Almost done! I've put up the dangly blue ones, the fiddly pink glass one and the trio (although my other half made me put two of them away) I can never find the big daft-looking one. It'll probably just appear somewhere when it's too late and drive me mad

Little Broody Bat Man, Hopping through the Gotham, Scooping up the evildoers, And bopping them on the head

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: BBC Schools' Near And Far talks wind. When people talk about unsettling theme tunes they understandably reach for Picture Box first but that's because more of them haven't heard this Radiophonic Workshop set to maximum creepiness.

I've had an idea... Someone told me that cos there are nearly 800 episodes of the Simpsons, it's possible to describe all other shows with a clip from a Simpsons episode. So with that in mind, I'm going to use a freezeframe/gif to describe every classic Dr Who serial 😁 1 season per day...

Feature length Star Cops reboot

OK I replied to this with a cheap shot, but also If you had a mind to celebrate this resurrection, Osterman's manifestations could work as inverse stations of the cross He died a lot more suddenly than Jesus but he came back a lot more gradually

I hope this finds room for Gary Pratt

Thanks to @jonnelledge.bsky.social recommending Trainspose I've found that the Tube fits quite nicely into Edinburgh, complete with a commuter line to Fife

I read the article. It's mostly tegenaria domestica, your ordinary house spider! Which on the one hand makes this megaweb less of a horror. It's our regular guys, we know them. On the other hand...

New to me but I recognised the name... this is another from the maker of Tango (1981) www.youtube.com/watch?v=z27z...

now where's the Institute of Gremlins 2 Studies

First day on set as the new prop assistant. Was asked if I'd mind helping fit the sabre teeth to the lions. "What did your last servant die of? Oh. Oh yes, of course"

Arzach & his loyal Pterodelphus, by the indisputably great Moebius, from 2011’s “Arzach: El vigilante”.

See this? TNG ran 1987-94. Another "coming soon" set is the Game Boy (debuted in 1989) What. A. Relief. I am ageing out of the relentless "buy back your childhood" industry. Millennials, it's your show now

Finally there will be a point to Glenrothes

#EoD 40 years today Episode 1 is so upsetting it's a hurdle to clear every time But the framing, and the blocking, and the lighting. Whole scenes like a Caravaggio

A trial involving assault with a loaf of bread is where the Not Proven verdict really comes into its own

'Compassionate Leave', the first episode of Edge of Darkness, was broadcast on this day in 1985. Written by Troy Kennedy Martin, it starred Bob Peck, Joanne Whalley, John Woodvine and Joe Don Baker (with music by Michael Kamen and Eric Clapton).

It me

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

AI bubble thread, feel free to mute: I need people writing and people who are making videos about the AI bubble to PLEASE do some basic research about what these things mean Just watched a guy saying NVidia’s PE Ratio being 50 means they expect the company to continue to grow for 50 years.

Saw the original Nosferatu for Halloween. The special effects are pretty good! Undercranked footage, stop motion, Pepper's Ghost (I assume?) Must have shit people right up in 1922 Also, a hyena? For some reason

"and my AI assistant is Eliza"

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻 Enter if you dare...🚪

We got stone stands, antique lands, And miles and miles of level sands Old hunks, half sunk Hanging round without a trunk Lifeless things, king of kings Whasisname has had a push Lying in the desert sand Cold command upon his mush Mush, mush, mush, mush…

This is why we put the National Space Centre in Leicester

@lordshortcake.bsky.social It's the Shirt of Hurt, Papal Edition

Watching School for Scoundrels (1960) leads me to the startling discovery that Thora Hird was Mel Tormé's mother-in-law

For some reason these chaps come out in October and sell out during November. They have a promising pre-season and then go missing

Kawasaki Muton is a treble clef that came flying out during an orchestra concert. The PR mascot for “Kawasaki, City of Music”, he flaps wings on his head and flies around in search of music. His special skills include sidelong glances and sleeping standing up.

This looks big enough for Hanna Reitsch to fly a helicopter inside

It's notable that Mr Messy and Mr Noisy are forced to change their behaviour but this abuser gets a "that's just what he's like"

A work email reminds me that Rutherford-Appleton lab has a petawatt-class laser they call Vulcan Been watching a lot of 3rd Doctor UNIT stories lately. This is how most of them start

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only (I hadn't seen this one done. Now I have)

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

You see, what you've got there is all the parts of an attractive aircraft but you don't seem to have any plan for fitting them together

....And then she said, I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge Today, Billie-Joe McAllister jumped off the -

PROPER WOODEN BOATS #totp

If we don't all help to upgrade the A13 there's a chance that future inhabitants will be able to recreate us in a simulation of South Essex as punishment This is Roko's Basildon

HYPOTHESIS: repeat exposure to the LessWrong discussion boards is functionally indistinguishable from mercury poisoning.

Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great cryptic crossword is in Guardian today. Go and solve it. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

it's not FOR us

I was a Greenaway freak until I saw this film. I did get through it but was pleased to get back out into fresh air afterwards

Claudia Brücken sings PSB www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sOS... I was not aware

Men, what's stopping you from dressing like this

Parc du quoi?

Oct 5th 1975 - A malfunction with James Hunt's Hesketh forced him to retire mid-race, handing the 1975 U.S. Grand Prix title to Niki Lauda. 📽️📅 Depicted in Rush (2013)