NOTE: I'm in the process of migrating to @nifta
I've been in the video games industry for going on 30 years (mostly) as a thoroughly average programmer. I've been very lucky.
Loves: #RetroGames, current games, #TheMuppets, classic simpsons quotes, #MST3k & #RiffTrax, #FilmNoir, #Philosophy, #TheKLF, #Pinball, #TwinPeaks and generally trying to pretend I understand things.
Er, meant to post this yesterday when it was released here in NZ, but got distracted. I went with Violet and, I think for the first time ever, a grass type starter… I mean… how can you resist such a cute kitty!?!? My main concern (same as everyone else, I imagine) was TTL (Time To LECHONK), but never fear…
In 1967 John Reith, the first ever Director General of the BBC, spoke to Malcolm Muggeridge about the "BBC accent". Reith defended his decision to instruct BBC broadcasters to speak in a rather artificial manner, as opposed to their own local dialects. #BBC100
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1585220946566127617
Absolutely superb mix from polefolder & CP
This weeks transitions is now available to listen via my @[email protected] http://www.mixcloud.com/johndigweed special guest mix from @[email protected] @[email protected] enjoy
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DJJohnDigweed/status/1577030113254060032
Excellent remix - apparently he's setup his studio with 90s gear, incl an Atari ST
Here’s a World Exclusive for you, a very interesting remix in the style of late 90’s trance by a guy called Nathan, also known as Enigma State ❤️
15. Stoneface & Terminal with Robert Nickson - From the Sun (Enigma State Remix) [Pure Trance Neon]
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ILikeItPure/status/1567580223809413121
Quite wonderful. Potter was such an immense, unique talent whose work moved me so much when I was young that it still occupies a good chunk of my mind.
What does the way you eat say about you?
#OnThisDay 1958: Future television dramatist Dennis Potter was interviewed about being a working class student at Oxford, on Does Class Matter?
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1562755174401286144
Finally got around to listening to this.. Opening with Special Request’s remix of The Grid’s “Flotation” - oh my heart. Just sublime.
Have you checked out the 4 hour mix from @[email protected] and myself live from Whirling Dervish 6 year anniversary on @[email protected] more info http://www.mixcloud.com/johndigweed
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DJJohnDigweed/status/1558897877837135872
As someone who’s currently studying the ethics of belief, who needs thought experiments when you have Alex Jones.
A judge scolded right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Tuesday for lying under oath during his defamation trial in Travis County, Tex.
“You must tell the truth while you testify,” Judge Maya Guerra Gamble said. “This is not your show.”
https://wapo.st/3bvkz6f
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1554856818450612225
‘Britain’s capitalist class has effectively given up on the future. It’s against this economic backdrop that the nostalgia fest of the Tory leadership election is taking place.’
William Davies on the seductions of declinism, published online early:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n15/william-davies/the-seductions-of-declinism
