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@Tim_Burgess Opening riff still hits like a train.

The Only One I Know. Release on this day 14th of May 1990

@OliverKamm Those Asterix translations are wonderful, true works of genius. I remember hearing a radio 4 program about them (some time ago now), and being captivated by the story and process behind them.

Today would have been the 90th birthday of my mother, Anthea Bell. She translated hundreds of great books. But the one at top left remains my favourite.

@suddiraval I remember my first Atari ST hard disk - a colossal 20 megabytes of storage squeezed into a box the size of several phone books. No idea how I backed it up - badly, most likely.

I remember in the 90’s when i thought it was a pain in the arse to back up my 2 meg of samples to 3 inch floppy disks. As I stare at my 10 terabyte drive and ask myself, how TF do I even begin to back this lot up. This comments isn’t entirely rhetorical.

@leninology Digital ID and more guns and bombs.

Keir Starmer will neither walk away nor go left nor right. What he will do, in the coming days, is announce the real changes that will improve real peoples lives and give real people real hope for real change that will improve their real lives in the fullness of reality.

@mypalfootfoot7 Any Davey Jones piece is touched by genius.

The Viz is a cultural institution that I will defend all day long. On the other hand, The Fat Slags is definitely not the viz at its best by any means. Overall though, the worst Viz strip is worth a thousand Baddiel or Matt Forde etc bits.

@WorldFamousHot1 Hands free.

The only thing I miss about djing is lighting a cig off my previous cig

You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection. You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum. You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom. You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine. You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two. You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.

Obsessed with this review of the Art of War

someone wrote a 680 page interactive book on cs algorithms

how many of you remember the original ChatGPT homepage from 1998

@NotThatHughes Mr Jenkins was driving it when he had a coronary.

Loving the bus just blocking the road for the love of the game

Richard Dawkins says that after spending three days interacting with Claude, which he calls “Claudia,” he is certain that it is conscious.

#swfc still feeling a little emotionally unstable after trying to unpack the experience and outcomes of yesterday’s takeover announcement And to top it off, Being Boiled was used for the video announcement Our club reborn…

Still not seen a convincing scientific explanation of how 35 is divisible by 7

@NotThatHughes Is there no end to the EU's villainy?

@SlkVglntPma Source of Vitamin C right there, but.... just.... out of reach

It's going to turn out that he's actually got a degenerative illness and all these EU bottle incidents were just clues as to its effect.

@wookash_podcast Having flashbacks to my free Visual Assist trial expiring, and my boss refusing to shell out for a license 😭

Also, Visual Studio 1997, from three decades ago: - launched damn fast - still struggles with IntelliSense legendary tech

they call them crisps there

@Pott_Shrigley_ My only connection to the department is that a school friend's dad worked there, but I know enough to know the closure is an appalling piece of vandalism.

@AlJean @MikeReissWriter @TheSimpsons

Around 35 years ago @MikeReissWriter George Meyer Jeff Martin and I were doing a rewrite in a tiny room and we created Troy McClure, who you may remember from @TheSimpsons A magical day…