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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 6h

Checking out DroidDeck and had to make sure these two were working first.

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 9h

I think there’s a misunderstanding of the term “EU Accession negotiations”. Negotiation, in this sense, is primarily over how and by when an applicant will implement or align with each area of EU law (Acquis Communautaire), and then whether they‘ve done that. It’s not over *whether* they will.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 10h

This is the thing that always gets me from so many modern politicians: they seem *desperate* to argue the only real work is working on an oil rig, farming or fishing. They crap all over the arts and universities, which are MASSIVE employers and industries in which the UK has long excelled.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 10h

Tory Lam on Burnham EU proposals: argues it would be “appallingly undemocratic”. A fair point. If you ignore current polling – and almost every poll since 2016. And this needing a democratic Labour election win. And this also likely needing another referendum. But apart from that… undemocratic!

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 11h

Weeknote! 🖥️ What I want from the iMac M6 🤖 Apple’s weird new AI photo tools 💿 30 ground-breaking tech events 👾 My outlier GamerCard review 🛸 Tempest 2000… on Pico-8 🤫 A quietly excellent Quiet Riot 👆 The joy of Tapotron And more! reverttosaved.com/2026/10/04/w...

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Weeknote: 4 October 2026 – iMac M6, iPhone AI photo tools, 30 tech events, GamerCard, Tapotron and more | Revert to Saved: A blog about design, gaming and technology

Candid commentary on technology, retro games, Macs and other things, written by Craig Grannell.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The number of people I’ve suddenly seen griping that 16:9 content looks small on their Retroid Pocket Nova astounds me. Yes, you bought a 4:3 handheld. Do you know how… shapes work?

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You never know quite what you’ll get when browsing the Pico-8 library in splore. But I wasn’t expecting Tempest 2000. (And it’s a really good version too.) www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=158...

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 02/10/2026

Adventures in technology: displaying the birds that visit my garden recorded by Birdnet-GO and captured by the Fugleramme visualisation add-on on a colour e-ink panel (an InkyPi 13.3" from @pimoroni.com) running on a @raspberrypi.com Pi4

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And, as we all know, there’s no way to bring any such characters back, because Marvel comics would never ever ever do such a thing after whacking people in the feels.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a superb episode, not least the parts that dig into the realities of the triple lock, how major reform takes time, and also how parties responded (and could have responded) to Burnham’s care pledge.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you own an iPhone, like the graphics from old consoles / home computers and don’t yet have a copy of Retrospecs, I don’t know what to say to you. Oh, hang on – yes I do: go and download Retrospecs right now!

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ctrl + C Ctrl + V “Innovation.”

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Contrafibularities if you don’t find some of the words in my column this week entirely cromulent, but I had fun with them: - clampy - all-in-one-desktopience - WHOMMMMMMMM

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is just nuts. And while the UK might act all smug, vaccination rates here aren’t good enough either.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Indeed. This is the response Davey should have made. Instead, he looks petulant and his party entirely redundant. This despite AB basically serving up a promise to enact things Libs have been fighting for – and Starmer and co resisted – for years. What a missed opportunity.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was listening to @quietriotpod.bsky.social earlier and the presenters remarked that other leaders are finding it hard to respond to Burnham. This is a case in point. AB basically unveiled a Lib Dem wish list, but Davey has gone on the attack – perhaps in part since his own conf was a damp squib.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Met Office to people who think the new design is shite: “Fuck you guys.”

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Apple Music: “Yeah, I’m just going to temporarily make you think I’ve nuked your entire music library. Whatever.” The sooner I re-rip all my CDs to a local server, the better.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

By me for Amateur Photographer: “I put the new iPhone AI photo editing tools to the test – the results are sometimes downright weird” Testing Clean Up, Extend and Reframe in the name of SCIENCE. And, yeah, the results were… variable. amateurphotographer.com/software/i-p...

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I put the new iPhone AI photo editing tools to the test - the results are sometimes downright weird

Apple says Clean Up is improved and infers that the new Extend and Reframe tools are a marvel, but the reality is more complicated

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tony Stark wakes up in the shower and discovers it was all just a dream.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Fuck you, pay me.” (As famously said by Mike Monteiro many moons ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkL... )

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Mike Monteiro: F*ck You, Pay Me

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If Burnham makes good on this stuff, it would be transformative. Lib Dems and Greens now need to recognise the massive opportunity. For the former in particular, Burnham basically checked a shit-tonne of stuff off their wish-list. *And* Lab/LD are rarely fighting for the same seats anyway.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The depressing thing about these polls isn’t movement (or lack thereof) of parties – it’s that UK politics now appears to be “doing a USA”, in the sense the voters are evenly split between “massive shitheads” and “everyone else”. I just hope when a GE rocks up that Ref/Con still despise each other.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The key thing here will be a neutral and expert party making recommendations and Labour following them, rather than Labour only enacting electoral reform that’s in the best interests specifically of Labour. Still: some hope, finally, that one of the big two will move away from FPTP.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyone else still using old Mac (or Windows) gear? People upgrade so often these days, but many computers we already own (including phones and tablets) have so much untapped and unused power.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Weeknote! 💻 Why I’m still using a MacBook Air M1 🗑️ Facebook’s feed is somehow getting worse 🚗 OutRun is being remade in C64 PETSCII 📖 Latest mag work for Stuff and MacFormat reverttosaved.com/2026/09/28/w...

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Weeknote: 28 September 2026 – Why Apple M1 Macs are still fab, magazine work, Facebook and OutRun in PETSCII | Revert to Saved: A blog about design, gaming and technology

Candid commentary on technology, retro games, Macs and other things, written by Craig Grannell.

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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Unproductive includes…. Students. Students who decide to spend thousands of pounds to study in the UK. Who then come to the UK and spend money on rent, food, entertainment. Who are then qualified to work, and get graduate and postgraduate jobs, where they pay taxes for decades….

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 27/09/2026

Love this

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DESIGN THINKING! Comic @designthinking.lol · 27/09/2026

Here he comes again. Gird your loins, people.

Illustration of Monday kicking a man in the dick.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Picturing Erling Haaland being sold at police auction like a drug lord's speedboat.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

iCloud Drive is insanely slow too. I thought it was my broadband connection, but it’s no better now we’ve got FTTP. It’s almost like Apple has installed a dial-up emulator on my Mac.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This was a fun one. My interview with @penfriendrocks.bsky.social is in the latest issue of @stufftv.bsky.social

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We can all joke about this (and should), but I have noticed over the past couple of years a renewed and aggressive push by a whole host of US fast food chains, desperate to finally cement themselves within the UK cheapish food landscape.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It would be quite something if anyone ever actually posted a celebration about this. “Woo! A post got over ten whole reactions!” Uh, go you. (And, yes, I’m posting about that here, but not which post and entirely because snark.)

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Spent an hour with the as-yet-unreleased “popular musics” on my computer. Found a note: “make snare sound less like a bin lid”. Thanks, previous me! Always my biggest fan! (It doesn’t sound like a bin lid either. So either I fixed it or was in a grumbly that day.)

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One thing I miss from The Bad Place™ is pinging a brand with a problem and it then getting sorted. At best, you might now chat over Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp. And brands can respond in ways very different from how you might expect. (Recently: Tesco = v good. Waitrose = a polite “fuck off”.)

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

UK politicians have spent much of the last 70 years fighting the European integration of their worst fears while the EU developed into the organisation that they claimed to want. Not helped by some appallingly bad commentary from the misinformed.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Local Apple Store is closing in November. Boo etc. Not a massive shock, given that there’s another not that far away. But it’s a rare thing for Apple to close a store and doesn’t bode well for the mall it’s in. :/

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also, Labour willing to squeeze manifesto commitments until they squeeze for fossil fuel jobs. Universities? Nope. Make it as hard as possible for them to survive, because reasons. But unless my maths is bad, 30,000 > 400.

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Weeknote! ☀️ Bringing old iPods & mobile games back to life 🛟 Loads & loads of iOS 27 (etc) tips 🏎️ OutRun at 40 + its sequels too 🎮 What I want from an Apple Games controller 🍃 Deep dive on the Portal app 📖 I switched to Feedbin X Why I won’t return to the bad place reverttosaved.com/2026/09/21/w...

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Weeknote: 21 September 2026 – keeping iPods alive, OutRun at 40, Apple upgrades, Portal, Minecraft and going back to the bad site | Revert to Saved: A blog about design, gaming and technology

Candid commentary on technology, retro games, Macs and other things, written by Craig Grannell.

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