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Blimey... I went to that ZX Microfair. Bought a copy of School Daze from the Microsphere stall, where they were all dressed as teachers and schoolkids.

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Sinclair User (Nov 1984) - Subscriptions READ: https://archive.org/stream/sinclair-user-magazine-032/SinclairUser_032_Nov_1984#page/n50/mode/2up

letterboxd.comHonest Decent & True (1986)The launch of Chaser lager could be big for KFS if Alun shows some commitment; if Mike's lifestyle doesn't catch up with him; if the rest of the team concern themselves more with the product's image a...

The Screen Two adland satire Honest, Decent & True is on TPTV this evening, with a pre-Withnail Richard E Grant. About as subtle as a Harp commercial, but one hell of an 80s period piece.

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Election Officials Warn That Ballots Tied To Stray Cat Unlikely To Arrive In Time https://theonion.com/election-officials-warn-that-ballots-tied-to-stray-cat-unlikely-to-arrive-in-time/

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Stephen Bush

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Finding some of the reaction on here to the 'stockpiling' stuff a bit odd. The Russians successfully firebombed the last prime minister's house! There was a cyberattack on a French supermarket a few weeks ago!

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Largely because if you see how much bottled water you'd stock for a family - 4 litres per person per day - if supplies were cut off entirely, the advice would be ignored. Better to aim for 'three days of no internet connection and intermittent power and water supply' and build from there.

boakandbailey.comIt’s great but is it worth three times the price?Craft beer people tend to agree that it’s worth paying extra for quality but how much better does a beer need to taste to cost more than three times as much?

Note that Lidl currently has Spaten Münchner Hell in stock for £2.19 a bottle, which is a terrific bargain.

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BLOG POST: “It’s exciting to be able to buy imported Helles beers from both Augustiner and Tegernsee at Sainsbury’s, while we’re picking up canned tuna, Woolite and ‘crispy nuggets’. And £3.40 a bottle doesn’t seem like a terrible price, either.” But... boakandbailey.com/2026/10/its-...

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NickT6630

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Robert Arthur Penfold is a well known electronics designer and wrote many books on electronics and articles for projects in the Maplin Magazine. He has sadly passed away 😔 RIP. sdiy.info/wiki/R._A._P...

sdiy.infoR. A. Penfold - Synth DIY WikiRobert Arthur Penfold aka Bob Penfold is a prolific UK author and designer of electronic projects.

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The House Of Splain

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🚨NEW EPISODE!🚨 ❓Which comedy star was slumming it with the Black & White Minstrels? ❓Who was the third Faith Brown? ❓What's Norman Collier doing to that donkey? ❓Did Colin Crompton meet Anthony H Wilson? You'll find answers to all these here at the end of Summer Season '76: youtu.be/HLEaWeScIAI

youtu.beComics, crooners and knock-off mutant WomblesYouTube video by The House Of Splain

Not getting any shifts? Go down the park and off a tramp

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A police force is considering hiring detectives on ‘zero-hours’ style contracts after an unprecedented surge in murder investigations put pressure on its officers and overtime budget wp.me/p8Mk4U-1v0j

The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek

I genuinely like the look of the new electro-2cv. I'm less convinced that branding it "La deuche" will play well in English-speaking markets.

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"Have you betrayed us? Have YOU... betrayed... ME?" #TheTraitors #Blakes7

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Autogrill PAVESI Le réseau de restaurants autoroutiers italiens constitue l'une des expressions les plus marquantes de l'expérimentation italienne de l'après-guerre, se développant parallèlement au réseau autoroutier national entre 1955 et 1975.

heraldscotland.comMisogyny killed Monica many years before she diedWhen poor Monica Coghlan died in a car crash last week, it was a result both pitiful and inevitable. The rightful order had been restored. Justice had been done. Her sad, brief life was over: she had ...

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Me reposting myself

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Robin Ince

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Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...

youtube.comBergerac themeYouTube video by UK Tune Archives

RIP George Fenton. Greatest TV theme of all time? Reckon it's between this and Tony Hatch's intro for The Champions...

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Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

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🏮NEW EPISODE🏮 For the 50 years of Swap Shop celebrations we're looking at the 1980 Multicoloured Noel Edmonds Annual! YOU WILL LEARN: Who has juicy eyes? The best way to make hot cheese fluffs! How many latterly disgraced sex offenders are featured within Why Noel is so GRATE! youtu.be/gef6LUf8rmY

youtu.beIs this the worst annual ever printed?YouTube video by The House Of Splain

pelliclemag.comPellicle — Issue 1: Joy — PelliclePellicle is proud to present our very first print magazine. The inaugural, full-length issue features interviews, essays, long reads, short humour pieces, and much more, all centred on the topic of jo...

One of the greatest spreads ever to appear in Viz. I used to have this framed on my wall.

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Whenever I see that done, it reminds me of this frame in Viz's 'A Day in the Life of a Newspaper'

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ACARS Drama

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Explaincars Drama: we believe this to be the first time in recorded history that a bowel movement has been assigned an ICAO threat level

ACARS Drama@acarsdrama.bsky.social

Air to Ground Message: ADVISE CLEANERS THAT A PAX HAD AN AGRESSIVE BOWEL MOVEMENT IN AFT LEFT LAVATORY Area: Gaithersburg, MD, USA Type: Boeing 737 MAX 9 A: #a9ee4b1a4a6 F: #f2716a8d604

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Pellicle

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It's finally here! Pre-order Pellicle — Issue 1: Joy now. www.pelliclemag.com/shop/pellicl...

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After tasting this year's editions of five out of the six Oktoberfest beers, I'm calling it: Augustiner is best. And one of the greatest beers in the world.

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Exciting News !!!

thedrinksbusiness.comHeineken’s AI-powered Personalised Draught tap can create more than 100 beersHeineken has introduced its latest innovation, named Personalised Draught, a tap which combines AI with brewing expertise, offering people a new way to discover beer. db reports.

This looks like the greatest advance in drinks technology since Cynthia's Cyberbar.

Jeff Alworth@beervana.bsky.social

I don’t think I’ve ever been more horrified by a brewery announcement. “From a single tap, drinkers can now choose from 135 different Heineken expressions, each shaped by a combination of traditional brewing characteristics, such as strength, intensity, with options ranging from 0.0% to 5% ABV.”

Nutters in the RE department invited a reformed IRA terrorist to give an assembly. He raved about how he gave it all up after finding God, before illustrating his former life by asking one kid to look under their seat - where he'd put a fake bomb. Parents went apeshit. Think it made the local paper.

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It didn't help that a boy from our school had been blown apart by the IRA in the Royal Marines School of Music bomb, the year before.

21 Sept

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21 Sept

There is absolutely nothing you can do to turkey to make the damn thing worth eating. It is not an edible creature.

Pete Fraser@petefrasermusic.bsky.social

Gimme a food opinion. I have never found anything cooked En Croute appealing.

@nicolakellywrites.bsky.social

20 Sept

Almost certainly the greatest BBC costume drama to inspire a themed restaurant in Ghent.

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Nicola Kelly

17 Sept

I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

nicolakelly.substack.comThe RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroesI have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.

youtube.compenlee lifeboat diaster - cruel seaYouTube video by westyorkshiregull

13 Sept

If I were PM, I'd force every one of the people - I use the term loosely - who attack the RNLI to watch this astonishing BBC film about the Penlee Lifeboat disaster. I'd then have them shoved off the end of a pier, so it's just as well I'm only a freelance writer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeIX...

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Matt Rosser

@matt.cymru

12 Sept

"How do you make so much money?" "I give millions away and ask for absolutely nothing in return."

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Chloe Cumming

@chloecumming.bsky.social

12 Sept

Colourful Test Card Party

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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel

@alisoneales.com

12 Sept

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The Yorkshire ident is a jump scare for sure. I wasn’t too fond of Granada, either. Make some noise, you ominous bastard.

They called her Sonia because she gets Sonia nerves. #totp

Rick looks TERRIFIC. #totp

Only band ever to appear on #totp with a one-armed guitarist.

Twenty-five years ago, I was part of the army of freelance sub-editors schlepping between newspapers and mags in London. Diary for 11 Sep was a double-booking: a day shift at FHM and an evening at the Daily Express.

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I was a features sub. The asst night editor said: "We've chucked all the features out of the edition. Can you sub news?" He passed me and a few other casuals over to news, who showed us the style: cap up the first word, no drop caps, cut from the foot of the story.

We were massively overstaffed so I got an early cut. Back to Franklins in East Dulwich to drink Grolsch and talk bollocks. A quarter of a century ago.

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Gradually, websites got overloaded and fell over, except for the PB board. I yelled "Christ, another plane has hit the second tower." The digital editor shouted: "That's just Popbitch bollocks." Then someone switched a TV on. Not much work done at EMAP after that.

I was hearing various bits from other subs across London: people were bricking it in the Canary Wharf tower, with rumours of an evacuation. I got released early to go to the Express at Blackfriars, which was buzzing. Lots of subs had seen the news and come in on their day off.

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At FHM I got an SMS on my old Nokia lump from a friend subbing on a news shift at the Guardian: "A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center". I imagined something like a King Kong biplane. I opened the Popbitch message board. That was when it registered.

9 Sept

"Let's drop this acid and watch Penda's Fen," said absolutely no one, ever.

pelliclemag.comWe've Got To Live — Nottingham's Thriving, Defiant Beer Scene — PellicleJust a few decades ago, Nottingham’s skyline was punctuated by iconic brewery buildings producing beers that were part of the city’s DNA. The famous Shipstone’s star, and the Robin Hood silhouette of ...

9 Sept

When I used to write a (very bad) column for an East London newspaper, the subs swapped my byline pic for this photograph once.

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show us your face for the week

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis.bsky.social

9 Sept

Fantastic article about the Nottingham beer scene by Pete Blackburn in @pelliclemag.com today. I spent a couple of days there last month taking the photos which included getting out to some suburbs (inc the fantastic Abdication micropub) and loved every minute. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/9/...

4 Sept

> ACTIVATE "DADS" #totp