Post a banger that isn't in English youtu.be/83JPiOuRNVM?...

For a split second I read this as Leonard Rossiter.

An excellent double-whammy for @secondmentions.bsky.social: "intricate prize" and "orbital award". Bonus points for "hoisted aloft".

@secondmentions.bsky.social "putrid-smelling arthropods"

Post a ship that's not Star Wars or Star Trek

I wonder if he's touring?

In the 1890s, tariffs reduced government income, increased government expenditure, and undercut foreign investors’ confidence in U.S. reliability, leading to catastrophic effects for ordinary Americans. Tariffs haven't changed. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-love...

It could mean that the world financial system melts down when investors realize that Elon Musk may selectively default on US debt. Just saying.

@royalsociety.org why are you still honouring Elon Musk with a Fellowship of your society? He and his cronies are tearing down US science, blocked USAid that’ll result in the deaths of thousands from disease, and supports the Far Right. Why still honour him?? 🔭🧪⚛️ royalsociety.org/people/elon-...

What the fuck?

There are many stories for why we don't fasten the bottom-most button on a tailored jacket. The most widely repeated is that some king once got fat and stopped fastening this button, so his courtiers followed. Maybe this is true; maybe not. Who knows.

Always regret not writing more on mechanics of broadcasting in old job. Anyway, I *did not know* that the reason BBC Radio 4 still broadcasts on long wave in 2025 is that it secretly carries the Economy 7 signal for cheap overnight power on old electricity meters. c20society.org.uk/news/c20-cal...

Superstar interviewer John Fortune died on New Year's Eve just over 11 years ago. Here is one of his most entertaining interviews - with Eurosceptic MP Sir George Parr, 20 years before the Brexit referendum:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6a_...

The 21st of December was the feast of St Thomas the Apostle. On this day, the poor went 'Thomasing,’ asking for food and money. At Penmorfa, a board records the money distributed to the parish poor on December 21st. Many of our churches have similar benefaction boards.

OTD in early British television: the afternoon and evening of Saturday 12 December 1936, just six weeks into the BBC Television service from Alexandra Palace, witnessed a spectacular demonstration on the terrace just outside the studio.

Derek Griffiths with the Wibbly Wobbly walk.

If you see this, post a Knight.

OTD in early British television, on 27 November 1938, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company made its television debut with its production of 'The Wooing of Anne Hathaway'. The tradition of a major drama production each Sunday evening was already well-established...

this appears to be the only photo of the first version of a four-engined triplane bomber that the Voisin Company were developing in 1915 by this time, some aircraft had enclosed cockpits - but few as sleek as this!? note also the very pleasing engine cowlings, and the inverted-V radiators 1/2

The Magical Kings of Medieval England https://www.medievalists.net/2021/11/the-magical-kings-of-medieval-england/ #MedievalLiterature #MedievalEngland #Arthurian

Annoyed to be interrupted whilst shedding his fur in my clean bedding #proofofcat

Repost with one of the greatest villains in cinema history.