Ah the old crinkly ones 🥰

Radar Lock (1989)
#Atari2600
#Atari

Don’t worry, they’ve got all our NHS data 👍

One day Bluesky will hack itself and hold itself to ransom

I have his name muted, along with the names of his various partners in crime

Americans: read Cheetos

'My council tax rose to more than £4,000 - I want to leave rip-off Britain' Her council tax bill is costing £80 a month but Nottinghamshire resident Lynne Walder believes she has little to show for it

And here it is in the news today… surely this person would be happy with all her new plastic union jacks decorating the place?

inews.co.uk/news/council...

They are absolutely awful at local government. They banned our local paper from talking to them & erected union flags alongside potholed roads in the poshest, most conservative areas. I wish them all the best in May.

He’s forgotten that one

The ‘it’s cute that you think that’ smile from line of duty

Wife & I in Curry’s- “What are these?” she asks me.

“Those are those glasses for voyeurs with cameras in them. They should be banned.”

Curry’s pervert glasses salesman: “They’re safe cos they have a light in them to show everyone when they’re on.”

Bet you wish you were selling the air fryers mate

The UK is very well positioned for global roles that span NA & Asia. British workdays cover Asian afternoons and American mornings with English as the native language. Ireland is also leveraging this.

The employment rights in the UK also make it hard to simply fire and rehire, more vacay, more unionised, longer notice periods, etc.

They are not giving the real reason here.

That sort of doesn’t make sense as in the UK employers have to pay 15% National Insurance per employee which goes towards socialised healthcare 🤔

…and the more expensive employees such as heads & directors upwards would have the private stuff thrown in on top.

From: Bobby's Girl (1985), dir. Toshio Hirata, Madhouse/Project Team Argos

A famous piece of animation by Takashi Nakamura

My fridge is not magnetic. We acquired the fridge with the house when we bought it.

A fridge has a secondary function as a magnet/note/pic board. Some designer at Samsung forgot this.

Take a magnet when buying a fridge, test all the fridges you like and reject the non magnetic ones.

Also the height of the water in the bowl is too high, to the point Europeans think American toilets are all blocked.

If you’re going to be forced to stare someone in the eye, at least give the extra distance for a satisfying plop

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

Minesweeper game on Windows

Yeah, looks familiar though 🤔

Best one yet 👍

Several actually, on Facebook from several plane spotters

Orwell was spot on when he renamed Britain Air Strip One

bsky.app/profile/andr...

It shocked me when a couple of years ago I set up my Atari 800xl for the first time in a long time. I put Star Raiders II in the cartridge slot, and from power on it instantly went to game title + press start to play

Rishi Sunak, man in charge of country’s money, doesn’t know how to use contactless Rishi Sunak awkwardly struggled using contactless payment as he tried to buy a can of coke in a shop. Footage of the chancellor holding his credit card up to be scanned, rather than tapping it on the ...

True
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/rish...

The rate at which lithium batteries deplete & require replacing is much slower than the rate at which petroleum engines stop working when supply halts

I think you’re talking to a bot - following 1, 5k posts

A beige brick wall with a central section of mismatched bricks forming a patch-like rectangle, casting light shadows; conveys a sense of oddity.

Definitely coming back here when I unlock bombs.

I’ve just realised that an immortal vampire compelled to slowly count the candles in his cake will eventually take over a year to count his candles and exist for eternity in a hellish candle counting oblivion

Atari is almost indistinguishable from C64…. Except load times on cassette 😩

But! This game is awesome and I’ll never forget seeing the Atari version in the window of a random shop I walked by with mum one dark evening. Somehow I persuaded her to buy it.

Atari 8-bit games were like hens teeth.

True believers aren’t calling for the funnelling of money into rich people’s pockets

Case in point: my church called for a donation drive for a local homeless charity to buy their building off the council who put it up for sale. Over 60 grand raised & the funds fulfilled!

So popinjays it is