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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Having never seen Hi, Mom! (1970, Brian De Palma) I have no idea what the right mood is to be in to watch it so I never have. However, straight after two other Gerrit Graham films in tribute seems as good a time as any.

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Gerrit-fest continues with Greetings (1968, Brian De Palma)

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Eight hours later and the left side of the scaffolding is no nearer to being done.

Unfinished scaffolding outside the Kennedy Center to facilitate the removal of Donald Trump’s name from the building

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

That’s exactly what they’re doing, which you learn upon solving this:

43 ACROSS
Emerged victorious... or what this puzzle's constructor did, as indicated by the shaded squares

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I think one of the NYT crossword setters is using today’s puzzle to come out:

Partly filled in NYT crossword, published on June 1st 2026. Some of the cells are shaded a different colour which, when filled with the Down answers, read MOM DAD IM QUEER.

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Backrooms (2026 | Dir: Kane Parsons)

A shot of Homer and Marge Simpson from an early Simpsons short on the Tracey Ullman show. They are at home and apart from a framed photo of Baby Maggie, the pastel pink walls are bare and behind Homer, despite this being a normal family home, is a perplexingly high number of slightly-offset wall arches leading through a series of apparently bare rooms.

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I know that Freemasons and their places of operation aren’t exactly the super-secret setups they’re often portrayed as but I was still amused by this:

An extremely readable sign ahead of some roadworks, block capitals in black on a yellow sign reading:

MASONIC CENTRE

ACCESS AND CAR PARK

OPEN AS USUAL

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Careful, mate, that chippy is fuuuucked uuuup

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Very surprised to see Nick Helm in one of those newly-recovered Doctor Who episodes.

A bearded man from The Devil’s Planet, the recently-recovered third episode of 1965 Doctor Who serial, The Daleks’ Master Plan.

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I was going to say how thankful I am for the apostrophe in this, but I never considered the possibility it could be read as “Sam IS chicken”.

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Thanks to a ridiculous offer on the price of a month of Jordan’s full-whack Patreon, I got the sheer thrill (in this video) of seeing my name share a screen with the PURE FLIX logo.

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This prompted me to check whether I actually had, but no worries:

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I’ve seen AI folks talk about, when they can’t think of a prompt for an image or a video, asking a different AI what they should request, which puts me in mind of this 25-year-old Armando Iannucci bit:

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

That is not an exaggeration, it’s barely even a paraphrase:

"I still get on great with everyone," [Ardal O’Hanlon] said in a recent interview with The Times, "though I haven't seen much of the show's creator, Graham Linehan, and am baffled as to why he got involved in the culture wars. I feel sorry for him - he's entitled to his opinions, but the way he presented them made it confrontational."

When I read that, I phoned him immediately.

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The soundtrack to solo developer @nikkijay.games’s lovely retro-tinged Quantum Witch. Co-composed by Nikki, it’s a lovely little collection of tunes and one boss fight track that makes you feel like you can crash through walls: njjc.bandcamp.com/album/quantu...

The Quantum Witch album art, a plain white background featuring the characters Tyra, Ren and Lev

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The music from the What’s Wrong with Wolfie? podcast. Lightly inspired by 80s/90s pop culture this has the theme music, the Christmas special theme and all the instrumental music beds: jerdencooke.bandcamp.com/album/music-...

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It’s Bandcamp Friday (when 100% of a Bandcamp sale goes to the artist). If you’ve liked the Digitiser or recent Ashens work I’ve done and have a few quid to fling at some instrumental music (possibly to study to) then do please consider either of the reasonably-priced releases in the next posts

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I was late watching this week’s Taskmaster but I did enjoy the bit where Maisie Adam turned into @caddicarus.bsky.social

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween, kids. Here’s the doorbell in the house I grew up in. Note the switch added to the mains power cable so my dad could switch it off, particularly on Halloween.

A shot of the side of a staircase with a doorbell, by which I mean the physical bell rather than the exterior push button, and the described switch. At the time of the photograph, the switch was in the “on” position

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Yo - have you done The Skeleton Who Can See Through Time from 2025’s Quantum Witch?

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

What a day to find myself playing this chapter of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth

A screenshot from the game showing a fictional flag and the text of Edgeworth exposition "A murder was committed on September 8th in front of the Cohdopian Embassy."

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I thought it might be the same building where Armin Mueller-Stahl meets the old conspiracy bastards in the first X-Files movie. It is!

The X-Files location: The meeting of the elders (exterior): Queen Alexandra's House, Kensington Gore, London SW7

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Also The Conjuring: Last Rites tries to pass off Kensington Gore, with visible Royal Albert Hall, as a bit of Pennsylvania

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Bloody hell, I didn’t imagine it - The Conjuring: Last Rites really did leave modern LED studio lights just in a scene of a suburban 1986 family (who have not yet attracted press attention) sitting down to dinner:

Studio lights prominently left in the scene of tentpole horror release The Conjuring: Last Rites.

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Even when you remember plots from Superman III and Office Space about diverting and stealing fractions of cents from company accounts, looking at digital distribution statements really give you a sense of the granularity of money:

The image, taken from one payment from a digital music distributor, reads $0.000411158883

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This is just in the UK. In other parts of the world, you need to verify using Double You (good joke, please laugh)

A Bluesky prompt to verify your age using a service called KWS. Full text follows:

Age Assurance

Verify your age

We have partnered with KWS to verify that you're an adult. When you click "Begin" below, KWS will check if you have previously verified your age using this email address for other games/services powered by KWS technology.

If not, KWS will email you instructions for verifying your age. When you're done, you'll be brought back to continue using Bluesky.

This should only take a few minutes.

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I have a few rechargeable fans of different designs but this was a blinder of a purchase. Use it all over the house, at others houses, on the bus. Got it attached to a boom next to the bed right now for overnight cooling.

A boom arm, of the kind often used to hold microphones, holding an iPad on which I’m writing this very post. The clip-on fan is attached to the boom arm.

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Cor, there's a digital PlayStation sale going on where the Spider-Man 2 game on PS5 has been reduced almost to the price of a game:

A UK PlayStation Store listing for the game Marvel's Spider-Man 2, showing a temporary reduction in price from £69.99 to £43.39

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

It’s been a while since I mentioned that the Quantum Witch Original Video Game Soundtrack is out now on iTunes and Bandcamp. Put Too Easy on repeat and crash through walls: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

The front cover of Quantum Witch Original Video Game Soundtrack, composed by NikkiJay & Jerden Cooke. A simple white cover featuring the characters Tyra, Ren and Lev.

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

@nikkijay.games This Seventh Doctor & Ace fan salutes you:

A list of Waveforms, the game’s equivalent of achievements, in Quantum Witch. One reads “people made of smoke and cities made of song”

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Jerden Cooke @jerdencooke.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The price point for the Quantum Witch soundtrack is £3.99 and this is what you’ll pay on iTunes and (after VAT) on Bandcamp. Outside our control, Amazon are asking for £5.49. Game and soundtrack out June 24th, tomorrow!

A sticker from the front of the original release of the album Absolutely by the band Madness. The sticker reads “Pay No More Than £3.99”

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