In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Greater Anglia rail passenger operator nationalised. Govt will rent carriages. Lucrative freight and rolling stock companies remain privatised. 3 Luxembourg-based companies control 87% of rolling stock, paid £1.3bn dividend in last 3 years which bears no UK tax. Gravy train rolls on.

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

At the end of the summer season Cheltenham Lido drains down the pool and re-fills for winter cold water swimming. But before that, they open it to dogs for the weekend. It's Mabel's favourite day of the year.

anybody who's good at history want to tell me if it's good or not to starve your troops

"Did you make the angelic tea-light holder I asked you for?" "Sure Boss, real sexy, just like you wanted." "What?"

Is the plan to secretly call them bigots and then spend the rest of the day apologising?

“Best regards”

OTD 56 years ago, King Crimson released their debut, In The Court Of The Crimson King.

I don't like to brag but I do think our cat Jim is probably better at stretching than virtually any other cat in Britain.

Please go through this thread if you are having a bad day. I promise you, it’s the loveliest thing I’ve seen on Bluesky for a while 🥹

Q magazine frequently had a compilation CD stuck to the cover, and that's how I learned about this track in 2002, which became a favourite in my commuting days - always put a spring in my step Woke up with it as an earworm this morning. I've no idea why it wasn't better known Catch, by Leaves

The revolving restaurant was run by Butlins and was blown up by the Angry Brigade. It couldn't be more British if it tried

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Ruth Gordon was born during the reign of Queen Victoria but she could have seen back to the future in theaters

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Today I learned the Sámi word ‘oavnjistit’ which means the feeling you get when a wolf is in hunting mode and you feel he is following you but you can’t see him. (1)

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I like this shop and I cannot lie.

Thousands of road deaths a year caused by motor vehicles, speeding almost completely ignored by authorities, drink and drug driving at record highs and this is how you choose to spend your time, boasting about your stupid stunt and your shit marketing company on LinkedIn. Pathetic.

Monty Python’s Graham Chapman (January 8, 1941 – October 4, 1989)

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

#OtD 4 Oct 1936 the Battle of Cable St took place when Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists tried to march through East London. They were met by over 100k local workers who fought the blackshirts and the police protecting them, stopping the march workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...

Paleontologists recently unearthed the largest tibia ever recorded. It was quite the shindig.

Look what we have here then.

I've been following the progress of this foal called Rocky who was born with three legs! I've NEVER seen this before, a horse with three legs isn't like dogs or cats with a missing limb, it's basically unheard of. But he's 7 months old and the vet says he's doing great. I love the way he eats grass.

Worth stressing that the budget for Broken Veil was £0. The biggest challenge in planning it was how to make a full audio narrative show without taking advantage of the handful of lovely people we asked to help, or getting ourselves into serious debt. That’s why winning a prize is lovely and mad.

"So then it was, 'What do you think of Marx?' And I said, 'I think their pants have dropped off but you can't fault their broccoli.'" [NB the laughs are so loud you can't hear the end of this line. I only know it because I pored over V Wood's script books Barmy and Up to You, Porky as a teen.]

That's my husband with his band Gang of Four at 25 mins. I Love a Man in a Uniform was their 2nd single to be banned. At a time when some of the best cultural output is being consigned to flames, this would be a good day to watch or just crank up Gang of Four LOUD www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

I think it would do people good to spend more time looking at and thinking about this graph. From the excellent www.gov.uk/government/p...

Classy and poised. Haunted even. Bagging a gong and a cushion. (Bronze for Best Fiction Podcast at the BPAs.) Thanks to everyone who helped us make Broken Veil, and everyone who listened, in this reality or others. #BrokenVeil #BritishPodcastAwards

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On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

My cure for the state of the world is to buy a dog, secure matching furniture, and then occasionally go and look at him during the working day to remind yourself that everything might be OK.

Happy birthday to Henry the vacuum cleaner x

One time I spent five minutes at lunch drawing a reverse centaur and it became one of my most retweeted pieces of art. I resented that so I deleted it but now it can be free again because not enough people follow me on here for it to go big

You can use a buttercup to tell if you like butter or not. To find out if you like primates you need a chin pansy.

I’m a union rep at a special needs school and two of our incredible teachers happen to be from India and China. They work *so* fucking hard, burning their health for our kids. The idea thats not contributing is fucking disgusting. They are so frightened of the changes coming to settled status.

As soon as Bluesky rolls out a feature to block an entire country, it'll make an absolute killing.

I know to the media and politicians it’s policy and words and a rather one sided debate but here’s a reminder of how all this anti migrant rhetoric makes people feel

Got my performance review.

Happy 90th birthday to the legendary Julie Andrews!

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

I don't understand the appeal of chicken wings. Like, here's some spicy bones, you'll need a shower afterwards.

Someday people will start noticing that the most eminent roboticist in the world has an uninterrupted multi-decade record of deep skepticism about almost all uses of robotics and “AI” that has been proven uniformly correct

what am I, applying to be wildlife photographer of the year or something?

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That’s nice will ticket prices go down i’m being quoted £200 off peak to Edinburgh