Paul Rhodes
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Not actually a Pussy-Owl.
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Old stuff for a Bluesky Video age (Rpt).
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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper
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For paid subscribers, but there's always the option to join them in the City of Morphoton: Who really created Doctor Who anyway?
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The Keys of Marinus
”Key of E?” “Is there any other?” The original edition of board game Trivial Pursuit (1981) asked the question “Who created Doctor Who?” and gave the answer...
https://buttondown.com/cooray_smith/archive/the-keys-of-marinus/
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OK, maybe there was a point to Penguin Awareness Day after all.
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Iain Roberts
4 days ago
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
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An advertising classic. Digital = has numbers on a dial Flashes = well, the numbers are seen through a window in the watch face, perhaps it's phosphorescent? "Computer" = unclear, but perhaps describing a general "vibe" with no actual functional significance.
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alternate ending
4 days ago
Awful day yesterday. So first, all these assholes get on the wrong bus
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Finally, the scourge of penguin unawareness is being addressed.
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Eddie Robson
5 days ago
One of the projects you can support on Smelt is a new sitcom by me. It's called The Least Bad Of All Possible Worlds and it's about refugees from parallel universes trying to integrate into society in Morecambe. You can pledge to fund it here: if you fund it, we make it!
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Old PC didn't like it when the power went off. After it came back on, Old PC just sat making weebly weebly noises instead of turning on. Replaced the PSU and Old PC now happily turns on again. But still markedly reluctant to do very much beyond that, which is why it became Old PC in the first place.
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This is interesting - but also raises questions such as, how did they boil eggs? That there were not accurate clocks does not mean that there were not things that took short amounts of time, so how *did* they talk about them?
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Had a man round to drive a metal spike into the mysterious void beneath the floorboards, just to make sure there's not a Great Vampire hiding out under there. Found a mysterious forgotten cardboard tube.
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Dr Dean Burnett
10 days ago
Nice one, Wes Going to get Jordan Peterson to address officials overseeing dietary guidelines next? Have Jeremy Clarkson set the environmental agenda? Might as well do at this point. They've all sold loads of books too, that's all the qualifications you need, right?
#socialmediaban
#badscience
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Jonny Morris
10 days ago
"Let me get this straight, Goody. Your assessment on whether there would be hooliganism at the football match was based on googling 'Will there be hooliganism at the football match?'"
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waltydunlop
10 days ago
I can officially confirm that Denton and Cook's "The Great Egg Race" theme remains absolutely brilliant. Their TV stuff usually is. Get yourself a copy of "Hong Kong Beat and Other BBC TV Themes". Pretty much every one a belter.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=odWU...
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The Great Egg Race - Theme
YouTube video by routemaster19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odWUVG2S9Fs
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra
12 days ago
I’m gobsmacked at how they pulled off the technical aspects of the sketch which starts at about 1:45 into this episode:
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The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine - Episode 1 (1st October 1971)
YouTube video by THE VHS DUSTBIN
https://youtu.be/ruApm9K7SbU
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Sam Adams
12 days ago
Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of
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Reminds me of when my daughter saw violins and said "look! tiny cellos!"
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Theatre Royal Drury Lane, late November 1980. The Roches (+support)
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Seeing all the people puzzling over where their new followers came from, saying "explain yourself, new followers!" lest they be bots, pondering what world event has prompted the influx — illustrates how we can all be on the same platform yet have very different experiences and expectations of it.
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In the interests of promoting a greater variety of ironic image postings on Bluesky, I should point out there are *nine* photos in this set.
www.shutterstock.com/editorial/se...
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Justin
about 1 month ago
I have a long-running list of surprising eponyms, and in this dark time I wish to share my amusement with you. To clarify, an eponym is something named for a person. “Newton’s Laws” are called that for Isaac Newton. A surprising eponym is just that. So, let’s begin. Eponyms/0
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Rachel Coldicutt
18 days ago
Is The Guardian working through All the Men in AI in alphabetical order and making sure they all feel special?
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Trevor Smith
20 days ago
Wow. Thin Lizzy playing the Doctor Who theme music is not something I had come across before
youtu.be/nbsoEcXAaiY
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Thin Lizzy - Dr. Who Theme / '69 Rock (Live at the Waldbuhne '73)
YouTube video by ThinLizzyFanpage
https://youtu.be/nbsoEcXAaiY
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What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?
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23 days ago
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Angus Main
23 days ago
Oh - the animations in the middle of the London Eye aren’t added to the feed digitally. Instead they set up a small Hologauze projection right in front of the camera so it appears like it’s in the middle of the Eye. Why?! Somehow that’s worse?
www.avinteractive.com/news/project...
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waltydunlop
26 days ago
Sophie Aldred's on Celebrity Mastermind tomorrow. Someone's specialty subject is "The actor Sylvester McCoy". I don't think I'll stop laughing until well into the new year if it isn't her.
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Being "hilariously/magnificently/majestically owned into next year" isn't all that impressive when next year is only a few days away. They should have a rolling "owned into" window of maybe 6 to 18 months from date of post, depending on the deservedness and comprehensiveness of the owning.
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Pip
28 days ago
Forget the Rani, sod Omega, this is the fan service we needed in 2025
#DoctorWho
www.facebook.com/reel/2034779...
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What are the odds, eh? *Two* changing hands in the last couple of weeks, for frankly silly money, over 40 years since I wrote it.
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28 days ago
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I really should have tried to hang on to a few of these at the time...
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Fast Tunes Ltd
3 months ago
PRICES SLASHED IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS! SURPRISE YOUR LOVED ONES ON CHRISTMAS MORNING WITH A BLAST OF THE SWEENEY!
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The Next Programme Follows Shortly, by The Fast Tunes Orchestra arranged and conducted by Gavin Sutherland
50 track album
https://fasttunes.bandcamp.com/album/the-next-programme-follows-shortly
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Great, more Dr Who pareidolia.
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about 1 month ago
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"Post a favourite work of art from the year exactly 50 years before you were born."
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Graeme Swanson
about 1 month ago
A reminder I do phone wallpapers. Titles in the alt text
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Ian Martin
about 1 month ago
25 'MOST BLUESKY' POSTS OF 2025 Here's my selection of the 25 Bluesky posts that most impressed me this year. They're quite varied, but doesn't that reflect the thriving, harmonious site this really is? Yes. It does. They've been anonymised anyway, who cares?
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Titan Books
about 2 months ago
Have you picked up a copy of LIES AND DOLLS by Nev Fountain yet? 💛 A pacy, laugh-out-loud funny whodunnit set in the world of cult sci-fi fandom, this novel sees the return of sleuth Kit Pelham as she investigates a murder at a rare toy museum.
https://tinyurl.com/4uzhh8m9
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PLUS The automatic bottle opener you saw us using at the Christmas party, *with* its instructions.
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about 2 months ago
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Truth. Also - that set (which presumably has been erected in many less interestingly decorated venues) could have been made for Brixton Academy.
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about 2 months ago
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Andrew R
about 2 months ago
I haven't blogged for ages, so I wrote far too many words about something that happened 40 years ago, and which nobody outside of America cares about.
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New Coke: A Warning from History
If, like me, you’re British then your knowledge of New Coke is likely to be (a) it was a massive failure, (b) everyone hated it, (c) it was a terrible business decision, and, if your go-to re…
https://excelpope.net/2025/12/07/new-coke-a-warning-from-history/
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about 2 months ago
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Cameron Yarde Jnr
about 2 months ago
Christmas Ident Calendar Day 5 extra. BBC TV channels almost didn't broadcast over Christmas in 1978 because of strike action. It was resolved at the very last minute. Here's a BBC news report on what happened, with behind the scenes footage of the BBC1 symbol being put together.
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Field of Dreamscape
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about 2 months ago
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Ali C
about 2 months ago
Here you go!
#ChristmasSongBingo
Whammageddon is for losers!!!
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Ben Fletcher-Watson
about 2 months ago
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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Darren Hayman
about 2 months ago
Birds painted on beer mats. A new hardback book with my first 50 beer mats.
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Honestly never occurred to me that it could be *worn*.
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Damn, already slightly over my budget. Anyone want to lend me, say, forty grand?
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
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The Masquerade Hare | Fine Jewelry | 2025 | Sotheby's
<p>Set with a ruby eye, the body of pierced design with foliate scrolls, stars and five flowerhead motifs, each set with a cabochon turquoise, suspending five tinkling bells, a mouse, a frog, a bird a...
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2025/fine-jewelry-l25051/the-masquerade-hare
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Ah, now it makes sense. GPUs are made of Electrons. Each containing a single 1MHz 6502A CPU, so it probably does need quite a lot of them.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
about 2 months ago
Tell me you’ve used AI to tweak an archive photo without telling me you’ve used AI to tweak an archive photo. Breeds musnuey, indeed.
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Peter
2 months ago
I have finished a three year long project. Original Doctor Who theme remade from the ground up. Going to take a very long nap.😴
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Doctor Who - Derbyshire-ish 1963 #60thAnniversary #DoctorWho
YouTube video by Peter Miles
https://youtu.be/pCzrppQtK9Y?si=Ub5Ujbt9HzdutXNV
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The Quietus
2 months ago
As one of the BBC’s most extraordinary series returns to iPlayer to mark its fortieth anniversary, Jude Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically minded crime thriller Why
#EdgeOfDarkness
makes so much sense in 2025
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