Rik Ward, again
@rikward.com
Made lots of websites once - now looks after people who do. Music, Art and Indie Game appreciator. General gentleman. 'Performer' of internet radio mistake The Blender. Rip-off Artist. Affectionately known, by some, as Major Disaster.
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Rik Ward, again
@rikward.com
· Nov 12
I'm with the brand.
Kudos to the amazing @spraypopmusic.bsky.social and their HappyRobots pals for an amazing evening last night.
[From: 20 Mar 2022]
Kudos to the amazing @spraypopmusic.bsky.social and their HappyRobots pals for an amazing evening last night.
[From: 20 Mar 2022]
So. This has happened to me once, ever. A rogue uninstaller deleted the contents of my Documents directory - and this was fixed by a more sensible framework for installing/uninstalling stuff...
...in the 90s. This happened 30-ish years ago.
We know how to not do this. Just don't use this nonsense.
...in the 90s. This happened 30-ish years ago.
We know how to not do this. Just don't use this nonsense.
Google’s Antigravity AI vibe coder wipes your hard disk
‘built for user trust’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2m3... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251203-goo... - podcast
time: 5 min 57 sec
‘built for user trust’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2m3... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251203-goo... - podcast
time: 5 min 57 sec
December 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
So. This has happened to me once, ever. A rogue uninstaller deleted the contents of my Documents directory - and this was fixed by a more sensible framework for installing/uninstalling stuff...
...in the 90s. This happened 30-ish years ago.
We know how to not do this. Just don't use this nonsense.
...in the 90s. This happened 30-ish years ago.
We know how to not do this. Just don't use this nonsense.
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🌲 Our Xmas Gift To You 🌲
Spray's In The Bleak Midwinter is streaming now and downloadable from spray.bandcamp.com!
open.spotify.com/album/2ewgnb...
Spray's In The Bleak Midwinter is streaming now and downloadable from spray.bandcamp.com!
open.spotify.com/album/2ewgnb...
In The Bleak Midwinter
open.spotify.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
🌲 Our Xmas Gift To You 🌲
Spray's In The Bleak Midwinter is streaming now and downloadable from spray.bandcamp.com!
open.spotify.com/album/2ewgnb...
Spray's In The Bleak Midwinter is streaming now and downloadable from spray.bandcamp.com!
open.spotify.com/album/2ewgnb...
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Look, you want a Pet Shop Boys style version of In The Bleak Midwinter on your Xmas playlist don't you?
🌲 Our Xmas Gift To You 🌲
Spray's In The Bleak Midwinter is streaming now and downloadable from spray.bandcamp.com!
open.spotify.com/album/2ewgnb...
Spray's In The Bleak Midwinter is streaming now and downloadable from spray.bandcamp.com!
open.spotify.com/album/2ewgnb...
In The Bleak Midwinter
open.spotify.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Look, you want a Pet Shop Boys style version of In The Bleak Midwinter on your Xmas playlist don't you?
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(To the tune of "Let's Do The Time Warp Again")
🎵 Pie for breakfast agaaaaain
🎵 It's just a piece of pecan
🎵 Or an apple sliiiiice
🎵 You can heat it up
🎵 Or just cold is fiiiine
🎵 No one wants the turrrrrrkeyyyy
🎵 It's just too play-yay-yay-yay-yain
🎵 Pie for breakfast agaaaaaaain
🎵 Pie for breakfast agaaaaain
🎵 It's just a piece of pecan
🎵 Or an apple sliiiiice
🎵 You can heat it up
🎵 Or just cold is fiiiine
🎵 No one wants the turrrrrrkeyyyy
🎵 It's just too play-yay-yay-yay-yain
🎵 Pie for breakfast agaaaaaaain
November 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
(To the tune of "Let's Do The Time Warp Again")
🎵 Pie for breakfast agaaaaain
🎵 It's just a piece of pecan
🎵 Or an apple sliiiiice
🎵 You can heat it up
🎵 Or just cold is fiiiine
🎵 No one wants the turrrrrrkeyyyy
🎵 It's just too play-yay-yay-yay-yain
🎵 Pie for breakfast agaaaaaaain
🎵 Pie for breakfast agaaaaain
🎵 It's just a piece of pecan
🎵 Or an apple sliiiiice
🎵 You can heat it up
🎵 Or just cold is fiiiine
🎵 No one wants the turrrrrrkeyyyy
🎵 It's just too play-yay-yay-yay-yain
🎵 Pie for breakfast agaaaaaaain
Just bought some nice tea on Amazon in the Black Friday sales.
Concerned that might say something about me. Aren't I meant to be buying sofas or violins or something?
Concerned that might say something about me. Aren't I meant to be buying sofas or violins or something?
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Just bought some nice tea on Amazon in the Black Friday sales.
Concerned that might say something about me. Aren't I meant to be buying sofas or violins or something?
Concerned that might say something about me. Aren't I meant to be buying sofas or violins or something?
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Your Sinclair (Dec 1992) - SAM Coupe Arcade Development System review
READ: https://archive.org/stream/Your_Sinclair_084/page/n45/mode/2up #zxspectrum #retrogaming
READ: https://archive.org/stream/Your_Sinclair_084/page/n45/mode/2up #zxspectrum #retrogaming
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Your Sinclair (Dec 1992) - SAM Coupe Arcade Development System review
READ: https://archive.org/stream/Your_Sinclair_084/page/n45/mode/2up #zxspectrum #retrogaming
READ: https://archive.org/stream/Your_Sinclair_084/page/n45/mode/2up #zxspectrum #retrogaming
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Now that I am housed and Covid-free, I can get back to my most important body of work: doing DJ challenge streams advertised by dispassionate lists of real songs you may or may not have heard of.
2pm every Saturday on Twitch, I'd be honoured to see you there.
www.twitch.tv/toxicshamesq...
2pm every Saturday on Twitch, I'd be honoured to see you there.
www.twitch.tv/toxicshamesq...
November 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Now that I am housed and Covid-free, I can get back to my most important body of work: doing DJ challenge streams advertised by dispassionate lists of real songs you may or may not have heard of.
2pm every Saturday on Twitch, I'd be honoured to see you there.
www.twitch.tv/toxicshamesq...
2pm every Saturday on Twitch, I'd be honoured to see you there.
www.twitch.tv/toxicshamesq...
I *think* this might have been the lowest-scoring game in YS history but not actually sure.
Your Sinclair (Dec 1992) - Steg, War Machine and Count Duckula 2 reviews
READ: https://archive.org/stream/Your_Sinclair_084/page/n13/mode/2up #zxspectrum #retrogaming
READ: https://archive.org/stream/Your_Sinclair_084/page/n13/mode/2up #zxspectrum #retrogaming
November 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I *think* this might have been the lowest-scoring game in YS history but not actually sure.
We would wear one of those any day of the week
1990 & that kid is like a 'missing link' but between decades :)
That tshirt is pretty cool I will not lie
That tshirt is pretty cool I will not lie
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
We would wear one of those any day of the week
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I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.
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The thrilling and dynamic yet slightly underwhelming and possibly overpriced SPRAY WATER BOTTLE is now available from spray-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The thrilling and dynamic yet slightly underwhelming and possibly overpriced SPRAY WATER BOTTLE is now available from spray-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp
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A neat little quiz game: Is a headline homophobia from the 80s-90s or transphobia from the 2010s-2020s? Because it's all the same bullshit, repackaged for the hate du jour
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
Have I Got Phobia For You
Bringing attention to the often harmful practices of our mainstream media. Thankfully the days of vile hostility against gay people are now more or less over, but, reading today’s newspapers, there’s ...
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A neat little quiz game: Is a headline homophobia from the 80s-90s or transphobia from the 2010s-2020s? Because it's all the same bullshit, repackaged for the hate du jour
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
Good LORD. What an image.
I'm still occupied with game development, but I do miss the ZX Spectrum. Hopefully I can return eventually when I have time. #zxspectrum #pixelart #ドット絵
November 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Good LORD. What an image.
Enjoyed their self-titled single, plus more, and this is probably the only time to tell the world that typing LIVINGINABOX on one of the websites I made decades ago would activate the debug mode (which involved a lot of boxes).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Living In A Box singer Richard Darbyshire dies aged 65
The star scored three top 10 hits between 1987 and 1989 before launching a career as a songwriter.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Enjoyed their self-titled single, plus more, and this is probably the only time to tell the world that typing LIVINGINABOX on one of the websites I made decades ago would activate the debug mode (which involved a lot of boxes).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Have you listened to PantoSplaining yet, where two blokes take a deep dive into this poster? Everybody else is talking about it, you don't want to miss out!
youtu.be/ovYesOJsi88
youtu.be/ovYesOJsi88
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Have you listened to PantoSplaining yet, where two blokes take a deep dive into this poster? Everybody else is talking about it, you don't want to miss out!
youtu.be/ovYesOJsi88
youtu.be/ovYesOJsi88
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If you're as obsessed with the cult of old British light entertainment as we are, you will hopefully be as into this as me and John. Give it a follow and let us know what you think.
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
If you're as obsessed with the cult of old British light entertainment as we are, you will hopefully be as into this as me and John. Give it a follow and let us know what you think.
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BBC News currently showing BBC Broadcasting House as BBC Chair says it is a sad day for the BBC as a BBC correspondent reads out resignation statements of BBC bosses
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
BBC News currently showing BBC Broadcasting House as BBC Chair says it is a sad day for the BBC as a BBC correspondent reads out resignation statements of BBC bosses
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Here is the first poster we will be looking at in detail, at PantoSplaining!
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Here is the first poster we will be looking at in detail, at PantoSplaining!
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Reposted by Rik Ward, again
good luck to the fine dynamic duo spray in lovely Liverpool tonight. Beware lucifers claiming to be saints www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX2U...
Spray - Sauna Republic
YouTube video by SPRAY
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:29 AM
good luck to the fine dynamic duo spray in lovely Liverpool tonight. Beware lucifers claiming to be saints www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX2U...
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. The first three words of "look at this asshole" is "look at this".
My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.
November 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The first three words of "look at this asshole" is "look at this".
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Make your own Spray record and save!
I remixed Hammered In An Airport by @spraypopmusic.com
It's on my SoundCloud here..
on.soundcloud.com/BkNpSRHo1ctn...
You too can try your hand at your own remix by downloading the stems at
spray.bandcamp.com/album/hammer...
It's on my SoundCloud here..
on.soundcloud.com/BkNpSRHo1ctn...
You too can try your hand at your own remix by downloading the stems at
spray.bandcamp.com/album/hammer...
Hammered In An Airport - Spray (Rocksmore Mix)
Remix of Hammered In An Airport.
All rights to this track belong to Spray
Thank you to Ricardo and Jenny ✌️🙏
soundcloud.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Make your own Spray record and save!
IRL Fetch Quest!
October 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
IRL Fetch Quest!