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Barry @barryprice.uk · 04/05/2025

Thanks for sharing this, I'd never seen it before. Fantastic story!

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/04/2025

poor Nintendo, announcing the Switch 2 just in time to have it cost ten thousand dollars

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Barry @barryprice.uk · 28/03/2025

Yeah absolutely insane mate, not even on a high floor here. Neighbours felt it on the 2nd.

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Barry @barryprice.uk · 08/02/2025

Such a good game. If you ever get bored of the vanilla version, the Multiverse mod is practically a full sequel, probably at least 10x the size and free.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The British museum upset and scrambling because someone appointed to a position of authority over it stole artifacts from there and took them away for his own profit is the most hilariously ironic story of the last 10 years apnews.com/article/brit...

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The British Museum is suing a former curator it says stole 1,800 items and tried to sell them

The British Museum is suing a former curator alleged to have stolen hundreds of artifacts from its collections and offered them for sale online.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

[a greetings card factory in 1900] worker: sir the new landscape cards don't actually stand up manager: I see well let's carry on making them for another hundred years

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Barry @barryprice.uk · 30/11/2024

I avoid that whole problem by simply never doing cool things.

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Barry @barryprice.uk · 30/11/2024

I really only keep the account active for Messenger these days. The main app is a hellhole.

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Barry @barryprice.uk · 29/11/2024

Does video work any better over here? Here's the painted spiny lobster I saw last week to help find out...

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Barry @barryprice.uk · 26/11/2024

There are worse configurations...

Sign on a supermarket display reads:

£1.00
Terrys Chocolate
Orange Ball/ Bag

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Barry @barryprice.uk · 17/11/2024

Ooh, I was in DC a while back and saw this model (or one of the models?) from the movie at the Udvar-Hazy Center, some more interesting details in the text...

A placard in a display case. Text reads:

Mother Ship Model
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

This model of an alien spacecraft was used in the filming of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, released by Columbia Pictures in 1977. Director and screenwriter Steven Spielberg envisioned the ship, and a team led by Gregory Jein made it from model train parts and other kits. When filmed with special photographic and lighting effects, the model appeared to be a gigantic craft rising up from behind Devil's Tower in Wyoming. Rotating, colored lights added to the effect.

If you look closely, you can spot some details not seen in the film, including a Volkswagen bus, a submarine, the R2-D2 android from Star Wars, a U.S. mailbox, an aircraft, and a small cemetery plot - enhancements added by the model makers as inside jokes.

Gift of Columbia Pictures

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 13/11/2024

Here are UK & US BlueSky numbers separately, to show what’s driving the trends: • Aug 3rd: Musk says ‘civil war is inevitable’ in UK during far right riots • Oct 17th: Musk changes the block function on X, prompting a massive exodus • Nov 7th: thousands more migrate in aftermath of Trump victory

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Barry @barryprice.uk · 13/11/2024

I've been saying the same for years, but recently realised that the next problem will likely be that multiple companies will eventually do this at around the same time with various sources tied to each, and then, well... xkcd.com/927/

xkcd.com

Standards

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Barry @barryprice.uk · 13/11/2024

Don't think my Thai bank would allow me over the threshold without my passport and every previous passport I've held since I opened the account!

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Barry @barryprice.uk · 13/11/2024

Bank said yes?! 😂

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Barry @barryprice.uk · 07/11/2024

They know. Not enabling comments on that piece was a decision.

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Barry @barryprice.uk · 21/10/2024

Starting to feel more like Old Twitter on here. Sure, Threads has the larger user base, but it just feels like Instagram without the pictures - most of what you see has nothing to do with the people you actually want to follow, and those in charge are making it clear that this is entirely by intent.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 14/10/2024

Boris Johnson’s book on his years in Downing Street is nowhere to be found in Brussels. And it’s his fault. Karma hit the former anti-EU campaigner as post-Brexit red tape snarled the delivery of his headline-grabbing book to the EU capital.

politico.eu

Eurocrats can’t read Boris Johnson’s memoir because of … Brexit

“It’s ironic,” says Brussels bookseller.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

the simpsons one time did a bit where a meteor almost hit springfield and the townspeople were like, "lets burn down the observatory so this never happens again"

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Barry @barryprice.uk · 05/03/2024

Jet lagged in the otherwise lovely state of CT many years ago, I once made the mistake of ordering tea at a cafe over there. I was eventually (I like to think they had to look up the recipe) served a mug of lukewarm water with a tea bag on the side. It's all they know...

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Barry @barryprice.uk · 10/02/2024

Right, let's see if this works any better than Threads...

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