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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 01/10/2026

Happy 25th birthday to Kylie's Fever album! I know what I'll be listening to later on. The album of course spawned such classics as Can't Get You Out Of My Head, Come Into My World and Love At First Sight (fun fact: the last track on her debut album is also called Love At First Sight).

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 28/09/2026

It looks like it was Believer by Raissa.

A partial screenshot of my last.fm library, showing my earliest scrobbles, which were on Tuesday 15 February 2005.

The date is at the top, and four scrobbles are listed;

Triple J Interview - Pop Will Eat Itself - 15 Feb 2005, 11:01pm
Strange World - Raissa - 15 Feb 2005, 10:54pm
Step On Up - Raissa - 15 Feb 2005, 10:45pm
Believer - Raissa - 15 Feb 2005, 10:41pm

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 23/09/2026

I see McLaren have got a new logo, and of course the ‘experts’ are out in force to say it’s shit, but to be honest I like it. That it’s based on the signage of the old McLaren family garage in New Zealand is a nice touch I think. I always thought the old one was a bit naff and dated.

A comparison of the old and new McLaren logos.

At the top is the previous one, with 'McLaren' in a thick, blocky font, the papaya-coloured speedmark just above and to the right of the 'n', with a small 'RACING' below it and aligned with the right edge of the 'n'.

At the bottom is the new one, in a wide, all-caps, fairly spaced-out sans serif font, with a smaller papaya-coloured speedmark to the right. 'RACING' is once again at the bottom and aligned to the right edge of the 'N'.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 22/09/2026

My first computer was one of these, a Commodore Plus/4. I liked it but it was frustrating that very few of the big games were available for this. We did get the excellent Saboteur at least.

A photo of a Commodore Plus/4 8-bit computer. It’s a dark grey computer, with light grey keys, plus arrow-shaped cursor keys at the bottom right.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 18/09/2026

Just did a quick mash-up to prove my point. Nice (IMO) looking cover, and 100% slop free. That's all they needed to do.

A crude mock-up of a cover for the book The Fifth Element A Visual Retrospective.

Credits on the cover read:

Edited by
Patrica Girod & Arnaud Grunberg

Including the complete script of the film by
Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen

Foreword by Joe Johnston

The main image is a (blurry, due to my crude enlargening) concept art illustration of the film's Mondoshawan aliens exiting their ship from the opening scenes of the movie.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 08/09/2026

Seeing as it's Star Trek Day and the 60th anniversary of the first airing of The Man Trap, I thought I'd watch that this evening, but instead I've decided to do a Tribble Treble™ and watch TOS's The Trouble With Tribbles, TAS's More Tribbles, More Troubles and DS9's Trials And Tribble-ations. 🖖

A photo of the inside of my blu-ray set of the complete Original Series of Star Trek. Here, you can see the titles of episodes included in discs three, four and five from Season Two, plus all the extras. They read:

Disc 3
Journey To Babel
Friday's Child
The Deadly Years
Obsession
Wolf In The Fold
Special features
• Preview trailers

Disc 4
The Trouble With Tribbles
with audio commentary by David Gerrold
Special features
• Preview Trailer
• Starfleet Access episode - The Trouble With Tribbles
• More Tribbles, More Troubles (Star Trek: The Animated Series Episode #1) (HD) with audio commentary by David Gerrold
• Trials And Tribble-ations (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode #503) (HD)
• Trials And Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends
• Trials And Tribble-ations: An Historic Endeavor
• Star Trek: TOS on blu-ray

Disc 5
The Gamesters of Triskelion
A Piece Of The Action
The Immunity Syndrome
A Private Little War
Special features
• Preview trailers

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 05/09/2026

I just grabbed something from my Plus/4 games and picked out this one. It’s just a Green Beret clone but I always liked this one though, even though you had to be pretty much pixel-perfect with the stabbing. I think I only ever got past level two once or twice. #RandomGameSaturday

A photo of the cassette case for the game Bridgehead for the C16 published by Anco. The case is one of those double-sized plastic cases and the cover art is seemingly of a WWII scene (even though the game isn’t set then). A downed German plane is at the centre of the image and a Tiger tank is at the top. An explosion is at the bottom right and a soldier is silhouetted by the blast. Some soldiers are at the bottom left.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 31/08/2026

I just had a go on the demo of the Amiga port of Sonic The Hedgehog and it’s very impressive. It genuinely feels like I’m just playing the original Mega Drive version. There’s some slowdown if you get hurt and have a lot of rings, but apart from that, it’s just as fast as the original.

A photo of a silver 4:3 Sony Bravia flatscreen TV showing the Amiga port by Reassembler of the Sega Mega Drive game Sonic The Hedgehog. The TV is sitting on top a silver Sanyo VHS player, and in front of that is my Amiga 1200 computer.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 18/08/2026

Naughty By Nature: O.P.P. Remixes

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 13/08/2026

It's been a while since I last bought a new album on cassette! At some point I'll have to fix one of my tape players so I can actually play it. 😆 I really like how the sleeve folds out on this one, too. @theanchoress.bsky.social

A photo of the cassette edition of The Anchoress album As We Once Were.

The cassette's card sleeve has been opened to show the cassette itself, which is yellow with a white paper label. The sleeve is cross-shaped, which, when closed, folds together. The inside panels of the sleeve has the full credits for each track of the album.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 01/08/2026

You have not experienced Red Dead Redemption II until you have played it in the original NES... or something. 😆 (I originally did this back in 2018, I thought I'd lost it but nope)

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 31/07/2026

Well, I've waited this long for GTA VI, I might as well wait a bit longer and get it when Mastertronic re-release it at a budget price. 😆 (Oh, the exciting things I do with my Friday nights...)

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 31/07/2026

Something I like to do occasionally; I can't find decent quality artwork for my music library? Eh, I'll just re-create it.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 28/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains

The cover art for The Orb's album U.F.Orb. The image is of a computer-generated image of a huge 16-point star-shaped space ship (I think!) with a couple of small planets around it. The Album's title is shown in large rounded letters, with 'u' and 'f' down the left and 'o', 'r' and 'b' along the bottom.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 16/05/2026

It feels like this is the only top I could wear today. End of an era.

A photo of the back of a yellow Arsenal away shirt which has McCABE 15 printed on it.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 20/04/2026

Repost with your first crush

A shot of Princess Leia from the closing scene of the first Star Wars movie, looking to the left and smiling

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 16/04/2026

what perfect album came out when you were 16?

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 09/04/2026

share an image you can hear 🖤

A screen capture of the opening shot of the movie Blade Runner. This is a view of 'future' Los Angeles at night showing a sprawling city of skyscrapers of which you can barely see the outlines, as it's mostly just lights as far as the eye can see. There's also some belches of flame shooting out of some of the taller buildings.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 24/03/2026

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS BLATTER

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 17/02/2026

Having said that, I did kinda want the Picard logo to use that TNG-style logo...

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 15/02/2026

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

The cover art for the album Endtroducing.... by DJ Shadow. The cover is a photo of a couple of DJ Shadow's friends in a record shop, Chief Xcel on the left holding some records under his left arm, and Lyrics Born on the right who's wearing a wig and headphones. Lyrics Born however seems to have looked up at the time the photo was taken as his head is blurred.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 11/02/2026

F1 had a rebrand a few years ago yet for some reason they *still* can't fix the sodding kerning in their text. Sort it out, Liberty! #F1 #Formula1 #Kerning #Typography

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 09/02/2026

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars”, “Star Trek”, “Dr. Who”, or “Transformers.”

An image of Ava from the movie Ex/Machina. She's looking at the camera and her face looks human, however the rest of her is mechanics covered in a silver mesh.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 13/01/2026

Flashback is my all time fave, I've got it on the Amiga and SNES but tend to go for the Mega Drive version. I often have a Mega Bomberman session too. Syndicate on the Amiga is another I love going back to a lot and if I'm ever on my ZX Spectrum I always play Rogue Trooper.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 22/12/2025

Over 30 selfie thread. I'm 49.

A selfie of Ellie, who’s smiling at the camera on a bright, sunny day, with the sun behind her head creating a big of a glow around her. Her long brown hair is down and she’s wearing a beanie, white headphones, glasses, large silver hoop earrings, a rainbow-coloured scarf and a brown and blue checkered fleece jacket.

Behind her in the distance is some trees.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 07/12/2025

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star (Wars or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 13/11/2025

Well, seeing as it’s Lando’s birthday…

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 12/11/2025

Show your age by a cartoon you loved as a kid

A still from Jamie and the Magic Torch, showing Jamie on the right, with big rig hair and yellow pyjamas holding a blue and yellow torch in this hand. To the left is his dog Wordsworth, an Old English Sheepdog who's wearing a red hat. Behind them is a colourful outdoor scene.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 07/11/2025

Quote with a 10/10 album

The cover art for the album U.F.Orb by The Orb. The artwork depicts what looks like a large 16-point star-shaped spacecraft with two small planets to the left of it. The background has some orange-coloured clouds at the bottom left and a slight blue tinge at the bottom right too. Some stars can also be seen in the background. The album's title is shown in large rounded lettering, with 'u' and 'f' down the left side and 'o r b' along the bottom.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 24/10/2025

I need to up my sticker game on my TD-3. 😉

A photo of my Behringer TD-3, a clone of the Roland TB-303. My TD-3 is a slightly translucent blue, with silver print on it, plus silver knobs and keys. It also has a sticker on it by Mona Mauve depicting a cat on a skateboard holding a trans flag with its tail.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 09/10/2025

Well... shit. 😆

An image of FIRST TO DIE in white letters on top of a backgrounf og black with some red fuzzy blobs. Bits of skeleton? Not sure...

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 08/09/2025

It’s Star Trek Day! 🖖 To mark the occasion I’ve decided to have a “Tribble Treble” and watch the original series’ The Trouble With Tribbles, followed by the animated series’ More Tribbles, More Troubles and then finally Deep Space Nine’s Trials Ans Tribble-ations. #StarTrek #StarTrekDay #Tribbles

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 26/07/2025

What perfect album came out in the year you turned 16? It doesn't get any better than this for me. Not a single dud moment, and even the sleeve design by The Designers Republic is top-notch.

The cover art for the album U.F.Orb by The Orb.

The artwork is a computer generated image of a large, 16-point star shaped object which looks like it's in space, as there's an Earth-like planet to the bottom left of it, plus a smaller moon-like body to it's top left. There are some stars behind it, plus an orangey-coloured cloud to the bottom left of the image, with a hint of blue at the bottom right. In case you were wondering, this was created on an Amiga computer, by Phil Wolstenholme.

The album's title is displayed in large, round light blue letters with thick purple outlines. 'u' and 'f' are down the left, with 'o r b' along the bottom.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 22/07/2025

I just did this and got a fairly high score. I did a couple of similar tests last year and got the same kind of result so nice to get a bit more confirmation.

A screenshot of my results from the cati-autism.com test. My total scale result is 154; 97-119 is non-autistic and 148-163 is autistic.

My scores for the subscales are as follows:
Social Interactions: 32 (non-autistic: 15-28, autistic: 25-33)
Communication: 23 (non-austistic: 11-18, autistic: 18-26)
Social Camouflage: 22 (non-autistic: 15-23.5, autistic: 23-31)
Self-Regulatory Behaviour: 24 (non-autistic: 14-24, autistic: 24-31)
Cognitive (In)Flexibility: 30 (non-autistic: 19-27, autistic: 26-32)
Sensory Sensitivity: 23 (non-autistic: 14-24, autistic: 24-32)

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 12/07/2025

I was actually in the mood to work on some music for the first time in a while and just remembered that my drum machine can run on batteries, so I’m gonna sit in the garden for a bit and work on some beats. It’s a shame the lights on the buttons are a bit hard to see, though.

A photo of my Roland TR-6S drum machine (sorry, ‘rhythm performer’) which is resting on my lap. The drum machine is back with four knobs at the top, six sliders at the middle plus an array of buttons all over. I’m wearing a floral print skirt, a cross-legged and am sitting on a seat cushion which is on a step outside my garden office.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 12/07/2025

Sitting in the nice cool garden having my breakfast and watching a little caterpillar having a walk across the patio. I thought I’d take a photo, which got the attention of one of my cats who was out here with me. They seem to be saying hello to each other.

A closeup of a yellow and black striped caterpillar on a grey stone slab which is reaching up as a black and white cat sniffs it. Only the nose and mouth of the cat is in view.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 27/06/2025

I’m very much in a ‘90s dance mood at the moment, after spending the last couple of days listening to loads of mid-‘90s Underworld stuff I’m now revisiting this old Cream Live Two album from ‘96 with mixes from Paul Oakenfold, Nick Warren and James Lavelle. #NowPlaying #CreamLiveTwo #90sDanceMusic

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 25/06/2025

Currently playing this old '80s compilation, there's a lot of classics on this one! #NowPlaying #TheHits #80sMusic #MusicSky

The cover art for the album The Hits Album 6.

The cover is mostly black, with 'THE HITS ALBUM 6' at the top in white.

There is a rainbow-coloured stripe about a third of the way down and about two-thirds of the cover wide coming in from the right, and another one about a third wide and two thirds down. The black space is actually a large, blocky '6', the stripes are the gaps in the numeral.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 25/06/2025

40 plus appreciation post. Reskeet with a pic of you are the right side of 40 48

A selfie of Ellie, who is looking at the camera. She’s got ferns and woodland behind her and she’s wearing white headphones, glasses, a trans flag-coloured Lego brick pendant necklace, a white KLF t-shirt and a blue denim jacket with lots of badges on the right breast pocket.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 25/06/2025

I had a *lot* of Kylie posters up at one point, this one from Smash Hits was one of them.

A poster of Kylie Minogue from Smash Hits. There are two photos of her in this poster, both of her wearing a white top and trousers sitting cross-legged on the floor on a black background. In the photo on the left she's smiling at the camera and holding a straw hat to her chest. On the right, she's tilted her head to the left a little and is holding the hat above her head, as if she's about to put it on.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 20/06/2025

“Smile, you son of a…” There was only one choice for tonight’s movie. #NowWatching #Jaws #Jaws50

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 20/06/2025

I'm having another afternoon of Talk Talk, on to The Colour Of Spring now, having previously played It's My Life (the album, not just the song 😉). #NowPlaying #TalkTalk #MusicSky

The cover art for the album The Colour Of Spring by Talk Talk. The cover has a thick beige border, with 'TALK TALK' at the top left and 'THE COLOUR OF SPRING' at the bottom right.

The main image in the centre is a painting by James Marsh of a group of butterflies of various colours, shapes and sizes. One looks like an upside down face of a tiger, one is shaped like a heard and is red, and one looks like it has a small white skull on its back.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 19/06/2025

Listening to a bit of Talk Talk this afternoon. #NowPlaying #TalkTalk #Musicsky

The cover art for the album Laughing Stock by Talk Talk.

The cover is an illustration with a thick white border, with the band name at the top and album title at the bottom in the border in a black serif font in all-caps.

The illustration is of a circular tree with no leaves. There are are groups of birds sitting on the tree, making up the shapes of Earth's continents.

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 05/06/2025

I felt like playing Mr. Scruff's classic album Keep It Unreal, which I don't think I've listened to in ages. I was thinking about having a day of revisiting a load of the old Ninja Tune stuff I used to listen to but podcasts got in the way. Maybe tomorrow... #NowPlaying #MrScruff #MusicSky

The cover art for the 10th anniversary edition of Mr. Scruff's album Keep It Unreal.

The artwork is drawn in Mr. Scruff's typical hand-drawn style with thick marker pen lines. The original cover art of a suitably scruffy, scribbly self portrait in white and green lines on a dark blue background is to the right, presented like a painting on a wall.

There are three hand-drawn rather potato-like characters at the front of the image, one wearing a top hat and suit on the left, one wearing a big chef's hat and fancy mustache in the middle and one on the right wearing a flat cap and holding a spanner. The two on the middle and left are holding a big birthday cake between them, which has ten candles on it.

At the top is 'mr. scruff - keep it unreal' enclosed in a banner design, with '10th anniversary analogue remaster edition' underneath it, and just to the left of the original cover art is a box with the following text;

'with 9 track bonus cd, containing six unreleased trans from the original studio sessions'

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Ellie @ellierae.uk · 14/05/2025

Having a blast from the past and am playing Public Enemy's debut album 'Yo! Bum Rush The Show'. The band themselves admit it was sounding a bit dated when it was released, but it was the first hip-hop album I bought so it'll always be a little special for me. Still got that tape, too...

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