Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill

I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...

No, the beer coat is not real, please, stop rewarding ai shite.

Thought you’d all enjoy this folding paper fan that MrsH found while we were tidying our bedroom. I think it’s 1940s?

We got both billboards up tonight, in the background of this one you can see the gas flaring of a nearby oil refinery

Alexei Sayle's Stuff (9th November 1989). The latest teenage craze is a rather unexpected one. And Pete Murray has a complaint from 1960.

24/7 cake vending machine in the middle of nowhere. Maximum Poland.

Just watched The Cathedral (2022), fascinating documentary about a determined ‘eccentric’ with little regard for health & safety (it’s on Prime)

Ten years to the day (depending on how you define the number ten) Count Binface talks Sgt Pepper with me. Episode out now… (Obligatory Kickstarter plug: chrisbarkerprints.co.uk ) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓 The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺 The facts are so good 🥺 Eels are so cool 🥺 Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

french wikipedia is the only language that has a "list of bastards" article

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

Boom! A good deal of my time spent on the beach at Jökulsárlón is trying to capture waves hitting icebergs, without the iceberg moving (and being blurred). Occasionally it all comes together :) #Iceland

I don't want to be around when the owner of these glasses comes back to find them.

If we could place a 2000km wide black disc on Mars, we could turn the whole thing into a giant poppy. Surely this is the incentive the British space industry needs?

Watched a bit of Starman on TV and it’s so much better than it has any right to be, manages to avoid tipping over into mawkish nonsense or leaning into comedy too hard & the lead actors are perfect

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

ITV have put up the Acid House World in Action episode which features this perfect moment. youtu.be/YANS3DhnZy0?...

FT piece on return of retro foods is really good, but the photography is particularly brilliant. I didn't clock at first that these were new pictures, so perfectly have they been cooked, styled and edited: on.ft.com/47IHdB1 (there are lots more great pics, but I think this is a fair use compromise)

Ep 2 broadens it out really cleverly and I have absolutely no idea where it’s all heading 👍

First episode of Pluribus is great, goes for revealing the premise right from the start, there’s no drawn-out mystery about why stuff’s happening (or is there…?)

I don’t know if I want to buy the deranged curtains, even at a discount

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

He put a semicolon on a plate.

Printed proof of magazine has FINALLY shipped, so nervous about seeing whether I’ve judged the colours & greys right, if there are stupid mistakes in the content, etc

A teaser of the Trashtalk podcast with @countbinface.bsky.social about #sgtpepperx10 where we're talking about moral quandaries that were thrown up by #sgtpepper2021 Don't forget you can back the book now at chrisbarkerprints.co.uk Full podcast will be out tomorrow wherever you get your podcasts…

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First episode of Pluribus is great, goes for revealing the premise right from the start, there’s no drawn-out mystery about why stuff’s happening (or is there…?)

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Google has gradually been optimised for people who are bad at expressing what they’re looking for, it’s all vibes now

Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.

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Trailer for Bi Gan’s RESSURRECTION. It takes place over 100 years of Chinese history in stories about all your senses, it’s about a monster & movies & love and how we somehow invented a strange method for sharing dreams.

On my own this evening, so it’ll be pizza + Pluribus

two features that might not be obvious: - you can copy a link to share a specific pattern you've made - you can press the little download icon in the top right to download the pattern as a SVG here's a nice little animation i found:

FYI if you're in the UK it's not just "adult content" that you'd expect to be blocked for you, but a few other labels that you absolutely cannot trust a tech brained US company's automation to handle properly. The "Sensitive" one, are you fucking kidding me?

This might be of interest to a few people The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc Apply by 30 November www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund

I still bear a 20-year grudge against the “pitching consultants” hired by a former employer who disliked my approach & CV so much they pasted in a colleague’s bio instead but clumsily find-&-replaced “Tony" to “Matty"

There’s an awful lot to take in here, but it’s good at explaining what actually makes a game a game (rather than a toy) and how bigger games are made of smaller games www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/g...

Amy Madigan! Mainly for the pictures, which are ace. Beware massive WEAPONS spoilers with no warnings) in the text. Doesn't mention Walter Hill's STREETS OF FIRE, love her in that.

Beyond Nostalgia #16: Reporting from ZXGFXTOBER 2025 ZX Spectrum pixel art graphics competition beyondnostalgia.substack.com/p/fifteen-co... #pixelart #ZXreposts #photography #CRT

The 18 pics aren’t all distracting boob shots – in the absence of positive reviews she’s gone through the social media of people called stuff like “albertcumslut”, just spending all day sifting through mounds of ordure just to find anything that looks like a pearl, what a dame

Big naturals is BBC exec slang for any new David Attenborough series

shoutouts to toby fox for just doing this when a platform tells him he HAS to add achievements to his games

He keeps doing it. Every time somebody gets beheaded in this text, the word "head" is replaced with a little hand-drawn emoticon. And considering how many people get beheaded in this story, that's a lot of lil face drawings.