You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Hitchcock's less known thriller

Lots of Hippies & Layabouts in Ryde. Why not join us?

the problem with ticking "reply to that email" off your to do list is that the buggers reply

We now know how the rich live.

Cartoon by Drew Sheneman

The first episode of Bagpuss was originally broadcast on this day in 1974. Created by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate, the series ran for just 13 episodes (with voices provided by Postgate, Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner).

Billionaire Jim Ratcliffe says Britain is being colonised by immigrants - much like he 'colonised' Monaco to cut his tax bill

There's no patriot like a Monaco-based patriot.

it's literally impossible for an LLM to do a historian's job it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

Even the superheroes are inadequate these days

Hello. Former Index On Censorship staffer here. To be very clear, having your request to speak at a society of which you are not a member does not count, in any sense whatsoever, as censorship. nation.cymru/news/uproar-...

Does your town (or any you know of) have HERRING🐟 in their coat of arms/flag? Please reply tagging in @projectfishistory.bsky.social if so! @thefsbi.bsky.social @icesmarine.bsky.social @ystadaucymru.bsky.social Ceredigion County (Wales) Great Yarmouth (England) Nefyn (Wales) Scheveningen (NL)

Reform is set to issue England’s largest council tax rise in Worcestershire. A rare display of efficiency by the party, breaking their election promises ahead of schedule

Ah, God bless Freecycle. "...missing the dice."

It’s the 136th anniversary today of some highly prized artefacts from Ancient Egypt being auctioned in Liverpool. From there, the 180,000 mummified cats in question went to their splendid and dignified final resting place. A museum? No. They were ground up and used for fertiliser 🧵

Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.

Stop scrolling! We are as far from Punk as Punk was from the 1920s. ...continue scrolling.

BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”

I remember in the early 90s when my dad tapped the fax machine, leaned into me, and said: ‘son, soon, every house in the world will have a fax machine in it. And we’ll be able to send large amounts of information to one another in no time at all.’ Well, he wasn’t totally wrong. Just about fax.

Rate bit of good news here for Labour.

47726 "Progress" working a London Victoria to Rochester via Dover Venice Simplon Express circular tour through Folkestone Warren. 19th July 2002. More of my Class 47 images can be found here www.clickasnap.com/profile/anth...

Bollards save lives. End of story. #WorldBollardAssociation

The Joy of Redacting

Ski jumpers use this terminology to avoid ambiguity with the words “zip” and “flies”.

#OnThisDay 70 years ago the iconic AEC Routemaster bus entered public service

The difficulty is that this is not "a simple problem". There is no simple route to "growth, jobs and rising living standards" in an age of tariff wars, disruptive new technologies, climate change, war in Ukraine, Brexit & Trump. The pretence that these things *were* easy has done Labour real harm

Dominic Dyer: @number10cat.bsky.social Larry the Cat will have been in Downing Street 15 years next week, he is the most stable thing about British politics these days

New study finds that when AI imagines Neanderthals, it produces images from the 1980s and text from the 1960s. The gap between generative models and current scholarship is wider than you’d think. #Neanderthals #AI #Archaeology www.anthropology.net/p/when-ai-im...

Like almost everyone else, I thought this was a spoof - but no

I hate climate change, but I love this picture by #Manx photographer, Peter Lobley. The Bee Gees statues look as if they're emerging from the ocean to reclaim the land from the upstart human apes. #IsleOfMan #BeeGees

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Mwahahaha! old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdvic...

Today marks 70 years since the closure of the Newport-Sandown line. Find out how the #IsleofWight lost roughly two thirds of its railways in the decade before Beeching in my book “Southern Way Special No. 20: Isle of Wight Railways in the 1950s” crecy.co.uk/product/sout... @crecyrail.bsky.social

Bezos burning the Washington post to the ground is as firm a reason for the continued bbc licence as ever there was. Eventually everything that can be owned by a billionaire will be owned by a billionaire and at that point its future will be determined by the whims of a man making 166k per minute.

Is it just me who thinks “low Earth orbiting satellites” might be an unnecessary investment for a website set up primarily to sell books?

This comes up a lot so I do want to let you all know that the option of turning the existing building into a heritage/museum site has been costed out and it is substantially more expensive

Well, you’d certainly hope they wouldn’t make you pay for a weekend of dead children, moor-wandering, exhumation, dog attacks, alcoholism, death in childbirth, misery, unhappy foundlings, a bit more death, domestic violence, ghosts...

Good news for authors from the @britishmuseum.bsky.social security guards this morning. Nodding approval at the content of my bag, I was told ‘books are trending’.

I legit don’t know if I will ever get past this ad I saw walking to an appt this morning in soho. And yes, it’s a company that uses human sounding AI voice bots to take over your customer service calls.

Hey, several batches of baby formula from a couple different brands in the uk and Europe have been recalled for contamination causing illness: if you formula feed, check your supply. Info here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From this week’s Beano.

I'M WRITING THIS FAIRLY BIG BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE HARD OF HEARING.

That‘s the spirit.

You tell me.

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Out of nowhere, I was struck by the question, ‘Lembit Öpik… what was his fucking deal again?’ And was rewarded beyond my wildest dreams.