Beatle-y alert: @britishlibrary.bsky.social are hosting a special anniversary event to play the Stowe Tape with the student who made it, Mark Lewisohn and more special guests. I'll be hosting. April 4th 2026. Tickets here: events.bl.uk/events/the-b...

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged. #MariaCallas

Hope you all enjoy the Big Parade today, Earthlets. (Also, The 2000 AD Annual is out now! shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/XB...)

"Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before.” William Goldman, who died on this day in 2018

I have to feel what I do. I have to like people to be with them. I just cannot learn the art of being a hypocrite. I wish I could. #MariaCallas

Unlike its domestic rivals, Chrysler opted not to design its own small car for North America at the start of the '70s. Instead it imported the Hillman Avenger from its UK subsidiary, rebranding it as the Plymouth Cricket. A fairly short-lived model, it mainly sold as a 4-door sedan. #weirdcarbs

Behold a Surreal 1933 Animation of Snow White, Featuring Cab Calloway & Betty Boop: It’s Ranked as the 19th Greatest Cartoon of All Time

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I have to feel what I do. I have to like people to be with them. I just cannot learn the art of being a hypocrite. I wish I could. #MariaCallas

Saw someone strutting through town today, ostentatiously swigging Perrier straight out of a litre bottle. Very aggressive act - white cider is appropriate on Briggate, NOT Perrier.

This is the oppression ladder in action. A black lesbian counts for less than a white man who claims to be a woman. BTW: this man has served time for drug dealing and has domestic abuse on his record. How can anyone think this is OK?

The Combat, 1939, by Leslie Gilbert Illingworth (1902–1979).

Love is so much better when you are not married. #MariaCallas

Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Inventions Rendered in 3D Animation: Helicopters, Robotic Knights, The First Ever Diving Suit & More

Magnificent Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed in Verona, Italy

A horrific massacre in Sudan on.ft.com/47IKjFs | opinion

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

How Japanese Kintsugi Masters Restore Pottery by Beautifying the Cracks

So the Renters' Rights Bill completed Parliament today. It has taken some time and I think we've forgotten what an important and really substantial piece of legislation it is. A huge and valuable change is coming (even if we don't know exactly when yet).

Find the #Gaeilge i do chroí! | Learn to embrace our native tongue unashamedly with Molly Nic Céile Join us to start or rediscover your journey with the #Irishlanguage. 🇮🇪 📅 Tues, 4 Nov at 6pm: https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/find-gaeilge-i-do-chroi

21st October, 1978: "Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet" part 4. #DoctorWho

This is better from the Courier. Helping to tackle misinformation and defuse tensions. One of the most common lies peddled by those trying to divide our communities over asylum is this rubbish about criminality. The police in Perthshire confirm - there is absolutely no evidence.

The Court President spoke today in Warsaw at a conference marking the Convention's 75th anniversary. Elaborating on why the Convention was conceived, he stressed its continued relevance, noting that the threats its drafters sought to guard against are re-emerging in new forms.

Media figures who cheerlead & champion Nigel Farage every minute of every day are freaking out about Keir Starmer telling a few home truths about the whiny little liar’s racism. And how the racism he disseminates every day affects real people in the real world. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

The World that ended in 1979...

New: The 1911 House and Cottage Exhibition, Gidea Park: 'a late example of the local landowner as entrepreneur; the social ideals of the garden city and Arts & Crafts movement [and] shrewd land investment to establish a discrete high-quality suburb'. municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/g...

The largest Honda to date, the fwd 1300 saloon went on sale in Japan in 1969, and features in 77 Deluxe form in this brochure. With a 1298cc air-cooled engine, it was decidedly unconventional compared to Japanese rivals, and had a fairly short production run, with limited exports. #weirdcarbs.

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

When you think you're World War II's Patton, but you're really just M*A*S*H's Major Frank Burns.

A close pal of Farage and the former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill has been convicted of accepting pro-Kremlin bribes. A huge story that goes way beyond bribery, the BBC don't even have it on their front page. Quite the "editorial choice". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Alongside its aesthetic and practical virtues, the only car in Europe to share its name with a popular cheese spread

This zoom-in video shows the location of the young star cluster Pismis 24 on the sky, where it transitions to the stunning image captured by #NASAWebb. Credit: Alyssa Pagan (STScI), NASA, ESA CSA, STScI. 🔭 🧪

Factoid: In the ‘Export or Die’ postwar period of the British motor industry visitors to the show could look at Austin’s two new models - the A70 Hampshire & A90 Atlantic, but the vast majority were headed overseas…

The 1500TC was just one piece of the complex jigsaw of Triumph's '70s saloon range, which blossomed in the early years of British Leyland. This detailed 1975 brochure is full of interesting period shots designed to match the buyer profile. #weirdcarbs

Everybody in the 70s: sex sells Triumph: …

Factoid: BMC’s pride was obviously in this launch ad which focused on the engineering aspect of the car & undoubtedly it was one of their & Alec Issigonis’s finest hours…

Godzilla vs Megalon (1973) #godzilla

Some Presbyters were clapped up today, and strict watch is kept in the City by the train-bands, and letters of a plot are taken. God preserve us! for all these things bode very ill.

Until recently the companies and legal regimes involved in gambling were mostly separate from those in financial services. No longer

Well, I suppose that's one way to put it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The territory’s Court of Final Appeal invites local and overseas judges onto its bench. Since 2022 five foreigners have quit, some citing concerns about the political environment

Here I take a dive into one of the most famous paintings in the National Gallery in Washington DC: El Greco's Laocoon. Is there a modern moral? I guess, sometimes telling the truth carries a high price. tinyurl.com/3sp2r8rj

I'm doing a prize giveaway. Where some think the prize is a wooden spoon... raffall.com/394613/enter...

Germany gets 60% of its power from renewables and is shutting down its coal plants. No blackouts. No high bills. Every right wing lie about renewables has been proven false.

To you, Lord Governor, Remains the censure of this hellish villain

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I was holding off reacting to this until it was authenticated but here we are. Jenrick is part of a movement that includes violent Nazis.