Billy

@billy.wales

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The horrors persist, but so do I. Developer: @insignia.live, @pretendo.network Signal: billy.561 https://billy.wales

A man standing to the right of a sign saying Manchester Metropolitan University, with the university logo wearing a graduation cap. The man is dressed in a graduation robe and gown, along with sunglasses and brown shoes
Stars in the night sky with beams of light pointing at them.
The Space BAR setup at EMF, with two monitors - the left shows order status, and the right presumably does but is shattered/damaged. There are various tubes and hatches for the orders to be retrieved from, a barcode scanner with the light on, and a payment terminal.
A Nokia phone showing the "GSM Mobisite" (as titled), with a Mitel visible to the left clipped to the owner's shorts. The Nokia's site reads "The EMF Logo. Welcome to Electromagnetic"
iOS' Field Test screen, showing the PLMN 901 70 for the EMF GSM network. the ARFCM is 876, Band is 3, Cell ID is 6, ECN0 is -9, LAC is 1, and RSCP is -104.
A sign saying "This sign is intentionally left blank" mounted to a pole in front of The Robot Arms (the pub at EMF), with "The Robot Arms" sign in front of the pole.
An art installation in a field that looks like a crashed spaceship in the ground.
A 4G BaiCell with "Phones Team 4G BTS" on a label, and "ELECTROMAGNETIC TELECOM 4G" above said label.
A phone mounted on a pole with a public payphone board above it, showing its number of 33305 and various stickers.
Two CRT televisions - the left showing the Stage C Friday schedule via Teletext, and the right the CEEFAX home page with EMF information. An LCD monitor is atop the right monitor showing Teletext of some description.
A grey tent pitched up in a dry field, with a metal barrier behind it. Behind said barrier are various vans and camper vans.
A tent with two signs: "Welcome to ECHQ Eastnor" with the ECHQ logo on, and various logos including "CuTEL", "CYBER", "Phones4ya" (a play on the defunct brand Phones4u), "Dodgy Telecom", etc.
The "big screen" statistics view for EMF's phone system. The system has "Electromagnetic Telecom, Eastnor Deer Park's premier telecommunications network." at the top left, along with the phones.emfcamp.org URL and time of 12:15. 70,564 calls have been completed, with the last 24 hour stats showing 10,496 calls, 2d 17hr talk time, 965 unique callers and 285 outside users. The all time stats show a 62% answer rate, 17d 19hr talk time, an average call time of 35s, and the longest call of 1hr 58 minutes.
Assessment Results, Dear Billy Your assessment results have been confirmed and your outcome is: Course: PC06385 _ BSc (Hons) Software Engineering 4 years full-time with placement year Result: First Class Honours
Manchester UK weather conditions - currently partly cloudy and 32° with a high of 32° and low of 21°.
A four panel comic borrowed from “Safely Endangered”. Panel 1 shows Winnie the Pooh with his hand in the honey jar. Panel 2 shows Tigger looking concerned, saying “Sweet Jesus, Pooh! That’s not honey”, with panel 3 showing him more concerned “You’re eating unitialized memory”. Panel 4 shows Pooh with his paw and mouth covered in honey, with random characters above him as his caption.
A red Nokia Lumia 800 showing the Profile app's 'Me' page, where the latest post is "Poasting over 2G as Bluesky intended!", posted to Bluesky recently. The same post is visible behind on a laptop screen, showing it having successfully been sent to Bluesky from the phone.
Screenshot of a website named "ReLive" with a Windows Phone-era Windows logo left of it. The website is designed like the Zune/Windows Phone 7 interface, with the current tab being "My Account, Computers and Devices". Under "Connected Devices", a Nokia Lumia 800 in black is shown with the model NOKIA RM-801_EU_NDT_EURO1, OS version 7.10.8773.3, operator 23430 [EE], and a censored phone number starting with +44 7, the standard UK mobile number prefix.
A coin is inserted into a private payphone with the number 01352 838081 dialled. Once answered, the “Please wait” screen shows £1.00 and a decreasing coin counter, with the speaking clock audio briefly audible.
A Bluesky client in the theme of Windows XP showing a New Post window (also in the Windows XP theme). This post box has the text "Test Post from AtmoXP!", along with 278 characters left and a Send button on the bottom row. On the top row, there is non-functioning "Insert Picture", "Insert Video", and "GIF" buttons alongside the typical window management options in Windows XP.
A KX300, (an uncommon type of public payphone BT deployed, which has a triangular kiosk with optional door instead of the typical square models) in front of a “The Co-Operative Food” store, and to the left of a public waste bin. The phone is somewhat visible from this shot, but only the handset, the cable, and some of the coin box.
Tommy, a character who is a shopkeeper in Animal Crossing: New Leaf is speaking to the player. He says “I apologize for how sudden this is, but we'll be closing our shop on April 8th!”
Renée, a character in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, is talking to the player; she says “If you wanna wake yourself up in the morning, just get yourself outside, yo yo yo!”
Animal Crossing New Leaf screenshot, with the cat villager Rosie speaking. She has an exclamation point above her head (typically a “surprised” reaction), and says “Sometimes I forget that friends are for fun, you know? We could learn a lesson from those two!”
A scoreboard displays usernames, country flags, and region details. Names and scores from the US, Germany, UK, and Brazil are listed, with a loading icon in the bottom right.
A player profile screen from Nintendo Land (on Wii U) shows user "Dunce" from the United States, stats for Yoshi’s Fruit Cart, collected coins, trophies, and a cat face doodle labeled “Cato.”.
A Liquid Glass notification in the Notification Centre from Octopus Watch, “New Rates Available” with an average of 18.72p/kWh, lowest rate being 14.33p/kWh, and highest being 34.53p/kWh.
Windows 10 full-screen pop up with the title text "You're almost done setting up your PC", alongside an icon of a computer and a checklist on a clipboard. The remaining pre-amble text reads: "Your PC needs to be backed up and connected to a few more Microsoft services to help you work more easily and securely across all your devices.", with the following options listed: - An abstract cloud icon with "Back up your files for access across devices with secure cloud storage". - An abstract globe icon with "Browse confidently with advanced performance and security features". - An abstract phone and desktop icon with "Access your phone's photos, texts, and more from your PC". - Finally, a smiley face icon with "Sign in quickly with touch and facial recognition".
A black door with a window in the middle stands in a snowy landscape. The window shows a small lit booth with a payphone displaying text and a green light. A hinge is attached to the left side of the door. The sky is dark blue.
A cartoon image of two anthropomorphic animal characters standing in a wooden room. One character is wearing a blue hat and a striped shirt, while the other is wearing a white cap and green goggles. The character in the blue hat is leaning towards the other, who appears to be unwell. A speech bubble above them reads, "My head... For once, I'd take medicine over a protein shake...". There is a red dresser with a blue kettle on top to the left and a yellow and blue object resembling a bag or cushion on the floor to the right.
A cartoon image of a blue animal wearing a white cap and sunglasses standing in an office. The animal is facing a black and white animal wearing a black cone. There is a white desk with a laptop and a blue chair next to the animal. There is a white cabinet with a printer on top of it. There is a green chair behind a white desk. There is a white water cooler and a beige cabinet in the corner of the room. There is a brown table with papers and a cup on it. There is a whiteboard with text and diagrams on it.
My Teal.fm year in review, showing a total of 14,342 minutes listened. My number one artist is Addison Rae with 638 plays, and my number one track is Fame Is A Gun by Addison Rae.
Fable 2’s main menu, with “Continue” selected. The cards representing each save are blank, with the text “This save game is corrupted and cannot be loaded.”
Screenshot showing a Windows 8.1 system with a command prompt executing a C#.NET 10 program, displaying "Hello, World - running on Windows 8.1", alongside an "About Windows" dialog.
Windows 8.1 Setup screen with options to keep settings, personal files, and applications; keep personal files only; or keep nothing. "Back" and "Next" buttons are at the bottom.
A Windows 8 "About Windows" dialogue box displays version and licencing information over the desktop, with the Recycle Bin also visible. The system clock shows the date 23/11/2025.
A Little Sister from BioShock making a shushing motion, before stabbing the player with a needle.
A post by “Watching the Heinz Haterz” (@beans.monster), posted at 1:53 PM on October 25th 2025, with the text “11.5 million Brits admit to taking Heinz beans on holiday #beansFacts”. There is one like, and a translate button available
Windows 7's "View Update History" view in Control Panel. "Review your update history. Check the Status column to ensure all important updates were successful. To remove an update, see Installed Updates." The update "Security Update for Windows (KB5065468, the September 2025 Extended Security Update for Windows 7) is showing as successfully installed, with an importance of "Important" and the installation date as 17th September, 2025.
Windows XP’s Microsoft Update dialogue showing 6 updates being installed - an unknown update, KB2542054, and KB2669970 (Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and 2008 SP1 security updates) are done, and KB2644980 (Another VS2010 security update) is underway.
A call from "07[REDACTED]" on the "EE HD" carrier - HD here again implying that 4G Calling is enabled successfully.
Windows 10 Mobile's "SIM" settings page. Mobile connection profile is set to EE, with "IMS Services" (4G Calling)'s IMS registration tick set to On. IMS status is showing "registered", with a censored IMS identity. Under WiFi calling, calling preference is set to WiFi Preferred; "We'll use WiFi for phonically when it's available. Otherwise, we'll use mobile."
Lumia 950 XL screen with the signal bar, WiFi logo with a phone (signifying the successful connection for WiFi Calling), the current battery and time along with UniSky's New Post dialogue, with this post's text ready to send)
A black Nokia Lumia 800 on the FM Radio app - the current frequency is 88.4, with the RDS data from the station shown. The station name is Gaydio, with the description of “Across Manchester on your radio, mobile and smart speaker”.
A sheep in the grass, staring at the camera.
A sheep eating grass.
A Minitel 1 terminal showing a page for SNCF (the French train company), allowing a user to view live departures and arrivals for a station. Text is as follows: Données fournies par SNCF NUMERIQUE SNCF C'EST POSSIBLE ! Retrouvez ici les prochains passages des trains dans votre gare Entrez le nom de votre gare (3 lettres minimum) La recherche retourne 99 gares maximum Pour valider Envoi
A view from an aeroplane window where the camera zooms into the mountains visible from the window, before returning back to standard zoom.
Apple Watch Modular screen face showing the current time of 19:31, no upcoming calendar events, 59% battery, and my move status
A CD being moved around in front of a laptop, showing the CD’s transparency.
Xbox 360 dashboard home screen showing an advertisement for Xbox Series consoles along with a QR code to the shop, and navigation options like My Games and Profile.
Driving around in Mario Kart World awaiting course selection in an online multiplayer match.
Bluesky app logo with iOS 26’s Liquid Glass effect applied, in dark mode.
Mario Kart World ending scene with Donkey Kong in first place on Rainbow Road.
Penguin character on Mario Kart World holding A too early, causing the mini boost from holding the engine button to not occur - however, unlike previous games, the engine does not sputter and stop you for a few seconds, instead just rolling on with no boost.
Penguin player on Mario Kart World being hit by a green shell, even though there is a banana held behind him which usually blocks items from behind.
Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S game played via GameShare, where I win.
GameShare session of 51 Worldwide Games, where I am connected to a friend’s game in Canada. We play dots and crosses, where I win.