A play or signage gang is royal, Pa. #palindrome

Five Virginia Woolf books and no JRR Tolkien? I'm an Eng Lit PhD, but this Guardian list can go fuck itself. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

I have measured out my life in curry stains.

Hamburg bans Hamster Dams in retaliation!

Pullback Drive xkcd.com/3244/

The songs are absolute bangers! I hear the book's a bit rubbish, but maybe they've fixed that.

The most beautiful avenue of beeches in all South Wales

Woodcut from La Petit Histoire Bretonne ‘On the Open Sea’ Rene Quillivic, 1921

Underrated alternative Mortensen factoid.

This book is full of fascinating details, revealing interviews, and so-bad-it's-good writing. #booksky #lotr

Fifteen best TV shows, gut instincts only. Doctor Who Star Trek Lost Decks The Borgias Race Across the World Delicious in Dungeon The Prisoner Sense and Sensibility Up the Women Big Boys Bluestone 42 Jeeves and Wooster Scrubs (reboot) Asterix and the Big Fight Futurama Life on Mars

Doctor Who has never had a complete reboot. It should never have a complete reboot. 60+ years of patchy development is part of the charm. If you feel the lore is an impediment, just do a 2005 reinvention.

Papaya Headache

Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950) El Capitan, 1925. Coloured Woodblock.

Not sure if he still does it, but a few years back you could be at Jane Austen's House Museum in Chawton and get a tour from Richard Austen-Knight, a living relative. Lovely man.

Got to the bit in #thecharioteer where he comes back for his mother's wedding to a man he hates and they've put his dog down without telling him. Brutal.

Ruby Ruby Ruby Tuesday, don't take your love to town.

1994: Bluetooth invented 2016: Apple removes the headphone jack from its iPhone 2026: the latest generation of NHS hearing aids are Bluetooth-enabled. Been a long time coming! What should I listen to first?

He looks like a real fighting rooster.

A startling recreation of the North Bersted Iron Age warrior wearing his (not at all) ostentatious crested helmet The warrior's damaged vertebrae suggest that he wore this hat quite a lot in life © Artas Media 2019 📷 March 2026 at the #Novium Happy #FindsFriday

'Twixt train and platform sprawls a fearful gap So mind you disembark without mishap.

How do maths teachers teach square roots in Australia? Must be a lot of sniggering.

Terrifyingly relatable

Possibly Stephen Collins's masterpiece.

British Museum, Room 16 upstairs. Look at the astonishing delicacy with which the sculptor has moulded the palm of her hand.

Pour your unhappiness out From your too bitter heart Which grieving will not sweeten. --Wallace Stevens #poetrysky

Do they sell fridges in Selfridges?

One of those interesting cases where the cartoon is more interesting than the caption.

One of my local pizzerias just sent this really charming email about how his kids accidentally ordered 3x more cheese than needed & now they're doing £5 Margheritas all week. Eating out at #fizzandflour this week!

I have just decided to finish the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series on the grounds that 'Harry Potter is the antichrist' does not feel as crotchety-old-mannish as it did in 2009. And VOL. IV: TEMPEST IS AMAZING!

Furthest I've been: N: Strokkur geyser S: Te Anau E: Rotorua W: Vancouver

Loving the owl mask.

Hello, I'm a deaf person in a film. I am only ever profoundly deaf, exclusively communicate through sign language, and never use any technology like cochlear implants or bone anchored hearing aids. Perhaps because of this, I have a mystical connection to nature.

RIP Ozzy Osbourne. We scoured the archives to find our best medieval bats in the rocker’s honour. #MedievalMonday. 1. Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 554 2: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304. 3: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764. 4: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511.

One of those images that really doesn't look like a painting until you zoom.

At least Disney realizes that The Incredibles is the best Fantastic 4 movie. Unfortunately, live-action Jack-Jack is exactly as dull as you think.

Here's a poem by one of the old Chinese scholar bureaucrats that I think captures a certain Vibe very well

Literally a conversation I had this evening with someone I knew from the university. "I thought about teaching as an fallback as well, but then I ASSAULTED MY NEPHEW so I can't do it anymore." Who just drops that into the conversation?!

I don't know which deaf people need to hear this, but if someone ever asks to try on your hearing aids, you should get your coat because you've pulled.

10 directors by whom I've seen more than 5 films #filmsky Ridley Scott Sergio Leone John Ford Wes Anderson Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Alfred Hitchcock Peter Jackson Howard Hawks Joe Wright John Carpenter

10 authors by whom I've read more than 5 books #booksky Charles Dickens Alexander Pushkin Lindsey Davis Patrick O'Brian C.S. Forester Mary Renault Robert Louis Stevenson Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Alastair Reynolds Adam Roberts

Dune 3: Arrakisworm J'im

Here in Cardiff, I've been enjoying the fuss around the Mike Flowers Pops concert. Truly an oasis in the desert of our contemporary music scene youtu.be/NTfZshkNZRw?...

I have a joke about River Song but I keep getting it backwards.

Once or twice a year (if I'm lucky) I find myself gripped by a spasm of laughter that continues for a good five minutes and literally brings tears to my eyes. This time it happened in the middle of Tom Stoppard's Shipwreck and I'm still recovering.

Sunday portable movie: the Maltese Falcon on the #psvita

I do desire we may be better strangers #familyreunion