Nothing more chilling than hearing this guy say "Hail Hydra". RIP Robert Redford

You always remember where you were when the moon Broke Away. On that day in 1999 I was in a pub at a Doctor Who local group meeting. We piled outside to wave goodbye to the moon, much to the bemusement of the regulars. Poor Moonbase Alpha. I presume they're out of coffee by now.

History teacher's dream page!!!

A lot of people are working on educating young people about this already. The good people of @politicsproject.bsky.social have been a huge help with their support and advice www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

RIP Terence Stamp. Read this and immediately all I can think of is "kneel before Zod". www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

Enjoyed this sign at the parish church in Whitby today…

The weather today:

Very sad news... Ray has gone to the fancy dress shop in the sky... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As of this week, there is nobody left on Earth who witnessed this moment live.

RIP Jim Lovell www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

Made in Manchester: radio astronomer Bernard Lovell (1913-2012) created Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, the world’s largest steerable dish radio telescope at the time (now the third largest). 1/6

Happy b’day, “American Idiot” — released as a single 21 years ago today, and written in the wake of the Iraq War. “The country had gone into a war based on lies,” said Billie Joe Armstrong, “and no one seemed to care. .. It was a song that came from a very honest, pissed-off place.”

Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter, photo by Hannah Cassidy.

Reposted with no attempt to suggest that this is relevant to current events... 🙄

You’ve made London, and the entire nation, incredibly proud. It’s coming home 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Passing of a true rock music original. #RIPOzzy www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

The right-wing press is going mad over votes at 16 ("a naked attempt to twist democracy in Labour’s favour", an "election-rigging move"...) Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21. Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...

Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social, Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism. Looking forward to following you wherever you land, Your fan, Mar🐫

PERSON OF THE DAY. 6 July 1936. Dave Allen was born in Dublin, Ireland. He’s best known for his 2 long-running TV comedy series of programmes: The Dave Allen Show and Dave Allen at Large. His conversational monologue style of comedy greatly influenced modern stand up comedians.

Out in paperback now and cannot recommend highly enough: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Absolute tune!

#ArtistFave90s No.4 The epic start to ETF, sets the tone perfectly. open.spotify.com/track/65gXWI...

The unorthodox crime-fighting comedy drama filmed in Wales has captivated audiences and broken viewing records

The famous Viking attack on Lindisfarne took place #OTD in 793, regarded as the start of the Viking age in Britain. ‘Never before has such a terror appeared in Britain as we have just suffered from a pagan people,' wrote the scholar Alcuin.

#OTD 1975 voters participated in a referendum on the UK's membership of the EEC, the first such national referendum ever held in Britain. Voters would support the UK's continued membership by 67% to 23%, a decision that would be eventually reversed in the 2016 referendum.

Who’s up for the Butlerian jihad?

If you read this and have a few pennies to spare please cosider sponsoring this inspirational young person www.justgiving.com/page/carys-d...

Happy SF Patricks Day.

How can these two news sites have such different interpretations of the same weather forecast?

Beware the Ides of March www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Apropos of nothing... youtu.be/uWs1-2foKoo?...

Just seen this and it's takn me right back to seeing Macca in Liverpool in 1990 youtu.be/iu4aedISw6g?...

So excited for their new album... www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Whoever made this cartoon has it the nail right on the head 👏👏👏

The state of the world.....

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78

"Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with." —The Guide

On this day in 1818 Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is first published, by 20-year-old Mary Shelley, the world’s first science fiction novel. “I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine...

Very sad that my first post on this site is an RIP but in a 30 year plus teaching career listening to Johnny Walker's Drivetime was an essential part of travelling home from work for many years (apart from the odd occasion I was early enough for Steve Wright). www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...