cleminan

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My little corner of the 'sky. No one of importance posting nothing of consequence.

the front cover of the shamen's 1992 cassette single phorever people
a blue rectangular handheld digital game with orange buttons and switches. the console is about 1.5x taller than it is wide & has slightly curved sides. the main case is turquoise with a blue inlay surrounding the screen and mounting two of the three orange buttons (left-right movement) and the orange power switch. the fire button is mounted facing outwards 2/3 of the way up the console. the screen is square with a notch at the top for the red score digits. the screen has a moon horizon design at the base of the screen and scale marker running up each side. the printed horizon & scale is yellow, behind it are the red LEDs illuminating the defender, bullet, alien and saucer elements. above the score a black sticker reads 'Bandai Electronics' in red, below it over two lines is 'Missile Invader' in silver.
AP News headline: FIFA lifts US star striker Balogun's red card suspension at World Cup after Trump calls Infantino. if you care about football it's apparently a big deal. i just liked the pun.
a screen shot of a youtube advert a man's torso is shown holding what looks like a heater. A caption overlaid reads "This brilliant device keeps your home cool in summer". It won't, it's a lie. One of the many fraudulent ads Google carry on Youtube.
The downstairs screen of the Prince Charles Cinema in London's Leicester square. The screen is covered by the red velvet fire curtain, it is illuminated from below. Either side the walls are covered in pleated red material mimicking the curtain, round light fittings dot the walls aligned with the bottom of the screen. Speakers are also mounted on the walls. Several rows of seats can be seen at the bottom of the image, they are lightly populated.
tim & bilbo reading different copies of 2000AD magazine
the end card from a yorkshire tv programme between the early 1970s and late 1980s. below the yellow y-shaped chevron logo reads: "YORKSHIRE TELEVISION" in white text, below that reads: "Colour Production" in red text, all on a black background.
US tech company Palantir, owned by libertarian oddity Peter Thiel, currently has at least 34 contracts with the UK government, worth upwards of £670m. Is this what taking back control feels like?
the cover for Gnod's 2016 release, in black block capitals on a red background: Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine.
The entrance of Off The Record music shop, Milton Keynes. The shop front is all glass, either side of the door are instruments, merch, record players and speakers. Hanging from the ceiling on the left are a number of decorated 7" & 12" records, further into the shop a customer is flicking through the 12" bins.
Effin Birds' Oh My God, What the Fuck (USA) t shirt shop listing with a 'Best Seller' banner in the top left, where it belongs.
a whiteboard with happy new year written in a variety of languages
a screenshot of the gulf of mexico as shown in bing maps.
a screen shot of a map of Durham outlining an area around Abbey Rd, the dotted area is labelled 'PITY ME'.
a screenshot from wipeout on the ps1. four ships race along a trough, two are in the foreground jostling for position.
the poster for Derby Quad's Quatermass Event. Three showings are listed: The Quatermass Xperiment Quatermass 2 Quatermass and the Pit Three supporting events: The Quatermass Experiment - first two episodes from the BBC series. Intros by Toby Hadoke. Plus a panel of experts discuss the legacy of Quatermass.
A screenshot of today's Spotify Release Radar with three sequential tracks by George Riley, all from the same release.
a post from the official blues brothers account on threads. text reads: "Repost again cuz we still can't believe we inspired the pope to become the pope" below is a picture captioned: "POPE LEO XIV PHOTOGRAPHED IN 1982" in the picture a young leo is shown dressed in a dark suit, brimmed hat & sunglasses with large sideburns, channeling Dan Akroyd's Elwood.
a screen shot of a tweet from BBC journalist John Simpson, reads: John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews Donald Trump's demand for a billion dollars from the BBC comes from a local Florida law firm. It was sent to the wrong address, and the writer didn't know what 'salacious' really means: 'Due to their salacious nature, the fabricated statements that were aired by the BBC...
The 12" vinyl release of Eddy Woo's Keep It Warm/Real Time. The sleeve design is brown monochrome with a logo overlaid on itself at different scales on the left, at the top right is the logo in white with text beneath: FREQUENCY EDDY WOO Keep It Warm // Real Time FQY015
a screenshot of a playlist of seven tracks, four of which are from the same PikkPanthress release.
Fruitbat & Jim Bob from Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine stand in front of a white background. Fruitbat (left) is dressed in a grey shirt, black trousers & trainers, he has a shaved head. Jim Bob is wearing a black shirt & grey blazer and trousers the same shade as Fruitbat's shirt, with DM boots. Jim Bob has long hair reaching below his shirt's neck line from above his temples and everything below them is shaved. Most of his hair is gathered on top of his head with a few strands left to hang past his right eye.
TV listing for Film4 taken from the Virginmedia EPG The Black Swan (1942) 1 hr 45 min HD (17:00 - 18:45) A sea captain sails the Caribbean in search of two renegade pirates who have refused to give up their plundering ways.
spotify playlist - Elon Musk by Ghazza - Burger King is Hiring by The Dollheads
screen shot of Ed Morrish post: "guys you don't understand, the schools go back week after next so you've got seven days to give the british press the riot they want or this whole summer will have been a total waste of everyone's time"
The mid-section of a navy blue GB Railfreight diesel power unit named Dick Mabbutt.
The poster for Captain Scarlett re-imagined with the characters from Captain Scarlett by A.M. Thompson
a grey miniature schnauzer sits attentively on a triangular-patterned red, green and cream rug, the schnauzer is wearing a black lace ruff collar.
the cover of The Seventh Curse on bluray, 2 for £15 or £14.99 each.
The plugin menu for copilot in the MacOS build of MSTeams. The menu has four options: - Open in new window - About - Share app - Pin Until yesterday there was also a fifth Uninstall option.
a screen shot of the original post with a pane showing what would normally be a snippet from the linked site, instead displaying a lot of the underlying code that generated the linked page.
a screen shot of the original post's image showing a save/share banner covering the caption.
The duo GANS on stage, shirtless & sweating as they slowly cook in the Vic Inn's oven.
a man in a grey suit stands up from a table of four people & leaves saying "i'll get me coat"
a side-on view of the left-rear of the Gen 3 evo Formula E car in Envision Racing green. roll hoop & air intake sweeps down from the left housing the black charging port. towards the right of the image the internal face of the right fin shows the climate stripes image along the top quarter of the fin with sponsor Algorand's white logo sitting on the centre of the fin in the remaining green coloured area.
the top of a cream tote bag holding some vinyl albums and a red tote bag, within the red bag are another collection of vinyl albums. what isn't shown are the 7" singles, CDs & artwork also in the bags.
the main entrance to Sky Elstree Studios on a wet Thursday. the building is large with mainly corrugated grey metal walls, large windows fill the area beneath the white signage. on the left the buildings only colour comes from the sky and comcast logos set in light grey stripes dropping from the roof line just far enough to frame each logo. the building is set behind a small area of grass bushes & trees.
a magazine scan of Gilbert the alien. The background is yellow with the word GILBERT in red block capitals & underlined at the top. There's some text on the left which is fuzzy due to the low resolution of the scan. Gilbert is green with a tall, thin, rounded head. Long , tube-like ears with red ends stick out horizontally from half way down his head. Small yellow eyes sit sunken under a thick brow just below the line of his ears. A large, round, red nose half the width of his head is between his eyes & his large red mouth. Wider than his head Gilbert's red lips protrude beyond each side of his face, a single pointy tooth sticks out on the right. His hair is a front to back strip of multicoloured 'hairs', about as tall as his head, thick enough to stand upright. Gilbert's body is wide his hands, held together as though he's in a meeting, have pink suckers on the fingertips & a couple on the back of his hands.
Gotham (pron. goat-'am by the locals), Nottinghamshire.
a packard bell desktop computer from the late 90s. the case has a round grey core about 20cm across & 15cm tall. surrounding this is a beige box about 35cm side to side. the box wraps around the core starting about 4cm from the base to flush with the top. the nearest corner is missing exposing the grey plastic core. in the box section on the right are two bays for a 5.25" cd rom drive, one is filled. on the left is a 3.5" floppy drive with another 5.25" bay below it. it resembles the type of toilet seat with the front section cut out.
a 12" record submerged almost to its label in warm, slightly soapy, water. the record is the 12" single release of Terence Trent D'arby's Sign Your Name. the label is two tone light green background with a dark green sheriff's star - with a spiral design across its face - placed off centre. white text overlaid lists the tracks, production & copyright info. this side (i) Under My Thumb (ii) Jumping Jack Flash other side (i) Sign Your Name (ii) Greasy Chicken
Parts of the back covers of Babylon Zoo 12" singles Animal Army (top) & Spaceman
Meta's turquoise/blue/pink AI circle of doom. Entirely optional but given a unique position and prominence in the lower right of the UI - aside from the green (+) button every other icon or text element is a shade of grey or white.
A black ITV branded engineering card indicating a feed is coming via the data centre switch in BT Tower. The London tower was recently sold to a hotel group so, unless the message was coming via the Birmingham tower, this node will go offline in the next few months.
A collection of 8-bit Acorn computers, four machines are stood on their sides at the rear, a further machine is placed more conventionally in the foreground. The left most pair; an Atom & a BBC Master Compact are stood on their right side with the space bar on the left. The right most pair; an Electron & a BBC Micro, are in opposition with their space bars to the right. Placed in front of these, laid flat & facing the camera, is a BBC Master Image: Retromobe (https://www.retromobe.com/2020/04/acorn-atom-1980.html)
A screenshot of the microsoft teams interface for setting a custom duration of the current status. Usefully, it shows that the account will be out of office until 12am on 31st December 9999. Who'd want to work /that/ new year's eve?
text reads: FUN FACT: Asked at a staff meeting about online clickbait on 13 March - David Higgerson, chief digital publisher at Reach plc replied, "I think it's really important we move away from this sort of trying to 'tier' journalism by quality."
The cover of The Clash's 1982 double A-side 12" release; Should I Stay or Should I Go/Straight to Hell. The cover features a Left Hand Luke drawing of a skull in the centre, wearing a staff sergeant's camouflage helmet, over crossed hand machine guns. Behind all of this are four ace playing cards, one from each suite, fanned out from the centre of the skull. Text surrounds the image, above "THE CLASH" is stencilled in yellow with " DOUBLE 'A' SIDE SINGLE" printed in red below. Below, in an arc from nine to three o'clock reads "STRAIGHT TO HELL", 'straight' is in a yellow arrow pointing at a black & white 'to'. Letters in the word 'hell' are coloured red at the base and white on top, divided in a sawtooth pattern to resemble stylised flames.
The B-side label from TVT Records' 1990 US 10" release of Nine Inch Nails' Head Like A Hole
The DVD cases for Disney Pixar's A Bug's Life and Dreamworks' Antz side by side.
An image from the TV show The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxies depicts Arthur Dent bracing & grimacing as an array of exotic space guns, & possibly forks, are aimed at his head. Under the image are the words 'So this is it, we're going to die'.
The Formula E 2022 Cape Town E-Prix track map.
Screen grab from a BBC4 Top Of The Pops compilation. MC Mikee is shown with subtitles: Lyric: "Poll tax came and up went the rise"
A Taiwanese bootleg copy of "More of Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits". The cover has a white background with the name of the release across the top quarter, the rest of the cover is made up of a grid of four by three 7 inch singles. To the right the record is 2/3 out of the sleeve, it is an orange-red colour, the label is black with silver text. The text is a mixture of Latin & Chinese characters.
A screen shot of the eBook Vinyl Record Collecting For Dummies from publisher Wiley. The first l sentence of the book's description reads: "Vinyl Record Collecting for Dummies truly conveys the excitement of this hobby, and the thrill of hunting for new and rare records."
Three Blu-Ray cases lined up: - Summer Time Machine Blues - Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes - River
Part of an orange record label for the 1991 release of How-Gee by Black Machine on PLM Records. The picture centres on a round stamp with letters in the centre which may read VAF, SIAF, SIAP or VAP over the number one. Text written around the edge of the stamp odds illegible.