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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 02/10/2026

In defiance of God, Nature, and the Mid-Twenties-Celsius-Temperatures, it is October and I am WEARING MY SNUGGLY OODIE WITH STARS AND PLANETS ON IT!

My gingery-white beardy chin and a little smirk, but mainly a thick snuggly oodie with the hood up. It has colourful stars and planets on it.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 22/09/2026

Mine was the baby-BBC Micro, the Acorn Electron:

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 22/09/2026

Watching @patrickhwillems.bsky.social‘s video on @nebula.tv about Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. As an avowed Chris, I wholly agree with this sentiment.

A photo of a frame of the video on my TV. Patrick is talking. The subtitle reads, “And really, what’s up with the name Topher?”

Another frame, the subtitle reads: “Like, what’s wrong with Chris? It’s good enough for Nolan.”

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 14/09/2026

Catching up on the LG TV privacy stuff. Holy crap I'm glad I've had mine blocked from the internet since I got it. I run AdGuard on my router, so tracking and ads (as best I can) are blocked on my entire home network. I just checked my AG dashboard and 92%(!!) of DNS lookups are for ads/tracking.

A screenshot of my AdGuard dashboard showing 780,862 DNS lookups, 717,018 of which were blocked because they were attempts to resolve ad and tracking services.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 12/09/2026

This is very cute! Been a while since a new Dogcow has been seen in the wild! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 11/09/2026

What did you do, Mother?! Fine. I grudgingly accept! Aww. This loveable bastard was deeply concerned when I changed a set of curtains.

A very hairy dog laying on a grey carpet. His name is Alex and he’s a rescue mutt from Greece. He does not like change.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 01/09/2026

This iMac G3 DV has been a perpetual project for 6 years now. But I think I’m nearly there! Found a PAV board whose flyback is fine (phew!), but it’d keep shutting down when warmed up. Removed and tested a bunch of capacitors (all fine), so reflowed a bunch of solder joints around hot areas…

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 01/09/2026

It’s even in Noctua fan colours already!

A beige and brown PC fan — a colour scheme Noctua are famous for.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 17/08/2026

I just discovered these, and they’re every bit as fantastic as I’d hoped.

It’s a special edition pack of Mint CLUB McVitie’s Chocolate Digestives

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 14/08/2026

First ever non-test severe alert thingy. Fucking loud.

Severe Alert
Issued by the UK Government

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 06/08/2026

I’m actually a bit chilly for the first time in months of 10° to 15° above-average temperatures. Glorious! And look at that low! 13°! 30°+ resumes on Sunday, so I’m enjoying this while it lasts.

Screenshot of my phone’s weather widget:

20°C, partly cloudy, daily high of 23°, low of 13°

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 03/08/2026

Cricut machines are fucking magic. Wrote a python program to generate SVG dials, given some radii, symbols, angles, and temperatures. It spat out files ready to be cut in the Cricut and make vinyl labels.

The worn symbols around one of the burner controls

Recreated burner control labels made with a Cricut

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 03/08/2026

I mean, I know *I* do! Currently 227 Southeastern trains zooming about Kent and London

A map of Kent and London showing train lines and all the trains on them in realtime

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 29/07/2026

Me, live-Teamsing my typographical thoughts during an all-hands meeting.

A screenshot of a teams message. It features a screenshot from the company presentation whose text is supposed to say, “Each team’s specialist disciplines at a glance”… but the kerning is utterly fucked to the point of inventing several new letters.

My message in the chat reads “the kerning on that text makes me want to puke”. It has a laugh-react.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 24/07/2026

Spent an evening in a beer garden with the South’s best Arctic Monkeys tribute band… Gravesend’s own Artificial Monkeys.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 22/07/2026

Any noun really can be used as an insult over here, you absolute fuckin’ stepladder.

A photo of an advertising board showing an ad for Jaffa Cakes. Big text reads, “IT’S A CAKE! YOU BISCUIT”

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 20/07/2026

Got the dog staying with me overnight. Love this handsome bastard to bits. He’s just so fucking sweet that he’ll make your chest ache. Sadly he’s only ever lived in a bungalow or a maisonette, so he’s got no idea about ‘going upstairs to bed’. So I remain cuddle-less.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 13/07/2026

Ah shit. One of those actors I’d go out of my way to watch whatever he was in. Maybe a The Dish/Event Horizon double-feature’s in order this evening.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 09/07/2026

More than a thousand of us have strayed too far from God.

A 3d printable model named the ‘Steamdeck sniffer’. It’s a mask that fits over a nose and mouth, with the other end covering the steamdeck vents. The image shows this in-use by a bearded man. It’s all very odd.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 08/07/2026

BE THIS GUY. BE THIS GUY A DOZEN TIMES OVER RIGHT IN THEIR STUPID FACES.

It’s the green shirt guy famous for laughing at some crazy maga shit. This guy fucking showed you the way years ago.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 04/07/2026

It *looks* crunchy because it *is* a Crunchie! And no you can’t. It’s not yours.

Pic of a Cadbury’s Crunchie chocolate bar, showing its wrapping and a bar broken in half. It’s chocolate around a — get this — crunchy honeycomb centre.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 03/07/2026

Ok, but isn’t that MacGuyver-era Richard Dean Anderson?

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 30/06/2026

Setting your 3D printer's LEDs to disco-mode is fun, but also terrible for seeing if your layers are going down well.

A frame from my 3d printer's camera. The lights I've got set up run WLED, and I've got it set to swirly-animated-rainbows. Which is fun, but the camera's struggling to show if the black layer that's being printed is actually smooth.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 29/06/2026

When I last needed a car 15-odd years ago, I drove a 2005 Kia Picanto. I routinely had 3 big burly adult passengers. We drove to the Lake District (5 hours or so away) multiple times. I’m 6’ 4”. Headroom was not a problem. It was fine.

A 2005 Kia Picanto in blue, identical to mine.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 29/06/2026

Does anyone in Kent have a Borzoi I can meet? And then take home and keep? I’d love it forever and go on exciting giant human/giant dog adventures with it. Sincerely, Chris. (random Borzoi picture below)

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 26/06/2026

Just popping down the ol’ nuclear bunker. Anyone need anything?

A map of my town, showing the Gravesend Nuclear Bunker

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 25/06/2026

Here’s my wall — plenty of Ataris amongst them! There’s a Mega STE and a Jaguar in the other room.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 23/06/2026

Did someone unplug something somewhere they shouldn't have?

A grid of services monitored by Downdetector showing a sudden current spike of reported problems for 3, Visa, Xbox, bet365, PSN, Snapchat, Plusnet, AWS, Cloudflare, Tesco, KCOM, BBC iPlayer, TalkTalk, Diablo IV, fibrus and Zen.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 17/06/2026

Me too! One of Southeastern’s finest Class 465 Networkers. Hey, it’s old, but the seats are comfy. I think you need to work ‘Vertical Integration’ into as many conversations as possible, following it up each time with a confusing lascivious wink.

The view out of my train window, with a little seat-back as a treat!

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 16/06/2026

I… I don’t want to cook in a KOKHUB…

An Amazon listing for a frying pan made by the reputable firm, KOKHUB.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 13/06/2026

The perils of restoring old computers from eBay. This was stuck in the DVD drive of a just-arrived iMac G3.

The DVD I recovered from the iMac. It reads, “PRIVATE - Economic Line.

XXX ADULT

Babes on Wheels

NOT FOR RENTAL”

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 30/05/2026

I got my Public Service Broadcasting “The Race For Space” 10+1-year anniversary goodies: the LP, a t-shirt and these excellent pins. I love them.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 29/05/2026

We really do. Aside from the cold/dark/damp or hot/bright/damp weather, we also drink because inebriation is the only socially-acceptable way for us to display An Emotion. (I kid, I kid. Good video, definitely gonna pick one or two of those up!)

A photo of my tv showing a frame from Angela’s video. She’s speaking about the book, “The Three of Us” by Ore Agbaje-Williams, and the subtitle of what Angela’s saying reads, “Like, British people drink so much.”

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 28/05/2026

I'll give Southeastern their due: the aircon on the new Class 707 trains actually works really well. No notes. Thanks! Annoyingly it'll probably be an old Class 376 on the way home which are pretty miserable in hot weather.

A sleek British Rail Class 707 'Citybeam' train in Southeastern dark-blue livery with lighter blue doors.

The interior of a Class 707, with wide-open "walk-through" carriages and lovely (unseen) aircon.

A BR Class 376 train, also in Southeastern two-blues livery. Looks nice and shiny, but these are twenty years old now.

The interior of a Class 376. A bit worn, a bit dim, and very warm in this weather, with no air conditioning and barely-useful windows.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 26/05/2026

Exactly what I’m eating for lunch right now!

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 25/05/2026

Fixed my replica PDP-11 and my IMSAI8080. And whilst I was arranging my shelves, I found a use for a spare Bluetooth transmitter and my daft LED speaker thing, and hooked ‘em up to my starlight Commodore 64 Ultimate!

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 23/05/2026

Then there’s this boy. Alex the dog and Hettie the duck are best friends. Since Hettie’s been unwell, he’s been following her around the garden, looking after her.

A black, brown, grey, and blond-haired dog, flounced across the sofa in the heat.

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 23/05/2026

Went to mum’s today and so got to see the animals. Hettie the Indian Runner duck is being fed antibiotics after one of the chickens got broody and aggressive and took a peck at her bill and her ankle. She’ll be back to her fuckin’ tall (and hilarious) self soon enough.

A very well-behaved white Indian Runner Duck with her body wrapped in a towel. She’s sat in mum’s arms, having just been fed some medication.

She is giving extreme side-eye.

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