Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!

https://social.chatty.monster/@losttourist

Lightweight nonsense toots, often tinged with 80s-flavoured music & #GenX nostalgia, retro computing, and more modern electronics.

Straight, cis, LGBTQ+ ally. Not an actual sausage. חַי
#childfree

My toots auto-delete after 3 months. tfr.

Interests:
#80smusic #1980s #80s #TOTP #BritishTV #cooking #RaspberryPi #catsofmastodon #piano #RetroComputing #8bit #Arduino #Agon #AgonLight2

Elsewhere on the Fediverse:
* Bookwyrm: [@losttourist](https://ramblingreaders.org/user/losttourist )
* WriteFreely: Flippin 'eck, Blogger (npub1e8p…yd0x)

Location: Warrington, UK
Pronouns: he/him
Languages: EN
Music: 80s, always 80s
Bits: 8

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Last Notes

2026-07-31 20:47:21 UTC

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I do love the sound of the early analogue synths but christ they big, unwieldy & stupidly expensive beasts. #TOTP

2026-07-22 10:52:55 UTC

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It can also end up creating a problem in the real world. If you decry the current Dutch govt as fascist, there is a non-zero possibility that less politically aware people might think "well if this is fascism it's not too bad really" and that opens the door for the really nasty lot to come in.

2026-07-17 19:34:44 UTC

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Written by Bo Diddley so that kind of explains a lot. #TOTP

2026-07-10 21:28:04 UTC

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And doesn't it look good on her.

2026-07-10 20:56:03 UTC

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Yeah, I wonder why they did that.

2026-07-10 20:47:05 UTC

Pleased to say I didn't buy this one. Although I think it might have been on Now 3 or something. #TOTP

2026-07-10 19:52:24 UTC

Oh, go on then. If you insist. #TOTP
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2026-07-10 19:44:01 UTC

"We were really tight, so damned close we had the same blood type".
That's ... not how friendship closeness works.
#TOTP

2026-06-12 19:13:33 UTC

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I think some of the "Now..." albums in the mid-80s had very similar designs.
#TOTP

2026-05-31 13:04:03 UTC

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I think using ed for anything longer than a dozen or two lines is probably verging on the masochistic, but it's fascinating how the more complex that computing gets, and the more layers get added, that the pull of a straightforward way to do things gets ever stronger.

2026-05-16 20:09:11 UTC

Bugger. Just realised we (UK) can't even rely on getting a few audience votes from Ireland this year. #Eurovision

2026-05-16 19:10:07 UTC

Oops, missed the first few minutes. I'm sure they'll forgive me.
#Eurovision

2026-05-14 20:11:23 UTC

I'm fairly sure that there's an agreement that if Australia do win, that a European country would host the contest for them. #Eurovision

2026-05-14 19:40:16 UTC

I'm exhausted just watching Armenia. #Eurovision

2026-05-10 09:18:15 UTC

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Well yes but can you actually derive any meaningful information from the "did not vote" group? Especially for local elections where turnout is frequently only around 30-40%.
You could just as easily say that the vast majority of the eligible electorate also rejected the policies of the Greens, or Labour or indeed any other party you choose.

2026-05-08 19:12:11 UTC

PLAY ROXETTE! #TOTP

2026-05-04 07:37:24 UTC

Thoughts and prayers to everyone called Luke during mealtimes today.
"Use the forks, Luke"

2026-05-01 18:17:11 UTC

What is this? Ageing white male pop stars doing shit songs night?
Sting, Bono, Bowie ... and none of them worth listening to. #TOTP

2026-04-12 12:12:11 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-04-10 19:49:01 UTC

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God Jess you always tease us with these amazing sounding tales!
One day I'm going to head over t'hils to Wakey to one of your gigs and demand you spill all the beans!
#TOTP

2026-04-10 18:33:07 UTC

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That's something of a surprise, even if it was originally expected to be just a club song I'm surprised they didn't put it out on 7" once it became a huge hit.
#TOTP

2026-04-10 18:12:26 UTC

Where did these hashtag-retooting bot things come from?
*frantically searches for mute button*
#TOTP

2026-04-10 18:05:00 UTC

Gail Porter: "You can't stop Top of the Pops!"
BBC: "... unless it's the episodes presented by Scott Mills that we were intending to show"
#TOTP

2026-04-07 16:14:05 UTC

BREAKING: Spring happens, is found to be warmer than winter.
#UKWeather
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2026-04-03 19:43:09 UTC

This is not a set up, this actually happened, I'm so sorry. Don't read on if you're not a 13-year-old schoolboy, or at least have an equivalent level of humour.
If you leave iPlayer running in a background tab, eventually it pauses itself. I forgot I'd left it running (muted) after doing the Spandau Ballet screengrab earlier, and flipped back to that tab just now to find it had freeze-framed like this.
So for all those asking "is this song about nuclear war or ...." I think we have an answer.
#TOTP
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2026-04-03 18:33:14 UTC

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#totp
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2026-04-03 18:05:55 UTC

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Nobody needs to think about Pete Waterman polishing one out at 7 o'clock in the evening. No one!
#TOTP

2026-04-03 09:02:22 UTC

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As far as I can tell we'll be getting a pair of Gail Porter episodes.
At least I'm slightly less miffed about missing episodes from the late 90s than all those that are unshowable from the 1970s and 80s.
#TOTP

2026-03-30 12:52:06 UTC

Blimey, Scott Mills eh. It's always the quiet ones.
(Like everyone else I have no idea what happened, but it's all been very fast)
#ScottMills

2026-03-28 09:43:24 UTC

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There is no such thing (in law at least) as a "school bus" in the UK. There are of course buses which carry schoolchildren but they have no legal different status to any other bus.

2026-03-27 19:26:38 UTC

At least you can't go too far wrong with camp europop. You get exactly what you pay for. #TOTP

2026-03-27 19:16:42 UTC

The lead guitarist has a very silly beard. #TOTP

2026-03-27 19:08:36 UTC

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Evening, sir. Sit down, pull up a pew. You haven't missed anything of note. #TOTP

2026-03-19 09:13:11 UTC

I am in this greetings card and I don't like it.
#80sMusic #GenX
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2026-03-13 09:26:09 UTC

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It's one thing to find a pub with a telly, it's quite another to persuade the staff & customers they really want to watch two hours of TOTP on a Friday night!

2026-03-12 10:13:07 UTC

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Flashbacks to the bad old good old days when Friday #TOTP on Fedi was basically just me & you 😆

2026-03-11 10:10:01 UTC

Telly in the 1960s was ... different.
The voiceover on the first 20 seconds of this is quite amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpBjKXQun7k

2026-03-08 13:45:40 UTC

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I would not be at all surprised to find somewhere in the code there is essentially a simple check which says "if you deduce that the client is asking you to produce a QR code, branch off to this actual QR-generating logic instead of the usual fuzzy LLM logic"

2026-03-07 17:42:27 UTC

There was another exciting aspect to our hike today.
For years I believed that the Tiny Balancing Sheep breed was just a myth, as I've done so many walks and hikes through the British countryside and never seen one.
But reader, I was mistaken. And I have proof.
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2026-03-07 13:23:04 UTC

We've gone walking in the east Lancs hills but I think we took a wrong turn and went through a portal to Middle Earth.
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2026-03-06 20:40:37 UTC

Was this the period when the BBC wouldn't call them Massive *Attack* because of the Gulf War or something?
#TOTP

2026-03-06 19:49:11 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@landelare/116183959352164098
We got one, #TOTP fam!
#note1jtn…dhk4

2026-03-06 09:50:19 UTC

Well every day really is a school day.
It's over 40 years since Madness's song "Michael Caine" was released, and of course like every charts-obsessed 80s teenager I know that song inside out, back to front and upside down.
But embarrassingly it took until today for me to find out that the song is not actually about everyone's favourite Sarf London actor but was in fact written by the group's Chas Smash about IRA informers having to change their names & identities and go into hiding.
🎵 *He can't remember his own name* 🎵
Slightly less surprising to find the Nutty Boys doing a song about the Troubles when you find that Smash's real name was Cathal (which he anglicised to Carl) and he grew up in both London & Belfast.

2026-03-05 19:27:53 UTC

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They've forked off?

2026-03-01 20:29:31 UTC

Look upon my bread and butter pudding ye mortals, and weep.
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2026-02-28 15:51:21 UTC

After our journey on the steam train, we popped into Bury Art Gallery for a bit of a mooch around and to get out of the cold/wet. And they had this absolutely marvelous pair of pictures, created over a century apart from each other.
Both are entitled "The Cruel Sister".
The first is an oil on canvas painting by John Faed, undated but preceding 1897 when it was gifted to the gallery.
The second is a digital photograph on canvas by Jez Dolan, created in 2017.
The more you look, the better they both get.
#art
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2026-02-27 20:14:28 UTC

I was slightly worried when I saw "Gary's Gang" as the band when I was compiling the "now playing" toots earlier in the day.
Fortunately not that Gary, or his gang.
#TOTP

2026-02-27 19:31:13 UTC

"You bought the records ..."
Did people still buy records in 1999? Wasn't it already all CDs and downloads by then. The vinyl revival was still decades away.
#TOTP

2026-02-27 17:52:01 UTC

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Ready willing & able.
#TOTP

2026-02-22 07:37:20 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-02-21 14:07:22 UTC

This restaurant has five different levels of spiciness to choose from for their noodles.
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2026-02-20 19:57:32 UTC

Do not despair good people of Top of the Pops, for I have seen the future (past) and the next couple of episodes are Not Bad At All.
#TOTP

2026-02-20 19:56:08 UTC

The opening chords to this song make it sound like she's going to sing "When I Fall in Love".
I assume Martine McCutcheon didn't ever make an album of jazz standards?
#TOTP

2026-02-20 19:42:29 UTC

A lot of Europop is great. Cheesy but great.
This ... isn't.
#TOTP

2026-02-19 10:12:44 UTC

I bet he's sweating now.

2026-02-17 19:43:59 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@asiny/116086543785492184
Like A Virgin, True Colors, Eternal Flame, I Drove All Night, I Touch Myself ... and plenty of others.
Without Billy Steinberg, the 80s wouldn't have been the 80s.
Thank you for the music.
#BillySteinberg #80sMusic
#note13sq…fgkl

2026-02-14 21:00:11 UTC

If you're stuck for something to watch I thoroughly recommend that Small Prophets they just did a trailer for. It's wonderful.
#SmallProphets

2026-02-08 20:52:09 UTC

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No, that's Broadcasting House in London.

2026-02-08 18:20:59 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-02-06 20:23:00 UTC

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She's nicked the net curtains out of her nan's living room window. #TOTP

2026-02-06 20:10:32 UTC

Why are Legs & Co goosestepping to Abba? #TOTP

2026-02-06 20:02:16 UTC

That's not the right spelling, is it? #TOTP
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2026-02-06 19:56:15 UTC

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Yep. You don't expect anything different but it's still so disappointing to look back and see it all happening before your eyes. Or ears. #totp

2026-02-06 19:54:51 UTC

How did house music go from the anarchic anything-goes rave craziness of the late 80s/early 90s, to this by-the-numbers melodic trance thing in just a few short years. #Totp

2026-02-06 19:19:42 UTC

I realise I'm about to be blocked by most of you but honestly, have R.E.M. ever made a song that isn't an utter bloody dirge? #TOTP

2026-02-05 09:46:15 UTC

I've been watching the #WinterOlympics and that makes me think I'd love to give ski jumping a go, but I'm worried it will be a slippery slope.
#SorryNotSorry

2026-02-03 07:39:16 UTC

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Slightly ironic though that (as of right now) none of the subdomains of linux.pizza seem to have moved to that shortlived letsencrypt profile 🙂

2026-02-01 09:10:44 UTC

Finally, a valid use may have been found for generative AI.
This site will take an architect's beautiful, utopian image of what their wonderful new building/park/plaza will look like, and the AI will try to imagine what it will actually look like on a cold, damp, miserable winter's day.
#AI #GenAI #architecture
https://antirender.com
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2026-01-31 21:37:56 UTC

We were in Stafford today and visited the town museum, which among things had a recreation of a Victorian shop, complete with recreated Victorian shopkeeper.
Who seems to have fallen into a Two Ronnies sketch.
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2026-01-28 13:48:20 UTC

Seen near home. #bloomscrolling
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2026-01-27 14:13:56 UTC

It's all just a little bit sexist in a fairly expected 1960s way and then all of a sudden the line "And sexy little schoolgirls" was uttered by Macnee with such lustful glee that it made me wonder if I really heard that correctly.

2026-01-26 09:02:43 UTC

Happy 100th birthday television!
On January 26th, 1926, John Logie Baird gave the first public demo of a working television system in his laboratory above what is now Bar Italia on Frith Street, in London's Soho.
🎵 *You've had your time, you've had your power, you've yet to have your finest hour.*
No, wait, that's radio. Never mind, same thing but with pictures!
#Television #JohnLogieBaird
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2026-01-25 19:24:46 UTC

Yeah, that'll do. #BurnsNight
(image hidden as it shows food)
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2026-01-24 13:00:47 UTC

Out for a walk and suddenly found myself in the middle of the English Civil War.
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2026-01-23 19:12:10 UTC

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I deeply apologise for reminding the collective of the existence of Minipops.
For those who don't know it, don't look it up. It won't end well.
#TOTP

2026-01-23 19:11:06 UTC

What is this, Minipops night? #TOTP

2026-01-21 16:44:25 UTC

Finally succumbed. Apologies to any #TOTP viewers who will expect my profound thoughts about Vanilla Ice, should he be featured, but I'm now muting that word.

2026-01-21 10:13:28 UTC

When I moved out of London over a decade ago, there was some move towards having wifi availability in the deep tube lines, but there were still plenty of places where smartphones became dumbphones when you were in the tunnels.
This article is a very interesting and non-technical run through of how over the last few years they finally solved the problem of putting 21st-century wifi technology into 19th-century train tunnels.
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how-london-finally-cracked-mobile-phone-coverage-on-the-underground-86784/
#London #tube

2026-01-20 14:44:40 UTC

I for one welcome our new bovine overlords.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0n127y74go

2026-01-19 21:33:52 UTC

Hello Britain and northern Europe. If the skies are clear where you are, go outside and look north. Now.
#AuroraBorealis #AuroraAlert #Aurora #NorthernLights
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2026-01-16 09:16:34 UTC

I was just looking up David Blunkett on Wikipedia, for reasons.
I knew he'd been blind from birth, but bloody hell this is quite some opening paragraph to the "Early life" section:
> [Blunkett] grew up in an underprivileged family; in 1959 he endured a family tragedy when his father was gravely injured in an industrial accident: he fell into a vat of boiling water while at work as a foreman for the East Midlands Gas Board, dying a month later. This left the surviving family in poverty, especially since the board refused to pay compensation for two years because his father had worked past the retirement age, dying at the age of 67.

2026-01-15 18:52:09 UTC

We had our kitchen done last year. The first design that the kitchen company produced for us had two ovens.
"There's only the two of us" we said, "and with the air fryer & the microwave we hardly make use of one oven. We definitely don't need two."
"Oh but it's very fashionable at the moment" they told us, "and it looks better".
Suffice to say we didn't stand for any of that nonsense (or extra expense!) and ended up with just one oven.
Now today Mrs LT has pointed to a house she's seen for sale just down the road from us that has three ovens. THREE!
And it's not even Downton Abbey, just a 4-bed suburban house. When on earth will they ever make use of all that cooking capability?

2026-01-15 14:54:52 UTC

Absolutely outstanding work from whoever the mayor of West Yorkshire has engaged to create maps.
Supposedly a map of the proposed Northern Powerhouse Rail upgrades, this seems to show two new places called Warrington appearing somewhere in east Cheshire or north Derbyshire, has shifted Manchester Piccadilly to just south of Sheffield, and created a new Hull just north of York.
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2026-01-12 13:07:23 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.social/@compoundchem/115882153881790121
I have to object in the most strenuous terms.
Every day is National Hot Tea Day. At least in this household.
#note1sn6…n995

2026-01-10 14:51:40 UTC

This is a right dog's dinner!
#DogsOfMastodon
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2026-01-10 12:08:57 UTC

I got a #TRMNL e-ink display wotsit thingy (apologies for getting all technical there) not long ago, and now I'm getting round to setting it up.
One of the nice things is that as well as all the dashboards provided by the company, there are a load provided by the community that you can just load up, customise & use.
But I was shocked -- SHOCKED I tell you -- to discover that so far nobody has created a "When Is Bins?" dashboard.
I think I have found my latest project!
#TRMNL
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2026-01-10 08:16:31 UTC

Good morning (or TZAG) Fedizens. You are all now one day closer to that event you've been really waiting for. It might be a holiday, a party, a day to spend entirely on your own, or just an opportunity to chill out, relax and do nothing for a bit.
But whatever it is you're looking forward to, it's one day less until you get there. Unless today's the day, in which case well done and have a wonderful time doing your thing.

2026-01-09 08:54:35 UTC

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By the way I dubbed the Knight Rider theme over the top not just because it's cool and funny, but because otherwise the audio stream was me saying to myself "Fucking hell, it's KITT". And nobody needs to hear that!

2026-01-09 08:53:34 UTC

I have not previously heard of the car manufacturer LeapMotor, but I pulled up behind one of them as I was leaving the swimming pool this morning.
"Just another Chinese EV manufacturer" I thought to myself, "there's nothing special about this ..... OH MY GOD I WANT THIS CAR SO MUCH!"
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2026-01-08 20:19:22 UTC

Hold on tight, little Channel Islands.
#StormGoretti
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2026-01-08 09:46:34 UTC

Who lives in a house like this? https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/170432882

2026-01-04 17:26:06 UTC

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Well that was simply stunning, a proper winter walk.
Home now, with a cup of tea and a mince pie (no they've not all gone yet!) and we're already planning where to go the next time it snows.
#hiking #PeakDistrict #WinterWalk
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2026-01-04 09:56:37 UTC

**Still** no snow here, although the outdoor thermometer was reading -6.7 °C when we got up.
So of course it's a grand day for pulling on our warmest outdoor walking gear and heading over to the Peak District.
We're experienced enough winter hikers that we know our limits: we'll be staying well away from any moor tops or anywhere that the footpaths are completely obscured by snow. But we're hoping for some glorious winter scenery in the valleys and the lower hills.
#hiking

2025-12-29 17:21:35 UTC

There was an advert on TV just now for the new film Hamnet.
Among the 5-star reviews and other praises for the film they included the words "Best film of the year". And then informed us "In cinemas from January 9th".
While I'm sure it's a fantastic bit of movie-making I can't help feeling that given the relevant year hasn't even started it, it's just a wee bit presumptious to say it's the best.

2025-12-25 08:36:02 UTC

Woohoo, brilliant, I wake up on Christmas morning to find that Father Lotterymas has left me the most wonderful present in my stocking.
This is it, everyone I know is getting a gazillion pounds, I can fix homelessness and world hunger and everything and .... Oh. As you were.
#MerryChristmas anyway, Fedi.
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2025-12-24 10:50:09 UTC

Breaking news from the department of stating the bloody obvious.
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2025-12-19 20:24:02 UTC

See, there **were** plenty of faster songs earlier in 1998. The bpm tax didn't kick in till the end of the year. #Totp

2025-12-15 20:04:00 UTC

Who decided to call it Google Street View when Googley Eyes was right there?

2025-12-14 15:46:25 UTC

I don't really have words for what to say about what happened at Bondi Beach earlier, except to applaud the incredible bravery of those who intervened, to offer condolences to those who are grieving, and to shake my head in disbelief at anyone who thinks killing Jews could ever be the answer to anything. #BondiBeach #Bondi

2025-12-13 20:58:03 UTC

Braved the crowds in #Manchester.
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