with Dream Whip, it promised 25% more topping
3-4 4-5 9 at least - I laugh in the face of "Very well done" for 6.
Devon Dympsy@devondympsy.bsky.social · yesterday4 2 (yes, really!) 3
I see Rod Liddle has died. Apropos of nothing, here's my poem "You Put the Fun in Funeral."
Today reminds me there was a UK journalist who died and received fulsome tributes from many others. It was considered the height of rudeness when some pointed out none of the tributes had mentioned he'd killed his wife. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ka...
John Kay (journalist, born 1943) - Wikipedia
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Once again I find myself pointing to Paul Eddington for how to be remembered.
