Rivaclaw 🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

CAN'T SHUT US DOWN, MOTHERFUCKERS 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️✊ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgQ8zZ5mtbg

As a millennial who grew up in Britain, The Crystal Maze, Knightmare and ZZZap! are the Holy Trinity of weird telly shows that shaped my child psyche. Amazing stuff. You don't get telly like that any more.

I mean, they rebooted The Crystal Maze with Richard Ayoade, but it wasn't the SAME.

I didn't realise I'd basically recreated "bonkers UK telly show The Crystal Maze except it kills you" until I realised one of the characters was basically immortal game vampire Richard O'Brien

this has only made the idea more compelling to me, naturally.

my latest novel idea attempting to distract me from my WIPs is about extradimensional "puzzle houses" that spring up behind doors in cities, run by immortal game masters who promise a single wish to anyone who can survive and complete six of these deadly environments

and someone is going to say "ah, like Squid Game?"

and I am going to respond "no, like The Crystal Maze"

#amWriting

Happy International Trans Day of Visibility, to all those observed by it!

I have a microsaw and I am going to make it everyone’s problem

Actually used as the theme for the BBC's "Nationwide" current affairs programme that ran between 1969 and 1983.

The All-Knowing Trash Heap has this to say:

"The show's tendency to sidestep serious matters in favour of light pieces was parodied in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, where the show, instead of reporting on the opening of the Third World War, chose to feature a story about a "theory" that sitting down in a comfortable chair rests one's legs.

#music

Hourly Wolves Presents:

This is maybe even more relevant today. Just change "is on the moon" to "is building AGI" or "is going to Mars."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4

Yes, okay, this is a bit of a whinge.

I have spent hours helping people and small organisations with the UK's Online Safety Act.

Many, many, many hours.

And... no-one is any safer for it.

#OnlineSafetyAct

"Hahah! Yeah, it's actually pretty easy, once you stop being so scared of it enough to start having fun."

#yinglet