Alasdair Beckett-King

I hope so!

I really wanted to, but it didn't work out this time!

The bubblecar is real, but Lewisham in the background is all fake.

Good, excellent. Keep it up, BlueSky.

Lord Protector of Crumbs.

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Merry Christmas!

I hadn't actually noticed the parallels with the Aeneid, but let the record show - I HAVE read it.

London's giant AI artwork to be torn down The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.

It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…

I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...

I am one of the few men who never thinks about the Roman Empire, so I can't answer that.

Yeah, we came to the conclusion that it was either about WW2, or he just hadn't heard of women.

I do like WOO and also I say WOO a lot.

I do WOO a lot. And I think we can probably do an episode without me bringing up Frank L. Baum's unfortunate attitude towards Native Americans.

It's bordering on tubular.

It was mentioned on a hip new podcast, so it's cool.

My guess is it was forgotten in the swing away from all that "haunted generation" stuff that I was just a bit too young for. But it's cool again now.

It's time for Eleanor & Alasdair Read That! We're talking Watership Down: a cutey-cute rabbit book for babies. In this month's episode, I become a Male Feminist™ and @eleanormorton.bsky.social sings the X-men theme.

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We have forcibly installed the Stupid Machine in all of your homes but, of course, under no circumstances should you trust the Stupid Machine.

No, because I wasn't a) a girl or b) a boy in an American film.

Big very scary announcement that I never thought I'd have to make so I put nice music and a relaxing nostalgic background on it for you.

In the late 80s early 90s, all the kids had page boy haircuts. And yet, none of us found work as a page boy. The industry is dead.

Lieutenant Columbo before and after I offered to help investigate my business partner's murder.

Pathetic that painting restorers clean off centuries' worth of grime, but don't make it look like the people in the paintings have handlebar moustaches and then take photographs and show them to me.

Finished Dungeons of Hinterberg last night, and I didn't realize it was what I needed. Between the Zelda-like dungeons, the Persona-like social system and the clever take on small towns and tourism, I didn't want the vacation to end. I'm actually sad it's over. Thank you @microbirdgames.bsky.social

If the UK is on the brink of civil war, as Musk claims, it follows that in 300 years time there will be be a new generation of civil war re-enactment societies.

"Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."

The ad worked!

Woo!

At the

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke

history is a fucking joke lmao

A Google Ngrams graph showing the prevalence of the phrase "what a time to be alive" in the English corpus from 1900-2020.

As you can see from the graph, it began to be "a time to be alive" during the interwar period. And then again in the 90s, presumably due to britpop. But the 2020s are easily the most "what a time to be alive" era of all time.