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Discussed in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10389497

If you like this, you might also like the British public information films of the 70s such as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNPMYRlvySY

See also "Look Around You," a pitch perfect send up of 70s and 80s educational TV.

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Huh? I clicked this and still have NFI what it's about or why it belongs here.

it's a rather grim multimedia satire of aspects of 1970s british culture

Not just in 1970s. If you look carefullyat the dates, the events in 1970s Scarfolk track surprisingly accurately with what’s going on today...

Albion Estate looks like something from "Years and Years" (it comes a couple of years before the latter):

https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2017/12/albion-estate-sign-197...

Sometimes he gets topical, and it stops looking quite so satirical:

https://twitter.com/Scarfolk/status/1177130150833610752

My favourite - the new festival of Brexit poster: https://twitter.com/richard_littler/status/10463220391146741...

I'd managed to miss that the "Festival of Brexit" is going to be a real thing:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/05/government-...

Oh heck, I didn't realise that was still going ahead. I fully expected it to be round filed when May exited stage left.

Not even close. GB just doubled down on Bexit by re-electing Boris Johnson in a landslide. It's "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" for Brexit, one way or another.

I'm 99% certain NeedMoreTea was referring to the "Festival of Brexit" - not Brexit itself which is pretty much guaranteed to happen at this point due to recent electoral events.

Quite so. After our delightfully flawed FPTP election results, I can't conceive of Brexit not happening with the ERG majority of 60. Seems we may end up throwing the BBC and NHS out with that particular bathwater too.

Scarfolk's Watch out, there's a politician about: https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2015/05/watch-out-theres-polit...

Maybe (two peoples divided by a common language and all that), but why would the Festival cancel when May leaving just meant Boris was coming in. Same net effect unless I missed a subtlety.

I liked the Pry Minister poster:

https://mobile.twitter.com/richard_littler/status/7531695137...

and, along those lines, "Win your human rights":

https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2016/08/human-rights-lottery-a...

A podcast that somehow reminds me of Scarfolk: http://www.welcometonightvale.com/

I'm getting a strong Laundry Files/CSP/Paranoia RPG vibe.

It is awesome.

Huh, interesting - the game "Control" released this year has some very similar vibes to this.

Can you please share some more info on this?

The entire game is about a hidden US agency called Federal Bureau of Control, and their job is to investigate and hide from the general public any paranormal phenomena.

These are some posters found in-game, I found them very similar to those Scarfolk ones: https://kotaku.com/i-love-the-posters-found-in-control-18377...

And this quote describes one of the many events from the in-game lore nearly perfectly, I wouldn't be surprised if the writers were inspired by some of it:

"Super-conductive copper ribbons were used during the dance because it was believed that their combination with 400,000 volts and expendable children opened a vortex to an alternate dimension where household items were always on sale and could be purchased for a fraction of the price. Items that were brought back through the vortex, however, risked corruption by dark forces, as witnessed on May 1st 1971 when Scarfolk was overrun by a vast horde of malevolent, sentient food blenders."

Sounds rad, love it already, thanks!

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