I'm less combative online than I used to be. Probably for the best.

Now you say that, a bell is ringing in my head.

Oh god, no, nothing like that to my knowledge. I just didn't want it searching the name (no evidence it does that either).

I just don't know much about it!

(Why is P*ter G*briel's own Bluesky account a week late celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sledgehammer?) [Don't @ it in, please.]

I make the mistake of sometimes snowballing every other user of Bluesky into one account and marvelling at how they manage to fit their thousands of thoughts and activities into a single day. (I wondered if your post was about eg, me, but once I saw the word 'sport', thought, maybe not.)

It’s not much of a silver lining is it.

If Reform do get in here, god help us, the only silver lining will be seeing their attempts at drawing dragons. ‘Mum, is that a red car that’s had a crash?’

‘Nothing Compares 2 Soups’

‘Starfish and Coffee/
Can you see it on the trolley?’

Regional ITV.

Housequake '49

‘Eric Leeds and Ernie’

‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg The iconic game that came to define 8-bit programming still conjures flutters of nostalgia 40 years on – all thanks to a 15-year-old tea boy who worked a Saturday shift in a computer shop in Greater M...

Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

‘Nothing Compares 2 Soups’

Related: (it wasn’t me btw)

‘Starfish and Coffee/
Can you see it on the trolley?’

‘Come bathe with me/Let’s drown each other in each other’s emotions/Swimming the channel’

When a biopic has the air of a 2-hour promotional ad rather than someone’s (to say the least complex) real life story.

‘I could never take the place of your Manchesterford’

I’m working on something better than that btw.

My word, that MJ biopic has a lot of executive producers.

Man Finally Good Enough At New Hobby To Understand How Bad He Is At It

Man Finally Good Enough At New Hobby To Understand How Bad He Is At It theonion.com/man-finally-good-enough-...

Victoria Wood/Let’s Do It
Prince/Do It All Night

I'd love to ask some of those councillors to 'name three of his plays'.

'There'll be some nice biscuits' a spokesman growled.

Just wait till they find out where Lego really comes from.

They don't even really understand Englishness.

Reform's sheer dearth of range, content and imagination, laid bare. And this in *libraries*.

Revive the iPod Classic.