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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺

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Welsh/Dutch bloke who makes silly games, videos and Photoshoppery. #totp botherer. Former CTO at WeTransfer, now shitposting my way through a genetic heart defect. Join me for a pint at bagpuss.org for a selection of my stuff. YT: youtube.com/@bagpuss_org

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · Aug 28

As some habitual games that people here play are going behind paywalls, it's time to promote my free game Cortextual – not only does it have a daily "find the word" game but also a free-play game where later levels are more taxing than you'd think. Just match the twinned letters, numbers and emojis!

Cortextual

Play Cortextual - a free game that tests your observation and reaction skills.

cortextual.net

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 13h

Cattle-Nedd

Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 13h

Meanwhile in Neath / Castell-nedd…
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Cows delay trains for several hours after invading railway

Great Western Railway confirmed that services were disrupted on Sunday afternoon because of animals on the railway

www.walesonline.co.uk

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 20h

Ooh, floor pie.

Hourly Simpsons @hourlysimpsons.bagpuss.org · 1d

[ Murmuring ]
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S05E08 Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood (1F06) 18/11/1993

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 20d

A #cartooning thread...

Some of you will already know my late mum was a commercial artist and (mostly amateur) cartoonist. If not you can read this piece on Bleeding Cool which was originally a thread I wrote on the other place shortly after her death... bleedingcool.com/comics/rose-...

Rose Mortleman, A Cartoon Life, November 1931 - August 2020

Last month, journalist and podcaster Jim Mortleman shared the following story on Twitter about his recently late mother Rose and her life in comics,

bleedingcool.com

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

The side of this brick reminds me of a Bastogne biscuit and now I'm feeling peckish.

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

I had just assumed they would have used a quiz module from the English side and wouldn't have bothered translating error messages that most people would never see. Anyway here is the quiz:

Cwis: Super Furry Animals

Faint ydych chi'n ei wybod am y band chwedlonol?

www.bbc.com

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

I was doing a Super Furry Animals quiz on the BBC Cymru site, and was doing very badly when it crashed out. I was surprised and amused that it gave an error message in Welsh calling it in a "riddle".

A screenshot of the BBC Cymru website with an error message "Gwall anhysbys - Mae gwall anhysbys wedi digwydd. Rhaid i ti ailgychwyn y Riddle. [ Ailgychwyn ]" which means "Unknown error - An unknown error has occurred. You must restart the Riddle. [ Restart ]"

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

Ahhh good one!

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

Yep. Definitely making a 'Guardian Foreheads' bot.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Witches of Essex: Rylan and Prof Alice’s look at one of history’s most shameful periods is unfailingly moving

This engaging if slight show sees the unlikely duo reopen witch trials from 400 years ago on the hunt for justice. It’s Blackadder crossed with CSI – with a sprinkling of Philomena Cunk

www.theguardian.com

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🎃 Deadna Watkins 🎃 @theednawatkins.bsky.social · 1d

Dead nonce
Dead nonce
He's a dead nonce
He used to be well famous but now someone's stabbed him in the bonce

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

I need to know what type of pants are at the end. I've spent way too long staring at it.

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

A lovely thread full of interesting takes and respectful disagreement. I wish everything was like this.

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 3d

What albums does everyone regret buying? Loads for me, but the one that really sticks in my mind is K by Kula Shaker, which I forced myself to listen to joylessly several times in the desperate attempt to convince myself I hadn’t wasted my money, and still get cringes of regret about 29 years later.