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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can somebody tell the packet of jelly babies to stop staring at me please?

🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People who advertise items for sale online, and take pictures of said items placed upon their knees? What's that all about?!

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pointless inventions with good intentions: 1. Those stupid lids on bottles of coke, etc. that stay attached and get all up in your grill when you're trying to drink. 2. Paper straws. Pointless inventions with good intentions is also my new band name.

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Sord CGL M5. #RetroGaming www.bpharoah.co.uk/sord-cgl-m5

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#Norway, you are indescribably beautiful! People of Norway, you are utterly gorgeous! Big up the tram stops for having their own theme tunes! I wish I never had to leave.

Too gorgeous to describe. See Norway for details.

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I need to build a power supply for it, and I don't have the Basic cartridge so I can't even turn it on, but I have been coveting this computer for at least 40 years. Dream fulfilled! #Sord #CGL #M5 #RetroGaming

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Have you noticed that when you see a chef on TV trying food, they act like they haven't eaten in months?

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Man Eating Like A Pig, Pigging Out

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Wow, my watch really can recognise any activity!

A list of exercises in the Google Health app, with one very prominent entry for clearing sewage.

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I do love AI sometimes. I asked it how many Royal flypasts the King has witnessed in his lifetime.

Quote from ChatGPT: Add those in and I'd guess the total number of royal or state flypasts he has personally witnessed is probably well over 100, perhaps 120–150.

Which means that when the Red Arrows appear over Buckingham Palace, King Charles is watching them with roughly the same expression most of us reserve for seeing the bin lorry on a Tuesday morning:

"Ah yes. Aircraft. Again."

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Anybody else going to see Janet Jackson's only UK gig in August? I'm not entirely sure I want to be on my own in a field with 30,000 people I don't know! Yes, that's not exactly being on my own, but you know what I mean!

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Went to the park with my boys. Saw a fire burning. Was wondering whether to report it, but then a fire engine turned up. Then a police officer wandered over and said we'd been identified as starting bin fires today! I burst out laughing! Didn't expect that line at all.

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Smart watch: "Exercise detected. It seems you've been trying to break your neck putting things up in the loft."

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Until a couple of minutes ago, this was still in its cellophane wrapper. Never opened. Seems to be pretty rare! #Philips #CDi #RetroGaming

Front view of the box for a TecnoPlus CDi control pad. Showing a picture of the control pad!

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I saw something one evening this week I can't explain. It flew over the road, over the car and off into the distance. It looked like nothing I've ever seen before. My friend saw it too, and we spent the next few minutes shouting "WTF was that?!" I'm sure there's a sensible explanation... 🛸

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Every few months I revisit this lovely Philips Discoverer TV in the hope I can finally repair it. I'm getting the urge again now! If only I knew what I was actually doing. #retrogaming #crt

Philips Discoverer TV showing a very wobbly image of the Donkey Kong title screen on the Atari 800.

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Not sure if it qualifies or not, but I think it's brilliant! @sellingamirror.bsky.social

An image of various computer game cassettes inside their open cases. One case is reflecting the image of the unsuspecting photographer.

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

This week I have learnt that if you play Super Mario songs in meetings, it makes you really happy. It also prevents you from actually concentrating on the meeting because you're just bopping along to the music instead!

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Finally ordered some more storage for the man cave. Planned where it would go, measured everything up and hit buy. Now I've realised that the presence sensor will have to be moved, and the other unit will completely block my access to the side of the TV where all the cables plug in!

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homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a shelf and making a funny face .

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Re-watched Caprica recently. Such a crying shame that didn't get a second season. Then I had to re-watch Blood & Chrome. Now I have to re-watch all of Battlestar Galactica! Love it!

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a blonde woman is talking to a man in a dark room and asking if he is alive .

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Went to the Retro Computer Festival @computinghistory.org.uk today. What a great bunch of people and an awesome array of retro computers. If you zoom in on this picture, you can just about make out my name on the high score for the floor is lava game on the Dragon computer. Won myself a badge!

A photo of lots of people and lots of computers at the Retro Computer Festival at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge.

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I don't want to go all humbug, but maybe, just maybe, I'd hate Christmas a lot less if it didn't start in August. Should be a total ban on even saying the word before December. Once every four years like the World Cup, to avoid burnout, would be good too.

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

"It can be lonely in Liverpool on a Saturday night, and it's only Thursday morning!"

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Next message, let's pretend it's still before 12pm...

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

What do we think? My guess is Street Fighter and Dan Dare II? So, #ZXSpectrum ?

Mystery cassette. Does it say Street Fighter on it?

Mystery cassette. Does it say Dan Dare II?

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Oh no! All those things I said I'd do on Monday are going to catch up with me tomorrow!

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I don't have an Acorn Electron, but I felt I had to grab this. It's in lovely condition. I'm pretty sure I have this on cassette for the Atari too somewhere. #retrogaming

Cover for the cassette version of "The Count" for the Acorn Electron computer. It says "Adventure International 5" at the top. Bottom left it says "an original Scott Adams adventure." The main picture is your typical Transylvanian scene, with a long winding road leading up to an imposing castle, and Dracula in the forefront with his arms spread.

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Okay, so it's something a bit more than tuning in a channel. But, this is serious progress as it's been a year since I managed to last get it to turn on. #Philips #Discoverer #CRTV #retrogaming Yes, I have adjusted the brightness and contrast since taking this picture!

A wobbly image of Donkey Kong on the Atari 800 showing on a Philips Discoverer TV screen.

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Does anyone know how to fine tune the channels on a Philips Discoverer TV? Just needs a little tweak! #retrogaming

A picture of a Philips Discoverer TV with Space Invaders on the screen, running on an Atari 800.

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I've just had a sudden 30-year flashback to my University days, and I now realise that the maths lecturer was just like Pops from #RegularShow ! The statistics lecture involving a coin, where he innocently talked about tossing and getting good head will forever stay with me...

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a cartoon of a man with a mustache and top hat says jolly good show indeed

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I'd like a really dull and completely uneventful week next week please.

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Both my knees are in agony after climbing up and down Snowdon, yet I've just given my seat up to somebody else on a packed train because I'm too bloody nice. Send good karma my way!

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

What a world we live in, where you can still get a 4G signal on a mountain!

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Decided it would be fun to hook my #Atari 800XL up to my monitor last night. It wasn't! Got a picture, but no sound. So I hooked it up to my portable monitor instead. That worked. Then I spent ages trying to get a game to load from tape. Once loaded, it was rubbish! I love #retrogaming !

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🕹️ bpharoah 🕹️ @bpharoah.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Kids screaming. Dogs barking. Seagulls screeching. Motorbikes roaring. There really is so much noise pollution these days. It's enough to send you round the twist. And the seagulls really do need to bugger off back to the sea. Clue's in the name you daft birds.

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