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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 15h
Panicked that my obscenely expensive graphics card had died, but there was a power cut overnight and a bad CMOS battery meant that it had wiped some BIOS settings the card needed to boot. Went to a computer shop and asked for their oldest graphics card (a GT 730!) just to boot once and fix it.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 28/09/2026
Abolishing the triple lock only to (partially) fund a National Care Service for the same (completely economically unproductive) sector of society is definitely a thing you can do.
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Bettie Serveert @bettieserveert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We found a lot of old VHS tapes in our storage and have started to digitalize them. Some of the interviews were broadcasted on Dutch TV, so they are in Dutch. Please let us know what you think? We'll try to add more in the next couple of months. XO, the Betties www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Bettie Serveert on VHS tapes - YouTube
We found a lot of old VHS tapes in our storage and have started to digitalize them. Some of the interviews were broadcasted on Dutch TV, so they are in Dutch...
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 23/09/2026
Wonderful hearing @johnaugust.bsky.social (finally!) interviewing Aaron Sorkin on Scriptnotes this week. As an illustration of what a softie I am, they played 90 seconds from a West Wing episode and that was enough to make me cry.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 23/09/2026
I know it’s a privileged position, but you should just allow yourself to miss opportunities to work with uptight weirdos.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 23/09/2026
Probably the most fun I’ve had in this iteration of the #mtg Arena cube. Just your typical Thassa’s Oracle/Ouroboroid deck.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 23/09/2026
At what point does dramatic licence in historical fiction start to piss you off?
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 17/09/2026
The tacticos were right, Racing Santander are one of the most interesting teams to watch right now.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 13/09/2026
If they're going to add Tainted Pact to the #mtgarena cube, they should allow snow covered lands (and Wastes) in deck building.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 13/09/2026
This correction cured my depression:
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 11/09/2026
My favourite Dutch band until I saw Pip Blom live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE02...
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Bettie Serveert - Pinkpop 1995: Crutches
YouTube video by Bettie Serveert
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 09/09/2026
Some good stuff in here, including a shout out to @dvatvani.bsky.social et al’s work on the StatsBomb xG model and its approach to outliers. Also I maintain that there is no such thing as possession value, just value, and therefore there is no right ‘window’ for PV models.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 04/09/2026
Felt like this was missing a couple of marg towers, they're packed with protein.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 31/08/2026
Easy to be smug that I don’t know any of the people here, but I watch loads of stuff on YouTube and Patreon, so it sort of goes to show the long tail is very real. We should be deeply heartened by that!
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Iain Mew @superchartisland.com · 31/08/2026
Over the summer, I've written histories of 13 computer games which reached #1 in the UK charts during 1987: superchartisland.com/timeline/#1987 Here is a thread on what the British public was buying that year, with links
An edited screenshot of Barbarian for the ZX Spectrum. A goblin carries away a headless body.

Barbarian
Palace
1987
Various
Gallup combined #1
W/E 13 June 1987An edited screenshot of The Last Ninja for the Commodore 64. A ninja stands near a canal with stepping stones.

The Last Ninja
System 3
1987
Commodore 64

Gallup combined #1
W/E 20 June 1987An edited screenshot of Grand Prix Simulator for Amstrad CPC. A top down view of a twisting racing track, with art of two F1 cars at the top (a McLaren and a Ferrari)

Grand Prix Simulator
Code Masters
1987
Various

#1 in Gallup combined
W/E 03 October 1987  An edited screenshot of Out Run for Atari ST. A red Ferrari drives along a road with water on one side and palm trees on the other, under a blue blue sky.

Out Run
U.S. Gold
1987
Various
#1 combined
W/E 12 Dec 1987
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5uki5en5or @5uki5en5or.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
babylon 5 is incredible
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Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
crusader kings 2 mid game gavelkind ass map
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 22/08/2026
Good news, everyone.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 19/08/2026
I remember curating directories of church websites in the 90s. Each one had dancing Jesus gifs, spinning gold crosses, burning bushes, MARQUEE tags. I remember all of us with tenner a month Demon websites. It’s not only AI that professionalises and homogenises everything, that’s just capitalism.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 19/08/2026
Very fuzzy memory but possibly this?
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 12/08/2026
All my photos are terrible, and I wasn’t struck with any deep thoughts about life, the universe and everything, but that was certainly the prettiest thing I’ve ever seen.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 12/08/2026
Gonna be rich when I sell all these extra pairs tomorrow.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 12/08/2026
Preparations.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 10/08/2026
I think more people should be vegan but I think vegans have ruined most restaurant menus for me personally.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 10/08/2026
“Augustus found himself in very great embarrassment, and having fallen ill from over-exertion and anxiety, he retired to Tarraco and there remained in poor health.” Every single time.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 10/08/2026
The original Gusto in Sheffield before they had kids and downsized. I have had parmigiana hundreds of times since, hoping to recapture that magic, but nobody can do to an aubergine what that woman could.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 09/08/2026
Name That Paradox Map
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Boothby Graffoe @boothbygraffoe.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Wot Italian? Boothby Graffoe & Antonio Forcione touring the UK aug/sep/oct/nov 2026 This show: "makes your head dizzy, your gut hurt and your feet tap. Grab a ticket and let them do their thang!” Rich Hall all tickets here wotitalian.com youtube.com/shorts/JBVT0...
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Boothby Graffoe & Antonio Forcione: Wot Italian? UK Tour! 🎸
YouTube video by The Little Boat Theatre Company
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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 29/07/2026
Guess who’s got three thumbs and just got fired for stealing from the morgue?
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 29/07/2026
Here on E Street, we are heartbroken over the death of Glen Hansard. We met in Ireland many years ago and he was always nothing but a great musician, a good friend and a generous and gracious man. Always positive, smiling and ready to sing. God bless him and his loved ones. Bruce
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 22/07/2026
Going to force my wife to see these purely so I can say "I'm not as big a fan of VLURE as you are." www.latitudefestival.com/artists/vlure/
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Artist | VLURE
VLURE
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 21/07/2026
Been showing the kids The Day Today and had completely forgotten Minnie Driver was in it (and indeed Knowing Me, Knowing You).
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 18/07/2026
Well, I'd like to see ol England throw away THIS lead! *England throw away the lead easily Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 18/07/2026
Ninety minutes of ace throughballs, let’s do it.
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 16/07/2026
'The site’s founders are big believers in pushing the cause of neglected or threatened culture, so when they heard tidings that the ploughman’s lunch was in a state of crisis and decline, they knew they had to act...' Low Culture Podcast: The Ploughman’s Lunch buff.ly/DjGb3R8
Colour photograph of a traditional ploughman's lunch—bread, pickled onions, cucumber, tomatoes, relish and cheese.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 10/07/2026
The Italians really ought to copy this to celebrate Gaius Duilius training his crews on land before actual ships were available against the Carthaginians.
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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Cover and three interior illustrations by Lívia Rusz for a 1976 Romanian edition of Tolkien’s THE HOBBIT.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 07/07/2026
Noah Wyle should star in a Messi biopic about a man who lives for his work and is reluctant to leave because he believes everything will fall apart without him.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 02/07/2026
Begging your pardon my prince, it seems Vhagar has been sighted leaving King’s Landing flying in the direction of the the Riverlands… PARKLIFE
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 02/07/2026
I think the refereeing at this tournament has been both philosophically and technically quite good.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/07/2026
oh my god just realised England - Mexico's the Bean Derby
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 29/06/2026
Aww, it’s work experience week so I’ve had the opportunity to watch my son file his first IT support ticket and do his first Teams call.
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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 28/06/2026
This is also the message of Top Gun.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 27/06/2026
The problem with soul searching is all the stuff you find in there.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 25/06/2026
Just absolute magic. My deepest hope is that we end up with a huge pile of new Epicurean texts from this work. It’s been terrible for humanity that so much Stoic bullshit has survived unchallenged. scrollprize.org/firstscroll
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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end — without ever being opened.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 25/06/2026
I like that we’re following the OSR philosophy of rulings not rules in this World Cup.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 25/06/2026
The current state of our Woody doll.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 25/06/2026
Usual objections to fandom slop, but the Marvel set seems fun. Very long, slow games, means you get to do fun things in pretty much any colour combination. Beat two teamworked Atlantis Attacks in one game with a Vision Quest for M.O.D.O.K.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 25/06/2026
Bought a print sub and some back issues of this recently and it's packed with interviews with top creators, great art, and lots of interesting cultural and historical context. Every issue is high production quality and more than 100 pages. You're crazy if you're not at least picking the PDFs up.
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Thom Lawrence 🍋👀 @lemonwatcher.com · 23/06/2026
With our seventh Prime Minister in a decade, perhaps it’s worth revisiting the one demand of the original People’s Charter that was never made law: annual parliaments.
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