*niche post alert* How many times have I seen this 1970s Public Information Film about polystyrene tile fires and not spotted the glaringly obvious 'Mr and Mrs Arnold Finney'/Arnolfini gag? Durr... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Eyd...

It’d be good if they kept stripping names and stuff away until he had no name at all. Nothing. And him ending up with a completely smooth face like the fella out of the old photographs in Sapphire and Steel.

Back to the brink... @radiotimes.bsky.social digs deep into the TV masterpiece that is Edge of Darkness, on its 40th anniversary, with rare photos and a special interview with actor Ian McNeice... www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/edg...

Just adding my name to the list of people who might want to see a biopic about singer/songwriter Paul Williams starring Toby Jones.

Baron Nathan, the celebrity dance teacher of the 1850s who danced the hornpipe blindfolded, surrounded by eggs. There's something SO malevolent about this image. It's powerfully frightening.

Quite like to see a team on Bargain Hunt blow their entire £300 budget, including big spend on three records from the antique shop's vinyl crates.

Argh! Mac OS Tahoe's push to round every corner that you see on screen includes the corners of PDF pages INSIDE its Preview app. And you can't turn the feature off. I know the document won't print with these little nibbles taken out of the edges, but still. Bit rubbish, innit? Back to Acrobat...

Morning!

Norma!

Experiment successful.

"They perfuck you up, your mum and dad." Pop Larkin

Just installed OS Tahoe. “Oh hai, AI.”

Lovely stuff.

We’ve sold out on Spotify! They’ll have to order some more stock.

Great log dragon o’ the wood.

One of Keats’s finest.

And when there’s a hosepipe ban? I guess this is nothing to do with the William Girling and King George’s reservoirs being just down the road, is it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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How does this meme work again?

Would you ask a professional sports person the same question? Or even an enthusiastic amateur runner? If you hold down CMD and OPTION you can get it to do a cold scan. But I wouldn't. I cold scanned a comic page I was really proud of and it came out like this:

What is a desktop scanner doing while it's silently 'warming up' for the ten seconds or so after you haven't used it for a while? Is it bracing itself for the potential shock of a human arse or face being placed on the flatbed? "C'mon mate, you've got this. It's just a document. Not an arse..."

I love these 1970s royalty-free instant art books. Some familiar faces for those of a certain age…

“If you throw those uneaten gourmet meat sticks with a worming tablet hidden in them in the bin and replace them with normal cat biscuits, I will sniff the bowl, drop a single biscuit on the floor to make sure a pill doesn’t fall out and, if all tests are passed, only then will I commence my repas.”

"Let the children use it." From this day in 2019.

Was hoping it was an Action Man tied to a homemade handkerchief parachute.

No! Tony! (One for the kids)

This was my gateway into horror.

Perfect.

Watched The Dark Knight Rises this evening with the family and enjoyed Tom Hardy as Bane channelling Alexander Armstrong’s ‘Force on the Case’ voice: “Let’s imagine his name’s Hurst, and he runs the bookshop next to mine…”

I feel like this 'fess might have something to do with that... x.com/fesshole/sta...

Apparently Trump's gold plated Oval office is only halfway finished, here's the final design.

Guy finishes building subterranean city for cats and places his cat in front of the entrance. Cat walks away.

Double-double-o-seven.

Bob Odenkirk bigging up Framley in the Observer magazine.

Is it good practice to put magnetic fish back in the cardboard pond after catching them, or are you ok to eat them?

"Adobe could not find any solutions or workarounds for the recent error in Adobe InDesign 2025. Thank you for sending us the error report." Has anyone ever had a "YES! Yes! We actually know what caused this crash!" prompt after submitting a Creative Suite crash report to Adobe?

The perfect host.

Looking forward to BBC’s series ‘Masterpresenter’ next year where twelve professional presenters battle it out to get the chance to prove they’ve got what it takes to behave themselves while hosting a popular TV cooking show.

We're in the process of requesting that all our music be taken off Spotify. It’s Bandcamp Friday, if you’re interested in getting hold of Candidate’s music and a) not funding billionaires investing in AI weaponry b) supporting musicians Ditch Spotify. candidateband.bandcamp.com

This is the Ultimate blue plaque.

Thanks to everyone who came along to The Harrison last night and to @singingadams.bsky.social for their general loveliness. We’re doing it again tonight with @simonloverules.bsky.social See you there x

I'm supporting @candidatemusic.bsky.social tonight at the Harrison in Kings Cross. It's sold out though. I have things to sell.

See you there if you’re going to be there. If not, we’ll see you next time.

Somewhere at the BBC a VFX editor painstakingly removes the last shot of Gregg Wallace out of the latest series, checks the news, sighs, and scrolls back to the beginning.

Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo, is the only human, alive or dead that isn’t in the frame of this picture.

I love that, even on the most recent HD series of Homes Under the Hammer, the title sequence still looks like it's been upscaled from a 320 x 240 pixel animated GIF.

"Don't reckon I'll be able to make this Google Meet call. I'm stuck in traffic on Street View."

Ringo With Noakes (*One for the kids)

HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you #artshare