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The end of an era - After almost a century we said goodbye this morning to our great companion of the airwaves Radio 4 198 LW. I shall miss her warmth and crackle. Here’s the final sign off at the end of #theshippingforecast before she fell silent… ❤️

Imagine supermarket, hospital and station car parks that: ☀️ Keep cars cooler in summer. ☔ Keep people drier in winter. ⚡ Generate renewable electricity. Britain considered making it happen. It quietly decided not to.

Very sad about this www.economist.com/britain/2026... #lomgwave #radio #weirdvibes

UPDATE I have drunk the rosé In the bar across the bridge …

That feeling when you find the best shady spot to sit in. 📷: River God on the Long Walk at Woolbeding Gardens, West Sussex by Laurence Perry

Heatwave survivors: If you haven't yet read The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard, now is the time. It is set in a flooded city of the future which has become tropical lagoons with only the tops of buildings emerging above the water. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #booksky

Babe! Wake up! They just dropped TWO new Augustinian writings!

Flicking through a second hand book I found this delightful entry. Forced greengages! Edward Gorey is always wonderful. #booksky

Trailer for a documentary about Leo Records. I hope it finds distribution and some kind of streaming release; I'd love to watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h7X...

If you’re going to hobnail the shoe, then bloody hobnail the shoe, that’s what I say. 1st/2nd C AD, @vindolandatrust.bsky.social #FindsFriday

In his keynote speech to Harvard graduates this week, @thedailyshow.com host Ronny Chieng said "Fuck AI!" Turns out you can talk about AI in a grad speech and not get booed. Watch our episode on these AI grad speeches: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE0E...

Scientists have discovered a tiny blue octopus lurking beneath the waters near the Galápagos Islands. About the size of a golf ball, the newly identified deep-sea species was found nearly 1,800 meters below the surface during an expedition in the Pacific Ocean.

Schwarze #Ästhetik erobert Leipzig: Rund 20.000 Fans feiern das #Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2026 www.l-iz.de/leben/gesell... #Leipzig #Pfingsten #WGT #Gastbeitrag

I'm a little freaked out by this but today I picked up and began reading David Kynaston's Austerity Britain. The first quote on page 1 is from the Mass Observation Project and it turns out that 12th May is the day each year to submit a day diary. massobs.org.uk/12th-may/

This is a simply glorious sentence from @praddenkeefe.bsky.social , discussing the career of Mark Burnett, producer of reality TV programmes.

Let's make 2026 the year we bring back mixtapes. Let's get something positive out of this year.

web.ub.edu/en/web/actua... #archaeology #indigestion #romani

The new voice of Google Home sounds suspiciously like Sandi Toksvig. She just added vodka to my shopping list. #qi #scandinoir #spookyvoices

The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!

New frog just dropped

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar." –Lord Byron @lucyartmodel.bsky.social #fineartnude #implied #ocean #beach #chair #bayareaphotographer #photography #monochrome #classicmono

Still one of my favourite pop facts: the vocal sample is Peter Cook saying "voodoo rage" but the memory on Gerald's sampler was so small it cut off the end of the second word, and he just went with it anyway.

A new artist everyday for 2026 thread Day 1 of 365 Minimal Techno www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE9a...

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2... I love reading John Lanchester's essays.

Congratulations everyone

Vendel Helmet 1. Iron helmet with bronze fittings from a boat grave in Vendel, Uppland, Sweden, c. 550–793 AD. 📷 Swedish History Museum samlingar.shm.se/object/F0DD4... #Archaeology

'Cats of the Louvre' by Taiyo Matsumoto. #trochęsztuki

I found a petition to ban smart glasses in public spaces that needs a bit of a boost, if anyone else feels strongly about this: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

These are apparently facial reconstructions of a 2,300-year-old Pazyryk Scythian male and female from the same kurgan in Berel, Kazakhstan and not - as I first thought - that couple I met at a Spiral Tribe soundsystem in 1992 who sold me E that turned out to be paracetamol.

oh damn (it's almost like we need the arts? to survive?)

2073:

It will be such a shame if these services are cancelled. Please sign this petition. agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa... #trains #nighttrains

Hugely enjoying reading Fascist Yoga by @stewarthome.bsky.social - especially fun reading it on the tube! It is informative, entertaining and occasionally mind-boggling and I will definitely be recommending it to all my yoga-practising friends. (Published by @plutopress.bsky.social ).

I'm so lazy I don't even watch movies, I read about them on Wikipedia. Follow me for more life hacks

A bloke wearing a large, unseasonal afghan coat has just destroyed our window display. #booksky #saturdaysinaugust

it's time for the most fiendish literary quiz of the year. "Who said it - John Wycliffe or Wyclef Jean"

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Today’s good news is that Peter Greenaway’s delightful documentary Act of God, about lightning strike survivors, made for Thames TV’s Take Six strand in 1980 is on YouTube youtu.be/Ruuxxdq4v4Y?...

Ancient silver stater (coin) with an octopus on the reverse side 🐙 🤩 Minted in Eretria, Euboea, Greece, 500-480 BC. Photo: British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

Facts.

John Kelly is running the entire Appalachian Trail in one go at the moment. Day 10 and he's just over a quarter of the way there. www.instagram.com/reel/DKcZiHN... #appalachiantrail #hardcorerunning #forestvibes

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Today I will mostly be celebrating the International Day of the Potato. www.un.org/en/observanc... #internationalpotatoday #roundthings #eatmorefries

Still sad it got cancelled #serenity #firefly

“It feels like an intentional kick in the face to local bookstores [...] Independent bookstores generally have to charge full price because those margins are what help them survive. Amazon engages in predatory pricing.”

More of this, please. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Haul llwynog’ in Welsh for sunshine that can’t be trusted

When life gives you colons