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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 3h

And there I was, thinking it was “banging”.

Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It occurs to me, belatedly, that you might actually have been cryptically referring to specific games rather than making up generic but vaguely recognisable members of the genre in a riff that I was keen to yes-and and now don't I feel like a chump

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I assume you've tried the I&BJ mod for Rec Col IV? Best of both worlds but the game balance goes a bit skew whiff and the private zoo UI glitches out a bit

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Like the MGM films motto, that’s your ARS GRATIA ARTIS, innit

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What's Ted Rogers' favourite plane? A321.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

@theupfront.media At least one of you might be a bit too young to get this joke but: What's Ted Rogers' favourite plane? A321.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1) That is _f'n_ cool. 2) Not that it's any of my business, but I do wonder what your agents' views are on this. 3) Go on, I'll ask: what are the other two?

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Full version: “ahh, me first love be the C… but without a P, I’m irate!”

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

2012-vintage animated nope octopus.gif

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Watching college football, and pointing this fact out slightly meanly. I hope you're feeling at least a bit better and that you feel fully better very soon.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I saw the text of the post but didn't immediately see it was from you and thought "oh, a Tommy Tuberville reference, that must be from the college football blog I follow". After a bit of investigation, how wrong I was... (almost nobody liked him there either)

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

….wow! (Probably needless to say, but for clarity because I have made a very meaningless response: I think you rock.)

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@thatjohn.bsky.social I would be curious about your professional opinion on www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuQ... - while "influencers to businessfolk" have a globally bad reputation, the existence of a carriage on the rails suggests this is not entirely fanfic. A11y not really discussed, obvs.

youtube.com

FIRST LOOK: Inside NOX Mobility Night Train!

YouTube video by Simply Railway

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A great philosopher once wrote: it ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

...and I hope you can take that as a weird expression of a form of appreciation for when you can, and do, provide them and accompanying commentary.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

While of course you are a person who has a family life, I was missing your EIOs and buggers today...

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Have you gone to the free duck Disco afterwards?

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I hope Dan has chosen a well 'ard mallard.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My first thought was "are Fairgame expanding to Reading?" - they advertise with giant ducks, sometimes. Not yet, unless you know better. My second thought was "is Taskmaster filming in the middle of Reading?" Unlikely... If you happen to work out what's going on, I'd love to know. Thank you

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Stop giving personalities to inanimate objects. They hate it when you do that.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

PLOT TWIST: the grating started at 2014 but actually finished just after quarter past eight, yesterday evening. I can’t fault you, by the way. I don’t know whether it would have worked as well in practice with, say, a regular chunky bar of Dairy Milk. Same chocolate, just different shape.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

20 year old me: probably more impressed than disappointed, 30 and 40 year old me: probably more disappointed than impressed.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

PLOT TWIST: it's actually the sinister polycule being sinister by pretending they're not sinister any more. (They thought about pasting "dexter polycule" posters over their own ones instead but decided not enough people would get the gag.)

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NGL, I scanned the apply code just to see. Worth the effort.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You stream it, I'll watch it. (Well, some of it.) Come to think of it, maybe you do guest appearances on your publisher's streams already and I just don't know about them. (Or if you don't, perhaps you should think about it.)

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This didn't go where I was expecting it to go. (Not a "in fact, this didn't go anywhere, and didn't say why" gag.) I thought this was going to be a "oh my days, mega time sink I can't afford" thread.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hang-dry Pierce Brosnan looks like a massively inflated version of a knobbly root vegetable I once peeled, cooked and ate.

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The Infinite Escape Room podcast @infiniteescaperoom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Let's talk about Challenge Arcades! This week we're joined by Chris Dickson, who takes us on a journey through the history of challenge arcades to the present day resurgence, along with all the ways in which the internet is terrible. Listen now! linktr.ee/theinfinitee...

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Also, will it be made available on demand for the future? Feels like a keeper to me!

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I hoped I wasn't taking a mile when you were giving a very generous inch, but you were admirably up for being pushed a long way towards the edge of your very considerable comfort zone - and handled the recursion (and accompanying tech issues) with aplomb.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Too late to be of any use now... but this happened tonight, and was sensationally fun; outstanding "yes, and"-ing. I dearly hope that this becomes available on demand, though the experience won't match up with being able to help direct the wonderful, barely bounded, chaos in real time. Bravo!

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I had to look up where Gdynia was... but it turns out that it's part of Tricity, and there is a Puzzled Pint instance there each month, so never say never.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You mean it's not Diesel # 29.99 9/10 per gallon yet?

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

WC Fields would surely approve (if you had)

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

How did it go? I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as Dr Daisy Abbott did!

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A friend of mine's family had that too in the '80s and '90s. Their bar soap choices were not displeasant, though.

their.bar

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Where is this episode's theme tune from, please? It sounds like a piece of Noeliana, an off-brand House Party (not Houseparty), but it doesn't match up with any of the versions of the Late Late Breakfast Show theme, as discussed in the ep, that I have been able to find in a short search. Thank you.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What was Blackbeard doing when he bought commodities cheaply in one port and sold them for more in another? Arrrrrrrbitrage.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Good job he wasn't taking them pass/fail. If he didn't get a P, he'd be irate.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thank you. The (responsible and reasonably tasteful) plugging has already begun.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It was great fun! Thank you for giving me the chance to take part. Is there a permanent URL for the episode, please?

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I did enjoy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... with a graph of how many more Johns, Janes and Jays than ever before are Doing Japan from the UK.

bbc.co.uk

Why young Brits are going to Japan

Photos of Mount Fuji, bowls of ramen and the bustle of Shibuya Crossing are filling up social media feeds.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Not related to this topic but (and you may well have been sent this dozens of times already even though it's barely hours old) you gotta see this on-the-lunacy-to-genius-spectrum guerilla DIY approach to improving the pax seat experience in economy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P8v...

youtube.com

I Built a Sleep Pod for Airplanes

YouTube video by Morley Kert

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

smol duck is *highly* benign frond

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

That phone cable! And the bonus phone beneath the table!! Double jackpot, more bounteous than I could have hoped for. Thank you.

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Chris D. @noneatnamesleft.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oooh. Would it be _too_ too cheeky to ask you to show off a photo of said phone and table, please?

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