Stereolab live tonight!

At least from a GDPR perspective, using AI to process personal data and it getting their name wrong is a form of pseudo-anonymisation. No?

QTP with an album your rage a perfect 10/10 🎶

I seem to be revisiting a lot of '80s bands in my listening at the moment: Depeche Mode, XTC, OMD, Orange Juice, The Colourfield and the like. It's then you realise that it wasn't such a bad decade musically after all.

17 people have noticed me on LinkedIn. Noticed me doing what, I don't know.

Insert a movie into another movie: The King & Withnail & I

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

If you'll indulge me, now it's December, I'm going to jump on the bandwagon and share my favourite music from this year in my own #MusicChallenge #Top25of25, one post counting down until Christmas Day. Please share yours if you would like to join in.

Drop something MIRRORED (One for the kidz there)

That's... a lot of icing sugar...

Sexy Cinderella instantly sounds like Flight Of The Conchords' It's Business Time #TOTO

Your annual reminder that there are lots of good Black Friday deals at your local library where many books and services are FREE!

The best song Paul McCartney didn't record.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen. This year: • Dilettante • Doves • LCD Soundsystem • St Vincent • Edwyn Collins

My latest archive TV rabbit hole (thanks to @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social) is Tell Me Another, anecdotes from 1970s luminaries. I watched one last night and, oh my god, I have become fixated on Michael Bentine! I want to know more about him so have instantly ordered a copy of his autobiography.

Sorry, but librarians were way ahead of you when it comes to 'sex cardigans'.

Evergreen advice:

Had everyone woken up today with the intention of being annoying, or have I woken up today just being annoyed by everyone?

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

I'm gonna say Bob Holness.

The strings only version of Something on The Beatles Anthology 4 is 😘👌

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚

I do hope that Olly Murs's new album - Knees Up - is just covers of Chas 'n' Dave songs and pub classics.

Only two more days to go until we hear which missing Doctor Who episodes have been found. 😉 #WhoDay

I guess the sexy Arthur Dent look must be a thing in Cornwall...

Encouraging to see the scandal of changes to the BBC Written Archives Centre mentioned in this important piece for City AM from the British Academy's Hetan Shah. "We must remember that ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation." www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Starting my watch of Object Z tonight. Everyone seems remarkably calm since they only have six weeks to live. So far, so UNIT-era Doctor Who. Is there nothing that programme hasn't r̶i̶p̶p̶e̶d̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶ paid homage to?

MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE OF CARDS #TWOSHOWSINONE

An always welcome Neil Innes thread.

I had a dream last night where I saved a local community library and I've woken up in a good mood.

I'm suing the BBC for $1 billion to finally make the third Tripods series.

Ooh, intriguing. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Why did they feel the need to cover this John Lennon song? #TOTP

Was anyone else tempted to break into Delilah then? #TOTP

Did the Nineties ever go away? #TOTP

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No, YOU'RE wiping away a tear.

I'd assumed after all these years that Bond/007 was a pseudonym/job role, hence different actors playing him (and therefore, anyone could play him). I didn't realise it was meant to be the same person.

We're in safe hands: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaXY...

Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...

It’s getting to that point in my life where I’m starting to think if there’s actually been anything good on the television since Alexei Sayle’s Stuff 🤔

The reason I love archive TV so much is that you wouldn't have a hope in hell's chance of having something like The Journey (1977) made or shown today; George Melly reminiscing about surrealism. Most TV is now so anodyne. Arena, Art and Design: The Journey: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002k96l

I think it's about time this programme was repeated, BBC Four, particularly in light of this week's sad news about Gilson Lavis. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... BBC Four - Squeeze: Take Me I'm Yours

Bookmarks in returned library books go on display www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today's walk: moody. Glynde to Firle loop. Can recommend the reopened Trevor Arms pub in Glynde.

Well why can't they time travel back to now so that I can see them? That's just rude.

I hadn't heard about this - the BBC is restricting access to its written archives. It feels like part of the bigger picture of shutting down anything that is a positive for producing and preserving knowledge in the UK.

Lene Lovich is fantastic, isn't she? #TOTP

The Barron Knights version: "I'm only a poor little fairy stuck on the top of a tree..." #TOTP

Ditto Neil Hannon. #TOTP