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[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Forever family ❤️🏟️

[d4doome @d4doome]

FOUR FRIGHTENED PEOPLE is an underrated Cecil B. DeMille movie. Very similar to his 1919 masterpiece MALE AND FEMALE. One has Claudette Colbert, the other has Gloria Swanson so you can't lose either way.

[Edward Elderman @edwereddie]

"Gloria Swanson insisted on doing a scene w a lion in the film MALE&FEMALE(1919).Cecil B. De Mille was opposed to the idea of putting her in danger.However,he finally agreed to do the scene w the lion&2lion tamers standing by.Acc. to Swanson,the lion later did kill some1."

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Twenty years ago, Congolese man Guy Goma came into the BBC for a job interview but, in a now legendary case of mistaken identity, ended up live on the BBC News Channel. Speaking to BBC Africa, Guy explained how he managed to stay calm under the unexpected pressure of live TV.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

20 years ago today... 'The Gerrard Final' ✨

[⭕ Brock Pierson @brockpierson]

Anyone old enough to have played or remember the game Red Baron by Dynamix/Sierra from 1990?

Was an unreal WW1 flight simulator at the time.

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

RIP Monte Coleman 🕯️

The Consummate Redskin

Three-Time Super Bowl Champion
Four-Time NFC Champion

A 16-season linebacker in Washington, his 236 regular and postseason games rank second-most in #Redskins history

Named one of the "80 Greatest Redskins", enshrined in the Redskins/Commanders Hall of Fame

#HTTR

[fjoofficial @FrazerOldham]

@tschak @computesgazette I am! Really good 😊

[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

I often think about the technical limitations that game designers of the 80s had to work with - both in terms of software and hardware.

The game that stands at the very top is Elite.

Think about this for a second: The core game code on the BBC Micro version occupied roughly 22 KB of memory. Now think about what Braben and Bell turned that into: a universe with eight galaxies, each containing 256 star systems (for a total of 2,048 planets/systems). Each system featured unique details: government type, economy, technology level, population, commodity prices, and even descriptive text (e.g., a planet known for "carnivorous arts graduates" or similar quirky combinations).

If you still need a bit more help to contextualize that, try this: Elite was smaller than many modern text files or desktop icons, yet it contained (and let you freely explore) a multi-galaxy-spanning universe that felt vast and limitless.

Oh, and by the way, the game also rendered 3D wireframe ships, stations, and planets in real time on a 2 MHz 6502 processor.

This is no slight on today’s game designers. They work with what they have, and that's okay. But when you think about the worlds that some programmers created with the tools they were given, it sometimes breaks my brain trying to understand how they did it.

Elite is a true masterpiece on so many levels. I played the C64 version back in the day, and even 40+ years later it still feels like one of the most incredible programming wonders ever.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@testerlabor There is special place I my heart for the C64 and especially VIC-20, my first ever computer. I stayed up for 3 days programming nonstop when I got it for the sheer love of coding.

[Simon Butler @tandemar]

"most of the computers they made were ZX Spectrum games."
Another pearl of a quote from the wordsmith that is Kieren Hawken.
#kierenhawken

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Low budget Alien
https://t.co/gkRVqexKGu

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Yes.

[jacob @jtimsuggs]

Darth Vader’s entrance at the end of Rogue One is still one of the darkest and most intense moments to come from any Star Wars movie.

Hard to believe that it almost didn’t make the final cut of Rogue One, and was only filmed months before its initial release back in 2016.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

The trench run from STAR WARS. Still one of the greatest action sequences ever, Marcia Lucas' editing and ILM's practical effects work is a masterclass in filmmaking.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

Carrie Fisher and @MarkHamill on UK children's show Blue Peter, talking about 'Revenge' of the Jedi and the plans for the STAR WARS prequels.

[Superastar Raj 🇮🇳 @NagpurKaRajini]

On the night of June 24, 1982, British Airways Flight 9 was cruising at 37,000 feet over the Indian Ocean when all four engines on its Boeing 747 died, one by one, in under two minutes. Nobody on board knew why. The aircraft was now a 170-ton glider in the middle of the night with 263 people on board.
That’s when Captain Eric Moody made what has been called the greatest passenger announcement in aviation history: “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.”
The 747 glided without power for nearly 15 minutes, dropping toward the mountains of Java. Moody set a decision height — if the engines hadn’t restarted by 12,000 feet, they would ditch in the ocean. At 13,500 feet, engine four came back to life. The others followed.
But the crew still couldn’t see. The windscreen had been sandblasted nearly opaque by volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Galunggung - completely invisible to weather radar.
Moody landed the 747 in Jakarta using a tiny clear strip at the edge of the windscreen, flying the approach almost entirely on instruments. Every single person on board survived. It was the first time in history a commercial jet had encountered volcanic ash at altitude.
The incident changed aviation forever and is now studied in every pilot training manual in the world. Captain Moody passed away peacefully in March 2024 at the age of 82.

His calm under pressure remains the gold standard for every pilot who has followed 😍

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Edinburgh Waverley Station…
She made it!