A screen shot of the summary table for the Pick operating system on wikipedia, with Developers Don Nelson, Dick Pick and TRW, and written in assembly language

@actualnames.bsky.social

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1: The Interchange – Thin Places in Hard Concrete, story by story The first story in my new collection, Thin Places in Hard Concrete, is called ‘The Interchange’ and is about a road that should not be there. This story is already out there in audio form thanks to…

BLOG POST: The first in a series of pieces exploring the influences and ideas behind each of the stories in my upcoming collection ‘Thin Places in Hard Concrete’.

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An architectural style drawing of Cumberland Basin in Bristol, black and white, showing the road layouts crossing the avon and the basin

Do the roads across Cumberland Basin float your boat? I came across them from this Pedestrian Diversions video www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqDX...

Got enamoured enough to order a couple of high-res images from the @themerl.bsky.social to print for my walls

A contender for “best pub in Bristol” that is definitely not in Bristol The Rising Sun at Frampton Cotterell, South Gloucestershire, was named the best pub in Bristol by the local CAMRA branch in 2025. But the thing is... it’s in Frampton Cotterell, South Gloucestershire.

BLOG POST: Notes on The Rising Sun, Frampton Cotterell, whose appeal is perhaps down to being frozen in time. 🍺🍻

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A picture of a dartboard in the Sandringham, unbranded with a black foam surround

Written up the Sandringham's dartboard(s) to celebrate National Bass Day 🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺

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A picture of me holding a beer sat underneath a horrible mural of a caricature of Mr bean with pool balls

Two dartboard reviews:

Bar Desorden in Spain fredcook.co.uk/2026/04/02/B...

And Industry bar and kitchen on Gloucester road: fredcook.co.uk/2026/04/01/I...

a man is riding a motorcycle down a dark street at night ALT: a man is riding a motorcycle down a dark street at night

Tonight at @wshed.bsky.social!

John Woo Double Bill: THE KILLER and HARD BOILED.

Get some.

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The Scandal of Oktoberfest's First Giant Tent - Daft Eejit Brewing In which I wrote about how the first large tent at Oktoberfest came to be, and why it was a scandal for the Oktoberfest restaurateurs at the time.

Staying on the Oktoberfest theme, I wrote about the scandal of the Oktoberfest's first "giant tent" in 1898, and how it unfolded: dafteejit.com/2026/03/the-...

#beerhistory #oktoberfest

A map of central Bristol with little dartboard icons showing locations of pub dartboards I've reciewed

🎯 New dartboard review 🎯

The seven stars in Redcliffe: fredcook.co.uk/2026/03/19/T...

I've also added a handy map of all dartboard reviews so far

A brief history of The Kings Head – the handsomest pub in Bristol Bristol is not oversupplied with historic pubs and those it has have not generally been well preserved. The Kings Head on Victoria Street is very much an exception.

BLOG POST: An attempt to pull together what we know about the history of The Kings Head in Bristol, a (wonderful) pub that maybe *feels* older than it is. 🍻🍺

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Upfest 2026 Upfest is back, with a 17 day cultural programme this May but we need your help to paint more walls and host thousands of free creative workshops.

Upfest 2026
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A wide angle shot of the same interior, a dimly lit pub with a dartboard, pool table, and the bar is covered in graffiti

I visited the Dame in bedminster last weekend, here's my dartboard report: fredcook.co.uk/2026/03/07/T...

Yes! One of the bar men at the crown tavern in Bristol was involved in the photo shoot and has one of the jackets, it looks mint and I couldn't be more jealous

Three logos in a row, on the left the Adidas logo, on the right the Bass beer logo, in the middle my amalgamation. It has the red triangle of bass chopped into 3 sections like the Adidas logo, slightly offset. The text underneath says adibass, in the curly cursive handwriting of the bass logo

Couldn't get the idea of adibass out of my head 🔺🔺🔺

Darts wasn't on my radar the last time I went to the Hare on the hill and now I always get drawn into the Hillgrove before I reach it. I'll have to go and have a look if the board is still there!

Which pub is the picture from? Quite brave with no surround 😓

When did the game of darts become associated with pubs? We all know that in the UK if you want to play darts you head to the pub. But where did this association between pubs and darts begin?

BLOG POST: Dartboards and pubs go together, everyone knows that. But how long has that been the case? And, actually, how old is darts as a game? 🍺🍻

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Two dartboards in left handed giant brew pub. They are mounted on a rough brick wall with some greenery dangling around them

Latest pub dartboard review: Left Handed Giant fredcook.co.uk/2026/02/23/L... 👈

Stickers of the humanoid character orange lad in a plastic bag. Orange lad is a computer generated character with skin dimpled like an orange, creepy arms and legs with 3 toes/fingers and a blank gawping face

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Unch Crossword Magazine Unch, the clued-up crossword magazine

Human-made cryptic crosswords.
Printed on paper and posted to you by a human.
£5 an issue.
unchcrosswords.com

News, nuggets and longreads 21 February 2026: Bonspiel Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got bar work, BrewDog and Yorkshire squares.

GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest edition of news, nuggets and longreads, rounding up the most interesting writing about beer from the past week. 🍻🍺

boakandbailey.com/2026/02/news...

A tale of two cities: busy pubs, struggling pubs It’s possible for some pubs to be busy while others are struggling because every pub – or bar, or or taproom – exists in its own context.

BLOG POST: Three posts/articles/essays that landed this week seemed connected in our mind, on the subject of pub closures and third places. 🍺🍻

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From the sillylittlewebsites community on Reddit: Color Memory Game — How well do you remember colors? Explore this post and more from the sillylittlewebsites community

Dialed, a color memorization game on my r/sillylittlewebsites subreddit that I'm trying to get going. (It's a list of ad-free, no-registration games and fun little websites.)

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Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next? How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.

My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it.
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What do people need from a pub’s internet presence? In my day job I spend a lot of time thinking about ‘user needs’ and, as people who go to the pub, we certainly know what we need from their internet presence.

BLOG POST: We need to know when you'll be open, what beers you'll be serving, maybe what food you have, and whether there'll be an open mic folk music session going on while we're trying to chat. Could there be an app for that?

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Although the venn diagram isn't a perfect circle it's pretty close

The dartboard in the white horse pub. Looks a little worse for wear, and surrounded by people's tags

Paid a visit to the White Horse in Westbury on Trym in the week, report below:

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They are opening up a new one in the old showcase bit of cabot

The Odeon on Union Street in Bristol... with a Lidl now underneath it.

Farewell to Bristol's Odeon on Union Street that closes today.

Saw so many classics there over the years, but the opening night screening of Deep Blue Sea in 1999 will forever remain a highlight with the whole audience screaming, cheering and gasping in surprise at certain key deaths!

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail