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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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

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

Good old C-x M-c M-🦋

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 is an English acronym.

…well, then.

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.

The Thick Of It. It’s a treasure trove of creative insults.

This isn’t a conspiracy, though, even Google have said as much. Why do you think so many of the objects you’re being asked to identify are things that a driver might need to recognise - traffic light, shop fronts, pedestrian crossings, buses, stop signs, bikes? It’s training material for autonomous vehicles.

For supper I want a party platter.

B for Biden.

Hold your applause, please.