Brilliant song. Prompted me to listen to my favourite Zevon track, "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner", because it's similarly great and also has one of the best song titles ever.
Cue Warren Zevon earworm youtu.be/dnyxR_EKW18?...
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He / Him Old games, electronics and nonsense. Doom scrolling my way to insanity. Also @minus9@hachyderm.io xxx
Brilliant song. Prompted me to listen to my favourite Zevon track, "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner", because it's similarly great and also has one of the best song titles ever.
Cue Warren Zevon earworm youtu.be/dnyxR_EKW18?...
I love how the football transfer market sometimes sounds like a Jane Austen novel. "Liverpool have made an enquiry into the availability of the Barcelona striker. They have presented their financial earnestness & are fervently desirous of a communion that would be most beneficial to both parties."
The Times, accidentally telling the truth via the omission of the Oxford comma.
Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22
I've been working on Knightmare S4 and I'm barely 5 episodes in but if I have to HEAR ABOUT THE FUCKING EYE SHIELD ONE MORE TIME I'M GOING TO SHIT MY ARSE OFF
Followed by the main course of whatever is growing on this keyboard to remove any appetite you may have gained!
Disgusting ZX Spectrum Repair
YouTube video by More Fun Retro
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you can't even get a pork bun for that price and you look like you could use one
SLEEPING DOGS is on sale for like 3 bucks... i will now sing the praises of sleeping dogs. sleeping dogs is like if gta was very good instead of super insecure and littleboyish. sleeping dogs is so confident and rad and fun. play sleeping dogs imo store.steampowered.com/app/307690/S...
For a bit of background on the early history of commercial games on Linux check out this article from 2010 (before the Steam client was launched for Linux): opensource.com/life/10/5/br...
A brief history of commercial gaming on Linux (and how it's all about to change)
I'm excited. I mean really excited. Excited to the point that I can hardly think. I'm talking six-year-old trying to go to sleep on Christmas Eve excited. But before I get to why, let's take a trip ba...
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Had a very good time at @zafarcakes.bsky.social Fringe show. If you don't see it, yer missing out. www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
Dive photographer Alex Dawson captured this eerie tour of an underwater forest at Geiseltalsee, the largest artificial lake in Germany. Formerly an open-cast lignite coal mine, it was flooded 2003-2011 to create the lake. Let's talk about the geological history of this valley & why it was flooded.
RIP William Orbit. I wasn't a hardcore follower and only caught the chart hits and productions, but this was still pretty special: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNcd...
William Orbit - Barber's Adagio For Strings
YouTube video by TMF90Dance
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Hi! You might remember me from such cases as the will reading of Lord Gunnersbury and the prosecution of the Turnham Green flasher.
They shouldn't stop until they make every ingredient a slice and we can shuffle a burger like playing cards
deleted all the Monkey Cage stuff - having had no prior warning until I saw the announcement of it on a news site, it was a huge shock - let me use this time instead to say - it’s Bandcamp Friday and Rachel and me offer you new poetry and music normallyweirdassociates.bandcamp.com/album/the-fi...
Sad that the age of grifters, Raleigh bikes are going out of business.
Wearing my ‘Blep!’ cat tee. A teen girl stopped me to ask where I got it. I said, “A shop called infinitebacon.” My partner says I should’ve mentioned I drew it, but I’m British and I’d rather lick Donald Trump’s ring-piece than risk sounding like I’m boasting.
writing code for the first time in a while and GOOD GOD AI HAS RUINED SEARCHING my god. what have we thrown away
do you have “pneumatic tube delivery system” autism or “miniature railway delivery system” autism?
The best YouTube channel ever made has just dropped another of the best YouTube videos ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGt7...
Johnny Depp's Bed
YouTube video by Bobby Fingers
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This sounds more like terrorism to me than wearing a t-shirt to support stopping a genocide, or planning to block a road to protest about lack of action on climate change. 🧐
Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.