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  • We did Work Experience at my school and I managed to get a place at a local radio station. Now, what's the worst thing a work experience kid could do at a radio station specifically? If you answered "take the entire station off the air" then you'd be right.

  • Might as well bring it full circle

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  • On my home feed:

  • I demand a return to the Old Ways

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  • Amazing.

  • What's the best TV show from your country?

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  • The overnight Bernt das Brot broadcasts on Kika. You're welcome.

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  • What's the best TV show from your country?

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  • From the UK, I'd probably go for The Day Today, which ran for a single six-episode series back in 1994.

    It's a satirical news programme which manages to be more cutting and accurate than anything that's been produced since, and along the way includes pastiches of fly-on-the-wall documentaries (doing The Office years before The Office), multi-camera soap operas (The Bureau), the rise of multichannel TV (RokTV) and so much more. A lot of the show's staff were actually from the BBC's own news department so timbre is spot-on, and received an incredible level of French polish before broadcast meaning every second of it is crammed with gags, slights and real blink-and-you'll-miss-it jokes and, aside from the dated styling and real-world reference, the whole thing feels frustratingly prescient thirty years later.

  • My friend Charlie is back....

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  • 400 milligrams of milligrams/day. Got it. I'll mix that in with my extra milk per milk.

  • Dent or Dust

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  • Anyone who refers to their possessions by the corporate trademark and coddles it like a newborn really will believe they've ruined it. It's not a PC, it's a Mac. It's not a car, it's an Alfa. It's not a vacuum, it's a Dyson. It's not a smoker, it's a Traeger. And so on. Talking to these people is like talking to someone with a mental illness.

  • French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure

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  • The Swedish Navy's ships do have some bonkers designs, like massive barcodes printed on the side. It's so that when they get back to port they can scan the navy in.

  • The worst Italian mobster names you can think of

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  • Obviously they'd never be able to track down Shitpeas, because he works exclusively online and the Internet doesn't have a postcode.

  • What is the most useless fact you know?

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  • What is the most useless fact you know?

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  • Forza Horizon 4 has an awesome open map based on several disparate areas of England and Scotland pushed together. It includes the Derwent Reservoir and damn, which drains into one of the Rivers Derwent, which leads to Derwent Water - none of which are actually connected in real life. I thought that was a neat Easter Egg.

  • What is the most useless fact you know?

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  • In case anyone is wondering, this is how old phones with rotary dials worked: you wound the dial to the digit you needed and the built-in mechanism would automatically wind it back; as it did it would momentarily disconnect the line as it passed each digit generating pulses that the exchange would count. If you still live somewhere where landline phones exist odds are this still works because the exchange maintains backwards compatibility with pulse dialling.

    Up until about twenty years ago virtually every supermarket had a phone by the checkouts with a single pre-programmed button for a local taxi company; we used this trick all the time to call home, our mates, etc.

  • What is the most useless fact you know?

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  • For all our differences we still have so much in common.

  • BBC World Service: Government to increase funding by £33m over next three years

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  • Good. Hopefully in time they'll go back to providing 100% of the funding.

  • The "unhackable" Xbox One has been hacked — and Microsoft can’t patch it

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  • What TV show traumatized you as a kid?

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  • In The Night Garden is designed specifically to get kids to chill the fuck out and it works so well. I remember having to babysit my nephew once and he was getting worked up by a show called Yo Gabba Gabba which seems to be specifically designed to cause seizures. The next day, oh, that's weird, that channel is broken and, well, damn, I guess we'll have to watch In The Night Garden on CBBC instead. It was like a totally different kid.

  • Gimp 3.2 is officially released. The game has changed. Adobe just got punched in the face.

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  • GIMP is an English acronym.

  • Share this with 5 people or it gets ya

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  • ...well, then.

  • Gimp 3.2 is officially released. The game has changed. Adobe just got punched in the face.

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  • I just 100% all-the-time will always want someone to release a fork of GIMP that is totally identical in every way but has a different name. I can't tell you the amount of time it was rejected by schools because of it.