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The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I logged on specially to post “what the hell was that?” but it looks like everyone got there before me. 🙂

The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Imagine if in the UK we had Ceefax and Oracle only for a few years, and in that time *almost nobody* ever saw it, or owned the equipment to see it. That’s pretty much the magnitude of what is being recovered here. Almost everyone is seeing this for the first time.

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The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Absolutely *incredible* progress being made in recovering American Teletext (both kinds!) over in the decode-orc project (related to the ld-decode and vhs-decode Domesday tools) … just amazing work being done right now.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

funnily enough there was a kid at my school whose dad was actually Knight Rider

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The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

One interesting part of SNL UK was the live subtitling… They were obviously working from scripts (and went ahead of the actors at times) but also didn’t seem to have any of the late changes - so no subs on two Weekend Update stories, and a *completely different scene* in the Shakespeare sketch.

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The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Twitch chatters peer-pressured me into opening up an old computer in case it had leaky batteries inside it. Which it did! And now it doesn’t. I am not skilled in such things, but armed only with some YouTube knowledge and a pair of nail clippers, hopefully I’ve made things a tiny bit better for now.

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The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Ladies and Gentlemen, Chuck Norris is dead. Garry Who, however, is still very much alive. (No, not the personal pronoun, but rather someone with the unlikely surname of 'Who'.) So let's remember the school hols of the early 90s with this clip of 'Just for the Record': www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEXH...

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Just for the record theme tune plus few mins of show - Australian Technology show from early 1990's

YouTube video by digitalmediafan

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The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

"I'm not a pop star today I'm Knight Rider I have a big car That talks to me And twizzles my hair When I'm on the beach" - 'Apology', The Cult of Ant & Dec bsky.app/profile/bren...

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The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Well, there's a choice of viewing tonight in the adult section, but congratulations to the BBC who appear to have comprehensively out-scheduled their competition.

A screen shot of the Virgin Media EPG, showing a number of channels from the adult section, including titles such as '40 Plus', 'Babestation', and 'Pure Babes HD'. Directly underneath are the programme listings for BBC Red Button, which shows 10 editions of a programme titled 'Fanny...'

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The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Fun subtitling “fails” like these are almost always not actually a mistake by the channel, but, less excitingly, usually in the home TV or set top box that creates a unique, one-in-a million error just on one person’s screen… which social media effortlessly lets millions of others enjoy too.

2025: A Bluesky post showing subtitles for Miss Marple over BBC coverage of a performance by pop group Pulp

2023: A Twitter post showing subtitles for The Smurfs over a Channel 5 broadcast of the movie Ben Hur

2017: A Buzzfeed headline: “BBC News used the wrong subtitles for Donald Trump’s inauguration and it’s glorious”

Screenshot from 2017 Buzzfeed article, showing subtitles from BBC show “The Dumping Ground” over BBC News pictures of Donald Trump’s inauguration.

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Fair Political Coverage - we want to hear from ALL our parties @fairpoliticsnow.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Yet more over platforming of REFORM on tv & radio this morning. It’s become a daily party political broadcast. You’re meant to assume Farage is now a PM in waiting. Tell our broadcasters it’s WE the voters who decide elections & WE want to hear from ALL parties petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

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Petition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times

We want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for cover...

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ChicaLolita @chicalolita.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

It just occurred to me that 'Go Fuck Yourself' was used by both Colbert and Stewart in last night's shows. It is also the phrase used by the Ukrainians to the Russian war ship when it asked them to surrender.

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The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

DO NOT UPDATE to iPadOS 17.7.7 - it resets most of your apps (so everything wants to register/sign in new again) and turns off Locked Private Browsing and other persistent preferences. And no changes stick, so everything is all “new phone, who dis?” all the time…

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I know shooting fish in a barrel and all that but Sounds of the 90s on Fist of Fun is a masterclass of not having a f-ing clue what you’re talking about

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The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

What would it look like if Gary Davies read out the Top 40 chart in the proper numerical order for once? #totp

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The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

There really is a certain something about the early days of 1980s satellite TV - when you needed to have a two metre satellite dish in your garden, or were lucky enough to live in a cabled area. (Video excerpted from "UK Lifestyle TV Channel, End Of Day", a longer YouTube upload by Sid N)

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The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This came across my desk earlier, and I have to admit that a punched-up orchestra version of 'Magic' is the soundtrack I didn't know I needed for the day. youtu.be/alBuSbDUSig?...

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Happy Gilmore 2 | Official Teaser Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 26/01/2025

🟥 REWIND | YT Clip | This mid-80s promotional clip for Westminster Cable includes prototype images of a future #teletext system featuring high-resolution images. >> VIDEO CLIP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm_e...

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Super official cool trailer for my 10-min video

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The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Does it do more harm to leave an abandoned shop in a town square, so that it might still look like a decent place to be? Or do they need to actually *see* a ghost town full of demolished buildings and boarded-up properties? I'm not sure the old place deserves even the appearance of legitimacy.

A screenshot from the X (formerly Twitter) social media platform, reading "Deactivated - Your account is deactivated - Sorry to see you go. #GoodBye"

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Blake @blakeconnolly.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Ah, this is finally starting to feel a bit more like the other place before it went stupid(er). Am still on Threads as well, even if that's mostly a series of Americans asking why we don't have water in Europe.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Bluesky is starting to feel like old Twitter before it turned into a Biblical plague.

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The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Apparently I am user number #3,911,926 - always late to the party. 🙂

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The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

I haven’t actually used Twitter for a couple of years now (due to its incredible shittiness) but I don’t like losing touch with people, hence this account here as I guess it’s probably where a good number of people will try next.

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The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

It’s hard not to comment on the complete implosion of Twitter, but I suppose it serves as a good way to explain why I have yet another social media account now. (Honourable mention to Mastodon also, that’s quite alright too.)

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