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‘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...

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Lorenz Okello-Osengor, Taz Modi, Mahya Mahroomi at Daylight Music - UK Jazz News Forget about the "wee small hours": Daylight Music has been putting on lunchtime live events for 17 years. The noon start time conveys and demands a certain clarity, and one imagines artists must reli...

I can't remember last time we had a review, so this is rather nice ukjazznews.com/lorenz-okell...

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Going to tell the grandchildren this was The Mandalorian and Grogu.

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S01E06 Episode 5: Cooper's Dreams May 10 1990

28:44 S01E06 Episode 5: Cooper's Dreams May 10 1990

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I think every film should end with the main character(s) saying the name of the film in the last line like; "I guess at the end of it all, we really were Nuns on the Run" or "I've genuinely done a proper Oppenheimer here" just to tie it up nicely x

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Help raise £6000 to Daylight Music 2026 – JustGiving Crowdfunding Iʼm raising money to Daylight Music 2026. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

The crowdfunder has reached 35%. For more Daylight Music this year I need to ask for more donations for our community. Any help always appreciate but not expected. Thanks for reading. edge.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Jilk - Minori Is Alive At The End (Audio Visual)
Jilk - Minori Is Alive At The End (Audio Visual) YouTube video by Bricolage

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Check out this YouTube visualiser for 'Minori Is Alive At The End' - kindly put together by @bricolageg5.bsky.social

Digital and some cassettes still available here:
bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/tetsuo...

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Tim Curry in costume as Dr Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show. His eye makeup is dramatic and his face is framed with his pink rubber gloves.

Tim Curry in costume as Dr Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show. His eye makeup is dramatic and his face is framed with his pink rubber gloves.

Tim Curry — Mick Rock, 1974

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Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE
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A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN."

Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

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If Mamdani and Obama singing The Wheels On The Bus with a group of tiny kids doesn't spark some sort of joy in you, I've got nothing for you.

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Happy #SupermanDay

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Today. Plenty of cake. Plenty of music. Join me in Leytonstone (Central Line).

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Cake news! This Saturday at Daylight Music we are joined by:

Chocolate orange cake (vegan & gf)
Carrot cake (vegan & gf)
Mango Lassi cake (vegan & gf)

and some musician playing the piano!
jointhecircle.net/events/403

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A small yellow chick runs in a panic when an acorn falls on its head, believing that the sky is falling in

A small yellow chick runs in a panic when an acorn falls on its head, believing that the sky is falling in

Before social media, we had
‘Chicken Licken’ (1969)

Artist: Robert Lumley

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Tomorrow/Saturday/Belated Piano Day/Music, Tea & Cake Day
jointhecircle.net/events/403

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Is the Bluesky outage some kind of Boards of Canada promo stunt?

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Cake news! This Saturday at Daylight Music we are joined by:

Chocolate orange cake (vegan & gf)
Carrot cake (vegan & gf)
Mango Lassi cake (vegan & gf)

and some musician playing the piano!
jointhecircle.net/events/403

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We're super low on volunteers for Saturday (18th) Daylight Music. I don't suppose anyone would be able to help us out. The role would either be on the cafe or door. No experience needed. jointhecircle.net/volunteering

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Saturday we present Taz Modi - best known for being a founding member of Submotion Orchestra and keyboardist for Portico Quartet, Taz Modi has built a reputation for blending jazz, classical, and electronic influences into an immersive sound world. jointhecircle.net/events/403

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Part of the score of Ravel’s ‘Daphnis Et Chloë,’ featuring a few bars of heliophone, ie wind machine.

Part of the score of Ravel’s ‘Daphnis Et Chloë,’ featuring a few bars of heliophone, ie wind machine.

Let’s hear it for the wind machine. Thanks to Ravel and Vaughan Williams, it had its moment in the (?) sun.

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Saturday we present Taz Modi - best known for being a founding member of Submotion Orchestra and keyboardist for Portico Quartet, Taz Modi has built a reputation for blending jazz, classical, and electronic influences into an immersive sound world. jointhecircle.net/events/403

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Me on a diet.

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Help raise £6000 to Daylight Music 2026 – JustGiving Crowdfunding Iʼm raising money to Daylight Music 2026. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

34% A reminder about our Crowdfunder which needs some essential TLC to allow us to continue in the short/medium future in 2026. edge.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Saturday is our unofficial 17th Birthday event as well as being Piano Day. It's just all a bit bonkers. Still here though. Just. jointhecircle.net/events/403

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Lorenz Okello is a record producer, songwriter, musician, sound designer, and artist with a vast and varied palate of musical tastes. Using only synths, a drum machine, and a piano, they explore the boundless possibilities of building ideas from scratch on the spot.

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Clannad - Robin The Hooded Man (Official Audio)
Clannad - Robin The Hooded Man (Official Audio) YouTube video by ClannadOfficial

Posting because R.I.P. Moya Brennan and also because it's one of the greatest T.V. themes ever recorded. youtu.be/_B95i-BQ6n0?...

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Happy Meldrew Point Day, Eminem! Today you are 19,537 days old and have reached your Meldrew Point - the age of Richard Wilson on the day One Foot In The Grave was first aired on Jan 4, 1990. I don’t believe it!

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