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Martin @martinburch.com · 29/09/2026
I believe I saw BTTF on Laserdisc about 20 years ago, but unfortunately I must have been distracted by some microwave popcorn at the critical moment Marty was mixing his space metaphors 😄
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Martin @martinburch.com · 28/09/2026
Reading the latest #FREEZE64 is going to be much more interesting than looking out the window on this train (that’s restricted to about 30 mph). Say, @freeze64.bsky.social, why is DARTH VADER getting a mention in the issue-number box?
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Martin @martinburch.com · 28/09/2026
Thanks! What a relief 😅 I really appreciate your taking a look at this
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Martin @martinburch.com · 27/09/2026
I think this over exuberant ad placement on YouTube has affected @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social live-streaming replays. Hard to watch
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Martin @martinburch.com · 27/09/2026
And look what my postie handed to me yesterday! #FREEZE64
A brown envelope with a Royal Mail red van in the background
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Martin @martinburch.com · 24/09/2026
That’s great to hear! Next week is fine for me. As much as I’m keen to read the Back to the Future issue, I know it’ll be worth the wait
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Martin @martinburch.com · 14/09/2026
expired: the peanut butter? but not the mouse
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Martin @martinburch.com · 13/09/2026
Join some other people (not me) on this podcast I produced of nature sounds in Colorado ambientcolorado.com
ambientcolorado.com
Home
Wind January 22, 2024 Season 1Episode 8 Martin 36:02 0 Comments Let the many winds of Colorado carry you across the state. More details & credits Ambient Colorado Wind Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/...
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Martin @martinburch.com · 08/09/2026
I use a Samsung plasma that’s old enough to have no apps. It looks great, although it does use a bit more power than today’s sets.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
techdirt.com
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Martin @martinburch.com · 31/08/2026
Wow, that really is a big savings! 36% off the regular price in the UK. I’ll take you up on that as soon as I can (if the offer is still available!)
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Me, Shelle 🏳️‍⚧️ @shellebelle.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
apple didnt want to build continuity mode for classic macs so i did it for them
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Martin @martinburch.com · 08/08/2026
Yay! Did you use the EMF deed poll service??
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Martin @martinburch.com · 22/07/2026
I did eventually see some HyperCard manuals but they weren't quite what I needed for my AppleScript questions. I was excited to see a TRS-80 Machine Language book. I swapped a plotter and clipart CD for a 56k PC card modem and a kids science book.
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Low Frequency Ovipositor @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
Oooooh the touch-surface on the new #EMFCamp #Tildagon front-board is a lot of fun. I have App Ideas
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Chaos @shed.gay · 22/07/2026
My Null Sector set from EMFcamp is now on SoundCloud. soundcloud.com/donkfacts/el...
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Banging Donks bought to you by a clocky t-girl what's not to love 🥰 | Electromagnetic Field 2026
Many Thanks to the whole null sector and extended EMF team who spent countless hours making it possible. It's also the set which I've put the most amount of upfront work into and I really hope it sh
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Martin @martinburch.com · 18/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Rq...
youtube.com
MST3K - Owner of a Lonely Heart
YouTube video by Chris Nahhas
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Martin @martinburch.com · 18/07/2026
Is it playable *only* at EMF?
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Martin @martinburch.com · 18/07/2026
We’re GooseVenturing now! @emfcamp.bsky.social
A computer screen displaying a text adventure in the EMF arcade
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Martin @martinburch.com · 18/07/2026
Ah, it’s happening! Joe’s loading it
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Martin @martinburch.com · 18/07/2026
Where can we play GooseVenture in the arcade? Is it on one of the computers in the front?
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pedesen @pedesen.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
Really havin' a blast at #emfcamp
Three huge letters standing in the field: EMF. Sunset in the background. The photo has a low GameBoy camera style resolution.
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Documentally @documental.ly · 17/07/2026
Rushposting this week's Dispatch from #EMFCamp open.substack.com/pub/document...
open.substack.com
Deliberately Whimsical [586]
Greetings from EMFCamp...
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Martin @martinburch.com · 17/07/2026
Have they gone already? I’ve seen a massive HTML tome and the Perl camel book but nothing Apple
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Martin @martinburch.com · 17/07/2026
#emfcamp #retrocomputing
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Martin @martinburch.com · 17/07/2026
Amazing, thank you! I’ll have a look this morning
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Martin @martinburch.com · 17/07/2026
that's a cool fuel-cooling pool 😎
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Martin @martinburch.com · 16/07/2026
how would you do the audience vote? website? badge app? dial a number? voice vote?
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Martin @martinburch.com · 16/07/2026
Looking good! are you giving any talks or doing workshops at particular times? I was just up at the National Radio Centre inside Bletchley Park and said, hey, AMSAT-UK, those people sound familiar 😄
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 16/07/2026
The hat, it lives #emfcamp
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Martin @martinburch.com · 16/07/2026
so happy to hear the bloops and see the growing sticker collection on this bot
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Martin @martinburch.com · 16/07/2026
ooh i would love to, but i am away in an electromagnetic field #emfcamp
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Oh #emfcamp, I love you so much.
A display at EMF Camp entitled "The Museum of Manky Tea Towels". My hand is holding a zine which says "Why is this? Tea towels tell stories about people, places and things. You can change those stories. An unused tea towel is an insult to nature."
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Martin @martinburch.com · 16/07/2026
truly it is, if the trains aren’t disrupted (which they usually are) then it’s the shuttle bus unexpectedly disappearing
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Martin @martinburch.com · 16/07/2026
in case anyone needs to identify me, a younger, smaller human has covered me in space stickers from UAL
An arm in a checked long sleeve shirt, black and white pattern
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doop @doop.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
CEEPHAX IS TALKING AT EMF!!!! zomfg i am unbelievably excited! didn’t clock it until someone mentioned - midday saturday arcade workshop omg!!!!
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Martin @martinburch.com · 16/07/2026
Now that’s how you get a good night’s sleep at EMF
A van advertising Dreamland Beds, at wholesale prices
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Martin @martinburch.com · 16/07/2026
oh no, I’m sorry, I’m sure we took the lift in one station but maybe not that one. It’s all a blur. Are you on site yet??
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Martin @martinburch.com · 16/07/2026
That was a pretty amazing train driver. I loved the train pins. What an exciting day to the courteous work experience person tagging along as well, suddenly now a porter 😬
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Martin @martinburch.com · 16/07/2026
I can’t believe that mad shuffle at Shrub Hill AND Foregate
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Martin @martinburch.com · 16/07/2026
Suddenly our EMF train is not an EMF train www.nationalrail.co.uk/live-trains/...
nationalrail.co.uk
National Rail Enquiries - Official source for UK train times and timetables
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Martin @martinburch.com · 16/07/2026
May the snack trolley soon pass your way 😊
A paper cup with GWR written on it
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Vivian @0x76.xirion.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026
I might have an extra EMF ticket available, if anyone still needs one?
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Martin @martinburch.com · 16/07/2026
On the way to @emfcamp.bsky.social #emf #emfcamp #emfcamp26
A cordless phone with a sign in the background which says “powered sockets for laptops and phones between seats “
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Alona @alona.page · 12/07/2026
i was warned about the mad rush to get EMF tickets, but not the mad rust to sign up for volunteering to avoid the mad rust to get EMF tickets
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Tom Stepleton @stepleton.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Hello! Next Saturday at 4:30 PM, I'll speak at #EMFcamp Stage B on the obscure, innovative, unusual Flex computing environment for #PERQ workstations. (Demo included!) Fitting everything into a half-hour will be tough: expect fast talking, big gestures, and maybe a bell or gong to mark chapters...
Login splash screen for the RSRE Flex computing environment. The Flex logo is shown alongside "Evaluation Kit"; additional text shows a crown copyright notice, a solicitation of feedback, and basic instructions.
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Martin @martinburch.com · 11/07/2026
Lovely ☺️ I think you'll like my old podcast, Ambient Colorado ambientcolorado.com/podcast/spri...
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Spring Day
Spring comes to the western edge of Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Martin @martinburch.com · 11/07/2026
I'm puzzling through v1.1 on early System 7 and wondering if i'm not reinventing the wheel on text and number formatting. HyperTalk for HyperCard might be worth a look. If you bring it, I don't think you'll have to take it home, that's for sure!
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Emma Charleston @undividual.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I keep having to try and explain what @emfcamp.bsky.social is to people who have never heard of it, and it occurred to me that this fake-EMF-talk generator (created by 'the hat village') kind of effortlessly captures the vibe/energy hat-village.codeberg.page/schedule/
hat-village.codeberg.page
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Martin @martinburch.com · 11/07/2026
I'd love anything you have on ancient AppleScript
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