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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 56m

The Met Office weather forecast is basically a giant spreadsheet. The further I scroll right, the farther into the week I get. Easy to read, featureless background, does the job it's meant to do. It is set to be replaced with a giant spreadsheet with BIGGER […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Partial screenshot of the 'old design' of the Met Office UK forecast. Easy to read, plenty of info, exactly what I want to see.

Partial screenshot of the 'new design' of the Met Office UK forecast, which we will all soon have to use. Bigger, bolder, and so much more animated that my browser slows to a crawl when navigating it.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Hello hello, what do we have here then? Or rather who? 8 years before The Wire, Idris Elba is on The Bill, dealing crack cocaine on the Bronte Estate as Alex Mason. Must be practising. He's not working on his accent though - it's definitely not that Baltimore […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Still from The Bill. Drug dealer Alex Mason opens his door to DC Woods and DC Skase, here to investigate his involvement in drug dealing, obviously.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Believe it or not, this is a relevant image for my next submission to #OfDiceAndMeeples, an APA on #boardgames The ignorable theme is "Essen Spiel and other conventions", and you've got 3 whole weeks before the submission deadline if you want to share a #zine […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Photograph of a room within the Guernsey Museum at Candie, unknown photographer. Standing out from the information boards on the walls is a waxwork Bronze Age family sat atop a rock, the mother holding an infant, the father a spear and shield.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Three and a half years after first hitting the streets, Tetris on the Game Boy is still worth completely forgetting about your duties for a quick game. I hope someone in The Bill is this enthusiastic about the PSP in ten years time...

Still from The Bill. PC Dave Quinnan and WPC Cathy Marshall attend a break in to find out that it was a kid having gotten locked out of his own house. While having a look around, Quinnan appears to take great interest in all the tech this kid has. Electric keyboard, CDs, and Tetris on the Game Boy, which is immediately turned on for a game that doesn't stop until the scene does.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

A burgler in The Bill has three of his fingers chopped off by the homeowner. CID are phoning the local hospitals to keep an eye out. "What about the Masonic Hospital?" asks Tosh "You tried them yet?" "Yeah, he's not there, it's private." answers DC Alan Woods […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Still from The Bill. DC Jim Carver scrunches up his face and pinches the bridge of his nose in response to DC Alan Woods' hilarious quip about a burglar not knowing the Masonic handshake on account of having recently lost some of his fingers. Evidently, I thought it to be a funnier line than Carver did.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

PC Garfield is adamant that he can prove who the burglar is by reverse engineering a tachograph, plotting out a likely lorry route on a map using nothing more than the squiggles on a paper disc. Naturally, CID are having none of it, but who turns out to be […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Still from an episode of The Bill. PC Garfield is sat down at a desk in CID surrounded by colleagues who don't share his enthusiastic belief that he can interpret the squiggles on a tachograph to plot out the likely route a burglar took on his crime spree. Anyone who has seen any amount of television knows whether or not this will turn out to be a worthwhile envdeavour...

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

[Assisted suicide debate] You can always rely on The Bill to have storylines that reflect the times. This episode "An invalid is found dead in bed, and the wife is suspected of aiding and abetting a suicide." As the story develops over 20 minutes we get […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Still from an episode of The Bill. D.S. Danny Pearce and D.C. Tosh Lines are sat at their desks in CID discussing assisted suicide.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Three weeks before the submission deadline for the next #OfDiceAndMeeples issue and this is my current mood. Any #BoardGames you wish you could get to the table? I keep discovering new ones thanks to folks like you cobbling together zines talking about games […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

A heavily stylised image of some board game components. A playing card depicts a creepy "Warped One", whose plastic miniature is nearby, all gangly limbed and ghostly white. Both sit on another card whose text reads in block capitals "You are going insane". Fitting, for there is a robed skeleton superimposed in here as well.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Second appearance in The Bill for Alex Walkinshaw, but he still isn't Smithy yet.

Still from The Bill. Little of note, a suspect played by Alex Walkinshaw is being interviewed in an interrogation room. Alex will eventually be cast as police officer Dale Smith, I just don't know when.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Part of a comic boo- sorry, 'Graphic Novel' collection has been stolen in The Bill. Inventorying them for the paperwork is going about as well as you would expect...

Still from The Bill. Four officers of CID are sat at their desks reading comic books, presumably shocked that they can fetch a few hundred pounds each - or perhaps would have done, if they weren't stolen, thrown off a block of flats, and left within arms length of these four blokes in CID...

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

If you want to know what's going on in this image, you're going to have to get stuck into issue 5 of #BoardGame APA #OfDiceAndMeeples, where I wrote up my process of retheming a 9 card nanogame into what you see here. I thoroughly enjoy the slow zine-ing […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

A photograph of a game of Bullet Run in progress. 3 cards depicting an X-Wing cockpit sit below this round's target card, showing a bunch of TIE fighters ready to be shot out of the sky... At least that's the plan. Dice and cubes are scattered across all four cards to track hits, misses, damage, score, and special abilities.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

OMFG THE CAD ROOM IS NOW FULL OF TOUCH SCREENS! This is the best episode yet. Apart from Ted's last two, obviously.

Still from The Bill, where this banger of an episode continues to deliver. PC Loxton's right hand hovers in front of a black touch screen, his index finger extended to select one of the many glowing orange boxes. It seems to be a speed dial for the ambulance - handy. Saves them jabbing '999'...

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Yup, definitely gotta shut up and keep watching. Not good enough to use to film The Bill itself though. Not yet, surely... In other news, the CAD room is getting some sort of phone upgrade too. I bet you're all as excited to see what that is about as much as I am.

Still from The Bill. A small monitor on the dashboard of a traffic car shows the mounted camera feed. Not too shabby, really. It goes to a VCR in the back. Having lived in the era of portable CD players that didn't have a buffer to account for skipping, I bet the quality of this video feed suffers a little in the midst of the action. Maybe that's a plot point, who knows? Not me at this rate...

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Ha! The very next episode opens with a traffic cop showing off his in-car camera.

Still from The Bill. The dashcam of 1993 hangs inbetween two rear-view mirrors in the front of a traffic car. I can't imagine it can record a whole lot of footage, in any sort of quality, but what do I know? Maybe if I stopped updating Mastodon and started watching the rest of the episode I'll find out...

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

The Bill has me questioning my marbles this evening. A couple of episodes ago I caught a cameraman reflected in a window. Now, I'm convinced I'm seeing the camera car reflected across the street, but cannot fathom exactly what it is I'm seeing. It looks like […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Still from an episode of The Bill showing PC Garfield driving one of the police cars, filmed from the passenger seat, effectively. Through his window we can see a reflection over the street of the car he is driving, a frankenstein's monster of a camera car whose shape is boggling my mind. Hiding cameras was harder back in 1993, but not impossible, and I'm struggling to work out what I'm even looking at.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

We've got a story about binmen using their run as cover for a spot of thieving in The Bill. I've done a similar thing, as in I went out on bin rounds, not theft. I can't imagine it working as cover but I suppose they do say a high vis jacket and a clipboard […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Still from The Bill showing the back of a dustcart (or bin lorry, or rubbish truck, take your pick) where an irate binman fishes a cardboard box out of the back that was mistakenly put there by his young colleague. I was going to comment about how it was clearly empty, what with it being a prop that needed carrying, but I'm not entirely sure it was meant to be full to begin with. It might have had an address on it that the irate thieving binman used to rob the entire house later in the episode, I'm not sure - I was too distracted with how clearly empty it was. Made for a good joke/cover story about recycling cardboard instead of binning it, though.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

One of these men will get a spin off series and the other is my favourite character quiting the force after 10 years in The Bill, since the start (effectively). DS Ted Roach knows wrong from right, but that doesn't stop him from doing wrong in an attempt to […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Still from The Bill. Two colleagues are about to part ways. On the left is the best character of the series since its inception, DS Ted Roach, about to resign from the force rather than put up with an investigation into his actions (the episode is called 'Punch Drunk', punches are thrown and Ted has drunk whiskey, you work it out). On the right is his superior, DI Burnside, another character who skirts the letter of the law, bending it to his will - even in an attempt to help Ted out of this very situation. But only one of these characters will get a spin off series in 2000. The wrong one, in my book.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

"Why do you watch The Bill? Surely it's the same stories again and again and again... hardly must watch TV. Wait, what's that?" "Hmm? Oh, that's just Community Liaison Officer Derek Conway having the time of his life on the log flume at Chessington World of […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Still from The Bill. Community Liaison Officer Derek Conway sits in the front seat of a log boat at Chessington World of Adventure as he and other officers escort a bunch of kids through the park. He looks like he's just waiting for the day to be over. He's also about to descend the flume. Probably shouldn't have picked the front seat...

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Well you don't see that kinda facial hair style any more, do you? Hell, I don't exactly remember seeing that kinda facial hair style back in the 1990s either. Is this guy a wrong'un? What's he been up to? Dunno yet. Got sideburned. Sidetracked, sorry. Sidetracked.

Still from The Bill. A man is being questioned at his place of work regarding something or other he's been doing, I don't really know what, I got distracted by his facial hair. "Friendly Mutton Chops" so a quick search tells me. Not something you see every day - certainly not nowadays.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Harry Hill once parodied an episode of The Bill the featured a criminal escpaing thanks to the power of parkour, back when it was all the rage. Don't worry, I'll bring it up when I get to it, but it has nothing on this episode from April 1993. Alright, its […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Still from an episode of The Bill. In 'Cat and Mouse', an athletic thief, seen here clambering over a fence to get out of a building site along the riverbank, has to be followed by the police helicopter because he's just too evasive.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

The blue jumpers are a plot point! I repeat, the blue Police jumpers have been made into a plot point in The Bill. Sun Hill have been getting a load of complaints about officers being heavy handed, only it turns out that a new private security firm are kitting […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Screenshot from an episode of The Bill. Steven 'Not So' Bright, a security guard from Pointon Security is being interviewed with regards to an attempted burglary. His uniform is essentially that of a police officer, which has lead to a number of complaints already.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

"It's called WYSIWYG" "Come again?" "It stands for 'What You See Is What You Get'" "Oh." "Now, press that one." Sgt Kendall pokes a finger onto the keyboard, and like magic a sheet of paper is spat out of the printer. "Voilá." That's it, really. Some […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Still image from an episode of The Bill. DS Greig stands behind Sgt Kendell, seated at a computer, and explains to her what 'WYSIWYG' means. Magically, at the press of a single button, the printer spits out a sheet of paper. Why are they such a nuissance these days?

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

New technology in The Bill alert: Jan 1993 brings us coloured pins in maps to track burglaries. One colour for residential, one for business, and - get this - stickers to ammend each pin with info gleamed from SOCO. Imagine all that data revealing patterns […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Still image from a 1993 episode of The Bill, titled 'Supply and Demand'. DC Woods and DC Lines stand in what used to be the DCI's office, now knocked through to make CID bigger to accomodate the new anti-burglary initiative 'Operation Bumblebee'. They aren't yet sold on the idea of a map of Sun Hill on the wall behind them having a bunch of coloured pins and data tags being helpful in solving crime.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Update on The Bill, and it's a biggun. It is December 1992 and the police constables are finally allowed to wear fluffy blue jumpers. It's not a plot point, it's just the only folks to have worn this type of thing up until now were the firearms officers […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Still from an episode of The Bill titled "Fireworks". Federation Representative PC Barry Stringer is sitting in a meeting with Chief Inspector Derek Conway, with Stringer wearing the navy blue woolen (I assume) police jumper, which is apparently an event I thought was worth highlighting on Mastodon.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

October '92 and 'Crack Of Doom' becomes the most Wire-like episode of The Bill. We've got drug dealers with smarts, we've got obbo's complete with binoculars and cameras, we've got community informants and mobile phones.... all we're missing is the notion of a […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Screenshot from an episode of 'The Bill' titled 'Crack Of Doom', showing a man sat on a bench on his mobile phone as seen through the viewfinder of the photographic camera the police are using to observe him.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Achievement get! I'm in first place on the Board Game Arena Hall of Fame - first of the 59 thousanders, at least... I don't get up to much #boardgamearena these days. I'll check in on the beta titles to see what's incoming, and I generally won't say no to […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

A screenshot of the Hall of Fame ranking on Board Game Arena, showing me at the top of the table, albeit in 59,001st place overall.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

According to The Bill wiki, "Sympathy For The Devil" is episode 471 (so I've still got a looong way to go) but it's the first episode to warn me about the content. Did it air this way back in 1992 or was this added by ITV or U in the years/decades since? I […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

A text message appeared before a 1992 episode of The Bill to warn viewers of the themes. White text on a black background reads "Includes storylines related to issues of race and contains some racial language." Such a warning probably should have been played on a great many episodes prior to this instance, too.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Well that's an unfortunate icon for what I guess is a crashed webpage. What that has to do with the poor bird I don't know.

An icon for a crashed webpage is that of a black sheet of paper, its top right corner folded over, featuring a white silhouette of a knocked out bird at the bottom.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

I was going to remark on Martella taking a interested look at a suspect's Game Boy but thought "nah, that's not really news worthy from The Bill, is it? Besides, it'd had been out for a good year and half by this point, even accounting for filming taking place […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

A still from an episode of 'The Bill', showing a close up of a Game Boy playing what appears to be 'F1 Race', but I'm not familiar with the circuit that the character is racing on, making me suspect whether it is 'F1 Race' in the first place.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

SSSSMMIFFFYY! I'm not rewatching The Bill having seen it all before, I'm watching it having seen the odd episode here and there over the decades for whatever reason. You pick a few things up. It's a British TV culture thing. I don't watch EastEnders but know […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Still frame from The Bill, showing a young Alex Walkinshaw acting as a criminal. He'd return to the series later on as a policeman known as Smithy.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

You'd have thought I'd recognise Dermot Crowley from his stint as General Madine in Return of the Jedi (the best Star Wars film, you all know it), but no. My first thought upon seeing this guy in The Bill was "You're that guy from that clock episode of […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Still image from an episode of The Bill, 'Lest We Forget', featuring Dermot Crowley as D.C.C. Alan Fuller.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

We've got a oner that puts 'Children of Men' to shame in this episode of The Bill. 'They Also Serve' sees an 11 minute shot that goes into and through a packed police van, switching between the back and the front and even pulling a few 360s before disappearing […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

A screenshot from 'They Also Serve', an episode of The Bill, filmed in 1991. It is part of an 11 minute 'oner', a single take with no camera cuts that moves through a cramped police van multiple times, spinning and switching perspective to follow the action.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

Hot new craze sweeeeeeping through the #boardgame socials is to cobble together an About Me grid (grids.fun/t/about-me-board-games-0r…) to better describe yourself as a board gamer. Does it work to describe me as a board gamer? No […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

A 3x5 grid of board game covers (mostly) that describe me as a board gamer, where categories include things like 'Favourite Game', 'Favourite Theme', 'Overrated Game', 'Criminally Overlooked' and so on.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Appeared to have stumbled upon a rich vein of "Where do I know you from?" in The Bill this evening. A young Martine McCutcheon in one episode, a younger Russell Kane in the next, and now Trigger is holding Perry hostage in a fridge. Sorry, Roger Lloyd-Pack is […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Screenshot from an episode of 'The Bill', titled 'The Negotiator', showing Roger Lloyd-Pack (known to 'Only Fools and Horses' fans as Trigger) holding Kathy Burke (known for a great many comedy roles, including Perry from 'Kevin and Perry') hostage. No idea what the plot is because I keep pausing it to look up where I know such and such an actor from.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

The first issue of #boardgames APA 'Of Dice and Meeples' is out, and the next issue's theme is racing games. Now, I don't want to startle you, but it seems ODaM is full of Rallyman nuts, so if you think our opinion of the best racing game is wrong, I for one […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

A grungy, stylised photo of the board game Rallyman: GT in progress. Three tiny race cars vye for space on hexagonal tiles. I happen to think it's really damn good as far as racing games go, but if you're reading this alt text and disagree, come fight me about it - in a civil manner, of course, using your words - in the next issue of 'Of Dice and Meeples'.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

I am watching The Bill because I couldn't watch The Wire. Robert Wisdom, to my knowledge and/or recollection, becomes the first person to appear in both. Usually I just tap my partner on the side and say "Look, it's thingy from EastEnders", but not today […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Screenshot of The Bill, where Johnny Olina-Olu, played by Robert Wisdom, sits in the interview room about to asked about his stolen jacket.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

Help, I've lost connection to my mini chocolate biscuit.

Photograph of a Nutini Chocolino Bite mini biscuit. Each biscuit has its own picture drawn on it in chocolate, such as a child's face, or a spaceship, but this one has what appears to be a WiFi signal strength icon.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

THEY'VE TAKEN IT TO THE TECHIE TO ENHANCE!! So many clacky keyboard presses and even a floaty yellow outline box, gah!

Another still from the same episode of The Bill. The technicians are enhancing the apparently digital CCTV footage with cloned pixel wizardry and television hand-waving-for-the-sake-of-the-plot magic.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

It's September 1995, and The Bill would have us believe that this is the quality of a petrol station's CCTV camera. To be fair, I don't know what the quality of CCTV was back then. I would have been 7 when this aired. Was I even watching TV when I was 7? […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Still from an episode of The Bill which aired in September 1995. CID are watching CCTV footage from a petrol station on a monitor, and the clarity of the picture appears remarkable for the time, at least to me and my uninformed eye.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026

Today I was pleased to see older folks (read: presumably not so tech savvy) of the local Facebook group call out the prevalence of AI posters and their detrimental effect on the businesses that resort to the use of the slop machines. Naturally, the comments […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

A screenshot of a Facebook post shared to a local group about the prevalence of AI posters, leading to wildly different events across the country all having the same bland, generic, graphically safe and unambitious design, resulting in, among other things, a loss of business as people scroll past your poster thinking they've already seen the slop somewhere else before.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

Season 5 of The Bill, and we're now into the thrice weekly, pre-soap-as-you-know-it era, but we're nowhere near being out of the 'lets milk this location for everything it's worth' mindset. Sometimes they get away with it - a change in framing, some set […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Still from an episode of The Bill, 'Somewhere By Chance'. W.P.C. Brind goes to investigate a break-in at a fancy riverside apartment owned by an architect who turns out to be a serial killer. The entire wall of the apartment is a window overlooking the River Thames, making the set highly distinctive, should it ever be used again in another piece of media...

Still from an episode of The Bill, 'Between Friends'. D.C. Dashwood and D.S. Roach investigate a break-in at an apartment on the Thames. The apartment looks awfully familiar, having been seen just three weeks ago, were we to pay attention to the original broadcast slots of these two episodes. Effort has been made to film the apartment from different angles, but there's only so much you can do to hide a giant glass wall that overlooks the River Thames...

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

I'm not here to document every little thing I find fascinating about The Bill as I watch it, but it is wonderful to watch the progress of actually making TV programmes over the years. It's now season 4, and the crew have learned to keep the boom mic's out of […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

PC Francis 'Taffy' Edwards of the Sun Hill Metropolitan Police is having a cheeky takeway lunch while on duty, but the entire conversation he is having with the member of the public - setting up the plot of this episode of The Bill - is drowned out by a remote control model helicopter said member of the public is flying mere feet away in the background. All the audio is captured on set: there is no 'clean it up in post' or 'rerecord it later for clarity' - this is late 1980s British television in a nutshell.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

[Obligatory "Job Hunting is Hell" post] Huh. Turns out I *am* a number. I think I'll be going for a nice walk today, weather be damned.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025

[The Orange Man] I was going to say something along the lines of 'Divided in public, buddies in the shadows', but all you need to do to disprove that is to not watch it on mute.

Screenshot of Trump and Putin at the Pursuing Peace talks.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

Oh cool. Now I have the opportunity - sorry, requirement - to pay a third party for access to job application forms. Guess I won't be putting myself forward for that job then.

A splash screen on a website asks job seekers to buy access to the application form for a job itself, among other 'perks'.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2025

Why does the "How to be a better player" article in June's Tabletop Gaming magazine look like it was written by AI? Numbered bullet points, em dashes... I get that written language evolves with the times, but evolving our writing habits into those of AI just […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

A screenshot of a magazine page where the article reads suspiciously like it was written by an AI, complete with numbered bullet points and em dashes. At the bottom is a photo of some actual human beings playing a physical card game, which I'm fairly sure isn't AI generated on account of everyone seeming to have the usual amount of fingers.

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2025

I get the impression that landing in a sector called "Hell" after a turbulent descent through the atmosphere isn't quite an ideal start to an away team mission. Will it turn out to be as ominous as I fear? How busy will the med-bay back aboard the ISS Vanguard […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Top down photograph of a tiny section of the board game ISS Vanguard. Four little plastic models representing the crew have just landed on a new planet, and the landing sector they are standing in is called 'Hell'. You can just see a glimpse of the penalty they might be in for if they fail in their task here: Each crew member in this sector gains a 'Burned' injury.

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