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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 2d

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 2d

Sunrise in Jezero Crater, Mars, 4 September, 2022.

A forlorn scene with the Sun barely peeking over the horizon at lower left, a lone mesa in the middle right middleground.

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Dave Williams @devilvalleycelt.bsky.social · 2d

Is this anything adjacent to the phrase “mammary memory”?

Dave Williams @devilvalleycelt.bsky.social · 3d

I’ll be honest with you, Matt. I was looking closely at the reg plate for longer than I’m happy admitting!

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Dave Williams @devilvalleycelt.bsky.social · 3d

As in energetic entertainment or an enclosed compound?

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 6d

They should do a Colombian remake of Scooby Doo where the gang brings Pablo Escobar to justice and he says "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you Medellín kids"

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Dave Williams @devilvalleycelt.bsky.social · 8d

I love your podcast, I keep going back to it again and again. Thank you!

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Dave Williams @devilvalleycelt.bsky.social · 8d

I wonder whatever happened to him? 😉

Dave Williams @devilvalleycelt.bsky.social · 16d

Sleep with one eye open!

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Lee Harveryscary @valleyguitarist.bsky.social · 18d

Call me a prude if you want to, but I do think it's really weird to use your conference speech to list your favourite wanking euphemisms

Keir Starmer at the Labour party conference saying:
Painting a fence, running the raffle, cutting the half-time orange.

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Dave Williams @devilvalleycelt.bsky.social · 19d

I’ll admit, that was my first thought too. I just could not wrap my head around it.

Dave Williams @devilvalleycelt.bsky.social · 20d

Tricky one, that!

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22d

Just gonna leave this here

Lætus @bajamothblast.bsky.social · 23d

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Dave Williams @devilvalleycelt.bsky.social · Aug 5

I doubt this is actually true, but I really hope it is because the idea makes me chuckle

Dave Williams @devilvalleycelt.bsky.social · Aug 5

A firm believer in hydration, then?

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · Aug 3

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".

(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

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Paul [Atreides] Wood @retroid.bsky.social · Aug 1

I am THIS old

BBC Micros lined up, old CRT monitors on risers above the back of the computers, and all displaying a BBC BASIC prompt in white text on a black background

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Dave Williams @devilvalleycelt.bsky.social · Aug 3

Sadly, it seems yet again that Ferrari’s worst enemy is itself…

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Dave Williams @devilvalleycelt.bsky.social · Aug 3

I wouldn’t exactly call it prayer, but if I were to hear Billy Joel played on the harmonica in the morning (or indeed at any time), the word “CHRIST” would be spoken often

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