Well watching alternate episodes of Waiting for the Out and How to Get to Heaven from Belfast turned out to be unexpectedly confusing.

My wife got this book out of her college library and I’m wondering if the professor in The Stones of Blood was based on Vivien Russell. #DoctorWho

Made a little trail for my experimental short story podcast. listenwithother.co.uk

I did think about going to the pub at some point this weekend, then I remembered the rugby is entering its 73rd week.

Is there a word for the opposite of 'decimate', ie to remove 90% of something? That's what Beryl Bainbridge did with her novels. In this 1977 interview with Mavis Nicholson, she observes that all her books are the same length - "158 pages" - and "to get that I write anything up to 1,500 pages".

#BOTD Alan Rickman - TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY #FilmSky

Ally Bally revisits the former Radio Tay studios in Dundee www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-time...

This felt urgent and it is as powerful and galvanising as maddening and incredible. How did we get here? Why has big tech turned against women by author and campaigner Laura Bates as.ft.com/r/9a009af2-d...

“…and the best unexpected use of ‘Move Your Feet’ by Junior Senior in a comedy drama goes to… How to Get to Heaven from Belfast!”

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

National Panacolor Quintrix Television, Panasonic, Japan (1975)

I’m just glad Kenneth Anger’s not around to witness this.

If Tony Wilson *had* signed The Smiths to Factory...

Good Night. (Speaking of John Lydon as we were #totp)

“…and the best unexpected use of ‘Move Your Feet’ by Junior Senior in a comedy drama goes to… How to Get to Heaven from Belfast!”

Overheard: ‘We were going to call our children Tizer and Corona. Tizer for a boy, Corona for a girl. Imagine, what with COVID, if we’d done that.’

Right, I had #totp at 7 but Death in Paradise at 9.

Su Pollard and The Damned together at last. #TOTP

Reminder #totp

Hands, Kenyon! #totp

Fairlight CMS in the house! Keytar klaxon! #totp

Trevor Horn, willing the Fairlight CMS into existence. #totp

I’m not sure those raincoats provide adequate protection against atomic fallout. #totp

I bloody love Suede but hardly have any of their records. #totp

The London Suede! #totp

Is this a hat-trick @loudbasket.bsky.social ? #totp

Found a - breathtakingly clever, if I say so myself - lesson on how public key cryptography works I wrote 7 years ago. Like that was an important thing at the time. Is it just taken for granted now? Irrelevant?

Meanwhile on Thursday evenings...

This is good creepy fun - gave me Annihilation but in Britain vibes. Effective soundscape as well.

How did I not realise The Singing Detective is on the BBC iPlayer in 4K now?

I didn’t know you could play live radio programmes at double speed but Radio 4 seem to be proving this with Sliced Bread. Had to switch off after a minute. Exhausting to listen to.

Good to see everybody brushing up on contempt of court. Well done.

This potentially warrants equal, if not greater, attention at the moment.

Hey Siri, show me the Library of Babel but let's make sure it only contains the worst and most nightmarish content ever produced. This absolutely defies belief.

A tale of two pubs, across the street from each other. Both trying to attract the same clientele. One sells cheap beer, looks and feels like a real pub, has a pool table. The other is a converted shop, beer much more expensive. Which one is rammed on a wet Wednesday? Which one is empty?

A tale of two pubs, across the street from each other. Both trying to attract the same clientele. One sells cheap beer, looks and feels like a real pub, has a pool table. The other is a converted shop, beer much more expensive. Which one is rammed on a wet Wednesday? Which one is empty?

Happy birthday Len Deighton!

I have just listened to this on a long, dreary bus journey. It’s wonderful!

Wednesday.

Astonishing story of a DAB radio service having its IP transmission stream hijacked by its own streaming vendor to broadcast obscenities instead of the radio output for *30* mins! Seemingly, because of a contract dispute between the vendor & another mux provider! www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...

Really loving the 'Listen with Other' anthology series. Fantastic spooky and strange stories. The latest instalment by General Witchfinders Zine alum @raynewman.bsky.social was fantastic - highly recommended. The music and soundscapes really blew me away. Listen now podlink.com/1842661048/e...

Before Question Time, there was Saturday Night, the demented after-hours panel debate pumped out in the late 1960s by that bustling ITV stationette, Television Wales & the West.

Raspberry Pi soars 40% as CEO buys stock, AI chatter builds reut.rs/3ZDeKt0

Overheard: ‘We were going to call our children Tizer and Corona. Tizer for a boy, Corona for a girl. Imagine, what with COVID, if we’d done that.’

An independent cinema operator from Hackney is to take over the former Catford Mews site – 15 months after the previous operator was evicted for non-payment of rent. Castle Cinema already operates another former Really Local Group site in Sidcup. greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/02/17/c...

Don’t forget the pancakes on Jif Lemon day.

www.france24.com/en/live-news... I have seen some Russian disinformation accounts on Bluesky. They portray themselves as left wing but are pushing Russian disinformation.

Tuesday

In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroe...