@thesquareball.net I mean, I realise he's not *quite* the real thing, but he is close...

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

So U&Dave announced before the break that coming up next was an episode of Have I Got News For You hosted by Naga Munchetty. After the break they announced it would be hosted by Kirsty Young. It is being hosted by Jack Dee.

In an effort that will no doubt torch my follower base, I have laid out some basic numbers around our fiscal situation. Obvious, but still a little sobering for me. freethinkecon.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/t...

BFI Inside the Archive: Stars in Technicolor #FilminFilm #StarWars youtu.be/1bsCliOges0?...

For @ebertvoices.bsky.social's 20 Best Films of 2025 So Far I wrote about Dea Kulumbegashvili’s unsettling abortion drama APRIL

Welcome to the archives.

Archie Gray tonight was the youngest Englishman to end on the winning side in a European final since an 18-year-old Gary Mills in the 1980 European Cup final. Playing alongside Mills that day? Gray's grandad, Frank Gray. #lufc

🎹 Yuja x Hockney 🎨 Now on demand via Arte: bachtrack.com/concert-vide...

Want a overview of what PunchedCON is like? Thinking about going next year? Read this fantastic review: eboracon.co.uk/2025/05/13/p...

And you may find yourself living in a thatched-roof hut And you may find yourself living in the Holy Roman Empire And you may find yourself negotiating with your lords And you may find yourself in a beautiful hall, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

This video by Deutsche Grammophon about the remastering of Karajan's Bruckner recordings is full of information about making classical records that I never knew before. The ways in which artificial reverberation gets added is particularly fascinating. A great watch. youtube.com/watch?v=L1Wn...

@mrchrisaddison.bsky.social I hope you might give this version of "Don't Think Twice..." a try! 🙂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kiij...

LEEDS GOT PROMOTED so we stayed up all night making these because we don’t know how to make good life choices Please buy some so we can go to sleep #lufc 🛒 noscoredraws.com/products/lee...

As some of you may be aware, John Devlin @truecolours.bsky.social had major surgery recently and has been very unwell. As he now begins his recovery, I've decided to create a 1974 World Cup Kits digital poster that you can buy to help raise funds for his medical costs and reduced earnings. [🧵 1/2]

And only twenty years after I used to write for them. 🙂

A little bit of Aurora of Ely this evening 💜 #aurora #northernlights #norrsken Ely, Cambridgeshire

PREORDER: 'Get To Heaven (Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition)' by Everything Everything Everything Everything's acclaimed third album returns as a limited repress complete with twelve bonus tracks (B-sides and previously unreleased outtake demos). www.normanrecords.com/records/2088...

25% tariff on the Blue Peter Tracy Island model. “It’s just trash. Just garbage. It’s a garbage island. Made of stuff from the trashcan. Incredible to see.”

All the signal ladies (All the signal ladies) All the signal ladies (All the signal ladies)

Mike Myers in the new liberal ad.

New post just out Ten books to help understand the world we're now in. Five recommendations on the US/Trump/Musk and five on Europe and the rest of the world. (This one is free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

Premier League #GW29 Matchup Analysis 📊⚽ Thank you for returning to my mini premier league analysis. My aim is to explore different lenses through which to see our beautiful game. All data from last 6 home/away. A thread 🧵👇 Sharing is caring. ♻️🙏 Plz enjoy. #EPL #EPLMatchups #staysharp🪓

Gerard Hoffnung's The Bricklayer's Lament, one of the greatest comic deliveries of all time www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZUJ...

Do you think we'll eventually work out what we're supposed to do at those short corners? #LUFC

Update on my life: Last year, I joined my kids' school's PTA, because they needed a treasurer and I'm good enough with numbers. It was a straightforward, self-contained job: balancing the checkbook for an organization that only did a few fundraisers each year.

@seatsixtyone.bsky.social You will almost certainly see this anyway, but just in case. 🙂 bsky.app/profile/thel...

Premier League GW24 Matchup Analysis 📊⚽ Had a little time to include a brief analysis this week so let's lift the veil of the narratives and examine the stats and trends for this weekend’s fixtures! All data from last 6 home/away respectively. A thread 🧵👇 #EPLMatchups #staysharp🪓

How is the classical music world changing? Today, we release our annual Bachtrack statistics, based on our event listings in 2024. Find out more: bachtrack.com/classical-mu...

Forwards in #FPL sorted according to their Salah Value (SVal). This is calculated relative to Salah's performance to be worth £13m at game start a couple of years ago. "5+" is the number of Returns of 5pts or more "10+" is the number of Hauls of 10pts or more NbG is the number of appearances

Huge if true

BLOG UPDATE: Enough of the "50 Best TV Shows of 2024" lists. What about the 50 Most Inescapable TV Shows of 2024? The ones you simply can't avoid. Here's the definitive list. brokentv.uk/2024/12/20/t...

THE TOP 50 GUARDIAN HEADLINES 2024 - RANKED! part 2, 25-1 25. Let's call war what it really is - an egregious sad-choice macro-aggression 24. Curate yourself into an insufferable yet adorable niche expert in 100 days 23. As baby pygmy hippo crypto fades, tradwife memecoin is a mindful snap

TOM ♥️♥️

Emile Smith-Rowe, there, missing a second appearance point by 5 seconds. 😬 #FPL

btw the alt text for this is incredible

Did you know that Brentford's goals in their six away games this season make a palindrome? 0-1-1-1-1-0 #Mbuemo #FPL

A late heads up that BBC Radio 3's Unclassified tonight at 11:30pm UK is featuring a live orchestral version of Erland Cooper's "Carve The Runes and Be Content With Silence" from the Aerial Festival in Ambleside. A beautiful and moving Orkney meditation featuring the poetry of George Mackay Brown

Right. So which player exactly was Salah aiming at? Or was he shooting? #FPL

I first read about it here: nymag.com/intelligence... This article has a lot of stories from humans doing this work. It's super sobering.

My 6yr old took out a poster from his magazine and put it on the wall in my home office, cos it’s my team and I’d like it ❤️ #saintsfc

For anyone in the UK, If you text ‘SHOUT’ to 85258 when you are in a dark place or suicidal, a trained crisis volunteer will text you back. This is great If you find talking on the phone challenging. It’s completely free 24/7. Please Repost, you never know who might need this support

So there is some buried treasure (20p pieces) buried under some rocks and stones and the horse and the sheep are keen to get at it (sheep has brought its shovel) but they’re being told that they must stay behind the barriers, if you were wondering how my day was going

NEW POST 🗞️ To mark 10 years since I launched Outside Write, I have written a post looking back at highlights, what’s changed and what’s next 📚 3x book deals 🎙️ 233 episodes / 332,000 downloads 🎓 Lecturing Thanks for being on the ride! #groundhopping #skystorians outsidewrite.co.uk/ten-years-of...

Little tip for those still trying to find their old follows from the other place Copy this below, search for it over there and you'll see everyone you follow who has posted their Bluesky handle filter:follows bsky OR bluesky

@fplelstatto.follows.football I am chuffed to bits. #CymruAmByth

A friend of mine hides a small Yoda figurine in her family's sacred Nativity seen. It was taken to church last year and was blessed.

Michael Bond publishes the first book in 1958. The "please look after this bear" tag evokes both the kindertransport and the evacuees within Britain. Britain has taken 21,000 Hungarian refugees in 1956-57 though national politics of both immigration & asylum much more polarised in 1960s than 1950s